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.
The BCB Internship Program offers students the opportunity to gain off-campus workplace experience in a field related to their studies or career goals. Students work 10-13 hours per week at an internship while exploring key questions regarding work in an internship seminar led by Agata Lisiak and Florian Duijsens. While most internships are unpaid, students will earn academic credit through the seminar.
If you're a current or upcoming third-year student interested in gaining hands-on experience while interning with an organization or individual in Berlin, save the date for our information session. Join us at the W15 café to learn more about this valuable opportunity!
"No, I don't speak Russian". The lingering effects of Russification in the context of Kazakhstan and Ukraine
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 7–9 pm
W15 Cafe How does it feel to speak your colonizer’s language and find yourself between the lines? This time in focus are the lingering effects of Russification in Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Russification is a policy of linguistic and cultural assimilation of non-Russian peoples used by the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and currently the Russian Federation. Since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine, the usage of Russian language became an especially triggering topic. Your fellow students Liza and Aisholpan will give historic context of how the native languages were suppressed in Ukraine and Kazakhstan and address the recent tensions that occur between residents of the countries who were and, to an extent, remain affected by Russification. There will be short presentations and an open discussion, so please bring your questions and opinions!
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.
The Factory Join us for the Spring Open-Mic Night. All are invited to attend or perform, sharing any and all kinds of talents, whether that's singing, playing an instrument, rapping, reading poetry or spoken, or more. To perform, students can fill out this Google form, or sign up on the sign up sheet at the event. The event will end with karaoke!
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.
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.
Sasha Skochilenko: “How a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences Helped Me in Jail”
Monday, April 7, 2025 6–9 pm
W15 Cafe at Bard College Berlin (Waldstrasse 15, 13156) and online Alexandra (Sasha) Skochilenko will discuss her studies in anthropology at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia) and how this experience shaped and strengthened her anti-war stance. She will also reflect on her famous courtroom speech, “Oh yes, life!”, which explores the value of life and reconciliation in times of war and conflict, and how these ideas helped her survive imprisonment.
The conversation will be moderated by Ilya Kalinin, Sasha’s former academic advisor at Smolny College, currently a Smolny Beyond Borders fellow and Einstein fellow at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
To attend in-person at Bard College Berlin, please register here. To participate in the event via Zoom, please use this link.
Sasha Skochilenko is a Russian artist, musician, poet, and former political prisoner. She was arrested in April 2022 in Saint Petersburg for distributing anti-war messages. Amnesty International declared her a prisoner of conscience, the Memorial human rights organization recognized her as a political prisoner, and the BBC included her in its 100 Women of 2022 list. In November 2023, she was sentenced to seven years in prison under Russia’s so-called "fake news" law.
After spending more than two years behind bars, Skochilenko was released in Ankara on August 1, 2024, as part of a complex international prisoner exchange. She currently lives in Germany and continues her artistic work. In 2024, she participated in exhibitions in Paris, Amsterdam, and London, showcasing her drawings created in prison. Beyond her activism, she is the author of Book About Depression (2014), which played a significant role in destigmatizing mental health issues in Russia. She is openly lesbian, and her partner actively worked to raise awareness about her case and the conditions of her detention.
The case study prepared by Bard College student Sofia Semenova documents the harsh conditions of Skochilenko’s imprisonment and its effects on her physical and mental health.Sponsored by: Smolny Beyond Borders.
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.
Online (Zoom) Why would a powerful emperor of a vast empire devote his precious time to geometry, astronomy, and musical harmonics? This lecture explores the extraordinary intellectual project of the Kangxi Emperor, who—at the height of Qing imperial power—embraced Western astronomy brought to him by the Jesuits. At the same time that the Church was condemning Galileo in Europe, they were spreading science to China. The Chinese emperor, it turned out, had no intentions to convert to Christianity. His aim was to consolidate his rule through the mastery of measurement.
Zoom link Meeting ID: 837 2155 6051 Passcode: 793760
This event is hosted by the Early Modern Science core. All interested faculty, students, and alumni are invited to join. This lecture will be recorded. Please contact Ewa Atanassow ([email protected]) if you are interested and cannot attend.
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.
W15 Join GoGreen for a screening of the documentary film "2040," which highlights some hopeful solutions for the future of the climate crisis. Held in W15 at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, April 9th. Come and bring your friends! There will also be popcorn.
K30 Lounge (Now taking place on Wednesday, April 9)
Our book for the fourth event of the Human Library project will be Ali ATH. What is the Human Library project? Each event of this project features a different "book"—a real person with a meaningful, lived experience to share. Unlike a traditional library, the "books" in our Human Library are individuals who open up their personal stories for us to engage with, creating deeper connections and promoting understanding.
Our goal is to create space for authentic, human stories—stories that often get lost or overshadowed by the noise of media, stereotypes, and the routine of everyday life. The narratives can explore themes such as identity, immigration, places, culture, and more. The possibilities are endless.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A conversation with Katy Derbyshire, literary translator and publisher of V&Q Books
Thursday, April 24, 2025 2–3:30 pm
W15 Cafe Literary translator and publisher Katy Derbyshire returns to the BCB campus to reflect on her professional trajectory, discuss what her jobs entail, address new challenges posed to her profession by AI and public funding cuts alike, and share lessons from her life as a freelancer in Berlin.
This event is part of IS331 Berlin Internship Seminar taught by Agata Lisiak and Florian Duijsens.
Capitalism and Rights: Lessons from the Abolition of Slavery in the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)
Thursday, April 24, 2025 3:45–5:15 pm
P24, Seminar Room 5 This guest lecture in EC322: Geographies of Global Capitalism addresses the legacy of the Haitian Revolution and Marxist debates about rights and capitalism.
In the first stage, it maps the emergence of the ‘universality paradigm,’ which asserts that the Haitian Revolution belongs to our own political and social reality by having played a central role in the genesis of universal human rights through its unmatched abolition of the primary example of particularism – the institution of slavery. In the second stage, it turns to a recent trend of ‘skeptical responses’ to the universality paradigm, focused on authoritarianism and inequality, which assert that the Haitian Revolution is irrelevant for present-day issues. In the third stage, it builds on Marxist debates about the relation between capitalism and rights to provide a critique of both the supporters and detractors of the universality paradigm. The lecture ends in an explication and defense of the idea that the Haitian Revolution belongs to our own age by virtue of its relation to rights and capitalism, although this connection also represents the limits of the Haitian Revolution.
Carl Wilén is a postdoctoral fellow at Lund University/Université Paris Nanterre.
Monopol Fire Station ("The Garage") - Provinzstr. 40-41, 13409 Berlin We cordially invite you to the public exhibition of art works from this year’s graduating cohort. The exhibition shows the outcomes of a two semester long creative research that students conducted as part of their senior thesis projects. Please join us to see their final works and celebrate this special occasion!
The exhibition will include works by: Aria Hadziosmanovic, Faye Dudukovich, Yasmine El Hafidi, Meredith Lynch, Zykkii Cubukcuoglu, Misi Hoogvliets, Kakazi Kacyira, Robin Schubert, Lex Hill, Zofia Polak, Celeste Lucci, Ritta Hamida, Abdullah Naseer, Simone Kyle, Evangelia Dalton, Annika Julien, Luna Miccoli, Isa Thulin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
W15 Cafe This presentation tracks the ways images of violence in Palestine have circulated and functioned over the past year and a half. Examining photographs (including images from previous decades), evidence of war crimes, and the visual techniques of villainization, Adam Broomberg and Ido Nahari '19 (BCB HAST alum) will address how these images both define the moral limits of violence and play an integral role in its enactment. Like modern warfare’s autonomous weaponry, its documentation also distances brutal cause from devastating effect. Vital to this discussion is the visibility of affliction—the war-torn bodies of damageable Arab victims vs. seemingly invulnerable Israeli soldiers—and how such optics sanctify certain forms of life while devaluing others wholesale.
Please note that the visuals that will be presented are distressing and graphic. We do not intend to inflict further harm, but to look at them with critical understanding together.
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.
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.
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