Sweden/Italy Performance- and theatre studies, Commedia School (Copenhagen) Photography studies at Fatamorgana Fotoskole (Copenhagen), SACI (Florence), Lund University
Israel/Germany Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch
Noam Brusilovsky
Israel/Germany Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch
Noam Brusilovsky is an Israeli-German theater and radio maker. After graduating the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts he moved to Berlin and studied theater directing at the HfS Ernst Busch. Brusilovsky works as an author and director for different radio stations of the German public broadcasting corporation ARD. His radio plays won twice the German Radio Drama Award and were nominated for the Prix Europa. Noam Brusilovsky has been working for different state theatres in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In collaboration with POLIGONAL - Office for Urban Communication he develops acoustic formats that deal with the remembrance culture of historic queer spaces. Lately he started publishing critical columns regarding Jewish life in Berlin at the Berliner Zeitung.
United Kingdom PhD in Critical Theory Birkbeck, University of London
Sam Dolbear
United Kingdom PhD in Critical Theory Birkbeck, University of London
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Sam Dolbear received his PhD on Walter Benjamin from Birkbeck, University of London and has since held a number of research positions at the Institute of Modern Language Research at London’s School of Advanced Study and at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. He has two books forthcoming, one on the radio producer and composer Ernst Schoen (with Goldsmith Press) and one on the palmist and sexologist Charlotte Wolff (with Ma Bibliothèque). He has published and taught widely, including in the study abroad programmes of UC Berkeley and Skidmore College in London.
Germany PhD in Political Science Aachen University
Berit Ebert
Germany PhD in Political Science Aachen University
Berit Ebert specializes in European Union law with a focus on gender equality, European Integration, and theories of justice. She received her master’s (2006) and doctoral degrees (2012) in political science from Aachen University, and a master’s degree in European studies (2007) from Vienna University. Her doctoral thesis was published as Gleichstellung und Gender in der Jurisdiktion des Gerichtshofes der Europäischen Union (Equality and Gender in the Jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. An Analysis Considering Contemporary Theories of Justice) in 2012. Her book about the influence of EU citizens and transnationality on EU gender equality law was published in 2021. Currently, she focuses on gender equality and the judicial reform in Poland. Her research interests also include women's and human rights in the 19th century.
In addition, Berit is the Vice President of Programs at the American Academy in Berlin, where she oversees the institution’s academic and public programming. Prior, she was affiliated with the UNESCO in South Africa and the Committee for Foreign Affairs at the Deutsche Bundestag. She spent her childhood years in Russia.
Articles Ebert, Berit / Fradinger, Moira: Gender Dissidence in the 21st Century, The Berlin Journal, No. 34, October 2020: 78-83.
Ja, Nein, Vielleicht, oder doch vielleicht nicht? … Trans* im Recht der Europäischen Union. (Yes, No, Maybe, or maybe not? ... Trans* in the Laws of the European Union) History | Sexuality | Law. 2020
Gleichstellung und Gender in der Jurisdiktion des Gerichtshofes der Europäischen Union. Eine Analyse unter Berücksichtigung kontemporärer Gerechtigkeitstheorien. (Equality and Gender in the Jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. An Analysis Considering Contemporary Theories of Justice). Logos Verlag Berlin, 2012.
Die neue Weltordnung als Strategiefrage. Sicherheitspolitische Divergenzen zwischen EU und USA (The World Order as a Question of Strategy. Divergences of the Security Policies in the EU and the USA). Tectum Verlag, 2008.
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Political Science Email: b.ebert[at]berlin.bard.edu
Germany M.A. Cultural Anthropology and Educational Sciences Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ariane Friedländer
Germany M.A. Cultural Anthropology and Educational Sciences Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ariane joined Bard College Berlin in 2020. She also teaches German at other language institutes and at refugee reception centers. In addition, she provides advanced training courses at specialist publisher Klett/Langenscheidt and at Berlin School of Economics and Law. Ariane started her career at Carl Duisberg Centrum in Berlin, where she taught German and worked as educational coordinator between 2003 and 2018.
While studying Cultural Anthropology and Educational Sciences at Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Ariane specifically focused on adult educational theory, media aesthetics and the mass media reception of everyday culture. Her master thesis analyses the genesis and operating principles of daily talk shows in German private television in the 1990s against the background of medieval village courts. She then complemented her education with postgraduate studies in German as a foreign language at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2003 and with a diploma in Journalism from Freie Journalistenschule Berlin in 2020.
Besides her career as a teacher, Ariane is a keen writer and journalist. Her work mainly deals with the social transformation and cultural evolution of her hometown Berlin over the past three decades, captured in daily life and in the biographies of its inhabitants.
Israel/USA The Juilliard School, Graduate Diploma, Orchestral Conducting Mannes School of Music, Master of Music, Piano The Curtis Institute of Music, Bachelor of Music, Piano
South Korea BA in Studio Art and Psychology Boston College
Joon Park
South Korea BA in Studio Art and Psychology Boston College
Joon Park (b. 1986, Seoul, South Korea) earned his BA Degrees in Studio Art and Psychology from Boston College, USA. He is a 2012 recipient of the Mima Weissmann fellowship at the ceramics program at Harvard University. In 2013, he moved to Germany and worked at the historic Bauhaus pottery workshop, Keramische Werkstatt Margaretenhöhe under the master potter Young-Jae Lee, as an intern and, consequently, a freelance potter. His sculptural ceramics work has been exhibited and published in various countries, including the US, the UK, Italy, and China.
Since 2017, he has worked at Bard College Berlin as a studio art manager to facilitate student production and art program logistics.
Germany Film Studies at Freie Universität, Berlin Film Production at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Art Direction at Miami AD School Europe, Hamburg
Tirdad Zolghadr is a curator and writer. Since 2017 he has been artistic director of the Sommerakademie Paul Klee. Curatorial work since 2004 includes biennial settings as well as long-term, research-driven efforts – most recently as associate curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin (2016-20). Writing includes REALTY: Beyond the Traditional Blueprints of Art & Gentrification (Hatje Cantz Berlin). Ongoing work on Zolghadr’s third novel Headbanger is made possible thanks to generous support from the Foundation for Arts Initiatives.