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Spring Transfer Application Deadline

Apply now!

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Online Event
Bard College Berlin accepts applications for transfer to the BA degree programs in Spring 2027. The deadline for applying is October 1, 2026, at 23:59 (11:59 PM) in your time zone.
Bard College Berlin does not charge an application fee.

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!
 

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Sidewalk Solidarity Info and Planning Meeting

Thursday, October 1, 2026
12:30–1:30 pm

JJK Hall Cafe
Learn about the Sidewalk Solidarity initiative at Bard College Berlin! At this first meeting, we will discuss our goals for the semester and strategize for the next few weeks, as our petition deadline is quickly approaching. We will also discuss upcoming opportunities for students to get involved not only on campus, but also within the surrounding community. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Stata Workshop

Thursday, October 1, 2026
5:30–6:30 pm

Learning Commons (W16 top floor)
The event is organized mainly for the students enrolled in Introduction to Statistics course. The workshop is organized to help students get to know the statistical software for data science named "Stata". The form is of the workshop is to gain more practical experience to be able to be on board with class.

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Political Polarization and the U.S. Midterms: In Conversation with Lilliana Mason

Thursday, October 1, 2026
7 pm

Heinrich Böll Foundation - Schumannstraße 8, 10117 Berlin
In advance of historic midterm elections in the U.S., Lilliana Mason, a premier political scientist and scholar of political polarization, makes a rare appearance in Berlin to speak to the cleavages of policy and identity in today's politics. Why has partisanship become so entrenched and, for many, emotionally resonant? How do class, gender, race, age, and geography all weigh on an individual's political preferences and allegiances? Can these disagreements be channelled toward a healthy and productive democratic process—or and when do they risk estrangement, cynicism, even violence? These questions have become both more fraught and urgent in an age of hyper-partisanship and rising right-wing populist movements. Both German state elections in September and U.S. Congressional elections in November provide a relevant occasion to consider contemplate, with depth and nuance, the many undercurrents and emerging trends determining their possible answers. In conversation with Joshua Yaffa, journalist for The New Yorker and writer-in-residence at Bard College Berlin, Mason will lead a discussion on her research and its implications for democratic societies, both in the United States and Europe.

Please register through this form.

Part of series "Writing Democracy" with Heinrich Böll Foundation

Lilliana Mason is an SNF Agora Institute Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University where she is the director of the Democracy and Division Lab. She is author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity; and co-author of Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy. She has published research on partisan identity and political violence in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and National Public Radio.

Joshua Yaffa is Writer-in-Residence at Bard College Berlin. He is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia, which won the Orwell Prize in 2021. 

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Accommodations in Academia. A Conversation with Lived Experience Expert Dr. Imke Heuer

Friday, October 2, 2026
5:30–7 pm

Lecture Hall
The conversation will be dedicated to the experiences and the needs of neurodivergent students and students on the autism spectrum. Lauren Gaillard and Dr. des. Vita Zelenska will facilitate a discussion with Dr. Imke Heuer, a cultural and mental health researcher active in autistic self-advocacy. Dr. Imke Heuer will address a wide range of educational challenges from the first person perspective of a researcher and educator diagnosed with autism. She will speak about gendered perceptions of autism, assignment accommodations, masking and best practices of support.

Dr. Imke Heuer studied Literature, History and Cultural Studies in Germany, Italy and the UK, and holds a PhD in English and Related Literature. She is a research associate at the University Hospital Eppendorf/ Hamburg (UKE)/ University of Hamburg/ Germany in the field of mental health and participatory research. Her main research interests are in peer support, autism, neurodiversity and the intersections of diagnosis and diagnosis and identity. She is also active in autistic self advocacy, both in Germany and on the European level, and is a board member of the European Council of Autistic People (EUCAP).

Part of the autumn Disability Justice program from the Equal Opportunity, Participation and Nondiscrimination Office, dedicated to the disability justice movement in the US, neurodivergent classrooms, and disability intimacy. All three parts of the program will discuss how disability justice and intimacy concern all of us; how disability justice is inseparable from justice in relation to race, gender and class; how disability intimacy helps us understand the meaning of justice.

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Life After BCB: Your Residence Permit after Graduation (Jobseeker & Student Permits)

Monday, October 5, 2026
5–6 pm

Julie Johnson Kidd Hall Cafe (W15)
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 the jobseeker permit as well as 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 as well as going over how she can help in your next life chapter!

Please note that this presentation will not be recorded. If you cannot attend, please reach out to Amber Kepple Jones to schedule a meeting.

Online Meeting Link

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Film Screening and Discussion of Crip Camp with Jessica Milbern

Monday, October 5, 2026
5:30–8 pm

P98A Lecture Hall
Come join us on Monday, October 5 at 5:30PM in P98A Lecture Hall for food and a film screening of Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, followed by a discussion with guest speaker Jessica Milbern, sister of the late disability justice activist Stacey Milbern.

Crip Camp is an award-winning 2020 documentary that follows the story of Camp Jened, a free-spirited summer camp in New York that helped spark the disability rights movement. Through political organizing, they successfully fought against isolation and institutionalization to demand equal access, culminating directly in the landmark passage of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Stay after the film for a Q&A with Jessica Milbern. She will discuss the life and legacy of her sister Stacey, expressing just how much Stacey played a role in furthering the disability justice movement, including serving as Impact Producer for the promotion & message of Crip Camp.

Please register through this Google Form.

Part of the Disability Justice Program event series.

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Study Abroad Info Session & Student Panel

Tuesday, October 6, 2026
12:45–1:45 pm

Lecture Hall (P98a)
We will kick off this petition period with a General Study Abroad Info Session on Tuesday, 6 October at 12:45 in the P98a Lecture Hall.

This session will go over the petition and application processes and requirements, a brief overview of current partner institutions, Erasmus grant funding, and more.

There will also be a student panel where you will have the chance to ask your peers about their experiences abroad last academic year!

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Abendbrot

Tuesday, October 6, 2026
6:30–7:30 pm

JJK Cafe & Learning Commons
"Abendbrot" is an informal social gathering for all students interested in speaking German. Takes place bi-weekly on Tuesdays, led by your German tutors Eszter and Milo.

Dates and locations below:
September 8: JJK Cafe
September 22: Learning Commons
October 6: Learning Commons
October 27: Learning Commons
November 10: JJK Cafe
November 24: JJK Cafe
December 8: JJK Cafe

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Anatomy of an Opposition in Lebanon - Book Discussion

Thursday, October 8, 2026
12:30–2 pm

JJK Hall Cafe
Lebanon is often read as a textbook case of a deeply divided society, where sectarian identity dictates political life. Yet years of economic collapse, the Beirut port explosion, and Israeli attacks and mass displacement have reshaped the terrain on which sectarian politics operates. Anne Kirstine Rønn, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University, examines the movements contesting this order. Drawing on fieldwork across five battlegrounds, electoral politics, labour, urban space, gender and sexuality, and migration, from the 2019 October Uprising to local campaigns for inclusive public space, she maps their strategies, internal tensions, and prospects amid Lebanon's unfolding crisis.

Anne Kirstine Rønn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University. Her research focuses on political opposition and social movements in ethno-religiously divided societies, especially in Lebanon and Iraq, exploring how diasporas, labour movements, and protest dynamics shape change. Prior to joining Aarhus University, Anne Kirstine was a Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre.

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ESMT Berlin Info Session

Thursday, October 8, 2026
12:30–1:30 pm

K24, Seminar Room 11
Thinking about what comes after your bachelor’s degree or looking for an international learning experience while you are still studying? Join us to discover the opportunities available through the new partnership between Bard College Berlin and ESMT Berlin.

Learn more about the Master in Global Management, which combines a strong foundation in management with international experiences and practical projects, and the Master in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, designed for students interested in building a startup or driving innovation within an established organization.

You will also learn about the ESMT Summer School, which Bard students can attend during their bachelor’s studies. It offers the opportunity to experience ESMT’s international campus, take part in interactive classes, and connect with students from around the world. Through the partnership, eligible Bard students can apply for complimentary Summer School places.

What you can expect from the session:
- An introduction to ESMT Berlin
- An overview of both master’s programs and the ESMT Summer School
- Information about the admission process
- Insights into student life and the ESMT student experience
- Time to ask your questions directly to the ESMT team

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SLC Community Forum

Thursday, October 8, 2026
12:30–1:30 pm

JJK Hall Cafe
Join Student Life and Student Parliament for the first Student Life Committee (SLC) of the academic year. The SLC Community Forum is a regular opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to come together and to discuss topics related to life at BCB. Please join us to share your thoughts and ideas.

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Writing Under Pressure

Friday, October 9, 2026
12:30–1:15 pm

Learning Commons, W16 top floor
In this student-led writing workshop, we will outline how to improve students' in-class exam essays. We'll explain how to structure students' essays and arguments under limited time to produce the best essay as fast as possible. Then, we will put what the students have learned to practice and give them timed example essay prompts. This will be followed by discussion based on the exercises.

 

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Nina von Maltzahn Memorial Concert

Friday, October 9, 2026
7–9 pm

Französische Friedrichstadtkirche, Gendarmenmarkt 5, 10117 Berlin
Rising stars Audrey Goodner, Elliot Sloss, and Jessie Gong are joined by Curtis Institute of Music viola faculty member Ed Gazouleas for an evening of chamber music in Berlin. The program brings together Maurice Ravel’s incisive and rhythmically vibrant Sonata for Violin and Cello, the lyricism of Rachmaninoff’s Trio élégiaque, and the profound emotional depth of Brahms’ Piano Quartet in C minor. Together, these works showcase the remarkable artistry of four exceptional musicians and celebrate the rich tradition of chamber music.

Presented by Curtis Institute of Music, Bard College Berlin, and the Schwarz Foundation, in Collaboration with Young Euro Classic.

Please register through this form.

Program

RAVEL	Sonata for Violin and Cello, M. 73
RACHMANINOFF	Trio élégiaque No.1 in G minor
	Intermission
BRAHMS	Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60

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Spring '27 Internship Program Application Info Session

Tuesday, October 13, 2026
12:30–1:45 pm

JJK Hall Cafe
Interested in doing an internship for academic credit in spring 2027? Come to our info session to learn more about BCB’s Internship Program, which consists of two integrated components: an internship and a companion seminar that examines both the internship experience and labor from different fields' perspectives.

We’ll review the program, application, and answer any questions you have. The application deadline for the spring semester program is November 1, 2026.

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This Cursed Beautiful Land: In Conversation with Evan Gershkovich

Tuesday, October 13, 2026
7 pm

Heinrich Böll Foundation, Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin
In March 2023, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was meeting a source 900 miles east of Moscow when masked FSB agents stormed in, blindfolded him, and took him away. He was charged with espionage and imprisoned in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo prison. Over the next 16 months in captivity, Gershkovich was both a hostage and pawn in a larger geopolitical conflict, drawing in Russia, the U.S., and Europe. All the while, Gershkovich continued reporting, chronicling Russia’s prison system while awaiting a fate decided at the highest levels of government.

Gershkovich will present his experience on stage in Germany for the first time. His story spans topics of interest and urgency in both the U.S. and Europe: namely, how has Russia's war in Ukraine upended relations between Russia and the West, and how to make sense of a country that has increasingly become a black box? Not to mention how Russia itself has transformed, its politics darkening further and a repressive apparatus gaining ever more momentum.

In This Cursed Beautiful Land, Gershkovich recounts his arrest, imprisonment, and the historic prisoner exchange that secured his freedom, with an eye toward understanding for himself and explaining to the outside world a country that remains enigmatic. In conversation with Joshua Yaffa, who covered Russia for The New Yorker for many years, he will speak to the many harrowing details and important lessons of his own story for transatlantic audiences.

Please register through this Google form.

Part of the event series "Writing Democracy" in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Evan Gershkovich is a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Born in New Jersey to Soviet émigrés, he lived in Russia for over five years before his 2023 arrest and subsequent sixteen-month imprisonment on false espionage charges. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Economist and Foreign Policy, and he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2025 as part of an investigative team for The Journal.

Joshua Yaffa is Writer-in-Residence at Bard College Berlin. He is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia, which won the Orwell Prize in 2021.

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Study Abroad Info Session Part 2: Partner Institutions

Wednesday, October 14, 2026
12:45–1:45 pm

Online Event
This session will include a more in-depth overview of the various partner institutions for study abroad. Depending on the availability of time, it is possible to quickly review the general information from the info session that took place last week for those unable to attend the first info session.

Online Meeting Link

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Hertie Info Session: Joint BA-Master's Degree Program

Thursday, October 15, 2026
12:30–1:30 pm

Lecture Hall
Information session on the Joint BA-Master's Degree Program pathway at Hertie. This session will cover the 5-year BA-Master's Program between Bard College Berlin and the Hertie School. Open to all students, but with focus on EPST students concentrating in Politics or Economics, or HAST students concentrating in Ethics and Politics.

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Performing Science and Medicine (Online Lecture Series)

Tuesday, October 27, 2026 – Thursday, September 24, 2026
6–7:30 pm

Online Event
Performing Science and Medicine is an online lecture series that treats performance as a mode of inquiry, an active method for thinking through the often interrelated fields of science and medicine. By inviting scholars, artists, theatre practitioners, and those working across these fields, the series aims to prompt cross-disciplinary discussion on performance as a productive framework for critically examining topics such as the relational dynamics between experimenters and research subjects, the entanglements of artistic and scientific experimentation, and the pedagogical and epistemic possibilities of theatre in medical education. The series is open to all humanities and performance studies scholars and students, as well as practitioners interested in the connections between performance and science and medicine. Here is the Zoom link to attend the lectures: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89442837009. No registration is required.

For more information on the lecture series, you can visit the dedicated page on our website: https://www.performingscienceandmedicine.com/lecture-series

Line-up of speakers:
October 27, 6–7:30 pm CET — Yelena Gluzman
The Dramaturgy of Personhood in Social Cognition Experiments

November 24, 6–7:30 pm CET — Dehlia Hannah
Performative Experiments

December 15, 6–7:30 pm CET — Ken Arnold, Sasha Bergstrom-Katz & Michele Luchetti
Performing Science and Medicine Meets the Medical Museion: An Interdisciplinary Conversation

January 19, 6–7:30 pm CET — Christopher Salter & Philippe Sormani
Design F(r)iction: Projects, Problems, and Practices

February 23, 6–7:30 pm CET — Laura Forlano
PerformingType 1 Diabetes Data

March 23, 12:00–1:30 pm CET — Jonathan Marshall (note: different time)
Charcot as Dramaturg: Relations between Charcot’s Practice & the Worlds of Performance, 1870s to the Present

April 20, 6–7:30 pm CET — Stephen Scott-Bottoms
When Prophecies Produce: On the Performativity of Prediction in Experimental Psychology

May 24, 6–7:30 pm CET — Hannah Star Rogers
Exending Art-Science-Technology Studies through Embodied Practice

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The Value of Diversity

Tuesday, October 27, 2026
7:30–10 pm

Julie Johnson Kidd Hall - Waldstraße 15, 13165 Berlin
Why do we value diversity, and what kind of value is it? In their brand new books, Diversity: The History of a Wandering Value and The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea, historian of science Lorraine Daston and legal scholar David B. Oppenheimer answer these questions by tracing the lineage of the value of diversity in natural history and debates over academic freedom, in court cases and in displays of imperial power.

Drawing on their books, they will explore the changing meanings of diversity and the arguments that have been made it a value, both past and present. In a friendly exchange that welcomes disagreement, they will ask where the case for diversity is strongest, where it may clash with other values, and what its history can teach us about the contentious debates over diversity today.

In cooperation with Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin

Lorraine Daston is Director emerita at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Her work spans a broad range of topics in the early modern and modern history of science, including probability and statistics, wonders and the order of nature, scientific images, objectivity, observation, rules, and the moral authority of nature. Her most recent books are Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (2022), Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate (2023), and Diversity: The History of a Wandering Value (2026). She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Philosophical Society, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Leopoldina, and a corresponding member of the British Academy.

David B. Oppenheimer is a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and Co-Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law. He holds a JD degree from Harvard. In his clinical work he has consulted on over 100 discrimination and harassment cases in Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America. He is the author or editor of ten books on US and global discrimination law. His newest book, The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea, was published in 2026 by Yale University Press.

Please register in advance via Google Form.
 

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Philosophy, Politics, and the Possible: Plato's Seventh Letter in Dialogue with the Republic

Thursday, October 29, 2026
7:30–9 pm

Lecture Hall
In this lecture, BCB alum Schuyler Curriden '21 will introduce his recent work on Plato's much debated Seventh Letter. In the Seventh Letter, Plato tells the story of his failed attempt to convert the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius II to philosophy and thereby to improve his regime. In elucidating the reasons for his failure, he outlines the real limitations on the power of theory and education to intervene in the political realm. With these limitations in mind, we can reevaluate the feasibility of the Republic’s political program and ask anew, what is the Republic for?

Schuyler Curriden completed his Bachelor's at Deep Springs College and Bard College Berlin. He currently studies Ancient Greek philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His interests include the relationship between fiction and philosophy and the place of the political in philosophy. He is the editor of Plato’s Seventh Letter, by James Redfield (Hackett, 2026).