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BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2024Runs through Friday, May 10, 2024This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 22 to May 10. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior, and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.Monday, April 22 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, Lecture Hall Sarah Wolbach, "The New Marriage Plot: Sally Rooney and the Legacy of Jane Austen" Monday, April 29 | 11:30am-12:00pm, P24 SR 8 Camila Rosales, "Reconceiving Spaces of Consumption: A Look into Interactions in a Berlin Mall" Monday, April 29 | 11:30am-12:00pm, Lecture Hall Ana Mihajlovska, "Empty Shelves: Causes of the Toilet Paper Shortage During the Covid-19 Crisis in the U.S." Monday, April 29 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, P24 SR 8 Tay Mitchell, "Multiculturalism and the Promotion of Yiddishism through Labour Unions: An Archival Research" Monday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Olivia Thayer, "Structures of Change: The Breaking of Binaries in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook" Monday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8 Renata Álvarez León, "Reclaiming the Capital: Women's Reappropriation of Urban Public Spaces in Mexico City" Monday, April 29 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, P24 SR 8 Carla Schwingler, "(In)Accessible Education: A Case Study of Bard College Berlin" Monday, April 29 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall Jasmine Ahmed, "Making Waves in the Pacific: Examining the Reasons behind the Chinese Naval Build Up; and the Potential US response" Monday, April 29 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, Lecture Hall Aisha Khurram, "Education as a Lifeline; The Imperative of Including Education as a Humanitarian Response in Afghanistan" Monday, April 29 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, Lecture Hall Ayman Ndam Njoya, "Navigating Modernity: Assessing the Leverage of Traditional Authorities within a Republic and Decentralized Territorial Collectivities " Monday, April 29 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, Lecture Hall Sultana Taib, "The Socio-Economic Implications of Policy Reforms in Higher Education: A Case of the UK" Tuesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Mouadh Elarbi, "Microfinance in North Africa: Learning from Past Failures" Tuesday, April 30 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall Anđela Despotović, "In Search of a Mother’s Tongue: Dinçer Güçyeter’s Unser Deutschlandmärchen as a Writing in 'Postmonolingual' Condition" Thursday, May 2 | 11:30am-12:00pm, W70 SR 10 Eve Sanchez, "A Critical Inquiry into Israel’s Mobilization of Happiness Discourse to Stimulate Normalization of Occupation: Exploring the Relationship Between Governments and National Happiness" Thursday, May 2 | 11:30am-12:00pm, W15 Cafe Elma Talić, "Where Did The Enemy Go? Performing LAIBACH In Post-Ideological Era" Thursday, May 2 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, W70 SR 10 Milica Vučić, "Democracy in Crisis: a Historical Analysis from the Time of Kemalist Reforms to the AKP and How Secularism Became the Defining Force of Turkish Politics" Thursday, May 2 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, W15 Cafe Wanda Alvesová, "Staging Authenticity: An Exploration of ‘Real People’ in She She Pop’s Theatre" Thursday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 2 Lara Habboub, "The Algorithmic Oracle: Decoding the Human-Machine Feedback Loop of Value Capture" Thursday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8 Andrea Kalife de la Garza, "A Symbolic Disorder: Language & Addiction" Tuesday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR 11 Andrej Jovičić, "Jugonostalgija: The Response to the Aftermath of Genocidal and Economic Violence in Post-Conflict and Post-Transition Bosnia and Herzegovina" Thursday, May 2 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, K24 SR 11 Salma Barakat, "Settler Colonialism in Kashmir and Palestine: Exploring Themes of Ecocide, Memoricide, and Spaciocide" Thursday, May 2 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, P24 SR 8 Jacob Horack, "Artificial Cognition: An Ethics of the Creation of Minds" Friday, May 3 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall Maia Angela Villarica, "Democracy and Disinformation: Addressing the Problem of Post-Truth in Social Media" Friday, May 3 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall Harri Thomas, "Peace After Parapolitics: The Red Right Hand of Liberal Democracy and its Challenges for Peacebuilding" Friday, May 3 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, Lecture Hall Isabel Castro Dominguez, "Safeguarding Indigenous Cultural Heritage in the Face of Land Grabbing in the Colombian Amazon" Monday, May 6 | 11:30am-12:00pm, Lecture Hall Hang Nguyen, "Echoed Narratives: Transnational and Transgenerational Memories of Former Vietnamese Contract Workers in Germany" Monday, May 6 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall Julia Mazal, "Redefining 'Arte Popular' in Mexico. Past and Present" Monday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR 2 Selo Uğuzeş, "Aesthetics, Politics, and Life: Autonomous Zones as Places of Cultural Production" Monday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8 Lilith Gao, "Limits of Universality: Reassessing Xu Bing's Language Experiments" Monday, May 6 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall Ibrar Mirzai, "Energy, Infrastructure, and Sustainability, Mapping Ukraine's Post-War Reconstruction with EU Alignment" Monday, May 6 | 1:00-1:30pm, P24 SR 8 Zoe Whiteman, "Metamorphic Digestion: The Aesthetic’s of Fear in La Casa Lobo" Monday, May 6 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, Lecture Hall Kai Bradley-Gutiérrez de Terán, "Consitutional Barriers: Evaluating the Efficiency of the German Constitution in Safeguarding Against Fascist Resurgence" Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8 Rylee Mora, "Historical Narratives of Artificial Intelligence and their Ethical Implications" Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR 1 Abdullah Zahidi, "The European Union's Regulatory Framework for Crypto-Assets: The Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation" Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR 2 Yensen LeBeau, "The Cost of Being Known: How Overexposure to Media Online Leads to Apathetic and Extreme Identity" Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR 12 Héctor Miró Beltrán, "Byung-Chul Han’s Catalunya: An Understanding of the Catalan Independence Movement through Han's Psychopolitics" Tuesday, May 7 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, P98 SR 2 Izzy Monroe, "The Subject of Accountability: Bridging Critical Theory and Transformative Justice Practice" Tuesday, May 7 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, K24 SR 11 Maria Castillo Gomez, "Under the Banner of Peace and Friendship: Latin American Intellectuals Interpreting Soviet Cultural Diplomacy at the 1957 Moscow World Youth Festival" Tuesday, May 7 | 1:00pm, 1:30pm, P24 SR 8 Leonie Hüppe, "More-than-Human Storytelling and Interspecies Communication in Richard Powers' The Overstory" Tuesday, May 7 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, K24 SR 11 Gracie Kuppenbender, "Embracing Modernity: An Exploration of Young Indigenous Artists' Search for Cultural Preservation" Tuesday, May 7 | 3:45pm-4:15pm, K24 SR 12 Grace Klein, "Unveiling the Layers: Deconstructing Ethnic and Racial Hierarchies in Zionist Thought" Wednesday, May 8 | 10:00am-10:30am, Lecture Hall Imogen Hilton-Barber, "Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and South Africa's 'Neutrality'" Wednesday, May 8 | 10:00am-10:30am, W15 Cafe Katie Lyle, "The Connection Between Death and Nightmare in the Art of Bosch and Redon" Wednesday, May 8 | 10:30am-11:00am, W15 Cafe Kaitlyn Woodburn, "Colonizing The Stars: Space Age Aesthetics and High Frontier Visions of Utopia" Wednesday, May 8 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe Elena Eßer, "Examining The Difference Between Counterterrorism Policies In Right-Wing Extremism And Islamic Extremism - A Case Study Of Germany" Wednesday, May 8 | 11:00am-11:30am, P24 SR 8 Lena Brun, "Stories for a Better World: The Interaction Between Jewish Storytelling and Speculative Fiction" Wednesday, May 8 | 11:30am-12:00pm, W15 Cafe Júlia Tamási, "From 'Existing Socialism' to Existing Capitalism - What Can we Learn from Hungary's Transition" Wednesday, May 8 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, P24 SR 8 Lily Ellerbrock, "Soft Facts of Education: A Student's Guide to Creativity" Wednesday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8 Fiona French, "Empowered Mothering: Painterly Expressions of Motherhood in Contemporary Art" Wednesday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR 11 Christin Alhalabi, "Peddling, Assimilation and Racial Democracy, Levantine Arab Memory in Rio de Janeiro" Wednesday, May 8 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall Drinlon Madani, "The Different Effects of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation on Employees' Job Engagement and Satisfaction" Wednesday, May 8 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, P98 SR 2 Jasmin Rossi, "Policy Analysis of the Government Subsidized Psychotherapy in Finland - Who is Eligible and Why?" Friday, May 10 | 9:15am-09:45am, P98 SR 2 Bianca Hopkins Friday, May 10 | 9:45am-10:15am, P98 SR 2 Deborah Cesar Oliveira, "To What Extent do Different Countries' Data Regulations Limit Interpol's Role in Combating Cross-Border Financial Crimes? A Case Study on the United States" Friday, May 10 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR 2 Attila Noyan, "Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2001-2021) and the Hazara Genocide" Friday, May 10 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR 2 Frances Grimm, "From the Mine Wars to a Just Transition: A Marxist Analysis of the UMWA" Online Daria Khomiakova, "The Arctic - A Political Struggle for Sustainable Development" Final Application DeadlineApplication deadline for citizens and residents of EU/EEA and Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, USWednesday, May 1, 2024Online EventBard College Berlin accepts applications for entry to the BA and Academy Year programs in Fall 2024. The final deadline for applying is May 1, at 23:59 in your time zone. Eligible applicants are citizens and residents of the EU and EEA, as well as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, US. For more information on eligibility and application requirements, please refer to How to Apply. 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! 1
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"Offenes Haus" - DerDieDas Haus Info-SessionThursday, May 2, 2024W15 Café |
Literary Reading by the Students of Clare Wigfall's Advanced Fiction Writing WorkshopFriday, May 3, 2024Wein Salon (Schreinerstraße 59, Friedrichshain, 10247 Berlin) |
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De-Stress FestMonday, May 6, 2024 – Wednesday, May 8, 2024Pomodoro Power Two: 25-Minute Study SessionsMonday, May 6 | 4:00pm-7:00pm Learning Commons Our Pomodoro Technique study session for a structured approach to focused studying. Tutors will guide 25-minute intense study intervals, followed by 5 minute breaks with snacks and hot drinks. After 4 rounds, take a longer break with some laid-back board games. Lawn Games & Pet Day Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm KW Lawn (rain location: W15 Cafe) Join us on the lawn between K30 and W15 for light snacks, fun lawn games and some time with BCB’s furry, four-legged friends! Late Night Study Breakfast Wednesday, May 8 | 6:00pm-7:00pm W15 Cafe Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Student Life Staff will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages. Contact: [email protected] Open Studios at MonopolMonday, May 6, 2024Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409 Berlin) |
De-Stress FestMonday, May 6, 2024 – Wednesday, May 8, 2024Pomodoro Power Two: 25-Minute Study SessionsMonday, May 6 | 4:00pm-7:00pm Learning Commons Our Pomodoro Technique study session for a structured approach to focused studying. Tutors will guide 25-minute intense study intervals, followed by 5 minute breaks with snacks and hot drinks. After 4 rounds, take a longer break with some laid-back board games. Lawn Games & Pet Day Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm KW Lawn (rain location: W15 Cafe) Join us on the lawn between K30 and W15 for light snacks, fun lawn games and some time with BCB’s furry, four-legged friends! Late Night Study Breakfast Wednesday, May 8 | 6:00pm-7:00pm W15 Cafe Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Student Life Staff will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages. Contact: [email protected] BCB English HourTuesday, May 7, 2024Bard College Berlin and Amtshaus Buchholz |
De-Stress FestMonday, May 6, 2024 – Wednesday, May 8, 2024Pomodoro Power Two: 25-Minute Study SessionsMonday, May 6 | 4:00pm-7:00pm Learning Commons Our Pomodoro Technique study session for a structured approach to focused studying. Tutors will guide 25-minute intense study intervals, followed by 5 minute breaks with snacks and hot drinks. After 4 rounds, take a longer break with some laid-back board games. Lawn Games & Pet Day Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm KW Lawn (rain location: W15 Cafe) Join us on the lawn between K30 and W15 for light snacks, fun lawn games and some time with BCB’s furry, four-legged friends! Late Night Study Breakfast Wednesday, May 8 | 6:00pm-7:00pm W15 Cafe Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Student Life Staff will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages. Contact: [email protected] Open Studios and Performance FactoryWednesday, May 8, 2024BCB Factory (Eichenstraße 43, 13156 Berlin) |
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Literal Selves/Literary Selves: A Symposium on AutofictionMonday, May 13, 2024P24 Seminar Room 8 (Platanenstraße 24, 13156) |
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Commencement 2024 - 25th Anniversary CelebrationSaturday, May 18, 2024Ballhaus Pankow (Grabbeallee 53, 13156 Berlin) |
Alumni Brunch - 25th Anniversary CelebrationSunday, May 19, 2024Bard College Berlin is delighted to welcome alumni to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of BCB at an Alumni Brunch. Join us to reunite with classmates and faculty, and see what is new on the Bard College Berlin campus. A continental-style brunch will be served. |
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Curtis on TourFriday, May 31, 2024Konzerthaus Berlin (Gendarmenmarkt 2, 10117 Berlin) |
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Monday, April 22 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, Lecture Hall
Sarah Wolbach, "The New Marriage Plot: Sally Rooney and the Legacy of Jane Austen"
Monday, April 29 | 11:30am-12:00pm, P24 SR 8
Camila Rosales, "Reconceiving Spaces of Consumption: A Look into Interactions in a Berlin Mall"
Monday, April 29 | 11:30am-12:00pm, Lecture Hall
Ana Mihajlovska, "Empty Shelves: Causes of the Toilet Paper Shortage During the Covid-19 Crisis in the U.S."
Monday, April 29 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, P24 SR 8
Tay Mitchell, "Multiculturalism and the Promotion of Yiddishism through Labour Unions: An Archival Research"
Monday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Olivia Thayer, "Structures of Change: The Breaking of Binaries in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook"
Monday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8
Renata Álvarez León, "Reclaiming the Capital: Women's Reappropriation of Urban Public Spaces in Mexico City"
Monday, April 29 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, P24 SR 8
Carla Schwingler, "(In)Accessible Education: A Case Study of Bard College Berlin"
Monday, April 29 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Jasmine Ahmed, "Making Waves in the Pacific: Examining the Reasons behind the Chinese Naval Build Up; and the Potential US response"
Monday, April 29 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, Lecture Hall
Aisha Khurram, "Education as a Lifeline; The Imperative of Including Education as a Humanitarian Response in Afghanistan"
Monday, April 29 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, Lecture Hall
Ayman Ndam Njoya, "Navigating Modernity: Assessing the Leverage of Traditional Authorities within a Republic and Decentralized Territorial Collectivities "
Monday, April 29 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, Lecture Hall
Sultana Taib, "The Socio-Economic Implications of Policy Reforms in Higher Education: A Case of the UK"
Tuesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Mouadh Elarbi, "Microfinance in North Africa: Learning from Past Failures"
Tuesday, April 30 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Anđela Despotović, "In Search of a Mother’s Tongue: Dinçer Güçyeter’s Unser Deutschlandmärchen as a Writing in 'Postmonolingual' Condition"
Thursday, May 2 | 11:30am-12:00pm, W70 SR 10
Eve Sanchez, "A Critical Inquiry into Israel’s Mobilization of Happiness Discourse to Stimulate Normalization of Occupation: Exploring the Relationship Between Governments and National Happiness"
Thursday, May 2 | 11:30am-12:00pm, W15 Cafe
Elma Talić, "Where Did The Enemy Go? Performing LAIBACH In Post-Ideological Era"
Thursday, May 2 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, W70 SR 10
Milica Vučić, "Democracy in Crisis: a Historical Analysis from the Time of Kemalist Reforms to the AKP and How Secularism Became the Defining Force of Turkish Politics"
Thursday, May 2 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, W15 Cafe
Wanda Alvesová, "Staging Authenticity: An Exploration of ‘Real People’ in She She Pop’s Theatre"
Thursday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 2
Lara Habboub, "The Algorithmic Oracle: Decoding the Human-Machine Feedback Loop of Value Capture"
Thursday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8
Andrea Kalife de la Garza, "A Symbolic Disorder: Language & Addiction"
Tuesday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR 11
Andrej Jovičić, "Jugonostalgija: The Response to the Aftermath of Genocidal and Economic Violence in Post-Conflict and Post-Transition Bosnia and Herzegovina"
Thursday, May 2 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, K24 SR 11
Salma Barakat, "Settler Colonialism in Kashmir and Palestine: Exploring Themes of Ecocide, Memoricide, and Spaciocide"
Thursday, May 2 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, P24 SR 8
Jacob Horack, "Artificial Cognition: An Ethics of the Creation of Minds"
Friday, May 3 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Maia Angela Villarica, "Democracy and Disinformation: Addressing the Problem of Post-Truth in Social Media"
Friday, May 3 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Harri Thomas, "Peace After Parapolitics: The Red Right Hand of Liberal Democracy and its Challenges for Peacebuilding"
Friday, May 3 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, Lecture Hall
Isabel Castro Dominguez, "Safeguarding Indigenous Cultural Heritage in the Face of Land Grabbing in the Colombian Amazon"
Monday, May 6 | 11:30am-12:00pm, Lecture Hall
Hang Nguyen, "Echoed Narratives: Transnational and Transgenerational Memories of Former Vietnamese Contract Workers in Germany"
Monday, May 6 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall
Julia Mazal, "Redefining 'Arte Popular' in Mexico. Past and Present"
Monday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR 2
Selo Uğuzeş, "Aesthetics, Politics, and Life: Autonomous Zones as Places of Cultural Production"
Monday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8
Lilith Gao, "Limits of Universality: Reassessing Xu Bing's Language Experiments"
Monday, May 6 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Ibrar Mirzai, "Energy, Infrastructure, and Sustainability, Mapping Ukraine's Post-War Reconstruction with EU Alignment"
Monday, May 6 | 1:00-1:30pm, P24 SR 8
Zoe Whiteman, "Metamorphic Digestion: The Aesthetic’s of Fear in La Casa Lobo"
Monday, May 6 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, Lecture Hall
Kai Bradley-Gutiérrez de Terán, "Consitutional Barriers: Evaluating the Efficiency of the German Constitution in Safeguarding Against Fascist Resurgence"
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8
Rylee Mora, "Historical Narratives of Artificial Intelligence and their Ethical Implications"
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR 1
Abdullah Zahidi, "The European Union's Regulatory Framework for Crypto-Assets: The Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation"
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR 2
Yensen LeBeau, "The Cost of Being Known: How Overexposure to Media Online Leads to Apathetic and Extreme Identity"
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR 12
Héctor Miró Beltrán, "Byung-Chul Han’s Catalunya: An Understanding of the Catalan Independence Movement through Han's Psychopolitics"
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, P98 SR 2
Izzy Monroe, "The Subject of Accountability: Bridging Critical Theory and Transformative Justice Practice"
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, K24 SR 11
Maria Castillo Gomez, "Under the Banner of Peace and Friendship: Latin American Intellectuals Interpreting Soviet Cultural Diplomacy at the 1957 Moscow World Youth Festival"
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:00pm, 1:30pm, P24 SR 8
Leonie Hüppe, "More-than-Human Storytelling and Interspecies Communication in Richard Powers' The Overstory"
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, K24 SR 11
Gracie Kuppenbender, "Embracing Modernity: An Exploration of Young Indigenous Artists' Search for Cultural Preservation"
Tuesday, May 7 | 3:45pm-4:15pm, K24 SR 12
Grace Klein, "Unveiling the Layers: Deconstructing Ethnic and Racial Hierarchies in Zionist Thought"
Wednesday, May 8 | 10:00am-10:30am, Lecture Hall
Imogen Hilton-Barber, "Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and South Africa's 'Neutrality'"
Wednesday, May 8 | 10:00am-10:30am, W15 Cafe
Katie Lyle, "The Connection Between Death and Nightmare in the Art of Bosch and Redon"
Wednesday, May 8 | 10:30am-11:00am, W15 Cafe
Kaitlyn Woodburn, "Colonizing The Stars: Space Age Aesthetics and High Frontier Visions of Utopia"
Wednesday, May 8 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe
Elena Eßer, "Examining The Difference Between Counterterrorism Policies In Right-Wing Extremism And Islamic Extremism - A Case Study Of Germany"
Wednesday, May 8 | 11:00am-11:30am, P24 SR 8
Lena Brun, "Stories for a Better World: The Interaction Between Jewish Storytelling and Speculative Fiction"
Wednesday, May 8 | 11:30am-12:00pm, W15 Cafe
Júlia Tamási, "From 'Existing Socialism' to Existing Capitalism - What Can we Learn from Hungary's Transition"
Wednesday, May 8 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, P24 SR 8
Lily Ellerbrock, "Soft Facts of Education: A Student's Guide to Creativity"
Wednesday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8
Fiona French, "Empowered Mothering: Painterly Expressions of Motherhood in Contemporary Art"
Wednesday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR 11
Christin Alhalabi, "Peddling, Assimilation and Racial Democracy, Levantine Arab Memory in Rio de Janeiro"
Wednesday, May 8 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Drinlon Madani, "The Different Effects of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation on Employees' Job Engagement and Satisfaction"
Wednesday, May 8 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, P98 SR 2
Jasmin Rossi, "Policy Analysis of the Government Subsidized Psychotherapy in Finland - Who is Eligible and Why?"
Friday, May 10 | 9:15am-09:45am, P98 SR 2
Bianca Hopkins
Friday, May 10 | 9:45am-10:15am, P98 SR 2
Deborah Cesar Oliveira, "To What Extent do Different Countries' Data Regulations Limit Interpol's Role in Combating Cross-Border Financial Crimes? A Case Study on the United States"
Friday, May 10 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR 2
Attila Noyan, "Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2001-2021) and the Hazara Genocide"
Friday, May 10 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR 2
Frances Grimm, "From the Mine Wars to a Just Transition: A Marxist Analysis of the UMWA"
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Daria Khomiakova, "The Arctic - A Political Struggle for Sustainable Development"
Bard College Berlin accepts applications for entry to the BA and Academy Year programs in Fall 2024. The final deadline for applying is May 1, at 23:59 in your time zone.
Eligible applicants are citizens and residents of the EU and EEA, as well as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, US. For more information on eligibility and application requirements, please refer to How to Apply.
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!
Thursday, May 2, 2024
W15 Café
Members of “DerDieDas Haus” and the BCB German Program will host an “Offenes Haus” with snacks and drinks.
The “DerDieDas Haus” is a living and learning community at BCB with a special focus on German language and culture. Students with an interest in exploring German in their daily lives share a designated floor in one of our residence halls. They use German amongst each other during the week and engage in extracurricular activities in the city. To find out more about how the projects works, how to apply for a place etc., please join us on Thursday, May 2, at 7:00pm in the Café at W15.
Friday, May 3, 2024
Wein Salon (Schreinerstraße 59, Friedrichshain, 10247 Berlin)
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. Please join us for a cozy and intimate (but also a little bit riotous, let's be frank) evening of beautiful and surprising stories and words written by Clare's advanced students. All BCB students, alumni, friends, and faculty members are warmly welcome.
Writers presenting: Severin Birchak, Alma Dasberg, Helena Gąsiejewska, Yensen LeBeau, Alice Quinn, Matthew Shareshian, Nick Teploukhov, Olivia Thayer, Tay Mitchell
Monday, May 6 | 4:00pm-7:00pm
Learning Commons
Our Pomodoro Technique study session for a structured approach to focused studying. Tutors will guide 25-minute intense study intervals, followed by 5 minute breaks with snacks and hot drinks. After 4 rounds, take a longer break with some laid-back board games.
Lawn Games & Pet Day
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm
KW Lawn (rain location: W15 Cafe)
Join us on the lawn between K30 and W15 for light snacks, fun lawn games and some time with BCB’s furry, four-legged friends!
Late Night Study Breakfast
Wednesday, May 8 | 6:00pm-7:00pm
W15 Cafe
Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Student Life Staff will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Monday, May 6, 2024
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409 Berlin)
BCB’s celebrated end-of-the-semester arts tradition returns: Open Studios & Performance Factory. All are welcome to this 3-night event on the evenings of May 6, 7, 8 as visual and performing arts students showcase their work at Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409 Berlin); at Ballhaus Ost (Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin); and at the BCB Factory (Eichenstraße 43, 13156 Berlin).
Open Studios at Monopol on Monday, May 6 is an exhibition of visual art featuring student artworks from the following classes:
FA103 Found Fragments and Layered Lines: mixed-media techniques for drawing and collage
FA112 Marble Stone Sculpture
FA113 Introduction to Glass Making
FA215 Painting and Beyond
FA317 Advanced Painting: Illusionistic Surfaces
FA318 Advanced Painting: Color in Practice
HI255 Research-Creation: Developing Artistic Responses to the History of Exile and of Friendship in Dark Times
At 6:00pm, the students in the glass blowing course (FA113 Introduction to Glass Making) will be offering a demonstration.
Monday, May 6, 2024
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409 Berlin)
We are experiencing first-hand that unfreedom and complicity with injustice not only prevail in dictatorships but also affect democracies. Hanah Arendt conceputalized the loss of freedom as a loss of the world: when the spaces for collective action become ever narrower and people withdraw into the private. "In history, the times are frequent when the space of the public sphere darkens and the existence of the world becomes so questionable that people demand no more from politics than that it takes due account of their vital interests and private liberty." A historical response to political oppression and dehumanization has always been solidarity: equality in shared suffering, "brotherhood/sisterhood". But Hannah Arendt, with Lessing, was interested in a different kind of response: friendship. Friendship, when it is understood as a conversation, as a shared participation in the world, is lived plurality, and in friendship, even under oppressive conditions, space for the public and for politics emerges again.
Our exhibition and discussion event deals with the political potentials, contexts, and ambivalences of friendship. In order to regain the world in and through our relationships, we need - again following Hannah Arendt - a constant and free movement of thought: constant learning and unlearning, even in contradictions. The exhibition shows our students' artistic and research-based appraoches to friendship in dark times. We will hear from the writer Priya Basil, the artist Yehudit Yinhar, and the curator Daria Prydybailo about how politics and friendship are connected for them. And we will discuss, in a "fishbowl" format, political learning and unlearning processes that we have taken on for friendships or through friendships.
The exhibition event is taking place as part of an Open Society University Network (OSUN) course and includes works from our partner classes at Universidad dee los Andes/Bogota and Witwatersrand University/Johannesburg as well as works from guest students.
There will be drinks and Afghan Burgers from the Afghanistan Awareness Initiative.
This event is taking place during BCB's Open Studios at Monopol.
Monday, May 6, 2024
Jägerstraße 54, 10117 Berlin
For many years, Nathan Thrall's writing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been bracing, enlightening, and urgent—not to mention essential. His reporting and analysis have penetrated deeply into the histories and psyches of both peoples, while not shying away from the complicated reality on the ground, where Thrall has extensive sources and contacts.
The Financial Times called Thrall “one of the best-informed and most trenchant observers of the conflict," while Time declared him “an American analyst with a severe allergy to conventional wisdom.” In 2023, Thrall published A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, which was immediately the subject of laudatory reviews and made several end-of- year best book lists. (“A powerful evocation of a two-tiered society," The New Yorker wrote: “A vital, important book," declared the Washington Post.)
In conversation with Joshua Yaffa, a writer for The New Yorker, Thrall will share his expertise on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at a time of heightened violence and suffering, relaying both the searing personal stories he has collected and also his insight into the larger dynamics at play in the region. The conversation will be frank and provocative, but, like Thrall's writings, rigorously fact-based and rooted in a deep knowledge of history and politics. This is a rare opportunity to see a writer of Thrall's caliber hold forth on some of the most pressing questions of the day in a live setting.
This event will be held off-campus at Jägerstraße 54, 10117 Berlin. Please RSVP through this Google Form.
Nathan Thrall is the author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, which was named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, The Economist, The New Republic, and the Financial Times, and selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. His previous book, The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine, was published in 2017. His articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Thrall’s writing has been cited in the United Nations Security Council, General Assembly, and Human Rights Council, as well as in reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. He spent a decade at the International Crisis Group, where he was director of the Arab-Israeli Project, and has taught at Bard College.
Joshua Yaffa is a contributing writer for The New Yorker. He is also the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia, which won the Orwell Prize in 2021. He has also written for Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, National Geographic, and other publications. He is currently the inaugural writer-in-residence at Bard College Berlin and was previously a fellow at The American Academy in Berlin.
Monday, May 6 | 4:00pm-7:00pm
Learning Commons
Our Pomodoro Technique study session for a structured approach to focused studying. Tutors will guide 25-minute intense study intervals, followed by 5 minute breaks with snacks and hot drinks. After 4 rounds, take a longer break with some laid-back board games.
Lawn Games & Pet Day
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm
KW Lawn (rain location: W15 Cafe)
Join us on the lawn between K30 and W15 for light snacks, fun lawn games and some time with BCB’s furry, four-legged friends!
Late Night Study Breakfast
Wednesday, May 8 | 6:00pm-7:00pm
W15 Cafe
Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Student Life Staff will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Bard College Berlin and Amtshaus Buchholz
The English Hour is a weekly meeting space for people from our campus neighborhood to improve their English skills through conversation, build new connections, and bridge gaps between different cultures.
English Hour - Tutoring for High School Students: Wednesdays, 18:00-19:00
Location: K30 Lounge (Kuckhoffstr. 30, 13156 Berlin)
Free volunteer-run English tutoring on BCB campus for local high school students on a weekly basis. Register via [email protected].
English Hour - Conversation Round: Wednesdays, 19:00-20:00
Location: P24 Conference Room (Platanenstr. 24, 13156 Berlin)
Open to all who want to practice English through conversation. Register via [email protected].
BCB English Hour @ Amtshaus Buchholz: Tuesdays, 19:00-20:00
Location: NBZ Amtshaus Buchholz (Rosenthaler Weg 32, 13127 Berlin)
Die English Hour wird im Nachbarschaftszentrum Amtshaus Buchholz von internationalen Studentinnen und Studenten des Bard College Berlin angeboten, die zum Teil selbst nur wenig Deutsch sprechen und sich über den Sprachaustausch freuen. Das Angebot ist offen für alle, die Lust haben, ein bisschen auf Englisch ins Gespräch zu kommen und dazuzulernen.
Anmeldung unter: [email protected] oder 030 - 4758 472. Teilnahmegebühr: 1€.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
P24 Conference Room (Platanenstr. 24, 13156 Berlin)
Open Classroom is a student-led initiative held on Tuesdays that allows neighbors to experience university-level courses taught at BCB. The initiative seeks to foster a dialogue between students and the broader Pankow community. This semester, students will share their knowledge from the course Dystopian Fiction, an undergraduate-level course taught at Bard College Berlin.
Dystopian fiction often involves bleak, post-apocalyptic futures scarred by environmental disaster, societal collapse, totalitarian control or technological subjugation. But, more than simply presenting depressing images, dystopian fiction also offers fruitful ground for questioning today’s world and re-envisioning a more just society. Through a mix of novels, films and short stories, we’ll grapple with climate change, artificial intelligence, authoritarianism and migration and explore questions of freedom, belonging, care and how to find hope in the face of overwhelming crisis. A central focus of the course will be investigating what role fiction can play in helping us imagine and shape the future.
Register via [email protected].
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Ballhaus Ost (Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin)
Curtain up: BCB at Ballhaus Ost! Final performance showcase of Nina Tecklenburg’s class TH315 Making Theater in Berlin: A Collaboration with Ballhaus Ost.
Based on the knowledge and skills that the students gained from professional theater and performance artists, curators and theater technicians at Ballhaus Ost, the students devised their own performance projects in the second half of the semester. Three short pieces will be presented on the stage of Ballhaus Ost on May 7 at 8pm. Come along, laugh and cry, and stay for drinks and Karaoke!
Part of BCB’s celebrated end-of-the-semester arts tradition: Open Studios & Performance Factory. All are welcome to this 3-night event on the evenings of May 6, 7, 8 as visual and performing arts students showcase their work at Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409 Berlin); at Ballhaus Ost (Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin); and at the BCB Factory (Eichenstraße 43, 13156 Berlin).
Monday, May 6 | 4:00pm-7:00pm
Learning Commons
Our Pomodoro Technique study session for a structured approach to focused studying. Tutors will guide 25-minute intense study intervals, followed by 5 minute breaks with snacks and hot drinks. After 4 rounds, take a longer break with some laid-back board games.
Lawn Games & Pet Day
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm
KW Lawn (rain location: W15 Cafe)
Join us on the lawn between K30 and W15 for light snacks, fun lawn games and some time with BCB’s furry, four-legged friends!
Late Night Study Breakfast
Wednesday, May 8 | 6:00pm-7:00pm
W15 Cafe
Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Student Life Staff will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
BCB Factory (Eichenstraße 43, 13156 Berlin)
BCB’s celebrated end-of-the-semester arts tradition returns: Open Studios & Performance Factory. All are welcome to this 3-night event on the evenings of May 6, 7, 8 as visual and performing arts students showcase their work at Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409 Berlin); at Ballhaus Ost (Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin); and at the BCB Factory (Eichenstraße 43, 13156 Berlin).
Open Studios and Performance Factory on Wednesday, May 8 consists of exhibitions and performances by students from the following classes:
FA106 Beginners Black and White Photography: The Slow Photo
FA107 Ceramics
FA108 Beginners in Digital Photography: your own point of view
FA110 Beginning Sculpture
FA188 The Art of Making Videos
FA250 Immersive Spatial Experiences
FA260 Dance Out. (DO) liberation, possession and film
FA289 Practice-based Sound Studies
FA290 Touch Screen: Contemporary Moving Image Practices
FA298 Virtual Reality Showcase
TH305 SENSE: Staging a Theater Production
FA308 Advanced Photography: Finding the Stories
FA325 The Photo Zine: A Subversive Phenomenon
FM335 Seeing Voices and Queering Film: dis/embodied voicing and the moving image
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
P24 SR8
A brilliant figure of the Florentine Renaissance, Machiavelli has gone down the centuries as the epitome of manipulation and the ruthless pursuit of power. He is also celebrated as the founder of political realism and the scientific approach to politics. Hosted by the PL 215 “Machiavelli's Arts” and HI 125 “Russian History through Photographs,” this event will explore the affinities and divergences between Machiavelli's teaching and the revolutionary vision of Lenin and Stalin. Tracing Machiavelli's influences on the Soviet founders' conception of power and on their practical efforts to construct an unprecedented social and political order – the so-called “dictatorship of the proletariat” – we’ll seek to probe the relationship between modern ethics and revolutionary politics. Reception will follow.
Presenters:
The students of PL 215 “Machiavelli's Arts”: Diana Kimak (Ukraine), Isabel Cama (Brasil/USA), Mishel Jovanovska (North Macedonia), Owen Burk (USA), Theresa Steinbeis (Germany)
Lev Danilkin is a Ukraine-born writer and literary critic. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University in 1996. He is the author of four biographical books, a book of short stories and three books of literary criticism about contemporary Russian literature. His book Lenin has won the 1st prize of the Big Book Literary Award (2017) and shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize.
Denis Skopin earned a PhD summa cum laude in Philosophy from Paris 8 University. He taught at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg University before joining Smolny Beyond Borders. His research and teaching interests range across photography studies, political philosophy and history, with focus on photographic practices and circulation of photographs under dictatorships and authoritarian regimes. He is the author of three monographs, most recently of Photography and Political Repressions in Stalin’s Russia: Defacing the Enemy (London, Routledge, 2022).
Moderator:
Ewa Atanassow is Professor of Politics at Bard College Berlin. She is the author of Tocqueville's Dilemmas and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization (Princeton University Press, 2022) and coeditor of When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Monday, May 13, 2024
P24 Seminar Room 8 (Platanenstraße 24, 13156)
LT308: Autofiction is concluding the semester with an all-day symposium. "Autofiction" is one of the most discussed and debated forms of contemporary literature. It mixes autobiographical and fictional events, and in doing so, displaces traditional autobiography and competes with the novel. This symposium brings together an international array of scholars of autofiction and BCB faculty and students. The symposium will consist of three panel sessions and a keynote by Hywel Dix (Bournemouth University, UK).
The keynote, "Autofiction and Cultural Memory," will be delivered by Hywel Dix, Professor of English, Bournemouth University, UK. He has published extensively on the relationship between literature, culture and political change in contemporary Britain, most notably in Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain (2010), After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain (Second Edition, 2013) and Multicultural Narratives: Traces and Perspectives, co-edited with Mustafa Kirca (2018). His wider research interests include modern and contemporary literature, critical cultural theory, authorial careers and autofiction. His monograph about literary careers entitled The Late-Career Novelist was published in 2017 and an edited collection of essays on Autofiction in English was published in 2018. He has recently completed a study entitled Autofiction and Cultural Memory.
Speakers will include Michal Mrugalski (Tübigen), Laura Scuriatti (BCB), Catherine Toal (BCB), James Harker (BCB), Hywel Dix (Bournemouth University), Patricia Lopez-Gay (Bard, NY), Larissa Muraveva (BCB), and BCB student participants.
Schedule:
Coffee (8:30-9:15)
Welcome (9:15-9:30)
Greeting and Opening Remarks, Larissa Muraveva
Panel 1 (9:30-11:00): Origins and Influences
Killer Autofiction: Terrorists as Belletrists and Vice Versa in the Romanov Empire - Michał Mrugalski, Universität Tübingen
Life-Writing between History, Fiction and Science: André Maurois' Aspects of Biography (1928) - Laura Scuriatti, Bard College Berlin
Fragments and Remnants: Renata Adler’s Speedboat and its Structural Legacy on Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation - Mica Toscano, BA student, Bard College Berlin
Panel 2 (11:15-12:45): Photography, Film, and Autofiction
The Impossibility of the “I”: Cinema and Autofiction - Isabel Cama, BA student, Bard (NY)
Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun and the Phenomenology of Trauma - Helena Gąsiejewska, BA student University College Amsterdam
“Death to the (Female) Author?” From Photography to Life Writing: Realism and the Political Turn of Autofiction - Patricia Lopez-Gay, Bard College, NY
Photography and Affect in the Autobiographical Novels of Annie Ernaux and Maria Stepanova - Larissa Muraveva, Bard College Berlin
Lunch (12:45-2:30)
Conference Room, Platanenstraße 24
Keynote (2:30-3:30)
Autofiction and Cultural Memory - Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University, UK
Panel 3 (3:45-5:15): Intermedial Forms
The Pleasure of Writing: Autofiction as a Meta-Medium - Sophie Foley, BA student, Bard (NY)
Rogue Biographers: Autofiction as Destroyer of Film in the Movies of Justine Triet - Catherine Toal, Bard College Berlin
Unseen Art in Autofiction - James Harker, Bard College Berlin
Closing Remarks (5:15-5:30)
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Ballhaus Pankow (Grabbeallee 53, 13156 Berlin)
Bard College Berlin is delighted to welcome you to the graduation celebration of the Class of 2024. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 18th at Ballhaus Pankow and will be followed by a reception on campus. Doors open at 10:30am.
Please RSVP by April 5, 2024 here.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Bard College Berlin is delighted to welcome alumni to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of BCB at an Alumni Brunch. Join us to reunite with classmates and faculty, and see what is new on the Bard College Berlin campus. A continental-style brunch will be served.
Please RSVP by April 5, 2024 here.
Friday, May 31, 2024
Konzerthaus Berlin (Gendarmenmarkt 2, 10117 Berlin)
As part of its 25th Anniversary Celebrations, Bard College Berlin is proud to work together with the Curtis Institute of Music and Konzerthaus Berlin: Renowned Curtis alumni violinist Shanshan Yao (’08), violist Haesue Lee (’21), cellist Jean Kim (’18), and pianist Pallavi Mahidhara (’10) will embark on a tour of Europe in the spring of 2024. This exciting concert features Indian American composer Reena Esmail’s lush, romantic trio for violin, cello, and piano, Saans, inspired by the Franck Violin Sonata, and the wedding of dear friends, alongside Felix Mendelssohn’s first published composition, the charming Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor. The concert concludes with Antonín Dvořák’s ingenious Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, a bold, colorful work of tremendous beauty that flits between dark and light, the elegance of the Viennese classical style, and the folky playfulness of a ländler waltz.
This performance is presented in collaboration with the Curtis Institute of Music.
Register for the concert through this Google Form.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2024
Runs through Friday, May 10, 2024
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 22 to May 10. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior, and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.Monday, April 22 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, Lecture Hall
Sarah Wolbach, "The New Marriage Plot: Sally Rooney and the Legacy of Jane Austen"
Monday, April 29 | 11:30am-12:00pm, P24 SR 8
Camila Rosales, "Reconceiving Spaces of Consumption: A Look into Interactions in a Berlin Mall"
Monday, April 29 | 11:30am-12:00pm, Lecture Hall
Ana Mihajlovska, "Empty Shelves: Causes of the Toilet Paper Shortage During the Covid-19 Crisis in the U.S."
Monday, April 29 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, P24 SR 8
Tay Mitchell, "Multiculturalism and the Promotion of Yiddishism through Labour Unions: An Archival Research"
Monday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Olivia Thayer, "Structures of Change: The Breaking of Binaries in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook"
Monday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8
Renata Álvarez León, "Reclaiming the Capital: Women's Reappropriation of Urban Public Spaces in Mexico City"
Monday, April 29 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, P24 SR 8
Carla Schwingler, "(In)Accessible Education: A Case Study of Bard College Berlin"
Monday, April 29 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Jasmine Ahmed, "Making Waves in the Pacific: Examining the Reasons behind the Chinese Naval Build Up; and the Potential US response"
Monday, April 29 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, Lecture Hall
Aisha Khurram, "Education as a Lifeline; The Imperative of Including Education as a Humanitarian Response in Afghanistan"
Monday, April 29 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, Lecture Hall
Ayman Ndam Njoya, "Navigating Modernity: Assessing the Leverage of Traditional Authorities within a Republic and Decentralized Territorial Collectivities "
Monday, April 29 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, Lecture Hall
Sultana Taib, "The Socio-Economic Implications of Policy Reforms in Higher Education: A Case of the UK"
Tuesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Mouadh Elarbi, "Microfinance in North Africa: Learning from Past Failures"
Tuesday, April 30 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Anđela Despotović, "In Search of a Mother’s Tongue: Dinçer Güçyeter’s Unser Deutschlandmärchen as a Writing in 'Postmonolingual' Condition"
Thursday, May 2 | 11:30am-12:00pm, W70 SR 10
Eve Sanchez, "A Critical Inquiry into Israel’s Mobilization of Happiness Discourse to Stimulate Normalization of Occupation: Exploring the Relationship Between Governments and National Happiness"
Thursday, May 2 | 11:30am-12:00pm, W15 Cafe
Elma Talić, "Where Did The Enemy Go? Performing LAIBACH In Post-Ideological Era"
Thursday, May 2 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, W70 SR 10
Milica Vučić, "Democracy in Crisis: a Historical Analysis from the Time of Kemalist Reforms to the AKP and How Secularism Became the Defining Force of Turkish Politics"
Thursday, May 2 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, W15 Cafe
Wanda Alvesová, "Staging Authenticity: An Exploration of ‘Real People’ in She She Pop’s Theatre"
Thursday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 2
Lara Habboub, "The Algorithmic Oracle: Decoding the Human-Machine Feedback Loop of Value Capture"
Thursday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8
Andrea Kalife de la Garza, "A Symbolic Disorder: Language & Addiction"
Tuesday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR 11
Andrej Jovičić, "Jugonostalgija: The Response to the Aftermath of Genocidal and Economic Violence in Post-Conflict and Post-Transition Bosnia and Herzegovina"
Thursday, May 2 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, K24 SR 11
Salma Barakat, "Settler Colonialism in Kashmir and Palestine: Exploring Themes of Ecocide, Memoricide, and Spaciocide"
Thursday, May 2 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, P24 SR 8
Jacob Horack, "Artificial Cognition: An Ethics of the Creation of Minds"
Friday, May 3 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Maia Angela Villarica, "Democracy and Disinformation: Addressing the Problem of Post-Truth in Social Media"
Friday, May 3 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Harri Thomas, "Peace After Parapolitics: The Red Right Hand of Liberal Democracy and its Challenges for Peacebuilding"
Friday, May 3 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, Lecture Hall
Isabel Castro Dominguez, "Safeguarding Indigenous Cultural Heritage in the Face of Land Grabbing in the Colombian Amazon"
Monday, May 6 | 11:30am-12:00pm, Lecture Hall
Hang Nguyen, "Echoed Narratives: Transnational and Transgenerational Memories of Former Vietnamese Contract Workers in Germany"
Monday, May 6 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall
Julia Mazal, "Redefining 'Arte Popular' in Mexico. Past and Present"
Monday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR 2
Selo Uğuzeş, "Aesthetics, Politics, and Life: Autonomous Zones as Places of Cultural Production"
Monday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8
Lilith Gao, "Limits of Universality: Reassessing Xu Bing's Language Experiments"
Monday, May 6 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Ibrar Mirzai, "Energy, Infrastructure, and Sustainability, Mapping Ukraine's Post-War Reconstruction with EU Alignment"
Monday, May 6 | 1:00-1:30pm, P24 SR 8
Zoe Whiteman, "Metamorphic Digestion: The Aesthetic’s of Fear in La Casa Lobo"
Monday, May 6 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, Lecture Hall
Kai Bradley-Gutiérrez de Terán, "Consitutional Barriers: Evaluating the Efficiency of the German Constitution in Safeguarding Against Fascist Resurgence"
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8
Rylee Mora, "Historical Narratives of Artificial Intelligence and their Ethical Implications"
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR 1
Abdullah Zahidi, "The European Union's Regulatory Framework for Crypto-Assets: The Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation"
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR 2
Yensen LeBeau, "The Cost of Being Known: How Overexposure to Media Online Leads to Apathetic and Extreme Identity"
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR 12
Héctor Miró Beltrán, "Byung-Chul Han’s Catalunya: An Understanding of the Catalan Independence Movement through Han's Psychopolitics"
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, P98 SR 2
Izzy Monroe, "The Subject of Accountability: Bridging Critical Theory and Transformative Justice Practice"
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, K24 SR 11
Maria Castillo Gomez, "Under the Banner of Peace and Friendship: Latin American Intellectuals Interpreting Soviet Cultural Diplomacy at the 1957 Moscow World Youth Festival"
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:00pm, 1:30pm, P24 SR 8
Leonie Hüppe, "More-than-Human Storytelling and Interspecies Communication in Richard Powers' The Overstory"
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, K24 SR 11
Gracie Kuppenbender, "Embracing Modernity: An Exploration of Young Indigenous Artists' Search for Cultural Preservation"
Tuesday, May 7 | 3:45pm-4:15pm, K24 SR 12
Grace Klein, "Unveiling the Layers: Deconstructing Ethnic and Racial Hierarchies in Zionist Thought"
Wednesday, May 8 | 10:00am-10:30am, Lecture Hall
Imogen Hilton-Barber, "Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and South Africa's 'Neutrality'"
Wednesday, May 8 | 10:00am-10:30am, W15 Cafe
Katie Lyle, "The Connection Between Death and Nightmare in the Art of Bosch and Redon"
Wednesday, May 8 | 10:30am-11:00am, W15 Cafe
Kaitlyn Woodburn, "Colonizing The Stars: Space Age Aesthetics and High Frontier Visions of Utopia"
Wednesday, May 8 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe
Elena Eßer, "Examining The Difference Between Counterterrorism Policies In Right-Wing Extremism And Islamic Extremism - A Case Study Of Germany"
Wednesday, May 8 | 11:00am-11:30am, P24 SR 8
Lena Brun, "Stories for a Better World: The Interaction Between Jewish Storytelling and Speculative Fiction"
Wednesday, May 8 | 11:30am-12:00pm, W15 Cafe
Júlia Tamási, "From 'Existing Socialism' to Existing Capitalism - What Can we Learn from Hungary's Transition"
Wednesday, May 8 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, P24 SR 8
Lily Ellerbrock, "Soft Facts of Education: A Student's Guide to Creativity"
Wednesday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8
Fiona French, "Empowered Mothering: Painterly Expressions of Motherhood in Contemporary Art"
Wednesday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR 11
Christin Alhalabi, "Peddling, Assimilation and Racial Democracy, Levantine Arab Memory in Rio de Janeiro"
Wednesday, May 8 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Drinlon Madani, "The Different Effects of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation on Employees' Job Engagement and Satisfaction"
Wednesday, May 8 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, P98 SR 2
Jasmin Rossi, "Policy Analysis of the Government Subsidized Psychotherapy in Finland - Who is Eligible and Why?"
Friday, May 10 | 9:15am-09:45am, P98 SR 2
Bianca Hopkins
Friday, May 10 | 9:45am-10:15am, P98 SR 2
Deborah Cesar Oliveira, "To What Extent do Different Countries' Data Regulations Limit Interpol's Role in Combating Cross-Border Financial Crimes? A Case Study on the United States"
Friday, May 10 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR 2
Attila Noyan, "Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2001-2021) and the Hazara Genocide"
Friday, May 10 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR 2
Frances Grimm, "From the Mine Wars to a Just Transition: A Marxist Analysis of the UMWA"
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Daria Khomiakova, "The Arctic - A Political Struggle for Sustainable Development"
Final Application Deadline
Application deadline for citizens and residents of EU/EEA and Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, US
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Online EventBard College Berlin accepts applications for entry to the BA and Academy Year programs in Fall 2024. The final deadline for applying is May 1, at 23:59 in your time zone.
Eligible applicants are citizens and residents of the EU and EEA, as well as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, US. For more information on eligibility and application requirements, please refer to How to Apply.
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!
"Offenes Haus" - DerDieDas Haus Info-Session
Thursday, May 2, 2024
7–9:30 pm
W15 CaféMembers of “DerDieDas Haus” and the BCB German Program will host an “Offenes Haus” with snacks and drinks.
The “DerDieDas Haus” is a living and learning community at BCB with a special focus on German language and culture. Students with an interest in exploring German in their daily lives share a designated floor in one of our residence halls. They use German amongst each other during the week and engage in extracurricular activities in the city. To find out more about how the projects works, how to apply for a place etc., please join us on Thursday, May 2, at 7:00pm in the Café at W15.
Contact: [email protected]
Literary Reading by the Students of Clare Wigfall's Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
Friday, May 3, 2024
8–10 pm
Wein Salon (Schreinerstraße 59, Friedrichshain, 10247 Berlin)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. Please join us for a cozy and intimate (but also a little bit riotous, let's be frank) evening of beautiful and surprising stories and words written by Clare's advanced students. All BCB students, alumni, friends, and faculty members are warmly welcome.
Writers presenting: Severin Birchak, Alma Dasberg, Helena Gąsiejewska, Yensen LeBeau, Alice Quinn, Matthew Shareshian, Nick Teploukhov, Olivia Thayer, Tay Mitchell
Contact: [email protected]
De-Stress Fest
Monday, May 6, 2024 – Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Pomodoro Power Two: 25-Minute Study SessionsMonday, May 6 | 4:00pm-7:00pm
Learning Commons
Our Pomodoro Technique study session for a structured approach to focused studying. Tutors will guide 25-minute intense study intervals, followed by 5 minute breaks with snacks and hot drinks. After 4 rounds, take a longer break with some laid-back board games.
Lawn Games & Pet Day
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm
KW Lawn (rain location: W15 Cafe)
Join us on the lawn between K30 and W15 for light snacks, fun lawn games and some time with BCB’s furry, four-legged friends!
Late Night Study Breakfast
Wednesday, May 8 | 6:00pm-7:00pm
W15 Cafe
Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Student Life Staff will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Contact: [email protected]
Open Studios at Monopol
Monday, May 6, 2024
5–8 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409 Berlin)BCB’s celebrated end-of-the-semester arts tradition returns: Open Studios & Performance Factory. All are welcome to this 3-night event on the evenings of May 6, 7, 8 as visual and performing arts students showcase their work at Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409 Berlin); at Ballhaus Ost (Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin); and at the BCB Factory (Eichenstraße 43, 13156 Berlin).
Open Studios at Monopol on Monday, May 6 is an exhibition of visual art featuring student artworks from the following classes:
FA103 Found Fragments and Layered Lines: mixed-media techniques for drawing and collage
FA112 Marble Stone Sculpture
FA113 Introduction to Glass Making
FA215 Painting and Beyond
FA317 Advanced Painting: Illusionistic Surfaces
FA318 Advanced Painting: Color in Practice
HI255 Research-Creation: Developing Artistic Responses to the History of Exile and of Friendship in Dark Times
At 6:00pm, the students in the glass blowing course (FA113 Introduction to Glass Making) will be offering a demonstration.
Contact: [email protected]
Friendship in Dark Times: Research Creation Exhibition
Monday, May 6, 2024
5:30–10 pm
Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409 Berlin)We are experiencing first-hand that unfreedom and complicity with injustice not only prevail in dictatorships but also affect democracies. Hanah Arendt conceputalized the loss of freedom as a loss of the world: when the spaces for collective action become ever narrower and people withdraw into the private. "In history, the times are frequent when the space of the public sphere darkens and the existence of the world becomes so questionable that people demand no more from politics than that it takes due account of their vital interests and private liberty." A historical response to political oppression and dehumanization has always been solidarity: equality in shared suffering, "brotherhood/sisterhood". But Hannah Arendt, with Lessing, was interested in a different kind of response: friendship. Friendship, when it is understood as a conversation, as a shared participation in the world, is lived plurality, and in friendship, even under oppressive conditions, space for the public and for politics emerges again.
Our exhibition and discussion event deals with the political potentials, contexts, and ambivalences of friendship. In order to regain the world in and through our relationships, we need - again following Hannah Arendt - a constant and free movement of thought: constant learning and unlearning, even in contradictions. The exhibition shows our students' artistic and research-based appraoches to friendship in dark times. We will hear from the writer Priya Basil, the artist Yehudit Yinhar, and the curator Daria Prydybailo about how politics and friendship are connected for them. And we will discuss, in a "fishbowl" format, political learning and unlearning processes that we have taken on for friendships or through friendships.
The exhibition event is taking place as part of an Open Society University Network (OSUN) course and includes works from our partner classes at Universidad dee los Andes/Bogota and Witwatersrand University/Johannesburg as well as works from guest students.
There will be drinks and Afghan Burgers from the Afghanistan Awareness Initiative.
This event is taking place during BCB's Open Studios at Monopol.
Contact: [email protected]
Life, Death, Tragedy in Israel and Palestine: An Evening with Nathan Thrall
Monday, May 6, 2024
7 pm
Jägerstraße 54, 10117 BerlinFor many years, Nathan Thrall's writing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been bracing, enlightening, and urgent—not to mention essential. His reporting and analysis have penetrated deeply into the histories and psyches of both peoples, while not shying away from the complicated reality on the ground, where Thrall has extensive sources and contacts.
The Financial Times called Thrall “one of the best-informed and most trenchant observers of the conflict," while Time declared him “an American analyst with a severe allergy to conventional wisdom.” In 2023, Thrall published A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, which was immediately the subject of laudatory reviews and made several end-of- year best book lists. (“A powerful evocation of a two-tiered society," The New Yorker wrote: “A vital, important book," declared the Washington Post.)
In conversation with Joshua Yaffa, a writer for The New Yorker, Thrall will share his expertise on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at a time of heightened violence and suffering, relaying both the searing personal stories he has collected and also his insight into the larger dynamics at play in the region. The conversation will be frank and provocative, but, like Thrall's writings, rigorously fact-based and rooted in a deep knowledge of history and politics. This is a rare opportunity to see a writer of Thrall's caliber hold forth on some of the most pressing questions of the day in a live setting.
This event will be held off-campus at Jägerstraße 54, 10117 Berlin. Please RSVP through this Google Form.
Nathan Thrall is the author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, which was named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, The Economist, The New Republic, and the Financial Times, and selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. His previous book, The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine, was published in 2017. His articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Thrall’s writing has been cited in the United Nations Security Council, General Assembly, and Human Rights Council, as well as in reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. He spent a decade at the International Crisis Group, where he was director of the Arab-Israeli Project, and has taught at Bard College.
Joshua Yaffa is a contributing writer for The New Yorker. He is also the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia, which won the Orwell Prize in 2021. He has also written for Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, National Geographic, and other publications. He is currently the inaugural writer-in-residence at Bard College Berlin and was previously a fellow at The American Academy in Berlin.
De-Stress Fest
Monday, May 6, 2024 – Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Pomodoro Power Two: 25-Minute Study SessionsMonday, May 6 | 4:00pm-7:00pm
Learning Commons
Our Pomodoro Technique study session for a structured approach to focused studying. Tutors will guide 25-minute intense study intervals, followed by 5 minute breaks with snacks and hot drinks. After 4 rounds, take a longer break with some laid-back board games.
Lawn Games & Pet Day
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm
KW Lawn (rain location: W15 Cafe)
Join us on the lawn between K30 and W15 for light snacks, fun lawn games and some time with BCB’s furry, four-legged friends!
Late Night Study Breakfast
Wednesday, May 8 | 6:00pm-7:00pm
W15 Cafe
Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Student Life Staff will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Contact: [email protected]
BCB English Hour
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
6–8 pm
Bard College Berlin and Amtshaus BuchholzThe English Hour is a weekly meeting space for people from our campus neighborhood to improve their English skills through conversation, build new connections, and bridge gaps between different cultures.
English Hour - Tutoring for High School Students: Wednesdays, 18:00-19:00
Location: K30 Lounge (Kuckhoffstr. 30, 13156 Berlin)
Free volunteer-run English tutoring on BCB campus for local high school students on a weekly basis. Register via [email protected].
English Hour - Conversation Round: Wednesdays, 19:00-20:00
Location: P24 Conference Room (Platanenstr. 24, 13156 Berlin)
Open to all who want to practice English through conversation. Register via [email protected].
BCB English Hour @ Amtshaus Buchholz: Tuesdays, 19:00-20:00
Location: NBZ Amtshaus Buchholz (Rosenthaler Weg 32, 13127 Berlin)
Die English Hour wird im Nachbarschaftszentrum Amtshaus Buchholz von internationalen Studentinnen und Studenten des Bard College Berlin angeboten, die zum Teil selbst nur wenig Deutsch sprechen und sich über den Sprachaustausch freuen. Das Angebot ist offen für alle, die Lust haben, ein bisschen auf Englisch ins Gespräch zu kommen und dazuzulernen.
Anmeldung unter: [email protected] oder 030 - 4758 472. Teilnahmegebühr: 1€.
Contact: [email protected]
Open Classroom: Dystopian Fiction
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
7–8:30 pm
P24 Conference Room (Platanenstr. 24, 13156 Berlin)Open Classroom is a student-led initiative held on Tuesdays that allows neighbors to experience university-level courses taught at BCB. The initiative seeks to foster a dialogue between students and the broader Pankow community. This semester, students will share their knowledge from the course Dystopian Fiction, an undergraduate-level course taught at Bard College Berlin.
Dystopian fiction often involves bleak, post-apocalyptic futures scarred by environmental disaster, societal collapse, totalitarian control or technological subjugation. But, more than simply presenting depressing images, dystopian fiction also offers fruitful ground for questioning today’s world and re-envisioning a more just society. Through a mix of novels, films and short stories, we’ll grapple with climate change, artificial intelligence, authoritarianism and migration and explore questions of freedom, belonging, care and how to find hope in the face of overwhelming crisis. A central focus of the course will be investigating what role fiction can play in helping us imagine and shape the future.
Register via [email protected].
Contact: [email protected]
Making Theater in Berlin: BCB at Ballhaus Ost
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
8–9:30 pm
Ballhaus Ost (Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin)Curtain up: BCB at Ballhaus Ost! Final performance showcase of Nina Tecklenburg’s class TH315 Making Theater in Berlin: A Collaboration with Ballhaus Ost.
Based on the knowledge and skills that the students gained from professional theater and performance artists, curators and theater technicians at Ballhaus Ost, the students devised their own performance projects in the second half of the semester. Three short pieces will be presented on the stage of Ballhaus Ost on May 7 at 8pm. Come along, laugh and cry, and stay for drinks and Karaoke!
Part of BCB’s celebrated end-of-the-semester arts tradition: Open Studios & Performance Factory. All are welcome to this 3-night event on the evenings of May 6, 7, 8 as visual and performing arts students showcase their work at Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409 Berlin); at Ballhaus Ost (Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin); and at the BCB Factory (Eichenstraße 43, 13156 Berlin).
Contact: [email protected]
De-Stress Fest
Monday, May 6, 2024 – Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Pomodoro Power Two: 25-Minute Study SessionsMonday, May 6 | 4:00pm-7:00pm
Learning Commons
Our Pomodoro Technique study session for a structured approach to focused studying. Tutors will guide 25-minute intense study intervals, followed by 5 minute breaks with snacks and hot drinks. After 4 rounds, take a longer break with some laid-back board games.
Lawn Games & Pet Day
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm
KW Lawn (rain location: W15 Cafe)
Join us on the lawn between K30 and W15 for light snacks, fun lawn games and some time with BCB’s furry, four-legged friends!
Late Night Study Breakfast
Wednesday, May 8 | 6:00pm-7:00pm
W15 Cafe
Kick off completion week with a dinner of breakfast! Student Life Staff will be here to serve you stacks of pancakes and hot beverages.
Contact: [email protected]
Open Studios and Performance Factory
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
5–10 pm
BCB Factory (Eichenstraße 43, 13156 Berlin)BCB’s celebrated end-of-the-semester arts tradition returns: Open Studios & Performance Factory. All are welcome to this 3-night event on the evenings of May 6, 7, 8 as visual and performing arts students showcase their work at Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409 Berlin); at Ballhaus Ost (Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin); and at the BCB Factory (Eichenstraße 43, 13156 Berlin).
Open Studios and Performance Factory on Wednesday, May 8 consists of exhibitions and performances by students from the following classes:
FA106 Beginners Black and White Photography: The Slow Photo
FA107 Ceramics
FA108 Beginners in Digital Photography: your own point of view
FA110 Beginning Sculpture
FA188 The Art of Making Videos
FA250 Immersive Spatial Experiences
FA260 Dance Out. (DO) liberation, possession and film
FA289 Practice-based Sound Studies
FA290 Touch Screen: Contemporary Moving Image Practices
FA298 Virtual Reality Showcase
TH305 SENSE: Staging a Theater Production
FA308 Advanced Photography: Finding the Stories
FA325 The Photo Zine: A Subversive Phenomenon
FM335 Seeing Voices and Queering Film: dis/embodied voicing and the moving image
Contact: [email protected]
Soviet Machiavellism?
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
7:30–9:30 pm
P24 SR8A brilliant figure of the Florentine Renaissance, Machiavelli has gone down the centuries as the epitome of manipulation and the ruthless pursuit of power. He is also celebrated as the founder of political realism and the scientific approach to politics. Hosted by the PL 215 “Machiavelli's Arts” and HI 125 “Russian History through Photographs,” this event will explore the affinities and divergences between Machiavelli's teaching and the revolutionary vision of Lenin and Stalin. Tracing Machiavelli's influences on the Soviet founders' conception of power and on their practical efforts to construct an unprecedented social and political order – the so-called “dictatorship of the proletariat” – we’ll seek to probe the relationship between modern ethics and revolutionary politics. Reception will follow.
Presenters:
The students of PL 215 “Machiavelli's Arts”: Diana Kimak (Ukraine), Isabel Cama (Brasil/USA), Mishel Jovanovska (North Macedonia), Owen Burk (USA), Theresa Steinbeis (Germany)
Lev Danilkin is a Ukraine-born writer and literary critic. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University in 1996. He is the author of four biographical books, a book of short stories and three books of literary criticism about contemporary Russian literature. His book Lenin has won the 1st prize of the Big Book Literary Award (2017) and shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize.
Denis Skopin earned a PhD summa cum laude in Philosophy from Paris 8 University. He taught at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg University before joining Smolny Beyond Borders. His research and teaching interests range across photography studies, political philosophy and history, with focus on photographic practices and circulation of photographs under dictatorships and authoritarian regimes. He is the author of three monographs, most recently of Photography and Political Repressions in Stalin’s Russia: Defacing the Enemy (London, Routledge, 2022).
Moderator:
Ewa Atanassow is Professor of Politics at Bard College Berlin. She is the author of Tocqueville's Dilemmas and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization (Princeton University Press, 2022) and coeditor of When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Contact: [email protected]
Literal Selves/Literary Selves: A Symposium on Autofiction
Monday, May 13, 2024
8:30 am – 5:30 pm
P24 Seminar Room 8 (Platanenstraße 24, 13156)LT308: Autofiction is concluding the semester with an all-day symposium. "Autofiction" is one of the most discussed and debated forms of contemporary literature. It mixes autobiographical and fictional events, and in doing so, displaces traditional autobiography and competes with the novel. This symposium brings together an international array of scholars of autofiction and BCB faculty and students. The symposium will consist of three panel sessions and a keynote by Hywel Dix (Bournemouth University, UK).
The keynote, "Autofiction and Cultural Memory," will be delivered by Hywel Dix, Professor of English, Bournemouth University, UK. He has published extensively on the relationship between literature, culture and political change in contemporary Britain, most notably in Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain (2010), After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain (Second Edition, 2013) and Multicultural Narratives: Traces and Perspectives, co-edited with Mustafa Kirca (2018). His wider research interests include modern and contemporary literature, critical cultural theory, authorial careers and autofiction. His monograph about literary careers entitled The Late-Career Novelist was published in 2017 and an edited collection of essays on Autofiction in English was published in 2018. He has recently completed a study entitled Autofiction and Cultural Memory.
Speakers will include Michal Mrugalski (Tübigen), Laura Scuriatti (BCB), Catherine Toal (BCB), James Harker (BCB), Hywel Dix (Bournemouth University), Patricia Lopez-Gay (Bard, NY), Larissa Muraveva (BCB), and BCB student participants.
Schedule:
Coffee (8:30-9:15)
Welcome (9:15-9:30)
Greeting and Opening Remarks, Larissa Muraveva
Panel 1 (9:30-11:00): Origins and Influences
Killer Autofiction: Terrorists as Belletrists and Vice Versa in the Romanov Empire - Michał Mrugalski, Universität Tübingen
Life-Writing between History, Fiction and Science: André Maurois' Aspects of Biography (1928) - Laura Scuriatti, Bard College Berlin
Fragments and Remnants: Renata Adler’s Speedboat and its Structural Legacy on Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation - Mica Toscano, BA student, Bard College Berlin
Panel 2 (11:15-12:45): Photography, Film, and Autofiction
The Impossibility of the “I”: Cinema and Autofiction - Isabel Cama, BA student, Bard (NY)
Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun and the Phenomenology of Trauma - Helena Gąsiejewska, BA student University College Amsterdam
“Death to the (Female) Author?” From Photography to Life Writing: Realism and the Political Turn of Autofiction - Patricia Lopez-Gay, Bard College, NY
Photography and Affect in the Autobiographical Novels of Annie Ernaux and Maria Stepanova - Larissa Muraveva, Bard College Berlin
Lunch (12:45-2:30)
Conference Room, Platanenstraße 24
Keynote (2:30-3:30)
Autofiction and Cultural Memory - Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University, UK
Panel 3 (3:45-5:15): Intermedial Forms
The Pleasure of Writing: Autofiction as a Meta-Medium - Sophie Foley, BA student, Bard (NY)
Rogue Biographers: Autofiction as Destroyer of Film in the Movies of Justine Triet - Catherine Toal, Bard College Berlin
Unseen Art in Autofiction - James Harker, Bard College Berlin
Closing Remarks (5:15-5:30)
Contact: [email protected]
Commencement 2024 - 25th Anniversary Celebration
Saturday, May 18, 2024
11 am
Ballhaus Pankow (Grabbeallee 53, 13156 Berlin)Bard College Berlin is delighted to welcome you to the graduation celebration of the Class of 2024. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 18th at Ballhaus Pankow and will be followed by a reception on campus. Doors open at 10:30am.
Please RSVP by April 5, 2024 here.
Alumni Brunch - 25th Anniversary Celebration
Sunday, May 19, 2024
11 am
Bard College Berlin is delighted to welcome alumni to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of BCB at an Alumni Brunch. Join us to reunite with classmates and faculty, and see what is new on the Bard College Berlin campus. A continental-style brunch will be served. Please RSVP by April 5, 2024 here.
Curtis on Tour
Friday, May 31, 2024
7:30–10 pm
Konzerthaus Berlin (Gendarmenmarkt 2, 10117 Berlin)As part of its 25th Anniversary Celebrations, Bard College Berlin is proud to work together with the Curtis Institute of Music and Konzerthaus Berlin: Renowned Curtis alumni violinist Shanshan Yao (’08), violist Haesue Lee (’21), cellist Jean Kim (’18), and pianist Pallavi Mahidhara (’10) will embark on a tour of Europe in the spring of 2024. This exciting concert features Indian American composer Reena Esmail’s lush, romantic trio for violin, cello, and piano, Saans, inspired by the Franck Violin Sonata, and the wedding of dear friends, alongside Felix Mendelssohn’s first published composition, the charming Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor. The concert concludes with Antonín Dvořák’s ingenious Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, a bold, colorful work of tremendous beauty that flits between dark and light, the elegance of the Viennese classical style, and the folky playfulness of a ländler waltz.
This performance is presented in collaboration with the Curtis Institute of Music.
Register for the concert through this Google Form.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
Contact: [email protected]