K30 Garden In honor of Berlin Pride Month, let's come together for a BCB Pride Picnic on the lawn behind K30 to celebrate and show your support for the LGBTQIA+ community on our campus, in Berlin, and worldwide. Everyone is welcome! Bring your favorite drink, a snack to share, and a blanket if you'd like. We'll have a fun activity, some chill music, and good vibes.
This event is a safe space dedicated to uplifting a beautiful community. So bring your pride flags and bright smiles. We hope to see you there!
Present Continuous: On Palestinian Land, Labor and Economy
Saturday, July 5, 2025 – Sunday, July 6, 2025 10 am – 9 pm
Spore Initiative, Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin The two-day symposium explores the present realities of bulldozer capitalism: where real estate speculation, destruction of land, techno-centric planning, and settler colonialism converge. By tracing these patterns of capital accumulation, the symposium will attempt to reconcile how this extends legacies of colonial domination and economic, spatial control over people, land, and resources of Palestine. Through panels, workshops, and artistic interventions, the symposium offers the space to discuss how the prisms of land, labor, industry, energy, and infrastructure can help us understand the economic architecture of the occupation over the past century, while reflecting on how these logics of economic domination have been resisted and are being reimagined for alternative futures. Organized by Jule Ulbricht and Gale Raj.
Present Continuous: On Palestinian Land, Labor and Economy
Saturday, July 5, 2025 – Sunday, July 6, 2025 10 am – 9 pm
Spore Initiative, Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin The two-day symposium explores the present realities of bulldozer capitalism: where real estate speculation, destruction of land, techno-centric planning, and settler colonialism converge. By tracing these patterns of capital accumulation, the symposium will attempt to reconcile how this extends legacies of colonial domination and economic, spatial control over people, land, and resources of Palestine. Through panels, workshops, and artistic interventions, the symposium offers the space to discuss how the prisms of land, labor, industry, energy, and infrastructure can help us understand the economic architecture of the occupation over the past century, while reflecting on how these logics of economic domination have been resisted and are being reimagined for alternative futures. Organized by Jule Ulbricht and Gale Raj.
Book Discussion – Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois
Monday, July 7, 2025 9 am – 3 pm
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Lansstr. 7–9, 14195 Berlin, Room 203 Robert Gooding-Williams (Yale University) will discuss his book Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois with BCB faculty Ewa Atanassow and Michael Saman taking part as commenters.
To register for the event, please send an email to [email protected]Sponsored by: FU John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies.
At the Vanishing Point in History. Critical Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine War
Monday, July 7, 2025 6–9 pm
Seminar Room 2, Platanenstr. 98, 13156 Berlin The authors and editor will presentAt the Vanishing Point in History and discuss how the ongoing war in Ukraine, along with other global crises, poses challenges for critical research, intellectual life, and society at large.
Putin's war has prompted a deep analysis and reevaluation of the forces driving this deadly confrontation. At the Vanishing Point in History brings together renowned humanities scholars and prominent novelists to explore the roots and causes of the ongoing catastrophe in Eastern Europe. This distinguished group of Russian émigrés, well-versed in Russian culture, history, and philosophy, aims to examine the past to understand the present. Experts in the inner workings of Russian society who have fled the country, they believe it is their responsibility to critically assess the current crisis, reflect on its origins, and outline the agenda for future research in the humanities. In response to this challenge, they present a collection of analytical essays that offer essential background and context for understanding the unfolding events in Europe.
The working language is English. Free entrance, no registration.
Speakers: Marina Bykova (North Carolina State University), Mikhail Mayatsky (Independent Researcher), Olena Pavlova (Humboldt University Berlin/National Technical University of Ukraine Kyiv Polytechnic University), Andrey Oleynikov (Bielefeld University)Sponsored by: Institute for Global Reconstitution.
University and Scholasticide: From Complicity to Solidarity
Sunday, July 20, 2025 10 am – 6 pm
Spore Initiative, Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin-Neukölln BCB Migration Studies professor Agata Lisiak will speak at the first annual conference of the Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA). The conference seeks to explore the concept of scholasticide as a critical lens through which to understand the ongoing situation in Palestine and the responsibility of universities and educators elsewhere, particularly in Germany. For decades, and particularly since October 2023, scholasticide, as coined by Karma Nabulsi, has been used as a term to describe the intentional and systematic destruction of an educational infrastructure in Palestine and the suppression of academic life due to Israeli military actions in Gaza. The intense bombardments and ground operations have deliberately targeted schools, universities, and academic institutions, resulting in the deaths of students, educators and administrators, as well as the destruction of libraries, classrooms, and research centers. Conference program and more info here.Sponsored by: Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA).
K30 Garden In honor of Berlin Pride Month, let's come together for a BCB Pride Picnic on the lawn behind K30 to celebrate and show your support for the LGBTQIA+ community on our campus, in Berlin, and worldwide. Everyone is welcome! Bring your favorite drink, a snack to share, and a blanket if you'd like. We'll have a fun activity, some chill music, and good vibes.
This event is a safe space dedicated to uplifting a beautiful community. So bring your pride flags and bright smiles. We hope to see you there!
Present Continuous: On Palestinian Land, Labor and Economy
Saturday, July 5, 2025 – Sunday, July 6, 2025 10 am – 9 pm
Spore Initiative, Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin The two-day symposium explores the present realities of bulldozer capitalism: where real estate speculation, destruction of land, techno-centric planning, and settler colonialism converge. By tracing these patterns of capital accumulation, the symposium will attempt to reconcile how this extends legacies of colonial domination and economic, spatial control over people, land, and resources of Palestine. Through panels, workshops, and artistic interventions, the symposium offers the space to discuss how the prisms of land, labor, industry, energy, and infrastructure can help us understand the economic architecture of the occupation over the past century, while reflecting on how these logics of economic domination have been resisted and are being reimagined for alternative futures. Organized by Jule Ulbricht and Gale Raj.
Present Continuous: On Palestinian Land, Labor and Economy
Saturday, July 5, 2025 – Sunday, July 6, 2025 10 am – 9 pm
Spore Initiative, Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin The two-day symposium explores the present realities of bulldozer capitalism: where real estate speculation, destruction of land, techno-centric planning, and settler colonialism converge. By tracing these patterns of capital accumulation, the symposium will attempt to reconcile how this extends legacies of colonial domination and economic, spatial control over people, land, and resources of Palestine. Through panels, workshops, and artistic interventions, the symposium offers the space to discuss how the prisms of land, labor, industry, energy, and infrastructure can help us understand the economic architecture of the occupation over the past century, while reflecting on how these logics of economic domination have been resisted and are being reimagined for alternative futures. Organized by Jule Ulbricht and Gale Raj.
Book Discussion – Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois
Monday, July 7, 2025 9 am – 3 pm
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Lansstr. 7–9, 14195 Berlin, Room 203 Robert Gooding-Williams (Yale University) will discuss his book Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois with BCB faculty Ewa Atanassow and Michael Saman taking part as commenters.
To register for the event, please send an email to [email protected]Sponsored by: FU John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies.
At the Vanishing Point in History. Critical Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine War
Monday, July 7, 2025 6–9 pm
Seminar Room 2, Platanenstr. 98, 13156 Berlin The authors and editor will presentAt the Vanishing Point in History and discuss how the ongoing war in Ukraine, along with other global crises, poses challenges for critical research, intellectual life, and society at large.
Putin's war has prompted a deep analysis and reevaluation of the forces driving this deadly confrontation. At the Vanishing Point in History brings together renowned humanities scholars and prominent novelists to explore the roots and causes of the ongoing catastrophe in Eastern Europe. This distinguished group of Russian émigrés, well-versed in Russian culture, history, and philosophy, aims to examine the past to understand the present. Experts in the inner workings of Russian society who have fled the country, they believe it is their responsibility to critically assess the current crisis, reflect on its origins, and outline the agenda for future research in the humanities. In response to this challenge, they present a collection of analytical essays that offer essential background and context for understanding the unfolding events in Europe.
The working language is English. Free entrance, no registration.
Speakers: Marina Bykova (North Carolina State University), Mikhail Mayatsky (Independent Researcher), Olena Pavlova (Humboldt University Berlin/National Technical University of Ukraine Kyiv Polytechnic University), Andrey Oleynikov (Bielefeld University)Sponsored by: Institute for Global Reconstitution.
University and Scholasticide: From Complicity to Solidarity
Sunday, July 20, 2025 10 am – 6 pm
Spore Initiative, Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin-Neukölln BCB Migration Studies professor Agata Lisiak will speak at the first annual conference of the Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA). The conference seeks to explore the concept of scholasticide as a critical lens through which to understand the ongoing situation in Palestine and the responsibility of universities and educators elsewhere, particularly in Germany. For decades, and particularly since October 2023, scholasticide, as coined by Karma Nabulsi, has been used as a term to describe the intentional and systematic destruction of an educational infrastructure in Palestine and the suppression of academic life due to Israeli military actions in Gaza. The intense bombardments and ground operations have deliberately targeted schools, universities, and academic institutions, resulting in the deaths of students, educators and administrators, as well as the destruction of libraries, classrooms, and research centers. Conference program and more info here.Sponsored by: Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA).
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