SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
Multiple Locations This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 22 to May 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior, and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.
Tuesday, April 22 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Evangelia Dalton, "A Form of Perpetual Relation: Water and The Feminine in the works of Ana Mendieta, Roni Horn, and Pipilotti Rist"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Miyu Sasaki, "The Ominous in the Mundane: the Entrapment of Daily Life in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Aria Hadziosmanovic, "Do you feel what I feel: from God to Emo"
Tuesday, April 22 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR1 Clara Lieber, "The Fifth in the Tetrad: The Digital Age, The Artist, The Storyteller, and The Innocent through The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004)"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Vasko Popchevaliev, "European Union Enlargement Policy: Analyzing the Case of Macedonia"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8 Claudia Schlomer, "The American Cowboy Hero: An Exploration of Regenerative Violence in The Myth of the Frontier"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Zofia Polak, "Resistance and Community-Building Through Textile Art in Contemporary Poland"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Sabrina Pierce, "Civil Disobedience in Time and Space: Carnival as a Form of Global Dissent"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Lex Hill, "Trans-ing Bodies, Ink-ing Relations: Transness, Tattoos, & Collaborative Reflections on Collective Body-Making"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Gabi Cangussu Dos Santos, "Recent Changes in Brazilian Soy Exports and Associated Deforestation: Lessons for Future Policy Implementation"
Wednesday, April 23 | 2:00-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Charles Hamilton, "Eco-Economics: Advanced Bahamian Global Leadership in the Blue Economy through Carbon Trading and Concomitant Innovation"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe Misi Hoogvliets, "Dream Wild, Child: Envisioning New Representations in Film Through the Use of Queer Afrosurrealism and the Black Radical Imagination"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:45am-12:15pm, W15 Cafe Robin Schubert, "Archiving: Methodologies of Resistance"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Theresa Steinbeis, "The Disguise of the Beggar in the Odyssey"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Marton McCue, "Whose Tablet Is It Anyway? The Politicization and The Plundering of Iraqi Cultural Heritage in The Context of The Second Gulf War"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Elena Chiavazza Prieto, "Erotic Resistance against Augusto Pinochet's Dictatorship: Queer Mythification and Re-narration of Chile in Pedro Lemebel's Tengo Miedo Torero"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 SR8 Dayana Milieva, "Can Life Still Be Sweet Without Sugar? Psychosocial, Ethical, and Financial Considerations in Government Assistance for Children With Type 1 Diabetes"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Mishel Jovanovska, "The Possibility of Forgiveness (and its Threat) in Hobbes's Leviathan"
Friday, April 25 | 11:45am-12:15pm, K24 SR11 Annika Julien, "When Children Love Ugly Animals: An Evaluation of Depictions of Non Charismatic Species in Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Children’s Literature as an Approach to Nature Conservation"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Cosma Bolis, "A New Renaissance in Italy: The Legacy and Prospects of Atomic Energy"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Rowdy Kram, "From Navigators of the Stars to Navigators of Their Own Sovereignty: Māori Mana in Dialogue with Cherokee Duyuktv"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Doaa Althawr, "Local mediation: Exploring the role of Yemeni tribes in conflict resolution"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Tazo Shavgulidze, "Is organic farming economically feasible on a large scale, and if so, what policy tools could support this transition?"
Monday, April 28 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall Ritta Hamida, "Dalouna's Dabke Relatives across time and boarders"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Celeste Lucci, "Re-imagining Space: Architecture Photography Today"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR2 Zykkii Cubukcuoglu, "Cyborg Mythologies; Social and Political Imaginaries within Cyberpunk"
Monday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Meredith Lynch, "it pretty much feels like heaven: extremity, exploitation, & digital spectres in Toad Road (2012)"
Tuesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Luna Miccoli, "Bridging Identity and Materiality: Mark Bradford's transformation of Painting using Collage and Decollage"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Simone Rae Kyle, "Book Relations: The Book Object's Formal Capacity for Agency and Exchange in Walter Benjamin and Beyond"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Max Suvorov, “'On the Ways to Liberty': Lessons from the Unsuccessful Attempt of Russian Liberals to Lead the Revolution in the Memoirs of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams"
Wednesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Hanene Bergaoui, "Privatization and Employment: Analyzing the IMF and State-Owned Enterprise Reforms in African Economies"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Maya Calleja Scott, "Canadian Labour: A History of Dispossession and its Impacts on Transnational Union Organizing"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, W15 Cafe Yelyzaveta Sokolova, "Caring in Displacement: Ukrainian Mothers in Berlin"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Gali Har-Gil, "The Political Trigger Points of Theater: Challenging Collective Memory on Stage"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, W15 Cafe Muhammad Sadiq, "Teachers Matter: Measuring Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy in Pakistan"
Friday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Athina Manou, "Environmental Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: The Case of Greece"
Friday, May 2 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Frosina Kekenovska, "What’s Behind the Brain Drain? A Survey-Based Analysis of Youth Emigration in North Macedonia"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Chaya Kimbell, "The Numbers Speak for...whom? Examining the discursive function of quantitative objectivity in the United States' 'post-truth' political disputes"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Dina Zoffoli, "The Response to and Significance of the Aestheticized Death"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Yasmine El Hafidi, "Mapping Memory and Listening to Silence: Contemporary Artistic Approaches to Italy's Colonial Time"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Faye Dudukovich, "Connection, Fantasy, and Empathy: Mahjong as a Remedy for Whosspels’ Alienation"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Mykyta Vorobiov, "Russian Pro-War Posters in 2022-2025: a Critical Analysis"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Joan Kacyira, "Queering the German Colonial Archive: Finding Alternative Histories of Rwandans and their Land"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Abdullah Naseer, "Democratization of Video Art through (re)generative AI"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Dorien Schoenmaker, "'Never Play with Fire next to a Haystack': Populism and Rural Resentment in the Netherlands"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Violet Smith, "Reasoning behind the Seasoning: the Politics of Cultural Identity through Culinary Preservation, Using Recipes as Archives to Maintain Identity in Mexican Diaspora Communities Located in the U.S."
Wednesday, May 7 | 3:30pm-4:00pm, Lecture Hall Bruno Munoz-Oropeza, "Democracy's Final Frontier: Populism and Vigilantism in the Americas"
Friday, May 9 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall Aleksandra Vartsaba, "Investigating Bucha: The Role of Investigative Journalism in Times of Crisis"
Application deadline for citizens and residents of EU/EEA and Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, US
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Online Event
Bard College Berlin accepts applications for entry to the BA degree programs and one-year programs in Fall 2025. The final deadline for applying is May 1,2025 at 23:59 in your time zone.
Eligible applicants are citizens and residents of the EU and EEA, as well as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, US. For more information on eligibility and application requirements, please refer to How to Apply.
Should you have any questions about your application for admission and/or financial aid at BCB, please do not hesitate to reach out to the BCB Admissions Team at admissions@berlin.bard.edu. We look forward to receiving your application!
Filmtheater am Friedrichshain (Bötzowstrasse 1-5, 10407 Berlin) Bard College Berlin is cohosting a public screening of The Master and Margarita, a successful adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel that faced intense scrutiny and attack when it was released in Russia last year. Duma deputies and pro-war Russian propagandists called for its ban and demanded criminal charges against Michael Lockshin, its Russian-American director, who staked out a clear anti-war position from the moment of Russia's invasion. State loyalists in Russia were displeased by Lockshin's own public stance and the embedded messages of the film, an allegory for the dangers of squelching artistic and personal freedoms.
Despite (or maybe, even helped by) these attacks, the film’s reception among Russian audiences was overwhelmingly positive. Over 6 million tickets have been sold in Russia, without virtually any media support initially for the release. The film was in the top-8 highest grossing films in Russia ever, even though rated-R. This success also demonstrates the enduring appeal of Bulgakov’s text, with its blending of historical context with contemporary relevance. The novel, as Lockshin’s film makes clear, is an open critique of authoritarianism, censorship, terror, and other means by which the State wields power over its citizens.
Lockshin will be present at the screening and take part in a Q&A moderated by Joshua Yaffa, the writer-in-residence at Bard College Berlin, and who has covered Russia for The New Yorker for many years. The film will be screened in Russian with English subtitles.
Tickets can be purchased on the YorckKinogruppe website. Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin and York Kinogruppe.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
Multiple Locations This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 22 to May 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior, and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.
Tuesday, April 22 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Evangelia Dalton, "A Form of Perpetual Relation: Water and The Feminine in the works of Ana Mendieta, Roni Horn, and Pipilotti Rist"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Miyu Sasaki, "The Ominous in the Mundane: the Entrapment of Daily Life in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Aria Hadziosmanovic, "Do you feel what I feel: from God to Emo"
Tuesday, April 22 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR1 Clara Lieber, "The Fifth in the Tetrad: The Digital Age, The Artist, The Storyteller, and The Innocent through The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004)"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Vasko Popchevaliev, "European Union Enlargement Policy: Analyzing the Case of Macedonia"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8 Claudia Schlomer, "The American Cowboy Hero: An Exploration of Regenerative Violence in The Myth of the Frontier"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Zofia Polak, "Resistance and Community-Building Through Textile Art in Contemporary Poland"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Sabrina Pierce, "Civil Disobedience in Time and Space: Carnival as a Form of Global Dissent"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Lex Hill, "Trans-ing Bodies, Ink-ing Relations: Transness, Tattoos, & Collaborative Reflections on Collective Body-Making"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Gabi Cangussu Dos Santos, "Recent Changes in Brazilian Soy Exports and Associated Deforestation: Lessons for Future Policy Implementation"
Wednesday, April 23 | 2:00-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Charles Hamilton, "Eco-Economics: Advanced Bahamian Global Leadership in the Blue Economy through Carbon Trading and Concomitant Innovation"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe Misi Hoogvliets, "Dream Wild, Child: Envisioning New Representations in Film Through the Use of Queer Afrosurrealism and the Black Radical Imagination"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:45am-12:15pm, W15 Cafe Robin Schubert, "Archiving: Methodologies of Resistance"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Theresa Steinbeis, "The Disguise of the Beggar in the Odyssey"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Marton McCue, "Whose Tablet Is It Anyway? The Politicization and The Plundering of Iraqi Cultural Heritage in The Context of The Second Gulf War"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Elena Chiavazza Prieto, "Erotic Resistance against Augusto Pinochet's Dictatorship: Queer Mythification and Re-narration of Chile in Pedro Lemebel's Tengo Miedo Torero"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 SR8 Dayana Milieva, "Can Life Still Be Sweet Without Sugar? Psychosocial, Ethical, and Financial Considerations in Government Assistance for Children With Type 1 Diabetes"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Mishel Jovanovska, "The Possibility of Forgiveness (and its Threat) in Hobbes's Leviathan"
Friday, April 25 | 11:45am-12:15pm, K24 SR11 Annika Julien, "When Children Love Ugly Animals: An Evaluation of Depictions of Non Charismatic Species in Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Children’s Literature as an Approach to Nature Conservation"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Cosma Bolis, "A New Renaissance in Italy: The Legacy and Prospects of Atomic Energy"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Rowdy Kram, "From Navigators of the Stars to Navigators of Their Own Sovereignty: Māori Mana in Dialogue with Cherokee Duyuktv"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Doaa Althawr, "Local mediation: Exploring the role of Yemeni tribes in conflict resolution"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Tazo Shavgulidze, "Is organic farming economically feasible on a large scale, and if so, what policy tools could support this transition?"
Monday, April 28 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall Ritta Hamida, "Dalouna's Dabke Relatives across time and boarders"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Celeste Lucci, "Re-imagining Space: Architecture Photography Today"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR2 Zykkii Cubukcuoglu, "Cyborg Mythologies; Social and Political Imaginaries within Cyberpunk"
Monday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Meredith Lynch, "it pretty much feels like heaven: extremity, exploitation, & digital spectres in Toad Road (2012)"
Tuesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Luna Miccoli, "Bridging Identity and Materiality: Mark Bradford's transformation of Painting using Collage and Decollage"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Simone Rae Kyle, "Book Relations: The Book Object's Formal Capacity for Agency and Exchange in Walter Benjamin and Beyond"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Max Suvorov, “'On the Ways to Liberty': Lessons from the Unsuccessful Attempt of Russian Liberals to Lead the Revolution in the Memoirs of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams"
Wednesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Hanene Bergaoui, "Privatization and Employment: Analyzing the IMF and State-Owned Enterprise Reforms in African Economies"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Maya Calleja Scott, "Canadian Labour: A History of Dispossession and its Impacts on Transnational Union Organizing"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, W15 Cafe Yelyzaveta Sokolova, "Caring in Displacement: Ukrainian Mothers in Berlin"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Gali Har-Gil, "The Political Trigger Points of Theater: Challenging Collective Memory on Stage"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, W15 Cafe Muhammad Sadiq, "Teachers Matter: Measuring Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy in Pakistan"
Friday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Athina Manou, "Environmental Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: The Case of Greece"
Friday, May 2 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Frosina Kekenovska, "What’s Behind the Brain Drain? A Survey-Based Analysis of Youth Emigration in North Macedonia"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Chaya Kimbell, "The Numbers Speak for...whom? Examining the discursive function of quantitative objectivity in the United States' 'post-truth' political disputes"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Dina Zoffoli, "The Response to and Significance of the Aestheticized Death"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Yasmine El Hafidi, "Mapping Memory and Listening to Silence: Contemporary Artistic Approaches to Italy's Colonial Time"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Faye Dudukovich, "Connection, Fantasy, and Empathy: Mahjong as a Remedy for Whosspels’ Alienation"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Mykyta Vorobiov, "Russian Pro-War Posters in 2022-2025: a Critical Analysis"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Joan Kacyira, "Queering the German Colonial Archive: Finding Alternative Histories of Rwandans and their Land"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Abdullah Naseer, "Democratization of Video Art through (re)generative AI"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Dorien Schoenmaker, "'Never Play with Fire next to a Haystack': Populism and Rural Resentment in the Netherlands"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Violet Smith, "Reasoning behind the Seasoning: the Politics of Cultural Identity through Culinary Preservation, Using Recipes as Archives to Maintain Identity in Mexican Diaspora Communities Located in the U.S."
Wednesday, May 7 | 3:30pm-4:00pm, Lecture Hall Bruno Munoz-Oropeza, "Democracy's Final Frontier: Populism and Vigilantism in the Americas"
Friday, May 9 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall Aleksandra Vartsaba, "Investigating Bucha: The Role of Investigative Journalism in Times of Crisis"
Reading by the Writers in Clare Wigfall’s Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
Friday, May 2, 2025 8–10:30 pm
Wein Salon, Schreinerstr. 59, 10247, Berlin It is now a well-loved tradition that the writers in Clare Wigfall's fiction writing workshops give a much-anticipated reading of their work as the finale of their course. Once again, we are returning to the charming Wein Salon in Friedrichshain. Please join us for a cozy and intimate (but also perhaps a little bit riotous, let's be frank) evening of beautiful and surprising stories and words written by Clare's students. All BCB students, alumni, friends, and faculty members are warmly welcome.
Writers presenting: Jesse Biviano, Ina Constantin, Mala Emde, Gabrielle Gosnell, Marley Heltai, Eliška Pastieriková, Sarah Lo Vecchio, Mya Mackiewicz, Nicole Sierra, Stanislava Švekušová
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
Multiple Locations This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 22 to May 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior, and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.
Tuesday, April 22 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Evangelia Dalton, "A Form of Perpetual Relation: Water and The Feminine in the works of Ana Mendieta, Roni Horn, and Pipilotti Rist"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Miyu Sasaki, "The Ominous in the Mundane: the Entrapment of Daily Life in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Aria Hadziosmanovic, "Do you feel what I feel: from God to Emo"
Tuesday, April 22 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR1 Clara Lieber, "The Fifth in the Tetrad: The Digital Age, The Artist, The Storyteller, and The Innocent through The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004)"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Vasko Popchevaliev, "European Union Enlargement Policy: Analyzing the Case of Macedonia"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8 Claudia Schlomer, "The American Cowboy Hero: An Exploration of Regenerative Violence in The Myth of the Frontier"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Zofia Polak, "Resistance and Community-Building Through Textile Art in Contemporary Poland"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Sabrina Pierce, "Civil Disobedience in Time and Space: Carnival as a Form of Global Dissent"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Lex Hill, "Trans-ing Bodies, Ink-ing Relations: Transness, Tattoos, & Collaborative Reflections on Collective Body-Making"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Gabi Cangussu Dos Santos, "Recent Changes in Brazilian Soy Exports and Associated Deforestation: Lessons for Future Policy Implementation"
Wednesday, April 23 | 2:00-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Charles Hamilton, "Eco-Economics: Advanced Bahamian Global Leadership in the Blue Economy through Carbon Trading and Concomitant Innovation"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe Misi Hoogvliets, "Dream Wild, Child: Envisioning New Representations in Film Through the Use of Queer Afrosurrealism and the Black Radical Imagination"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:45am-12:15pm, W15 Cafe Robin Schubert, "Archiving: Methodologies of Resistance"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Theresa Steinbeis, "The Disguise of the Beggar in the Odyssey"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Marton McCue, "Whose Tablet Is It Anyway? The Politicization and The Plundering of Iraqi Cultural Heritage in The Context of The Second Gulf War"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Elena Chiavazza Prieto, "Erotic Resistance against Augusto Pinochet's Dictatorship: Queer Mythification and Re-narration of Chile in Pedro Lemebel's Tengo Miedo Torero"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 SR8 Dayana Milieva, "Can Life Still Be Sweet Without Sugar? Psychosocial, Ethical, and Financial Considerations in Government Assistance for Children With Type 1 Diabetes"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Mishel Jovanovska, "The Possibility of Forgiveness (and its Threat) in Hobbes's Leviathan"
Friday, April 25 | 11:45am-12:15pm, K24 SR11 Annika Julien, "When Children Love Ugly Animals: An Evaluation of Depictions of Non Charismatic Species in Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Children’s Literature as an Approach to Nature Conservation"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Cosma Bolis, "A New Renaissance in Italy: The Legacy and Prospects of Atomic Energy"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Rowdy Kram, "From Navigators of the Stars to Navigators of Their Own Sovereignty: Māori Mana in Dialogue with Cherokee Duyuktv"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Doaa Althawr, "Local mediation: Exploring the role of Yemeni tribes in conflict resolution"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Tazo Shavgulidze, "Is organic farming economically feasible on a large scale, and if so, what policy tools could support this transition?"
Monday, April 28 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall Ritta Hamida, "Dalouna's Dabke Relatives across time and boarders"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Celeste Lucci, "Re-imagining Space: Architecture Photography Today"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR2 Zykkii Cubukcuoglu, "Cyborg Mythologies; Social and Political Imaginaries within Cyberpunk"
Monday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Meredith Lynch, "it pretty much feels like heaven: extremity, exploitation, & digital spectres in Toad Road (2012)"
Tuesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Luna Miccoli, "Bridging Identity and Materiality: Mark Bradford's transformation of Painting using Collage and Decollage"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Simone Rae Kyle, "Book Relations: The Book Object's Formal Capacity for Agency and Exchange in Walter Benjamin and Beyond"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Max Suvorov, “'On the Ways to Liberty': Lessons from the Unsuccessful Attempt of Russian Liberals to Lead the Revolution in the Memoirs of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams"
Wednesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Hanene Bergaoui, "Privatization and Employment: Analyzing the IMF and State-Owned Enterprise Reforms in African Economies"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Maya Calleja Scott, "Canadian Labour: A History of Dispossession and its Impacts on Transnational Union Organizing"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, W15 Cafe Yelyzaveta Sokolova, "Caring in Displacement: Ukrainian Mothers in Berlin"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Gali Har-Gil, "The Political Trigger Points of Theater: Challenging Collective Memory on Stage"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, W15 Cafe Muhammad Sadiq, "Teachers Matter: Measuring Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy in Pakistan"
Friday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Athina Manou, "Environmental Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: The Case of Greece"
Friday, May 2 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Frosina Kekenovska, "What’s Behind the Brain Drain? A Survey-Based Analysis of Youth Emigration in North Macedonia"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Chaya Kimbell, "The Numbers Speak for...whom? Examining the discursive function of quantitative objectivity in the United States' 'post-truth' political disputes"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Dina Zoffoli, "The Response to and Significance of the Aestheticized Death"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Yasmine El Hafidi, "Mapping Memory and Listening to Silence: Contemporary Artistic Approaches to Italy's Colonial Time"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Faye Dudukovich, "Connection, Fantasy, and Empathy: Mahjong as a Remedy for Whosspels’ Alienation"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Mykyta Vorobiov, "Russian Pro-War Posters in 2022-2025: a Critical Analysis"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Joan Kacyira, "Queering the German Colonial Archive: Finding Alternative Histories of Rwandans and their Land"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Abdullah Naseer, "Democratization of Video Art through (re)generative AI"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Dorien Schoenmaker, "'Never Play with Fire next to a Haystack': Populism and Rural Resentment in the Netherlands"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Violet Smith, "Reasoning behind the Seasoning: the Politics of Cultural Identity through Culinary Preservation, Using Recipes as Archives to Maintain Identity in Mexican Diaspora Communities Located in the U.S."
Wednesday, May 7 | 3:30pm-4:00pm, Lecture Hall Bruno Munoz-Oropeza, "Democracy's Final Frontier: Populism and Vigilantism in the Americas"
Friday, May 9 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall Aleksandra Vartsaba, "Investigating Bucha: The Role of Investigative Journalism in Times of Crisis"
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
Multiple Locations This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 22 to May 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior, and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.
Tuesday, April 22 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Evangelia Dalton, "A Form of Perpetual Relation: Water and The Feminine in the works of Ana Mendieta, Roni Horn, and Pipilotti Rist"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Miyu Sasaki, "The Ominous in the Mundane: the Entrapment of Daily Life in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Aria Hadziosmanovic, "Do you feel what I feel: from God to Emo"
Tuesday, April 22 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR1 Clara Lieber, "The Fifth in the Tetrad: The Digital Age, The Artist, The Storyteller, and The Innocent through The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004)"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Vasko Popchevaliev, "European Union Enlargement Policy: Analyzing the Case of Macedonia"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8 Claudia Schlomer, "The American Cowboy Hero: An Exploration of Regenerative Violence in The Myth of the Frontier"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Zofia Polak, "Resistance and Community-Building Through Textile Art in Contemporary Poland"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Sabrina Pierce, "Civil Disobedience in Time and Space: Carnival as a Form of Global Dissent"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Lex Hill, "Trans-ing Bodies, Ink-ing Relations: Transness, Tattoos, & Collaborative Reflections on Collective Body-Making"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Gabi Cangussu Dos Santos, "Recent Changes in Brazilian Soy Exports and Associated Deforestation: Lessons for Future Policy Implementation"
Wednesday, April 23 | 2:00-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Charles Hamilton, "Eco-Economics: Advanced Bahamian Global Leadership in the Blue Economy through Carbon Trading and Concomitant Innovation"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe Misi Hoogvliets, "Dream Wild, Child: Envisioning New Representations in Film Through the Use of Queer Afrosurrealism and the Black Radical Imagination"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:45am-12:15pm, W15 Cafe Robin Schubert, "Archiving: Methodologies of Resistance"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Theresa Steinbeis, "The Disguise of the Beggar in the Odyssey"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Marton McCue, "Whose Tablet Is It Anyway? The Politicization and The Plundering of Iraqi Cultural Heritage in The Context of The Second Gulf War"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Elena Chiavazza Prieto, "Erotic Resistance against Augusto Pinochet's Dictatorship: Queer Mythification and Re-narration of Chile in Pedro Lemebel's Tengo Miedo Torero"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 SR8 Dayana Milieva, "Can Life Still Be Sweet Without Sugar? Psychosocial, Ethical, and Financial Considerations in Government Assistance for Children With Type 1 Diabetes"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Mishel Jovanovska, "The Possibility of Forgiveness (and its Threat) in Hobbes's Leviathan"
Friday, April 25 | 11:45am-12:15pm, K24 SR11 Annika Julien, "When Children Love Ugly Animals: An Evaluation of Depictions of Non Charismatic Species in Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Children’s Literature as an Approach to Nature Conservation"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Cosma Bolis, "A New Renaissance in Italy: The Legacy and Prospects of Atomic Energy"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Rowdy Kram, "From Navigators of the Stars to Navigators of Their Own Sovereignty: Māori Mana in Dialogue with Cherokee Duyuktv"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Doaa Althawr, "Local mediation: Exploring the role of Yemeni tribes in conflict resolution"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Tazo Shavgulidze, "Is organic farming economically feasible on a large scale, and if so, what policy tools could support this transition?"
Monday, April 28 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall Ritta Hamida, "Dalouna's Dabke Relatives across time and boarders"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Celeste Lucci, "Re-imagining Space: Architecture Photography Today"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR2 Zykkii Cubukcuoglu, "Cyborg Mythologies; Social and Political Imaginaries within Cyberpunk"
Monday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Meredith Lynch, "it pretty much feels like heaven: extremity, exploitation, & digital spectres in Toad Road (2012)"
Tuesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Luna Miccoli, "Bridging Identity and Materiality: Mark Bradford's transformation of Painting using Collage and Decollage"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Simone Rae Kyle, "Book Relations: The Book Object's Formal Capacity for Agency and Exchange in Walter Benjamin and Beyond"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Max Suvorov, “'On the Ways to Liberty': Lessons from the Unsuccessful Attempt of Russian Liberals to Lead the Revolution in the Memoirs of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams"
Wednesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Hanene Bergaoui, "Privatization and Employment: Analyzing the IMF and State-Owned Enterprise Reforms in African Economies"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Maya Calleja Scott, "Canadian Labour: A History of Dispossession and its Impacts on Transnational Union Organizing"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, W15 Cafe Yelyzaveta Sokolova, "Caring in Displacement: Ukrainian Mothers in Berlin"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Gali Har-Gil, "The Political Trigger Points of Theater: Challenging Collective Memory on Stage"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, W15 Cafe Muhammad Sadiq, "Teachers Matter: Measuring Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy in Pakistan"
Friday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Athina Manou, "Environmental Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: The Case of Greece"
Friday, May 2 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Frosina Kekenovska, "What’s Behind the Brain Drain? A Survey-Based Analysis of Youth Emigration in North Macedonia"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Chaya Kimbell, "The Numbers Speak for...whom? Examining the discursive function of quantitative objectivity in the United States' 'post-truth' political disputes"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Dina Zoffoli, "The Response to and Significance of the Aestheticized Death"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Yasmine El Hafidi, "Mapping Memory and Listening to Silence: Contemporary Artistic Approaches to Italy's Colonial Time"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Faye Dudukovich, "Connection, Fantasy, and Empathy: Mahjong as a Remedy for Whosspels’ Alienation"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Mykyta Vorobiov, "Russian Pro-War Posters in 2022-2025: a Critical Analysis"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Joan Kacyira, "Queering the German Colonial Archive: Finding Alternative Histories of Rwandans and their Land"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Abdullah Naseer, "Democratization of Video Art through (re)generative AI"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Dorien Schoenmaker, "'Never Play with Fire next to a Haystack': Populism and Rural Resentment in the Netherlands"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Violet Smith, "Reasoning behind the Seasoning: the Politics of Cultural Identity through Culinary Preservation, Using Recipes as Archives to Maintain Identity in Mexican Diaspora Communities Located in the U.S."
Wednesday, May 7 | 3:30pm-4:00pm, Lecture Hall Bruno Munoz-Oropeza, "Democracy's Final Frontier: Populism and Vigilantism in the Americas"
Friday, May 9 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall Aleksandra Vartsaba, "Investigating Bucha: The Role of Investigative Journalism in Times of Crisis"
Health, Community & Awareness: Navigating Moments of Stress and Overwhelm at University
Sunday, May 4, 2025 12:30–3:30 pm
W15 Cafe FEELING STRESSED? OVERWHELMED? You are not alone. Join us for a workshop centered around mental health, community, and neurodiversity. Explore how we might, as neurodiverse individuals and allies, navigate moments of stress and overwhelm with more connection, resilience, and care. Through 3D modeling and conversation, we'll explore the emotions and pressures students face and share our experiences. Moreover, this event aims to kick off the conversation on mental health and neurodiversity at BCB, and through reflection on the current offered resources, we want to explore how the university will be able to better support students. Come as you are—this is a space for care, connection, and catharsis. Let’s create change together, starting with a moment to breathe, reflect, and be heard. The event will be conducted by Social Worker and Facilitator, Madeline Taylor (madelinemactaylor@gmail.com)
Please register here.Sponsored by: StuPa and the Office of EOPND.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
Multiple Locations This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 22 to May 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior, and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.
Tuesday, April 22 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Evangelia Dalton, "A Form of Perpetual Relation: Water and The Feminine in the works of Ana Mendieta, Roni Horn, and Pipilotti Rist"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Miyu Sasaki, "The Ominous in the Mundane: the Entrapment of Daily Life in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Aria Hadziosmanovic, "Do you feel what I feel: from God to Emo"
Tuesday, April 22 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR1 Clara Lieber, "The Fifth in the Tetrad: The Digital Age, The Artist, The Storyteller, and The Innocent through The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004)"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Vasko Popchevaliev, "European Union Enlargement Policy: Analyzing the Case of Macedonia"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8 Claudia Schlomer, "The American Cowboy Hero: An Exploration of Regenerative Violence in The Myth of the Frontier"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Zofia Polak, "Resistance and Community-Building Through Textile Art in Contemporary Poland"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Sabrina Pierce, "Civil Disobedience in Time and Space: Carnival as a Form of Global Dissent"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Lex Hill, "Trans-ing Bodies, Ink-ing Relations: Transness, Tattoos, & Collaborative Reflections on Collective Body-Making"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Gabi Cangussu Dos Santos, "Recent Changes in Brazilian Soy Exports and Associated Deforestation: Lessons for Future Policy Implementation"
Wednesday, April 23 | 2:00-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Charles Hamilton, "Eco-Economics: Advanced Bahamian Global Leadership in the Blue Economy through Carbon Trading and Concomitant Innovation"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe Misi Hoogvliets, "Dream Wild, Child: Envisioning New Representations in Film Through the Use of Queer Afrosurrealism and the Black Radical Imagination"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:45am-12:15pm, W15 Cafe Robin Schubert, "Archiving: Methodologies of Resistance"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Theresa Steinbeis, "The Disguise of the Beggar in the Odyssey"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Marton McCue, "Whose Tablet Is It Anyway? The Politicization and The Plundering of Iraqi Cultural Heritage in The Context of The Second Gulf War"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Elena Chiavazza Prieto, "Erotic Resistance against Augusto Pinochet's Dictatorship: Queer Mythification and Re-narration of Chile in Pedro Lemebel's Tengo Miedo Torero"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 SR8 Dayana Milieva, "Can Life Still Be Sweet Without Sugar? Psychosocial, Ethical, and Financial Considerations in Government Assistance for Children With Type 1 Diabetes"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Mishel Jovanovska, "The Possibility of Forgiveness (and its Threat) in Hobbes's Leviathan"
Friday, April 25 | 11:45am-12:15pm, K24 SR11 Annika Julien, "When Children Love Ugly Animals: An Evaluation of Depictions of Non Charismatic Species in Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Children’s Literature as an Approach to Nature Conservation"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Cosma Bolis, "A New Renaissance in Italy: The Legacy and Prospects of Atomic Energy"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Rowdy Kram, "From Navigators of the Stars to Navigators of Their Own Sovereignty: Māori Mana in Dialogue with Cherokee Duyuktv"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Doaa Althawr, "Local mediation: Exploring the role of Yemeni tribes in conflict resolution"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Tazo Shavgulidze, "Is organic farming economically feasible on a large scale, and if so, what policy tools could support this transition?"
Monday, April 28 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall Ritta Hamida, "Dalouna's Dabke Relatives across time and boarders"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Celeste Lucci, "Re-imagining Space: Architecture Photography Today"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR2 Zykkii Cubukcuoglu, "Cyborg Mythologies; Social and Political Imaginaries within Cyberpunk"
Monday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Meredith Lynch, "it pretty much feels like heaven: extremity, exploitation, & digital spectres in Toad Road (2012)"
Tuesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Luna Miccoli, "Bridging Identity and Materiality: Mark Bradford's transformation of Painting using Collage and Decollage"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Simone Rae Kyle, "Book Relations: The Book Object's Formal Capacity for Agency and Exchange in Walter Benjamin and Beyond"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Max Suvorov, “'On the Ways to Liberty': Lessons from the Unsuccessful Attempt of Russian Liberals to Lead the Revolution in the Memoirs of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams"
Wednesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Hanene Bergaoui, "Privatization and Employment: Analyzing the IMF and State-Owned Enterprise Reforms in African Economies"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Maya Calleja Scott, "Canadian Labour: A History of Dispossession and its Impacts on Transnational Union Organizing"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, W15 Cafe Yelyzaveta Sokolova, "Caring in Displacement: Ukrainian Mothers in Berlin"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Gali Har-Gil, "The Political Trigger Points of Theater: Challenging Collective Memory on Stage"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, W15 Cafe Muhammad Sadiq, "Teachers Matter: Measuring Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy in Pakistan"
Friday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Athina Manou, "Environmental Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: The Case of Greece"
Friday, May 2 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Frosina Kekenovska, "What’s Behind the Brain Drain? A Survey-Based Analysis of Youth Emigration in North Macedonia"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Chaya Kimbell, "The Numbers Speak for...whom? Examining the discursive function of quantitative objectivity in the United States' 'post-truth' political disputes"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Dina Zoffoli, "The Response to and Significance of the Aestheticized Death"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Yasmine El Hafidi, "Mapping Memory and Listening to Silence: Contemporary Artistic Approaches to Italy's Colonial Time"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Faye Dudukovich, "Connection, Fantasy, and Empathy: Mahjong as a Remedy for Whosspels’ Alienation"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Mykyta Vorobiov, "Russian Pro-War Posters in 2022-2025: a Critical Analysis"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Joan Kacyira, "Queering the German Colonial Archive: Finding Alternative Histories of Rwandans and their Land"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Abdullah Naseer, "Democratization of Video Art through (re)generative AI"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Dorien Schoenmaker, "'Never Play with Fire next to a Haystack': Populism and Rural Resentment in the Netherlands"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Violet Smith, "Reasoning behind the Seasoning: the Politics of Cultural Identity through Culinary Preservation, Using Recipes as Archives to Maintain Identity in Mexican Diaspora Communities Located in the U.S."
Wednesday, May 7 | 3:30pm-4:00pm, Lecture Hall Bruno Munoz-Oropeza, "Democracy's Final Frontier: Populism and Vigilantism in the Americas"
Friday, May 9 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall Aleksandra Vartsaba, "Investigating Bucha: The Role of Investigative Journalism in Times of Crisis"
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
Multiple Locations This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 22 to May 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior, and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.
Tuesday, April 22 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Evangelia Dalton, "A Form of Perpetual Relation: Water and The Feminine in the works of Ana Mendieta, Roni Horn, and Pipilotti Rist"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Miyu Sasaki, "The Ominous in the Mundane: the Entrapment of Daily Life in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Aria Hadziosmanovic, "Do you feel what I feel: from God to Emo"
Tuesday, April 22 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR1 Clara Lieber, "The Fifth in the Tetrad: The Digital Age, The Artist, The Storyteller, and The Innocent through The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004)"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Vasko Popchevaliev, "European Union Enlargement Policy: Analyzing the Case of Macedonia"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8 Claudia Schlomer, "The American Cowboy Hero: An Exploration of Regenerative Violence in The Myth of the Frontier"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Zofia Polak, "Resistance and Community-Building Through Textile Art in Contemporary Poland"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Sabrina Pierce, "Civil Disobedience in Time and Space: Carnival as a Form of Global Dissent"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Lex Hill, "Trans-ing Bodies, Ink-ing Relations: Transness, Tattoos, & Collaborative Reflections on Collective Body-Making"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Gabi Cangussu Dos Santos, "Recent Changes in Brazilian Soy Exports and Associated Deforestation: Lessons for Future Policy Implementation"
Wednesday, April 23 | 2:00-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Charles Hamilton, "Eco-Economics: Advanced Bahamian Global Leadership in the Blue Economy through Carbon Trading and Concomitant Innovation"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe Misi Hoogvliets, "Dream Wild, Child: Envisioning New Representations in Film Through the Use of Queer Afrosurrealism and the Black Radical Imagination"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:45am-12:15pm, W15 Cafe Robin Schubert, "Archiving: Methodologies of Resistance"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Theresa Steinbeis, "The Disguise of the Beggar in the Odyssey"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Marton McCue, "Whose Tablet Is It Anyway? The Politicization and The Plundering of Iraqi Cultural Heritage in The Context of The Second Gulf War"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Elena Chiavazza Prieto, "Erotic Resistance against Augusto Pinochet's Dictatorship: Queer Mythification and Re-narration of Chile in Pedro Lemebel's Tengo Miedo Torero"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 SR8 Dayana Milieva, "Can Life Still Be Sweet Without Sugar? Psychosocial, Ethical, and Financial Considerations in Government Assistance for Children With Type 1 Diabetes"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Mishel Jovanovska, "The Possibility of Forgiveness (and its Threat) in Hobbes's Leviathan"
Friday, April 25 | 11:45am-12:15pm, K24 SR11 Annika Julien, "When Children Love Ugly Animals: An Evaluation of Depictions of Non Charismatic Species in Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Children’s Literature as an Approach to Nature Conservation"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Cosma Bolis, "A New Renaissance in Italy: The Legacy and Prospects of Atomic Energy"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Rowdy Kram, "From Navigators of the Stars to Navigators of Their Own Sovereignty: Māori Mana in Dialogue with Cherokee Duyuktv"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Doaa Althawr, "Local mediation: Exploring the role of Yemeni tribes in conflict resolution"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Tazo Shavgulidze, "Is organic farming economically feasible on a large scale, and if so, what policy tools could support this transition?"
Monday, April 28 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall Ritta Hamida, "Dalouna's Dabke Relatives across time and boarders"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Celeste Lucci, "Re-imagining Space: Architecture Photography Today"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR2 Zykkii Cubukcuoglu, "Cyborg Mythologies; Social and Political Imaginaries within Cyberpunk"
Monday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Meredith Lynch, "it pretty much feels like heaven: extremity, exploitation, & digital spectres in Toad Road (2012)"
Tuesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Luna Miccoli, "Bridging Identity and Materiality: Mark Bradford's transformation of Painting using Collage and Decollage"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Simone Rae Kyle, "Book Relations: The Book Object's Formal Capacity for Agency and Exchange in Walter Benjamin and Beyond"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Max Suvorov, “'On the Ways to Liberty': Lessons from the Unsuccessful Attempt of Russian Liberals to Lead the Revolution in the Memoirs of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams"
Wednesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Hanene Bergaoui, "Privatization and Employment: Analyzing the IMF and State-Owned Enterprise Reforms in African Economies"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Maya Calleja Scott, "Canadian Labour: A History of Dispossession and its Impacts on Transnational Union Organizing"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, W15 Cafe Yelyzaveta Sokolova, "Caring in Displacement: Ukrainian Mothers in Berlin"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Gali Har-Gil, "The Political Trigger Points of Theater: Challenging Collective Memory on Stage"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, W15 Cafe Muhammad Sadiq, "Teachers Matter: Measuring Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy in Pakistan"
Friday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Athina Manou, "Environmental Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: The Case of Greece"
Friday, May 2 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Frosina Kekenovska, "What’s Behind the Brain Drain? A Survey-Based Analysis of Youth Emigration in North Macedonia"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Chaya Kimbell, "The Numbers Speak for...whom? Examining the discursive function of quantitative objectivity in the United States' 'post-truth' political disputes"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Dina Zoffoli, "The Response to and Significance of the Aestheticized Death"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Yasmine El Hafidi, "Mapping Memory and Listening to Silence: Contemporary Artistic Approaches to Italy's Colonial Time"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Faye Dudukovich, "Connection, Fantasy, and Empathy: Mahjong as a Remedy for Whosspels’ Alienation"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Mykyta Vorobiov, "Russian Pro-War Posters in 2022-2025: a Critical Analysis"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Joan Kacyira, "Queering the German Colonial Archive: Finding Alternative Histories of Rwandans and their Land"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Abdullah Naseer, "Democratization of Video Art through (re)generative AI"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Dorien Schoenmaker, "'Never Play with Fire next to a Haystack': Populism and Rural Resentment in the Netherlands"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Violet Smith, "Reasoning behind the Seasoning: the Politics of Cultural Identity through Culinary Preservation, Using Recipes as Archives to Maintain Identity in Mexican Diaspora Communities Located in the U.S."
Wednesday, May 7 | 3:30pm-4:00pm, Lecture Hall Bruno Munoz-Oropeza, "Democracy's Final Frontier: Populism and Vigilantism in the Americas"
Friday, May 9 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall Aleksandra Vartsaba, "Investigating Bucha: The Role of Investigative Journalism in Times of Crisis"
Lecture and Discussion: "Transitional Justice in Syria"
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
W15 Cafe As Syria faces the challenge of moving beyond conflict, transitional justice offers a framework to confront past violations and rebuild trust in public institutions. This event will explore the prospects for national reconciliation and sustainable peace in war-torn Syria. All students, faculty, and guests are warmly invited to join this conversation.
Dr. Usahma Felix Darrah studied Political Science, International Iaw and Islamic Studies in Damascus and Heidelberg before working as a lecturer and speech writer for 10 years. He’s been the managing director of “Freunde des syrischen Volks e.V.” and a political consultant in Berlin since 2014.
“Freunde des Syrischen Volks e.V.” is a non-profit organization founded in Berlin in 2014. We engage in projects that empower Syrian communities and give them agency in the field of legal development and push towards accountability for core crimes committed during the Syrian conflict.
Waldstraße 15 Cafe BCB has a living and learning community with a special focus on German language and culture: the “DerDieDas Haus”. Students with an interest in exploring German in their daily lives share a designated floor in one of our residence halls. They use German amongst each other during the week and engage in extracurricular activities in the city. To find out more about how the projects works, how to apply for a place etc., please join us on Tuesday, May 6, at 7:30pm in the Café at Julie Johnson Kidd Hall, Waldstraße 15. Members of “DerDieDas Haus” and the BCB German Program will host an “Offenes Haus” with snacks and drinks.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
Multiple Locations This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 22 to May 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior, and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.
Tuesday, April 22 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Evangelia Dalton, "A Form of Perpetual Relation: Water and The Feminine in the works of Ana Mendieta, Roni Horn, and Pipilotti Rist"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Miyu Sasaki, "The Ominous in the Mundane: the Entrapment of Daily Life in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Aria Hadziosmanovic, "Do you feel what I feel: from God to Emo"
Tuesday, April 22 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR1 Clara Lieber, "The Fifth in the Tetrad: The Digital Age, The Artist, The Storyteller, and The Innocent through The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004)"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Vasko Popchevaliev, "European Union Enlargement Policy: Analyzing the Case of Macedonia"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8 Claudia Schlomer, "The American Cowboy Hero: An Exploration of Regenerative Violence in The Myth of the Frontier"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Zofia Polak, "Resistance and Community-Building Through Textile Art in Contemporary Poland"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Sabrina Pierce, "Civil Disobedience in Time and Space: Carnival as a Form of Global Dissent"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Lex Hill, "Trans-ing Bodies, Ink-ing Relations: Transness, Tattoos, & Collaborative Reflections on Collective Body-Making"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Gabi Cangussu Dos Santos, "Recent Changes in Brazilian Soy Exports and Associated Deforestation: Lessons for Future Policy Implementation"
Wednesday, April 23 | 2:00-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Charles Hamilton, "Eco-Economics: Advanced Bahamian Global Leadership in the Blue Economy through Carbon Trading and Concomitant Innovation"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe Misi Hoogvliets, "Dream Wild, Child: Envisioning New Representations in Film Through the Use of Queer Afrosurrealism and the Black Radical Imagination"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:45am-12:15pm, W15 Cafe Robin Schubert, "Archiving: Methodologies of Resistance"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Theresa Steinbeis, "The Disguise of the Beggar in the Odyssey"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Marton McCue, "Whose Tablet Is It Anyway? The Politicization and The Plundering of Iraqi Cultural Heritage in The Context of The Second Gulf War"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Elena Chiavazza Prieto, "Erotic Resistance against Augusto Pinochet's Dictatorship: Queer Mythification and Re-narration of Chile in Pedro Lemebel's Tengo Miedo Torero"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 SR8 Dayana Milieva, "Can Life Still Be Sweet Without Sugar? Psychosocial, Ethical, and Financial Considerations in Government Assistance for Children With Type 1 Diabetes"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Mishel Jovanovska, "The Possibility of Forgiveness (and its Threat) in Hobbes's Leviathan"
Friday, April 25 | 11:45am-12:15pm, K24 SR11 Annika Julien, "When Children Love Ugly Animals: An Evaluation of Depictions of Non Charismatic Species in Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Children’s Literature as an Approach to Nature Conservation"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Cosma Bolis, "A New Renaissance in Italy: The Legacy and Prospects of Atomic Energy"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Rowdy Kram, "From Navigators of the Stars to Navigators of Their Own Sovereignty: Māori Mana in Dialogue with Cherokee Duyuktv"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Doaa Althawr, "Local mediation: Exploring the role of Yemeni tribes in conflict resolution"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Tazo Shavgulidze, "Is organic farming economically feasible on a large scale, and if so, what policy tools could support this transition?"
Monday, April 28 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall Ritta Hamida, "Dalouna's Dabke Relatives across time and boarders"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Celeste Lucci, "Re-imagining Space: Architecture Photography Today"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR2 Zykkii Cubukcuoglu, "Cyborg Mythologies; Social and Political Imaginaries within Cyberpunk"
Monday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Meredith Lynch, "it pretty much feels like heaven: extremity, exploitation, & digital spectres in Toad Road (2012)"
Tuesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Luna Miccoli, "Bridging Identity and Materiality: Mark Bradford's transformation of Painting using Collage and Decollage"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Simone Rae Kyle, "Book Relations: The Book Object's Formal Capacity for Agency and Exchange in Walter Benjamin and Beyond"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Max Suvorov, “'On the Ways to Liberty': Lessons from the Unsuccessful Attempt of Russian Liberals to Lead the Revolution in the Memoirs of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams"
Wednesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Hanene Bergaoui, "Privatization and Employment: Analyzing the IMF and State-Owned Enterprise Reforms in African Economies"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Maya Calleja Scott, "Canadian Labour: A History of Dispossession and its Impacts on Transnational Union Organizing"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, W15 Cafe Yelyzaveta Sokolova, "Caring in Displacement: Ukrainian Mothers in Berlin"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Gali Har-Gil, "The Political Trigger Points of Theater: Challenging Collective Memory on Stage"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, W15 Cafe Muhammad Sadiq, "Teachers Matter: Measuring Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy in Pakistan"
Friday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Athina Manou, "Environmental Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: The Case of Greece"
Friday, May 2 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Frosina Kekenovska, "What’s Behind the Brain Drain? A Survey-Based Analysis of Youth Emigration in North Macedonia"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Chaya Kimbell, "The Numbers Speak for...whom? Examining the discursive function of quantitative objectivity in the United States' 'post-truth' political disputes"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Dina Zoffoli, "The Response to and Significance of the Aestheticized Death"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Yasmine El Hafidi, "Mapping Memory and Listening to Silence: Contemporary Artistic Approaches to Italy's Colonial Time"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Faye Dudukovich, "Connection, Fantasy, and Empathy: Mahjong as a Remedy for Whosspels’ Alienation"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Mykyta Vorobiov, "Russian Pro-War Posters in 2022-2025: a Critical Analysis"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Joan Kacyira, "Queering the German Colonial Archive: Finding Alternative Histories of Rwandans and their Land"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Abdullah Naseer, "Democratization of Video Art through (re)generative AI"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Dorien Schoenmaker, "'Never Play with Fire next to a Haystack': Populism and Rural Resentment in the Netherlands"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Violet Smith, "Reasoning behind the Seasoning: the Politics of Cultural Identity through Culinary Preservation, Using Recipes as Archives to Maintain Identity in Mexican Diaspora Communities Located in the U.S."
Wednesday, May 7 | 3:30pm-4:00pm, Lecture Hall Bruno Munoz-Oropeza, "Democracy's Final Frontier: Populism and Vigilantism in the Americas"
Friday, May 9 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall Aleksandra Vartsaba, "Investigating Bucha: The Role of Investigative Journalism in Times of Crisis"
The Factory (Eichenstrasse 43, 13156) BCB’s celebrated end-of-the-semester arts tradition returns: Open Studios & Performance Factory. All are welcome to this 2-night event on the evenings of May 7th and 9th as visual and performing arts students showcase their work.
Day One at the Factory on May 7th includes a variety of mediums such as ceramics, photo, video, virtual reality, and an exciting program of performances of all kinds.
Featuring: Ceramics Introduction to the Art of Porcelain-Making Beginners Black and White Photography Class: The Slow Photo The Photo Zine: A Subversive Phenomenon Introduction of Digital Photography - Identity, Construction, Representation Finding the Stories Chronicle of a Season - Documentary Filmmaking The Art of Making Videos Virtual Reality Showcase Adapting Novels for the Stage: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando Curtain up: Theater in Berlin
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
Multiple Locations This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 22 to May 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior, and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.
Tuesday, April 22 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Evangelia Dalton, "A Form of Perpetual Relation: Water and The Feminine in the works of Ana Mendieta, Roni Horn, and Pipilotti Rist"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Miyu Sasaki, "The Ominous in the Mundane: the Entrapment of Daily Life in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Aria Hadziosmanovic, "Do you feel what I feel: from God to Emo"
Tuesday, April 22 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR1 Clara Lieber, "The Fifth in the Tetrad: The Digital Age, The Artist, The Storyteller, and The Innocent through The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004)"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Vasko Popchevaliev, "European Union Enlargement Policy: Analyzing the Case of Macedonia"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8 Claudia Schlomer, "The American Cowboy Hero: An Exploration of Regenerative Violence in The Myth of the Frontier"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Zofia Polak, "Resistance and Community-Building Through Textile Art in Contemporary Poland"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Sabrina Pierce, "Civil Disobedience in Time and Space: Carnival as a Form of Global Dissent"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Lex Hill, "Trans-ing Bodies, Ink-ing Relations: Transness, Tattoos, & Collaborative Reflections on Collective Body-Making"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Gabi Cangussu Dos Santos, "Recent Changes in Brazilian Soy Exports and Associated Deforestation: Lessons for Future Policy Implementation"
Wednesday, April 23 | 2:00-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Charles Hamilton, "Eco-Economics: Advanced Bahamian Global Leadership in the Blue Economy through Carbon Trading and Concomitant Innovation"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe Misi Hoogvliets, "Dream Wild, Child: Envisioning New Representations in Film Through the Use of Queer Afrosurrealism and the Black Radical Imagination"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:45am-12:15pm, W15 Cafe Robin Schubert, "Archiving: Methodologies of Resistance"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Theresa Steinbeis, "The Disguise of the Beggar in the Odyssey"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Marton McCue, "Whose Tablet Is It Anyway? The Politicization and The Plundering of Iraqi Cultural Heritage in The Context of The Second Gulf War"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Elena Chiavazza Prieto, "Erotic Resistance against Augusto Pinochet's Dictatorship: Queer Mythification and Re-narration of Chile in Pedro Lemebel's Tengo Miedo Torero"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 SR8 Dayana Milieva, "Can Life Still Be Sweet Without Sugar? Psychosocial, Ethical, and Financial Considerations in Government Assistance for Children With Type 1 Diabetes"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Mishel Jovanovska, "The Possibility of Forgiveness (and its Threat) in Hobbes's Leviathan"
Friday, April 25 | 11:45am-12:15pm, K24 SR11 Annika Julien, "When Children Love Ugly Animals: An Evaluation of Depictions of Non Charismatic Species in Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Children’s Literature as an Approach to Nature Conservation"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Cosma Bolis, "A New Renaissance in Italy: The Legacy and Prospects of Atomic Energy"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Rowdy Kram, "From Navigators of the Stars to Navigators of Their Own Sovereignty: Māori Mana in Dialogue with Cherokee Duyuktv"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Doaa Althawr, "Local mediation: Exploring the role of Yemeni tribes in conflict resolution"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Tazo Shavgulidze, "Is organic farming economically feasible on a large scale, and if so, what policy tools could support this transition?"
Monday, April 28 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall Ritta Hamida, "Dalouna's Dabke Relatives across time and boarders"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Celeste Lucci, "Re-imagining Space: Architecture Photography Today"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR2 Zykkii Cubukcuoglu, "Cyborg Mythologies; Social and Political Imaginaries within Cyberpunk"
Monday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Meredith Lynch, "it pretty much feels like heaven: extremity, exploitation, & digital spectres in Toad Road (2012)"
Tuesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Luna Miccoli, "Bridging Identity and Materiality: Mark Bradford's transformation of Painting using Collage and Decollage"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Simone Rae Kyle, "Book Relations: The Book Object's Formal Capacity for Agency and Exchange in Walter Benjamin and Beyond"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Max Suvorov, “'On the Ways to Liberty': Lessons from the Unsuccessful Attempt of Russian Liberals to Lead the Revolution in the Memoirs of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams"
Wednesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Hanene Bergaoui, "Privatization and Employment: Analyzing the IMF and State-Owned Enterprise Reforms in African Economies"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Maya Calleja Scott, "Canadian Labour: A History of Dispossession and its Impacts on Transnational Union Organizing"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, W15 Cafe Yelyzaveta Sokolova, "Caring in Displacement: Ukrainian Mothers in Berlin"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Gali Har-Gil, "The Political Trigger Points of Theater: Challenging Collective Memory on Stage"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, W15 Cafe Muhammad Sadiq, "Teachers Matter: Measuring Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy in Pakistan"
Friday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Athina Manou, "Environmental Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: The Case of Greece"
Friday, May 2 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Frosina Kekenovska, "What’s Behind the Brain Drain? A Survey-Based Analysis of Youth Emigration in North Macedonia"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Chaya Kimbell, "The Numbers Speak for...whom? Examining the discursive function of quantitative objectivity in the United States' 'post-truth' political disputes"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Dina Zoffoli, "The Response to and Significance of the Aestheticized Death"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Yasmine El Hafidi, "Mapping Memory and Listening to Silence: Contemporary Artistic Approaches to Italy's Colonial Time"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Faye Dudukovich, "Connection, Fantasy, and Empathy: Mahjong as a Remedy for Whosspels’ Alienation"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Mykyta Vorobiov, "Russian Pro-War Posters in 2022-2025: a Critical Analysis"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Joan Kacyira, "Queering the German Colonial Archive: Finding Alternative Histories of Rwandans and their Land"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Abdullah Naseer, "Democratization of Video Art through (re)generative AI"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Dorien Schoenmaker, "'Never Play with Fire next to a Haystack': Populism and Rural Resentment in the Netherlands"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Violet Smith, "Reasoning behind the Seasoning: the Politics of Cultural Identity through Culinary Preservation, Using Recipes as Archives to Maintain Identity in Mexican Diaspora Communities Located in the U.S."
Wednesday, May 7 | 3:30pm-4:00pm, Lecture Hall Bruno Munoz-Oropeza, "Democracy's Final Frontier: Populism and Vigilantism in the Americas"
Friday, May 9 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall Aleksandra Vartsaba, "Investigating Bucha: The Role of Investigative Journalism in Times of Crisis"
Meet at W15 (JJKH) Join your RAs and BCB Go Green for a fun, relaxing, end-of-the-semester lake trip to nearby Flughafensee. We will depart from Julie Johnson Kidd Hall at 11am on Thursday morning and spend the holiday enjoying the nature here in Berlin! Everyone is welcome and we look forward to seeing you there!
Opportunities and Challenges for Protecting Children's Rights
Thursday, May 8, 2025 2–7:30 pm
Lecture Hall (Platanenstr. 98a, 13156 Berlin) Please join us for the expert and student conference "Opportunities and Challenges for Protecting Children's Rights" which takes place as part of the Open Society University Network Collaborative Course "Children's Rights." This conference will draw attention to a set of pressing contemporary abuses of children’s rights globally including physical attacks on children during wartime and occupation, child labor, domestic abuse, lack of access to healthcare, and denial of asylum rights. In resonance with the 99th session of reporting to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) set to begin in Geneva on May 12th, student research groups from the Bard College Berlin, Bard College, Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences and the American University of Central Asia will be presenting NGO-style advocacy reports aimed at informing CRC Committee questions to States Parties. There will also be presentations from professors from the partner campuses, local human rights practitioners and researchers in related fields.
On May 7 student presentations will take place from 14:00-16:00 in the JJK Café; and on May 8 student presentations will take place from 14:00-16:30 in the Lecture Hall.
Additional events on May 8 include: 11:00-12:00 Presentation and discussion on children’s right to health and combating polio by Prof. Helen Epstein (Bard)
12:30-13:30: Civic Engagement lunch presentation “Play!Berlin, from Emergency Response to Sustainable Local Activism”
16:30-18:30 Keynote panel “Protecting Children’s Rights: From International Criminal Law to Literature.” This panel will explore the way in which international criminal law–with a focus on the International Criminal Court–has developed and its capacities to protect children’s rights in particular, at the same time exploring gaps in this protective capacity that need to be filled through other forms of political communication and imaginative storytelling. Prof. Dr. Kerry Bystrom (BCB) will moderate a discussion with Ms. Maryna Hovorukhina, Dr. Jana Lozanoska (Al Quds Bard), Prof. Dr. Peter Schneck (Osnabrück University) and Dr. Laura Zander (Osnabrück University). The panel will followed by a reception . While this conference was not conceived in connection to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, events on May 8th will begin with a moment of silence to honor the victims–including the many child victims–of Nazi crimes.
Members of the BCB community are welcome to attend all listed events. The Keynote panel is additionally open to external guests by pre-registration. In order to ensure proper catering for the Keynote panel reception, all attendees should please register here by Tuesday, May 6th.
Questions can be addressed to the event organizer, Prof. Dr. Kerry Bystrom.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Multiple Locations This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 22 to May 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior, and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.
Tuesday, April 22 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Evangelia Dalton, "A Form of Perpetual Relation: Water and The Feminine in the works of Ana Mendieta, Roni Horn, and Pipilotti Rist"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Miyu Sasaki, "The Ominous in the Mundane: the Entrapment of Daily Life in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Aria Hadziosmanovic, "Do you feel what I feel: from God to Emo"
Tuesday, April 22 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR1 Clara Lieber, "The Fifth in the Tetrad: The Digital Age, The Artist, The Storyteller, and The Innocent through The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004)"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Vasko Popchevaliev, "European Union Enlargement Policy: Analyzing the Case of Macedonia"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8 Claudia Schlomer, "The American Cowboy Hero: An Exploration of Regenerative Violence in The Myth of the Frontier"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Zofia Polak, "Resistance and Community-Building Through Textile Art in Contemporary Poland"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Sabrina Pierce, "Civil Disobedience in Time and Space: Carnival as a Form of Global Dissent"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Lex Hill, "Trans-ing Bodies, Ink-ing Relations: Transness, Tattoos, & Collaborative Reflections on Collective Body-Making"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Gabi Cangussu Dos Santos, "Recent Changes in Brazilian Soy Exports and Associated Deforestation: Lessons for Future Policy Implementation"
Wednesday, April 23 | 2:00-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Charles Hamilton, "Eco-Economics: Advanced Bahamian Global Leadership in the Blue Economy through Carbon Trading and Concomitant Innovation"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe Misi Hoogvliets, "Dream Wild, Child: Envisioning New Representations in Film Through the Use of Queer Afrosurrealism and the Black Radical Imagination"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:45am-12:15pm, W15 Cafe Robin Schubert, "Archiving: Methodologies of Resistance"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Theresa Steinbeis, "The Disguise of the Beggar in the Odyssey"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Marton McCue, "Whose Tablet Is It Anyway? The Politicization and The Plundering of Iraqi Cultural Heritage in The Context of The Second Gulf War"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Elena Chiavazza Prieto, "Erotic Resistance against Augusto Pinochet's Dictatorship: Queer Mythification and Re-narration of Chile in Pedro Lemebel's Tengo Miedo Torero"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 SR8 Dayana Milieva, "Can Life Still Be Sweet Without Sugar? Psychosocial, Ethical, and Financial Considerations in Government Assistance for Children With Type 1 Diabetes"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Mishel Jovanovska, "The Possibility of Forgiveness (and its Threat) in Hobbes's Leviathan"
Friday, April 25 | 11:45am-12:15pm, K24 SR11 Annika Julien, "When Children Love Ugly Animals: An Evaluation of Depictions of Non Charismatic Species in Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Children’s Literature as an Approach to Nature Conservation"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Cosma Bolis, "A New Renaissance in Italy: The Legacy and Prospects of Atomic Energy"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Rowdy Kram, "From Navigators of the Stars to Navigators of Their Own Sovereignty: Māori Mana in Dialogue with Cherokee Duyuktv"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Doaa Althawr, "Local mediation: Exploring the role of Yemeni tribes in conflict resolution"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Tazo Shavgulidze, "Is organic farming economically feasible on a large scale, and if so, what policy tools could support this transition?"
Monday, April 28 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall Ritta Hamida, "Dalouna's Dabke Relatives across time and boarders"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Celeste Lucci, "Re-imagining Space: Architecture Photography Today"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR2 Zykkii Cubukcuoglu, "Cyborg Mythologies; Social and Political Imaginaries within Cyberpunk"
Monday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Meredith Lynch, "it pretty much feels like heaven: extremity, exploitation, & digital spectres in Toad Road (2012)"
Tuesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Luna Miccoli, "Bridging Identity and Materiality: Mark Bradford's transformation of Painting using Collage and Decollage"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Simone Rae Kyle, "Book Relations: The Book Object's Formal Capacity for Agency and Exchange in Walter Benjamin and Beyond"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Max Suvorov, “'On the Ways to Liberty': Lessons from the Unsuccessful Attempt of Russian Liberals to Lead the Revolution in the Memoirs of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams"
Wednesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Hanene Bergaoui, "Privatization and Employment: Analyzing the IMF and State-Owned Enterprise Reforms in African Economies"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Maya Calleja Scott, "Canadian Labour: A History of Dispossession and its Impacts on Transnational Union Organizing"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, W15 Cafe Yelyzaveta Sokolova, "Caring in Displacement: Ukrainian Mothers in Berlin"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Gali Har-Gil, "The Political Trigger Points of Theater: Challenging Collective Memory on Stage"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, W15 Cafe Muhammad Sadiq, "Teachers Matter: Measuring Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy in Pakistan"
Friday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Athina Manou, "Environmental Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: The Case of Greece"
Friday, May 2 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Frosina Kekenovska, "What’s Behind the Brain Drain? A Survey-Based Analysis of Youth Emigration in North Macedonia"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Chaya Kimbell, "The Numbers Speak for...whom? Examining the discursive function of quantitative objectivity in the United States' 'post-truth' political disputes"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Dina Zoffoli, "The Response to and Significance of the Aestheticized Death"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Yasmine El Hafidi, "Mapping Memory and Listening to Silence: Contemporary Artistic Approaches to Italy's Colonial Time"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Faye Dudukovich, "Connection, Fantasy, and Empathy: Mahjong as a Remedy for Whosspels’ Alienation"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Mykyta Vorobiov, "Russian Pro-War Posters in 2022-2025: a Critical Analysis"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Joan Kacyira, "Queering the German Colonial Archive: Finding Alternative Histories of Rwandans and their Land"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Abdullah Naseer, "Democratization of Video Art through (re)generative AI"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Dorien Schoenmaker, "'Never Play with Fire next to a Haystack': Populism and Rural Resentment in the Netherlands"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Violet Smith, "Reasoning behind the Seasoning: the Politics of Cultural Identity through Culinary Preservation, Using Recipes as Archives to Maintain Identity in Mexican Diaspora Communities Located in the U.S."
Wednesday, May 7 | 3:30pm-4:00pm, Lecture Hall Bruno Munoz-Oropeza, "Democracy's Final Frontier: Populism and Vigilantism in the Americas"
Friday, May 9 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall Aleksandra Vartsaba, "Investigating Bucha: The Role of Investigative Journalism in Times of Crisis"
Monopol (Provinzstrasse 44, 13409) BCB’s celebrated end-of-the-semester arts tradition returns: Open Studios & Performance Factory. All are welcome to this 2-night event on the evenings of May 7th and 9th as visual and performing arts students showcase their work.
Day Two at Monopol on May 9th includes a variety of mediums such as painting, sculpture, glass, and more. There will be a glass blowing demonstration as well as a cave rave that you cannot miss!
Featuring: Beginning Sculpture Marble Stone Sculpture Introduction to Glass Making Painting and Beyond Advanced Painting: Illusionistic Surfaces Found Fragments and Layered Lines: Mixed-Media Techniques for Drawing and Collage Reflecting Human-Environment Relations (Through Sound) Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres Dance it Out! Freedom Tactics & Channeling on Film
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Waldstraße 15 Cafe Join us for an inspiring evening with Bushra Mahnoor, the visionary behind Mahwari Justice—a grassroots movement combating period poverty in Pakistan. From distributing dignity kits in flood-stricken areas to challenging menstrual taboos through comics and rap, Bushra’s innovative activism has empowered over 150,000 menstruators. Recognised with the 2024 Diana Award, she continues to lead efforts for menstrual equity and dignity. Discover how Mahwari Justice is transforming crisis response and sparking global conversations on reproductive health.
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Saturday, May 10, 2025 – Sunday, May 11, 2025 7 am – 10 pm
Meeting point: In front of W15 Join us to do the traditional Ostsee trip, the 2nd weekend of May during which we will celebrate the end of the year on the coast of the Baltic sea!
As in previous years, we chartered a bus and reserved rooms in the youth hostel of Heringsdorf.
Heringsdorf is one of the most well-known and popular beach resorts along the coast. It is located in the vicinity of the German-Polish border thus offering the option for a pleasant bike tour to the neighboring country.
If you wish to join this trip, you will have to pay a 45 EUR contribution by the last day of April.
Register here. Please note that there are limited places available: first come, first served.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin Student Life.
Exhibition: We Threw Open the Doors - and Lecture: The Longue Durée of Genocide
Saturday, May 10, 2025 3–9 pm
Floating Berlin (Lilienthalstraße 32, 10965 Berlin) The Research Creation Class of 2025 is throwing open the doors for our annual exhibition event. Students have, during a semester of conducting individual research and creating artistic responses, engaged closely with archives – personal, grassroots, institutional, digital or state-held. They discovered traces of lives, events, and movements, and learnt that revisiting history is never the same as experiencing it – it is traced over and over until the lines are smudged, and stories, especially those of resistance, are lost, diluted, or erased. The geographies in their art works reach from Kaliningrad/Königsberg to India, from Nazi Berlin to Palestine, from the island of Vieques to France. The stories that they tell span the entire 20th Century.
At 5:00pm, we will listen to Eyal Weizman's lecture: “The longue durée of genocide”: Weizman uses spatial methodologies and the archives of the landscape to show historical continuities and the protracted nature of genocide in and around Wadi Gaza - the fertile seasonal stream bed extending between Hebron and Gaza City. It was inhabited by Palestine’s southern most agricultural communities who were violently displaced in the Nakba 1948. After October 7 the Israeli army designated Wadi Gaza as the border between the northern and the southern parts of the Gaza Strip, north of it was a forbidden area where no Palestinians were allowed, and south of it a so-called "humanitarian zone”, which was also starved and bombed. In the eyes of Zionists’ predecessors, the 19c orientalist German, British, French and American travellers to Ottoman Palestine, south of Wadi Gaza started the desert, where settled life is seemingly impossible. Weizman relates the history of Wadi Gaza to Art. II c of the Genocide Convention, that defines “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction” as one mode that genocide can operate with. Teresa Koloma Beck will respond to the lecture; the discussion will be moderated by Kerry Bystrom.
From 7:00pm, Omar Haidari and Jamal Momand will raise awareness for women in Afghanistan and serve their famous Afghan Burgers.
The event ends at 9pm.
Program: 3pm: Doors open 3.30pm: Welcome and Exhibition Tour 5pm: Lecture by Eyal Weizman; respondent: Teresa Koloma Beck; moderator: Kerry Bystrom 7pm: Afghan Burgers and Party Sponsored by: OSUN and the 2025 Research Creation Class at BCB.
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Saturday, May 10, 2025 – Sunday, May 11, 2025 7 am – 10 pm
Meeting point: In front of W15 Join us to do the traditional Ostsee trip, the 2nd weekend of May during which we will celebrate the end of the year on the coast of the Baltic sea!
As in previous years, we chartered a bus and reserved rooms in the youth hostel of Heringsdorf.
Heringsdorf is one of the most well-known and popular beach resorts along the coast. It is located in the vicinity of the German-Polish border thus offering the option for a pleasant bike tour to the neighboring country.
If you wish to join this trip, you will have to pay a 45 EUR contribution by the last day of April.
Register here. Please note that there are limited places available: first come, first served.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin Student Life.
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Doing Things with Words: Margaret Fuller, Germaine de Staël, and Friedrich Nietzsche on the Use of the Humanities (Online Lecture)
Thursday, May 15, 2025 5–6 pm
Online (Zoom) Prof. Dr. Ulrike Wagner will present as part of Bucerius Institute Lecture Series at the University of Haifa on "Modernity's 'Others': Plurality and Counter-Hegemonic Perspectives in 20th-Century German-Language Literature."
In “Doing Things with Words,” Wagner will examine how Margaret Fuller, Germaine de Staël and Friedrich Nietzsche engage with the methods and practices of philology to redefine the role of the humanities in the public sphere. She will discuss their attempts to integrate scholarship into social life, demonstrating how humanistic inquiry can be used as a tool for cultural transformation, education, and social critique — ideas that remain highly relevant to the humanities today.
Zoom linkSponsored by: Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, University of Haifa.
A conversation with Ken Roth, long-time director of Human Rights Watch, about his new book – Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments – and the state of human rights today.
May 16, 2025 | 7pm – 8:30pm The Hertie School, Friedrichstraße 180 Reception to follow
Ken Roth is former executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading human rights organisations, which he led from 1993 to 2022. He has extensively investigated human rights abuses around the world, focusing especially on the world’s most dire situations, the pursuit of international justice, the major powers’ foreign policies, the work of the UN, and the global contexts between democracy and autocracy. Roth is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University and member of the Board of Governors at Bard College Berlin.
His recently published book, Righting Wrongs, combines memoir and analysis to refute the skeptics who question whether it is possible to defend human rights effectively. Roth pulls back the curtain on the strategies and tactics that Human Rights Watch and its allies employed to force governments, armed groups and companies to behave better.
At a time of global instability, rising extremism, and threats to human rights, Roth explains how it is possible to move even the most powerful and despotic governments.
The ceremony will take place on Saturday May 17th at Ballhaus Pankow and will be followed by a reception on campus. By invitation only.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
Online (Zoom) How do journalists use AI under censorship, low resources, and political pressure? Join us for a 90-minute online session with speakers from Cuba, the Philippines, and Arabic-speaking countries.
Philharmonie Berlin, Kammermusiksaal (Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1, 10785 Berlin) Internationally renowned cellist Gary Hoffman, the Nina and Billy Albert Chair in Cello Studies at Curtis joins some of the school’s esteemed alumni for a tour of Europe in the spring of 2025. A thrilling concert of iconic works and audience favorites, the program features one of Claude Debussy’s final compositions, the Sonata in D minor for Cello and Piano, an elegant, evocative work, at once dark, mysterious, meditative, and playfully whimsical.
Maurice Ravel’s shimmering Piano Trio in A minor follows, a dreamlike work with echoes of jazz, Javanese gamelan, and courtly Baroque dances, all leading to a splashy finale. The concert closes with Gabriel Fauré’s deeply moving Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15, widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated French chamber music works of the late 19th century.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
Multiple Locations This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 22 to May 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior, and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.
Tuesday, April 22 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Evangelia Dalton, "A Form of Perpetual Relation: Water and The Feminine in the works of Ana Mendieta, Roni Horn, and Pipilotti Rist"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Miyu Sasaki, "The Ominous in the Mundane: the Entrapment of Daily Life in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Aria Hadziosmanovic, "Do you feel what I feel: from God to Emo"
Tuesday, April 22 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR1 Clara Lieber, "The Fifth in the Tetrad: The Digital Age, The Artist, The Storyteller, and The Innocent through The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004)"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Vasko Popchevaliev, "European Union Enlargement Policy: Analyzing the Case of Macedonia"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8 Claudia Schlomer, "The American Cowboy Hero: An Exploration of Regenerative Violence in The Myth of the Frontier"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Zofia Polak, "Resistance and Community-Building Through Textile Art in Contemporary Poland"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Sabrina Pierce, "Civil Disobedience in Time and Space: Carnival as a Form of Global Dissent"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Lex Hill, "Trans-ing Bodies, Ink-ing Relations: Transness, Tattoos, & Collaborative Reflections on Collective Body-Making"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Gabi Cangussu Dos Santos, "Recent Changes in Brazilian Soy Exports and Associated Deforestation: Lessons for Future Policy Implementation"
Wednesday, April 23 | 2:00-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Charles Hamilton, "Eco-Economics: Advanced Bahamian Global Leadership in the Blue Economy through Carbon Trading and Concomitant Innovation"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe Misi Hoogvliets, "Dream Wild, Child: Envisioning New Representations in Film Through the Use of Queer Afrosurrealism and the Black Radical Imagination"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:45am-12:15pm, W15 Cafe Robin Schubert, "Archiving: Methodologies of Resistance"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Theresa Steinbeis, "The Disguise of the Beggar in the Odyssey"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe Marton McCue, "Whose Tablet Is It Anyway? The Politicization and The Plundering of Iraqi Cultural Heritage in The Context of The Second Gulf War"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Elena Chiavazza Prieto, "Erotic Resistance against Augusto Pinochet's Dictatorship: Queer Mythification and Re-narration of Chile in Pedro Lemebel's Tengo Miedo Torero"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 SR8 Dayana Milieva, "Can Life Still Be Sweet Without Sugar? Psychosocial, Ethical, and Financial Considerations in Government Assistance for Children With Type 1 Diabetes"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Mishel Jovanovska, "The Possibility of Forgiveness (and its Threat) in Hobbes's Leviathan"
Friday, April 25 | 11:45am-12:15pm, K24 SR11 Annika Julien, "When Children Love Ugly Animals: An Evaluation of Depictions of Non Charismatic Species in Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Children’s Literature as an Approach to Nature Conservation"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Cosma Bolis, "A New Renaissance in Italy: The Legacy and Prospects of Atomic Energy"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Rowdy Kram, "From Navigators of the Stars to Navigators of Their Own Sovereignty: Māori Mana in Dialogue with Cherokee Duyuktv"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Doaa Althawr, "Local mediation: Exploring the role of Yemeni tribes in conflict resolution"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Tazo Shavgulidze, "Is organic farming economically feasible on a large scale, and if so, what policy tools could support this transition?"
Monday, April 28 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall Ritta Hamida, "Dalouna's Dabke Relatives across time and boarders"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Celeste Lucci, "Re-imagining Space: Architecture Photography Today"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR2 Zykkii Cubukcuoglu, "Cyborg Mythologies; Social and Political Imaginaries within Cyberpunk"
Monday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Meredith Lynch, "it pretty much feels like heaven: extremity, exploitation, & digital spectres in Toad Road (2012)"
Tuesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Luna Miccoli, "Bridging Identity and Materiality: Mark Bradford's transformation of Painting using Collage and Decollage"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Simone Rae Kyle, "Book Relations: The Book Object's Formal Capacity for Agency and Exchange in Walter Benjamin and Beyond"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2 Max Suvorov, “'On the Ways to Liberty': Lessons from the Unsuccessful Attempt of Russian Liberals to Lead the Revolution in the Memoirs of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams"
Wednesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11 Hanene Bergaoui, "Privatization and Employment: Analyzing the IMF and State-Owned Enterprise Reforms in African Economies"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Maya Calleja Scott, "Canadian Labour: A History of Dispossession and its Impacts on Transnational Union Organizing"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, W15 Cafe Yelyzaveta Sokolova, "Caring in Displacement: Ukrainian Mothers in Berlin"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, W15 Cafe Gali Har-Gil, "The Political Trigger Points of Theater: Challenging Collective Memory on Stage"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, W15 Cafe Muhammad Sadiq, "Teachers Matter: Measuring Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy in Pakistan"
Friday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Athina Manou, "Environmental Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: The Case of Greece"
Friday, May 2 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Frosina Kekenovska, "What’s Behind the Brain Drain? A Survey-Based Analysis of Youth Emigration in North Macedonia"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Chaya Kimbell, "The Numbers Speak for...whom? Examining the discursive function of quantitative objectivity in the United States' 'post-truth' political disputes"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Dina Zoffoli, "The Response to and Significance of the Aestheticized Death"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Yasmine El Hafidi, "Mapping Memory and Listening to Silence: Contemporary Artistic Approaches to Italy's Colonial Time"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Faye Dudukovich, "Connection, Fantasy, and Empathy: Mahjong as a Remedy for Whosspels’ Alienation"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1 Mykyta Vorobiov, "Russian Pro-War Posters in 2022-2025: a Critical Analysis"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Joan Kacyira, "Queering the German Colonial Archive: Finding Alternative Histories of Rwandans and their Land"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall Abdullah Naseer, "Democratization of Video Art through (re)generative AI"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1 Dorien Schoenmaker, "'Never Play with Fire next to a Haystack': Populism and Rural Resentment in the Netherlands"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11 Violet Smith, "Reasoning behind the Seasoning: the Politics of Cultural Identity through Culinary Preservation, Using Recipes as Archives to Maintain Identity in Mexican Diaspora Communities Located in the U.S."
Wednesday, May 7 | 3:30pm-4:00pm, Lecture Hall Bruno Munoz-Oropeza, "Democracy's Final Frontier: Populism and Vigilantism in the Americas"
Friday, May 9 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall Aleksandra Vartsaba, "Investigating Bucha: The Role of Investigative Journalism in Times of Crisis"
Application deadline for citizens and residents of EU/EEA and Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, US
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Online Event
Bard College Berlin accepts applications for entry to the BA degree programs and one-year programs in Fall 2025. The final deadline for applying is May 1,2025 at 23:59 in your time zone.
Eligible applicants are citizens and residents of the EU and EEA, as well as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, US. For more information on eligibility and application requirements, please refer to How to Apply.
Should you have any questions about your application for admission and/or financial aid at BCB, please do not hesitate to reach out to the BCB Admissions Team at admissions@berlin.bard.edu. We look forward to receiving your application!
Filmtheater am Friedrichshain (Bötzowstrasse 1-5, 10407 Berlin) Bard College Berlin is cohosting a public screening of The Master and Margarita, a successful adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel that faced intense scrutiny and attack when it was released in Russia last year. Duma deputies and pro-war Russian propagandists called for its ban and demanded criminal charges against Michael Lockshin, its Russian-American director, who staked out a clear anti-war position from the moment of Russia's invasion. State loyalists in Russia were displeased by Lockshin's own public stance and the embedded messages of the film, an allegory for the dangers of squelching artistic and personal freedoms.
Despite (or maybe, even helped by) these attacks, the film’s reception among Russian audiences was overwhelmingly positive. Over 6 million tickets have been sold in Russia, without virtually any media support initially for the release. The film was in the top-8 highest grossing films in Russia ever, even though rated-R. This success also demonstrates the enduring appeal of Bulgakov’s text, with its blending of historical context with contemporary relevance. The novel, as Lockshin’s film makes clear, is an open critique of authoritarianism, censorship, terror, and other means by which the State wields power over its citizens.
Lockshin will be present at the screening and take part in a Q&A moderated by Joshua Yaffa, the writer-in-residence at Bard College Berlin, and who has covered Russia for The New Yorker for many years. The film will be screened in Russian with English subtitles.
Tickets can be purchased on the YorckKinogruppe website. Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin and York Kinogruppe.
Reading by the Writers in Clare Wigfall’s Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
Friday, May 2, 2025 8–10:30 pm
Wein Salon, Schreinerstr. 59, 10247, Berlin It is now a well-loved tradition that the writers in Clare Wigfall's fiction writing workshops give a much-anticipated reading of their work as the finale of their course. Once again, we are returning to the charming Wein Salon in Friedrichshain. Please join us for a cozy and intimate (but also perhaps a little bit riotous, let's be frank) evening of beautiful and surprising stories and words written by Clare's students. All BCB students, alumni, friends, and faculty members are warmly welcome.
Writers presenting: Jesse Biviano, Ina Constantin, Mala Emde, Gabrielle Gosnell, Marley Heltai, Eliška Pastieriková, Sarah Lo Vecchio, Mya Mackiewicz, Nicole Sierra, Stanislava Švekušová
Health, Community & Awareness: Navigating Moments of Stress and Overwhelm at University
Sunday, May 4, 2025 12:30–3:30 pm
W15 Cafe FEELING STRESSED? OVERWHELMED? You are not alone. Join us for a workshop centered around mental health, community, and neurodiversity. Explore how we might, as neurodiverse individuals and allies, navigate moments of stress and overwhelm with more connection, resilience, and care. Through 3D modeling and conversation, we'll explore the emotions and pressures students face and share our experiences. Moreover, this event aims to kick off the conversation on mental health and neurodiversity at BCB, and through reflection on the current offered resources, we want to explore how the university will be able to better support students. Come as you are—this is a space for care, connection, and catharsis. Let’s create change together, starting with a moment to breathe, reflect, and be heard. The event will be conducted by Social Worker and Facilitator, Madeline Taylor (madelinemactaylor@gmail.com)
Please register here.Sponsored by: StuPa and the Office of EOPND.
Lecture and Discussion: "Transitional Justice in Syria"
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
W15 Cafe As Syria faces the challenge of moving beyond conflict, transitional justice offers a framework to confront past violations and rebuild trust in public institutions. This event will explore the prospects for national reconciliation and sustainable peace in war-torn Syria. All students, faculty, and guests are warmly invited to join this conversation.
Dr. Usahma Felix Darrah studied Political Science, International Iaw and Islamic Studies in Damascus and Heidelberg before working as a lecturer and speech writer for 10 years. He’s been the managing director of “Freunde des syrischen Volks e.V.” and a political consultant in Berlin since 2014.
“Freunde des Syrischen Volks e.V.” is a non-profit organization founded in Berlin in 2014. We engage in projects that empower Syrian communities and give them agency in the field of legal development and push towards accountability for core crimes committed during the Syrian conflict.
Waldstraße 15 Cafe BCB has a living and learning community with a special focus on German language and culture: the “DerDieDas Haus”. Students with an interest in exploring German in their daily lives share a designated floor in one of our residence halls. They use German amongst each other during the week and engage in extracurricular activities in the city. To find out more about how the projects works, how to apply for a place etc., please join us on Tuesday, May 6, at 7:30pm in the Café at Julie Johnson Kidd Hall, Waldstraße 15. Members of “DerDieDas Haus” and the BCB German Program will host an “Offenes Haus” with snacks and drinks.
The Factory (Eichenstrasse 43, 13156) BCB’s celebrated end-of-the-semester arts tradition returns: Open Studios & Performance Factory. All are welcome to this 2-night event on the evenings of May 7th and 9th as visual and performing arts students showcase their work.
Day One at the Factory on May 7th includes a variety of mediums such as ceramics, photo, video, virtual reality, and an exciting program of performances of all kinds.
Featuring: Ceramics Introduction to the Art of Porcelain-Making Beginners Black and White Photography Class: The Slow Photo The Photo Zine: A Subversive Phenomenon Introduction of Digital Photography - Identity, Construction, Representation Finding the Stories Chronicle of a Season - Documentary Filmmaking The Art of Making Videos Virtual Reality Showcase Adapting Novels for the Stage: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando Curtain up: Theater in Berlin
Meet at W15 (JJKH) Join your RAs and BCB Go Green for a fun, relaxing, end-of-the-semester lake trip to nearby Flughafensee. We will depart from Julie Johnson Kidd Hall at 11am on Thursday morning and spend the holiday enjoying the nature here in Berlin! Everyone is welcome and we look forward to seeing you there!
Opportunities and Challenges for Protecting Children's Rights
Thursday, May 8, 2025 2–7:30 pm
Lecture Hall (Platanenstr. 98a, 13156 Berlin) Please join us for the expert and student conference "Opportunities and Challenges for Protecting Children's Rights" which takes place as part of the Open Society University Network Collaborative Course "Children's Rights." This conference will draw attention to a set of pressing contemporary abuses of children’s rights globally including physical attacks on children during wartime and occupation, child labor, domestic abuse, lack of access to healthcare, and denial of asylum rights. In resonance with the 99th session of reporting to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) set to begin in Geneva on May 12th, student research groups from the Bard College Berlin, Bard College, Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences and the American University of Central Asia will be presenting NGO-style advocacy reports aimed at informing CRC Committee questions to States Parties. There will also be presentations from professors from the partner campuses, local human rights practitioners and researchers in related fields.
On May 7 student presentations will take place from 14:00-16:00 in the JJK Café; and on May 8 student presentations will take place from 14:00-16:30 in the Lecture Hall.
Additional events on May 8 include: 11:00-12:00 Presentation and discussion on children’s right to health and combating polio by Prof. Helen Epstein (Bard)
12:30-13:30: Civic Engagement lunch presentation “Play!Berlin, from Emergency Response to Sustainable Local Activism”
16:30-18:30 Keynote panel “Protecting Children’s Rights: From International Criminal Law to Literature.” This panel will explore the way in which international criminal law–with a focus on the International Criminal Court–has developed and its capacities to protect children’s rights in particular, at the same time exploring gaps in this protective capacity that need to be filled through other forms of political communication and imaginative storytelling. Prof. Dr. Kerry Bystrom (BCB) will moderate a discussion with Ms. Maryna Hovorukhina, Dr. Jana Lozanoska (Al Quds Bard), Prof. Dr. Peter Schneck (Osnabrück University) and Dr. Laura Zander (Osnabrück University). The panel will followed by a reception . While this conference was not conceived in connection to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, events on May 8th will begin with a moment of silence to honor the victims–including the many child victims–of Nazi crimes.
Members of the BCB community are welcome to attend all listed events. The Keynote panel is additionally open to external guests by pre-registration. In order to ensure proper catering for the Keynote panel reception, all attendees should please register here by Tuesday, May 6th.
Questions can be addressed to the event organizer, Prof. Dr. Kerry Bystrom.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Monopol (Provinzstrasse 44, 13409) BCB’s celebrated end-of-the-semester arts tradition returns: Open Studios & Performance Factory. All are welcome to this 2-night event on the evenings of May 7th and 9th as visual and performing arts students showcase their work.
Day Two at Monopol on May 9th includes a variety of mediums such as painting, sculpture, glass, and more. There will be a glass blowing demonstration as well as a cave rave that you cannot miss!
Featuring: Beginning Sculpture Marble Stone Sculpture Introduction to Glass Making Painting and Beyond Advanced Painting: Illusionistic Surfaces Found Fragments and Layered Lines: Mixed-Media Techniques for Drawing and Collage Reflecting Human-Environment Relations (Through Sound) Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres Dance it Out! Freedom Tactics & Channeling on Film
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Waldstraße 15 Cafe Join us for an inspiring evening with Bushra Mahnoor, the visionary behind Mahwari Justice—a grassroots movement combating period poverty in Pakistan. From distributing dignity kits in flood-stricken areas to challenging menstrual taboos through comics and rap, Bushra’s innovative activism has empowered over 150,000 menstruators. Recognised with the 2024 Diana Award, she continues to lead efforts for menstrual equity and dignity. Discover how Mahwari Justice is transforming crisis response and sparking global conversations on reproductive health.
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Saturday, May 10, 2025 – Sunday, May 11, 2025 7 am – 10 pm
Meeting point: In front of W15 Join us to do the traditional Ostsee trip, the 2nd weekend of May during which we will celebrate the end of the year on the coast of the Baltic sea!
As in previous years, we chartered a bus and reserved rooms in the youth hostel of Heringsdorf.
Heringsdorf is one of the most well-known and popular beach resorts along the coast. It is located in the vicinity of the German-Polish border thus offering the option for a pleasant bike tour to the neighboring country.
If you wish to join this trip, you will have to pay a 45 EUR contribution by the last day of April.
Register here. Please note that there are limited places available: first come, first served.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin Student Life.
Exhibition: We Threw Open the Doors - and Lecture: The Longue Durée of Genocide
Saturday, May 10, 2025 3–9 pm
Floating Berlin (Lilienthalstraße 32, 10965 Berlin) The Research Creation Class of 2025 is throwing open the doors for our annual exhibition event. Students have, during a semester of conducting individual research and creating artistic responses, engaged closely with archives – personal, grassroots, institutional, digital or state-held. They discovered traces of lives, events, and movements, and learnt that revisiting history is never the same as experiencing it – it is traced over and over until the lines are smudged, and stories, especially those of resistance, are lost, diluted, or erased. The geographies in their art works reach from Kaliningrad/Königsberg to India, from Nazi Berlin to Palestine, from the island of Vieques to France. The stories that they tell span the entire 20th Century.
At 5:00pm, we will listen to Eyal Weizman's lecture: “The longue durée of genocide”: Weizman uses spatial methodologies and the archives of the landscape to show historical continuities and the protracted nature of genocide in and around Wadi Gaza - the fertile seasonal stream bed extending between Hebron and Gaza City. It was inhabited by Palestine’s southern most agricultural communities who were violently displaced in the Nakba 1948. After October 7 the Israeli army designated Wadi Gaza as the border between the northern and the southern parts of the Gaza Strip, north of it was a forbidden area where no Palestinians were allowed, and south of it a so-called "humanitarian zone”, which was also starved and bombed. In the eyes of Zionists’ predecessors, the 19c orientalist German, British, French and American travellers to Ottoman Palestine, south of Wadi Gaza started the desert, where settled life is seemingly impossible. Weizman relates the history of Wadi Gaza to Art. II c of the Genocide Convention, that defines “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction” as one mode that genocide can operate with. Teresa Koloma Beck will respond to the lecture; the discussion will be moderated by Kerry Bystrom.
From 7:00pm, Omar Haidari and Jamal Momand will raise awareness for women in Afghanistan and serve their famous Afghan Burgers.
The event ends at 9pm.
Program: 3pm: Doors open 3.30pm: Welcome and Exhibition Tour 5pm: Lecture by Eyal Weizman; respondent: Teresa Koloma Beck; moderator: Kerry Bystrom 7pm: Afghan Burgers and Party Sponsored by: OSUN and the 2025 Research Creation Class at BCB.
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Saturday, May 10, 2025 – Sunday, May 11, 2025 7 am – 10 pm
Meeting point: In front of W15 Join us to do the traditional Ostsee trip, the 2nd weekend of May during which we will celebrate the end of the year on the coast of the Baltic sea!
As in previous years, we chartered a bus and reserved rooms in the youth hostel of Heringsdorf.
Heringsdorf is one of the most well-known and popular beach resorts along the coast. It is located in the vicinity of the German-Polish border thus offering the option for a pleasant bike tour to the neighboring country.
If you wish to join this trip, you will have to pay a 45 EUR contribution by the last day of April.
Register here. Please note that there are limited places available: first come, first served.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin Student Life.
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Friday, May 9, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025 6–9 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409) & Ackerstraße 168, 10115 We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Dis)organizing Otherwise: Counter-Public Spheres on May 9, from 6–9 PM at the Fire Station, Monopol Berlin.
With contributions by: Alessandra Pomarico, BCB Mutual Aid Fund, Carmen Gheorghe, Club der polnischen Versager*innen, Elan J Cohen, Elisa R. Linn, Emel Aflak, Emma Safran Lachnit, Fin Polon, Fiona Ahrens, Flora Klein, Free Home University, Jenni Tischer, Julia Scher, Katya Mastyukova, Living Room Collective (Pohan Chiu, Jakob Karpus, Ruxin Liu, Julia Stang), MÄDEA, Margot Carter Megalli, Mirna Bamieh, Nikolay Oleynikov, Ritta Hamida, Sanskriti Shrestha, Silvia Mamporia, Tiphanie Kim Mall
May 9, 2025, 7 PM Curating Otherwise: Affective Chronicles from Free Home University’s Radical Experiment in Art, Pedagogy, and Struggle, Conversation with Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (Free Home University), Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 10, 2025, 4 PM Collective Consciousness: Sound healing meditation session by Sanskriti Shrestha, Fire Station at Monopol Berlin
May 15, 2025, 8 PM Curated Film Screening, Club der Polnischen Versager*innen, Ackerstraße 168, 10115 Berlin
The exhibition runs from May 9–11, 2025, and marks the final project of the course Spaces of Appearance: Exhibitions as Counter-Public Spheres, led by Elisa R. Linn.
Doing Things with Words: Margaret Fuller, Germaine de Staël, and Friedrich Nietzsche on the Use of the Humanities (Online Lecture)
Thursday, May 15, 2025 5–6 pm
Online (Zoom) Prof. Dr. Ulrike Wagner will present as part of Bucerius Institute Lecture Series at the University of Haifa on "Modernity's 'Others': Plurality and Counter-Hegemonic Perspectives in 20th-Century German-Language Literature."
In “Doing Things with Words,” Wagner will examine how Margaret Fuller, Germaine de Staël and Friedrich Nietzsche engage with the methods and practices of philology to redefine the role of the humanities in the public sphere. She will discuss their attempts to integrate scholarship into social life, demonstrating how humanistic inquiry can be used as a tool for cultural transformation, education, and social critique — ideas that remain highly relevant to the humanities today.
Zoom linkSponsored by: Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, University of Haifa.
A conversation with Ken Roth, long-time director of Human Rights Watch, about his new book – Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments – and the state of human rights today.
May 16, 2025 | 7pm – 8:30pm The Hertie School, Friedrichstraße 180 Reception to follow
Ken Roth is former executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading human rights organisations, which he led from 1993 to 2022. He has extensively investigated human rights abuses around the world, focusing especially on the world’s most dire situations, the pursuit of international justice, the major powers’ foreign policies, the work of the UN, and the global contexts between democracy and autocracy. Roth is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University and member of the Board of Governors at Bard College Berlin.
His recently published book, Righting Wrongs, combines memoir and analysis to refute the skeptics who question whether it is possible to defend human rights effectively. Roth pulls back the curtain on the strategies and tactics that Human Rights Watch and its allies employed to force governments, armed groups and companies to behave better.
At a time of global instability, rising extremism, and threats to human rights, Roth explains how it is possible to move even the most powerful and despotic governments.
The ceremony will take place on Saturday May 17th at Ballhaus Pankow and will be followed by a reception on campus. By invitation only.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
Online (Zoom) How do journalists use AI under censorship, low resources, and political pressure? Join us for a 90-minute online session with speakers from Cuba, the Philippines, and Arabic-speaking countries.
Philharmonie Berlin, Kammermusiksaal (Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1, 10785 Berlin) Internationally renowned cellist Gary Hoffman, the Nina and Billy Albert Chair in Cello Studies at Curtis joins some of the school’s esteemed alumni for a tour of Europe in the spring of 2025. A thrilling concert of iconic works and audience favorites, the program features one of Claude Debussy’s final compositions, the Sonata in D minor for Cello and Piano, an elegant, evocative work, at once dark, mysterious, meditative, and playfully whimsical.
Maurice Ravel’s shimmering Piano Trio in A minor follows, a dreamlike work with echoes of jazz, Javanese gamelan, and courtly Baroque dances, all leading to a splashy finale. The concert closes with Gabriel Fauré’s deeply moving Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15, widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated French chamber music works of the late 19th century.
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