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On August 31, at 10.50 p.m. Pia Marais' film Layla Fourie (2013) will be shown on Arte. Layla, a single mother in Johannesburg, Südafrika, finds a new job as a nighttime security guard. On her way to work, driving through the night, disaster strikes. Layla fatally hits a man on the country road. Layla Fourie premiered during the 2013 Berlinale.

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As part of the 2016 Annual International Conference, which will be held at the Royal Geographical Society in London, from 30 August to 2 September, Agata Lisiak will present a paper entitled "Visualizing shifting values: mothering, migration, and stuff." Based on her fieldwork in Munich and Birmingham, she discusses in his paper how first drawing and then creating digital images yields new insights into how various seemingly mundane objects related to mothering establish palpable connections between people and places (Povrzanovic Frykman and Humbracht 2013). In an attempt to make sense of complex constellations of sharing material and emotional values that emerge through mothering and migration, Agata Lisiak turns to visualization tools. She will discuss the visualizations featured on the website she is currently developing and then move on to data analysis, focusing on the navigation of pressures and priorities related to mothering through the practices of giving and taking, buying and selling, borrowing and lending, as well as unwillingness to engage in any of the above. Her proposition is that visualizations not only help us to look into how said transactions are framed (Goffman 1975; Miller 2010) by migrant mothers, but also reveal their multifarious patterns and scripts. For more information.

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A tradition at Bard College Berlin is the by now city-wide famous 'Berlin Weekend,' during which 'old' as well as new Bardians can pick and choose from a marathon of activities that all are connected to the city in one way or another. This fall's program offers - among many other things - screenings of the 1961 US movie One Two Three, and the 2014 Syrian production Silvered Water, a visit of the lost-in-time Pfaueninsel, a debate session with the "Politics, Rhetoric and Debate Society," a gallery tour in Berlin's densely gallery-populated Mitte district, several flaneur-opportunities in Kreuzberg, Pankow or Charlottenburg, sports activities, and much more. The complete program can be found here.

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On Saturday, August 27, Deutsche Welle will organize its German/Arabic talkshow Shababtalk in the Foreign Office in Berlin. The show is entitled 'Ein Jahr danach: schaffen wir das noch?" and will be moderated by Jaafar Abdul Karim. Co-produced by BCB alumna Aya Ibrahim, this edition of Shababtalk invites refugees, politicians, volunteers and the public, to engage in a conversation on the situation of refugees in Germany, one year after the opening of the borders. The recordings will start at 1pm, the doors open at 11am. For confirmation, please send an email at kommunikation.berlin@dw.com. More information here.

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Maria Khan, who graduated from Bard in 2015 with a B.A. in Humanities, the Arts, and Social Thought, has been awarded the "Cambridge Trust and St.Edmund's Luzio Scholarship." Maria will be I will be doing her PhD in Education, with a focus on drama education for integration purposes of Muslim population in Germany.

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Earlier this month, the second edition of "Geld und Kredit: eine €-päische Perspektive" by faculty member Dirk Ehnts was published by Metropolis Verlag. The book was originally published in December 2014, with the first edition selling out in 18 months. Money and credit in the eurozone are explained in terms of balance sheets, with a focus on central banks, fiscal and monetary operations as well as institutional details such as quantitative easing and the payment system TARGET2. Praise for the book comes from a managing director of the European Central Bank, the president of the Keynes-Gesellschaft and bankers. An English version will be published later this month.

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Some took advantage of the summer and spent time in the city already, many arrived during the weekend, and there were certainly some early bird arrivals this morning, but now it is official: our freshmen students are on campus and the 2016 edition of BCB's Language & Thinking Program has started! A three-week, well-packed schedule will guide these students into intensive reading and writing, getting to know their peers, life on campus, and the seemingly ever-expanding universe that is Berlin. We are extremely happy to welcome these wonderful young individuals to BCB and in Berlin. They will open as many new perspectives to our way of looking at the world, as we will be able to give them. For more information on the L&T 2016 program, please click here.

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Tübingen University's 2016 edition of its yearly Summer School series took place from July 25 through 29 under the title "Truth Commissions and the Culture of Dissenting Memory in the Global South." The five-day conference assembled scholars from institutions in India, Brazil, South Africa, South Korea, Mexico, and Senegal, as well as German universities. Kerry Bystrom delivered a keynote speech "Reassessing Truth and Reconciliation 20 Years On: Views from the South African Stage." Further keynote speakers were Véronique Tadjo (University of the Witwatersrand/South Africa), Ahn Byung-Ook (The Catholic University of Korea) and Lars Eckstein (University of Potsdam/Germany). The conference was further supported by DAAD, Literary Cultures of the Global South and the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung. For more information.

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