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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On October 13, 2018 faculty member Aya Soika will deliver the keynote lecture at the international symposium "Why Degenerate? From Nordau to Nolde and Beyond," organized by the Edinburgh College of Art and the National Galleries of Scotland, and held at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. 

From the symposium's program:
"The aim of this international symposium, which features world-leading experts on modern German art, is to consider the inception, reception and reverberations of the notion of ‘Entartung’ (Degeneration), whilst challenging and updating existing orthodoxies in the field." 

In her lecture "Emil Nolde and National Socialism," Soika will focus on German Expressionist Emil Nolde, his prominent role within the 'Degenerate Art' exhibitions and the confiscation of a high number of his works (more than for any other painter). Soika aims to highlight the peculiarity of Nolde's case as both a victim and a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime.

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