On February 1 2019, Professor of Literature and Dean of Bard College Berlin
Catherine Toal delivered the keynote speech at the two-day event "Brigid in Berlin," organized by the Irish Embassy Berlin, in partnership with the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin. The event celebrated contemporary Irish women writers.
Toal's keynote, "Women Writing Irish Literature," was published in full by
The Irish Times.
You can read it here>>
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On February 1 2019, Professor of Literature and Dean of Bard College Berlin
Catherine Toal delivered the keynote speech at the two-day event "Brigid in Berlin," organized by the Irish Embassy Berlin, in partnership with the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin. The event celebrated contemporary Irish women writers.
Toal's keynote, "Women Writing Irish Literature," was published in full by
The Irish Times.
You can read it here>>
Meta: Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
In the fourth round of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, Bard College Berlin received a 24-month grant to be awarded to the Turkish scholar at risk
Dr. Aysuda Kölemen.
Aysuda Kölemen is a political scientist whose current research focuses on populism and democratic backsliding in Turkey. She examines the structural and psychological factors that contribute to the populist surge in Turkey from a comparative perspective.
In 2015, Aysuda Kölemen became a signatory of the Petition for Peace, which was signed by over 2000 academics from Turkey. The petition called for an end to the armed conflict in Turkey. Subsequently she lost her job as an assistant professor at Istanbul Kemerburgaz University (currently Altınbaş University) and was sued by the Turkish government for signing the petition. She moved to Germany in 2017. Her trial continues.
Aysuda Kölemen received her PHD in political science from the University of Georgia, Athens in 2010.
The Philipp Schwartz InitiativeThe Philipp Schwartz Initiative was launched by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation together with the German Federal Foreign Office. It enables universities, universities of applied science, and independent research institutions to grant threatened researchers fellowships for research stays in Germany. The initiative has been made possible through generous support from the Federal Foreign Office, the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Klaus Tschira Foundation, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Stifterverband, and the Stiftung Mercator.
Scholars at RiskBard College Berlin is a founding member of the German chapter of the "Scholars at Risk," together with 19 other German academic teaching and research institutions. Kerry Bystrom, Associate Dean of Bard College Berlin and Professor of Human Rights & English Literature, is a member of the German SAR's Steering Group.
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On February 6, 2019 Professor of Politics
Boris Vormann gave several interviews to German and international media on Trump's second State of the Union address.
In an
interview for Tagesschau, Vormann commented that, while Trump's speech brought little novelty, it demonstrated how much he has consolidated his power within the Republican party.
For Radio Eins / RBB, Vormann highlighted that Trump's speech shows his readiness to reach a compromise with the Democrats.
Vormann provided a close analysis of Trump's speech together with Obama campaign veteran Julius Van de Laar for Deutsche Welle's "The Day with Brent Goff."
You can watch the full analysis here (source:
dw.com).
Vormann also provided
a commentary for the German-language Deutsche Welle (source:
dw.com), in which he noted that Trump's speech was reconciliatory and highly rhetorical, but that it also stood in contrast with his policies and agenda in the past two years.
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On January 31, 2019 a performance/demonstration directed by BCB arts instructor
Julia Hart and involving 60 Greenpeace climate protesters (among which 5 BCB students) was staged in front of the German Chancellery to demand the acceleration of Germany’s coal exit. The performance was scheduled to happen at the same time with the handing over of the Coal Commission's final report to Angela Merkel.
The demonstrators urged to “wake up,” as “coal destroys our planet, put an end to it!”
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