BCB's Director of Studio Arts John von Bergen has recently been contracted by the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung) to produce his prize-winning 2017 Kunst am Bau proposal "Wandlung".

On September 11, 2019 Professor of Politics Boris Vormann was interviewed by Deutsche Welle on the departure of national security adviser John Bolton from the White House. 
 

In the frame of its partnership with the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve), Bard College Berlin will host from January to May 2020 the full-time, 4-month preparatory program OLIve-Access, aimed at individuals with refugee status or a refugee-like situation in Europe wishing to improve their Academic English in order to study at university. 

On September 6, 2019 from 7:30pm faculty member Marion Detjen will participate in a public reading and discussion on migration in Germany organized by Flüchtlingspaten Syrien (Syrian Refugee Sponsors) at the Literaturhaus (Fasanenstraße 23, 10719 Berlin).

On September 6, 2019, faculty members Laura Scuriatti, Ulrike Wagner and Dorothea Schöne will participate in a panel discussion and artist talk entitled "Kunst in unruhigen Zeiten" [Art in Troubled Times] at the Kunsthaus Dahlem.