Upcoming Events
Wednesday, November 4 – Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Migration in Global History
Lecture Series
Contact: BCB Communications
communications@berlin.bard.edu
Tuesday, December 1 – Friday, December 4, 2020
Senior Thesis Presentations
Online Senior Thesis Presentations
Contact: BCB Communications
communications@berlin.bard.edu
Friday, December 4, 2020
Literary Reading by the Students of Clare Wigfall's Fiction Writing Workshop
Online Reading
8:00 pm CET
Contact: BCB Communications
communications@berlin.bard.edu
8:00 pm CET
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Joshua Craze: "There are no whole lives": Exile, Fiction, and Bureaucracy in the UNHCR Archive
Online Lecture
10:45 am CET
Contact: BCB Communications
communications@berlin.bard.edu
10:45 am CET
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Glenn Most on Aristophanes’ Clouds and Early Greek Philosophy
Lecture
7:30 pm CET
Contact: BCB Communications
communications@berlin.bard.edu
7:30 pm CET
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Translator Katy Derbyshire in Conversation with Agata Lisiak
Conversation
2:00 pm CET
Contact: BCB Communications
communications@berlin.bard.edu
2:00 pm CET
Archive of Past Events
2019
Friday, December 13, 2019
OPEN STUDIOS
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Reading by the students of Clare Wigfall's Fiction Writing Workshop
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Final presentations of theater & performance courses
THE PERFORMANCE FACTORY (edition 1)
Final presentations of theater & performance courses
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Panel Discussion with Najat Abdulhaq, Sohaib Alzoubi, Alexander Clarkson, Kristin Helberg a.o.
Moderation: Christin Lüttich
Real Talk: Couldn't They Be Allies? Political Diasporas and German Foreign/Cultural Policy
Panel Discussion with Najat Abdulhaq, Sohaib Alzoubi, Alexander Clarkson, Kristin Helberg a.o.
Moderation: Christin Lüttich
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
A talk by Daniel Ziblatt (Department of Government, Harvard University; Axel Springer Fellow, American Academy in Berlin)
The Rise and Fall of Democracy: Lessons From the Past for Today
A talk by Daniel Ziblatt (Department of Government, Harvard University; Axel Springer Fellow, American Academy in Berlin)
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
A talk by Markus Graebig (Project Director Windnode) and Ingo Uhlig (Uni Halle / TU Berlin)
Designing the Energy Transition: Culture Meets Technology
A talk by Markus Graebig (Project Director Windnode) and Ingo Uhlig (Uni Halle / TU Berlin)
Monday, December 9, 2019
Guest lecture by Dr. Yener Bayramoğlu (Free University of Berlin)
Remembering Hope: Politics of queer hope during authoritarian times in Turkey
Guest lecture by Dr. Yener Bayramoğlu (Free University of Berlin)
Sunday, December 8, 2019
A series of concerts presented by the Church of St. Maria Magdalena and Bard College Berlin
Kirche und College
A series of concerts presented by the Church of St. Maria Magdalena and Bard College Berlin
Friday, December 6, 2019
A talk by Peter Rosenblum (Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College)
Faculty Colloquium: "Theory and practice at the intersection of human rights and the economy"
A talk by Peter Rosenblum (Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College)
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Guest lecture by Dr. Yasmeen Daher, Université de Montréal
The Moral Character of the Revolting Masses: The Arab Spring as an Example
Guest lecture by Dr. Yasmeen Daher, Université de Montréal
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 – Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Senior thesis presentations
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Guest talk by Adam Davis (Oregon Humanities)
The Voices of the People: From Dreams of Self-Rule to Practices of Mutual Understanding
Guest talk by Adam Davis (Oregon Humanities)
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Candystore: Performance and Artist Talk
Thursday, November 21, 2019
A talk by Dr. Nakeema Stefflbauer
Back to the Future: Algorithms, Elites & Bias in 21st Century Start-Ups
A talk by Dr. Nakeema Stefflbauer
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
A talk by Ivan Krastev (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen)
Making Sense of the Long 1989
A talk by Ivan Krastev (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen)
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Adam Sachs: Reading and Conversation
Monday, November 11, 2019
Panel Discussion with Franziska Brantner, Hesham Moadamani, Ameenah A. Sawwan and Andreas Schüller
Moderation: Christin Lüttich
Real Talk: Justice for Syria and Universal Jurisdiction in Germany - What Can be Done?
Panel Discussion with Franziska Brantner, Hesham Moadamani, Ameenah A. Sawwan and Andreas Schüller
Moderation: Christin Lüttich
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Guest lecture by Ayşe Çağlar (University of Vienna and IWM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna)
25 Years of the Transnational Migration Paradigm: Challenges, Blind Spots, and Opportunities for a Global Perspective
Guest lecture by Ayşe Çağlar (University of Vienna and IWM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna)
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
A talk by Aaron Tugendhaft (Bard College Berlin)
Faculty Colloquium: "Why You Need Not Worry that You Don’t Speak Phrygian"
A talk by Aaron Tugendhaft (Bard College Berlin)
Thursday, October 31, 2019
A talk by David Dyzenhaus (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)
Brexit and the Legal Idea of Sovereignty
A talk by David Dyzenhaus (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Angela Flournoy: Reading and Conversation
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
A talk by Helene Strauss (University of the Free State, South Africa)
Faculty Colloquium: "From Extraction to Regeneration: of bios, geos and feminist feeling"
A talk by Helene Strauss (University of the Free State, South Africa)
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
A discussion with the feminist performance collective She She Pop
The personal is still political: autobiography as artistic method
A discussion with the feminist performance collective She She Pop
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Noa Heyne – Artist Talk
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Guest talk by Geoffrey Harpham (Duke University)
The Nation in The Birth of a Nation
Guest talk by Geoffrey Harpham (Duke University)
Thursday, October 10, 2019
A talk by Geoffrey Harpham (Duke University)
Faculty Colloquium: "The Scholar as Problem: What W. E. B. Du Bois Learned in Berlin"
A talk by Geoffrey Harpham (Duke University)
Thursday, October 10, 2019 – Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Guest talk by Sudesh Mishra (University of the South Pacific)
The Anthropocene, Rememory, and Zoē-Assemblage
Guest talk by Sudesh Mishra (University of the South Pacific)
Monday, October 7, 2019
Guest talk by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Monday, September 23, 2019
Panel Discussion with Hisham Almahdi, Adeeb Hadi and Altaf Merzah
Moderation: Christin Lüttich
Real Talk: On Changing Gender Relations in Yemen and Its European Diaspora
Panel Discussion with Hisham Almahdi, Adeeb Hadi and Altaf Merzah
Moderation: Christin Lüttich
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Guest Talk: Mustafa Khalifa
Monday, September 16, 2019
A talk by Elizabeth Foster (Tufts University)
Faculty Colloquium: "Catholicism and the Decolonization of Africa"
A talk by Elizabeth Foster (Tufts University)
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Alumni Day
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Henrique Oliveira – Artist Talk
Tuesday, May 28, 2019 – Sunday, June 2, 2019
Berlin Performing Arts Festival CAMPUS
Thursday, May 16, 2019 – Friday, May 17, 2019
"Pankow ist immer schön"
Photography and video exhibition
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
The Skin of the Law
European Migration Regimes and their Global Realities
Saturday, May 11, 2019 – Sunday, May 12, 2019
under your nose, in front of your eyes
A group photography exhibition
Friday, May 10, 2019
Reading by the students of Clare Wigfall's Fiction Writing Workshop
Friday, May 10, 2019
Real Talk: On New Beginnings and Berlin’s Arab Exile Body
Friday, May 10, 2019
Open Studios at the Factory
Friday, May 3, 2019 – Sunday, May 5, 2019
THE I SHOW
Exhibition of the Curating the Alter Ego class
Thursday, May 2, 2019 – Saturday, May 4, 2019
Symposium
Shifting Frames: Migrant Children, Politics and History
Symposium
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Guest lecture by Thomas Wild (Bard College, NY)
But the Passage of Years Is Cruel
On Letters, Exile, and Multilingual Imagination
On Letters, Exile, and Multilingual Imagination
Guest lecture by Thomas Wild (Bard College, NY)
Thursday, April 25, 2019
A talk by Hilkje Charlotte Hänel (AY 2007)
Alumni Talk Series - Working at the Margins: Being a Feminist Philosopher
A talk by Hilkje Charlotte Hänel (AY 2007)
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Guest lecture by Fatin Abbas (writer and scholar)
Sudan: A Case Study in the Varied Meanings of Migration
Guest lecture by Fatin Abbas (writer and scholar)
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Guest talk by Florian Diekert (Heidelberg University)
Conforming with Norms of Cooperation
Guest talk by Florian Diekert (Heidelberg University)
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 – Friday, May 3, 2019
Senior thesis presentations
Monday, April 15, 2019
Plato, the Parthenon, and Liberal Education
A workshop based on Geoff Lehman’s and Michael Weinman’s The Parthenon and Liberal Education (2018)
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Reviving Democracy. Can Citizens’ Assemblies Fix Representation?
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Guest lecture by Özlem Savaş (Berlin Institute on Integration and Migration Research, Humboldt University)
Political Friendships of New Migrants from Turkey
Guest lecture by Özlem Savaş (Berlin Institute on Integration and Migration Research, Humboldt University)
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Real Talk: Accommodating the Devil. The Syrian Civil Society’s Struggle for Survival
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Guest lecture by Elizabeth M. Bonapfel (Freie Universität/Peter Szondi-Institut)
On Questions and Answers: The "Ithaca" Episode of Ulysses
Guest lecture by Elizabeth M. Bonapfel (Freie Universität/Peter Szondi-Institut)
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Guest lecture by Martin Puchner (Harvard University/American Academy)
Modernism and the Question of World Literature
Guest lecture by Martin Puchner (Harvard University/American Academy)
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Climate Protection in Germany
Guest lecture by Klaus Mindrup (Member of the German Bundestag)
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Artist Talk with Saâdane Afif
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
A talk by Yael Almog (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Faculty Colloquium - "Secularism and Hermeneutics"
A talk by Yael Almog (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Guest lecture by Gülay Türkmen (University of Goettingen)
Religion and Nationalism: An Intricate Relationship
Guest lecture by Gülay Türkmen (University of Goettingen)
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Taking Refuge: A Conversation with Graphic Novelist Zeina Abirached
Saturday, March 2, 2019
Presented by Hadi Khatib
Syrian Archive and the Visual Documentation of Human Rights Violations
Presented by Hadi Khatib
Monday, February 25, 2019
Guest lecture by Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University)
Border Crisis?: Governing Human Mobility in Europe and Beyond
Guest lecture by Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University)
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Screening Natura Urbana and Q&A with director Matthew Gandy
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Artist Talk with Hiwa K
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
A talk by Brendan Hogan (New York University)
Faculty Colloquium - "What is economics for?"
A talk by Brendan Hogan (New York University)