Aya Soika presents lecture on Mies van der Rohe's relationship to nazism
On June 10, 2022, BCB Professor of Art History Aya Soika presented the lecture “Mies van der Rohe’s Relationship to Nazism” as part of the Mies van der Rohe Haus lecture series Mies und die unvollendete Moderne (Mies and Unfinished Modernism) which examines his 1926 memorial in commemoration of the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in its wider historical and architectural context. The lecture series runs until November 11, 2022.
Laura Scuriatti to co-organize two workshops on “Rethinking Lyric Communities”
BCB Professor of Comparative Literature Laura Scuriatti is co-organizing two workshops on “Rethinking Lyric Communities.” Together with Francesco Giusti (former ICI fellow and guest faculty at BCB, now at Christchurch College, Oxford) and Irene Fantappiè (FU). The workshops will take place in Oxford on June 23, 2022 and ICI Berlin on July 5, 2022.
- Boris Vormann presents papers on defence and commerce at L'Université du Québec à Montréal and McGill University
- Ewa Atanassow is one of five scholars chosen to attend OSUN workshop on Uday Mehta’s upcoming book on Ghandi
- Hanan Toukan to be featured speaker at roundtable hosted by the EUME
- Boris Vormann is featured speaker at the Laboratories of Democracy Initiative meeting
- BCB board member Ken Roth publishes article in Foreign Affair about ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia
- Executive Director of Human Rights Watch gives BCB commencement speech "The Future of Democracy Depends on You"
- Professor of Political Thought Ewa Atanassow to give talk at AIAS Conference
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