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BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026

Runs through Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"

Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"

Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"

Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"

Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"

Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"

Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"

Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"

Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"

Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"

Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"

Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"

Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"

Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"

Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"

Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"

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Final Application Deadline

Application deadline for citizens and residents of EU/EEA and Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, US

Friday, May 1, 2026

Online Event



Bard College Berlin accepts applications for entry to the BA and Academy Year programs in Fall 2026. The final deadline for applying is May 1, 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 [email protected]. We look forward to receiving your application!

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BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026

Runs through Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"

Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"

Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"

Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"

Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"

Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"

Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"

Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"

Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"

Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"

Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"

Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"

Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"

Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"

Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"

Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"

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Marktzeit

Saturday, May 2, 2026
12–4 pm

Waldstraße 89 13156
Students in the course Civic Engagement and Democracy: Berlin Lab, in partnership with Berliner Tafel, will run a community flea market that brings people together, builds local connections, and generates shared resources. A portion of all proceeds is redistributed to improve food access and support local food initiatives. We invite you to join us in building a stronger, more connected community. More information can be found on the Marktzeit website.

Sign up as a seller/donor through this Google Form.

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Tafelzeit der Nachbarschaft

Saturday, May 2, 2026
4–7 pm

Mocca Fou (Waldstr. 89, 13156)
Choppin' It Up's community flea market is a student-led initiative that starts at Bard College Berlin and reaches beyond it by bringing together students, neighbors, and the wider community across Berlin. We’re creating an open space where people can meet, exchange, and participate. Through selling and sharing art, clothes, and everyday items, the market becomes a place of connection and circulation, where what we have moves between us instead of going unused.

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Reading by the students of Clare Wigfall's Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop

Saturday, May 2, 2026
7–10 pm

Wein Salon, Schreinerstr. 59, Friedrichshain, 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. As always, 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: August Blais, Lucy Burton, Max Colombano, Claire Daylo, Esme Graf, Ilan Guerrero Rosario, Marcy Hill, Martina Mackinlay, Camas Oxford, Hana Trenčanová

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BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026

Runs through Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"

Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"

Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"

Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"

Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"

Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"

Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"

Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"

Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"

Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"

Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"

Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"

Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"

Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"

Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"

Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"

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BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026

Runs through Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"

Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"

Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"

Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"

Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"

Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"

Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"

Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"

Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"

Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"

Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"

Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"

Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"

Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"

Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"

Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"

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The Self at Scale

Monday, May 4, 2026 – Tuesday, May 5, 2026
10 am – 6 pm

ICI Berlin (Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 10119 Berlin)
Why does it seem so productive today to be simultaneously the subject and object of one’s writing? This workshop starts from the premise that certain writing and artistic practices position the theorizing self as a mediator between the subject and larger scales of social organization. The contemporary fascination with autotheory, autofiction, and related genres, such as auto-sociobiography or mythobiography, is a case in point. These forms show the interplay between theorizations of personal life, subjectivity and historical or collective experience. However, these practices also have their own histories. The workshop is therefore interested in the politics and aesthetics of this interplay, in the genealogies of these forms, and in the moments when these practices have intensified.

The aim of the workshop is to facilitate dialogue between multiple discourses. One such discourse is feminist theory, which has long offered insights into the concept of the theorizing self as mediator. Another discursive resource is the theory and practice of life writing, from the early 20th century onwards. It is precisely within the space between theory and practice, between history and biography, that the ‘unexpected subject’ can emerge (to borrow the term of Italian critic and theorist Carla Lonzi). Such tension has been framed in works of life writing that deliberately play with the implications of this problem, such as Luisa Passerini’s Autoritratto di gruppo (Autobiography of a Generation, 2008), Annie Ernaux’s Les années (The Years, 2008), the collective autobiography Baby Boomers. Vite parallele dagli anni Cinquanta ai cinquant’anni (Baby Boomers: Parallel Lives from the 1950s to One’s Fifties, by Rosi Braidotti, Roberta Mazzanti, Serena Sapegno, and Annamaria Tagliavini, 2003), as well as Carla Lonzi’s seminal Autoritratto (Self-portrait, 2022), published in 1969. In other contexts, and in relation to the problems posed by racialization and more recent developments in the conceptualization of sexuality, authors such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Saidiya Hartman, Sara Ahmed, and Paul B. Preciado, have turned to forms of autotheory to reconsider the relationship between embodied subjectivity, selfhood, and the world. Alongside gender, race, and postcolonial critique, what additional insights could autotheoretical writing offer to a renewed reflection on class, its representations, and its lived contradictions?

In what ways do contemporary practices of autotheory preserve, or intentionally erase, a potential space of freedom? Rather than preemptively reading this genre as a symptom of narcissism and self-referentiality, this question aims to explore the reasons behind its attraction for readers and its global success. Traditionally, the ‘freedom’ of the liberal individual is located in the private spheres of the domestic or inner life. However, in a post-Marxist and post-Foucauldian landscape, such spaces of freedom appear to be possible only through the disavowal of one’s social embeddedness. Feminist and critical instances of the practice of autotheory generally aim to open up or create spaces in which a focus on the self functions as an antidote and an alternative to a multiplicity of discourses connected to power. These discourses include the logocentrism of canonical theoretical discourse, in which the abstraction of theory is seen to cloud or obscure specific subject positions, their histories, and their epistemologies. Some of the questions at the heart of this workshop emerged from conversations with students at Bard College Berlin. It is designed to be accessible to students and will bring together scholars, writers, and artists.

How to Attend:

• At the venue (registration required): Registration opens on 20 April 2026.
• No online attendance / no livestream available (in-person only).

Organized by:
James Harker, Clio Nicastro, and Laura Scuriatti for Bard College Berlin in cooperation with ICI Berlin

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BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026

Runs through Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"

Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"

Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"

Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"

Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"

Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"

Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"

Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"

Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"

Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"

Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"

Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"

Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"

Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"

Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"

Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"

×

The Self at Scale

Monday, May 4, 2026 – Tuesday, May 5, 2026
10 am – 6 pm

ICI Berlin (Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 10119 Berlin)
Why does it seem so productive today to be simultaneously the subject and object of one’s writing? This workshop starts from the premise that certain writing and artistic practices position the theorizing self as a mediator between the subject and larger scales of social organization. The contemporary fascination with autotheory, autofiction, and related genres, such as auto-sociobiography or mythobiography, is a case in point. These forms show the interplay between theorizations of personal life, subjectivity and historical or collective experience. However, these practices also have their own histories. The workshop is therefore interested in the politics and aesthetics of this interplay, in the genealogies of these forms, and in the moments when these practices have intensified.

The aim of the workshop is to facilitate dialogue between multiple discourses. One such discourse is feminist theory, which has long offered insights into the concept of the theorizing self as mediator. Another discursive resource is the theory and practice of life writing, from the early 20th century onwards. It is precisely within the space between theory and practice, between history and biography, that the ‘unexpected subject’ can emerge (to borrow the term of Italian critic and theorist Carla Lonzi). Such tension has been framed in works of life writing that deliberately play with the implications of this problem, such as Luisa Passerini’s Autoritratto di gruppo (Autobiography of a Generation, 2008), Annie Ernaux’s Les années (The Years, 2008), the collective autobiography Baby Boomers. Vite parallele dagli anni Cinquanta ai cinquant’anni (Baby Boomers: Parallel Lives from the 1950s to One’s Fifties, by Rosi Braidotti, Roberta Mazzanti, Serena Sapegno, and Annamaria Tagliavini, 2003), as well as Carla Lonzi’s seminal Autoritratto (Self-portrait, 2022), published in 1969. In other contexts, and in relation to the problems posed by racialization and more recent developments in the conceptualization of sexuality, authors such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Saidiya Hartman, Sara Ahmed, and Paul B. Preciado, have turned to forms of autotheory to reconsider the relationship between embodied subjectivity, selfhood, and the world. Alongside gender, race, and postcolonial critique, what additional insights could autotheoretical writing offer to a renewed reflection on class, its representations, and its lived contradictions?

In what ways do contemporary practices of autotheory preserve, or intentionally erase, a potential space of freedom? Rather than preemptively reading this genre as a symptom of narcissism and self-referentiality, this question aims to explore the reasons behind its attraction for readers and its global success. Traditionally, the ‘freedom’ of the liberal individual is located in the private spheres of the domestic or inner life. However, in a post-Marxist and post-Foucauldian landscape, such spaces of freedom appear to be possible only through the disavowal of one’s social embeddedness. Feminist and critical instances of the practice of autotheory generally aim to open up or create spaces in which a focus on the self functions as an antidote and an alternative to a multiplicity of discourses connected to power. These discourses include the logocentrism of canonical theoretical discourse, in which the abstraction of theory is seen to cloud or obscure specific subject positions, their histories, and their epistemologies. Some of the questions at the heart of this workshop emerged from conversations with students at Bard College Berlin. It is designed to be accessible to students and will bring together scholars, writers, and artists.

How to Attend:

• At the venue (registration required): Registration opens on 20 April 2026.
• No online attendance / no livestream available (in-person only).

Organized by:
James Harker, Clio Nicastro, and Laura Scuriatti for Bard College Berlin in cooperation with ICI Berlin

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News from Home (& Beyond): Take it Back - Digital Self-Determination in 2026

Tuesday, May 5, 2026
7:30–9 pm

P98 SR2
This series aims to provide the student community at BCB with a platform to share and learn about diverse political issues in the form of informative presentations and discussions given by their own peers.

May 5: Take it Back - Digital Self-Determination in 2026

No question about it: Big Tech has become a big problem – politically, socially, environmentally. But what do we mean when we talk about “Big Tech”, why exactly is it problematic? What is “Free and Open Source Software” (FOSS) and why is it more sustainable and empowering for users? How can we transition to these alternative tools in our daily lives and/or make more space for analogue approaches? In a short presentation, we’ll offer some fresh perspectives on the subject, then open up the discussion to hear about your experiences, address your questions, demonstrate alternative tools and offer practical tips for making the switch. Topics could include: alternative social networks, messengers, word processing tools, video conferencing, operating systems (Linux), etc.; AI; the vision of (European) “digital sovereignty”; and much more. If there are any issues you’re especially interested in, feel free to let us know ahead of time so we can prepare accordingly!

Guest presenters:

• Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss, Project and Community Manager at KDE Eco (green open-source software)
• Isabel Fargo Cole, writer, translator and organizer of the “Stammtisch TechMündigkeit für Wortmenschen”

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BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026

Runs through Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"

Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"

Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"

Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"

Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"

Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"

Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"

Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"

Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"

Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"

Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"

Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"

Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"

Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"

Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"

Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"

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LATAM CONFERENCE 2026

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 – Thursday, May 7, 2026
10 am – 6:30 pm

Hertie School (May 6) & Embassy of Mexico (May 7)
This year's conference unites high-ranking scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to explore Latin America's response to global challenges through resilience, adaptation, and innovation.

Across two days (May 6 & 7), participants can expect a dynamic program featuring expert panels and interactive sessions addressing:
- Climate Cooperation
- World Changing Order
- Digital Transformation
- Geopolitics
- Education & Gender

Registration required through this form.

Organized by BCB's Unión Latina and Hertie Latam Club

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Performances for Nina Tecklenburg's class TH220 Making Theater in Berlin: A Collaboration with Theater Ballhaus Ost

Wednesday, May 6, 2026
7–10 pm

Ballhaus Ost (Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin)
Final performance showcase of Nina Tecklenburg’s class TH315 Making Theater in Berlin: A Collaboration with Ballhaus Ost.

Based on the knowledge and skills that the students gained from professional theater and performance artists, curators and theater technicians at Ballhaus Ost, the students devised their own performance projects in the second half of the semester.

Part of BCB's Open Studios events. Other events include Creative Component Exhibition & Open Studios on April 30, and Performance Factory & Open Studios on May 7.

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Democracy In Danger: An Evening With Daniel Ziblatt

Wednesday, May 6, 2026
7 pm

Heinrich Böll Foundation (Schumannstraße 8, 10117 Berlin)
Democracy is under pressure—in the United States, across Europe, worldwide. Norms are eroding, institutions are wavering, and processes once taken for granted are now in question. In their place, cynicism and corruption are ascendant. The United States is a particularly striking example: under Donald Trump, democratic erosion has intensified, as the executive branch has moved to extend its powers, often relying on militarised, even extrajudicial, methods. American democracy appears to be in a moment of acute stress and threat – perhaps a harbinger for processes soon to emerge or already underway across democratic states, and an empowerment for autocratic leadership worldwide.

In this discussion, Daniel Ziblatt, among the premier scholars and chroniclers of the history of democracy, will engage in a multifaceted conversation about the many challenges democratic systems are currently facing. He will diagnose the most relevant forms of democratic backsliding and locate the most acute dangers to liberalism and pluralism. At the same time, the picture is not uniformly negative: in key moments some democratic institutions and norms have proved resilient. Recent elections in Hungary, for example, which ousted Viktor Orbán are a case in point: processes of authoritarian consolidation are not as inevitable as they may seem. What can we learn from the areas in which democracy has proven stronger or more durable, and how, if at all, can we replicate those patterns? Will a new form of democratic politics emerge as a result?

Please register in advance here. The number of seats for this event are limited.

In cooperation with Heinrich Böll Foundation.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin and Heinrich Böll Foundation.

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BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026

Runs through Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"

Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"

Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"

Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"

Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"

Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"

Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"

Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"

Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"

Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"

Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"

Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"

Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"

Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"

Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"

Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"

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LATAM CONFERENCE 2026

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 – Thursday, May 7, 2026
10 am – 6:30 pm

Hertie School (May 6) & Embassy of Mexico (May 7)
This year's conference unites high-ranking scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to explore Latin America's response to global challenges through resilience, adaptation, and innovation.

Across two days (May 6 & 7), participants can expect a dynamic program featuring expert panels and interactive sessions addressing:
- Climate Cooperation
- World Changing Order
- Digital Transformation
- Geopolitics
- Education & Gender

Registration required through this form.

Organized by BCB's Unión Latina and Hertie Latam Club

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Performance Factory & Open Studios

Thursday, May 7, 2026
5:30–10 pm

The Factory (Eichenstraße 43, 13156)
BCB’s celebrated end-of-the-semester arts tradition returns: Open Studios & Performance Factory is a multi-day display of students' works that they have created throughout the semester. This includes performances, films, and visual artworks of all kinds. Everyone is welcome to come see what our talented student body has created and experience the ongoing growth of our arts programs.

Participating classes:

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Movie Night: The Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

Thursday, May 7, 2026
7:30–9 pm

Lecture Hall
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) is an Academy Award–winning thriller set in East Berlin in the 1980s, a few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It follows a disciplined and loyal Stasi officer assigned to surveil a celebrated playwright and his partner, a renowned actress. As he listens to their conversations, reads their mail, and documents their every move—the officer finds himself affected by their lives and their humanity. What begins as routine surveillance turns into longing, moral doubt and political awakening. Partly shot in Pankow and widely acclaimed for its authentic portrayal of life in the German Democratic Republic, the film is also an allegory of love and the possibility of redemption.

Reception will follow.

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BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026

Runs through Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"

Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"

Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"

Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"

Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"

Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"

Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"

Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"

Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"

Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"

Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"

Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"

Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"

Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"

Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"

Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"

×

BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026

Runs through Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"

Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"

Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"

Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"

Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"

Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"

Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"

Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"

Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"

Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"

Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"

Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"

Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"

Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"

Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"

Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"

×

BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026

Runs through Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"

Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"

Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"

Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"

Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"

Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"

Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"

Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"

Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"

Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"

Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"

Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"

Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"

Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"

Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"

Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"

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BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026

Runs through Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"

Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"

Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"

Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"

Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"

Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"

Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"

Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"

Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"

Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"

Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"

Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"

Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"

Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"

Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"

Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"

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Pancake Breakfast

Monday, May 11, 2026
9–10 am

Julie Johnson Kidd Hall Cafe (W15)
Kick off completion week with pancakes for breakfast! Student Life Staff will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes, fruit, and hot beverages.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.

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BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026

Runs through Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"

Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"

Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"

Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"

Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"

Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"

Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"

Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"

Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"

Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"

Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"

Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"

Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"

Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"

Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"

Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"

×

BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026

Runs through Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"

Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"

Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"

Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"

Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"

Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"

Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"

Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"

Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"

Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"

Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"

Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"

Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"

Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"

Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"

Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"

Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"

Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"

Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"

Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"

Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"

Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"

Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"

Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"

Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"

Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"

Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"

Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"

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Contemporary Threats to Academic Freedom and Democracy: Education, Journalism and Human Rights

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 – Thursday, May 14, 2026
9:30 am – 6:30 pm

May 13: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / May 14: Bard College Berlin
You are warmly invited to join us for the conference Contemporary Threats to Academic Freedom and Democracy: Education, Journalism and Human Rights. The conference takes as its starting point the spectacular consolidation of illiberal, autocratic power over the past decade through attacks on civil society institutions. Higher education, journalism, and human rights-related NGOs have all come under threat. Putin’s regime in Russia provides one model for such consolidation, which has impacted and in turn been influenced by right-wing governments in Hungary, Turkey, the United States, and beyond. We explore how such regimes have focused on universities and academic freedom in general–transforming or forcing into exile institutions deemed critical of the state and narrowing the space for research, teaching and learning. Why has this happened? With what tactics and with what effects? What do these attacks say about the fundamental relationship between academic freedom and the possibility and practice of democracy?

Attacks on higher education have proceeded in parallel with attempts to constrain media freedom and pro-democracy and human rights grassroots and non-governmental organizations. They also take place within a changing media and activism ecosystem more generally. In this situation, traditional methods of reporting on and protesting against such violations have proven difficult. We also track this landscape and the creative responses being shaped and tested within it. How can human rights work remain relevant as it is delegitimized as a field and as critical voices are excluded from mainstream media outlets? What options are there for exposing attacks and impacting public opinion? What new approaches within or alignments between human rights, journalism and higher education are needed, and how might these protect or rebuild capacities for critical thinking and other basic democratic competencies in the current moment?

Speakers include: Fred Abrahams (Aryeh Neier Center for Justice at Bard College Berlin), Tuba Inal Cekic (Off University), Dmitry Dubrovskiy (Charles University, Prague), Margee Ensign (AltLiberalArts), Philip Fedchin (Smolny Beyond Borders), Jennifer Gaspar (Araminta), Susan Gillespie (Bard College), Ilya Kalinin (Humboldt U. Ph. Schwarz Fellow), Mariana Katzarova (UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Russia), Mary Lawlor (UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders),  Kenneth Roth (Former Executive Director, Human Rights Watch), Oleksandr Shtokvych (Central European University), Ilya Venyavkin (Kronika)

Kindly register via Google Form.Sponsored by: Smolny Beyond Borders, Gagarin Center at Bard College, The Center for Comparative Research on Democracy (CCRD) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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Contemporary Threats to Academic Freedom and Democracy: Education, Journalism and Human Rights

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 – Thursday, May 14, 2026
9:30 am – 6:30 pm

May 13: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / May 14: Bard College Berlin
You are warmly invited to join us for the conference Contemporary Threats to Academic Freedom and Democracy: Education, Journalism and Human Rights. The conference takes as its starting point the spectacular consolidation of illiberal, autocratic power over the past decade through attacks on civil society institutions. Higher education, journalism, and human rights-related NGOs have all come under threat. Putin’s regime in Russia provides one model for such consolidation, which has impacted and in turn been influenced by right-wing governments in Hungary, Turkey, the United States, and beyond. We explore how such regimes have focused on universities and academic freedom in general–transforming or forcing into exile institutions deemed critical of the state and narrowing the space for research, teaching and learning. Why has this happened? With what tactics and with what effects? What do these attacks say about the fundamental relationship between academic freedom and the possibility and practice of democracy?

Attacks on higher education have proceeded in parallel with attempts to constrain media freedom and pro-democracy and human rights grassroots and non-governmental organizations. They also take place within a changing media and activism ecosystem more generally. In this situation, traditional methods of reporting on and protesting against such violations have proven difficult. We also track this landscape and the creative responses being shaped and tested within it. How can human rights work remain relevant as it is delegitimized as a field and as critical voices are excluded from mainstream media outlets? What options are there for exposing attacks and impacting public opinion? What new approaches within or alignments between human rights, journalism and higher education are needed, and how might these protect or rebuild capacities for critical thinking and other basic democratic competencies in the current moment?

Speakers include: Fred Abrahams (Aryeh Neier Center for Justice at Bard College Berlin), Tuba Inal Cekic (Off University), Dmitry Dubrovskiy (Charles University, Prague), Margee Ensign (AltLiberalArts), Philip Fedchin (Smolny Beyond Borders), Jennifer Gaspar (Araminta), Susan Gillespie (Bard College), Ilya Kalinin (Humboldt U. Ph. Schwarz Fellow), Mariana Katzarova (UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Russia), Mary Lawlor (UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders),  Kenneth Roth (Former Executive Director, Human Rights Watch), Oleksandr Shtokvych (Central European University), Ilya Venyavkin (Kronika)

Kindly register via Google Form.Sponsored by: Smolny Beyond Borders, Gagarin Center at Bard College, The Center for Comparative Research on Democracy (CCRD) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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Beethoven's „Geistertrio“ and Brahm's piano quintet

Tuesday, May 19, 2026
8–10 pm

Konzerthaus Berlin, Kleiner Saal, Gendarmenmarkt 2, 10117 Berlin
The violinist Liza Ferschtman, known for her “intensity, purity, and finely crafted artistry” (The New York Times), and the pianist Benjamin Hochman, celebrated for his “elegant, mature, and expressive playing” (The Boston Globe), lead a piano quintet together with the rising artists Leah Amory, Davin Mar, and Carson Ling-Efird from the Curtis Institute of Music. The program begins with Bohuslav Martinů’s lively Three Madrigals and Beethoven’s “Ghost” Piano Trio, and concludes with Brahms’s masterful Piano Quintet in F minor.

Please register via Google Form here.

In cooperation with Curtis Institute of Music.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin and Curtis Institute of Music.