US Voter Registration & Ballot Assistance (with Vote from Abroad)
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 12:30–1:30 pm
W15 Cafe Attention all US Citizens! You have the right to vote in federal elections, even while living or studying abroad.
Volunteers from VoteFromAbroad.org will be back on campus on 1 October. Voters who have registered already will have received their ballots by then, but voters who aren't yet registered still have time to register and request their ballots!
Please stop by if you have any questions about how to register to vote or return your completed ballot, or have any other questions about participating in US elections.Sponsored by: Student Life.
W15 As a poet and typographer, Emet Ezell works with the materiality of language. For Ezell, words and letters are not empty husks of signification; rather, they are charged with historical residue and mystical energy. Ezell conceptualizes their artistic practice as a form of haunting: language is a medium to animate death. In this talk, they will speak about their work and research in Sabile, Latvia, and Lublin, Poland— two sites of ethnic cleansing and Jewish dispossession. What emerges from the festering wound of annihilation? Amidst the weaponization of memory, how do we engage the past without getting stuck?
Emet Ezell is a poet and typographer living in Berlin, Germany. Their work spans themes of devotion, dispossession, ruin, and return. They are the author of the chapbook Between Every Bird, Our Bones (Newfound) and the guidebook to Liberation Tarot (PM Press). Ezell is winner of the 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize and a 2024 Literature Stipend from the Berlin Senate.
Konzerthaus Berlin, Werner-Otto Saal (Gendarmenmarkt, 10117 Berlin-Mitte) Together with the Curtis Institute of Music, Bard College Berlin is pleased to host Curtis on Tour on October 1, 2024. Please register here.
The Erinys Quartet was formed by an international group of musicians in Finland. With roots in Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Greece, and the United States, these four musicians have found common ground together in Helsinki. The acclaimed Erinys Quartet is the fellowship quartet in residence in the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet program at Curtis. The emerging professional quartet was formed at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and began its highly anticipated two-year residency at Curtis in the fall of 2023.
Curtis on Tour is the Nina von Maltzahn global touring initiative of the Curtis Institute of Music. Grounded in the school’s “learn by doing” philosophy, tours feature extraordinary emerging artists alongside celebrated alumni and faculty. In addition to performances, musicians offer master classes, educational programs, and community engagement activities while on tour. Curtis on Tour also manages solo engagements for Curtis artists with professional orchestras and presenters. Since the program was established in 2008, Curtis on Tour ensembles have performed more than 375 concerts in over 100 cities in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In Berlin, Curtis on Tour partners with Bard College Berlin to make this unique approach to learning and artistic performance accessible to the public.
Program Saariaho: Terra Memoria Mozart: String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat major, K. 589 BREAK Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major, Op. 127
In cooperation with the Curtis Institute of Music, Young Euro Classic, and Konzerthaus Berlin.
W15 Cafe Grab your lunch with you and come to celebrate Rosh Hashanah with us!
October 2nd marks Rosh Hashanah which is the new Jewish year! We will celebrate the holiday with the traditional snacks: apples and honey. This holiday is great reason to gather together as a community and learn more about each other’s culture and history!Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
Queer Resistance in Russia: Practical Tips for Challenging Imperialism
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 7:30–9 pm
W15 Cafe What can we learn from queer resistance in Russia? From the oppressive ‘propaganda’ laws to extremism bills, the challenges faced there are spreading globally, even in “democratic” countries that claim otherwise. In such times, international queer solidarity is one of the keys to battling imperialism.
Whether anti-LGBTQ+ laws are already in effect in your country or you’re preparing for similar threats, now is the time to learn with one another. Join us on the 2nd of October at 19:30 to explore how repressions against the queer community have been unfolding in Russia and learn about the practical things activists there do to protect the community.
This event is part of the new BCB Focus student-led event series that explores global issues and their impact on us as members of the BCB community.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin; Center for Civic Engagement.
P98a Lecture Hall This session will go over the study abroad petition and application processes, current partner institutions, Erasmus grant funding, an update on post-OSUN and more!
Petitions are due 6 December 2024 for second years who are interested in going abroad their third year (academic year 2025-26) in fall and/or spring semester. If you started at BCB in the spring semester or are a transfer student, please make sure you are in touch if you will be a third year next academic year (either fall or spring) and would like to go abroad.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
Community Forum, Co-Hosted by Student Parliament and the Student Life Committee
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 12:30–1:30 pm
W15 Cafe This Community Forum is co-hosted by Student Parliament. We invite you to join us and Student Parliament to hear more about their initiatives this semester and to share any ideas that you have.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
Thursday, October 10, 2024 – Friday, October 11, 2024 9 am – 8 pm
Hörsaal 3075, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hauptgebäude, 2. Obergeschoss, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin This two-day conference (Oct 10-11) is the first annual interdisciplinary conference of the Institute for Global Reconstitution (IGRec).
The world is living through an important moment where a multiple crisis – a "polycrisis" – is taking the form of plural and simultaneous global threats: the rise of aggressive militaristic states and right-wing populist parties, the catastrophic consequences of climate change, and an increasing vulnerability to fatal pandemics. This conference aims to examine the potential of new beginnings arising from the polycrisis. The discussion will take place at the intersection of political theory, the philosophy of nature, and policy analysis. It will focus on the concept of formative powers, particularly in two main areas: political constitutionalism and nature politics.
In the political constitutionalism theme, the conference will explore the topics of constituent power, the challenges to traditional approaches to constitutionalism and constitutions, and the visions for the constitution of democratic polities in new circumstances and beyond the stereotypical liberal-democratic models. These new visions will have to address the crisis in its global and domestic implications. In the nature politics theme, the conference will address the nexus between nature and technology, alternatives to extractivism, and environmental ontologies, while also reflecting on the perspectives of global climate governance in the current polycrisis.
The conference is organized in partnership with the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy (CCRD) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Bard College Berlin.
Speakers: Bara Kolenc (University of Ljubljana), Ewa Atanassow (Bard College Berlin), Alexander Etkind (Central European University), Roberto Nigro (Leuphana University), Regina Kreide (University of Giessen), Gregor Moder (University of Ljubljana), David Dyzenhaus (University of Toronto), Peter Niesen (University of Hamburg), Andreas Kalyvas (New School of Social Research), Artemy Magun (IGRec), Oxana Timofeeva (IGRec), Ian James (Cambridge University)
Lecture Hall, Platanenstraße 98A, 13156 Berlin In today’s digital age, the rapid advancement of technology and open-source data has transformed how we investigate and engage with human rights issues. The Digital Verification Corps (DVC) was established by Amnesty International in 2016 to tackle three pressing challenges: first, how to engage volunteers meaningfully in the 21st century; second, how to collate and verify the overwhelming amount of digital content that reflects human rights abuses; and third, how to train the next generation of human rights researchers in the necessary tools and skills.
At Bard College Berlin, our DVC unit is dedicated to working on various impactful projects while providing training and innovative methodologies for students interested in this vital field. You don’t need any prior experience in the open-source intelligence (OSINT) research—just a passion for learning and a willingness to try something new. Join us and become part of a global community making real contributions to the protection of human rights!Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
Notes on the New English Edition of Marx’s Capital
Thursday, October 10, 2024 7–9 pm
W15 Cafe at Bard College Berlin (Waldstrasse 15, 13156 Berlin) Translations of philosophical texts are often not an easy business. The translator should have a profound knowledge and understanding of the thinker in order to transmit their thoughts properly to the reader. Paul Reitter combines both of these aspects. He is Professor at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University as well as a practicing translator interested in the field of translation studies. Reitter will talk about his New English Edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, providing an overview of how previous English translations responded to some of the main translation challenges the text poses and presenting his own responses in this comparative context.
Reitter’s scholarship focuses primarily on two areas: German-Jewish culture and the history of higher education. Of particular concern in both cases have been the links between intellectual and institutional history, the relationship of cultural crisis and cultural innovation, and the effects of technological change on humanistic culture. A practicing translator, Reitter is also interested in the field of translation studies. He is the author of four books: The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe (U of Chicago Press, 2008), On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred (Princeton UP, 2012), and Bambi’s Jewish Roots: Essays on German-Jewish Culture (Bloomsbury, 2015), and, with Chad Wellmon. His current project—coauthored with Chad Wellmon, Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age (U of Chicago Press, 2021). Reitter’s articles and essays have appeared in an array of venues, ranging from Representations, American Imago, and Jewish Social Studies to Harper’s Magazine, the TLS, The Nation, the LA Review of Books, Bookforum, and The Hedgehog Review.
Reitter has worked collaboratively on a number of editions, including The Kraus Project (FSG, 2013), with Jonathan Franzen and Daniel Kehlmann, Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions (New York Review of Books Classics series, 2015), with Chad Wellmon, The Rise of the Research University a Sourcebook (University of Chicago Press, 2017), with Louis Menand and Chad Wellmon, and the volume, for which he served as the translator, The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon (Princeton University Press, 2018), with Abraham Socher and Yitzhak Melamed. Together with Chad Wellmon, Reitter organized and annotated new English edition of Max Weber’s famous vocation lectures, published in the New York Review of Books Classics series (2020). With Anthony Grafton, Caroline Winterer, and Wellmon, Reitter is a co-editor of the new book series “Histories of the University” (University of Chicago Press).
Thursday, October 10, 2024 – Friday, October 11, 2024 9 am – 8 pm
Hörsaal 3075, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hauptgebäude, 2. Obergeschoss, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin This two-day conference (Oct 10-11) is the first annual interdisciplinary conference of the Institute for Global Reconstitution (IGRec).
The world is living through an important moment where a multiple crisis – a "polycrisis" – is taking the form of plural and simultaneous global threats: the rise of aggressive militaristic states and right-wing populist parties, the catastrophic consequences of climate change, and an increasing vulnerability to fatal pandemics. This conference aims to examine the potential of new beginnings arising from the polycrisis. The discussion will take place at the intersection of political theory, the philosophy of nature, and policy analysis. It will focus on the concept of formative powers, particularly in two main areas: political constitutionalism and nature politics.
In the political constitutionalism theme, the conference will explore the topics of constituent power, the challenges to traditional approaches to constitutionalism and constitutions, and the visions for the constitution of democratic polities in new circumstances and beyond the stereotypical liberal-democratic models. These new visions will have to address the crisis in its global and domestic implications. In the nature politics theme, the conference will address the nexus between nature and technology, alternatives to extractivism, and environmental ontologies, while also reflecting on the perspectives of global climate governance in the current polycrisis.
The conference is organized in partnership with the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy (CCRD) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Bard College Berlin.
Speakers: Bara Kolenc (University of Ljubljana), Ewa Atanassow (Bard College Berlin), Alexander Etkind (Central European University), Roberto Nigro (Leuphana University), Regina Kreide (University of Giessen), Gregor Moder (University of Ljubljana), David Dyzenhaus (University of Toronto), Peter Niesen (University of Hamburg), Andreas Kalyvas (New School of Social Research), Artemy Magun (IGRec), Oxana Timofeeva (IGRec), Ian James (Cambridge University)
K24 Garden Come help us save the K24 Garden before the cold sets in! We’re having a few events to clean up and replant the K24 garden. We’ll be harvesting strawberries and mint, and tidying up the garden on Friday, October 4, and Wednesday, October 9. The official replanting event will be on Friday, October 11.
If you're not in the Go Green group chat but want to stay updated or join in, feel free to email [email protected]. You can also just drop by the garden on any of these dates to enjoy some time working with nature as a community, and of course, harvest some strawberries!Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin; Center for Civic Engagement.
K30 garden You are warmly invited to join us on Friday, October 11th, during lunchtime (12:50 PM - 1:45 PM) for a student-organized Vigil in honor of the victims of the ongoing war in the Middle East.
We will come together to mourn and pay respect to those who have lost their lives across Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. Innocent civilians have been killed, others displaced and many remain hostage.
This gathering will be an opportunity for us to come together to send a message of unity, solidarity, freedom, and peace and to join the calls to end the war.
The Vigil will take place in the K30 garden starting at 12:50PM, with a few words shared at 1:00 PM. The event will conclude at 1:45 PM.
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
The Trouble with Thinking: Transnational Dialogues on Academic Freedom
Monday, October 14, 2024 10:30 am – 7:30 pm
ICI Berlin (Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 10119 Berlin) The past decade has seen a troubling turn toward autocracy across wide regions of the globe. What may have once seemed confined to parts of the Global South and the former Communist Bloc is now, through the rise of right-wing populism, markedly visible in Europe and North America as well. Among the first groups to be impacted by autocratic impulses are scientists and scholars — those who are vocationally called to think and question. Cases from Iran to Turkey to Russia, from Hungary to Germany and the United States, demonstrate how often governments, or parties or other social forces struggling to capture governments, believe that thinking creates trouble, and how quickly critical views can be silenced. This may happen through actual repressive force or censorship, policy changes or more informal kinds of pressure. It intersects in often undiagnosed ways with the various economic underpinnings of knowledge production.
Moving beyond humanitarian frames of scholar rescue, this workshop brings together scholars who have been forced to leave their countries of origin as a result of their resistance to the narrowing of space for thought with scholars currently concerned about the fate of academic freedom in their home countries. The participants of the workshop will explore the playbooks through which scholars have been shut out of sanctioned systems of knowledge production in the Global South and the post-Socialist East, along with approaches they developed to fight this attack on thinking and to rebuild spaces for it in exile. They will track political challenges and structural barriers to substantive academic freedom with a focus on the United States and Germany today. And they will think together towards lessons and tactics which may allow academic freedom to be realized from the ground up as what anthropologist Homa Hoodfar (2017) calls a ‘transnational human right’. Are there shared early warning signs of broader strictures on thinking, including targeted attacks on different academic fields or issues? How are repressive policies, laws, and discourses moving iteratively across contexts, and how are they tied to neoliberal imperatives? What successful strategies have been developed to evade or contest these pressures? What theories or paradigms — including new and global understandings of academic freedom itself — might allow us to navigate between contexts, enable meaningful solidarity, and not only secure but also widen the spaces of critical inquiry?
This workshop is organized by Prof. Dr. Kerry Bystrom and Dr. Aysuda Kölemen for Bard College Berlin and the Open Society University Network Threatened Scholar Integration Initiative, in cooperation with ICI Berlin.
The event will take place in person by pre-registration only. All public spaces are full but there are still some remaining seats reserved with priority for BCB faculty and staff. Faculty and staff members who would like to attend should please contact Kerry Bystrom ([email protected]) and Aysuda Kolemen ([email protected]) directly.
Speakers: Homa Hoodfar Tuba İnal-Çekiç Ilya Kalinin Teresa Koloma Beck Thomas Keenan Pascale Laborier Jana Lozanowska Ewa Majewska Jennifer Ruth Nahed Samour Oleksandr Shtokvych Asli Vatansever Jessica Young Tirdad Zolghadr
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Bard College Berlin accepts applications for transfer to the BA degree programs in Spring 2025. The deadline for applying is October 15, 2024, at 23:59 in your time zone.
Eligible applicants for transfer are students who have completed at least one semester of university by the time of their expected enrollment at BCB. For more information on eligibility and application requirements, please refer to our application requirements for transfer.
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!
When Music Matters: Political Engagement Since the Enlightenment
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 7–9:30 pm
W15 Cafe at Bard College Berlin (Waldstrasse 15, 13156 Berlin) When thinking about the many connections between music and politics, popular expressions may be what first come to mind. For example, popular music provided much of the youthful soundtrack to the anti-war, civil rights, and social justice movements of the 1960s. In this respect, classical music often seems detached from society, or is beholden to words (as in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony) or to dramatic plot (as in his opera Fidelio) for political meaning. Classical music is too often mystified, uncritically viewed as autonomous and separate from everyday life. As a result, it has become largely irrelevant, an occasional provocative headline notwithstanding, often dealing with glamorous performers rather than with actual musical works.
This talk considers the issue of politics and classical music since the Enlightenment through a series of examples and case studies, examining works by Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Shostakovich, Copland, and Reich. Christopher Gibbs argues for the considerable benefits of assigning music its proper place within a broader historical, contextual, and humanistic context.
Christopher H. Gibbs is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music at Bard College, Co-Artistic Director of the Bard Music Festival, and Executive Editor of The Musical Quarterly. He is the Vice-Chair of the Schubert Research Center, part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Gibbs edited The Cambridge Companion to Schubert, co-edited Franz Liszt and His World and Franz Schubert and His World, and is the author of The Life of Schubert, which has been translated into six languages. He is the co-author, with Richard Taruskin, of The Oxford History of Western Music,College Edition. Since 2000 Gibbs has written the program notes for The Philadelphia Orchestra. He is a recipient of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, and in 2022 won the Berlin Prize and was the Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
P98a Lecture Hall Interested to hear from your peers and ask them questions about their study abroad experiences last year? Join us for the Study Abroad Student Panel!
Petitions are due 6 December 2024 for second years who are interested in going abroad their third year (academic year 2025-26) in fall and/or spring semester. If you started at BCB in the spring semester or are a transfer student, please make sure you are in touch if you will be a third year next academic year (either fall or spring) and would like to go abroad.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
EJAAD Berlin x LEARN AFGHAN: A discussion on women’s rights in Afghanistan with Pashtana Durrani
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 7:30–8:30 pm
Online Event Join us for an insightful keynote by Pashtana Durrani, founder of LEARN Afghanistan, an NGO focused on providing education to Afghan women and children. Despite the Taliban's return, LEARN Afghanistan continues its mission, operating covertly to deliver digital education in a nation where women face severe restrictions. Pashtana will discuss her personal journey, the current plight of Afghan women, and how NGOs like LEARN are navigating this challenging environment. The Q&A session offers an opportunity to ask questions about her work and how the international community can help.
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Romance and Argument in Modern Liberalism: Jane Addams and the Long Campaign for Gender Freedom
Thursday, October 17, 2024 7–9 pm
W15 Cafe at Bard College Berlin (Waldstrasse 15, 13156 Berlin) Liberalism is usually defined as either a political or an economic doctrine of personal freedom, with freedom of speech and exchange as two of its defining features. But since its beginnings around 1800 it has also been a cultural movement strengthening personal freedom in friendships, family, and emotional and erotic relationships. Romance and political argument were often closely interwoven: poets, novelists, political thinkers, philosophers, social scientists and social reformers argued for political freedoms and explored new freedoms in their personal lives.
Women and men criticized the legal and social structures of patriarchy in Europe and the United States; women struggle to achieve gender equality in public life. Jane Addams, founder of the most famous American settlement house, founded a women’s milieu that successfully advanced women’s public roles and private friendships. She also played an important part in redefining liberalism itself, moving it in a democratic direction open to all in a nation grappling with mass immigration. Well educated and widely traveled in Europe, she invites comparison with German and English women across the Atlantic who took part in parallel transformations of women’s private and public lives. Whether in education, politics or their network of friendships and romances, her generation encourages us to engage with liberalism as a way of life.
Harry Liebersohn is Center for Advanced Study Professor of History, emeritus, at the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign. He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the American Academy in Berlin. In 2016 was the recipient of a Humboldt Research Prize. His work has focused on cultural encounters and social theory since the late eighteenth century. His most recent book is Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age (2019). He is currently writing a history of nineteenth-century liberalism.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the speakers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
The Swap Shop in the Garden Behind P24 Join the BCB Swap Shop for a clothing upcycling workshop! Bring the clothes you never wear and give them a new life, or choose an item of clothing from the Swap Shop to bedazzle, redesign or transform. There will be equipment for upcycling provided!Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Monday, October 21, 2024 – Friday, October 25, 2024 10 am – 6 pm
K24 Like Writing and Thinking, Writing to Learn introduces participants to IWT’s foundational writing-based teaching practices, but with a particular emphasis on their application to specific subject areas and disciplines. This week-long workshop is multidisciplinary: it will draw on a variety of works that might include historical sources and literary and scientific texts. The workshop focuses on using writing to build an initial understanding of texts—a crucial first step in creating formal essays or reports—and to revise this preliminary thinking as understanding deepens. We will explore how writing-to-learn practices can reshape how we teach and how the academic lecture, collaborative learning practices, and the act of listening can reinforce one another within the classroom.
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Monday, October 21, 2024 – Friday, October 25, 2024 10 am – 6 pm
K24 Like Writing and Thinking, Writing to Learn introduces participants to IWT’s foundational writing-based teaching practices, but with a particular emphasis on their application to specific subject areas and disciplines. This week-long workshop is multidisciplinary: it will draw on a variety of works that might include historical sources and literary and scientific texts. The workshop focuses on using writing to build an initial understanding of texts—a crucial first step in creating formal essays or reports—and to revise this preliminary thinking as understanding deepens. We will explore how writing-to-learn practices can reshape how we teach and how the academic lecture, collaborative learning practices, and the act of listening can reinforce one another within the classroom.
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Monday, October 21, 2024 – Friday, October 25, 2024 10 am – 6 pm
K24 Like Writing and Thinking, Writing to Learn introduces participants to IWT’s foundational writing-based teaching practices, but with a particular emphasis on their application to specific subject areas and disciplines. This week-long workshop is multidisciplinary: it will draw on a variety of works that might include historical sources and literary and scientific texts. The workshop focuses on using writing to build an initial understanding of texts—a crucial first step in creating formal essays or reports—and to revise this preliminary thinking as understanding deepens. We will explore how writing-to-learn practices can reshape how we teach and how the academic lecture, collaborative learning practices, and the act of listening can reinforce one another within the classroom.
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Monday, October 21, 2024 – Friday, October 25, 2024 10 am – 6 pm
K24 Like Writing and Thinking, Writing to Learn introduces participants to IWT’s foundational writing-based teaching practices, but with a particular emphasis on their application to specific subject areas and disciplines. This week-long workshop is multidisciplinary: it will draw on a variety of works that might include historical sources and literary and scientific texts. The workshop focuses on using writing to build an initial understanding of texts—a crucial first step in creating formal essays or reports—and to revise this preliminary thinking as understanding deepens. We will explore how writing-to-learn practices can reshape how we teach and how the academic lecture, collaborative learning practices, and the act of listening can reinforce one another within the classroom.
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Monday, October 21, 2024 – Friday, October 25, 2024 10 am – 6 pm
K24 Like Writing and Thinking, Writing to Learn introduces participants to IWT’s foundational writing-based teaching practices, but with a particular emphasis on their application to specific subject areas and disciplines. This week-long workshop is multidisciplinary: it will draw on a variety of works that might include historical sources and literary and scientific texts. The workshop focuses on using writing to build an initial understanding of texts—a crucial first step in creating formal essays or reports—and to revise this preliminary thinking as understanding deepens. We will explore how writing-to-learn practices can reshape how we teach and how the academic lecture, collaborative learning practices, and the act of listening can reinforce one another within the classroom.
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Spore Initiative, Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin What does it mean to bring an anticolonial practice to the colonial archive that has been systematically organized under the sign of counter-insurgency? It is this colonial archive that has produced our concepts of ‘art’ and ‘history,’ of what can be admitted into their domain and on what terms, and it is this same archive that anticipates and discredits resistance to colonial power. In other words, art and aesthetics has made colonial violence tenable and sustainable. Can an anticolonial practice reorganize the signs under which the past flows into the future?
Historian Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar will address these questions in her lecture and explore them further in conversation with curator and researcher Abhishek Nilamber before opening the discussion to the audience.
This event is co-organized by Agata Lisiak (Bard College Berlin), Céline Barry (Technische Universität Berlin), and Pablo Valdivia Orozco (Europa-Universität Viadrina) as part of the “Postcolonial Critiques and Decolonial Perspectives” lecture series, and it is funded by the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Community Forum: Campus Planning with BCB Managing Directors
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 12:30–1:30 pm
Lecture Hall This special Community Forum is dedicated to current and future campus design plans. BCB's Managing Directors Florian Becker and Taun Toay will provide an update and ask for input on the envisioned Cafeteria and Community Center in particular.
Learning Commons, on the top floor of W16 "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Takes place bi-weekly on Wednesdays.
Abendbrot is your chance to improve your German skills in a fun and casual setting. If you are hesitant to speak the language or just want to practice in a relaxed environment, this is the place to be. We meet every other Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm, and you are welcome to join us anytime. At Abendbrot, we play games, enjoy a meal together, and simply hang out. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or more advanced in German; everyone is welcome. Come along, make mistakes, and improve your German with a friendly group of language enthusiasts.
Fall 2024 dates: Wednesday, September 25 Wednesday, October 9 Wednesday, October 30 Wednesday, November 13 Wednesday, November 27 Wednesday, December 11
From October 9 the event will be held in the Learning Commons in W16.
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
Learning Commons, on the top floor of W16 "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Takes place bi-weekly on Wednesdays.
Abendbrot is your chance to improve your German skills in a fun and casual setting. If you are hesitant to speak the language or just want to practice in a relaxed environment, this is the place to be. We meet every other Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm, and you are welcome to join us anytime. At Abendbrot, we play games, enjoy a meal together, and simply hang out. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or more advanced in German; everyone is welcome. Come along, make mistakes, and improve your German with a friendly group of language enthusiasts.
Fall 2024 dates: Wednesday, September 25 Wednesday, October 9 Wednesday, October 30 Wednesday, November 13 Wednesday, November 27 Wednesday, December 11
From October 9 the event will be held in the Learning Commons in W16.
Credit Transfer & Moderation Study Abroad Info Session
Thursday, October 31, 2024 12:30–1:30 pm
K24, Seminar Room 11 Are you frightened that Study Abroad will affect your degree progress? Scared about moderating on time? Petrified about which classes to take and how to get them transferred/recognized?
Join us on Halloween to discuss these terrifying topics! The Registrar's Office will guide you through the credit transfer process and advise you about moderation, credit recognition, and more. Bring any questions (or fears!) you might have.
Petitions are due 6 December 2024 for second years who are interested in going abroad their third year (academic year 2025-26) in fall and/or spring semester. If you started at BCB in the spring semester or are a transfer student, please make sure you are in touch if you will be a third year next academic year (either fall or spring) and would like to go abroad.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
K24, Seminar Room 12 The BCB Internship Program gives you the opportunity to gain an off-campus workplace experience in a field that interests you. You can work 10-13 hours per week in an internship while also exploring various questions regarding work in the internship seminar taught by Agata Lisiak and Florian Duijsens. While the majority of internships are unpaid, you can earn academic credits through the internship seminar.
If you are a current or upcoming third-year student and curious about BCB’s Internship Program and the opportunity to gain practical experience alongside your studies while interning for an organization or individual in Berlin, please save the date.
US Voter Registration & Ballot Assistance (with Vote from Abroad)
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 12:30–1:30 pm
W15 Cafe Attention all US Citizens! You have the right to vote in federal elections, even while living or studying abroad.
Volunteers from VoteFromAbroad.org will be back on campus on 1 October. Voters who have registered already will have received their ballots by then, but voters who aren't yet registered still have time to register and request their ballots!
Please stop by if you have any questions about how to register to vote or return your completed ballot, or have any other questions about participating in US elections.Sponsored by: Student Life.
W15 As a poet and typographer, Emet Ezell works with the materiality of language. For Ezell, words and letters are not empty husks of signification; rather, they are charged with historical residue and mystical energy. Ezell conceptualizes their artistic practice as a form of haunting: language is a medium to animate death. In this talk, they will speak about their work and research in Sabile, Latvia, and Lublin, Poland— two sites of ethnic cleansing and Jewish dispossession. What emerges from the festering wound of annihilation? Amidst the weaponization of memory, how do we engage the past without getting stuck?
Emet Ezell is a poet and typographer living in Berlin, Germany. Their work spans themes of devotion, dispossession, ruin, and return. They are the author of the chapbook Between Every Bird, Our Bones (Newfound) and the guidebook to Liberation Tarot (PM Press). Ezell is winner of the 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize and a 2024 Literature Stipend from the Berlin Senate.
Konzerthaus Berlin, Werner-Otto Saal (Gendarmenmarkt, 10117 Berlin-Mitte) Together with the Curtis Institute of Music, Bard College Berlin is pleased to host Curtis on Tour on October 1, 2024. Please register here.
The Erinys Quartet was formed by an international group of musicians in Finland. With roots in Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Greece, and the United States, these four musicians have found common ground together in Helsinki. The acclaimed Erinys Quartet is the fellowship quartet in residence in the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet program at Curtis. The emerging professional quartet was formed at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and began its highly anticipated two-year residency at Curtis in the fall of 2023.
Curtis on Tour is the Nina von Maltzahn global touring initiative of the Curtis Institute of Music. Grounded in the school’s “learn by doing” philosophy, tours feature extraordinary emerging artists alongside celebrated alumni and faculty. In addition to performances, musicians offer master classes, educational programs, and community engagement activities while on tour. Curtis on Tour also manages solo engagements for Curtis artists with professional orchestras and presenters. Since the program was established in 2008, Curtis on Tour ensembles have performed more than 375 concerts in over 100 cities in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In Berlin, Curtis on Tour partners with Bard College Berlin to make this unique approach to learning and artistic performance accessible to the public.
Program Saariaho: Terra Memoria Mozart: String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat major, K. 589 BREAK Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major, Op. 127
In cooperation with the Curtis Institute of Music, Young Euro Classic, and Konzerthaus Berlin.
W15 Cafe Grab your lunch with you and come to celebrate Rosh Hashanah with us!
October 2nd marks Rosh Hashanah which is the new Jewish year! We will celebrate the holiday with the traditional snacks: apples and honey. This holiday is great reason to gather together as a community and learn more about each other’s culture and history!Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
Queer Resistance in Russia: Practical Tips for Challenging Imperialism
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 7:30–9 pm
W15 Cafe What can we learn from queer resistance in Russia? From the oppressive ‘propaganda’ laws to extremism bills, the challenges faced there are spreading globally, even in “democratic” countries that claim otherwise. In such times, international queer solidarity is one of the keys to battling imperialism.
Whether anti-LGBTQ+ laws are already in effect in your country or you’re preparing for similar threats, now is the time to learn with one another. Join us on the 2nd of October at 19:30 to explore how repressions against the queer community have been unfolding in Russia and learn about the practical things activists there do to protect the community.
This event is part of the new BCB Focus student-led event series that explores global issues and their impact on us as members of the BCB community.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin; Center for Civic Engagement.
P98a Lecture Hall This session will go over the study abroad petition and application processes, current partner institutions, Erasmus grant funding, an update on post-OSUN and more!
Petitions are due 6 December 2024 for second years who are interested in going abroad their third year (academic year 2025-26) in fall and/or spring semester. If you started at BCB in the spring semester or are a transfer student, please make sure you are in touch if you will be a third year next academic year (either fall or spring) and would like to go abroad.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
Community Forum, Co-Hosted by Student Parliament and the Student Life Committee
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 12:30–1:30 pm
W15 Cafe This Community Forum is co-hosted by Student Parliament. We invite you to join us and Student Parliament to hear more about their initiatives this semester and to share any ideas that you have.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
Thursday, October 10, 2024 – Friday, October 11, 2024 9 am – 8 pm
Hörsaal 3075, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hauptgebäude, 2. Obergeschoss, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin This two-day conference (Oct 10-11) is the first annual interdisciplinary conference of the Institute for Global Reconstitution (IGRec).
The world is living through an important moment where a multiple crisis – a "polycrisis" – is taking the form of plural and simultaneous global threats: the rise of aggressive militaristic states and right-wing populist parties, the catastrophic consequences of climate change, and an increasing vulnerability to fatal pandemics. This conference aims to examine the potential of new beginnings arising from the polycrisis. The discussion will take place at the intersection of political theory, the philosophy of nature, and policy analysis. It will focus on the concept of formative powers, particularly in two main areas: political constitutionalism and nature politics.
In the political constitutionalism theme, the conference will explore the topics of constituent power, the challenges to traditional approaches to constitutionalism and constitutions, and the visions for the constitution of democratic polities in new circumstances and beyond the stereotypical liberal-democratic models. These new visions will have to address the crisis in its global and domestic implications. In the nature politics theme, the conference will address the nexus between nature and technology, alternatives to extractivism, and environmental ontologies, while also reflecting on the perspectives of global climate governance in the current polycrisis.
The conference is organized in partnership with the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy (CCRD) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Bard College Berlin.
Speakers: Bara Kolenc (University of Ljubljana), Ewa Atanassow (Bard College Berlin), Alexander Etkind (Central European University), Roberto Nigro (Leuphana University), Regina Kreide (University of Giessen), Gregor Moder (University of Ljubljana), David Dyzenhaus (University of Toronto), Peter Niesen (University of Hamburg), Andreas Kalyvas (New School of Social Research), Artemy Magun (IGRec), Oxana Timofeeva (IGRec), Ian James (Cambridge University)
Lecture Hall, Platanenstraße 98A, 13156 Berlin In today’s digital age, the rapid advancement of technology and open-source data has transformed how we investigate and engage with human rights issues. The Digital Verification Corps (DVC) was established by Amnesty International in 2016 to tackle three pressing challenges: first, how to engage volunteers meaningfully in the 21st century; second, how to collate and verify the overwhelming amount of digital content that reflects human rights abuses; and third, how to train the next generation of human rights researchers in the necessary tools and skills.
At Bard College Berlin, our DVC unit is dedicated to working on various impactful projects while providing training and innovative methodologies for students interested in this vital field. You don’t need any prior experience in the open-source intelligence (OSINT) research—just a passion for learning and a willingness to try something new. Join us and become part of a global community making real contributions to the protection of human rights!Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
Notes on the New English Edition of Marx’s Capital
Thursday, October 10, 2024 7–9 pm
W15 Cafe at Bard College Berlin (Waldstrasse 15, 13156 Berlin) Translations of philosophical texts are often not an easy business. The translator should have a profound knowledge and understanding of the thinker in order to transmit their thoughts properly to the reader. Paul Reitter combines both of these aspects. He is Professor at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University as well as a practicing translator interested in the field of translation studies. Reitter will talk about his New English Edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, providing an overview of how previous English translations responded to some of the main translation challenges the text poses and presenting his own responses in this comparative context.
Reitter’s scholarship focuses primarily on two areas: German-Jewish culture and the history of higher education. Of particular concern in both cases have been the links between intellectual and institutional history, the relationship of cultural crisis and cultural innovation, and the effects of technological change on humanistic culture. A practicing translator, Reitter is also interested in the field of translation studies. He is the author of four books: The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe (U of Chicago Press, 2008), On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred (Princeton UP, 2012), and Bambi’s Jewish Roots: Essays on German-Jewish Culture (Bloomsbury, 2015), and, with Chad Wellmon. His current project—coauthored with Chad Wellmon, Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age (U of Chicago Press, 2021). Reitter’s articles and essays have appeared in an array of venues, ranging from Representations, American Imago, and Jewish Social Studies to Harper’s Magazine, the TLS, The Nation, the LA Review of Books, Bookforum, and The Hedgehog Review.
Reitter has worked collaboratively on a number of editions, including The Kraus Project (FSG, 2013), with Jonathan Franzen and Daniel Kehlmann, Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions (New York Review of Books Classics series, 2015), with Chad Wellmon, The Rise of the Research University a Sourcebook (University of Chicago Press, 2017), with Louis Menand and Chad Wellmon, and the volume, for which he served as the translator, The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon (Princeton University Press, 2018), with Abraham Socher and Yitzhak Melamed. Together with Chad Wellmon, Reitter organized and annotated new English edition of Max Weber’s famous vocation lectures, published in the New York Review of Books Classics series (2020). With Anthony Grafton, Caroline Winterer, and Wellmon, Reitter is a co-editor of the new book series “Histories of the University” (University of Chicago Press).
Thursday, October 10, 2024 – Friday, October 11, 2024 9 am – 8 pm
Hörsaal 3075, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hauptgebäude, 2. Obergeschoss, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin This two-day conference (Oct 10-11) is the first annual interdisciplinary conference of the Institute for Global Reconstitution (IGRec).
The world is living through an important moment where a multiple crisis – a "polycrisis" – is taking the form of plural and simultaneous global threats: the rise of aggressive militaristic states and right-wing populist parties, the catastrophic consequences of climate change, and an increasing vulnerability to fatal pandemics. This conference aims to examine the potential of new beginnings arising from the polycrisis. The discussion will take place at the intersection of political theory, the philosophy of nature, and policy analysis. It will focus on the concept of formative powers, particularly in two main areas: political constitutionalism and nature politics.
In the political constitutionalism theme, the conference will explore the topics of constituent power, the challenges to traditional approaches to constitutionalism and constitutions, and the visions for the constitution of democratic polities in new circumstances and beyond the stereotypical liberal-democratic models. These new visions will have to address the crisis in its global and domestic implications. In the nature politics theme, the conference will address the nexus between nature and technology, alternatives to extractivism, and environmental ontologies, while also reflecting on the perspectives of global climate governance in the current polycrisis.
The conference is organized in partnership with the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy (CCRD) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Bard College Berlin.
Speakers: Bara Kolenc (University of Ljubljana), Ewa Atanassow (Bard College Berlin), Alexander Etkind (Central European University), Roberto Nigro (Leuphana University), Regina Kreide (University of Giessen), Gregor Moder (University of Ljubljana), David Dyzenhaus (University of Toronto), Peter Niesen (University of Hamburg), Andreas Kalyvas (New School of Social Research), Artemy Magun (IGRec), Oxana Timofeeva (IGRec), Ian James (Cambridge University)
K24 Garden Come help us save the K24 Garden before the cold sets in! We’re having a few events to clean up and replant the K24 garden. We’ll be harvesting strawberries and mint, and tidying up the garden on Friday, October 4, and Wednesday, October 9. The official replanting event will be on Friday, October 11.
If you're not in the Go Green group chat but want to stay updated or join in, feel free to email [email protected]. You can also just drop by the garden on any of these dates to enjoy some time working with nature as a community, and of course, harvest some strawberries!Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin; Center for Civic Engagement.
K30 garden You are warmly invited to join us on Friday, October 11th, during lunchtime (12:50 PM - 1:45 PM) for a student-organized Vigil in honor of the victims of the ongoing war in the Middle East.
We will come together to mourn and pay respect to those who have lost their lives across Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. Innocent civilians have been killed, others displaced and many remain hostage.
This gathering will be an opportunity for us to come together to send a message of unity, solidarity, freedom, and peace and to join the calls to end the war.
The Vigil will take place in the K30 garden starting at 12:50PM, with a few words shared at 1:00 PM. The event will conclude at 1:45 PM.
Online and W15 Student Life invites you to attend our series of programs aimed at supporting students as you make plans for post-graduation life.
Job Seekers Visas and Your Residence Permit after Graduation Wednesday, 2 October, 5pm-6pm Online (video call link) If you’re interested in staying in Germany, there’s no time like the present to be thinking about what comes after your student residence permit! We will discuss the different options including extending the student permit for graduate studies and Amber will do her best to demystify the LEA by sharing tips, tricks, and timelines for navigating the process.
CV Writing Workshop Monday, 14 October, 12:30pm W15 Cafe Want to brush up your CV or CV writing skills? Unsure about the German expectations for a CV? Don't know where to start or what questions even to ask? The CV Writing Workshop has you covered. We'll be going over the German CV requirements and I'll guide you through how to present your skills professionally, concisely, and relevantly to potential employers. No matter what your prior experience, you will learn how to portray your transferable skills, integrate your soft skills, and brag appropriately about your hard skills within the appropriate framework.
Bureaucracy in Reverse Wednesday, 13 November, 5pm - 6pm Online (video call link) You did it, but now what? 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. In this session we will cover:
How to wrap up your academic time at BCB
What bureaucratic paperwork you need to take care of
The Trouble with Thinking: Transnational Dialogues on Academic Freedom
Monday, October 14, 2024 10:30 am – 7:30 pm
ICI Berlin (Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 10119 Berlin) The past decade has seen a troubling turn toward autocracy across wide regions of the globe. What may have once seemed confined to parts of the Global South and the former Communist Bloc is now, through the rise of right-wing populism, markedly visible in Europe and North America as well. Among the first groups to be impacted by autocratic impulses are scientists and scholars — those who are vocationally called to think and question. Cases from Iran to Turkey to Russia, from Hungary to Germany and the United States, demonstrate how often governments, or parties or other social forces struggling to capture governments, believe that thinking creates trouble, and how quickly critical views can be silenced. This may happen through actual repressive force or censorship, policy changes or more informal kinds of pressure. It intersects in often undiagnosed ways with the various economic underpinnings of knowledge production.
Moving beyond humanitarian frames of scholar rescue, this workshop brings together scholars who have been forced to leave their countries of origin as a result of their resistance to the narrowing of space for thought with scholars currently concerned about the fate of academic freedom in their home countries. The participants of the workshop will explore the playbooks through which scholars have been shut out of sanctioned systems of knowledge production in the Global South and the post-Socialist East, along with approaches they developed to fight this attack on thinking and to rebuild spaces for it in exile. They will track political challenges and structural barriers to substantive academic freedom with a focus on the United States and Germany today. And they will think together towards lessons and tactics which may allow academic freedom to be realized from the ground up as what anthropologist Homa Hoodfar (2017) calls a ‘transnational human right’. Are there shared early warning signs of broader strictures on thinking, including targeted attacks on different academic fields or issues? How are repressive policies, laws, and discourses moving iteratively across contexts, and how are they tied to neoliberal imperatives? What successful strategies have been developed to evade or contest these pressures? What theories or paradigms — including new and global understandings of academic freedom itself — might allow us to navigate between contexts, enable meaningful solidarity, and not only secure but also widen the spaces of critical inquiry?
This workshop is organized by Prof. Dr. Kerry Bystrom and Dr. Aysuda Kölemen for Bard College Berlin and the Open Society University Network Threatened Scholar Integration Initiative, in cooperation with ICI Berlin.
The event will take place in person by pre-registration only. All public spaces are full but there are still some remaining seats reserved with priority for BCB faculty and staff. Faculty and staff members who would like to attend should please contact Kerry Bystrom ([email protected]) and Aysuda Kolemen ([email protected]) directly.
Speakers: Homa Hoodfar Tuba İnal-Çekiç Ilya Kalinin Teresa Koloma Beck Thomas Keenan Pascale Laborier Jana Lozanowska Ewa Majewska Jennifer Ruth Nahed Samour Oleksandr Shtokvych Asli Vatansever Jessica Young Tirdad Zolghadr
Bard College Berlin accepts applications for transfer to the BA degree programs in Spring 2025. The deadline for applying is October 15, 2024, at 23:59 in your time zone.
Eligible applicants for transfer are students who have completed at least one semester of university by the time of their expected enrollment at BCB. For more information on eligibility and application requirements, please refer to our application requirements for transfer.
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!
When Music Matters: Political Engagement Since the Enlightenment
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 7–9:30 pm
W15 Cafe at Bard College Berlin (Waldstrasse 15, 13156 Berlin) When thinking about the many connections between music and politics, popular expressions may be what first come to mind. For example, popular music provided much of the youthful soundtrack to the anti-war, civil rights, and social justice movements of the 1960s. In this respect, classical music often seems detached from society, or is beholden to words (as in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony) or to dramatic plot (as in his opera Fidelio) for political meaning. Classical music is too often mystified, uncritically viewed as autonomous and separate from everyday life. As a result, it has become largely irrelevant, an occasional provocative headline notwithstanding, often dealing with glamorous performers rather than with actual musical works.
This talk considers the issue of politics and classical music since the Enlightenment through a series of examples and case studies, examining works by Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Shostakovich, Copland, and Reich. Christopher Gibbs argues for the considerable benefits of assigning music its proper place within a broader historical, contextual, and humanistic context.
Christopher H. Gibbs is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music at Bard College, Co-Artistic Director of the Bard Music Festival, and Executive Editor of The Musical Quarterly. He is the Vice-Chair of the Schubert Research Center, part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Gibbs edited The Cambridge Companion to Schubert, co-edited Franz Liszt and His World and Franz Schubert and His World, and is the author of The Life of Schubert, which has been translated into six languages. He is the co-author, with Richard Taruskin, of The Oxford History of Western Music,College Edition. Since 2000 Gibbs has written the program notes for The Philadelphia Orchestra. He is a recipient of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, and in 2022 won the Berlin Prize and was the Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
P98a Lecture Hall Interested to hear from your peers and ask them questions about their study abroad experiences last year? Join us for the Study Abroad Student Panel!
Petitions are due 6 December 2024 for second years who are interested in going abroad their third year (academic year 2025-26) in fall and/or spring semester. If you started at BCB in the spring semester or are a transfer student, please make sure you are in touch if you will be a third year next academic year (either fall or spring) and would like to go abroad.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
EJAAD Berlin x LEARN AFGHAN: A discussion on women’s rights in Afghanistan with Pashtana Durrani
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 7:30–8:30 pm
Online Event Join us for an insightful keynote by Pashtana Durrani, founder of LEARN Afghanistan, an NGO focused on providing education to Afghan women and children. Despite the Taliban's return, LEARN Afghanistan continues its mission, operating covertly to deliver digital education in a nation where women face severe restrictions. Pashtana will discuss her personal journey, the current plight of Afghan women, and how NGOs like LEARN are navigating this challenging environment. The Q&A session offers an opportunity to ask questions about her work and how the international community can help.
Romance and Argument in Modern Liberalism: Jane Addams and the Long Campaign for Gender Freedom
Thursday, October 17, 2024 7–9 pm
W15 Cafe at Bard College Berlin (Waldstrasse 15, 13156 Berlin) Liberalism is usually defined as either a political or an economic doctrine of personal freedom, with freedom of speech and exchange as two of its defining features. But since its beginnings around 1800 it has also been a cultural movement strengthening personal freedom in friendships, family, and emotional and erotic relationships. Romance and political argument were often closely interwoven: poets, novelists, political thinkers, philosophers, social scientists and social reformers argued for political freedoms and explored new freedoms in their personal lives.
Women and men criticized the legal and social structures of patriarchy in Europe and the United States; women struggle to achieve gender equality in public life. Jane Addams, founder of the most famous American settlement house, founded a women’s milieu that successfully advanced women’s public roles and private friendships. She also played an important part in redefining liberalism itself, moving it in a democratic direction open to all in a nation grappling with mass immigration. Well educated and widely traveled in Europe, she invites comparison with German and English women across the Atlantic who took part in parallel transformations of women’s private and public lives. Whether in education, politics or their network of friendships and romances, her generation encourages us to engage with liberalism as a way of life.
Harry Liebersohn is Center for Advanced Study Professor of History, emeritus, at the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign. He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the American Academy in Berlin. In 2016 was the recipient of a Humboldt Research Prize. His work has focused on cultural encounters and social theory since the late eighteenth century. His most recent book is Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age (2019). He is currently writing a history of nineteenth-century liberalism.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the speakers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
The Swap Shop in the Garden Behind P24 Join the BCB Swap Shop for a clothing upcycling workshop! Bring the clothes you never wear and give them a new life, or choose an item of clothing from the Swap Shop to bedazzle, redesign or transform. There will be equipment for upcycling provided!Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
Monday, October 21, 2024 – Friday, October 25, 2024 10 am – 6 pm
K24 Like Writing and Thinking, Writing to Learn introduces participants to IWT’s foundational writing-based teaching practices, but with a particular emphasis on their application to specific subject areas and disciplines. This week-long workshop is multidisciplinary: it will draw on a variety of works that might include historical sources and literary and scientific texts. The workshop focuses on using writing to build an initial understanding of texts—a crucial first step in creating formal essays or reports—and to revise this preliminary thinking as understanding deepens. We will explore how writing-to-learn practices can reshape how we teach and how the academic lecture, collaborative learning practices, and the act of listening can reinforce one another within the classroom.
Monday, October 21, 2024 – Friday, October 25, 2024 10 am – 6 pm
K24 Like Writing and Thinking, Writing to Learn introduces participants to IWT’s foundational writing-based teaching practices, but with a particular emphasis on their application to specific subject areas and disciplines. This week-long workshop is multidisciplinary: it will draw on a variety of works that might include historical sources and literary and scientific texts. The workshop focuses on using writing to build an initial understanding of texts—a crucial first step in creating formal essays or reports—and to revise this preliminary thinking as understanding deepens. We will explore how writing-to-learn practices can reshape how we teach and how the academic lecture, collaborative learning practices, and the act of listening can reinforce one another within the classroom.
Monday, October 21, 2024 – Friday, October 25, 2024 10 am – 6 pm
K24 Like Writing and Thinking, Writing to Learn introduces participants to IWT’s foundational writing-based teaching practices, but with a particular emphasis on their application to specific subject areas and disciplines. This week-long workshop is multidisciplinary: it will draw on a variety of works that might include historical sources and literary and scientific texts. The workshop focuses on using writing to build an initial understanding of texts—a crucial first step in creating formal essays or reports—and to revise this preliminary thinking as understanding deepens. We will explore how writing-to-learn practices can reshape how we teach and how the academic lecture, collaborative learning practices, and the act of listening can reinforce one another within the classroom.
Monday, October 21, 2024 – Friday, October 25, 2024 10 am – 6 pm
K24 Like Writing and Thinking, Writing to Learn introduces participants to IWT’s foundational writing-based teaching practices, but with a particular emphasis on their application to specific subject areas and disciplines. This week-long workshop is multidisciplinary: it will draw on a variety of works that might include historical sources and literary and scientific texts. The workshop focuses on using writing to build an initial understanding of texts—a crucial first step in creating formal essays or reports—and to revise this preliminary thinking as understanding deepens. We will explore how writing-to-learn practices can reshape how we teach and how the academic lecture, collaborative learning practices, and the act of listening can reinforce one another within the classroom.
Monday, October 21, 2024 – Friday, October 25, 2024 10 am – 6 pm
K24 Like Writing and Thinking, Writing to Learn introduces participants to IWT’s foundational writing-based teaching practices, but with a particular emphasis on their application to specific subject areas and disciplines. This week-long workshop is multidisciplinary: it will draw on a variety of works that might include historical sources and literary and scientific texts. The workshop focuses on using writing to build an initial understanding of texts—a crucial first step in creating formal essays or reports—and to revise this preliminary thinking as understanding deepens. We will explore how writing-to-learn practices can reshape how we teach and how the academic lecture, collaborative learning practices, and the act of listening can reinforce one another within the classroom.
Spore Initiative, Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin What does it mean to bring an anticolonial practice to the colonial archive that has been systematically organized under the sign of counter-insurgency? It is this colonial archive that has produced our concepts of ‘art’ and ‘history,’ of what can be admitted into their domain and on what terms, and it is this same archive that anticipates and discredits resistance to colonial power. In other words, art and aesthetics has made colonial violence tenable and sustainable. Can an anticolonial practice reorganize the signs under which the past flows into the future?
Historian Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar will address these questions in her lecture and explore them further in conversation with curator and researcher Abhishek Nilamber before opening the discussion to the audience.
This event is co-organized by Agata Lisiak (Bard College Berlin), Céline Barry (Technische Universität Berlin), and Pablo Valdivia Orozco (Europa-Universität Viadrina) as part of the “Postcolonial Critiques and Decolonial Perspectives” lecture series, and it is funded by the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
Community Forum: Campus Planning with BCB Managing Directors
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 12:30–1:30 pm
Lecture Hall This special Community Forum is dedicated to current and future campus design plans. BCB's Managing Directors Florian Becker and Taun Toay will provide an update and ask for input on the envisioned Cafeteria and Community Center in particular.
Learning Commons, on the top floor of W16 "Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Takes place bi-weekly on Wednesdays.
Abendbrot is your chance to improve your German skills in a fun and casual setting. If you are hesitant to speak the language or just want to practice in a relaxed environment, this is the place to be. We meet every other Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm, and you are welcome to join us anytime. At Abendbrot, we play games, enjoy a meal together, and simply hang out. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or more advanced in German; everyone is welcome. Come along, make mistakes, and improve your German with a friendly group of language enthusiasts.
Fall 2024 dates: Wednesday, September 25 Wednesday, October 9 Wednesday, October 30 Wednesday, November 13 Wednesday, November 27 Wednesday, December 11
From October 9 the event will be held in the Learning Commons in W16.
Credit Transfer & Moderation Study Abroad Info Session
Thursday, October 31, 2024 12:30–1:30 pm
K24, Seminar Room 11 Are you frightened that Study Abroad will affect your degree progress? Scared about moderating on time? Petrified about which classes to take and how to get them transferred/recognized?
Join us on Halloween to discuss these terrifying topics! The Registrar's Office will guide you through the credit transfer process and advise you about moderation, credit recognition, and more. Bring any questions (or fears!) you might have.
Petitions are due 6 December 2024 for second years who are interested in going abroad their third year (academic year 2025-26) in fall and/or spring semester. If you started at BCB in the spring semester or are a transfer student, please make sure you are in touch if you will be a third year next academic year (either fall or spring) and would like to go abroad.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
K24, Seminar Room 12 The BCB Internship Program gives you the opportunity to gain an off-campus workplace experience in a field that interests you. You can work 10-13 hours per week in an internship while also exploring various questions regarding work in the internship seminar taught by Agata Lisiak and Florian Duijsens. While the majority of internships are unpaid, you can earn academic credits through the internship seminar.
If you are a current or upcoming third-year student and curious about BCB’s Internship Program and the opportunity to gain practical experience alongside your studies while interning for an organization or individual in Berlin, please save the date.
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