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July 2021
07-06-2021
Meta: Type(s): Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
June 2021
06-30-2021
BCB Professor of Politics and Middle Eastern Studies Hanan Toukan discussed her book The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan with other scholars as part of the EUME "Berliner Seminar." The "Berliner Seminar" is hosted by Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME), a multi-disciplinary research program at the Berlin based Forum Transregionale Studien.
The other discussants were Diana Abbani (EUME Fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation 2020/21), Amal Eqeiq (Williams College/EUME Fellow 2029-21), and Zeina Maasri (University of Brighton).
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
The other discussants were Diana Abbani (EUME Fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation 2020/21), Amal Eqeiq (Williams College/EUME Fellow 2029-21), and Zeina Maasri (University of Brighton).
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
06-30-2021
BCB faculty member and artist John Kleckner was amongst the recipients of the 2021 Pollock-Krasner Foundation artist grants.
Through its individual artist grants, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation supports working artists by providing the financial resources to cover expenses, such as: art supplies, studio space, exhibition preparation etc. Since its founding in 1985, the foundation has awarded 5,000 grants, totaling $82 million, to recipients in seventy-eight countries.
John Kleckner’s works have been exhibited internationally and can be found in prominent public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Charles Saatchi Collection in London. Kleckner will be opening the exhibition: Sidesteps: Roughly Edged together with Maximilian Arnold at the goeben gallery in Berlin. The exhibition will be showing from July 24 to August 28, 2021.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
Through its individual artist grants, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation supports working artists by providing the financial resources to cover expenses, such as: art supplies, studio space, exhibition preparation etc. Since its founding in 1985, the foundation has awarded 5,000 grants, totaling $82 million, to recipients in seventy-eight countries.
John Kleckner’s works have been exhibited internationally and can be found in prominent public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Charles Saatchi Collection in London. Kleckner will be opening the exhibition: Sidesteps: Roughly Edged together with Maximilian Arnold at the goeben gallery in Berlin. The exhibition will be showing from July 24 to August 28, 2021.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
06-30-2021
BCB Professor of Theater and Performance Nina Tecklenburg and BCB faculty member Ramona Mosse are involved in the organization of a day of public online workshops under the title "Staging Viral Theatres."
The event will investigate the changes to theater infrastructures and aesthetics during the pandemic. The three sessions will be an exploration of how the shift to digital forms has affected the notion of liveness, what constitutes participation in the digital sphere, and how the current moment can be creatively documented.
The focus will be on putting specific pandemic projects by Berlin theater institutions and performance makers in dialogue with a series of international guest artists and scholars, in order to capture and compare the forms of attention brought to digital theaters.
Viral Theatres is a practice-based research project and a collaboration between the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt University Berlin, and Bard College Berlin. It is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
The event wil take place on July 1, 2:00 - 8:00 pm CEST.
Further information available on the Viral Theatres website >>
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
The event will investigate the changes to theater infrastructures and aesthetics during the pandemic. The three sessions will be an exploration of how the shift to digital forms has affected the notion of liveness, what constitutes participation in the digital sphere, and how the current moment can be creatively documented.
The focus will be on putting specific pandemic projects by Berlin theater institutions and performance makers in dialogue with a series of international guest artists and scholars, in order to capture and compare the forms of attention brought to digital theaters.
Viral Theatres is a practice-based research project and a collaboration between the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt University Berlin, and Bard College Berlin. It is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
The event wil take place on July 1, 2:00 - 8:00 pm CEST.
Further information available on the Viral Theatres website >>
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
06-29-2021
BCB student residences Henry Koerner Hall have been nominated for a further architectural prize, they are in the running for the DAM Prize awarded by the German Architecture Museum.
The nomination announcement notes how the residences' stacked maisonette apartments seek inspiration from Le Corbusier's “Immeuble Villa.” Despite the functional design, the buildings' apartments are spacious, the large windows and surrounding trees making for a peaceful and pleasant living environment.
Henry Koerner Hall was designed by Rotterdam-based Atelier Kempe Thill, the inauguration took place in May 2019. The residences have previously been nominated for the Architekturpreis Berlin.
Further information on the prize nomination on the DAM website >>
Download brochure on Henry Koerner Hall here >>
Meta: Type(s): Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin,Architecture | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
The nomination announcement notes how the residences' stacked maisonette apartments seek inspiration from Le Corbusier's “Immeuble Villa.” Despite the functional design, the buildings' apartments are spacious, the large windows and surrounding trees making for a peaceful and pleasant living environment.
Henry Koerner Hall was designed by Rotterdam-based Atelier Kempe Thill, the inauguration took place in May 2019. The residences have previously been nominated for the Architekturpreis Berlin.
Further information on the prize nomination on the DAM website >>
Download brochure on Henry Koerner Hall here >>
Meta: Type(s): Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin,Architecture | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
06-25-2021
BCB Professor of Philosophy Katalin Makkai has published a new monograph, Kant’s Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment is widely recognized as a founding document of modern aesthetics, but its legacy has fallen into disrepute. In this book Katalin Makkai calls for the rediscovery of Kant’s aesthetics, showing that its centerpiece, his investigation of the judgment of taste, paints a compelling portrait of our relationships with works of art that we love. At its heart is a scene of aesthetic encounter in which one feels oneself to be “animated”—brought to life—by an object, finding there to be something in one’s experience of it, beyond what there is to know about it, that one wants to explore and articulate. Tracing Kant’s insight that to judge is to reveal one’s sense of what bears judging, and hence of what matters, Makkai situates Kant’s aesthetics within his larger study, begun in the first Critique, of judgment’s fundamental role in the life of the mind.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment is widely recognized as a founding document of modern aesthetics, but its legacy has fallen into disrepute. In this book Katalin Makkai calls for the rediscovery of Kant’s aesthetics, showing that its centerpiece, his investigation of the judgment of taste, paints a compelling portrait of our relationships with works of art that we love. At its heart is a scene of aesthetic encounter in which one feels oneself to be “animated”—brought to life—by an object, finding there to be something in one’s experience of it, beyond what there is to know about it, that one wants to explore and articulate. Tracing Kant’s insight that to judge is to reveal one’s sense of what bears judging, and hence of what matters, Makkai situates Kant’s aesthetics within his larger study, begun in the first Critique, of judgment’s fundamental role in the life of the mind.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
06-24-2021
Bard College, which has worked to spread liberal-arts education around the globe, has been designated as an “undesirable” organization by the Russian government, prevented from all activity and operations in the country. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office announced the blacklisting on June 21, saying that Bard’s work “threatens the constitutional order and security of Russia.”
Read Leon Botstein's message to the College community here.
Meta: Type(s): General | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
Read Leon Botstein's message to the College community here.
Meta: Type(s): General | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
06-23-2021
BCB faculty member April Gertler and Adrian Schiesser have co-founded a new exhibition space WIRWIR, situated in the heart of the Neukölln area in Berlin.
WIRWIR joins the Berlin project space scene in 2021 with the inaugural exhibition series WIR BAUEN EINE NEUE STADT (June 10 - September 10 2021). Taking its title from the eponymous song by the Palais Schaumburg, the exhibition/event series considers how community can be built, supported and understood and examines metaphorical and lyrical ideas of creating a city through the three chapters of the series, titled BUILD, IDENTIFY and ACTIVATE.
WIRWIR is part of DÉRIVE UG, which is an umbrella organization that has hosted a wide variety of projects over the years, such as: SONNTAG, PICTURE BERLIN, DETLEF, and IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS.
Upcoming Events:
BUILD
June 23, 7:00 pm: Soydivision - Jendela Sonorama: Listening session
June 26, 7:00pm: Onur Ceritoğlu - 7m3: Sound performance
June 27, 7:45pm: Andrew J. Burford - I think I’m done with the kitchen table, baby: Artist walk
Find out more about WIRWIR's upcoming events on their website >>
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
WIRWIR joins the Berlin project space scene in 2021 with the inaugural exhibition series WIR BAUEN EINE NEUE STADT (June 10 - September 10 2021). Taking its title from the eponymous song by the Palais Schaumburg, the exhibition/event series considers how community can be built, supported and understood and examines metaphorical and lyrical ideas of creating a city through the three chapters of the series, titled BUILD, IDENTIFY and ACTIVATE.
WIRWIR is part of DÉRIVE UG, which is an umbrella organization that has hosted a wide variety of projects over the years, such as: SONNTAG, PICTURE BERLIN, DETLEF, and IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS.
Upcoming Events:
BUILD
June 23, 7:00 pm: Soydivision - Jendela Sonorama: Listening session
June 26, 7:00pm: Onur Ceritoğlu - 7m3: Sound performance
June 27, 7:45pm: Andrew J. Burford - I think I’m done with the kitchen table, baby: Artist walk
Find out more about WIRWIR's upcoming events on their website >>
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
06-21-2021
BCB Professor of Art History Aya Soika is participating in an online panel discussion organized by the Association for Art History.
The event is titled: “Curating Art of Curating Artists, the Thorny Question of an Artists Biography” and will be discussing the question: “How much should an artist’s life be used to frame our understanding and experience of their artwork?” As well as examining the role and responsibilities of the curator in engaging with artist’s biographies in their work.
Further panelists are: Eleanor Nairne: Curator at Barbican Art Gallery, Bernhard Fulda, Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Cambridge University, Oscar Murillo: Turner Prize winning artist, and Louisa Buck: art writer and broadcaster.
The Association for Art History leads the collective effort in the UK to advance the study and practice of art history.
Further information here.
The event will take place on June 22, 2021 at 8:30 pm CEST, further information on the Association for Art History website >>
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
The event is titled: “Curating Art of Curating Artists, the Thorny Question of an Artists Biography” and will be discussing the question: “How much should an artist’s life be used to frame our understanding and experience of their artwork?” As well as examining the role and responsibilities of the curator in engaging with artist’s biographies in their work.
Further panelists are: Eleanor Nairne: Curator at Barbican Art Gallery, Bernhard Fulda, Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Cambridge University, Oscar Murillo: Turner Prize winning artist, and Louisa Buck: art writer and broadcaster.
The Association for Art History leads the collective effort in the UK to advance the study and practice of art history.
Further information here.
The event will take place on June 22, 2021 at 8:30 pm CEST, further information on the Association for Art History website >>
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
06-17-2021
BCB alumnus and former PIESC scholar Ahmad Mobayed helped lead a Q&A with 2019 Nobel Prize Laureate in chemistry Stanley Whittingham as part of the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit: "Our Planet, Our Future" (26- 28 April, 2021).
In his questions Ahmad focused on what role youth and education could play in the transition to renewable energy sources. Further guests on the panel were Nobel Prize Laureate in physics David Gross and Beatie Wolfe, artist and innovator for UN Women.
Originally from Syria, Ahmad completed his Bachelors in Economics, Politics ,and Social Thought at Bard College Berlin in 2019 and is now enrolled in a Masters of Public Policy at the Hertie School in Berlin. During his studies Ahmad has worked for Kiron, an NGO that offers free online learning opportunities to displaced persons and underserved communities. He is co-founder of the Syrian Youth Assembly, who work to empower young people to participate in the peace process in Syria.
Read more about Ahmad's story on the Hertie School website >>
Watch a recording of the Nobel Prize's YouTube channel >>
Meta: Type(s): Berlin,Alumni,PIESC | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
In his questions Ahmad focused on what role youth and education could play in the transition to renewable energy sources. Further guests on the panel were Nobel Prize Laureate in physics David Gross and Beatie Wolfe, artist and innovator for UN Women.
Originally from Syria, Ahmad completed his Bachelors in Economics, Politics ,and Social Thought at Bard College Berlin in 2019 and is now enrolled in a Masters of Public Policy at the Hertie School in Berlin. During his studies Ahmad has worked for Kiron, an NGO that offers free online learning opportunities to displaced persons and underserved communities. He is co-founder of the Syrian Youth Assembly, who work to empower young people to participate in the peace process in Syria.
Read more about Ahmad's story on the Hertie School website >>
Watch a recording of the Nobel Prize's YouTube channel >>
Meta: Type(s): Berlin,Alumni,PIESC | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
06-17-2021
In an event hosted by the international online seminar "Lirica & Teoria", William Franke (Vanderbilt University) will discuss his book Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection (New York, Routledge 2021) with BCB faculty member Francesco Giusti. The event takes place on June 25 at 5:00 pm CEST, online. The opening conversation will be held in Italian, but questions in English or German are welcome.
The seminar "Lirica & Teoria" is coordinated by Francesco Giusti and Christine Ott (Goethe University Frankfurt). The seminar brings together a group of scholars based in different countries to discuss questions of lyric as well as new approaches to the lyric, with a particular focus on the Italian poetic tradition. On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, the seminar will also host events open to the public and related to Dante’s lyric poetry.
Join the event on Zoom >>
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Academics | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
The seminar "Lirica & Teoria" is coordinated by Francesco Giusti and Christine Ott (Goethe University Frankfurt). The seminar brings together a group of scholars based in different countries to discuss questions of lyric as well as new approaches to the lyric, with a particular focus on the Italian poetic tradition. On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, the seminar will also host events open to the public and related to Dante’s lyric poetry.
Join the event on Zoom >>
Meta: Type(s): Faculty,Berlin | Subject(s): Academics | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
06-08-2021
BCB faculty member Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson co-edit the recently published volume of essays: The Work of World Literature.
The contentious discourse around world literature tends to stress the ‘world’ in the phrase. This volume, in contrast, asks what it means to approach world literature by inflecting the question of the literary. Debates for, against, and around ‘world literature’ have brought renewed attention to the worldly aspects of the literary enterprise. Literature is studied with regard to its sociopolitical and cultural references, contexts and conditions of production, circulation, distribution, and translation. But what becomes of the literary when one speaks of world literature? Responding to Derek Attridge’s theory of how literature ‘works’, the contributions in this volume explore in diverse ways and with attention to a variety of literary practices what it might mean to speak of ‘the work of world literature’. The volume shows how attention to literariness complicates the ethical and political conundrums at the center of debates about world literature
Dr. Giusti contributes the essay: Transcontextual Gestures: A Lyric Approach to the World of Literature to the volume. The Work of World Literature is published by ICI Berlin Press and is available as an open access download here>>
Meta: Type(s): Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin,Academics | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
The contentious discourse around world literature tends to stress the ‘world’ in the phrase. This volume, in contrast, asks what it means to approach world literature by inflecting the question of the literary. Debates for, against, and around ‘world literature’ have brought renewed attention to the worldly aspects of the literary enterprise. Literature is studied with regard to its sociopolitical and cultural references, contexts and conditions of production, circulation, distribution, and translation. But what becomes of the literary when one speaks of world literature? Responding to Derek Attridge’s theory of how literature ‘works’, the contributions in this volume explore in diverse ways and with attention to a variety of literary practices what it might mean to speak of ‘the work of world literature’. The volume shows how attention to literariness complicates the ethical and political conundrums at the center of debates about world literature
Dr. Giusti contributes the essay: Transcontextual Gestures: A Lyric Approach to the World of Literature to the volume. The Work of World Literature is published by ICI Berlin Press and is available as an open access download here>>
Meta: Type(s): Berlin | Subject(s): Bard College Berlin,Academics | Institutes(s): Bard College Berlin |
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