Event Series: Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education
Runs through Saturday, December 10, 2022
Bard College Berlin This Fall, a series of events focusing on the ideas of forced migration, displacement, and education will take place at Bard College Berlin. These events vary from lectures to film screenings to hands-on events and more, hosted by a variety of Bard College Berlin faculty and featuring many guest speakers.
This event series is made possible with the support of the Consortium for Forced Migration, Displacement and Education, generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Events in this series:
Friday, October 14, 6:00-7:30pm Involved Campus Talk: Precious film screening and discussion Platanenstrasse 98A This event is centered on the topic of forced migration, and what it means to loose and to build a home. BCB student Precious Chukwukezie is the short film's protagonist and was part of the collaborative film making process, along with master students of social and cultural anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. After the film screening on campus, the audience is invited to stay for a Q&A and discussion round, moderated by BCB student Alex Ribeiro. Anyone is welcome to share their own perspectives and experiences as part of the discussion. This event is free and open to the public.
Tuesday, November 1, 5:00pm Readings from Kit de Waal, author of Without Warning and Only Sometimes Centre for British Studies, Mohrenstr. 60 Kit de Waal is a British-born author of Caribbean and Irish descent. Her debut novel, My Name Is Leon (2016) was an international bestseller. It was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award in 2017. In 2022 it was adapted for television by the BBC. Her other works The Trick to Time and Becoming Dinah, Supporting Cast, and Common People. Her memoir Without Warning & Only Sometimes was published in August 2022. Kit is a founder of her own TV production company, Portopia Productions, and the Big Book Weekend, a free digital literary festival. Kit is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor and Writer in Residence at Leicester University.
Kit will be reading from Without Warning & Only Sometimes and from the introduction to the Common People anthology. This event is free and open to the public. It is also organized in collaboration with the Centre For British Studies and Literary Field Kaleidoscope.
Sunday, November 6, 12:00-2:00pm A Decolonial Walking Tour of Berlin-Wedding Led by Abdel Amine Mohammed This is a closed event funded by CFMDE for students enrolled the course PT160: Transnational Feminism Is for Everybody.
Wednesday, November 9, 7:00-8:30pm Permanent Crisis. The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age Waldstrasse 15 What are the humanities, and why study humanistic subjects? Considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and professional success, the humanities seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis. In their new book Permanent Crisis. The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age, Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon show that this crisis isn’t new—in fact, it is as old as the humanities themselves. The self-understanding of the modern humanities didn’t merely take shape in response to a perceived crisis; it also made crisis a core part of its project. This event is free and open to the public.
Thursday, November 17, 12:30-1:45pm Syrian Prison Narratives Platanenstrasse 98A lecture hall This event features a talk with scholar Anne Marie McManus, a fellow at the Forum Transreigonale Studien. McManus oversees The Prison Narratives of Assad’s Syria: Voices, Texts, Publics (SYRASP), a five-year research project sponsored by the European Research Council. This event is free and open to the public.
Friday, December 2, 5:30-7:30pm Is Russia Over? A Discussion with Dr. Helen Faller Waldstrasse 15 Cafe Russia’s bungled attempt to invade Ukraine in 2022 has laid bare the fragility of its governing model. If Russia fails as a state due to the war in Ukraine, what forms might decolonization take? What could post-Russia Eurasian space look like? Based on intensive fieldwork in Tatarstan and Russia from 1998 to 2006 and recent interviews with people in the Tatar diaspora, Faller will suggest answers to these questions. Co-hosted by the Civic Engagement program and PT 304 "USSR: A Post-Colonial Assessment". This event is free and open to the BCB community, including students, staff, faculty, and alumni. To register, please email [email protected] Sponsored by: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from November 29 - December 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.
Tuesday, November 29 | 12:45pm, Lecture Hall Lilas Alloulou, "Graffiti in Syria: Between the Authoritarian Regime and the Revolution"
Thursday, December 1 | 12:45pm, Lecture Hall Accad Alsaed, "Reasons of the Immigration of Syrian Jews to the US, Israel and South America between 1922-2022"
Tuesday, December 6 | 12:45pm, The Factory Cazmir Leenheer, "The Gulf Between You and Me: Levinas' Face-to-Face and the Photographic Encounter" Note: This presentation includes a creative component of photography, which will be on display in the Factory Seminar Room from December 6-9.
Wednesday, December 7 | 12:25pm, Lecture Hall Lukas Debeljak, "The End, Again: Apocalypse as Fictional Repetition"
Thursday, December 15 | 2:30pm, Lecture Hall PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE Ezgi Karayel, "The Notion of Solidarity in Community-based Artivism: A Case Study on Gezi Park Protest Art"
Final Solutions? Genocide in Comparative Perspective
Book Presentation and Discussion
Thursday, December 1, 2022 7–8:30 pm
Einstein Forum This event, moderated by Ewa Atanassow, will introduce and stimulate a conversation with Konstanty Gebert about his new book, Final Solutions: Genocide Perpetrators and their Work, that was published in Polish earlier this year. Framed by a discussion of 'genocide' as a legal concept, the book offers a global history of mass murder in the past 120 years featuring a broad range of cases in Europe (Bosnia, Holocaust, Ukrainian famine), Asia (Armenians, Cambodia, Uygurs), and Africa (Namibia, Rwanda).
This is a hybrid event. Participants can join at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam or online. Link for online registration.
This event is co-hosted by the Einstein Forum, HI 109 Global History Lab and PT 358 Critical Human Rights. BCB community can join without registration. All other participants will be invited personally.Konstanty Gebert is an eminent Polish writer and publicist. The author of 12 books and thousands of articles, he has taught at Hebrew University, the University of California (Berkeley), Grinnell College, and Warsaw University's Collegium Civitas. As a journalist he has been associated with the daily Gazeta Wyborcza from its foundation, and has served as a war correspondent covering conflicts in Turkey, India and Kashmir, Myanmar, Israel-Palestine, Rwanda, and Bosnia where he worked on the ground with the special UN envoy Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Gebert has also advocated reviving Jewish life in Poland and founded several organizations including the independent Jewish University and the monthly Midrash.Sponsored by: Einstein Forum .
W15 Cafe Here is an opportunity for all students, staff and faculty involved with or interested in initiatives combating educational inequity and working towards broader access to education, on or off campus.
Join an exchange meeting with fellows and coordinators of Teach First Deutschland, a non-profit organization here in Berlin dedicated to improving access to education in Germany. It's also an opportunity to find out more about the educational landscape in Berlin and the day-to-day in the city's primary and high schools. You are invited to discuss what we mean when we say "access to education" or "educational inequity", to present your initiatives, to share and develop visions for education in Berlin and the world!
The event is only scheduled for one hour during lunch time - so feel free to bring your lunch!
Register by email to: [email protected]Teach First Deutschland (TFD) is a German non-profit organization founded in 2008 and adapted from Teach For America and Teach First (UK).
Teach First Deutschland is a member of Teach For All, a global network of independent social enterprises working to expand educational opportunity. TFD fellows spend two years in schools in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia to improve student-performance. Fellows are trained in a 3-month preparation phase.Sponsored by: BCB Civic Engagement.
Is Russia Over? A Discussion With Dr. Helen Faller
Friday, December 2, 2022 5:30–7:30 pm
*NEW LOCATION* Lecture Hall Russia’s bungled attempt to invade Ukraine in 2022 has laid bare the fragility of its governing model. If Russia fails as a state due to the war in Ukraine, what forms might decolonization take? What could post-Russia Eurasian space look like? Based on intensive fieldwork in Tatarstan and Russia from 1998 to 2006 and recent interviews with people in the Tatar diaspora, Faller will suggest answers to these questions.
Dr. Helen Faller is an anthropologist with expertise in the former Soviet Union. She has conducted long-term ethnographic research in Tatarstan and Kazakhstan and is currently finishing her second book, a memoir about traveling to Central Asia to study dumplings.
This event is part of the Consortium for Forced Migration, Displacement and Education, generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Co-hosted by the Civic Engagement program and PT 304 "USSR: A Post-Colonial Assessment" seminar. This event is open to the BCB community, including students, staff, faculty, and alumni. To register, please email [email protected] by: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Literary Salon: Reading by the students of Clare Wigfall's Fiction Writing Workshop (1/2)
Friday, December 2, 2022 8 pm
Wein Salon Join us at the Wein Salon for the first of two readings from Clare Wigfall's Fiction Writing Workshop.
It is a tradition that the writers in Clare Wigfall's fiction writing workshop give a much-anticipated reading of their work as the finale of their course. Once again, they are returning to the charming Wein Salon in Friedrichshain! This semester we have two groups presenting over two nights for a mini literary salon series. Please join us for these cozy and intimate evenings of beautiful and surprising stories and words written by the students over the course of the semester. All BCB students, alumni, friends, and faculty members are warmly welcome.
Writers presenting: Mila Bedi, Anđela Despotović, Hannah Hailu, Annika Julien, Emma Maar Mcgilvray, Mar Parra, Scarlett Ricker, Miyu Sasaki, Langston Stahler, Yixin Wang
W15 Cafe With Glühwein in one hand and a Sufgania in the other, join us in celebrating the great fusion of Chrismukkah! Gingerbread house competition, Stolen Santa, Dreidel battles, and tree decorations the festivities will be wonderful! And don’t forget to bring a gift for stolen Santa, if you wish to get one!
This event is part of the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education, generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Sponsored by: DEI Office, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Humanity has always excluded Others on the basis of race and gender. What happens to people who choose to flee, following in the footsteps of those who resisted enslavement? This audacious manifesto draws on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of ‘human’. Sociologist Akwugo Emejulu argues that it is only through embracing the status of the ‘fugitive’ that Black women can determine their own liberation. Fugitive Feminism is a call for the collective process of speculative dialogue and a bold new model for action.
This event is part of Agata Lisiak's Transnational Feminism Is for Everybody course.Akwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include the political sociology of race, class and gender and women of color's grassroots activism in Europe and the United States. She is the author of several books including Fugitive Feminism (Silver Press, 2022) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press, 2017). She is co-editor of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019).Sponsored by: OSUN.
Thesis Presentation: Cazmir Leenheer, "The Gulf Between You and Me: Levinas' Face-to-Face and the Photographic Encounter"
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 12:45–2 pm
The Factory Cazmir's thesis includes a creative component of original photography. These photographs will be on view in the Seminar Room of the Factory from December 6 to December 9.
Artist Talk and Q&A with Filmmaker Maysaloun Hamoud
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 3–4:30 pm
Online In this event, part of the OSUN Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice series, enjoy a talk with filmmaker Maysaloun Hamoud about her award winning 2016 film, Bar Bahar. Bar Bahar tells the story of three distinct Palestinian women struggling to make their own way amidst familial, societal and political tensions.
Maysaloun Hamoud is a Hungarian-born writer and film director who is a Palestinian citizen of Israel. Her film, Bar Bahar (In Between), won the NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
Drama, Philosophy, and the City in Classical Greece
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 7:30–9 pm
Online Join us for an online lecture presented by IS101 Republic Core, discussing early Greek literature with Professor Glenn W. Most.
The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature--the Homeric and Hesiodic epics--all predate drama, philosophy, and the city-state, which were not invented until the following centuries. The origin and development of all three of these institutions, which went on to have a profound influence on all later cultures, were closely intertwined. Professor Most’s reflections will consider their productive and tense interrelations.
RSVP to Tracy Colony at [email protected] to receive the link to this event. Glenn W. Most retired in November 2020 as Ordinary Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and remains a regular Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published books on Classics, on ancient philosophy, on the history and methodology of Classical studies, on comparative literature, cultural studies, and the history of religion, on literary theory and on the history of art, and has published numerous articles, reviews, and translations in these fields and also on such other ones as modern philosophy and literature.
Goethestraße 70, 10625 Berlin Join the DEI Office and visit the newly opened Vulva Gallery!
The Vulva Gallery aims to raise awareness around body diversity, inspire and empower individuals by sharing personal stories, and provide information on anatomy and sexual health. By illustrating a wide range of vulvas in all shapes and colors (featuring art from Hilde Atalanta) and opening up a conversation about diversity, body neutrality, and vulva-related topics shows that natural variety is a beautiful thing and that the human body is something to appreciate instead of feeling ashamed about. The exhibition is gender inclusive and encouraging and for individuals with and without a vulva.
”By showing diversity and openly talking about our experiences and insecurities we can change the way we look at our bodies – and the bodies of others” (The Vulva Gallery)Sponsored by: DEI Office .
From the Hanser Berlin website: "Whether in Damascus or in Berlin, no matter what language – writing has always been vital for Sam Zamrik. This volume bears witness to this, with the introduction of a poet who has passed through many hells and lost almost everything, including their own identity: "I am not". But the losses are offset by an untouchable wealth: a language that knows many pitches, from the solemnity of the Song of Songs to heavy metal heaviness." Sam Zamrik, born in Damascus, is a poet, musician and translator. They worked as a band manager and songwriter in the underground music movement New Wave of Syrian Metal. Individual texts have been published by the WIR MACHEN DAS - "Weiter Schreiben" initiative and in various German newspapers such as taz and Tagesspiegel. Sam lives in Berlin. "Ich bin nicht" is their first book of poetry.Sponsored by: Civic Engagement.
W15 Cafe Join the Student Life Committee for a discussion of current topics relevant to the BCB community. This meeting, topics for discussion will be decided for the Spring 2023 semester. If you've got a topic you'd like covered next semester, let us know by joining us in the W15 café. We hope to see you there!
P98A Lecture Hall Join us for a virtual reality screening of the documentary Re-educated: Inside Xinjiang’s Secret Detention Camps, including a panel with one of the writers of the documentary, Ben Mauk. This film takes viewers inside one of Xinjiang’s “re-education camps” guided by the recollection of three men who were imprisoned together at a facility in Tacheng.
This event’s purpose is to shine a light on the human rights violations occurring in China and gain support for our campaign to gain visitation rights for Professor Ilham Tohti, a Uyghur professor wrongfully imprisoned by Chinese officials. The ongoing protests across major cities in China represent a larger desire for systematic change from the Chinese people as they demand human rights. This could be a turning point for the Uyghur plight, and acting now may save millions.Sponsored by: HUMANS RIGHTS ADVOCACY CLASS.
The Factory Join us for our end-of-semester celebration of BCB visual and performing arts! View student work and performances on this very special evening.
Performances will take place in the performance space from 5:30-7:00pm and again from 8:00-9:30pm.
Participating classes:
Found Fragments & Layered Lines: Mixed-Media Techniques For Drawing and Collage Beginners Black and White Photography Class: The Slow Photo Your Own Point of View: Introduction to Digital Photography Performance Practice Contemporary Art and Urban Development: historical archetypes, present-day case studies, and future scenarios Sonic Narration: An Introduction to Radio Drama Queering the Capitalocene: (Eco-)feminist film and video art for earthly survival Advanced Painting: Oil Paint & After Finding the Stories: Advanced Photography Digital Theaters: Performance in Post/Pandemic Times Bertolt Brecht: The Study and Staging of Epic Theater Performing Water: Environmental Crisis in Art and Literature Ceramics I Dance Lab: Body Space Image. Dance and Visual Arts The Art of Making Videos
Saturday, December 10, 2022 – Sunday, December 11, 2022 12–5 pm
E43-0-Dance/Theater Space in the factory This is the first workshop of a series of interactive shadow theater workshops that aim to provide a body-centered and art-based approach to working with oppression. The workshop will take place on Saturday, December 10th and Sunday, December 11th from noon to 5pm.
This workshop will focus on narrating displacement and embodied experiences of forced migration. The workshop depends on interactive techniques developed and based on teachings from Augusto Boal's "Theater of The Oppressed" and shadow work practices based on Carl Jung's concept of the "shadow" using shadow theater as its artistic manifestation. The series is designed to provide a space for people to come together to express themselves and tell their narratives using the tools introduced at the workshop as means of healing and self-affirmation.
Literary Salon: Reading by the students of Clare Wigfall's Fiction Writing Workshop (2/2)
Saturday, December 10, 2022 8 pm
Wein Salon Join us at the Wein Salon for the second of two readings from Clare Wigfall's Fiction Writing Workshop.
It is a tradition that the writers in Clare Wigfall's fiction writing workshop give a much-anticipated reading of their work as the finale of their course. Once again, they are returning to the charming Wein Salon in Friedrichshain! This semester we have two groups presenting over two nights for a mini literary salon series. Please join us for these cozy and intimate evenings of beautiful and surprising stories and words written by the students over the course of the semester. All BCB students, alumni, friends, and faculty members are warmly welcome.
Writers presenting: Elena Chiavazza Prieto, Helene Cunningham, Jess Drapkin, Lex Hill, Nia Kalife de la Garza, Max Mitchell, Oona Montandon, Aapur Sijapati, Nora Stone Roig, Isabella Thulin
Saturday, December 10, 2022 – Sunday, December 11, 2022 12–5 pm
E43-0-Dance/Theater Space in the factory This is the first workshop of a series of interactive shadow theater workshops that aim to provide a body-centered and art-based approach to working with oppression. The workshop will take place on Saturday, December 10th and Sunday, December 11th from noon to 5pm.
This workshop will focus on narrating displacement and embodied experiences of forced migration. The workshop depends on interactive techniques developed and based on teachings from Augusto Boal's "Theater of The Oppressed" and shadow work practices based on Carl Jung's concept of the "shadow" using shadow theater as its artistic manifestation. The series is designed to provide a space for people to come together to express themselves and tell their narratives using the tools introduced at the workshop as means of healing and self-affirmation.
Sunday, December 11, 2022 – Thursday, December 15, 2022
Hey BCB! Have finals got you stressed or overwhelmed? Join us for a series of events meant to bring some joy and light to our campus on these chilly winter days. All are welcome!
Sunday, December 11, 1:00pm at W15 Cafe Take A Hike! Take a study break and join Atticus as we explore some of the nature that Berlin has to offer! Bring comfortable shoes, water and perhaps something to snack on. Expect to be out for a few hours including travel time.
Monday, December 12, 5:30pm at the Factory Yoga with Sanskriti Join the BCB yoga club for an hour long yoga practice to move your body and relieve some stress! There will be a limited number of yoga mats available, so if you have your own, please bring one!
Monday, December 12, 6:30pm at the Cafeteria Nighttime Study Breakfast Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Your favourite staff and professors will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Tuesday, December 13, 12:00-2:00pm at the W15 Cafe and Courtyard Pet Day at BCB Did you know that petting animals has been shown to lower stress hormones? Join us on Tuesday December 13 to meet the four-legged (and many winged) members of the BCB Community. Take a breather and give some pats to the cutest BCB’ers around!
Wednesday, December 14, 2:00pm at the Factory Finger Painting and Music Tap into your inner child and get a little messy with fingerpainting! Join us in the factory for music and vibes, and let your creativity flow.
Thursday, December 15, 3:00pm at the Cafeteria Mug Cake Making Everything is better in a mug, don’t you agree? Come to the cafeteria where we’ll be making single serve mug cakes. Don’t forget to BYOM (Bring your own Mug)!
Meet at W15 Cafe Take a study break and join Atticus as we explore some of the nature that Berlin has to offer! Bring comfortable shoes, water and perhaps something to snack on. Expect to be out for a few hours including travel time. Sponsored by: Student Life.
Sunday, December 11, 2022 – Thursday, December 15, 2022
Hey BCB! Have finals got you stressed or overwhelmed? Join us for a series of events meant to bring some joy and light to our campus on these chilly winter days. All are welcome!
Sunday, December 11, 1:00pm at W15 Cafe Take A Hike! Take a study break and join Atticus as we explore some of the nature that Berlin has to offer! Bring comfortable shoes, water and perhaps something to snack on. Expect to be out for a few hours including travel time.
Monday, December 12, 5:30pm at the Factory Yoga with Sanskriti Join the BCB yoga club for an hour long yoga practice to move your body and relieve some stress! There will be a limited number of yoga mats available, so if you have your own, please bring one!
Monday, December 12, 6:30pm at the Cafeteria Nighttime Study Breakfast Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Your favourite staff and professors will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Tuesday, December 13, 12:00-2:00pm at the W15 Cafe and Courtyard Pet Day at BCB Did you know that petting animals has been shown to lower stress hormones? Join us on Tuesday December 13 to meet the four-legged (and many winged) members of the BCB Community. Take a breather and give some pats to the cutest BCB’ers around!
Wednesday, December 14, 2:00pm at the Factory Finger Painting and Music Tap into your inner child and get a little messy with fingerpainting! Join us in the factory for music and vibes, and let your creativity flow.
Thursday, December 15, 3:00pm at the Cafeteria Mug Cake Making Everything is better in a mug, don’t you agree? Come to the cafeteria where we’ll be making single serve mug cakes. Don’t forget to BYOM (Bring your own Mug)!
The Factory Join the BCB yoga club for an hour long yoga practice to move your body and relieve some stress! There will be a limited number of yoga mats available, so if you have your own, please bring one! Sponsored by: Student Life.
Cafeteria Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Your favourite staff and professors will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages. Sponsored by: Student Life.
Sunday, December 11, 2022 – Thursday, December 15, 2022
Hey BCB! Have finals got you stressed or overwhelmed? Join us for a series of events meant to bring some joy and light to our campus on these chilly winter days. All are welcome!
Sunday, December 11, 1:00pm at W15 Cafe Take A Hike! Take a study break and join Atticus as we explore some of the nature that Berlin has to offer! Bring comfortable shoes, water and perhaps something to snack on. Expect to be out for a few hours including travel time.
Monday, December 12, 5:30pm at the Factory Yoga with Sanskriti Join the BCB yoga club for an hour long yoga practice to move your body and relieve some stress! There will be a limited number of yoga mats available, so if you have your own, please bring one!
Monday, December 12, 6:30pm at the Cafeteria Nighttime Study Breakfast Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Your favourite staff and professors will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Tuesday, December 13, 12:00-2:00pm at the W15 Cafe and Courtyard Pet Day at BCB Did you know that petting animals has been shown to lower stress hormones? Join us on Tuesday December 13 to meet the four-legged (and many winged) members of the BCB Community. Take a breather and give some pats to the cutest BCB’ers around!
Wednesday, December 14, 2:00pm at the Factory Finger Painting and Music Tap into your inner child and get a little messy with fingerpainting! Join us in the factory for music and vibes, and let your creativity flow.
Thursday, December 15, 3:00pm at the Cafeteria Mug Cake Making Everything is better in a mug, don’t you agree? Come to the cafeteria where we’ll be making single serve mug cakes. Don’t forget to BYOM (Bring your own Mug)!
W15 Cafe and Courtyard Did you know that petting animals has been shown to lower stress hormones? Join us on Tuesday December 13 to meet the four-legged (and many winged) members of the BCB Community. Take a breather and give some pats to the cutest BCB’ers around!Sponsored by: Student Life.
Sunday, December 11, 2022 – Thursday, December 15, 2022
Hey BCB! Have finals got you stressed or overwhelmed? Join us for a series of events meant to bring some joy and light to our campus on these chilly winter days. All are welcome!
Sunday, December 11, 1:00pm at W15 Cafe Take A Hike! Take a study break and join Atticus as we explore some of the nature that Berlin has to offer! Bring comfortable shoes, water and perhaps something to snack on. Expect to be out for a few hours including travel time.
Monday, December 12, 5:30pm at the Factory Yoga with Sanskriti Join the BCB yoga club for an hour long yoga practice to move your body and relieve some stress! There will be a limited number of yoga mats available, so if you have your own, please bring one!
Monday, December 12, 6:30pm at the Cafeteria Nighttime Study Breakfast Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Your favourite staff and professors will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Tuesday, December 13, 12:00-2:00pm at the W15 Cafe and Courtyard Pet Day at BCB Did you know that petting animals has been shown to lower stress hormones? Join us on Tuesday December 13 to meet the four-legged (and many winged) members of the BCB Community. Take a breather and give some pats to the cutest BCB’ers around!
Wednesday, December 14, 2:00pm at the Factory Finger Painting and Music Tap into your inner child and get a little messy with fingerpainting! Join us in the factory for music and vibes, and let your creativity flow.
Thursday, December 15, 3:00pm at the Cafeteria Mug Cake Making Everything is better in a mug, don’t you agree? Come to the cafeteria where we’ll be making single serve mug cakes. Don’t forget to BYOM (Bring your own Mug)!
The Factory Tap into your inner child and get a little messy with fingerpainting! Join us in the factory for music and vibes, and let your creativity flow. Sponsored by: Student Life.
Sunday, December 11, 2022 – Thursday, December 15, 2022
Hey BCB! Have finals got you stressed or overwhelmed? Join us for a series of events meant to bring some joy and light to our campus on these chilly winter days. All are welcome!
Sunday, December 11, 1:00pm at W15 Cafe Take A Hike! Take a study break and join Atticus as we explore some of the nature that Berlin has to offer! Bring comfortable shoes, water and perhaps something to snack on. Expect to be out for a few hours including travel time.
Monday, December 12, 5:30pm at the Factory Yoga with Sanskriti Join the BCB yoga club for an hour long yoga practice to move your body and relieve some stress! There will be a limited number of yoga mats available, so if you have your own, please bring one!
Monday, December 12, 6:30pm at the Cafeteria Nighttime Study Breakfast Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Your favourite staff and professors will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Tuesday, December 13, 12:00-2:00pm at the W15 Cafe and Courtyard Pet Day at BCB Did you know that petting animals has been shown to lower stress hormones? Join us on Tuesday December 13 to meet the four-legged (and many winged) members of the BCB Community. Take a breather and give some pats to the cutest BCB’ers around!
Wednesday, December 14, 2:00pm at the Factory Finger Painting and Music Tap into your inner child and get a little messy with fingerpainting! Join us in the factory for music and vibes, and let your creativity flow.
Thursday, December 15, 3:00pm at the Cafeteria Mug Cake Making Everything is better in a mug, don’t you agree? Come to the cafeteria where we’ll be making single serve mug cakes. Don’t forget to BYOM (Bring your own Mug)!
Cafeteria Everything is better in a mug, don’t you agree? Come to the cafeteria where we’ll be making single serve mug cakes. Don’t forget to BYOM (Bring your own Mug)!Sponsored by: Student Life.
Event Series: Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education
Runs through Saturday, December 10, 2022
Bard College Berlin This Fall, a series of events focusing on the ideas of forced migration, displacement, and education will take place at Bard College Berlin. These events vary from lectures to film screenings to hands-on events and more, hosted by a variety of Bard College Berlin faculty and featuring many guest speakers.
This event series is made possible with the support of the Consortium for Forced Migration, Displacement and Education, generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Events in this series:
Friday, October 14, 6:00-7:30pm Involved Campus Talk: Precious film screening and discussion Platanenstrasse 98A This event is centered on the topic of forced migration, and what it means to loose and to build a home. BCB student Precious Chukwukezie is the short film's protagonist and was part of the collaborative film making process, along with master students of social and cultural anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. After the film screening on campus, the audience is invited to stay for a Q&A and discussion round, moderated by BCB student Alex Ribeiro. Anyone is welcome to share their own perspectives and experiences as part of the discussion. This event is free and open to the public.
Tuesday, November 1, 5:00pm Readings from Kit de Waal, author of Without Warning and Only Sometimes Centre for British Studies, Mohrenstr. 60 Kit de Waal is a British-born author of Caribbean and Irish descent. Her debut novel, My Name Is Leon (2016) was an international bestseller. It was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award in 2017. In 2022 it was adapted for television by the BBC. Her other works The Trick to Time and Becoming Dinah, Supporting Cast, and Common People. Her memoir Without Warning & Only Sometimes was published in August 2022. Kit is a founder of her own TV production company, Portopia Productions, and the Big Book Weekend, a free digital literary festival. Kit is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor and Writer in Residence at Leicester University.
Kit will be reading from Without Warning & Only Sometimes and from the introduction to the Common People anthology. This event is free and open to the public. It is also organized in collaboration with the Centre For British Studies and Literary Field Kaleidoscope.
Sunday, November 6, 12:00-2:00pm A Decolonial Walking Tour of Berlin-Wedding Led by Abdel Amine Mohammed This is a closed event funded by CFMDE for students enrolled the course PT160: Transnational Feminism Is for Everybody.
Wednesday, November 9, 7:00-8:30pm Permanent Crisis. The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age Waldstrasse 15 What are the humanities, and why study humanistic subjects? Considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and professional success, the humanities seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis. In their new book Permanent Crisis. The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age, Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon show that this crisis isn’t new—in fact, it is as old as the humanities themselves. The self-understanding of the modern humanities didn’t merely take shape in response to a perceived crisis; it also made crisis a core part of its project. This event is free and open to the public.
Thursday, November 17, 12:30-1:45pm Syrian Prison Narratives Platanenstrasse 98A lecture hall This event features a talk with scholar Anne Marie McManus, a fellow at the Forum Transreigonale Studien. McManus oversees The Prison Narratives of Assad’s Syria: Voices, Texts, Publics (SYRASP), a five-year research project sponsored by the European Research Council. This event is free and open to the public.
Friday, December 2, 5:30-7:30pm Is Russia Over? A Discussion with Dr. Helen Faller Waldstrasse 15 Cafe Russia’s bungled attempt to invade Ukraine in 2022 has laid bare the fragility of its governing model. If Russia fails as a state due to the war in Ukraine, what forms might decolonization take? What could post-Russia Eurasian space look like? Based on intensive fieldwork in Tatarstan and Russia from 1998 to 2006 and recent interviews with people in the Tatar diaspora, Faller will suggest answers to these questions. Co-hosted by the Civic Engagement program and PT 304 "USSR: A Post-Colonial Assessment". This event is free and open to the BCB community, including students, staff, faculty, and alumni. To register, please email [email protected] Sponsored by: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from November 29 - December 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.
Tuesday, November 29 | 12:45pm, Lecture Hall Lilas Alloulou, "Graffiti in Syria: Between the Authoritarian Regime and the Revolution"
Thursday, December 1 | 12:45pm, Lecture Hall Accad Alsaed, "Reasons of the Immigration of Syrian Jews to the US, Israel and South America between 1922-2022"
Tuesday, December 6 | 12:45pm, The Factory Cazmir Leenheer, "The Gulf Between You and Me: Levinas' Face-to-Face and the Photographic Encounter" Note: This presentation includes a creative component of photography, which will be on display in the Factory Seminar Room from December 6-9.
Wednesday, December 7 | 12:25pm, Lecture Hall Lukas Debeljak, "The End, Again: Apocalypse as Fictional Repetition"
Thursday, December 15 | 2:30pm, Lecture Hall PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE Ezgi Karayel, "The Notion of Solidarity in Community-based Artivism: A Case Study on Gezi Park Protest Art"
Final Solutions? Genocide in Comparative Perspective
Book Presentation and Discussion
Thursday, December 1, 2022 7–8:30 pm
Einstein Forum This event, moderated by Ewa Atanassow, will introduce and stimulate a conversation with Konstanty Gebert about his new book, Final Solutions: Genocide Perpetrators and their Work, that was published in Polish earlier this year. Framed by a discussion of 'genocide' as a legal concept, the book offers a global history of mass murder in the past 120 years featuring a broad range of cases in Europe (Bosnia, Holocaust, Ukrainian famine), Asia (Armenians, Cambodia, Uygurs), and Africa (Namibia, Rwanda).
This is a hybrid event. Participants can join at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam or online. Link for online registration.
This event is co-hosted by the Einstein Forum, HI 109 Global History Lab and PT 358 Critical Human Rights. BCB community can join without registration. All other participants will be invited personally.Konstanty Gebert is an eminent Polish writer and publicist. The author of 12 books and thousands of articles, he has taught at Hebrew University, the University of California (Berkeley), Grinnell College, and Warsaw University's Collegium Civitas. As a journalist he has been associated with the daily Gazeta Wyborcza from its foundation, and has served as a war correspondent covering conflicts in Turkey, India and Kashmir, Myanmar, Israel-Palestine, Rwanda, and Bosnia where he worked on the ground with the special UN envoy Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Gebert has also advocated reviving Jewish life in Poland and founded several organizations including the independent Jewish University and the monthly Midrash.Sponsored by: Einstein Forum .
W15 Cafe Here is an opportunity for all students, staff and faculty involved with or interested in initiatives combating educational inequity and working towards broader access to education, on or off campus.
Join an exchange meeting with fellows and coordinators of Teach First Deutschland, a non-profit organization here in Berlin dedicated to improving access to education in Germany. It's also an opportunity to find out more about the educational landscape in Berlin and the day-to-day in the city's primary and high schools. You are invited to discuss what we mean when we say "access to education" or "educational inequity", to present your initiatives, to share and develop visions for education in Berlin and the world!
The event is only scheduled for one hour during lunch time - so feel free to bring your lunch!
Register by email to: [email protected]Teach First Deutschland (TFD) is a German non-profit organization founded in 2008 and adapted from Teach For America and Teach First (UK).
Teach First Deutschland is a member of Teach For All, a global network of independent social enterprises working to expand educational opportunity. TFD fellows spend two years in schools in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia to improve student-performance. Fellows are trained in a 3-month preparation phase.Sponsored by: BCB Civic Engagement.
Is Russia Over? A Discussion With Dr. Helen Faller
Friday, December 2, 2022 5:30–7:30 pm
*NEW LOCATION* Lecture Hall Russia’s bungled attempt to invade Ukraine in 2022 has laid bare the fragility of its governing model. If Russia fails as a state due to the war in Ukraine, what forms might decolonization take? What could post-Russia Eurasian space look like? Based on intensive fieldwork in Tatarstan and Russia from 1998 to 2006 and recent interviews with people in the Tatar diaspora, Faller will suggest answers to these questions.
Dr. Helen Faller is an anthropologist with expertise in the former Soviet Union. She has conducted long-term ethnographic research in Tatarstan and Kazakhstan and is currently finishing her second book, a memoir about traveling to Central Asia to study dumplings.
This event is part of the Consortium for Forced Migration, Displacement and Education, generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Co-hosted by the Civic Engagement program and PT 304 "USSR: A Post-Colonial Assessment" seminar. This event is open to the BCB community, including students, staff, faculty, and alumni. To register, please email [email protected] by: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Literary Salon: Reading by the students of Clare Wigfall's Fiction Writing Workshop (1/2)
Friday, December 2, 2022 8 pm
Wein Salon Join us at the Wein Salon for the first of two readings from Clare Wigfall's Fiction Writing Workshop.
It is a tradition that the writers in Clare Wigfall's fiction writing workshop give a much-anticipated reading of their work as the finale of their course. Once again, they are returning to the charming Wein Salon in Friedrichshain! This semester we have two groups presenting over two nights for a mini literary salon series. Please join us for these cozy and intimate evenings of beautiful and surprising stories and words written by the students over the course of the semester. All BCB students, alumni, friends, and faculty members are warmly welcome.
Writers presenting: Mila Bedi, Anđela Despotović, Hannah Hailu, Annika Julien, Emma Maar Mcgilvray, Mar Parra, Scarlett Ricker, Miyu Sasaki, Langston Stahler, Yixin Wang
W15 Cafe With Glühwein in one hand and a Sufgania in the other, join us in celebrating the great fusion of Chrismukkah! Gingerbread house competition, Stolen Santa, Dreidel battles, and tree decorations the festivities will be wonderful! And don’t forget to bring a gift for stolen Santa, if you wish to get one!
This event is part of the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education, generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Sponsored by: DEI Office, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Humanity has always excluded Others on the basis of race and gender. What happens to people who choose to flee, following in the footsteps of those who resisted enslavement? This audacious manifesto draws on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of ‘human’. Sociologist Akwugo Emejulu argues that it is only through embracing the status of the ‘fugitive’ that Black women can determine their own liberation. Fugitive Feminism is a call for the collective process of speculative dialogue and a bold new model for action.
This event is part of Agata Lisiak's Transnational Feminism Is for Everybody course.Akwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include the political sociology of race, class and gender and women of color's grassroots activism in Europe and the United States. She is the author of several books including Fugitive Feminism (Silver Press, 2022) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press, 2017). She is co-editor of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019).Sponsored by: OSUN.
Thesis Presentation: Cazmir Leenheer, "The Gulf Between You and Me: Levinas' Face-to-Face and the Photographic Encounter"
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 12:45–2 pm
The Factory Cazmir's thesis includes a creative component of original photography. These photographs will be on view in the Seminar Room of the Factory from December 6 to December 9.
Artist Talk and Q&A with Filmmaker Maysaloun Hamoud
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 3–4:30 pm
Online In this event, part of the OSUN Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice series, enjoy a talk with filmmaker Maysaloun Hamoud about her award winning 2016 film, Bar Bahar. Bar Bahar tells the story of three distinct Palestinian women struggling to make their own way amidst familial, societal and political tensions.
Maysaloun Hamoud is a Hungarian-born writer and film director who is a Palestinian citizen of Israel. Her film, Bar Bahar (In Between), won the NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
Drama, Philosophy, and the City in Classical Greece
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 7:30–9 pm
Online Join us for an online lecture presented by IS101 Republic Core, discussing early Greek literature with Professor Glenn W. Most.
The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature--the Homeric and Hesiodic epics--all predate drama, philosophy, and the city-state, which were not invented until the following centuries. The origin and development of all three of these institutions, which went on to have a profound influence on all later cultures, were closely intertwined. Professor Most’s reflections will consider their productive and tense interrelations.
RSVP to Tracy Colony at [email protected] to receive the link to this event. Glenn W. Most retired in November 2020 as Ordinary Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and remains a regular Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published books on Classics, on ancient philosophy, on the history and methodology of Classical studies, on comparative literature, cultural studies, and the history of religion, on literary theory and on the history of art, and has published numerous articles, reviews, and translations in these fields and also on such other ones as modern philosophy and literature.
Goethestraße 70, 10625 Berlin Join the DEI Office and visit the newly opened Vulva Gallery!
The Vulva Gallery aims to raise awareness around body diversity, inspire and empower individuals by sharing personal stories, and provide information on anatomy and sexual health. By illustrating a wide range of vulvas in all shapes and colors (featuring art from Hilde Atalanta) and opening up a conversation about diversity, body neutrality, and vulva-related topics shows that natural variety is a beautiful thing and that the human body is something to appreciate instead of feeling ashamed about. The exhibition is gender inclusive and encouraging and for individuals with and without a vulva.
”By showing diversity and openly talking about our experiences and insecurities we can change the way we look at our bodies – and the bodies of others” (The Vulva Gallery)Sponsored by: DEI Office .
From the Hanser Berlin website: "Whether in Damascus or in Berlin, no matter what language – writing has always been vital for Sam Zamrik. This volume bears witness to this, with the introduction of a poet who has passed through many hells and lost almost everything, including their own identity: "I am not". But the losses are offset by an untouchable wealth: a language that knows many pitches, from the solemnity of the Song of Songs to heavy metal heaviness." Sam Zamrik, born in Damascus, is a poet, musician and translator. They worked as a band manager and songwriter in the underground music movement New Wave of Syrian Metal. Individual texts have been published by the WIR MACHEN DAS - "Weiter Schreiben" initiative and in various German newspapers such as taz and Tagesspiegel. Sam lives in Berlin. "Ich bin nicht" is their first book of poetry.Sponsored by: Civic Engagement.
W15 Cafe Join the Student Life Committee for a discussion of current topics relevant to the BCB community. This meeting, topics for discussion will be decided for the Spring 2023 semester. If you've got a topic you'd like covered next semester, let us know by joining us in the W15 café. We hope to see you there!
P98A Lecture Hall Join us for a virtual reality screening of the documentary Re-educated: Inside Xinjiang’s Secret Detention Camps, including a panel with one of the writers of the documentary, Ben Mauk. This film takes viewers inside one of Xinjiang’s “re-education camps” guided by the recollection of three men who were imprisoned together at a facility in Tacheng.
This event’s purpose is to shine a light on the human rights violations occurring in China and gain support for our campaign to gain visitation rights for Professor Ilham Tohti, a Uyghur professor wrongfully imprisoned by Chinese officials. The ongoing protests across major cities in China represent a larger desire for systematic change from the Chinese people as they demand human rights. This could be a turning point for the Uyghur plight, and acting now may save millions.Sponsored by: HUMANS RIGHTS ADVOCACY CLASS.
The Factory Join us for our end-of-semester celebration of BCB visual and performing arts! View student work and performances on this very special evening.
Performances will take place in the performance space from 5:30-7:00pm and again from 8:00-9:30pm.
Participating classes:
Found Fragments & Layered Lines: Mixed-Media Techniques For Drawing and Collage Beginners Black and White Photography Class: The Slow Photo Your Own Point of View: Introduction to Digital Photography Performance Practice Contemporary Art and Urban Development: historical archetypes, present-day case studies, and future scenarios Sonic Narration: An Introduction to Radio Drama Queering the Capitalocene: (Eco-)feminist film and video art for earthly survival Advanced Painting: Oil Paint & After Finding the Stories: Advanced Photography Digital Theaters: Performance in Post/Pandemic Times Bertolt Brecht: The Study and Staging of Epic Theater Performing Water: Environmental Crisis in Art and Literature Ceramics I Dance Lab: Body Space Image. Dance and Visual Arts The Art of Making Videos
Saturday, December 10, 2022 – Sunday, December 11, 2022 12–5 pm
E43-0-Dance/Theater Space in the factory This is the first workshop of a series of interactive shadow theater workshops that aim to provide a body-centered and art-based approach to working with oppression. The workshop will take place on Saturday, December 10th and Sunday, December 11th from noon to 5pm.
This workshop will focus on narrating displacement and embodied experiences of forced migration. The workshop depends on interactive techniques developed and based on teachings from Augusto Boal's "Theater of The Oppressed" and shadow work practices based on Carl Jung's concept of the "shadow" using shadow theater as its artistic manifestation. The series is designed to provide a space for people to come together to express themselves and tell their narratives using the tools introduced at the workshop as means of healing and self-affirmation.
Literary Salon: Reading by the students of Clare Wigfall's Fiction Writing Workshop (2/2)
Saturday, December 10, 2022 8 pm
Wein Salon Join us at the Wein Salon for the second of two readings from Clare Wigfall's Fiction Writing Workshop.
It is a tradition that the writers in Clare Wigfall's fiction writing workshop give a much-anticipated reading of their work as the finale of their course. Once again, they are returning to the charming Wein Salon in Friedrichshain! This semester we have two groups presenting over two nights for a mini literary salon series. Please join us for these cozy and intimate evenings of beautiful and surprising stories and words written by the students over the course of the semester. All BCB students, alumni, friends, and faculty members are warmly welcome.
Writers presenting: Elena Chiavazza Prieto, Helene Cunningham, Jess Drapkin, Lex Hill, Nia Kalife de la Garza, Max Mitchell, Oona Montandon, Aapur Sijapati, Nora Stone Roig, Isabella Thulin
Saturday, December 10, 2022 – Sunday, December 11, 2022 12–5 pm
E43-0-Dance/Theater Space in the factory This is the first workshop of a series of interactive shadow theater workshops that aim to provide a body-centered and art-based approach to working with oppression. The workshop will take place on Saturday, December 10th and Sunday, December 11th from noon to 5pm.
This workshop will focus on narrating displacement and embodied experiences of forced migration. The workshop depends on interactive techniques developed and based on teachings from Augusto Boal's "Theater of The Oppressed" and shadow work practices based on Carl Jung's concept of the "shadow" using shadow theater as its artistic manifestation. The series is designed to provide a space for people to come together to express themselves and tell their narratives using the tools introduced at the workshop as means of healing and self-affirmation.
Sunday, December 11, 2022 – Thursday, December 15, 2022
Hey BCB! Have finals got you stressed or overwhelmed? Join us for a series of events meant to bring some joy and light to our campus on these chilly winter days. All are welcome!
Sunday, December 11, 1:00pm at W15 Cafe Take A Hike! Take a study break and join Atticus as we explore some of the nature that Berlin has to offer! Bring comfortable shoes, water and perhaps something to snack on. Expect to be out for a few hours including travel time.
Monday, December 12, 5:30pm at the Factory Yoga with Sanskriti Join the BCB yoga club for an hour long yoga practice to move your body and relieve some stress! There will be a limited number of yoga mats available, so if you have your own, please bring one!
Monday, December 12, 6:30pm at the Cafeteria Nighttime Study Breakfast Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Your favourite staff and professors will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Tuesday, December 13, 12:00-2:00pm at the W15 Cafe and Courtyard Pet Day at BCB Did you know that petting animals has been shown to lower stress hormones? Join us on Tuesday December 13 to meet the four-legged (and many winged) members of the BCB Community. Take a breather and give some pats to the cutest BCB’ers around!
Wednesday, December 14, 2:00pm at the Factory Finger Painting and Music Tap into your inner child and get a little messy with fingerpainting! Join us in the factory for music and vibes, and let your creativity flow.
Thursday, December 15, 3:00pm at the Cafeteria Mug Cake Making Everything is better in a mug, don’t you agree? Come to the cafeteria where we’ll be making single serve mug cakes. Don’t forget to BYOM (Bring your own Mug)!
Meet at W15 Cafe Take a study break and join Atticus as we explore some of the nature that Berlin has to offer! Bring comfortable shoes, water and perhaps something to snack on. Expect to be out for a few hours including travel time. Sponsored by: Student Life.
Sunday, December 11, 2022 – Thursday, December 15, 2022
Hey BCB! Have finals got you stressed or overwhelmed? Join us for a series of events meant to bring some joy and light to our campus on these chilly winter days. All are welcome!
Sunday, December 11, 1:00pm at W15 Cafe Take A Hike! Take a study break and join Atticus as we explore some of the nature that Berlin has to offer! Bring comfortable shoes, water and perhaps something to snack on. Expect to be out for a few hours including travel time.
Monday, December 12, 5:30pm at the Factory Yoga with Sanskriti Join the BCB yoga club for an hour long yoga practice to move your body and relieve some stress! There will be a limited number of yoga mats available, so if you have your own, please bring one!
Monday, December 12, 6:30pm at the Cafeteria Nighttime Study Breakfast Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Your favourite staff and professors will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Tuesday, December 13, 12:00-2:00pm at the W15 Cafe and Courtyard Pet Day at BCB Did you know that petting animals has been shown to lower stress hormones? Join us on Tuesday December 13 to meet the four-legged (and many winged) members of the BCB Community. Take a breather and give some pats to the cutest BCB’ers around!
Wednesday, December 14, 2:00pm at the Factory Finger Painting and Music Tap into your inner child and get a little messy with fingerpainting! Join us in the factory for music and vibes, and let your creativity flow.
Thursday, December 15, 3:00pm at the Cafeteria Mug Cake Making Everything is better in a mug, don’t you agree? Come to the cafeteria where we’ll be making single serve mug cakes. Don’t forget to BYOM (Bring your own Mug)!
The Factory Join the BCB yoga club for an hour long yoga practice to move your body and relieve some stress! There will be a limited number of yoga mats available, so if you have your own, please bring one! Sponsored by: Student Life.
Cafeteria Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Your favourite staff and professors will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages. Sponsored by: Student Life.
Sunday, December 11, 2022 – Thursday, December 15, 2022
Hey BCB! Have finals got you stressed or overwhelmed? Join us for a series of events meant to bring some joy and light to our campus on these chilly winter days. All are welcome!
Sunday, December 11, 1:00pm at W15 Cafe Take A Hike! Take a study break and join Atticus as we explore some of the nature that Berlin has to offer! Bring comfortable shoes, water and perhaps something to snack on. Expect to be out for a few hours including travel time.
Monday, December 12, 5:30pm at the Factory Yoga with Sanskriti Join the BCB yoga club for an hour long yoga practice to move your body and relieve some stress! There will be a limited number of yoga mats available, so if you have your own, please bring one!
Monday, December 12, 6:30pm at the Cafeteria Nighttime Study Breakfast Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Your favourite staff and professors will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Tuesday, December 13, 12:00-2:00pm at the W15 Cafe and Courtyard Pet Day at BCB Did you know that petting animals has been shown to lower stress hormones? Join us on Tuesday December 13 to meet the four-legged (and many winged) members of the BCB Community. Take a breather and give some pats to the cutest BCB’ers around!
Wednesday, December 14, 2:00pm at the Factory Finger Painting and Music Tap into your inner child and get a little messy with fingerpainting! Join us in the factory for music and vibes, and let your creativity flow.
Thursday, December 15, 3:00pm at the Cafeteria Mug Cake Making Everything is better in a mug, don’t you agree? Come to the cafeteria where we’ll be making single serve mug cakes. Don’t forget to BYOM (Bring your own Mug)!
W15 Cafe and Courtyard Did you know that petting animals has been shown to lower stress hormones? Join us on Tuesday December 13 to meet the four-legged (and many winged) members of the BCB Community. Take a breather and give some pats to the cutest BCB’ers around!Sponsored by: Student Life.
Sunday, December 11, 2022 – Thursday, December 15, 2022
Hey BCB! Have finals got you stressed or overwhelmed? Join us for a series of events meant to bring some joy and light to our campus on these chilly winter days. All are welcome!
Sunday, December 11, 1:00pm at W15 Cafe Take A Hike! Take a study break and join Atticus as we explore some of the nature that Berlin has to offer! Bring comfortable shoes, water and perhaps something to snack on. Expect to be out for a few hours including travel time.
Monday, December 12, 5:30pm at the Factory Yoga with Sanskriti Join the BCB yoga club for an hour long yoga practice to move your body and relieve some stress! There will be a limited number of yoga mats available, so if you have your own, please bring one!
Monday, December 12, 6:30pm at the Cafeteria Nighttime Study Breakfast Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Your favourite staff and professors will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Tuesday, December 13, 12:00-2:00pm at the W15 Cafe and Courtyard Pet Day at BCB Did you know that petting animals has been shown to lower stress hormones? Join us on Tuesday December 13 to meet the four-legged (and many winged) members of the BCB Community. Take a breather and give some pats to the cutest BCB’ers around!
Wednesday, December 14, 2:00pm at the Factory Finger Painting and Music Tap into your inner child and get a little messy with fingerpainting! Join us in the factory for music and vibes, and let your creativity flow.
Thursday, December 15, 3:00pm at the Cafeteria Mug Cake Making Everything is better in a mug, don’t you agree? Come to the cafeteria where we’ll be making single serve mug cakes. Don’t forget to BYOM (Bring your own Mug)!
The Factory Tap into your inner child and get a little messy with fingerpainting! Join us in the factory for music and vibes, and let your creativity flow. Sponsored by: Student Life.
Sunday, December 11, 2022 – Thursday, December 15, 2022
Hey BCB! Have finals got you stressed or overwhelmed? Join us for a series of events meant to bring some joy and light to our campus on these chilly winter days. All are welcome!
Sunday, December 11, 1:00pm at W15 Cafe Take A Hike! Take a study break and join Atticus as we explore some of the nature that Berlin has to offer! Bring comfortable shoes, water and perhaps something to snack on. Expect to be out for a few hours including travel time.
Monday, December 12, 5:30pm at the Factory Yoga with Sanskriti Join the BCB yoga club for an hour long yoga practice to move your body and relieve some stress! There will be a limited number of yoga mats available, so if you have your own, please bring one!
Monday, December 12, 6:30pm at the Cafeteria Nighttime Study Breakfast Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Your favourite staff and professors will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Tuesday, December 13, 12:00-2:00pm at the W15 Cafe and Courtyard Pet Day at BCB Did you know that petting animals has been shown to lower stress hormones? Join us on Tuesday December 13 to meet the four-legged (and many winged) members of the BCB Community. Take a breather and give some pats to the cutest BCB’ers around!
Wednesday, December 14, 2:00pm at the Factory Finger Painting and Music Tap into your inner child and get a little messy with fingerpainting! Join us in the factory for music and vibes, and let your creativity flow.
Thursday, December 15, 3:00pm at the Cafeteria Mug Cake Making Everything is better in a mug, don’t you agree? Come to the cafeteria where we’ll be making single serve mug cakes. Don’t forget to BYOM (Bring your own Mug)!
Cafeteria Everything is better in a mug, don’t you agree? Come to the cafeteria where we’ll be making single serve mug cakes. Don’t forget to BYOM (Bring your own Mug)!Sponsored by: Student Life.
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