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On June 14, 2018 faculty member Marion Detjen took part in the panel “Fußball-WM - Wieviel Patriotismus darf es sein?” organized and broadcast by the German public radio channel WDR5. The panel participants - scholars, researchers and football professionals - discussed nationalism and history in Germany with respect to the 2018 World Cup football matches. 

In her contribution, Detjen focused not only on patriotism in relation to the World Cup, but also on patriotism in general in Germany. She emphasized that the German Willkommenskultur and the recent taking in of over a million refugees are something Germans could be proud of, as much as the German social system, the Mittelstand industry and some other good things that they have been contributing to lately. Nationhood is always constructed, and whether to be proud of it or not depends on the purposes for which it is being constructed, and on the effectiveness and inclusiveness of the construction process. She noted that being proud of Goethe and Bach has, among other things, against it that emigrant writers and artists like Thomas Mann took care of wrenching them from the encroachment by "Germany" once and for all. 

Watch/listen to a recording here 

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The video & mixed media installation Operation Sunken Sea (The Anti-Control Room) by Egyptian artist and BCB arts instructor Heba Y. Amin was selected for the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, which takes place from June 9 to September 9, 2018 at various venues in Berlin. 

Amin’s project puts forth an alternative geography, that of a supercontinent which merges Africa and Europe and in which the distribution of goods and money happen very differently compared to our contemporary reality.  The project is based on historical European colonial proposals to drain the Mediterranean Sea; the narratives are flipped and proposed from the opposite perspective.

"The project Operation Sunken Sea (The Anti-Control Room) (2018) blurs the lines between history, the present, and the future; between truth, fiction, and megalomania. Amin leaves us with an uneasy feeling of insecurity about the kind of a world we are currently inhabiting—and the world we might wish (or not wish) to inhabit," notes Yvette Mutumba, a member of the Biennale’s curatorial team. 

The following Bard College Berlin students and alumni were involved in the production of the installation:
Studio assistance and concept development: Isabella Lee
Photography Assistance: Matthew Praley
Set crew: Andrea Riba, Arthur Yongebloed

Operation Sunken Sea is on view at the ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics.

More information 
Artforum article

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On June 20, 2018 at 5:00pm BCB’s Professor of Migration Studies Agata Lisiak will give a talk entitled "Poza girl power: dziewczyńskie formy oporu" ["Beyond girl power: forms of girl resistance"] at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. 

Organized by Fundacja Bec Zmiana, Lisiak’s lecture will be part of Dr. Ewa Majewska’s public seminar on feminist counterpublics held at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw.

Read more about the event

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On June 12, 2018 Professor of Politics Boris Vormann gave an interview to the radio station SWR2 on Donald Trump's recent meeting with North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un.

Noting the divisive G7 summit, Vormann commented that Trump took the meeting with Kim as an opportunity to leave a historic mark and to demonstrate his foreign policy skills in light of the upcoming congressional elections. Vormann further asked to what extent is Trump's North Korea strategy a sustainable one, given that his foreign policy agenda lacks an overall vision for the long run. 

Listen to the interview

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Guest faculty member and artist April Gertler has recently been awarded the 2018 Project Space and Initiative Prize of the Berlin Senate for the arts project Sonntag, co-founded and co-run with artist Adrian Schiesser. 

Initiated in September 2012, Sonntag is a monthly event which gives “an individual artist a platform to share not only their work, but also their memories and experiences.” The artist exhibits their work in a private apartment, with Gertler and Schiesser preparing each time the artist’s favorite cake. This adds a personal component to the Sunday meetings and creates a connection between the viewers and the artist. Sonntag has worked with 56 artists and besides moving nomadically throughout the city of Berlin, the project has also traveled to 5 other countries. 

The Project Space and Initiative Prize of the Berlin Senate is given annually to 20 project spaces and initiatives run by artists and curators as a reward for their contributions to the Berlin art scene. In 2018 the prize consists of a one time monetary amount of €37,000, which will serve to help Gertler and Schiesser produce a book which will be an overview of the last 6 years of Sonntag. 

Sonntag’s webpage

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Bard College Berlin faculty member Marion Detjen published on June 1st, 2018 an article titled "Vielfalt lässt sich nicht kapern" ["Diversity cannot be captured"] in the national weekly newspaper Die Zeit. 

In this article, Detjen gives a condensed historical account of how "diversity" as a value system has been part of the liberal tradition and how it has been interpreted and misinterpreted since the Second World War. She warns of certain abuses of diversity in the attempt to implement and recognize it, and calls for those in power and for the existing power relations to properly acknowledge diversity, pointing to daily life as a good example of putting diversity into practice. 

Link to full piece

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“RELICS,” the first solo exhibition in Dresden by BCB’s Director of Studio Arts, John von Bergen, opens at the Zentralwerk “Kabinett” Dresden on June 15 and will run through July 15, 2018.  

The starting point of the exhibition is Bergen’s direct interaction with various objects made at or around Zentralwerk (a cluster of former factories and industrial buildings), as well as with the site’s architecture.

As noted in the description, "this exhibition differs from those displays one may come to expect from an archive or a museum, as this is not a survey of objects for historical or educational purpose, nor any celebration of paraphernalia. There is, on the one hand, an interest to explore the potentially ambiguous relationship one may have with artifacts – relationships that may provoke sentiment, curiosity, fetish, or disdain. On the other hand, this unique space, and its uncanny history, becomes the catalyst for absurd intervention."

The result is a "group of site-specific projects that echo their historical transience while energizing the space with yet another, new chapter of production."

The show’s production benefited from the support and help of BCB students Lena Kück (BA 2018), Tiana Marsh (Arts & Society, Spring 2018), Magnus Hendersen (Arts & Society, Spring 2018), Zoe Lambez (BA 2020), Anna Zakelj (BA 2020), and Rafat Alkotaini (BA 2021).

Exhibition opening times:
Opening Reception: Friday, June 15th, from 7pm
Opening Times: Thursday - Sunday from 5 - 8pm, or by appointment: kabinett@zentralwerk.de

Address:
Zentralwerk “Kabinett”, Riesaer Str. 32, 01127 Dresden

Read more here 

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Between June 9 and July 9, 2018 Bard College Berlin hosts for the fourth year in a row the Summer Theater Intensive Program, which brings together students from leading North-American theater, music, and arts programs for an immersive month consisting of movement and performance workshops, as well as regular outings to cultural venues in Berlin. 

Led by Jonathan Rosenberg (Artist-in-Residence at Bard College) and Dawn Akemi Saito (performer and Butoh dancer, winner of the Uchimura Prize), the program will welcome this summer new or returning faculty such as Marco Brosolo (sound and visual artist), Eva Burghardt (dancer and choreographer), Julia Hart (theater director), Helgard Haug (Rimini Protokoll), Yuko Kaseki (Butoh dancer), Anna Kohler (performer and director), Henrik Kuhlmann (dramaturge), Ilia Papatheodorou (She She Pop), Gob Squad (arts collective), Aya Soika (BCB arts history faculty), Nina Tecklenburg (Interrobang, Gob Squad, She She Pop), and Christina Wheeler (singer, composer, and sound artist). 

Through the workshops and courses, students will devise and create original theater works and performances, which will be presented at the end of the program. 

Read more: https://berlin.bard.edu/academics/summer-programs/summer-theater-intensive-program/

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On June 15, 2018, BCB faculty and Professor of Migration Studies Agata Lisiak will give a keynote lecture at the University of Surrey.

Titled “A Tale of Two Cities: Notes on Creative Methods in Research on Migrant Mothering”, Lisiak’s lecture will be part of a one-day seminar “Using Creative and Visual Methods in Comparative Research” funded by the International Journal for Social Research Methodology and organized by EuroStudents.

More details about the seminar

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On May 23rd, 2018 Professor of Politics Boris Vormann was invited by Deutsche Welle’s show “The Day with Brent Goff” to comment on the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas’ visit to the United States in light of Trump’s exit from the Iran nuclear deal. 

In his commentary, Vormann argues that the purpose of the German FM’s visit was not to make Trump change his mind, but rather to maintain the communication between the two countries open. Vormann adds that Trump’s behavior in the foreign policy agenda and his lack of a long term vision have led to a volatile international situation. In the second part of the interview, he analyzes the cancellation of the US-North Korea summit and what this may imply for Trump’s future moves.   

Watch the entire interview here (source: dw.com)

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Faculty member Michael Weinman was invited to give a presentation in the frame of the Political Theory Research Seminar of the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, on May 25, 2018. 

Titled "Arendt and the Legitimate Expectation for Hospitality and Membership Today," the presentation draws on Arendt's defense of 'the right to have rights' in response to the problem of statelessness. Weinman discusses how Arendt's claim points to the practical lynch-pin of historical and theoretical tensions. He further argues why any person on earth, regardless of their legal status as a national or resident or non-resident alien, can legitimately expect two things from the political community in which they reside: hospitality and membership.

Read more about the talk  

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BCB's Professor of Migration Studies Agata Lisiak was invited to present at the international conference “City-making: space, culture and identity,” which takes place on May 17-18, 2018 in Zagreb.

The event is organized by CityMaking — a research project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation and hosted by the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb.

In her talk “The Place to Be? Unpacking the Image of Berlin as a Creative and Diverse Metropolis," Lisiak will discus how contemporary myths about Berlin are produced and reproduced, and inquire into their most immediate and long-term repercussions.

Read more about the conference here.

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Bard College Berlin is proud to announce that we recently joined the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees, and have committed to raising funds and awareness to combat the devastating Syrian crisis. 

The Multifaith Alliance is the nation's leading interfaith response to the worst humanitarian refugee crisis of the 21st century. In partnership with MFA, we are committed to addressing the needs of Syrian refugees today, while planting the seeds for a more peaceful tomorrow. 

Please visit the Multifaith Alliance website, and consider making a donation to help the organization continue its vital work.

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On May 17, 2018 theater instructor Julia Hart’s new theater production “The Hamburg Code” (“Der Hamburger Codex”) premieres at the Lichthof Theater, Hamburg.

This interactive performance is based on philosophical discussion with middle school students about ethical dilemmas. The audience is invited to participate in key decisions that influence what is happening on the stage, thus contributing to “The Hamburg Code,” a set of rules for a good & just life. 

Read more about the play 

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The volume South and North. Contemporary Urban Orientations co-edited by BCB’s Associate Dean and faculty member Kerry Bystrom with Ashleigh Harris (Uppsala University) and Andrew J. Webber (University of Cambridge) was recently published by Routledge India. 

From the book’s description:
This book explores urban life and realities in the cities of the Global South and North. Through literature, film and other forms of media that constitute shared social imaginaries, the essays in the volume interrogate the modes of production that make up the fabric of urban spaces and the lives of their inhabitants. They also rethink practices that engender ‘cityness’ in diverse but increasingly interlinked conglomerations.

In addition to her co-editing work, Bystrom contributed a chapter titled "Ideological disorientation and urban struggle in postwar Luanda: notes on Neto's Mausoleum." BCB's Professor of Migration Studies Agata Lisiak also contributed a chapter on "A sense of disorder: orientation and migration in the 'new' West."

The volume draws on contributions from the conference Cities of the South, Cities of the North held in December 2015 at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry.

It is part of a special book series initiated by the Literary Cultures of the Global South project based at Tübingen University and directed by Prof. Russ West-Pavlov, and which aims to contribute to the re-writing of cultural and literary history in the specific domain of the literary cultures of the Global South.

Read more about the volume 

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Professor of Politics Boris Vormann recently analyzed for Deutsche Welle President Emmanuel Macron's and Chancellor Angela Merkel's meetings with US President Donald Trump in Washington on April 24 and April 27, respectively. 

Regarding the Macron-Trump meeting, Vormann offered his opinion on some of the subjects that the two leaders discussed - the nuclear deal with Iran, the Transatlantic Trade Partnership, as well as a coalition in Syria - and the likelihood that Macron's visit was successful in changing Trump's position. Vormann pointed out that Macron's visit did not aim to bridge the leaders' differences completely, but rather to show President Trump that a compromise is possible.   

Watch the full interview (via dw.com)

Vormann spoke on the subject of the Merkel-Trump talks as a guest on Deutsche Welle’s show "The Day with Brent Goff." He argued that what Merkel has achieved with her visit to Washington is a change of tone in the relation with Trump, and, from this point of view, the visit can be considered a successful one.

Watch the full show

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On April 20, 2018 the German daily newspaper Die Welt published a report by journalist Andreas Rosenfelder on the panel discussion “’Migrant Anti-Semitism' in the German Media Discourse" organized by Bard College Berlin and the Centre March Bloch (where the event was held) on April 18.

The journalist notes that the Chatham House Rule protected the privacy of the speakers and allowed for a freer and more thoughtful conversation. He highlights that the two organizers, journalist and Bard Annandale alumna Emily Dische-Becker and BCB’s faculty member Marion Detjen, focused the discussion on the way “migrant anti-Semitism” is reflected in the German media, and not on this topic as a phenomenon in itself. 

In his opinion, the resulting conversation was very open, and the participants - young Berliners of Arab, Israeli and German descent, some of them BCB students, as well as German journalists and politicians - admitted that the problem does exist and is not just a media construct, with some of the Jewish panelists warning of the danger that “migrant anti-Semitism” is being “instrumentalized.” The journalist’s conclusion deals with the German obsession with anti-Semitism, and how this often intertwines with and affects, as the panelists also pointed out, manifestations of Islamophobia. 

Read the article here 

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On April 23-26, 2018 Bard College Berlin representatives Kerry Bystrom (Associate Dean) and Xenia Muth (Civic Engagement Coordinator) participated in the Scholars at Risk (SAR) Network 2018 Global Congress in Berlin, jointly convened by Scholars at Risk, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and Freie Universität Berlin.

The 2018 Global Congress brought together 600 scholars and higher education representatives from 72 countries to discuss the topic The University and the Future of Democracy. The participants not only reflected on the current crisis of liberal democratic societies and how this threatens researchers and academics worldwide, but also highlighted the idea that scholarly community as a whole has a role and responsibility to “develop, explain, and defend” democratic values. Keynote addresses were held by Susanne Baer (LLM, Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany), Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley), and Markus Hilgert (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). 

BCB's Civic Engagement Coordinator Xenia Muth presented in the frame of a panel on welcoming refugee students to German higher education institutions, organized by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The discussants focused on the situation of undergraduate students who had no access to or had to interrupt their studies in their home country, and who, thanks to programs such as those established by the DAAD, were able to enter universities in Germany and to integrate successfully in the new educational environment. Muth explained BCB’s efforts to enable refugee students to enroll in a BA program through its PIESC scholarships, as well as the college’s use of the DAAD Welcome fund in the past two years to open the campus and its resources to the neighborhood and to migrants.  

Associate Dean Kerry Bystrom was part of a panel about student law clinics and advocacy seminars, in which she presented the work of the Critical Human Rights and Humanitarian Advocacy/Scholars at Risk course held at BCB in the Spring semester 2018.

SAR 2018 Global Congress Press Release
Read more about the SAR 2018 Global Congress 

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BCB’s Professor of Art and Society Dorothea von Hantelmann contributed to the programming of the event series ”A Prelude to the Shed,” which will take place on May 1-13, 2018 in NYC as a pre-opening of the new Manhattan arts center The Shed (scheduled to become fully functional in 2019). 

Conceived as an introduction to The Shed’s mission of nurturing multiple artistic disciplines under one roof, "Prelude to the Shed" is a collaboration between the architect Kunlé Adeyemi of NLÉ Works and the artist Tino Sehgal.

For Prelude, von Hantelmann co-organized with Shed Senior Program Advisor Hans-Ulrich Obrist a series of evening conversations on new institutional models for the 21st century; these talks, which von Hantelmann and Obrist will also moderate, consider “the politics of ritualized gatherings and the role of art and culture in social connectivity.” In addition, Prelude commissioned von Hantelmann to write an essay on new ritual forms for the 21st century, which will be distributed freely during the program.

Prelude will also feature performances and exhibitions by ABRA, Kunlé Adeyemi, Arca, Azealia Banks, William Forsythe, Reggie “Regg Roc” Gray and Tino Sehgal. 

Read more about Prelude

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On Wednesday, April 18, 2018 BCB student Veronika Rišnovská (BA 2020, Slovakia) will offer a Clowning Workshop at Smolny College in St. Petersburg, drawing on her previous work with refugee children in Berlin and Serbia, and also on her successful civic engagement projects implemented at Bard College Berlin in 2016-18. The workshop will teach participants - students from Smolny College and Bard College, Annandale, as well as Get Engaged alumni - to deepen their sense of empathy, improvise and connect with children through innovative approaches, and is supported by the Bard Center for Civic Engagement.

Watch a video on Veronika's Clowning project at BCB

BCB’s presence at Smolny College is further strengthened by students Claire August (BA 2020, USA), Lily Cummings (BA 2018, USA), Alexandria Sisson (BA 2019, USA), and Sabrina Slipchenko (BA 2021, USA), who will give presentations in the frame of the 7th Annual Smolny International Student Conference "Multidisciplinarity in Science and Arts: Challenges of the Future", held on April 19-21st, 2018, and by Danny Dubner (BA 2021, Brazil), who will participate in a Global Citizenship Roundtable in the frame of the same conference. 

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On May 19, 2018 the students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of Bard College Berlin will celebrate the conclusion of the academic year 2017-2018, in a ceremony honoring the achievements of the college’s seventh BA graduating cohort.  

The ceremony will be held at the Ballhaus Pankow, a historical structure built in 1880 which originally served as an inn and ballroom. 

Bard College Berlin is delighted to welcome Josh Kun, Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School of Journalism and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, as well as a journalist, essayist, and curator, as the 2018 Commencement speaker. Kun is the spring 2018 Bosch Fellow in Public Policy at the American Academy in Berlin, a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, and the winner of a 2018 Berlin Prize and a 2006 American Book Award. He is an author and editor of several books, including Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America, Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border, Songs in the Key of Los Angeles, The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles, and most recently Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez. As an artist and curator, he has worked with SFMOMA, the California African American Museum, The Grammy Museum, The Los Angeles Public Library, the Hammer Museum, The Getty Foundation, among others.

The ceremony will feature a musical introduction by BCB students Adeeb Hadi (BA 2021, Irak), Giovanna Castronari (Academy Year, Germany) and Mohamed Kurdi (BA 2021, Syria). 

Bard College Berlin’s Class of 2018 consists of 25 students from countries such as China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Georgia, Germany, Japan, Norway, Palestine, Serbia, Spain, or the USA. 

The faculty and staff of Bard College Berlin wish to congratulate the graduating students and their families on this momentous occasion. 

Later edit: a transcript of Josh Kun's Commencement address is available here

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Bard College Berlin is delighted to announce it was selected for the second year in a row as one of the ten German universities in the “Eine Uni - ein Buch” program. Funded by the Stifterverband and the Klaus Tschira Stiftung, and organized in cooperation with Die Zeit, “Eine Uni - ein Buch” offers each selected university a 5,000 EUR sponsorship to discuss and debate a book through various events and activities for an entire semester.

The “Eine Uni - ein Buch” application requires universities to designate a book and to conceive ways in which their community will engage with it. Following a campus-wide selection process, BCB’s students, faculty and staff voted on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (1818), considered a culmination of the gothic novel genre as well as the first modern science fiction novel.

With “Frankenstein - It’s Alive!!!”, the Fall 2018 program developed around this book, BCB aims to integrate the reading of the novel into its curriculum and organize a series of public events with partner institutions in Berlin in five thematic directions: Frankenstein and the Arts; Frankenstein and the Sciences; Frankenstein and Politics; Frankenstein and Society; and Mary Shelley. The program aims not only to call to mind the almost uncanny topicality of Mary Shelley’s novel on its 200th anniversary, but also to demonstrate the relevance of Mary Shelley’s biography and personality for current issues like feminism, gender theory, or family dynamics.

Announcement of the 10 sponsorships on the Stifterverband website

Watch BCB’s application video
 

"Frankenstein - It's Alive!!!" - Fall 2018 Program

Overture to Frankenstein - It's Alive!!!
September 21, 7pm
Bard College Berlin, The Lecture Hall, Platanenstr. 98a, 13156 Berlin
With: Jeffrey Champlin, Matthias Hurst, Roman Steindler (BCB)  

Monsters in Politics
October 5, 7pm
Baynatna - The Arabic Library, Breite Str. 36, 10178 Berlin
With: Jeffrey Champlin, Dina Ramadan (BCB)

Max Ernst, Surrealism and the Monster
October 9, 5pm Slivers of the Exhibition and 6pm Presentation  
Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Schloßstr. 70, 14059 Berlin
With: Geoff Lehman (BCB), Kyllikki Zacharias (Curator Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg)

Criminally Insane? The Difficult Birth of Brain Science
October 25, 7pm  
Ulme 35 (Salon), Ulmenallee 35, 14050 Berlin
With: Michael Weinman (BCB), Rodolfo Garau (University of Venice), Hardy Schmitz (Vorsitzender des Vereins Interkulturanstalten Westend e.V.)

Dead Ladies Show - Mary Shelley / Ada Lovelace / Mary Wollstonecraft
November 27, 8pm
Kunsthaus ACUD, Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin
With: Laura Scuriatti (BCB), Katy Derbyshire (Literary Translator), Florian Duijsens (BCB)  

Soul-Making: Soul-Making. Gayatri Spivak’s “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism” and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
November 28, 7pm
ICI Berlin (Institute for Cultural Inquiry), Christinenstr. 18-19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin
With: S. Pearl Brilmyer (University of Pennsylvania/ICI), Nikita Dhawan (University of Gießen), Catherine Toal (Bard College Berlin), Kathy-Ann Tan (Bard College Berlin)

Nature and the Sublime
December 13, 5pm Encounter with the Collection, 6.15pm Panel discussion
Alte Nationalgalerie, Bodestrasse 1-3, 10178 Berlin
With: Ralph Gleis (Head of the Alte Nationalgalerie), Geoff Lehman, Susanne Märtens (BCB), Hans von Trotha (Author)

Download the program as PDF>>

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On April 11, 2018 the Heinrich Böll Foundation in cooperation with Bard College Berlin will host a Transatlantic Breakfast on the topic “Die Krise als Chance” ("The Crisis as a Chance").

With:
Boris Vormann, Bard College Berlin
Christian Lammert, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Response by: Jana Puglierin, The German Council on Foreign Relations
Moderator: Florian Kommer, Policy Advisor on European Politics, Heinrich Böll Foundation 

The rise of populism and authoritarianism on both sides of the Atlantic is usually met with resignation, as was most recently the case with the Italian parliamentary elections.

But there is also another response to populist tendencies: a mobilization of progressive forces. Movements such as March for our Lives, Pulse of Europe or Women’s March demonstrate that our open societies will not give up the political arena without a fight. 
The discussants will examine the exact causes and national specifics of the crisis to determine whether it could also be understood as something positive and as an opportunity.  

The event is simultaneously a presentation of the volume Die Krise der Demokratie und wie wir sie überwinden [The crisis of democracy and how we can overcome it] (Aufbauverlag, 2017), co-written by Boris Vormann and Christian Lammert, and which will serve as basis for the discussion.  

The language of the event is German
Admission free
Please register by April 9, 2018 at haemmerling@boell.de

Time: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 from 9:00 to 10:30am
Venue: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Schumannstraße 8, 10117 Berlin-Mitte (map)

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Faculty members Laura Scuriatti and James Harker co-organized a seminar at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, held at the University of California--Los Angeles (UCLA), on March 29-April 1, 2018. The seminar, "To Be More than Oneself: Literary Challenges to Figurations of Self," brought together an international group of twelve scholars working on the relationship of narrative and self in fiction, (auto)biography, and experimental genres. 

Scuriatti's paper, entitled "Writing with, for, as, Another: Four Modernist Künstlerromane", analyzed four modernist Künstlerromane from the point of view of their strained relationship to autobiography and through Adriana Cavarero's notion of "narratable selves". The paper showed that Carl Van Vechten's Peter Whiffle (1922), Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), Mina Loy's Insel (1936) and Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle's Being Geniuses Together (1920/1930 and late 1960s) present dialogic (self)-portraits of artists, creating their objects and authors as selves which emerge as narrated by, through or as another. This particular narrative structure, the paper argues, is also fundamental for interrogating modernist notions of the artist and of authorship.

Harker presented a paper, "Blended Character in Muriel Spark's The Comforters." Looking to Spark's depictions of impossible, implausible, or flat characters, James argued against the common claim that twentieth-century fiction challenges the coherence of the subject. Starting with the premise suggested by cognitive psychologists that the recognition of character is elemental, James showed how Spark's fiction actually expands the range of literary depictions of character, prompting the construction of emergent forms of self from seemingly irreconcilable sources.

The seminar was supported by grants from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and the ACLA.

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On April 7-8, 2018 BCB’s Professor of Migration Studies Agata Lisiak will participate in the international conference “Nationalism, Empire, and State,” organized by the Center for Historical Research at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, the Andrew Gagarin Center for Study of Civil Society and Human Rights, with support from the Kudrin Foundation for Support of Civil Initiatives.

Lisiak will speak in the frame of a roundtable on “Teaching Nationalism,” joined by colleagues from the American University of Central Asia, and she will draw on her experience at BCB to discuss the particularities of teaching nationalism in a cross-campus setting.

Read more about the conference 

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On April 3rd 2018, the New School's Public Seminar is holding a discussion of the volume The Parthenon and Liberal Education, co-authored by BCB faculty members Geoff Lehman and Michael Weinman. The event will take place at the New School's venue in the Albert and Vera List Academic Center, New York City. 

The event will feature Michael Weinman, who is also a Contributing Editor at PublicSeminar.org, in conversation with Dmitri Nikulin, Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research and Mirjam Kotwick, Onassis Lecturer in Ancient Greek Thought and Language, New School for Social Research. 

From the volume's description:
The Parthenon and Liberal Education seeks to restore the study of mathematics to its original place of prominence in the liberal arts. To build this case, Geoff Lehman and Michael Weinman turn to Philolaus, a near contemporary of Socrates. The authors demonstrate the influence of his work involving number theory, astronomy, and harmonics on Plato’s Republic and Timaeus, and outline its resonance with the program of study in the early Academy and with the architecture of the Parthenon. Lehman and Weinman argue that the Parthenon can be seen as the foremost embodiment of the practical working through of mathematical knowledge in its time, serving as a mediator between the early reception of Ancient Near-Eastern mathematical ideas and their integration into Greek thought as a form of liberal education, as the latter came to be defined by Plato and his followers. With its Doric architecture characterized by symmetria (commensurability) and harmonia (harmony; joining together), concepts explored contemporaneously by Philolaus, the Parthenon engages dialectical thought in ways that are of enduring relevance for the project of liberal education. 

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On March 7, 2018 Professor of Politics Boris Vormann published the essay "Trump und die Krise der liberalen Demokratie. Die politischen Folgen der Ungleichheit" ["Trump and the crisis of liberal democracy. Political consequences of inequality"] on the PW Portal, an online platform that publishes analyses, essays, interviews, and reports on current political events.

In the essay, Vormann discusses the shifts that have widened the income gap in the United States; political representatives have addressed these inequalities in an asymmetric way, thus losing the confidence of the general population. Looking at how economic inequality has weakened the democratic mechanism in the US, Vormann argues that this phenomenon is at the core of a common crisis of Western democracies. He warns about the danger of subordinating politics to the market forces, which may further erode the legitimacy of institutional democracy, especially in the US, where Trump’s policies further increase inequality, rather than attempt to fix it. 

Read the full essay

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On January 25-26, 2018 faculty Martin Binder participated in an interdisciplinary workshop on "Unemployment and Well-being" organized by the Research Institute of the Federal Employment Agency (IAB).

The workshop brought together 44 researchers from Germany and abroad to discuss the connection between unemployment, well-being, and mental health. Binder’s contribution focused on the extent to which employment and self-employment differ in terms of various well-being indicators. He argued that life satisfaction increases in the case of individuals who switch from dependent to independent employment ("opportunity entrepreneurs"), or from unemployment to independent employment ("necessity entrepreneurs").

Read a report of the workshop here 

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On March 16, 2018 faculty member Marion Detjen published the post Eine Welt der Vielfalt: Das College Berlin [A World of Diversity: Bard College Berlin] on the online platform "Vielfalt leben – Gesellschaft gestalten" belonging to the Bertelsmann Stiftung.

In the post, Detjen discusses the uses and abuses of the term "diversity," both from an ethnic, cultural and gender point of view, and urges for a more differentiated view of diversity that takes into account the context where it is used. As resources for the piece, Detjen draws on her teaching experience at Bard College Berlin, as well as on her research experience at more traditional German institutions.

Read the post here

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Faculty member Laura Scuriatti participated in the conference "2018 Transnational Lives and Cosmopolitan Biographies," held on March 17, 2018 at Wolfson College, Oxford. The conference was organized by the scholarly network Writing 1900 (of which Scuriatti is a member), together with the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, and the research project Creative Multilingualism (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council). 

In the frame of the conference, Scuriatti gave a paper titled "Mina Loy's Insel: a Collaborative Autobiography.” Insel (1936) is a Künstlerroman set in Paris in the interwar years, and narrates a phase of crisis in the life of the eponymous painter, inspired by the German Surrealist Richard Oelze. The novel is structured as a biography, written by the narrator Mrs. Jones, but draws attention to the fusion of biography and autobiography, activating both narrative forms. Scuriatti analyzed the novel in the context of Loy's oeuvre and other modernist Künstlerromane; she argued, drawing on Adriana Cavarero's theories, that Insel produces dialogic, "narratable", selves; finally, she attempted to relate the notions of collaborative autobiographies and narratable selves to the writing of transnational lives.

Read more about the conference here

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BCB's Hanna Bargheer (BA 2020) and Elena Müller (BA 2021) won the St. Petersburg Open Debate Tournament, which took place on March 17-18, 2018 at Smolny College, St. Petersburg. 

Participating in the tournament were teams from the Bard network (Bard Annandale, Al-Quds Bard, American University of Central Asia, European Humanities University, Smolny College), as well as other teams from St. Petersburg and Moscow.
In the final round, Hanna and Elena competed with teams from Bard College Annandale, Smolny College, and HSE Moscow in a debate on the motion “This house would implement a social credit system in Western Liberal Democracies.”

The St. Petersburg Open Debate Tournament was the concluding event of the Bard Network Debate Conference (March 15-16, Smolny College), which brought together students and faculty/staff members from each of Bard’s six network campuses for two days of lectures, workshops, and debates.

Read more about the St. Petersburg Open Debate Tournament on the Facebook page of the Bard College Debate Union

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On March 19-21, faculty from the American University of Central Asia, Al-Quds Bard, Central European University, and Bard College Annandale join BCB faculty on our campus to develop a syllabus for a Bard/HESP (Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Foundations) network course on migration. 

The workshop "Teaching Migration Studies in the Liberal Arts" will consist of interdisciplinary discussions of key critical texts on migration, presentations of faculty members’ own research and teaching experiences in the field of migration studies, and joint development of a foundational course in Migration Studies. The meeting is organized by Agata Lisiak (BCB) and Jeff Jurgens (Bard College Annandale).

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Professor of Migration Studies Agata Lisiak’s paper titled "Other mothers: encountering in/visible femininities in migration and urban contexts” has been published in Issue 117 of The Feminist Review. 

In the paper, Lisiak proposes a feminist revision of a celebratory tone in scholarship on urban (super)diversity and points out that seemingly peaceful interactions in urban space do not exclude privately harboured racial, ethnic, religious, and class prejudices. Based on Lisiak's research in Berlin, Munich, London, and Birmingham, the paper discusses everyday practices of Polish migrant mothers in British and German cities, with a focus on their performances and perceptions of femininity. 

You can read the paper online by clicking on this link.

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On Monday, March 19, 2018 faculty member Israel Waichman will give a talk titled "An Experimental Study on International Climate Change Negotiation" in the frame of the International Spring School: “European Energy System Transformation and Climate Policy – Heterogeneous Perspectives Ranging from Global via European to Local,” held at the Freudenstein Castle, Freiberg, and organized by the TU Bergakademie Freiberg and the Forschungszentrum Jülich.

The spring school will deal with the divergent economic, environmental and social implications of the pursued ‘climate-friendly’ energy system transformation. Different related research approaches (cross-impact balance analysis, joint-production and impure public good models) will be among the teaching and learning content discussed. 

Read more here

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BCB’s Associate Dean and Professor of Human Rights Kerry Bystrom recently gave an interview regarding the 2017 volume The Global South Atlantic (co-edited by Bystrom and Joseph R. Slaughter, and published by Fordham University Press) to the features platform Berliner Gazette.

Starting from Paul Gilroy’s seminal book The Black Atlantic (1993), which put forth a new, more inclusive vision of the Atlantic, Bystrom discusses the developments in contemporary research approaches that served as basis for The Global South Atlantic, and why we can consider the South Atlantic a fertile cultural laboratory today. She explains that the book’s intention was to broaden Gilroy’s paradigm, to break through language barriers, and also to commit to an approach that is truly focused on the south. Bystrom concludes that the South Atlantic should be regarded as both a geographical region, and a vision of justice and equality. 

Read the full interview here

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Professor of Politics Boris Vormann recently participated in several interviews / panels held by German radio stations, in which he discussed issues related to US domestic and foreign policy. 

On February 22nd, in HR2 Kultur’s show 'Der Tag’, in the aftermath of the February 19 Florida shooting, Vormann examines the potential of this tragic event to bring about a social reform movement and to change US gun laws under Trump.
"Shame on you!" – Emma und die Waffenlobby

On March 3rd, for Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Vormann analyzes the punitive tariffs for steel and aluminum announced by Trump which perplexed major world economies. He explains that Trump’s measure is a departure from international free trade and that it is unprecedented in US history, which may indicate the US president’s impulsive behavior on the international scene as well as his lack of a long-term strategic vision.
"Das ist eine maximale Kehrtwende"

Vormann also tackled the controversial punitive tariffs in a panel organized by SWR2 on March 9, in which he discussed together with Rolf J. Langhammer (Kiel Institute for World Economy) and Petra Pinzler (Die Zeit) how these measures will affect free trade, Germany and the EU, and how they may trigger a spiral of retaliation.
Zerstören die USA den Freihandel?

Finally, in an interview for RBB Inforadio on March 9, in the context of the recently announced Kim-Trump talks, Vormann attempts to explain the US president’s inconsistent behavior towards North Korea through the lack of an overall strategic vision. Vormann concludes that “Trump’s constant is that of inconsistency.”
US-Experte: "Trumps Konstante ist die Inkonsequenz"

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Public Seminar, the online platform for analysis and debate hosted by The New School for Social Research, recently published essays written by Bard College Berlin students for the Fall 2017 Constitutions, Ancient and Modern course, taught by Michael Weinman. 

Ido Nahari’s essay “The City Does Not Belong to its Inhabitants” offers a resident’s perspective on Jerusalem and analyzes the right over the city with reference to Marxist theory and Israeli philosophers.

In "Contextualizing Catalonia", students Skyler Maassen, Lucia Pradel and Leng Wah Sing provide a social, political and economic overview of the most important historical events that led to the current constitutional crisis in Catalonia. 

The piece serves as a foundation for Lucia Pradel’s essay "The Current Situation in Catalonia," which examines the “political debacle” in Catalonia and the issues it raises with respect to legitimacy, cultural identity and faith in institutions.

Finally, Mátyás György Endrey's piece, "A Revolution in the Polling Booths?", looks at the new constitutional order in Hungary and its legitimacy in relation to Orbán's illiberal regime. 

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A blog post by BCB’s Professor of Migration Studies Agata Lisiak titled “The Unbearable Persistence of Whiteness” was recently published by the online platform of the interdisciplinary journal Feminist Review. 

Asking how racism and Islamophobia persist in civil or convivial contexts, Lisiak discusses her recent research among Polish migrant mothers living in British and German cities. This short piece, published on International Women’s Day, offers a sneak peak into Lisiak’s upcoming paper “Other mothers: encountering in/visible femininities in migration and urban contexts” scheduled to come out in Issue 117 of Feminist Review. 

Read the article here
 

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Professor of Politics Boris Vormann recently published the essay “Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: American Studies as Interdisciplinary Area Studies” in the volume Projecting American Studies. Essays on Theory, Method, and Practice, edited by Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre (Winter Verlag, Heidelberg, 2018).
From the book’s description: 

How do theories, methods, and scholarly practices shape major research projects currently underway in American Studies? In twenty original essays, the contributors to ‘Projecting American Studies’ interrogate their ongoing work in various interdisciplinary contexts, shedding light on contemporary Americanist practices, styles, and publics. In keeping with the original meaning of the French term ‘essai’, each contribution is a try, an attempt, an experiment: Several chapters employ a personal tone, others distill their arguments into condensed prose, some use non-linear formats. 

All contributors openly reflect on the future of American Studies in its interchange with Literary, Cultural, and Media Studies as well as with History and Political Science. Avoiding the rhetoric of “turns” and paradigm shifts, ‘Projecting American Studies’ aims to replace perennial appeals to do things differently with sustainable ideas for how to do things better.

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On February 28, 2018 faculty member Marion Detjen participated in the panel Ist der Familiennachzug noch zu retten? [Can family reunification still be saved?] at the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin. The panel was moderated by Ines Kappert (Heinrich Böll Stiftung) and also featured as discussants Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Member of the Bundestag) and Vicky Germain (activist). 

Although in November 2017 a majority of the German population declared themselves to be in favor of family reunification, currently the majority is against it. The discussants aimed to answer questions as: Is there still a way to save family reunification? Which strategies for mobilizing civil society are feasible? What is the historical background of the decade-long disagreement surrounding family reunification? Why is Germany struggling with this issue?

Read more about the event 

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Ellen Driscoll, Program Director of Studio Arts and Visiting Professor of Sculpture at Bard College, New York, has been awarded the prestigious International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Educator Award for 2018. Ellen Driscoll’s work encompasses sculptures, drawings, and installations which explore resource consumption and material lineage. Her art has been included in major public and private collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of Art. Read more about her work here: www.ellendriscoll.net. 

The International Sculpture Center (ISC) established the “Outstanding Educator Award” program in 1996 to recognize individual artist-educators who have excelled at teaching sculpture in institutions of higher learning.

After evaluating close to 60 nominees, the selection committee unanimously voted to grant Ellen Driscoll the award as “a testament to the dedication and excellence demonstrated by this educator.”

Read more (press release)

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On February 8, 2018 Professor of Politics Boris Vormann participated in the panel “Rivalen um die Weltherrschaft” ("Rivals for Global Dominance") organized by the regional public broadcaster SWR2 and moderated by Thomas Ihm. 

In the panel, Vormann discusses together with Jan Gaspers (Mercator Institute for China Studies, Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala (University of the German Federal Armed Forces, Munich) how Trump’s National Security Strategy puts rivals such as Russia and China in the foreground and what this means particularly for the relation with China. While U.S. is losing its global influence under Trump, China is gaining ground both politically, economically and militarily. The three panelists analyze the two countries’ international strategies and their effects on the current global situation.

Listen to the complete panel here

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On February 28, 2018 faculty member and Associate Dean Kerry Bystrom will participate in the discussion "Beyond “Willkommenskultur”: Artistic and Academic Approaches to Integration from a Transatlantic Perspective" held at the American Academy in Berlin and organized in cooperation with the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

The event will bring together artists and scholars to talk about the contemporary questions and challenges raised by migration, both in Germany and the United States. Ever since the waves of refugee immigration in 2015, Germany has searched for and implemented solutions for the integration of new arrivals into German society; at the same time, the United States - where migration plays a historical role - is debating the political and humanitarian implications of new migration. In their discussion, the panelists will examine platforms for integration in both countries provided by either the arts or the sciences.

Bystrom will participate in a panel examining the catalysts of integration from an academic perspective, moderated by Michael P. Steinberg (President of the American Academy in Berlin). 

Read more and/or register for the event 

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Public Seminar, the online publishing project of The New School, recently launched the volume #Charlottesville: Before and Beyond, which includes contributions by BCB faculty member Michael Weinman. Edited by Christopher Howard-Woods, Colin Laidley, and Maryam Omidi, this collection of essays deals with the events surrounding the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017, being the first book published on the event. 

From the book’s description:

"#Charlottesville: Before and Beyond is a collection of essays, each of which touch on a distinct aspect of a complex and jarring moment in which the forces and institutions of ethnonationalism, politically sanctioned racism, police brutality, and the unrecognized echoes of our nation’s dark history culminated in an event that shocked the nation. We consider this one step forward in understanding an event whose implications continue to unfold."

Weinman, who is a Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, lived in Charlottesville in the academic year 2016-17. A suite of his posts on memorial politics in Charlottesville and the American south, as well as a separate reflection of the moral assessment of the actions of Charlottesville residents in response to the events of August 2017, are included in the volume.

As Public Seminar Publisher Jeffrey Goldfarb writes, "Michael Weinman and his colleague Isaac Reed of the University of Virginia played a key role in starting the discussion that led to the book. Michael is distinguished by being the only contributor with two chapters included."

Link to download the ebook

Note from the publishers:

"The book is free—we consider it to be our intellectual contribution to public debate—but you are invited to donate whatever you consider its value to be."

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Bard College Berlin’s Agata Lisiak and Elena Vacchelli (University of Greenwich) recently launched the collaborative website migART - a repository for migration Activism, Research, and Teaching projects featuring creative and collaborative methods. 

migART aims to spark international and interdisciplinary collaborations between researchers, activists, and educators. The website — designed by Bard College Berlin student Sabrina Slipchenko — will showcase past and ongoing activities (research projects, social initiatives, syllabi), as well as information about upcoming events, grant opportunities, and new publications. 

View the website

Follow migART on twitter at @mig__ART

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On January 31, 2018 BCB's Professor of Politics Boris Vormann gave two interviews concerning Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address (January 30, 2018) as the President of the United States. 

In these interviews, Vormann speaks about the historical role of the State of the Union address and the ways in which President Trump stuck with or veered away from the normal script.

Hear Vormann's interview with Inforadio RBB here.

Watch Vormann's interview with Deutsche Welle here (source: dw.com).

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On February 8, 2018 faculty member Jeffrey Champlin will participate in the panel “Post-Truth, Social Media and Politics Today” in the framework of the series "Jour Fixe – Turkey in the 21st Century," organized by the Contemporary Turkey Studies Program at Humboldt University Berlin. 

What is new to the post-truth phenomenon? In what ways today’s political lies are different than before? What are the consequences of today's political crisis on democratic politics? What are the dangers of politics detached from truth and facts? What is the role of social media and new technologies in the possibility of a post-truth world? These are some of the questions that the invited panelists will attempt to answer.  

Registration is necessary to attend; more information on the event can be accessed here.

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Professor of Politics Boris Vormann recently published the chapter “Am Ende des Dritten Weges: Abkehr vom wirtschaftspolitischen Liberalismus?” [The End of the Third Way: Turning Away from Economic Liberalism] in the volume Die gespaltenen Staaten von Amerika: Die Wahl Donald Trumps und die Folgen für Politik und Gesellschaft [Divided States of America: The Election of Donald Trump and Its Consequences for Politics and Society], edited by Winand Gellner and Michael Oswald (2018, Springer VS).

The chapter discusses how, even though the USA was founded as a liberal state and is still regarded as a pioneer of Western values, anti-liberal forces have taken over the country’s leadership since the election of Donald Trump. Vormann argues that the Trump phenomenon should be understood as a key shift in politics and an inherent crisis of liberalism. 

Link to chapter 

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Professor of Politics Boris Vormann recently published the chapter “Am Ende des Dritten Weges: Abkehr vom wirtschaftspolitischen Liberalismus?” [The End of the Third Way: Turning Away from Economic Liberalism] in the volume Die gespaltenen Staaten von Amerika: Die Wahl Donald Trumps und die Folgen für Politik und Gesellschaft [Divided States of America: The Election of Donald Trump and Its Consequences for Politics and Society], edited by Winand Gellner and Michael Oswald (2018, Springer VS).

The chapter discusses how, even though the USA was founded as a liberal state and is still regarded as a pioneer of Western values, anti-liberal forces have taken over the country’s leadership since the election of Donald Trump. Vormann argues that the Trump phenomenon should be understood as a key shift in politics and an inherent crisis of liberalism. 

Link to chapter 

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Arts instructor Ana María Gómez López is among the 8 artists invited to show work in the group exhibition "All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain," running from December 9, 2017 through February 4, 2018 at the Municipal Fund for Contemporary Art in Geneva, Switzerland. 

Curated by Sarah Burger and Ceel Mogami de Haas and originating in their common interest in Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner (1982), the exhibition presents sound art that questions, redistributes or reinterprets the work of French film essayist Chris Marker (also in relation to Blade Runner). 

Read more about the exhibition 

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