SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
Fleeing Grief, Grieving Flight. 3 Years of the Russian Full-Scale Invasion
Saturday, March 1, 2025 5:30–8 pm
Factory Scattered around the world due to Russian aggression, Ukrainians live in a constant state of defense, experiencing war, uncertainty, and exile. In times of crisis, hope is found in community, organizing, and action. Mriï Collective invites you to explore Ukrainian people's agency and together map the networks of resistance during wartime. Join for an exhibition and a panel discussion with leading figures of civil society in Ukraine and in diaspora.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
In Germany, a liberal concept of racism is advocated by anti-discrimination agencies and the radical left alike. This approach is primarily concerned with representation, inclusion, and diversity. The connection between class and race is rarely addressed. Nevertheless, a critical Marxist tradition of racism research exists. The book Diversity of Exploitation seeks to draw upon this tradition. At the same time, the book offers a political intervention in the current debate on structural and institutional racism, whether in the labor market or the police force. It presents alternatives to liberal antiracism by introducing a Marxist concept of racism in theory and practice.
Bafta Sarbo is a social scientist and educator. She teaches courses on Marx’s Capital and is active in antiracist organizing, among others on the board of the non-profit association Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD), on issues of migration policy and police violence.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
BCB Lecture Hall (Platanenstr. 98a, 13156 Berlin) George Packer, a staff writer for The Atlantic, is one of America's preeminent journalists and essayists. In conversation with Joshua Yaffa, BCB's writer-in-residence, Packer will narrate and expound upon his extensive reporting, carried out over the last decade-plus, from the parts of the United States that may feel mysterious and unknown to European audiences, but carry outsized social and political resonance. He will relay stories of American struggle, ambition, hope, and disappointment from Florida to the Midwest and Arizona, as well as his own home of New York City. Each of these communities, and the people living in them, stand as avatars and guides for understanding larger shifts in the American polity and where the country may be headed. Packer and Yaffa will also address the role and craft of reporting and writing in a context of increasing pressures, whether social or economic.
Photography from the West Bank: Alumni Talk from Kai B. '24
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 7–9 pm
W15 Cafe Kai B. (BCB class of 2024, HAST Ethics & Politics) has recently returned from an extended stay in the West Bank in the Occupied Territories of Palestine, working as an international volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement. Over the duration of his time in Palestine, Kai has gathered photographs and stories narrating both his experience as an international volunteer and the realities of life under occupation. He will be sharing these photographs, and their accompanying stories, at 7pm in the W15 cafe. All are welcome to attend, and there will be time for questions following the presentation.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
The Factory (Eichenstraße 43, 13156 Berlin) A re-imagining of an age-old Belarusian traditional spring celebration into an evening of art and solidarity.
Live music, DJ-set, shadow theater and some ritual performances… as well as a visual art vernissage by an invited Belarusian artist, Katharina Büttgen.
Dress code: white + red
The collected donations will go to help for Belarusian political prisoners.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
W15 Cafe Join us for an alumni talk with Erick Moreno Superlano, who graduated from the Humanities, the Arts, and Social Thought program with a concentration in Literature and Rhetoric in 2022.
Erick Moreno Superlano is a PhD student in Migration Studies at the University of Oxford. His interests are at the intersection of cultural anthropology, human geography, and social theory. He was awarded a Clarendon Scholarship for his PhD and holds an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, funded by an Oxford Refugee Scholarship and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
For his doctoral research, Erick examines the political structures, socio-economic formations, and racial hierarchies that influence the future of immigrants from the Global South in New York. Specifically, he studies working-class Venezuelan immigrants and analyzes the spatial politics shaping their future in the city. His research aims to uncover how immigrants' future-oriented actions and negotiations in the city impact their moral beliefs, political perspectives, and ability to create political opportunities.
Erick also works as a humanitarian consultant for Meraki Labs where he collaborates with a team of consultants from the Global South and provides research and analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and policy development support to NGOs, international agencies, and research institutions.
This event takes place in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Agata Lisiak's course A Lexicon of Migration.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum Auditorium (Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1/3, 10117 Berlin) How do we project and conceive the future? The recent turns of history have been unexpected for many. Contemporary Russia’s gradual transformation from a liberal democratic regime into a conservative tyranny was not inevitable and was not evident in the making. It is therefore striking that in the 2000s and 2010s, some Russian writers accurately anticipated the present turn to war and despotic rule. Novels by Viktor Pelevin, Vladimir Sorokin, and Dmitry Bykov described the future metaphorically but more precisely than “scientific” predictions did.
In the Modes of Futurity conference, co-organized by Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Institute for Global Reconstitution, we are interested in the unbounded social imagination that comes from all genres of arts and sciences, including reaching out beyond academia for creative plotlines designed by writers, with a specific focus on contemporary Russian literature and arts. The conference will discuss the many theoretical and empirical questions arising from this experience: What is the mechanism of literary prophecy? How do we the readers set apart predictions that are most likely to be accurate from the many failed ones? Can there be an element of self-fulfilling prophecy, not necessarily in the anti-utopian novels as such, but in the collective imaginary they rely on? How does the literary imagination relate to the scholarly projects and scenarios produced in the last decades? Can there be an alliance between intellectual projects and fictional writing? Is there a way to use these visions to avert the worst of these unexpected historical turns? Is there currently a space for utopian rather than anti-utopian fiction?
Speakers: Ilya Kalinin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / IGRec), Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University), Anastassia de La Fortelle (University of Lausanne), Dmitry Simanovsky (Editor-in-Chief for Überbau), Larissa Muravieva (Smolny Beyond Borders), Michael Marder (The University of the Basque Country / IGRec), Dmitry Bykov (University of Rochester), Alexander Etkind (Central European University), Natalia Grinina (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Artemy Magun (Institute for Global Reconstitution)
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
Lecture Hall The environmental impact of streaming media is now calculated to contribute 1% of greenhouse gas emissions and rising fast. Streaming comprises a significant proportion of the carbon footprint of information and communication technologies (ICT), which is calculated to contribute about 4% of global greenhouse gases, about the same as the airline industry. ICT is composed of data centers, networks, and devices that store, transmit, and display all our social media, videos, photos, and other large files, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence applications, etc. All these uses require huge amounts of electricity, and about 79% of global electricity comes from fossil fuels: hence the large carbon footprint.
Conceived at the Small File Media Festival in 2020, Small-File Ecomedia can offer a solution to the rising carbon footprint of streaming through the creation of low- bandwidth movies of an average of one megabyte per minute. This is only a tiny fraction of high-definition video, which is between 60 and 350 megabytes per minute. The dissemination of small file media requires minimum energy and bandwidth, causing no damage to the planet. Drawing new modes of thinking otherwise in media theory, small-file films raise awareness for environmentally friendly media creation and consumption. While mainstream media is becoming increasingly high-definition, with proportionally higher electricity demands for streaming and storing, small-file films embrace glitchy images and abstract compositions. This lo-fi intervention draws from both do-it-yourself (DiY) movements and computer-based artistic practices. Practitioners can utilize free, cross platform apps including Handbrake, Any Video Converter, and AVIDMUX to compress moving-image content to a fraction of its original size. Some artists use these aesthetic tools to manipulate the granular materiality of digital media objects.
The workshop will cover the motivations and techniques behind small-file filmmaking as well as the basic steps of small-file filmmaking (pre-production, shooting, editing). No need to be intimidated by expensive equipment and fancy software! If you are interested in small-file filmmaking, you will only need to have a smartphone with a working camera (new, old, recycled, anything really!) and a computer capable of downloading simple video-editing software.
Great cinema doesn’t have to mean great big files!
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
Of Displacement and Resilience: The Emergence of Rohingya Rickshaw Art in Bangladesh
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
W15 Cafe Talk on refugee visual and material culture by Mohammad Zaki Rezwan.
Rezwan's paper explores the emergence of rickshaw art and artisan practices by the Rohingya people in the refugee camp of Bangladesh. It also investigates how the encounter between Bangladeshi and Rohingya identities allows these refugees to seek resilience in the state of displacement through the reorientation of their Rohingya knowledge and skills. The mass exodus of the Rohingya people has resulted in an unprecedented reformulation of cultural identities. From the Rakhine state of Myanmar to Bangladesh, the displacement has often attracted a narrative of loss, never a story of creation. Despite the countless international efforts to preserve the cultural memory of the Rohingya community, the mushrooming of a diverse set of unrestricted and unregulated economic, mechanical, and cultural ventures through jugaad in the camps underscores their true resilience and willingness to sustain. As a case study, the paper examines the newly formed rickshaw art and artisan practice in the recently built, controversial Rohingya camp located in Bhasan Char, Bangladesh. I argue this practice is born out of the encounter between numerous Rohingya art and artisan practices and Bangladeshi rickshaw art, allowing the Rohingya people to incorporate their knowledge and skills in conjunction with what they have attained from the rickshaw art of Bangladesh. The paper analyzes a series of newly manufactured rickshaws in the camp and the aesthetics of their decorations to demonstrate how the foundation and fabric of these endeavors reflect not only the state of displacement but also the reformulation of belongingness. These rickshaws, with their colorful decorations, function like an archive in motion for this vulnerable community, where their stories will be written and rewritten indefinitely.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
Lecture Hall, Platanenstraße 98A, 13156 Berlin Yael Bartana is an observer of the contemporary and a pre-enactor. She employs art as a scalpel inside the mechanisms of power structures and navigates the fine and crackled line between the sociological and the imagination. In her films, installations, photographs, staged performances, and public monuments she investigates subjects like national identity, trauma, and displacement, often through ceremonies, memorials, public rituals, and collective gatherings.
Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including solo exhibitions at GL Strand Copenhagen (2024), Jewish Museum Berlin (2021), Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (2019/2020), and Philadelphia Museum of Art (2018). In 2024, her work was shown in the German Pavilion of the Venice Biennial.
The event with Yael Bartana is organized as part of the course 'Wannsee: Laboratory for the Future', led by Dr. Avi Feldman. Bartana's research and work in Wannsee will be discussed during the event in collaboration with the course students.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
Online Remember all of the bureaucracy you had to go through when you first arrived at BCB? Now it’s time to do it all again (or in reverse)! Come learn about how to wrap up your time at BCB and transition to your next adventure, be that in Berlin or across the globe. This session will be divided into two parts. In the first part, we will talk about things that will apply to everyone, including how to cancel or update your health insurance, Ummeldung and Abmeldung, request transcripts and more. The second part will be dedicated to those who are on a student permit and are interested in staying in Germany after graduation. We will discuss the different options including transitioning to the jobseeker permit and extending the student permit for graduate studies. Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process!
We will also be offering this session on Monday, 28 April from 12:30pm-1:30pm for those who are not yet figuratively or literally prepared to think about these things.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
Ceasefire and beyond: What now for the Israel–Palestine Conflict?
Thursday, March 27, 2025 7–9 pm
W15 Cafe at Bard College Berlin (Waldstrasse 15, 13156) On January 19, 2025, a ceasefire in Gaza came into effect, marking a tentative pause in 18 months of war that began with Hamas’s brutal attack on October 7, 2023, and was followed by a devastating Israeli incursion into Gaza, resulting in a massive loss of civilian lives. So far the ceasefire agreement remains precarious, given the lack of concrete peace-building mechanisms and, more recently, concerns over Trump’s abhorrent plan for the permanent displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.
To address these issues we invite you to a panel discussion with Alena Jabarine, a Palestinian-German journalist, and Nimrod Flaschenberg, a member of the Berlin-based organization Israelis for Peace.
Together with our panelists, we will discuss the present realities Palestinians are facing in Gaza, in the West Bank, and inside Israel. We will ask what challenges stand in the way of sustaining the ceasefire agreement and advancing towards longer-term solutions. We will also examine the impact of the war on Palestinian and Israeli communities here in Germany, the growing concern over the rise of antisemitism, and concerns over the narrowing of freedom of speech when it comes to criticism of Israel.
This timely conversation aims to unpack the complexities of the ongoing conflict and assess what the future may hold for peace and security in the region.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
Online Event Interested in learning more about Bard College Berlin? Join us on March 29 for Virtual Open Day. You will have the chance to meet current BCB students, and attend informational sessions about our application process, degree programs, student life, campus facilities, and more.
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
SR 8, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin Open Classroom allows people to experience university-level courses taught at Bard College Berlin in an informal setting that is open to everyone. It also aims to engage students to share the knowledge gained in the courses they attend as a part of their curriculum. Takes place every Thursday.
W16 Learning Commons "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Meetings take place bi-weekly at 7pm in the Learning Commons.
Thursday, March 6 Thursday, March 20 Thursday, April 3 Thursday, April 24 Thursday, May 8
Online (Zoom) Within the long nineteenth century that frames the first 100 years of America’s existence as a republic, French writers, artists, and musicians were drawn to describe and depict the young nation’s political experiments, vast landscapes, and diverse culture. Varied images of American freedom, resiliency, power, as well as backwardness appeared throughout the nineteenth century, which showcased to the world America’s arrival on the international stage. Nowhere was this more on display in all of its complexity than during the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, where from May until November, two times a day, French audiences witnessed stage couch robberies, six-gun trick shooting, cowboy roping, Native American dances and the ever-powerful image of Colonel William F. Cody (i.e., Buffalo Bill), held astride a white horse, riding in to save former Europeans from marauding Indians. The music and the live-action scenes of the show successfully captured French notions of l’ouest sauvage, which was fueled by French translations of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper and the Western-themed novels of Gustave Aymard. In this presentation, I will be discussing the Wild West Show of Buffalo Bill in France and how such a sonic and visual narrative, often viewed as a cacophony of mass entertainment and crass commercialism, was received by the French and expressed in the music of fin-de-siècle France.
Please register here. You will receive the Zoom link to the event after your registration.
Mark A. Pottinger is Professor of Musicology and Chair of the Communication, Sound, and Media Arts Department at Manhattan University in New York City. Winner of the Berlin Prize in 2017, Pottinger is the author of numerous publications on the music and cultural life of nineteenth-century Europe and the contemporary listening environment. His most recent publications include a book on Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor (Cambridge University Press) and a forthcoming book on nineteenth-century science in relation to the sound and look of nature in romantic opera (Boydell & Brewer). Currently serving as co-chief editor of Sound Studies Review: An International Peer-Reviewed Music Journal (Brepols Publishers), Pottinger’s recent writings examine the concept of ‘soundscapes’ and their connection to political power and technology.
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