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In this section you can keep up to date with the latest campus news, learn more about upcoming events, read press articles featuring Bard College Berlin, and explore our photo and video archives. For a regular digest of news and events, please subscribe to our newsletter below.   

Visiting faculty Channing Joseph researches Black and LGBTQ+ history in Washington, D.C., contributing to new historical marker placement

Amid the Trump administration’s ongoing attempts to censor both Black and LGBTQ+ history, the city of Washington, D.C. has unveiled a historical marker celebrating the legacy of William Dorsey Swann, the earliest documented person in the world to self-identify as a drag queen. Joseph’s archival research played an essential role in uncovering Swann’s story and the lost history of queer D.C.

Bard College Berlin secures new grant to advance digital human rights investigations

Bard College Berlin has received a new grant from the German Postcode Lottery to expand the Digital Verification Corps (DVC) in Germany for the 2025–26 academic year. The funding will help grow a network of student investigators using open-source tools to document human rights violations — with an exciting new focus on collaboration with technical universities.

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  • Masooma Hashemi ‘25 and Yesieniia Kudriavtseva ‘26 Receive the Alpine Fellowship Refugee Prize
  • Dr. Aslı Vatansever Speaks on Panel “Common Struggles, Unequal Terms: Towards Fair Working Conditions for All Scholars”
  • Liza Nezhyva ‘27 takes part in the 80th Annual General Assembly of the United Nations
  • Hannah Scharmer ‘21 receives the Seth Benardete Award
  • Laura Scuriatti publishes chapter "Mrs Dalloway in Zurich. Ulrike Ulrich's Während wir feiern (2020)" in The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives
  • Bard College Berlin students took part in hands-on training session on digital human rights investigations with Amnesty International’s Digital Verification Corps
  • Bard College Launches GHEA21, the Global Higher Education Alliance for the 21st Century

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  • Oct 23
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    Reporting the Far Right 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm CET/GMT+1
    Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Conference Center, Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin
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    Immediate Decision Plan (IDP) Registration Deadline Brooklyn, NY
  • Oct 27
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    Discussion with Ambassador of Costa Rica 6:00 pm CET/GMT+1
    Costa Rican Embassy in Berlin at Reinhardstrasse 47A, 2nd Floor, 10117
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    Study Abroad Credit Transfer Info Session 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm CET/GMT+1
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