Professor of Politics Boris Vormann is a 2018 DAAD Visiting Scholar at NYU Deutsches Haus in New York. His schedule includes the following presentations: 

• November 15, 2018: “Building the Global Economy: Infrastructural Statecraft and American Genesis." EES Colloquium, CUNY Graduate Center
• November 12, 2018: “Logistics and Power: Europe from a Global Perspective." Guest Lecture, Fordham University
• November 12, 2018: “Administering Infrastructural Regimes: The Case of the US." Guest lecture, Urban School at Sciences Po Paris [via skype]
• November 9, 2018: “The Death of Liberalism and its Rebirth: Civil Society and Political Engagement." Panel with Sheri Berman, Claudia Wiesner, Mark Blyth and Boris Vormann. NYU Deutsches Haus
• November 6, 2018: “Part 1: The Crisis of Democracy so Far." Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College

The Deutsches Haus at NYU is New York’s leading institution for culture and language of the German-speaking world.

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Professor of Migration Studies Agata Lisiak contributed a chapter to The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries edited by Christoph Lindner and Mariam Meissner.

In her chapter, entitled "'Like diamonds in the sky': Imaginaries of urban girlhood,” Lisiak discusses how urban girlhood is made, and how it, in turn, makes the city. Drawing on examples from popular culture including Celine Sciamma’s film Girlhood, Lisiak explores the collective nature and shared experiences of girlhood as a site of resistance. 

Image: the poster for Celine Sciamma’s film Girlhood

On October 13-14, 2018 senior student Clara Canales attended the seminar "Ethics Across the Curriculum" at the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics in Washington DC. The institute is part of the McDonough Business School at Georgetown University. 

The seminar was moderated by criminologist Brendan Dooly and included sessions on ethics in sociology, economics, history, and business. It brought together participants from various disciplines including political economy, philosophy of economics and business, and at various levels of their academic or professional careers, with the majority currently completing their PhD or Master’s theses. In the frame of the seminar, participants also had the opportunity to read a paper on the ethics of establishing a regulated market for kidneys by the Institute’s post-doc fellow Luke Semrau and discuss it with Semrau afterwards. 

Clara Canales is a fourth-year student in the Economics, Politics and Social Thought B.A. Program at BCB, with a concentration in Politics. Her participation in the seminar stems from her interest to explore the ethics behind the construction of the rational actor in economics.
 

Professor of Literature and Dean of Bard College Berlin Catherine Toal published an article on the novel Milkman by Anna Burns, the winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize, in The Irish Times.

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BCB faculty member Ewa Atanassow and Columbia University professor Ira Katnelson have recently published the article “State of Exception in the Anglo-American Liberal Tradition” in the Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (Springer Verlag).

From the article’s abstract:
This essay identifies conceptual and institutional approaches within the Anglo-American liberal tradition for meeting security challenges without compromising constitutional and ethical principles. From its seventeenth century beginnings, political liberalism has confronted the problematic of the ‘state of exception,’ and has elaborated a repertoire of ideas and institutions for governing exigencies that remain instructive. […] The solutions proposed by such figures as Carl Joachim Friedrich and Clinton Rossiter no longer seem adequate to present conditions of prolonged emergency. Fresh institutional imagination is needed. The article concludes by offering four broad guidelines for allaying today’s tensions between security and liberty.

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