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  • Nassim Abi Ghanem
    Nassim Abi Ghanem

    Lebanon
    PhD in International Relations
    Central European University

    Nassim Abi Ghanem


    Lebanon
    PhD in International Relations
    Central European University

    Nassim Abi Ghanem received his MA in International Relations from the University of Manchester (2012), focusing on Middle Eastern conflicts. He recently completed his Ph.D. in International Relations at the Central European University (2021) titled "The Civil Society Organizations' Design and Implementation of Demobilization and Reintegration Programs". Using social network analysis (SNA) and life-course approaches, the dissertation explores the various brokerage and turning points that local civil society organizations conducted to demobilize and reintegrate ex-combatants in the city of Tripoli in Lebanon. His research interests include civil society organization (CSOs) resilience roles, civic engagement, non-state actor's involvement in international politics, and conflict management and peacebuilding. He is currently working on turning his PhD thesis into a book.
    Outside academia, Abi Ghanem advised regional and international organizations on programmatic initiatives taking place in Lebanon.  

    Dr. Abi Ghanem is a Global Teaching Fellow at Bard College Berlin for the 2021/2021 academic year.


    Publications:

    Abi Ghanem, N. "The reverse impact of politics on the COVID-19 response: How Hezbollah determined the choices of the Lebanese government", in: eds. Voelkel,J., Moeller, L.M and Hobeika,Z., Arab world & COVID-19, Routledge. (forthcoming)


    Contact:
    Dr. Nassim Abi Ghanem

    Contact
    International Relations
    n.abighanem[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Ewa Atanassow
    Ewa Atanassow

    Bulgaria/Poland
    PhD from the Committee on Social Thought
    The University of Chicago

    Ewa Atanassow


    Bulgaria/Poland
    PhD from the Committee on Social Thought
    The University of Chicago

    Ewa Atanassow holds a PhD from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, an MA in psychology from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Her research and teaching range across the history of political thought, focusing on questions of nationhood and democratic citizenship, with emphasis on Tocqueville. She is the author of Tocqueville's Dilemmas and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization (Princeton University Press, 2022), and the co-editor of Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy with Richard Boyd (Cambridge University Press, 2013); Liberal Moments: Reading Liberal Texts with Alan S. Kahan (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017); and When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice with Thomas Bartscherer and David Bateman (forthcoming from Cambridge UP).
     

    Courses taught at BCB
     
    Core
    • Early Modern Science
    • Forms of Love
    • Plato's Republic and Its Interlocutors
    Seminars 
    • Aristotle's Politics
    • Citizens of the World: Ancient, Modern, Contemporary
    • Colonization and Democracy: the case of Algeria
    • Democracy Ancient and Modern
    • Equality
    • Hate and Revolution
    • Hobbes' Leviathan
    • Liberalism and Empire: the case of India
    • Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism 
    • Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
    • Tocqueville's Democracy in America


    Project Lead at the Science and Religion Project


    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Ewa Atanassow

    Contact
    Political Thought
    Phone: +49 30 43733 104
    Email: e.atanassow[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Florian Becker
    Florian Becker

    Germany
    PhD in German literature
    Princeton University

    Florian Becker


    Germany
    PhD in German literature
    Princeton University

    Managing Director
    Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Bard College

    Florian Becker joined the Division of Languages and Literature at Bard College in Annandale in 2005 and has been teaching at Bard College Berlin since 2012. He read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, before earning a Ph.D. in German literature at Princeton University. Awards for his doctoral work on twentieth-century German theater and philosophy include a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities. Publications include articles and chapters in Brecht und die Naturwissenschaften (eds. Hippe and Ißbrücker, 2017), Der Deutschunterricht, Modern Drama,The International Brecht Yearbook and the Routledge Handbook of Human Rights. He has completed a monograph on Bertolt Brecht, Peter Weiss, and Heiner Müller, Theater and Praxis: Realism as Critique in Twentieth-Century German Drama and has edited, with Paola S. Hernández and Brenda Werth, a volume of essays entitled Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater: Global Perspectives (2013). He is editing, with Janine Ludwig, an English-language companion to the works of Heiner Müller.

    Courses taught at Bard College Berlin

    • "The Frankfurt School: What is Critical Theory?"
    • "Berlin: Experiment in Modernity"
    • "Berlin: Experiment in Modernity I"
    • "Berlin: Experiment in Modernity I"
    • "German Beginner A1"

    Courses taught at Bard College, Annandale
    • Literature 3035 "The Frankfurt School,"
    • Literature 2022 "The Making of Modern Theatre,"
    • Literature 288 "Modern Drama in Translation: Brecht in the Global South,"
    • Literature 204C "Comparative Literature III: Romanticism to Modernism,"
    • Philosophy 2014(3) "The Philosophy of Human Rights" (at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa),
    • German 456 "Neo-Avantgarde and Student Movement in 1960s Germany,"
    • German 425 "Culture and Society in Weimar Germany,"
    • German 410 "Revolution in German Literature,"
    • German 317 "German Poetry: Goethe to Celan,"
    • German 306 "German Drama and the Story of Capitalism,"
    • German 305 "Writing Freedom: German Literature Since 1700,"
    • German 202 "Intermediate German II,"
    • German 201 "Intermediate German I,"
    • German 102 "Beginning German II,"
    • German 101 "Beginning German I,"
    • First-Year Seminar II "Revolution and the Limits of Reason."
    Contact
    Dr. Florian Becker
    Managing Director; Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Bard College
    Phone: +49 30 43733 0
    Email: f.becker[at]berlin.bard.edu

    Contact
    Managing Director; Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Bard College
    Phone: +49 30 43733 0
    Email: f.becker[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg
    Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg

    Germany
    PhD in Economics
    Universität Kassel
     

    Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg


    Germany
    PhD in Economics
    Universität Kassel
     

    Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg is a behavioral economist who holds a PhD in Economics (2015) as well as an M.A. (2011) and a B.A. in Economics (2009) from the University of Kassel. She also completed vocational training as an industrial clerk (2008). Before joining Bard College Berlin, she was a Research Associate (Post-Doc) at the “Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research”, University of Göttingen (2015-2021) and a Research Fellow at the “Economic Policy Research Group”, University of Kassel (2011-2015).

    Her research interests are focused on ecological economics, pro-environmental behavior, identity economics, industrial dynamics/innovation, self-employment/entrepreneurship, and especially subjective well-being research. Recently, she has been most interested in the following areas of this field: (1) Implications of identity on human behavior (e.g. in the form of green identity or "artificial group identity"), (2) the extent to which occupational identity is conducive to worker well-being, and (3) the relationship between self-employment/entrepreneurship and well-being. 
    Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg received a grant in 2019 from the Ministry of Science and Culture (Lower Saxony) to research life satisfaction and identity in the skilled crafts and trades (“www.handwerksstolz.de”). Her research has appeared in internationally recognized journals such as Research Policy, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Ecological Economics and Social Indicators Research.
    More information about her research can be found here.

    Selected Publications:

    • Binder M., Blankenberg A.-K. (2021) Self-Employment and Subjective Well-Being. In: Zimmermann K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-57365-6_191-1
    • Welsch, H.; Binder, M. & A.-K. Blankenberg (2021). Green behavior, green selfimage, and subjective well-being: Separating affective and cognitive relationships, Ecological Economics, 179.
    • Binder, M.; Blankenberg, A.-K. & H. Welsch (2020). ProEnvironmental Norms, Green Lifestyles, and Subjective Well-Being: Panel Evidence from the UK, Social Indicators Research.
    • Binder, M.; Blankenberg, A.-K. & J. Guardiola (2020). Does it have to be a sacrifice? Different notions of the good life, proenvironmental behavior and their heterogeneous impact on well-being", Ecological Economics, 167.
    • Proeger, T. & A.-K. Blankenberg (2017). PAYWHAT-YOU-WANT IN GROUPS - EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT. Applied Economics Letters, 18.
    • Binder, M. & A.-K. Blankenberg (2017). Green lifestyles and subjective wellbeing: More about self-image than actual behavior? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 137: 304323.
    • Blankenberg, A.-K. & G. Buenstorf (2016). Regional coevolution of firm population, innovation and public research? Evidence from the West German laser industry, Research Policy 45(4): 857868.
    • Binder, M. & A.-K. Blankenberg (2016). Environmental worries, volunteering and subjective well-being: Antecedents and outcomes of environmental activism in Germany, Ecological Economics 124: 1-16.

    Selected Media Coverage
    • Universität Göttingen, Press release: Stimuli in the humanities and social sciences, (11.01.2019)
    • Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur: “Future discourses”: 1.2 million Euros for the humanities and social sciences, (11.01.2019)
    • Understanding Society (Report): Do green lifestyles improve life satisfaction?, “Insights 2018-19”, pp. 32-33)
    • Understanding Society: Many people believe in ‘green’ values, but fewer put it into practice, (03.10.2017)
    • The Atlantic: How vanity could save the planet, (20.06.2017)

    Further links
    • Personal webpage
    • Google scholar 
    • ORCID Researcher ID: 0000-0001-7108-7252
    • Web of Science Researcher ID: AAH-2768-2020

    Contact:
    Prof. Dr. Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg

    Contact
    Economics
    E-mail: [email protected]
  • Kerry Bystrom
    Kerry Bystrom

    USA
    PhD in English 
    Princeton University

    Kerry Bystrom


    USA
    PhD in English 
    Princeton University

    Associate Dean

    Prof. Dr. Kerry Bystrom earned a BA, summa cum laude, in English/Creative Writing and Government from Dartmouth College (1999) and a PhD in English from Princeton University (2007). Awards for her doctoral research on cultural responses to dictatorship in Latin America and apartheid in South Africa include Princeton’s Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Honorific Fellowship and an International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (USA). Before arriving at Bard College Berlin in 2012, she taught at Princeton University, Bard College, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the University of Connecticut, where she was also director of the Research Program on Humanitarianism at the Human Rights Institute. She teaches at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, and on topics ranging from postcolonial studies (theory, literature, performance and visual art) and African and world literature to trauma and memory studies, human rights, and humanitarianism.

    Courses taught at Bard College Berlin

    • Civic Engagement
    • Writing African Futures
    • Doing “Justice” after Atrocity 
    • Critical Human Rights and Humanitarian Advocacy/ Scholars At Risk 
    • Scholars at Risk
    • Global Citizenship 
    • Global Cold War Literatures 
    • Fictions of Justice: Literature, Truth Commissions, and International Criminal Law 
    • Postcolonial Literature and Theory 
    • Home and Exile - Studies and Literature and Human Rights
    • Introduction to Human Rights

    Research
    Bystrom is the author of the monograph Democracy at Home: Family Fictions and Transitional Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and has published numerous articles and book chapters in venues such as the Journal of Southern African Studies, Social Dynamics Humanity, and Interventions. She is co-editor with Glenn Mitoma of a special issue of the Journal of Human Rights on "Humanitarianism and Responsibility" (March 2013) and also with Sarah Nuttall of a special issue of Cultural Studies on "Private Lives and Public Cultures in South Africa" (Summer 2013). On-going research projects include Cold War relationships between Southern Africa and Latin America; the idea of the "South Atlantic"; global constructions of children's rights and particularly the right to identity; and visions of global solidarity and humanitarian crisis in literature, performance, and new media.

    Publications (selected)
    • The Cultural Cold War and the Global South: Sites of Contest and Communitas, co-edited with Monica Popescu and Katherine Zien, Routledge, 2021
    • "Imagining Planetary Refuge," in EuropeNow, 2019 
    • South and North. Contemporary Urban Orientations, co-edited with Ashleigh Harris and Andrew J. Webber: Routledge, 2018
    • The Global South Atlantic, co-edited with Joseph R. Slaughter: Fordham University Press, 2017
    • Democracy at Home in South Africa: Family Fictions and Transitional Culture New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
    • "Humanitarianism, Responsibility, Links, Knots," in Interventions International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 16(3), 2014
    • "Humanitarianism and Responsibility in Discourse and Practice," co-authored with Glenn Mitoma, in Human Rights Protection and Global Responsibilities: States and Non-State Actors, ed. Kurt Mills and David J. Karp, Palgrave Macmillan [New York], 2015
    • "Literature, Remediation, Remedy (The Case of Transitional Justice)," Comparative Literature 66 (1), 2014, pp. 25-34
    • "Stolen Children, Identity Rights and Rhetoric (Argentina, 1983-2012)," co-authored with Brenda Werth, Jac: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture and Politics 33.3–4 (2013), pp. 425-453
    • "Johannesburg Interiors," Cultural Studies 27 (3), 2013, pp. 333-356
    • "Private Lives and Public Cultures," co-authored with Sarah Nuttall, Cultural Studies 27 (3), 2013, pp. 307-332
    • "Writing Roots in post-apartheid South Africa," Safundi 14 (1), 2013, pp. 17-36
    • "Broadway without Borders: Eve Ensler, Lynn Nottage, and Humanitarian Campaigns to End Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo," in Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-first Century Theater: Global Perspectives, ed. Florian Becker, Paola Hernández and Brenda Werth, Palgrave MacMillan [New York], 2013.
    • "Reading the South Atlantic: South Africa, Chile, the Cold War, and Mark Behr's The Smell of Apples," African Studies 71 (1), 2012, pp. 1-18
    • "On 'humanitarian' adoption (Madonna in Malawi)," Humanity 2 (2), 2011, pp. 213-231
    • "Literature and Human Rights," in The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights, ed. Thomas Cushman, Routledge [London], 2011, pp. 637-646
    • "Culture and Politics After Apartheid: Views from the Market Theatre. An Interview with Malcolm Purkey," Safundi 11 (3), 2010, pp. 201-213 (peer-edited extended interview)
    • "The Public Private Sphere: Family Narrative and Democracy in Argentina and South Africa,"Social Dynamics 36 (1), 2010, pp. 139-152
    • "South Africa, the USA, and the Globalization of Truth and Reconciliation: Itinerant Mourning in Zakes Mda's Cion," Safundi 10 (4), 2009, pp. 397-417
    • "The DNA of the Democratic South Africa: Ancestral Maps, Family Trees, Genealogical Fictions," Journal of Southern African Studies 35 (1), 2009, pp. 223-235
    • "The Politics of Subjectivity: Notes on 21st-century Argentine Documentary Film," in Rethinking Third Cinema: The Role of Anti-colonial Media and Aesthetics in Postmodernity, ed. Frieda Ekotto and Adeline Koh, intr. Simon Gikandi, LIT Verlag [Berlin], 2009, pp. 31-51
       
    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Kerry Bystrom

    Contact
    Associate Dean
    Phone: +49 30 43733 123
    Email: k.bystrom[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Ayse Cavdar
    Ayse Cavdar

    Turkey
    PhD in Cultural Anthropology
    European University of Viadrina

    Ayse Cavdar


    Turkey
    PhD in Cultural Anthropology
    European University of Viadrina

    Ayşe Çavdar completed her BA degree in Journalism at Ankara University and received her MA in History at Boğaziçi University in Turkey. She completed her doctoral thesis titled "The Loss of Modesty: The Adventure of Muslim Family from Neighborhood to Gated Community" at the European University of Viadrina in 2014 (supported by Global Prayers Project initiated by MetroZones). In 2017, she started her postdoctoral fellowship position at Käte Hamburger Kolleg - Center for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg. Then, she continued her work as a visiting scholar at the Philipps University in Marburg for two and a half years.
    Alongside her academic career, Çavdar has also been a journalist for three decades, working on diverse political, cultural, and social issues. She participated and worked for different NGOs in Turkey professionally and as a volunteer. Her current academic interests include urban and religious studies focusing particularly on middle-class living spaces and religious performativities. Recently, her work centered on two new topics. The first one is the nationalist and religious symbolization of the state as an idea(l) and affect. Second, is the focus on the new secularities rising among the youths in Turkey. These research interests are linked closely with current political manifestations and youth movements, mainly established in the religious and nationalist social milieu.


    Selection of recent academic publications: 

    • "Never walk alone: The politics of unveiling in 'New Turkey'" in The Politics of Culture in 'New Turkey' edited by Kaya Akyıldız, Ivo Furman and Pierre Hecker, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming in 2021.
    • "The Sufi Rhetoric in Contemporary Turkey: Find Peace in My Hegemony!" in Sufism: a theoretical intervention in global international relations edited by Deepshika Shahi, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 
    • Kutsal hırsın beton gölgesi: Istanbul'da İslam için bir yok yer (The concrete shadow of holy greed: A non-place for Islam in Istanbul) in Otoriter Neoliberalizmin Gölgesinde: Kent, Mekan, İnsan (Under the Shadow of Authoritarian Neoliberalism: City, Space, People) edited by Şerife Geniş, Nika Publishing House, 2020.
    • "Sıkışmak, sıkılmak, sığınmak, sığışmak, savaşmak: ...ama bir türlü esneyememek" (Being jammed, bored, harboured, squeezed, contended: …but unable to yawn), in Sıkıntı Var (Boredom Exists) edited by Aylin Kuryel, İletişim Publishing House, 2020.
    • “The state (of mind) of Dumrul: How did a nation lose the plot?," Freie Assoziation - Zeitchrift für psychoanalytisce Sozialpsyhcologie, 2/2018, (released in August 2019)
    • "As If They Will Never Die: Islamism's Dream of Capital 15 Accumulation," South Atlantic Quarterly, 2019, 118 (1): 23-40. 
    • Media in "New Turkey": Old Diseases vs. New Energies in Media, Freedom of Speech, and Democracy in the EU and Beyond, edited by Angelos Giannakopoulos, The S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2019.
    • “The radicalizing effect of the contest between similars” in Nach dem Putsch: 16 Anmerkungen zur »neuen« Türkei edited by Ilker Ataç, Michael Fanizadeh, Volkan Ağar, Mandelbaum Verlag, 2018.

    Other notable publications:
    • She co-edited two books: With Volkan Aytar, Media and Security Sector Oversight, Limits and Possibilities, TESEV, 2009; With Pelin Tan, The State of Exception in an Exceptional City, Sel Yayınlari, 2013.
    • In 2010, her interview with sociologist Nilufer Gole was published as a book by Hayy Kitap. 
    • In 2011, she edited the Neo-Islamism issue of Express magazine.


    Contact: 
    Dr. Ayşe Çavdar

    Contact
    Cultural Anthropology
    a.cavdar[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Jeffrey Champlin
    Jeffrey Champlin

    USA
    PhD in German Studies
    New York University

    Jeffrey Champlin


    USA
    PhD in German Studies
    New York University

    Jeffrey Champlin received his PhD from New York University and has taught at NYU, Middlebury, and Bard's campuses in New York, Berlin, and Palestine. His teaching and research focuses on connections between literature, writing, the fine arts, philosophy, and political theory. Jeffrey's book, The Making of a Terrorist: On Classic German Rogues, turns to Goethe, Schiller, and Kleist for surprising responses to political violence from voices on the margins of society. His current project, Romantic Revivalism, traces the epistemological and political effects of imagined acts of rebirth in Pietism, German Idealism, Romantic literature, and Hannah Arendt's philosophy of natality. He also teaches in Bard's Language and Thinking Program and at the Barenboim-Said Academy.

    Publications

    Book

    The Making of a Terrorist: On Classic German Rogues. Preface by Avital Ronell (Northwestern University Press, 2015).

    Edited Volumes
    The Technological Introject: Friedrich Kittler Between Implementation and the Incalculable (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018). Editor, with Antje Pfannkuchen.

    Terror and the Roots of Poetics (New York and Dresden: Atropos Press, 2013).

    Journal Articles and Book Chapters

    “Rights, Revolution, Representation: Thinking Through the Language of the French Revolution,” Teaching Representations of the French Revolution, ed. Julia Douthwaite (Modern Language Association Book Publications Program). Forthcoming, 2018.

    “The Clara Complex: Kittler on ‘The Sandman.’” The Technological Introject: Friedrich Kittler Between Implementation and the Incalculable (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018).

    “‘We shall be monsters’: Body Structuralism and Earth Narrative.” Studien zur Englischen Romantik 19 (2017).

    “‘Poetry or Body Politic:’ Notes on Natality.” Reading Arendt’s Denktagebuch, ed. Roger Berkowitz (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).

    “Brother, Sister, Monster: Resonance and the Body of the Voice in Antigone and The Metamorphosis.” Modern Language Notes 130.5 (2015).

    “Born Again: Arendt’s Natality as Figure and Concept.” Germanic Review, 88 (2013).

    “LOOK AWAY FROM ME: Apotrope als Beichte und die Zukunft von Sarah Kanes 4.48 Psychosis.” Ökonomie des Opfers. Literatur im Zeichen des Suizides (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2013 ) [“LOOK AWAY FROM ME: Apotrope as Confession and the Future of Sarah Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis.”

    “Reader Beware: Wild Right in Eichendorff and Kleist.” Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Political Legacies, ed. Jeff High (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013).

    “Art in Ruin: Rilke’s Ekphrastic Turn.” Terror and the Roots of Poetics, ed. Jeffrey Champlin (New York and Dresden: Atropos Press, 2013).

    “Reading Terrorism in Kleist: The Violence and Mandates of Michael Kohlhaas.” German Quarterly, 85.4 (2012).

    “Hegel’s Faust.” Goethe Yearbook 18.1 (2011).

    “Bombenpost 2011: Zur Rezeption von Kleists Briefen.” Kleist Jahrbuch (2010).

    “Authority in a Time of War: 21st Century Kleist Scholarship.” Germanic Review 85, 1 (2010).

    Contact
    Dr. Jeffrey Champlin

     

    Contact
    German Studies
    Email: j.champlin[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Irwin Collier 
    Irwin Collier 

    USA
    PhD in Economics
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

    Irwin Collier 


    USA
    PhD in Economics
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

    Irwin Collier joins Bard College Berlin this coming Fall Semester. Previously he was professor of Economics and North American Studies at the John-F.-Kennedy Institute of Freie Universität Berlin. Before coming to Freie Universität in 1994, Irwin Collier taught at the University of Houston for thirteen years. He has also taught as a visiting professor at CERGE/EI in Prague and Seoul National University’s School of Public Administration in South Korea.  Over his teaching career Irwin Collier has taught a broad spectrum of courses including macroeconomics, international economics, social policy, labor economics, econometrics, comparative economic systems, and history of economics.

    Irwin Collier studied economics at Yale University and earned his doctorate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before coming to Bard College Berlin his research work has focused on aspects of the economy and the economic policies of the former German Democratic Republic and the transition of the postwall East German economy as well as the theory and statistical methods of measuring purchasing power in an international context. Over the past few years he has conducted significant archival work dealing with the evolution of the curricula for undergraduate and graduate education in economics from the late 19th century up through the 1960s in the United States.

    Irwin Collier’s work has been published in the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Economica, Journal of Comparative Economics, Comparative Economic Studies, Journal of Forecasting, and Journal of Economic Integration.

    Irwin Collier runs a boutique blog, Economics in the Rear-view Mirror (irwincollier.com), that offers a regular stream of artifacts from the history of economics transcribed and curated by him.

    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Irwin Collier

    Contact
    Economics
    Email: i.collier[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Tracy Colony
    Tracy Colony

    USA
    PhD in Philosophy
    Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

    Tracy Colony


    USA
    PhD in Philosophy
    Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

    Prof. Dr. Tracy Colony received his doctorate in Philosophy in 2001 from Leuven (Belgium). In 2000-01 he held a Flemish Community Fellowship and in 2002-03 a DAAD supported post-doctorate at Bard College Berlin, where, since 2003, he has taught. In 2006 he received a stipend from the Weimar Classics Foundation. 

    Classes Taught at Bard College Berlin

    • Plato's Republic and Its Interlocutors
    • Forms of Love
    • The Thought of Martin Heidegger
    • In Search of the Good: An Introduction to Ethics
    • Continental Aesthetics
    • The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Introduction to Existentialism
    • Totality and Infinity
    • Dante's Divine Comedy
    • Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
    • Existentialism
    • The Philosophy of Transcendentalism
    • Philosophy and Poetry: The Work of Friedrich Hölderlin

    General Teaching Interests
    Ancient Philosophy, German Idealism, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Contemporary Phenomenology

    Translations
    Martin Heidegger, Phänomenologie der Anschauung und des Ausdrucks; Gesamtausgabe Bd. 59, (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2007); translated as Phenomenology of Intuition and Expression (London: Continuum, 2010).

    Publications (selection)
    • "Composing Time: Stiegler on Nietzsche, Nihilism and a Possible Future" in Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference, eds. A. Rehberg and A. Woodward, (Berlin: de Gruyter) (Forthcoming).
    • "From Time to Time: Auto-Affection in Derrida's 1964-65 Heidegger Course," Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy (2019).
    • "The Future of Technics: Stiegler on Time and Futurity", Parrhesia (2017).
    • "Transformations: Malabou on Heidegger and Change", Parrhesia (2015).
    • "Bringing Philosophy Back to Life: Nietzsche and Heidegger's Early Phenomenology", Studia Phaenomenologica (2014).
    • "Epimetheus Bound: Stiegler on Derrida, Life and the Technological Condition", Research in Phenomenology (2011).
    • "The Death of God and the Life of Being: Heidegger's Confrontation with Nietzsche," in Interpreting Heidegger: Critical Essays, ed. Daniel Dahlstrom, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
    • "A Matter of Time: Stiegler on Heidegger and Being Technological," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology May (2010).
    • "Concerning Technology: Heidegger and the Question of Technological Essentialism," Idealistic Studies (2009).
    • "Given Time: the Question of Futurity in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy," The Heythrop Journal (2009).
    • "Attunement and Transition: Hölderlin and Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning)," Studia Phaenomenologica (2008).
    • "The Wholly Other: Being and the Last God in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology May (2008).
    • "Before the Abyss: Agamben on Heidegger and the Living," Continental Philosophy Review (2007).
    • "Unearthing Heidegger's Roots: On Charles Bambach's Heidegger's Roots," (review essay) Studia Phaenomenologica (2006).
    • "Geschichte der Rezeption der Heideggerschen Nietzsche Interpretation in Deutschland," in Heidegger-Jahrbuch (Hrg.) A. Denker und H. Zaborowski (Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber, 2005).
    • "Telling Silence: The Question of Divinity in Heidegger's Early Nietzsche Lectures," Epoche (2004).
    • "Heidegger's Early Nietzsche Lectures and the Question of Resistance," Studia Phenomenologica (2004).
    • "Twilight of the Eidos: The Question of Form in Heidegger's Reading of Nietzsche's Thought upon Art," Analecta Husserliana (2004).
    • "Circulus Vitiosus Deus: Time and the Question of God in Heidegger's Nietzsche," Existentia (2003).
    • "Eternal Phenomena: The Question of Contemplation in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy," Existentia (2003).
    • "Time and the Work of Art: Reconsidering Heidegger's Auseinandersetzung with Nietzsche," Heidegger Studies 19 (2003).
    • "Representation and Metaphor in Nietzsche's "On Truth and Lie in the Extra-Moral Sense" in Neuere Beiträge zur Nietzsche-Forschung (Band II) (Hrg.) Sabine S. Gehlhaar (Cuxhaven: Traude Junghans Verlag) (2001).
    • "Dwelling in the Biosphere? Heidegger's Critique of Humanism and its Relevance for Ecological Thought," International Studies in Philosophy 31:1 (1999).
    • "Exquisite Stimulations: Will and Illusion in The Birth of Tragedy," Journal of Nietzsche Studies Spring (1999).

    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Tracy Colony

    Contact
    Philosophy
    Email: t.colony[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Marion Detjen
    Marion Detjen

    Germany
    PhD in History 
    Freie Universität Berlin

    Marion Detjen


    Germany
    PhD in History 
    Freie Universität Berlin

    Marion Detjen attended the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, and then studied European history and German literature and linguistics in Berlin and Munich, where she received her MA and passed her first state exam. She worked for several years as a freelance curator, teacher, writer, and activist, before receiving her PhD from Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation on rescue helpers after the building of the Berlin Wall. 2009 - 2014 Marion worked and taught at Humboldt University Berlin, 2015 - 2107 on a DFG-position at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Center for Contemporary History) in Potsdam. She has been teaching migration history, German history and global history at Bard College Berlin since 2016, and is director of Bard College Berlin's „Program for International Education and Social Change“ (PIESC). She is currently writing a biography on the German-American publisher in exile Helen Wolff. Her historical interests include German post-war history, migration history, global history, the history of publishing and cultural transfer, biography and oral history, gender, and the relationship between the private and the public. Marion is a regular contributor to the column „10nach8“ at ZEIT-Online as part of its editorial team, she runs the „Real Talk“ series on diaspora discourse at the Volksbühne Berlin, and she is a co-founder and board member of "Wir machen das," a coalition of action focused on the migration crisis.

    Publications

    Monographs:

    • Helen Wolff, Hintergrund für Liebe. Das Buch eines Sommers, edited and with an essay by Marion Detjen, Bonn (Weidle Verlag) 2020.
    • Die Deutschen und das Grundgesetz. Geschichte und Grenzen unserer Verfassung, together with Max Steinbeis and Stephan Detjen, Munich (Pantheon) 2009, Schriftenreihe der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Band 763.
    • Ein Loch in der Mauer. Die Geschichte der Fluchthilfe im geteilten Deutschland 1961-1989, Munich (Siedler Verlag) 2005.
    • „Zum Staatsfeind ernannt". Widerstand, Resistenz und Verweigerung gegen das NS-Regime in München, ed. by the City of Munich, Munich (Buchendorfer Verlag) 1998.
     
    Essays/Articles/Book chapters (selection):
    • „The Germans’ ‚Refugee‘: Concepts and Images of the ‚Refugee‘ in Germany’s Twisted History Between Acceptance and Denial as a Country of Immigration and Refuge“, in: Erol Balkan and Zumray Kutlu-Tonak (Eds.), Global Refugee Crisis and Local Refugee Lives, Oxford & New York (Berghahn Books) - forthcoming.
    • „Patriotismus“, in: David Ranan (Ed.), Sprach Gewalt: Missbrauchte Wörter und andere politische Kampfbegriffe, Bonn (Dietz Verlag) - forthcoming. 
    • „‚At my death, burn or throw away unread!‘ Zum Hintergrund des Hintergrunds“, in: Helen Wolff, Hintergrund für Liebe. Das Buch eines Sommers, edited and with an essay by Marion Detjen, Bonn (Weidle Verlag) 2020, pp. 119-215.
    • „‚Wir schaffen das‘ oder ‚revolutionäres Bewusstsein‘? Überlegungen zur Willkommenskultur 2015“, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte,  30-32/2020, pp. 20-26, https://www.bpb.de/apuz/312830/ueberlegungen-zur-willkommenskultur-2015
    • "Tabubruch und phänomenologische Ähnlichkeiten. Zur Vergleichbarkeit der Fluchthilfe für DDR-Flüchtlinge nach dem Mauerbau und der Schleusertätigkeit heute", in: Zeitgeschichte-online, January 2017, https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/kommentar/tabubruch-und-phaenomenologische-aehnlichkeiten.
    • "Privatheit und Geschlecht in der Kulturverlagsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel des Verlegerehepaars Kurt und Helen Wolff", in: Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien (Ed.), Grenzziehungen von „öffentlich“ und „privat“ im neuen Blick auf die Geschlechterverhältnisses, Bulletin Texte 43(2017), pp. 182-194.
    • „Die ‚Mauer‘ als Erfahrung und Sujet. Deutung und Umdeutung zwischen Mauerbau und Mauerfall“, in: Franka Maubach and Christina Morina (Eds.), Das 20. Jahrhundert erzählen. Zeiterfahrung und Zeiterforschung im geteilten Deutschland, Beiträge zur Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vol. 21, Göttingen (Wallstein Verlag) 2016, pp. 328-385. 
    • „Helen and Kurt Wolff“, in: Immigrant Entrepreneurship. German-American Business Biogrraphies, 1720 to the Present, Vol. 5: From the Post-War Boom to Global Capitalism, 1945-Today, Online platform of the German Historical Institute Washington DC, Fall 2011, http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org.


    Contact
    Dr. Marion Detjen

    Contact
    History
    Email: m.detjen[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Marcus Giamattei
    Marcus Giamattei

    Germany/Italy
    Habilitation in Economics
    University of Passau, Germany

    Marcus Giamattei


    Germany/Italy
    Habilitation in Economics
    University of Passau, Germany


    Marcus Giamattei holds a Habilitation (2020) and a PhD in Economics (2015), both from the University of Passau. Before his PhD he completed an M.A. in International Economics and Business (2011), a B.Sc. in Business Computing (2009), and a B.A. in International Cultural and Business Studies (2009) there. Before coming to Berlin, he was an assistant professor at the University of Passau, where he is still an external fellow. He is also affiliated with CeDEx at the University of Nottingham, UK, and has been a visiting researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. His research has appeared in Experimental Economics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Plos One, the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. A full CV can be found at giamattei.de.

    His research interests are Macroeconomics and Experimental and Behavioral Economics. In the growing field of Experimental Macroeconomics, he focuses on bounded rationality and limited reasoning as an important driver of macroeconomic behavior. His second research area deals with the role of cooperation, ethics and corruption. He developed classEx, a tool for interactive classroom and lab-in-the-field experiments with mobile devices and LIONESS Lab – a tool for online experiments. Those tools enable instructors and researchers to use experiments outside of the lab and for teaching economics. classEx and LIONESS are used in over 50 countries around the world.

    Courses taught at Bard College Berlin:

    Macroeconomics (always in Spring term)
    Global Economics - International Finance (always in Fall)

    Principles of Economics (always in Fall term)

    Mathematical Foundation (always in Spring term)
    Mathematics for Economics (always in Fall term)

    Introduction to Statistics (Spring 2020 and 2022)


    Research Interests:

    Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Experimental Macroeconomics, Economics of Corruption and Experimental Ethics, Online, Classroom and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments.

    Publications:

    • Giamattei, M. (2021): Can cold turkey reduce inflation inertia? Evidence on disinflation and level-k from a laboratory experiment. Forthcoming in the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.
    • Giamattei, M., Yahosseini, K. S., Gächter, S. and Molleman, L. (2020): LIONESS Lab - a Free Web-Based Platform for Conducting Interactive Experiments Online. Journal of the Economic ScienceAssociation. DOI 10.1007/s40881-020-00087-0.
    • Dorner, V., Giamattei, M. and Greiff, M. (2020):The Market for Reviews: Strategic Behavior of Online Product Reviewers with Monetary Incentives.Schmalenbach Business Review. DOI 10.1007/s41464-020-00094-y.
    • Grundmann, S., Giamattei, M., Lambsdorff, J. Graf (2019): Intentions rather than Money Illusion – Why Nominal Changes Induce Real Effects. European Economic Review 119, 166-178.
    • Giamattei, M., Huber, J., Lambsdorff, J. Graf, Nicklisch, A., Palan, S. (2019): Who inflates the bubble? Forecasters and traders in experimental asset markets. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2019.07.004
    • Giamattei, M., Lamsbdorff J. Graf (2019): classEx - an Online Tool for Lab-in-the-Field Experiments with Smartphones. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 29: 223-231. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbef.2019.04.008
    • Lambsdorff, J. Graf, Giamattei, M. (2019): Makroökonomik - Vorlesung in Volkswirtschaftslehre. 6. Auflage. Course book for macroeconomics in the bachelor program (in German).
    • Lambsdorff, J. Graf, Giamattei, M., Werner, K., Schubert, M. (2018): Team reasoning—Experimental evidence on cooperation from centipede games. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0206666.
    • Lambsdorff, J. Graf, Giamattei, M., Werner, K. (2017): How Fragile Is Conditional Cooperation? A Field Experiment with Smartphones during the 2014 Soccer World Cup. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 30(2): 492-501. DOI: 10.1002/bdm.1968
    • Giamattei, M., Lambsdorff, J. Graf (2015): Balancing the Current Account – Experimental Evidence on Underconsumption. Experimental Economics 18(4): 679-696. DOI: 10.1007/s10683-014-9422-z.
    • Lambsdorff, J. Graf, Schubert, M., Giamattei, M. (2013): On the Role of Heuristics - Experimental Evidence on Inflation Dynamics. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 37(6): 1213-1229.
    • Giamattei, M., Scholz, M. (2010): Exploiting Correspondence Analysis to Visualize Product Spaces. Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS, 2010, Naples, Italy.

    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Marcus Giamattei

    Contact
    Macroeconomics
    Email: m.giamattei[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • James Harker
    James Harker

    USA
    PhD in Rhetoric
    University of California, Berkeley

    James Harker


    USA
    PhD in Rhetoric
    University of California, Berkeley

    James Harker received his B.A. from Swarthmore College where he studied sociology, anthropology, and English literature. He received his PhD in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010. His research specialties are the twentieth century British novel, narrative theory, rhetoric, and cognition. At UC-Berkeley, he taught courses on classical rhetoric, theories of fiction, and transatlantic modernism, as well as introductory and advanced courses on writing. He is currently working on a book titled The Modernist Mind: The Art of Cognitive Minimalism, which argues that the modernist novel's distinguishing feature is its emphasis on the fallibility of basic cognitive processes. His work has appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature and Studies in the Novel.

    Contact
    Dr. James Harker

    Contact
    Literature and Rhetoric
    Language and Thinking Program Coordinator
    Director of Academic Services and the Learning Commons

    Phone: +49 30 43733 226
    Email: j.harker[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • David Hayes
    David Hayes

    USA
    PhD from the Committee on Social Thought
    The University of Chicago

    David Hayes


    USA
    PhD from the Committee on Social Thought
    The University of Chicago

    David Hayes received his B.A. in English from Kenyon College in 1992 and his PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago with a dissertation on Early Greek Lyric Poetry. He came to Bard College Berlin as a fellow in 2005.

    Classes taught at Bard College Berlin
    Core courses

    • Plato's Republic and Its Interlocutors (coordinator 2008, 2009)
    • Forms of Love
    • Property
    • Innocence and Experience
    • Objectivity and Self-Knowledge
    • Character
    Electives and Foundational Modules
    • Short Dialogues of Plato
    • The Odyssey
    • Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
    • Introduction to Poetry
    • Comedies of Remarriage
    • Poetry and Philosophy
    • Tragic Character
    • Huckleberry Finn
    Coordinator of the 2010 Annual Conference: The Translator

    General Teaching Interests:
    Greek philosophy and literature, poetry

    Publications:
    • “Piety as a Virtue,” The Journal of Value Inquiry (2020). Co-authored with Jeremy Schwartz. 
    • “In Praise of Lameness: A Response to William Deresiewicz’s Excellent Sheep,” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (2019)
    • "The Iliad now," The New Criterion (September, 2015)
    • "Against critical thinking pedagogy," Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (2015)
    • "When BS Is a Virtue," The Chronicle of Higher Education (2014)
    • Three Translations of Theognis: "Not Even Zeus," "Those Wings of Yours," "Decline," The Utopian (2010-11)

    Contact
    Dr. David Hayes

    Contact
    Greek Philosophy and Literature
    Phone: +49 30 43733 203
    Email: d.hayes[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Matthias Hurst
    Matthias Hurst

    Germany
    Habilitation in Literature and Film Studies
    Universität Heidelberg

    Matthias Hurst


    Germany
    Habilitation in Literature and Film Studies
    Universität Heidelberg

    Prof. Dr. Habil. Matthias Hurst studied German literature and language, art history and psychology at the University of Heidelberg. He received his MA in 1993, his PhD in 1995 and his habilitation in literature and film studies in 2000. He taught German literature, comparative literature and film studies at the University of Heidelberg (1996-2001) and as guest lecturer at the University of Reading (1998) and the Paul Valéry University in Montpellier (1999) and has written on narration in literature and film, film adaptations of literary works, film history/theory, film interpretation and genre films. In Heidelberg he was also working on the pilot project Studien-Coaching, a new developed, highly individual and personality-based form of student counselling (2001-2003).

    Classes taught at Bard College Berlin

    Core Courses

    • Bildung: Education and Formation

    Foundational and Advanced Modules
    • Introduction to Film Studies: The Films of Stanley Kubrick
    • Frankenstein’s Heirs: Mary Shelley’s Novel and Film Adaptations
    • Freud and Jung go to the Movies: Psychoanalysis and Film
    • Film Narratives-Introduction to Film Studies
    • Controversial Films
    • German Film: Reflections of History and Style
    • Aspects of New German Cinema
    • The Hitchcock Files: An Introduction to Film Studies
    • Star Trek: The Final Frontier and Beyond
    • Order and Chaos – The Films of Fritz Lang
    • Woody Allen: A Poetics of Fun and Philosophy
    • German Cinema in the Weimar Republic
    • Dreadful Pleasures: Horror Films
    • Introduction to Film Studies
    • German Cinema: Weimar Republic and Third Reich
    • Narration in Literature and Film
    • Frames of Meaning: Film Interpretation
    • The Gorgon's Gaze: Controversial Films
    • Outsiders in Film
    • German Cinema
    • Being Scared: Horror Films
    • Ingmar Bergman
    • Heroes on Screen
    • Film Genres
    • Fight, Pain, Death: Existential Philosophy and Film
    • The Fantastic Screen
    • How The West Was Won: The Western Films
    • Visions of the Future: The Science Fiction Film from Metropolis to Matrix
       
    Project Year Research Topics supervised at Bard College Berlin
    • ‘Equal But Different’: Engendering Vladimir Menshov‘s  Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1979)
    • Derek Jarman’s “I” Film: A Ritual of Sincerity
    • Oniric Cinema and the Diegesis of Film Consciousness
    • Investigating the Postmodern Sublime in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001)
    • Early Cinema and the True Motion Picture: The Aesthetics of Movement in the Films of Max and Emil Skladanowsky
    • Theater’s Fearsome Mirror: Cabaret as Political Theater
    • On the Realities of Science Fiction, or: The Exoteric Esotericism of Philip K. Dick
    • Enjoy Documentary: Filmmaking, Ethics, and Ai Wei Wei‘s Human Flow
    • Troubled Black Representation & the Emotion of Horror
    • The Witch: Horror, Women, Psychoanalysis, and Suspiria
    • Dream and Film: An Analysis of David Lynch, Irritation and Mulholland Drive
    • Lars von Trier's Dogville
    • Sergej Eisenstein in Berlin

    General Teaching Interests
    Film History (esp. Western European and American Cinema), Film Analysis, Genre Film, the Fantastic in Literature and Film

    Publications (selection)
    Books
    • Erzählsituationen in Literatur und Film. Ein Modell zur vergleichenden Analyse von literarischen Texten und filmischen Adaptionen. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1996.
    • Im Spannungsfeld der Aufklärung. Von Schillers Geisterseher zur TV-Serie The X-Files: Rationalismus und Irrationalismus in Literatur, Film und Fernsehen 1786-1999. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2001.
       
    Essays
    • „Der Blick in den Abgrund. Schuld und Verantwortung in Franz Fühmanns Erzählungen Kapitulation, Das Gottesgericht und Die Schöpfung." In: Colloquia Germanica. Inter-nationale Zeitschrift für Germanistik, Vol. 32 (1999), No.1, pp. 37-69.
    • „Mittelbarkeit, Perspektive, Subjektivität: Über das narrative Potential des Spielfilms." In: Jörg Helbig (ed.): Erzählen und Erzähltheorie im 20. Jahrhundert. Festschrift für Wilhelm Füger, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2001, pp. 233-251.
    • „Blutige Küsse. Bram Stokers Dracula: Der Vampir als Wunschbild und Angsttraum des Mannes." In: Karin Tebben (ed.): Abschied vom Mythos Mann. Kulturelle Konzepte der Moderne. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, pp. 138-154).
    • „Tod und Wiedergeburt. Literarische Formen der Initiation und der Individuation." In: Wirkendes Wort. Deutsche Sprache und Literatur in Forschung und Lehre, Vol. 52 (2002), No. 2, pp. 257-275.
    • „Coaching für Studierende." (Zusammen mit Rainer M. Holm-Hadulla, Antje Wetzel und Charlotte Buff) In: Psychologisch-Psychotherapeutische Beratungsstelle der Universität des Saarlandes (eds.): Beratung und Beziehung. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Studien-, Studentinnen- und Studentenberatung (ARGE) vom 5. bis 8. September 2001 in der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 50-74.
    • „Flucht aus der Zeit. Zur narrativen Struktur des Films Slaughterhouse-Five von George Roy Hill." In: Komparatistik. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 2002/2003. Heidelberg: Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Autoren, 2003, pp. 73-95.
    • „Augen-Blicke des Ekels in Roman Polanskis Film Repulsion (1965)." In: Hermes A. Kick (ed.): Ekel. Darstellung und Deutung in den Wissenschaften und Künsten. Symposium des Arbeitskreises „Psychopathologie, Kunst und Literatur" (Heidelberg 2000). Hürtgenwald: Guido Pressler Verlag, 2003, pp. 83-96.
    • „Bilder des Schreckens - Schrecken der Bilder. Hollywoods Katastrophenkino und der Terror der Realität." In: Der 11. September – Ursachen und Folgen. Sammelband der Studium Generale-Vorträge der Universität Heidelberg im Sommersemester 2002, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2003, pp. 55-73.
    • „'... und es begann der tiefere Traum seines Lebens.' Diskursebenen der Initiation in Stefan Zweigs Novelle Brennendes Geheimnis (1911)." In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik, Neue Folge No. 1 (Februar 2004), pp. 67-82.
    • „The Aging West: Der alternde Held und der Mythos des Westerns." In: Kurt Bayertz / Margrit Frölich / Kurt W. Schmidt (eds.): I'm the Law! Recht, Ethik und Ästhetik im Western. (Tagung der Evangelischen Akademie Arnoldshain 31. Mai – 02. Juni 2002) Frankfurt a.M.: Haag + Herchen, 2004, pp. 134-157.
    • „Ameisen, Hühner, Oger: Moderne Märchen – postmoderne Parodien." In: Maren Bonacker (ed.): Peter Pans Kinder. Doppelte Adressiertheit in phantastischen Texten. (Tagungsband zum Wissenschaftlichen Symposium, 16.-18. Mai 2003) Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004, pp. 107-125.
    • „Stimmen aus dem All – Rufe aus der Seele. Kommunikation mit Außerirdischen in narrativen Spielfilmen." In: Michael Schetsche (ed.): Der maximal Fremde. Begegnungen mit dem Nichtmenschlichen und die Grenzen des Verstehens. Würzburg: Ergon, 2004, pp. 95-112.
    • „Der Exorzist (USA 1973, Regie: William Friedkin): Ästhetik und sozialhistorische Implikationen eines Kino-Erfolgs." In: Hermes A. Kick et al. (ed.): Besessenheit, Trance, Exorzismus. Affekte und Emotionen als Grundlagen ethischer Wertebildung und Gefährdung in Wissenschaften und Künsten. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2004, pp. 7-24.
    • „Feine Speisen – rohe Sitten. Sinnlichkeit und Ästhetik des Essens in Peter Greenaways Film Der Koch, der Dieb, seine Frau und ihr Liebhaber (1989)." In: Dietrich von Engelhardt / Rainer Wild (eds.): Geschmackskulturen. Vom Dialog der Sinne beim Essen und Trinken. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus, 2005, pp. 193-204.
    • „Unterbewusstsein am Haken. Film-Nixen als Anima-Figuren." In: Jost Eickmeyer / Sebastian Soppa (eds.): Umarmung und Wellenspiel. Variationen über die Wasserfrau. Overath/Witten: Bücken & Sulzer, 2006, pp. 19-40.
    • „The Duality Persists. Faust on Screen." In: Komparatistik. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 2005/2006. Heidelberg: Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Autoren, 2006, pp. 39-54.
    • „Magische Übergänge. Visualisierungen des (kindlichen) Unbewussten im Fantasy-Film." In: Zauberland und Tintenwelt. Fantastik in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Beiträge Jugendliteratur und Medien, 17. Beiheft, Vol. 58 (2006). Herausgegeben von Jörg Knobloch und Gudrun Stenzel in Zusammenarbeit mit der AJuM der GEW, pp. 129-145.
    • „Mord im Film. Hitchcock und Kieslowski: Ästhetik und Ethik des Tötens." In: Dietrich von Engelhardt / Manfred Oehmichen (eds.): Der „Mord". Darstellung und Deutung in den Wissenschaften und Künsten. „Murder". Reproduction and Interpretation in Sciences and Arts. (Research in Legal Medicine, Vol. 35.) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2007, pp. 367-391.
    • „Der Weg aus der Kindheit. Pinocchios Abenteuer als Initiationsgeschichte." In: Maren Bonacker (ed.): Das Kind im Leser. Phantastische Texte als all-ages-Lektüre. Tagungsband zum wissenschaftlichen Symposium „Pinocchios Freunde", 7. bis 9. Mai 2004. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007, pp. 135-151.
    • „L'ambivalenza dolceamara. Strutture narrative e autoriflessività in Eyes Wide Shut di Stanley Kubrick." In: Luigi Cimmino / Daniele Dottorini / Giorgio Pangaro (eds.): Il doppio sogno di Stanley Kubrick. Traumnovelle / Eyes Wide Shut: Contributi per una lettura comparata. Milano: Il Castoro, 2007, pp. 178-195. (Traduzione dal tedesco di Luigi Cimmino)
    • „Traumbilder. Visuelle Diskurse objektiver und subjektiver Wahrnehmung in den Filmen David Lynchs." In: Monika Schmitz-Emans / Gertrud Lehnert (eds.): Visual Culture. Beiträge zur XIII. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Potsdam, 18.-21. Mai 2005. Heidelberg: Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Autoren, 2008, pp. 253-264.
    • „Verzweiflung in Ingmar Bergmans Filmen Das siebente Siegel und Wilde Erdbeeren." In: Hermes A. Kick / Günter Dietz (eds.): Verzweiflung als kreative Herausforderung. Psychopathologie, Psychotherapie und künstlerische Lösungsgestalten in Literatur, Musik und Film. Berlin: Lit Verlag 2008, pp. 277-291.
    • „Stumme Verzweiflung in Ingmar Bergmans Film Das Schweigen – Künstlerische Bewältigung eines überwältigenden Affekts." In: Hermes A. Kick / Günter Dietz (eds.): Verzweiflung als kreative Herausforderung. Psychopathologie, Psychotherapie und künstlerische Lösungsgestalten in Literatur, Musik und Film. Berlin: Lit Verlag 2008, pp. 293-310.
    • „Das Gesicht des Feindes. Ikonographie des Bösen in Sergej M. Ėjzenštejns Filmen." In: Bodo Zelinsky (ed.): Das Böse in der russischen Kultur. Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau 2008, pp. 248-262.
    • „Dialektik des Aliens. Darstellungen und Interpretationen von Außerirdischen in Film und Fernsehen." In: Michael Schetsche / Martin Engelbrecht (eds.): Von Menschen und Außerirdischen. Transterrestrische Begegnungen im Spiegel der Kulturwissenschaft. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2008, pp. 31-53.
    • „Das Wohl der Vielen und das Glück des Einzelnen: Happy End im Western." In: Hermes A. Kick (ed.): Glück. Ethische Perspektiven – aktuelle Glückskonzepte. Berlin/Münster: Lit Verlag 2008, pp. 109-121.
    • „Kampf, Schmerzen, Tod: Existenzphilosophie und Grenzsituationen im Film." In: Dietrich von Engelhardt / Horst-Jürgen Gerigk (eds.): Karl Jaspers im Schnittpunkt von Zeitgeschichte, Psychopathologie, Literatur und Film. Heidelberg: Mattes Verlag , 2009, pp. 205-237.
    • „Superbias Töchter. Die sieben Todsünden, Neid und David Finchers Sieben (Se7en, USA 1995)." In: Birgit Harreß (ed.): Neid. Darstellung und Deutung in den Wissenschaften und Künsten.. Berlin/Münster: Lit Verlag 2010, pp. 55-74.
    • „Konzeption, Ästhetik, Rekonstruktion: Dialogische Strukturen in Thea von Harbous und Fritz Langs Metropolis (1927)." In: Stefan Keppler-Tasaki / Fabienne Liptay (eds.): Grauzonen. Positionen zwischen Literatur und Film 1910-1960. München: Boorberg/edition text + kritik, 2010, pp. 204-234.
    • „Grenzsituation, Heilung und Versöhnung: Solaris von Andrej Tarkowskij." In: Hermes A. Kick / Günter Dietz (eds.): Trauma und Versöhnung. Heilungswege in Psychotherapie, Kunst und Religion. Berlin/Münster: Lit Verlag, 2010, pp. 235-252.
    • „Väter und Söhne. Das Motiv der Versöhnung in Star Wars." In: Hermes A. Kick / Günter Dietz (eds.): Trauma und Versöhnung. Heilungswege in Psychotherapie, Kunst und Religion. Berlin/Münster: Lit Verlag, 2010, pp. 253-282.
    • „'Piloten ist nichts verboten' und ‚Jede Nacht ein neues Glück': Unterhaltungskino und Filmmusik im Spannungsfeld ideologischer Werte" In: Christoph Henzel (ed.): Musik im Unterhaltungskino des Dritten Reichs. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2011, pp. 41-76.
    • "Subjectivity Unleashed: Haute Tension." In: Patricia Allmer / Emily Brick / David Huxley (eds.): European Nightmares. Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945. London/New York: Wallflower/Columbia University Press 2012, pp. 103-114.
    • "Man muss den Kopf heben und sich als Mensch fuehlen lernen ..." Sergej Eisensteins Panzerkreuzer Potemkin (UdSSR 1925)." In: Stefan Keppler-Tasaki / Elisabeth K. Paefgen (eds.): Was lehrt das Kino? 24 Filme und Antworten. Edition Text und Kritik, 2012.
    • „Tod und Sterben in Film und Fernsehen.“ In: Michael Anderheiden / Wolfgang U. Eckart (eds.): Handbuch Sterben und Menschenwürde. 3 Vol. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012, pp. 1735-1764.
    • "'Ich lebe!' Fearless -- Grenzsituation, Trauma und Suche nach innerem Frieden." In: Hermes A. Kick / Günter Dietz (eds.): Frieden als Balance in Psychotherapie und politischem Handlungsraum. Prozessdynamische Perspektiven. Berlin/Münster: Lit Verlag 2013, pp. 93-126
    • „Ahabs Enkel. Hass als archaische Kraft im populären amerikanischen Kino.“ In: Horst-Jürgen Gerigk / Helmut Koopmann (eds.): Hass. Darstellung und Deutung in den Wissenschaften und Künsten. Heidelberg: Mattes Verlag, 2013, pp. 153-182.
    • „Unschuld, Gewalt, Verdrängung. Pans Labyrinth und die Schrecken der spanischen Geschichte.“ In: Inklings. Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 30 (2012), edited by Dieter Petzold. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2013, pp. 151-167.
    • „Verschwörungen und Verschwörungstheorien im Film.“ In: Andreas Anton / Michael Schetsche / Michael Walter (eds.): Konspiration. Soziologie des Verschwörungsdenkens. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2013, pp. 239-258.
    • „Film(t)räume. Raum und Raumerfahrung im fantastischen Kino.“ In: Pascal Klenke / Laura Muth / Klaudia Seibel / Annette Simonis (eds.): Writing Worlds. Welten- und Raummodelle der Fantastik. Heidelberg: Winter, 2014, pp. 37-49.
    • „Im kinematographischen Kabinett des Dr. Caligari. Fremdkontrolle und Ich-Verlust im Film.“ In: Michael Schetsche / Renate-Berenike Schmidt (eds.): Fremdkontrolle. Ängste – Mythen – Praktiken. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2014, pp. 91-107.
    • „Bye Bye Life. Broadway-Totentanz und All That Jazz.“ In: KulturPoetik. Journal for Cultural Poetics. Heft 2, Vol. 15 (2015): Themenheft: Pathos des Letzten? Alter, Apokalypse und Endlichkeit im Lied nach 1945. Edited by Misia Sophia Doms, pp. 226-242.
    • „Leibfragmentierung, Schatten und die Figur des Nosferatu im Film. Fragmente einer komplexen Beziehung.“ In: Hermes A. Kick / Wolfram Schmitt (eds.): Leib und Leiblichkeit als Krisenfeld in Psychopathologie, Philosophie, Theologie und Kunst. Ansätze zu einer interdisziplinären Anthropologie von Entsprechen und Verantworten. Berlin/Münster: Lit Verlag, 2015, pp. 229-265.
    • „Kino der Katastrophen. Krise, Untergang und postapokalyptische Szenarien im populären Film.“ In: Violeta Dinescu / Hermes A. Kick (eds.): Katastrophen Überlebensstrategien. Ethik – Werte – Ziele für eine Gesellschaft in der Krise. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2016, pp. 179-197.
    • „Medienspuk. Geister und moderne Medien im populären Film“ In: Inklings. Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 33 (2015), edited by Dieter Petzold. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2016, pp. 113-129.
    • „Diesseits und jenseits der Frontier. Natur und Gesellschaft im amerikanischen Westernfilm.“ In: Claudia Schmitt / Christiane Solte-Gresser (eds.): Literatur und Ökologie. Neue literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2017, pp. 169-182.
    • „Visions of Nature and Ecological Thought in German Feature Films“ In: Gabriele Dürbeck / Urte Stobbe / Hubert Zapf / Evi Zemanek (eds.): Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture. Lanham (Maryland): Lexington Books, 2017, pp. 387-405.
    • „Star Trek Discovery – Where No Star Trek Series Has Gone Before? Utopie in Wiederholungen und Variationen.“ In: Hans Richard Brittnacher / Elisabeth Paefgen (eds.): Im Blick des Philologen. Literaturwissenschaftler lesen Fernsehserien. München: edition text + kritik, 2020, pp. 265-295.
    • „Medial induzierte Grenzerfahrungen durch Film und TV-Serien“ In: Wolfram Schmitt / Walter von Lucadou (eds.): Heidelberger Silvestergespräche. Widerständigkeit des Konkreten und Erweiterung von Welt in Wissenschaften und Künsten. Heidelberg: Mattes Verlag, 2020, pp. 145-162.

    Misc.
    • „Jud Süß – Der antisemitische Propagandafilm" Part 1 (10.30 min.)
    • „Jud Süß – Der antisemitische Propagandafilm" Part 2 (8.50 min.)
    • Script for two documentaries on the occasion of the exhibition „Jud Süß: Joseph Süß Oppenheimer – Justizmord und Propaganda", Nibelungenmuseum Worms, June-October 2011, and June-August 2012
    • Film realisation/animation: Eichfelder Artworks

    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Habil. Matthias Hurst

    Contact
    Literature and Film Studies
    Phone: +49 30 43733 218
    Email: m.hurst[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Ahmad Ghani Khosrawi
    Ahmad Ghani Khosrawi

    Afghanistan/Germany 
    Ph.D. Humanities and Literature
    Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University
  • Zeynep Kivilcim
    Zeynep Kivilcim

    Turkey
    PhD in Public International Law
    Université Paris II

    Zeynep Kivilcim


    Turkey
    PhD in Public International Law
    Université Paris II

    Zeynep Kıvılcım is an associate professor of public international law. She received her MA and PhD degrees from Université Paris II. Her work and research deal with human rights law, migration, and politics of legality with a critical gender perspective. She has taught at Istanbul University, Göttingen University, Osnabrück University, and Humboldt University.

    Recent Publications:

    • “Feminism and Displacement”, in: The Routledge Global History of Feminism, edited by Bonnie G. Smith and Nova Robinson, Routledge, 2022.
    • The Politics of Legality of the Authoritarian Liberal Regime in Turkey”, in: Regime Change in Turkey. Neoliberal Authoritarianism, Islamism, and Populism, edited by Ezgi Pınar, Errol Babacan, Melehat Kutun, Zafer Yılmaz, Routledge, 2021, p.196-212.
    • Migration Crises in Turkey”, in: Oxford Handbook of Migration Crisis, Cecilia, edited by Menjivar, Marie Ruiz, and Immanuel Ness, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, 2019, p.427-444.

    Contact:
    Prof. Dr. Zeynep Kıvılcım

    Contact
    Public International Law
    [email protected]
  • Geoff Lehman
    Geoff Lehman

    USA
    PhD in Art History
    Columbia University

    Geoff Lehman


    USA
    PhD in Art History
    Columbia University

    Geoff Lehman received his B.A. in humanities from Yale University, where he studied literature, philosophy, and art history in an interdisciplinary context. He received his PhD in art history from Columbia University, with a dissertation on the relationship between perspective and Renaissance landscape painting. Before coming to Bard College Berlin, Geoff taught art history for several years in Columbia University’s core curriculum. His research interests include the theory and history of perspective, landscape painting and land art, the phenomenology of art and of viewer response, and the relationship between art and philosophy. His most recent book, The Parthenon and Liberal Education, co-authored with Bard College Berlin colleague Michael Weinman, is a study of the Parthenon in relation to Plato and to ancient Greek music theory and mathematics, published in March 2018. Geoff joined the faculty at Bard College Berlin as a fellow in 2006, and became a member of the permanent faculty in 2008.
     

    Classes Taught at Bard College Berlin

    Core Courses
    • Forms of Love
    • Renaissance Florence
    • Greek Civilization: Plato's Republic and Its Interlocutors
    • Objectivity. Saper vedere: Knowing How to See
       
    Foundational and Advanced Modules
    • Art and Interpretation
    • Raphael, Titian, and the Art of Painting
    • Vision and Perspective
    • Pablo Picasso
    • Landscape, Land Art, and the City
    • Photography and Modernity
    • Representation
    • Perspective in the Renaissance
    • Leonardo da Vinci
    • Methods and Interpretation: The Visual Arts
    • Mimesis
    • Pieter Bruegel the Elder
    • Landscape
    • Las Meninas
       
    General Teaching Interests
    • Italian and Northern Renaissance art; art and viewer response; art theory and criticism; painting; photography
       
    Contact
    Dr. Geoff Lehman

    Contact
    Art History
    Phone: +49 30 43733 205
    Email: g.lehman[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Agata Lisiak
    Agata Lisiak

    Poland
    PhD in Media and Communication Studies
    Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

    Agata Lisiak


    Poland
    PhD in Media and Communication Studies
    Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

    On leave academic year 2021/2022

    Agata Lisiak is Migration Studies professor and Academic Director of the Internship Program at Bard College Berlin. She earned an M.A. in International Relations (University of Economics Poznan, 2002), an M.Phil. in Literary Studies (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2005), and a Dr. Phil. in Media and Communication Studies (University of Halle-Wittenberg, 2009). She has held visiting fellowships at National Sun Yat-sen University, The Open University, and the University of Birmingham. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University’s Institute of Social Sciences (2013-2017) and a Marie Curie Actions/EURIAS fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna (2013-2014). She also worked in the cultural sector as a project coordinator and curator.

    Agata works at the intersections of migration studies, urban sociology, and cultural studies. She is particularly interested in everyday urban encounters and imaginaries, feminist theory and practice, and developing creative, multi-sensory, and collaborative methods in urban and migration research. She has written about urban girlhood, migrant motherhood, walking in the city, urban sounds, and cultural memory in post-socialist cities, among many other topics. Together with Elena Vacchelli, Agata is co-founder of migART: a platform showcasing activist, research, and teaching projects that creatively and collaboratively engage with migration.

    Selected academic publications

    • "Urban multiculture and xenophonophobia in London and Berlin." European Journal of Cultural Studies. 2019. (with Les Back and Emma Jackson)
    • “Poza girl power: dziewczyński opór, kontrpubliczności i prawo do miasta” [Beyond girl power: girl resistance, counterpublics, and the right to the city] Praktyka Teoretyczna 2.32 (2019): 47-63.
    • “Making something out of nothing: On failure and hope in community activism and research.” Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture Convivial Tools for Research and Practice. Ed. Mette Louise Berg and Magdalena Nowicka. London: UCL Press, 2019. 141-158. (with Alicja Kaczmarek)
    • “’A City Coming Into Being’: Walking in Berlin with Franz Hessel and Marshall Berman.” CITY: Critical analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action. 2019. (with Reece Cox, Flavia M. Tienes, and Sophia Zbinovsky Braddel; in collaboration with Ford Chandler, Reza Daftarian, Matei Gaginsky, Norë Krasniqi, Anna Liubimova, Zara London-Southern, Mariam Mchedlidze, Lana Praprotnik, Donovan Stewart, Tong Su, Lisa Vogel, and Xinyue Zhang)  
    • “With a Little Help From My Colleagues: Notes on Emotional Support in a Qualitative Longitudinal Research Project.” Emotion and the Researcher: Sites, Subjectivities and Relationships. Ed. Dawn Mannay and Tracey Loughran. Emerald Books, 2018: 33-47. (with Łukasz Krzyżowski)  
    • “Like Diamonds in the Sky: Imaginaries of Urban Girlhood.” The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries. Eds. Miriam Meissner and Christoph Lindner. London: Routledge, 2018. 248-261.  
    • “A sense of disorder: Urban orientations and migration.” Cities of the South/Cities of the North. Eds. Kerry Bystrom, Ashleigh Harris, and Andrew Webber. London: Routledge, 2018. 199-215.
    • "Mothering and othering in the city: Polish migrants in the UK." Families, Relationships and Societies. 2018.
    • “Other mothers: Encountering in/visible femininities in migration and urban contexts.” Feminist Review 117. 2018.
    • "Tacit Differences, Ethnicity and Neoliberalism." Gender, Place and Culture. 2017. (with Magdalena Nowicka)
    • "Making sense of absence. Tsai Ming-liang's cinematic portrayal of cities." CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 19.6 (2015): 837-856.
    • "Fieldwork and Fashion: Gendered and Classed Performances in Research Sites." Forum: Qualitative Social Research 16 (2), 2015.
    • "The Ballerina and the Blue Bra: Femininity in Recent Revolutionary Iconography." View: Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 5 (2014). Translation into Portuguese (by Manu Escrita): A Bailarina e o Sutiã Azul: Feminilidade na Iconografia Revolucionária Recente.
    • "Hip-Hop Representations of Urban Stillness: The Case of Poznan, Poland." CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 18.3 (2014).
    • Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2010.
    • "Mapping Migration and Urban Identities in Second Cities." Mapping the World, Culture, and Bordercrossing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and I-Chun Wang. Kaohsiung: National Sun Yat-sen University, Humanities and Social Sciences Series, 2010. 139-49.
    • "The Making of (Post)colonial Cities in Central Europe." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 12.1 (2010)

    Selected academic blog entries
    • Who Cares? Urban Youth and the Right to the City (with Elena Vacchelli). Discover Society. 2020.
    • Migrant Mothers in Austere Times. Discover Society 2017.
    • Fearing the Foreign on Europe's Streets. Public Seminar 2016.
    • Creative methods in migration research. Methods in Motion, Open University, 2016.
    • Affordable mothering and respectability. Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics, 2016.
    • Immigrant Mothers as Agents of Change. Public Seminar 2014.
       
    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Agata Lisiak

    Contact
    Migration Studies
    Email: a.lisiak[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Katalin Makkai
    Katalin Makkai

    Hungary/Canada
    PhD in Philosophy
    Harvard University

    Katalin Makkai


    Hungary/Canada
    PhD in Philosophy
    Harvard University

    Prof. Dr. Katalin Makkai received her PhD in philosophy from Harvard University. She was Assistant Professor in the joint Department of Philosophy of Barnard College and Columbia University before joining Bard College Berlin, where she is Professor of Philosophy. Makkai is the author of Kant’s Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and editor of Vertigo (Routledge, 2013).

    Courses taught at Bard College Berlin:
    Core Courses:

    • Forms of Love
    • Renaissance Florence
    • Objectivity
       
    Foundational and Advanced Modules:
    • Ethics and Authenticity
    • The Idea of the Aesthetic
    • Recognition
    • Phenomenology and Art
    • Kant's Critical Aesthetics
    • Freedom
    • Autonomy and Alienation
    • Kant's Critical Philosophy
    • Classical Texts in Ethics and Political Theory
    • Individual and Society
    • The 'Gaze'
    • Being Embodied: Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology
    • Morality and Psychoanalysis
    • What is a Photograph? (PY Reading Group)
    • Richard Moran's Authority and Estrangement (PY Reading Group)

    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Katalin Makkai

    Contact
    Philosophy
    Phone: +49 30 43733 220
    Email: k.makkai[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Gale Raj-Reichert
    Gale Raj-Reichert

    Malaysia/USA
    PhD in Development Studies
    University of Manchester

    Gale Raj-Reichert


    Malaysia/USA
    PhD in Development Studies
    University of Manchester

    Gale Raj-Reichert holds a PhD in development studies from the University of Manchester Global Development Institute (2012). Her research is on labor governance in global production networks with a focus on the global electronics industry and outsourced manufacturing in the Asia Pacific region. Gale’s research aims to understand how networked relationships and power asymmetries across different actors, such as governments, firms, and civil society organizations, shape and influence processes and outcomes for workers in outsourced factories of globalized industries.

    Gale held previous faculty positions at the University of Manchester and Queen Mary University of London. She has been the recipient of research grants from the British Academy and is currently a Principal Investigator of a research project (on socially responsible public procurement in the European Union and its impacts on labor governance in the electronics industry global production network), which is funded by the German Research Fund. Gale is an Editor in Chief at the journal Competition and Change. In 2019, she co-edited the Handbook on Global Value Chains (Edward Elgar).

    Publications (selection)

    • Marlsev, K, Staritz, C, and Raj-Reichert, G (2022) ‘Rethinking Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Worker Power, State‒Labour Relations and Intersectionality’, Development and Change. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12705
    • Raj-Reichert, G., Staritz, C., and Plank, L. (2022) 'Conceptualising the regulator-buyer state in the European Union for the exercise of socially responsible public procurement in global production networks', Journal of Common Market Studies. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcms.13285
    • Helmerich, N, Raj-Reichert, G, and Zajak, S (2020) ‘Exercising associational and networked power through the use of digital technology by workers in global value chains’, Competition and Change, Vol. 25, no. 2: 142-166. https://doi.org/10.1177/1024529420903289
    • Raj-Reichert, G (2020) ‘The powers of a social auditor in a global production network: the case of Verité and the exposure of forced labour in the electronics industry’, Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 20, no. 3: 653–678.
    • Raj-Reichert, G (2020) ‘Global Value Chains, Contract Manufacturers, and the Middle-Income Trap: The electronics industry in Malaysia’, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 64, no. 4: 698-716.
    • Raj-Reichert, G, Zajak, S, and Helmerich, N (2020) ‘Introduction to special issue on digitalization, labour and global production’, Competition and Change, Vol. 25, no. 2: 133-141.
    • Ponte, S, Gereffi, G, and Raj-Reichert, G (2019) Handbook on Global Value Chains, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Raj-Reichert, G (2015) ‘Exercising power over labour governance in the electronics industry’, Geoforum, Vol. 67: 89-92.
    • Nadvi, K, and Raj-Reichert, G (2015) ‘Governing health and safety at lower tiers of the computer industry global value chain’, Regulation & Governance, Vol. 9, no. 3: 243-258.
    • Raj-Reichert, G (2013) ‘Safeguarding labour in relocated factories: Health and safety governance in an electronics global production network’, Geoforum, Vol. 44: 23-31.


    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Gale Raj-Reichert

    Contact
    Politics
    g.rajreichert[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Laura Scuriatti
    Laura Scuriatti

    Italy
    PhD in English Literature
    University of Reading

    Laura Scuriatti


    Italy
    PhD in English Literature
    University of Reading

    Prof. Dr. Laura Scuriatti studied English and German literature at the University of Milan (Laurea). In 1999-2002 she held an AHRB scholarship and received her PhD in English Literature from the University of Reading. Her research focuses on the relationship between literature and the visual arts in early modernism and the avant-garde, and on gender theory. She was a teaching assistant at the University of Reading and teaches at Bard College Berlin since 2003.

    Laura Scuriatti is a member of the research network Writing 1900.

    Classes taught at Bard College Berlin
    Core Courses

    • Joyce's Ulysses: A Modernist Epic
    • Renaissance Florence
    • Modernism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Aesthetics of Internationalism
    • Values of Renaissance Florence
    • Forms of Love
    • Property

    Foundational and Advanced Modules
    • Virginia Woolf and the New Century
    • Detective Fiction
    • (Forced) Migration and Exile: The Organization of Narrative Space
    • Realism, Naturalism, "Verismo", Magical Realism: The Metamorphosis of a Style
    • Rewriting Shakespeare: the case of The Tempest
    • Writing and Gender: Virginia Woolf
    • Making the Novel
    • Writing the Self: Autobiography and/as Fiction?
    • Virginia Woolf
    • Shakespeare's The Tempest
    • Theory of the Novel
    • Theories of Realism
    • Gender Theory
    • Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish
    • Words and Images: Manifestos of the Avant-Garde (co-taught with art historian Aya Soika)
    • History and Theory of the Novel: Tristram Shandy
    • Literature, Collections and Museums
    • Autobiography
       
    Examples of theses supervised
    • Fragments and Stories: Individual and Collective Memory in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Negar Djavadi's Disoriental
    • Female Ambiguity in Russian Folklore: A Comparative Analysis of Rusalka and Baba Yaga
    • Performing Identity. Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
    • Holocaust and Representation
    • The Artist as Pygmalion: Gombrich's Aesthetic Theory
    • The Relational Nature of Identity and Space in E. S. Özdamar's Writings
    • Hemingway and Gertrude Stein: Modernist Autobiographies

    Laura Scuriatti has also co-supervised projects in art history and film.

    Supervision interests: English and German modernist and contemporary literature; interdisciplinary projects in modernist and avant-garde literature and the visual arts; gender theory; critical theory.

    Publications
    Books
    • Mina Loy's Critical Modernism (University Press of Florida, 2019)

    Edited volumes
    • Groups, Coteries, Circles and Guilds. Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019) 
    • (With Sara Fortuna), Dekalog 5. Dogville (London/New York: Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2012)
    • (With Caroline Patey), The Exhibit in the Text: Museological Practices of Literature (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009)
    • Berlin Babylon. Antologia di giovani scrittori tedeschi (Milan: Mondadori, 2004)

    Book chapters
    • "Modernism and the Baroque: Two Strange Bedfellows in Mario Praz's Oeuvre", in Elisa Bizzotto (ed.), Mario Praz. Voice Centre Stage (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019)
    • "Together, on Her Own: A Survey of Mina Loy’s Textual Communities", in L. Scuriatti (ed.), Groups, Coteries, Circles and Guilds. Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019).
    • Sea changes: the Sea, Art and Storytelling in Shakespeare's The Tempest, Isak Dinesen's Tempests and Marina Warner's Indigo in: C. Ferrini, R. Gefter Wondrich, P. Quazzolo, A. Zoppellari, Civiltà del mare e navigazioni interculturali: sponde d'Europa e l' "isola" Trieste (Trieste: EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2012).
    • 'Dogville and the Problem of Objectification' in S. Fortuna and L. Scuriatti (eds), Dekalog 5. Dogville (London/New York: Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2012).
    • (With Sara Fortuna), 'Introduction' and 'Interview with Lars von Trier', in S. Fortuna and L. Scuriatti (eds), Dekalog 5. Dogville (London/New York: Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2012).
    • "The Autobiography as Collection, the Collection as Autobiography: Mario Praz's House of Life", in: C. Patey and L. Scuriatti (eds), The Exhibit in the Text: Museological Practices of Literature (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009).
    • "Bodies of Discomfort: Mina Loy, the Futurists and Modernist Feminism" in: A. Kershaw and A. Kimyongür (eds.), Women in Europe between the Wars: Politics, Culture and Society (London: Ashgate, 2007).
    • 'Walking the Tightrope: Sacheverell Sitwell's Rewriting of the Mediterranean in Southern Baroque Art', in: C. Patey, G. Cianci and F. Cuojati, Anglo-American Modernity and the Mediterranean (Milan: Cisalpino, 2006).
    • "Designers' Bodies: Women and Body Hair in Contemporary Art and Advertising" in: K. Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.), The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006).
    • 'Looking for the Self in the City: Roma Tearne's Photographic Autobiography', in R. Colombo and D. Scudero (eds.), Nel corpo delle città: Roma Tearne (exhibition catalogue) (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2004).
    • "Hiding the Narrative: the Spaces of Fiction in The Good Soldier" in: V. Fortunati and E. Lamberti (eds.), Ford Madox Ford and the Republics of Letters (Bologna: CLUEB, 2002).
       
    Journal articles
    • L. Scuriatti, "Strange Characters: Dialogic Selves and Cosmopolitanism in Carl Van Vechten's Peter Whiffle", Comparative Critical Studies, 18, Issue supplement (October 2021): 85–107.
    • L. Scuriatti, "Transnational Modernist Encounters in the Provinces: Lacerba, Mina Loy and International Debates on Sexual Morality in Florence", Forum for Modern Language Studies, 53/3 (July 2017): 303–313.
    • "Negotiating Boundaries: The Economics of Space and Gender in Mina Loy's Early Poems", Feminismo/s, 5 (June 2005): 71-84.
    • (with Marina Della Giusta), " 'The Show Must Go On': Making Money Glamorizing Oppression", European Journal of Women's Studies, 12/1 (2005): 31-44.
    • "A Tale of Two Cities: H. G. Wells's The Door in the Wall, illustrated by Alvin Landon Coburn", The Wellsian, 22 (1999): 11-28. Rpt. in: John Partington (ed.), The Wellsian. Selected Essays, 1976-2003 (Oss: Equilibris, 2003).

    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Laura Scuriatti

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  • Aya Soika
    Aya Soika

    Germany
    PhD in Art History
    University of Cambridge

    Aya Soika


    Germany
    PhD in Art History
    University of Cambridge

    Prof. Dr Aya Soika was brought up and educated in Berlin (Humboldt University, 1994 – 1997) and Cambridge (King’s College, 1997–2001). At Cambridge she also held a Research Fellowship (New Hall, 2001–2005), taught at undergraduate and graduate level at the Department of History of Art, and was Director of Studies for various Cambridge colleges. Aya has been a member of our faculty since October 2005.

    Research & Publications:
    Aya Soika’s research interests are focused on twentieth-century European modernism and German art. She has published extensively on Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde and the other members of the Expressionist group Brücke. Among her publications are the catalogue raisonné of Max Pechstein’s paintings, a biography of Pechstein’s life (with Bernhard Fulda), studies on the Brücke artists during the First World War and the “Third Reich” and on Pechstein’s and Nolde’s trips to the German colonies in the South Seas. She co-curated numerous exhibitions, among them Emil Nolde. A German Legend at Berlin’s National Gallery and Escape into Art? The Brücke Artists during the Nazi Period at the Brücke Museum in Berlin. She is also the co-founder of the working group Catalogue Raisonné and remains interested in question related to the reception of art and artists and developments in the history of curatorial display.

    General Teaching Interests:
    German Visual Culture in the 19th, 20th and 21st Century
    “Modernism” and its Theories; “Primitivism” and the Display and Reception of non-European objects
    The Role of Conoisseurship Past and Present, Painting Conservation
    Berlin: Museums & Art Collections, Architecture, Urban Space, Memorial Culture

    Classes Taught at Bard College Berlin:
    Modern Movements in the Visual Arts; Collecting, Curating, Critiquing (with Andrea Meyer, TU Berlin); German Art and Identity; Curatorial Practice, Past and Present; Art and National Socialism (with Andrea Meyer, TU Berlin); Art Production in the Modern Age (with Andrea Meyer, TU Berlin); Art and the First World War (with Andrea Meyer, TU Berlin); What is (Modern) Art?; Cultures of Display: The Berlin Art Museums (with Andrea Meyer, TU Berlin); Platonic concepts in Art; Representation; The Cult of the Artist; Romantics, Realists, Revolutionaries: Nineteenth Century Art; The Challenge of the Avantgarde; Words and Images: Manifestos of the Avantgarde (co-taught with literature historian Laura Scuriatti); Paths to the Absolute: Abstraction in Art German Visual Culture, 1900 – 1937

    Books and Exhibition Catalogues:

    • Emil Nolde – eine deutsche Legende. Der Künstler im Nationalsozialismus. Essay- und Bildband. [English book title: Emil Nolde. The Artist during the Third Reich] Munich/London/New York: Prestel Verlag 2019. German and English editions. Co-editor, together with Bernhard Fulda and Christian Ring for Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin and Nolde Stiftung Seebüll. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin in Hamburger Bahnhof (12.04.-15.09.2019) [Co-Curator of the Exhibition of the same title, with Bernhard Fulda and Christian Ring]
    • Emil Nolde – eine deutsche Legende. Der Künstler im Nationalsozialismus. Chronik und Dokumente. Munich/London/New York: Prestel Verlag 2019. German edition only. Chronology of the years 1927–1967, discussion of 103 documents. Co-author, together with Bernhard Fulda. Co-editor, together with Bernhard Fulda and Christian Ring for Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin and Nolde Stiftung Seebüll. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin in Hamburger Bahnhof (12.04.-15.09.2019)
    • Flucht in die Bilder? Die Künstler der Brücke im Nationalsozialismus. Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2019. German and English editions. Study of the lives and work of Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff during the period 1933 – ca. 1948. Co-author, together with Meike Hoffmann (single author of chapters 1-6, 9 chapters in total). Co-editor, together with Meike Hoffmann and Lisa Marei Schmidt for the Brücke Museum, Berlin. The book accompanies the exhibition at the Brücke-Museum and the Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin (24.04.-11./18.08.2019) [Co-Curator of the Exhibition of the same title, with Meike Hoffmann und Lisa Marei Schmidt]
    • Der Traum vom Paradies. Max und Lotte Pechsteins Reise in die Südsee. Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag 2016. Single authored monograph: Study of the artist's trip to the German South Seas in summer 1914, including transcriptions of his and his wife's travel diaries, 224 pages. Edited by Kunstsammlungen Zwickau. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Kunstsammlungen Zwickau (09.07- 03.10.2016) and Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen (29.10. 2016 – 22.01.2017) [Co-Curator of the Exhibition of the same title, with Petra Lewey]
    • Weltenbruch. Die Künstler der Brücke im Ersten Weltkrieg. 1914-1918. Munich/London/New York: Prestel Verlag 2014. Single authored monograph: Study of the Artists of the former group Die Brücke during the First World War, 240 pages. Edited by Magdalena M. Moeller for Brücke Museum, Berlin. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title at Brücke Museum, Berlin (1.08.2014-16.11.2014) [Co-Curator of the Exhibition of the same title, with Magdalena Moeller]
    • Max Pechstein. The Rise and Fall of Expressionism. Part of the Series: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter 2012. Biography on the German Expressionist artist Max Pechstein. Co-authored monograph, together with Bernhard Fulda, 432 pages
    • Max Pechstein. Das Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde. Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2011, Vol. 1: 1905 – 1918. Vol. 2: 1919-1954. Catalogue Raisonné of Max Pechstein's paintings, 1188 pages, including 1243 entries, as well as essays on reception history, collectors and Œuvre of Max Pechstein. Single authored monograph/catalogue, ed. Max Pechstein-Urheberrechtsgemeinschaft
    • Max Pechstein, Ein Expressionist aus Leidenschaft. Retrospektive. Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2010. Co-editor, together with Peter Thurmann and Andrea Madesta. Exh.-Cat. Kunsthalle zu Kiel (19.09.2010–09.01.2011), Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg (6.3. – 26.6.2011), Kunstmuseum Ahlen (10.07.–30.10.2011)
    • Sonderband Gruppe und Individuum in der Künstlergemeinschaft Brücke. 100 Jahre Brücke. Neueste Forschung. Jahrbuch der Dresdner Gemäldesammlungen. Volume of essays, proceedings of the conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the group in 2005. Co-editor (Redaktion), together with Birgit Dalbajewa und Konstanze Rudert, Berlin and Dresden 2007 [Co-organisor of the Conference of the same title, with Birgit Dalbajewa und Konstanze Rudert]
    • Expresionismo Brücke. Symposium No 4. Ed. Aya Soika, Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid 2005 (in Spanish, the symposium was organized by Javier Arnaldo)

    Articles and contributions to exhibition catalogues and edited volumes:
    • “Ernst Barlach on the 150th Anniversary of his Birth. Albertinum, Dresden 8th August 2020-10th January 2021” (Exhibition Review), in: The Burlington Magazine, no. 163, January 2021, pp. 70-72
    • “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and His Studios in Dresden and Berlin”. In: Kirchner and Nolde. Expressionism, Colonialism. Catalogue published on occasion of the exhibitions at the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Brücke-Museum, Berlin, Munich: Hirmer 2021, pp. 196-205 (separate German, Dutch and Danish editions)
    • “’Kulturelle Erzeugnisse’ aus Deutsch-Neuguinea. Emil Nolde: Briefe aus Neuguinea (1914).” Transcription and commentary, in: Beute. Eine Anthologie zu Kunstraub und Kulturerbe. Edited by Isabelle Dolezalek, Bénédicte Savoy and Robert Skwirbilies, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2021, pp. 249-254, commentary from p. 251
    • “The Role of the Nazi Period in Exhibitions on German Expressionism. Reflections on the Relationship between Artworks and Historical Contexts”. In: Unmastered Past? Modernism in Nazi Germany. Art, Art Trade, Curatorial Practice, ed. by Meike Hoffmann und Dieter Scholz, Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag 2020, pp. 300-311 (separate German edition)
    • “Emil Nolde im Bundeskanzleramt. Zur Wandelbarkeit historischer Bewertungen“. In: Historische Urteilskraft 02. Das Magazin des Deutschen Historischen Museums, ed. by Raphael Gross, Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum, Munich: Beck 2020, pp. 34-38 (separate English translation)
    • “Max Pechsteins Rahmen”. In: Unzertrennlich. Rahmen und Bilder der Brücke-Künstler, ed. by Werner Murrer, Lisa Marei Schmidt, Daniel J. Schreiber, Ausst.-Kat./Exh.-Cat. Brücke-Museum, Berlin, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, Munich: Hirmer 2020, pp. 420-432
    • „Ada Noldes ‚Jahre der Kämpfe‘. Das Streben nach Anerkennung in der NS-Zeit“. In: Ada Nolde. „Meine vielgeliebte“. Muse und Managerin Emil Noldes, ed. by Astrid Becker, Christian Ring, Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann 2019, pp. 178-189
    • “Emil Nolde und die Ausstellung ‘Entartete Kunst’”. In: Emil Nolde in seiner Zeit. Im Nationalsozialismus, Tagungsband zum Symposium veranstaltet von der Stiftung Seebüll Ada und Emil Nolde in Kooperation mit der ‚Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung‘,ed. by Christian Ring, Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, Munich/London/New York: Prestel 2019, pp. 30-53
    • „Ein Exklusivvertrag mit Folgen. Max Pechstein und Wolfgang Gurlitt“. In: Wolfgang Gurlitt. Zauberprinz. Kunsthändler-Sammler, Exh.-Cat. Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz und Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2019, pp. 177/181-185
    • “Erich Heckels Madonna von Ostende. Eine vergessene Ikone des Berliner Kronprinzenpalais.” In: Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, ed. by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, vol. 58 (2016), Berlin: Gebrüder Mann Verlag 2019, pp. 101-115
    • “Ein Künstler reagiert. Emil Nolde und die Ausstellung Twentieth Century German Art.” In: London 1938. Defending ›Degenerate‹ Art. Mit Kandinsky, Liebermann und Nolde gegen Hitler, ed. by Lucy Wasensteiner and Martin Faas, Exh.-Cat. The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide, London; Liebermann-Villa, Berlin, Wädenswil: Nimbus Verlag 2018, pp. 201–207 (bilingual German/English edition)
    • „Emil Noldes Südsee-Aquarelle im kolonialen Kontext“. In: Sønderjylland-Schleswig Kolonial – Eine Spurenlese, ed. by Marco L. Petersen, University of Southern Denmark Studies in History and Social Sciences, Bd. 569, Syddansk Universitetsforlag, Odense 2018, Chapter 15, pp. 277-304 (bilingual German/English edition, with English summary)
    • 'Max Pechstein'. In: Allgemeines Künstler Lexikon (AKL). Ed. Bénédicte Savoy, Andreas Beyer and Wolf Tegethoff, De Gruyter: Berlin / New York 2018, pp. 494-497
    • 'Künstlerreisen in die Südsee. Emil Nolde und Max Pechstein'. In: Inspiration des Fremden. Die Brücke-Maler und die außereuropäische Kunst. Almanach der Brücke, vol. 4. Ed. Kunstmuseum Moritzburg. On the occasion of an exhinition of the same title at Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle / Saale (13.11.2016-29.01.2017), Sandstein Verlag: Dresden, S. 105-113
    • “Erich Heckel’s Gemälde Atelierszene, 1911 / Steine, 1939”. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Albertinum. In: Patrimonia (Schriftenreihe der Kulturstiftung der Länder, ed. Kulturstiftung der Länder und den Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden), 2017, S. 16-30
    • 'The Sale of Emil Nolde's New Guinea Watercolours to the German Imperial Colonial Office'. In: Tributes to Jean Michel Massing, ed. by Phillip Lindley and Mark Stocker, Turnhout: Brepols/Harvey Miller Publishers, pp. 255-268
    • Five short essays on the provenance of paintings from the (former) Berlin Nationalgalerie Expressionist collection (by Lyonel Feininger, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc and Emil Nolde). In: Die schwarzen Jahre: Kunstwerke in den Jahren 1933 bis 1945, ed. Dieter Scholz and Maria Obenaus. The publication accompanies an exhibition of the same title at Hamburger Bahnhof/Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (21.11.2015 – 21.08.2016), pp. 71-75, 107-109, 114-117, 121-124, 129-131
    • "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Das Bad des Kranken (Der barmherzige Samariter), 1917 (Private Collection)"; „Erich Heckel, Der barmherzige Samariter, Holzschnitt-Triptychon, 1915 (Brücke-Museum, Berlin)". In: CARITAS. Nächstenliebe von den Frühen Christen bis zur Gegenwart. Exhibition catalogue of Diözesanmuseum Paderborn (23.07.2015 – 13.12.2015), Petersberg 2015: Michael Imhof Verlag, pp. 630, 631, 634
    • "Die doppelt bemalte Leinwand im Werk der Brücke". In: Der doppelte Kirchner. Die zwei Seiten der Leinwand. Exhibition catalogue of Kunsthalle Mannheim (06.02.2015 – 31.05.2015) and Kirchner Museum Davos (21.06.2015 – 08.11.2015), ed. Inge Herold, Ulrike Lorenz and Thorsten Sadowsky, Cologne 2015: Wienand Verlag, pp. 124-133 (German and English edition)
    • „Max Pechstein: Auf der Suche nach einem baltischen Arkadien". In: Zwei Männer – ein Meer. Pechstein und Schmidt-Rottluff an der Ostsee. Exhibition catalogue of Pommersches Landesmuseum Greifswald (29.03. – 28.06.2015), ed. Birte Frenssen, Greifswald 2015, pp. 11-37
    • Eleven short essays on works from the Neue Nationalgalerie Expressionist collection. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Stehende, 1912, wood sculpture; Badende am Strand, 1913; Potsdamer Platz, 1914; Belle-Alliance-Platz, 1914;Rheinbrücke bei Köln, 1914; Atelierecke, 1919/20; Zwei weibliche Akte, 1921; Wiesenblumen und Katze, 1931/32), Max Pechstein (Sitzendes Mädchen, 1910; Sommer in den Dünen, 1911; Am Strand von Nidden, 1911; Doppelbildnis, 1910), Otto Mueller (Zwei Mädchen, 1925/28), Erich Heckel (Selbstbildnis, 1919), Emil Nolde (Pfingsten, 1909; Papua-Jünglinge, 1914; Die Sünderin, 1926) and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Bildnis Walter Niemeyer, 1921). In: Moderne Zeiten. Die Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin zu Gast in der Kunsthalle Würth Schwäbisch Hall,ed. C. Sylvia Weber, Udo Kittelmann, Dieter Scholz, as part of exhibition of the same title (23.05. – 01.5.2015), Künzelsau: Swiridoff Verlag, pp. 56-57, 66-69, 70-77, 80-83, 86-93, 166-167, 188-189 (English and Hebrew translation for the exhibition catalogue Twilight Over Berlin: Masterworks from the Nationalgalerie, 1905-1945, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 20.10.2015 – 07.06.2016)
    • 'Emil Nolde and the national-socialist dictatorship'. In: Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937. Exhibition catalogue of Neue Galerie, New York (13.03.2014 – 30.6.2014), ed. Olaf Peters, Munich, London, New York: Prestel Publishing 2014, pp. 184-193 [with Bernhard Fulda]. Translated into Swedish : '"Han är i själva verket tyskarnas tysk". Emil Nolde och Nazidiktaturen'. In: Emil Nolde – Färgstormar, Exhibition catalogue of Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde (07.03.2015 – 30.08.2015) and Göteborgs Kunstmuseum (03.10.2015 – 17.01.2016), ed. Karin Sidén, Catrin Lundeberg, Christian Ring, Stockholm: Carlsson bokförlag 2015, pp. 105-112
    • '"Deutscher bis ins tiefste Geheimnis seines Geblüts" Emil Nolde und die nationalsozialistische Diktatur'. In: Emil Nolde, Retrospektive. Exhibition catalogue of Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main 05.03. – 09.06.2014) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek (05.07.-19.10.2014), ed. Felix Krämer, Munich, London, New York: Prestel Publishing 2014, pp. 45-55 [with Bernhard Fulda]. Translated into English and Danish: '"German down to the deepest mystery of his origins." Emil Nolde and the National Socialist Dictatorship'. In: Emil Nolde. Retrospective, pp. 45-55; ‚"Tysk Ind I Sit Blods Dybeste Hemelighed". Emil Nolde Og Det National-Socialistiske Diktatur'. In: Emil Nolde. Liv Og Vaerk, as above, pp. 45-55
    • 'Das Leben Christi / The Life of Christ, 1911-12'; 'Schlachtfeld / Battlefield, 1913'. Catalogue texts on nine-part polyptych and painting. In: Emil Nolde, Retrospective (as above), pp. 248, 253
    • 'Die Originalität der Brücke'. In: Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung (ZKK), Heft 1/2013 (Werner'sche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms), pp. 77-90
    • 'Heckel im Ersten Weltkrieg'. In: Erich Heckel – Der große Expressionist: Werke aus dem Brücke-Museum Berlin. Exhibition catalogue of Stadthalle Balingen (29.06.2013 – 29.09.2013), ed. Magdalena M. Moeller, Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2013, pp. 184-189
    • 'Max Pechstein, ein „Maler Tourist". „Allein, Allein, in einer noch nicht verfälschten Einheit von Mensch und Natur"'. In: Max Pechstein auf Reisen. Utopie und Wirklichkeit. Exhibition catalogue of Kunsthaus Stade (16.09.2012 – 20.01.2013), Kunstsammlungen Zwickau (9.02. – 12.05.2013), Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg (01.06. – 01.09.2013), Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2012, pp. 28-34
    • 'Max Pechsteins „Erinnerungen"'. In: Max Pechstein auf Reisen. Utopie und Wirklichkeit. Exhibition catalogue of Kunsthaus Stade (16.09.2012 – 20.01.2013), Kunstsammlungen Zwickau (9.02. – 12.05.2013), Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg (01.06. – 01.09.2013), Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2012, pp. 22-26 [with Bernhard Fulda]
    • 'Max Pechstein und die Literatur'. In: Wort wird Bild. Illustrationen der „Brücke"-Maler. Almanach der Brücke 2. Ed. Hermann Gerlinger and Katja Schneider. Published on the occasion of an exhibition with the same title at Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen Anhalt, Halle (05.02.2012 – 03.06.2012), Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2012, pp. 109-111
    • 'Max Pechsteins letzter „Erinnerungsdank an die versunkene Pracht der Südsee" '. In: Die Brücke und der Exotismus: Bilder des Anderen. Ed. Ralph Melcher and Christoph Wagner. Berlin: Gebrüder Mann Verlag 2011, pp. 76-8
    • Max Pechstein, Ein Expressionist aus Leidenschaft. Retrospektive. Exhibition catalogue of Kunsthalle zu Kiel (19.9.2010 – 09.01.2011), Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg (6.3. – 26.6.2011), Kunstmuseum Ahlen (10.07. – 30.10.2011), ed. Aya Soika, together with Andrea Madesta and Peter Thurmann, Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2010
    • 'Erich Heckel im Ersten Weltkrieg'. In: Erich Heckel. Aufbruch und Tradition. Eine Retrospektive. Exhibition catalogue Schleswig Schloss Gottdorf (16.05.2010 - 29.08.2010), Brücke-Museum, Berlin (19.09.2010 - 16.01.2011), ed. Magdalena M. Moeller, Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2010, pp. 78-87
    • 'Im Kreis von Freunden: Max Pechstein und die Förderer seiner Kunst'. In: Gemeinsames Ziel und eigene Wege. Die „Brücke" und ihr Nachwirken. Almanach der Brücke 1. Ed. Hermann Gerlinger and Katja Schneider, Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2010, pp. 78-89
    • '"Um die guten Franzosen kennen zu lernen, muß man nach Deutschland gehen!" Max Pechstein und die französische Moderne'. In: Deutscher Expressionismus. 1905-1913. Brücke-Museum Berlin. 150 Meisterwerke. Exhibition catalogue Groninger Museum (13.12.2009 - 11.04.2010), ed. Magdalena M. Moeller and Marietta Jansen, Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2009, pp. 45-55 (German and Dutch Edition)
    • 'Max Pechstein, der "Führer" der "Brücke"', Anmerkungen zur zeitgenössischen Rezeption'. In: Neue Forschungen und Berichte, Brücke-Archiv, Heft 23/2008, Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2008, pp. 79-94
    • 'Max Pechstein – Außenseiter oder Wegbereiter?' In: Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Berichte, Beiträge, Dresden 2005, Band 32 (Sonderband: "Gruppe und Individuum in der Künstlergemeinschaft Brücke. 100 Jahre Brücke – Neueste Forschung"), Dresden 2007, pp. 79-87
    • 'Max Pechstein: Outsider or Trailblazer?'. In: Bridging History: New Perspectives on Brücke Expressionism, ed. Christian Weikop, Farnham: Ashgate 2011, pp. 163-176 (English translation of the essay 'Max Pechstein - Außenseiter oder Wegbereiter?', chapter 8 in a collection of twelve essays by different authors)
    • 'Das Kolloquium in Dresden – Gruppe und Individuum in der Künstlergemeinschaft Brücke' (with Birgit Dalbajewa and Konstanze Rudert). In: Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Berichte, Beiträge 2005, Band 32 (Sonderband: "Gruppe und Individuum in der Künstlergemeinschaft Brücke. 100 Jahre Brücke – Neueste Forschung"), Dresden 2007, pp. 9-11
    • 'Ein ungeliebtes Vorbild – Max Klingers Einfluss auf Max Pechstein und die Brücke'. In: Eine Liebe. Max Klinger und die Folgen. Exhibition catalogue Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (11.03.2007 – 24.06.2007), Kunsthalle Hamburg (11.10.2007 - 13.01.2008), ed. Hubertus Gaßner and Hans-Werner Schmidt, Kerber: Bielefeld 2007, pp. 71-74
    • 'Im Dienste der Architektur: Die Brücke und die Dresdner Raumkunst'. In: Die Brücke in Dresden. 1905-1911. Exhibition catalogue Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (20.10.2001 – 06.01.2002), ed. Birgit Dalbajewa and Ulrich Bischoff, Cologne: König 2001, pp. 272-277
    • 'Ein Südseeinsulaner in Berlin'. In: Die Brücke in der Südsee – Exotik der Farbe. Exhibition catalogue Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken (22.10.2005 – 08.01.2006), ed. Ralph Melcher, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz 2005, pp. 71-83
    • 'Max Pechstein, "lider" de Brücke'. In: Aya Soika (ed.), Expresionismo Brücke, Symposium No. 4, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid 2005, pp. 73-95
    • 'Kandinsky. Chronicle'. In: Kandinsky: Watercolours and other Works on Paper. Exhibition catalogue Royal Academy of Arts, London, ed. Frank Whitford, London: Thames and Hudson 1999, pp. 209-215 (English and German edition)

    Reviews and short articles (selection):
    • “Ernst Barlach on the 150th Anniversary of his Birth. Albertinum, Dresden 8th August 2020-10th January 2021” (Exhibition Review), in: The Burlington Magazine, no. 163, January 2021, pp. 70-72
    • “Emil Nolde im Nationalsozialismus: eine kurze Übersicht der Forschungsergebnisse” (mit Bernhard Fulda)
    • “Im Fokus. Schluss mit Lustig?” Interview zwischen Norbert Bisky, Gabriele Knapstein und Aya Soika (Fragen von Gesine Bahr und Ingolf Kern), SPK Jahresbericht der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz 2019, pp. 16-27, forthcoming, soon available online
    • “Zur Situation der Brücke-Künstler im Nationalsozialismus”
    • “Emil Nolde” (up to date biography)
    • „Nolde: Briefe aus Neuguinea (1914)“, kommentiert von Aya Soika, in: Translocations. Anthologie: Eine Sammlung kommentierter Quellentexte zu Kulturgutverlagerungen seit der Antike
    • “Max Pechstein”. In: Astrid Becker, Emil Nolde als Sammler: Heckel, Jawlensky, Kirchner, Klee, Marc, Schmidt-Rottluff u.a, ed. Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, Munich/London/New York: Prestel Verlag 2018
    • “Die Brücke”. In: Lektüre - Bilder vom Lesen - Vom Lesen der Bilder, ed. Cathrin Klingsör-Leroy for Franz Marc Museum, Munich: Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2018
    • “Max Pechstein, Junge Frau mit rotem Barett, 1910”. In: Kunstmuseum Bern Meisterwerke, ed. Matthias Frehner and Valentina Locatelli, Kunstmuseum Bern, p. 219, illustration pp. 222-223
    • “Thema Fälschung. Hat die Kunstbranche aus dem Fall Beltracchi gelernt?” Interview with Restauro-Editor Friederike Voigt. In: Restauro, 3/2017, S. 42-45
    • “Der doppelte Heckel. Ein Hauptwerk des Brücke-Malers Erich Heckel kommt ins Dresdner Albertinum”. In: Arsprototo. Das Magazin der Kulturstiftung der Länder, 1/2017 (Title of edition: Kunst im Zwiespalt. Deutsche Moderne während der NS-Zeit), S. 32-35
    • 'Das Kunsthaus Dahlem: vom Staatsatelier Arno Brekers zum Ausstellungsraum'. In: Kunstchronik, 69, vol. 1, January 2016, pp. 41-46
    • 'Caravaggio aus der Asche. Kunst und Krieg ausgestellt: von einigen Werken blieben dem Berliner Bode-Museum nur noch verkohlte Reste'. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 24.03.2015, no. 70, p. 11
    • '"Mit herzlichstem Gruss Dein Max". Den Kunstsammlungen Zwickau gelingt mit dem Ankauf von Briefen und Postkarten Max Pechsteins eine kleine Wiedervereinigung'. In: Arsprototo. Das Magazin der Kulturstiftung der Länder, 1/2015, pp. 30-33
    • 'Emil Nolde im Netzwerk der Moderne'. In: Kunstchronik, 66, 6, June 2013, pp. 304-309
    • 'Schmidt-Rottluff's Woodblocks'. In: Print Quarterly, 30, 1, Jan. 2013, pp. 77-78
    • 'Übermaltes Pechstein-Werk: Mit Mikroskalpell und Lupenbrille'. In: DIE ZEIT, Nr. 5 / 2012, 31.01.2012
    • 'Otto Lange'. In: Print Quarterly, 29, 4, Dec. 2012, pp. 434-435
    • 'Feininger – The Loebermann Collection'. In: Print Quarterly, 25, 2, March 2008, S. 193-195
    • 'Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Das fotografische Werk'. In: The Burlington Magazine, vol. 149, no. 1253, 1/2007, p. 560
    • 'Max Beckmann in Amsterdam'. In: Print Quarterly, 24, 4, Dec. 2007, pp. 442-443
    • 'Utopia and Revolt'. In: Print Quarterly, 24, 3, March 2007, p. 300
    • 'Kirchner's Self Portraits'. In: Print Quarterly, 23, 3, March 2006, pp. 317-318
    • 'Brücke'. In: Print Quarterly, 23, 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 85-88
    • 'Beckmann'. In: Print Quarterly, 22, 4, Dec. 2005, pp. 478-479
    • 'Pechstein'. In: Print Quarterly, 21, 4, Dec. 2004, pp. 443-444
    • 'German Expressionist Prints'. In: Print Quarterly, 21, 3, June 2004, pp. 313-316
    • 'Kirchner'. In: Print Quarterly, 21, 2, June 2004, pp.195-199
    • 'Kollwitz'. In: Print Quarterly, 20, 2, June 2003, pp. 197-202
    • 'Münter'. In: Print Quarterly, 19, 2, June 2002, pp. 207-211
    • 'The German Woodcut'. In: Print Quarterly, 17, 4, Dec. 2000, pp. 209-211
    • 'Worpswede'. In: Print Quarterly, 17, 4, Dec. 2000, pp. 396-399
    • 'The Swiss Graphic Society'. In: Print Quarterly, 16, 4, Dec. 1999, pp. 380-381

    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Aya Soika

    Contact
    Art History
    Phone: +49 30 43733 303
    Email: a.soika[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Nina Tecklenburg
    Nina Tecklenburg

    Germany
    PhD in Theater Studies
    Freie Universität Berlin

    Nina Tecklenburg


    Germany
    PhD in Theater Studies
    Freie Universität Berlin

    Prof. Dr. Nina Tecklenburg is a performance maker and scholar of theater and performance. Since 2002, as a performer, co-director and dramaturge, she has realized a host of projects with diverse artists and performance groups, among others Interrobang (of which she is a founding member), She She Pop, Gob Squad, Lone Twin Theatre, Baktruppen, Rabih Mroué. Works she has (co-)created have been shown at the Public Theater NYC, Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, The Barbican London, Wiener Festwochen, Esplanade Singapore, Heidelberger Stückemarkt, Kunsten Festival des Arts Brussels, Theatre de la Ville Paris, Sophiensaele Berlin, Volksbühne Berlin and many more.

    From 2017-18 she was a guest professor at Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts Berlin. She has taught at the Freie Universität Berlin, University of Hildesheim, Bern University of the Arts, and Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). She received her PhD in Theater Studies at Freie Universität Berlin in 2012 and has published, among others, in The Drama Review, Theatre Research International, Performance Research. The English translation of her book about new narrative practices in contemporary theater (Performing Stories. Erzählen in Theater und Performance) will be published by Seagull Books in cooperation with Chicago University Press (forthcoming).

    Research and Teaching Interests

    Theory and history of performance art, postdramatic theater, performance and art practice as research, narrative theory, autobiography, applied theater, artistic approaches and methods in devised theater, theater after the postdramatic (new book project)

    Publications (selected)

    Performing Stories. Erzählen in Theater und Performance, Bielefeld (transcript) 2014.
    English translation published by Seagull Books in cooperation with Chicago University Press, enactments series edited by Richard Schechner, forthcoming.

    Die Aufführung. Diskurs – Macht – Analyse, co-edited with Adam Czirak, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Frank Richarz, Munich (Fink) 2012.

    „Alles offen. Multioptionale Dramaturgien in den Arbeiten von Interrobang“, in: Postdramaturgien, ed. by Jan Deck, Sandra Umathum, submitted.

    „Partizipative Games, Hypertext-Performances, immersive Theaterinstallationen. Neue Erzählformen im Theater und in Arbeiten von Interrobang“, in: Theater und Algorithmen, ed. by Ulf Otto, Berlin (Alexander Verlag), submitted.

    „Biografisches Theater – überall. Kritik einer Bühnenpraxis“, in: Biografieren auf der Bühne, ed. by Melanie Hinz, Norma Köhler, Christoph Lutz-Scheurle, München (kopaed), submitted.

    „’Zukunft als Erfahrung ermöglichen’ Ein Gespräch über Theorie und Praxis der (P)reenactments“, together with Doris Kolesch and Sven Lindholm, in: Performance zwischen den Zeiten. Reenactment und Preenactment in Kunst und Wissenschaft, ed. by Adam Czirak, Sophie Nikoleit and others, Bielefeld (transcript) 2019, p. 23-26.

    „Zaczarowana rzeczywistość, zapośredniczony kontakt. Historia Gob Squad“, transl. Paweł Schreiber, in: Didaskalia, Nr. 115-116, 2013, S. 11-25.

    “Everybody’s Life and Times. Zum autobiografischen Erzählen im Theater”, in: festival journal, Foreign Affairs of Berliner Festspiele, 2013, p. 20-23.

    “Reality Enchanted, Contact Mediated: A Story of Gob Squad”, in: The Drama Review (TDR), Vol. 56, No. 2 (T214) 2012, p. 8-33.

    “Mythos Ereignis – Mythos Aufführung. Künstlerische Reenactments als Entmythisierungsverfahren”, in: Theater als Zeitmaschine. Zur performativen Praxis des Reenactments, ed. by Ulf Otto, Jens Roselt, Bielefeld (transcript) 2012, p. 79-100.

    “To the Stories! Thoughts on Narrative in Lone Twin Theatre”, Good Luck Everybody. Lone Twin. Journeys Performances Conversations, ed. by Carl Lavery and David Williams, Aberystwyth (Performance Research Books) 2011, p. 313-19.

    “Entangled Within Stories: Towards a Narrative Theory of Performance”, in: Worlds in Words. Storytelling in Contemporary Theatre and Playwriting, ed. by Małgorzata Sugiera and Mateusz Borowski, Newcastle (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) 2010, p. 45-60.

    “The Potential of the End(ing): Anticipated Nostalgia in To the Dogs by Lone Twin”, in: Theatre Research International, Vol. 34, No. 2, ed. by Freddy Rokem, 2009, p. 124-130.

    “How to do Art with Shit. Ekel als ästhetische Erfahrung”, Auf der Schwelle. Kunst, Risiken und Nebenwirkungen, ed. by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Robert Sollich, Sandra Umathum, Matthias Warstat, Munich (Wilhelm Fink) 2006, p. 247-259.

    “Die Versuchungen des Ekels. Über Aufmerksamkeitsdynamiken in Herriët van Reeks und Geerten Ten Boschs ‚Feminine Follies 2’”, in: Wege der Wahrnehmung. Authentizität, Reflexivität und Aufmerksamkeit im zeitgenössischen Theater, ed. by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Barbara Gonau, Sabine Schouten, Christel Weiler, Berlin (Theater der Zeit, Recherchen 33) 2006, p. 153-165.

    Further links
    Interrobang website

    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Nina Tecklenburg

    Contact
    Theater and Performance
    Email: n.tecklenburg[at]berlin.bard.edu​​​
     
  • Catherine Toal
    Catherine Toal

    Ireland
    PhD in English and American Literature
    Harvard University

    Catherine Toal


    Ireland
    PhD in English and American Literature
    Harvard University

    Dean

    Prof. Dr. Catherine Toal is Dean of Bard College Berlin. She received her PhD from Harvard University, where her dissertation was awarded the University's prizes in Nineteenth-Century Literature and American Literature. She has held a Junior Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Her research and teaching interests encompass nineteenth-century French, English, American and German literature, and literary and critical theory. In 2016, her book The Entrapments of Form: Cruelty and Modern Literature, was published by Fordham University Press, and received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Modern Language Initiative. Her work has also appeared in the journals Comparative Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Journal of European Studies.

    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Catherine Toal

    Contact
    Dean
    Phone: +49 30 43733 216
    Email: c.toal[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Hanan Toukan
    Hanan Toukan

    USA
    PhD in Politics and International Studies
    SOAS, University of London
     

    Hanan Toukan


    USA
    PhD in Politics and International Studies
    SOAS, University of London
     

    Hanan Toukan is Professor of Middle East Studies. Her teaching and writings sit at the intersection of international politics, Middle East politics, postcolonial studies, visual cultures and cultural studies. Prior to joining Bard College Berlin, Toukan was Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Brown University and Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies of the Middle East at Bamberg University. She has also taught at Freie Universität Berlin and SOAS, University of London in Media and Film Studies, as well as Politics and International Studies. She is a recipient of several research awards including most recently from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for her current research project on migration and the visual politics of museums in Europe and the Middle East. Her book The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Palestine Lebanon and Jordan (2021) is published with Stanford University Press. The book is based on her PhD undertaken at SOAS, University of London which won the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) Malcolm H. Kerr Award for Best PhD in the Social Sciences in 2012.
     
    Toukan’s work has been published in Cultural Politics, Arab Studies Journal, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Radical Philosophy, Journal of Visual Culture, Journal for Palestine Studies, Review of Middle East Studies, Jerusalem Quarterly, SCTIW Review,  Jadaliyya and Ibraaz amongst others. She has published chapters in Leila Farsakh (ed.) Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Statehood (University of California Press, 2021),Viola Shafik (ed), Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa (Cairo University Press, 2021); Friederike Pannewick and Georges Khalil (eds.), Commitment and Beyond: Locating the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2015); and Dina Matar and Zahera Harb (eds.), Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communication Practices in Lebanon and Palestine (IB Tauris, 2013). She is also Contributing Editor at the Jerusalem Quarterly and a member of the Editorial Collective of the Journal of Visual Culture.

    Hanan Toukan is a Fellow at the Europe in the Middle East-Middle East in Europe (EUME) research program at the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien.


    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Hanan Toukan

    Contact
    Middle East Studies
    h.toukan[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Asli Vatansever
    Asli Vatansever

    Turkey
    PhD in Sociology
    University of Hamburg

    Asli Vatansever


    Turkey
    PhD in Sociology
    University of Hamburg

    Aslı Vatansever (PhD University of Hamburg, 2010) is a sociologist of work and social stratification with a focus on precarious academic labor. After she was dismissed from her office as associate professor and got banned from public service in Turkey for having signed the Peace Petition of the Academics for Peace in 2016. She was hosted as a guest researcher at the Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient (October 2016-May 2017) and at the Centre Marc Bloch (June-July 2017); as a Scholar Rescue Fund Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies at the University of Padova (September 2017-August 2018); as a research associate at the Re:Work Institute of the Humboldt University, Berlin (September 2018-August 2020), and as a guest lecturer at the University of Padova (October-December 2020).

    Her books include Ursprünge des Islamismus im Osmanischen Reich. Eine weltsystemanalytische Perspektive (Hamburg: Dr. Kovač, 2010), Ne Ders Olsa Veririz. Akademisyenin Vasıfsız İşçiye Dönüşümü (Ready to Teach Anything. The Transformation of the Academic into Unskilled Worker, Istanbul: İletişim, 2015 – co-authored with Meral Gezici-Yalçın), and At the Margins of Academia. Exile, Precariousness, and Subjectivity (Brill: 2020).


    Contact:
    Dr. Aslı Vatansever

    Contact
    Sociology
    E-Mail: a.vatansever[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Dorothea von Hantelmann
    Dorothea von Hantelmann

    Germany
    PhD in Art History
    Freie Universität Berlin

    Dorothea von Hantelmann


    Germany
    PhD in Art History
    Freie Universität Berlin

    Professor of Art and Society
    A theorist, scholar, writer and curator whose work is at the forefront of new developments in contemporary art and exhibition culture, Dorothea von Hantelmann joins Bard College Berlin following her service as documenta Professor at the University of Kassel.

    Dorothea von Hantelmann has held research positions at the Free University, Berlin and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has curated and co-curated exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects at the Vienna Festival; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; the International Venice Architecture Biennale; and Villa Empain, Brussels and has written and edited numerous publications including How to Do Things with Art – The Meaning of Art's Performativity; Die Ausstellung: Politik eines Rituals [The Exhibition: Politics of a Ritual]; and Notes on the Exhibition, in the "100 Notes - 100 Thoughts" series of documenta.

    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Dorothea von Hantelmann

    Contact
    Art and Society
    Phone: +49 30 43733 234
    Email: d.vonhantelmann[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Boris Vormann
    Boris Vormann

    Germany
    PhD in Political Science 
    Freie Universität Berlin

    Boris Vormann


    Germany
    PhD in Political Science 
    Freie Universität Berlin

    Professor of Politics, Director Politics Concentration
    Boris Vormann is Professor of Politics and Director of the Politics Concentration at Bard College Berlin. He is also a principal investigator at the John-F.-Kennedy Institute's Graduate School of North American Studies (Freie Universität Berlin), on the editorial board of American Studies/Amerikastudien, A Quarterly, and associated researcher at the Chaire de Recherche du Canada en Études Québécoises et Canadiennes at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

    Grounded in political science, his research lies at the intersection of comparative politics and political economy, but is also informed by international relations (IR), macro-sociology and economic geography. It focuses on the role of the state in globalization and urbanization processes; nations and nationalism; and the crisis of democracy. Vormann has held visiting positions at the CUNY Graduate Center, Harvard University, Sciences Po Paris and New York University and was the first political scientist to receive the Fulbright American Studies Award from the German Fulbright Commission and the German Association for American Studies in 2015. His current research project examines the role of the state in building the urban infrastructures of expanding global trade networks.

    Vormann is a regular commentator on public policy debates for different media outlets (incl. The Economist, Deutsche Welle, ARD Tagesschau, and Deutschlandfunk). His most recent books are the co-edited volume The Emergence of Illiberalism: Understanding a Global Phenomenon (Routledge 2020) and a handbook on politics and policy in the United States for a German-speaking audience (Handbuch Politik USA; Springer VS, 2020). Earlier publications include the monograph Democracy in Crisis: The Neoliberal Roots of Popular Unrest (with Christian Lammert, translated by Susan Gillespie, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), and the edited volume Contours of the Illiberal State (with Christian Lammert, Campus/The University of Chicago Press, 2019).

    Books
    Vormann, Boris and Michael Weinman (eds.). 2020. The Emergence of Illiberalism: Understanding a Global Phenomenon. Routledge: New York, NY.

    –––, Lammert, Christian and Markus Siewert (eds.). 2020. Handbuch Politik USA. Vollständig überarbeitete Neuauflage. Springer VS: Wiesbaden. ["Handbook of US Politics and Policy. Fully revised 2nd edition"]

    –––, and Christian Lammert. (eds.). 2019. Contours of the Illiberal State: Governing Circulation in the Smart Economy. Campus/The University of Chicago Press: Frankfurt a. M./Chicago, IL.

    –––, and Christian Lammert. 2017. Die Krise der Demokratie und wie wir sie überwinden. Aufbau Verlag: Berlin.
    English translation by Susan Gillespie, published in 2019 as Democracy in Crisis: The Neoliberal Roots of Popular Unrest. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, PA.

    –––, Lammert, Christian and Markus Siewert (eds.). 2016. Handbuch Politik USA. Springer VS: Wiesbaden. ["Handbook of US Politics and Policy"]

    –––. 2015. Global Port Cities in North America: Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks. Routledge: London and New York, NY.

    –––. 2012. Zwischen Alter und Neuer Welt. Nationenbildung im transatlantischen Raum. Synchron Publishers: Heidelberg. [Engl.: "Between the Old and the New World. Nation-building in Transatlantic Space."]

    –––, Kolboom, Ingo and Alain-G. Gagnon (eds.). 2011. Québec. Staat und Gesellschaft. Synchron Publishers: Heidelberg. ["Québec. State and Society"]


    Further links: Personal website

    Photo by Milena Schlösser

    Contact:
    Prof. Dr. Boris Vormann

    Contact
    Professor of Politics
    Director Politics Concentration

    Email: [email protected]
  • Ulrike Wagner
    Ulrike Wagner

    Germany
    PhD in German and Comparative Literature
    Columbia University

    Ulrike Wagner


    Germany
    PhD in German and Comparative Literature
    Columbia University


    Ulrike Wagner received her Ph.D. in German and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2012. She holds an M.A. degree in North American Studies and German literature from the Free University of Berlin (2005) and was a visiting Fulbright scholar in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University. Between 2009 and 2012 she was a member of the bi-national PhD-Net “Das Wissen der Literatur” at the Humboldt University and an associated member of the university’s collaborative research center “Transformationen der Antike.” Her research and teaching have been awarded with a Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Berlin State Library, an Elsa-Neumann Dissertation Fellowship, and a Trinity College Graduate Fellowship. At Bard College Berlin she is the director of the German Studies Program, has taught in the “Language and Thinking” program and developed courses on European and American Romanticism, Germany’s Jewish Enlightenment, literature and culture of the Weimar period in Berlin, the history of German literature through the lens of human-animal relationships, feminism and community, and current debates in the German public sphere.

    Research
    The history and practices of philology; relations between German Romanticism and American Transcendentalism in the context of religious debates, historicism, classicism, aesthetics, and the rise of the liberal arts model of education; German-Jewish women writers; feminist theory and practice.

    Courses offered at Bard College Berlin
    Comparative Perspectives on the Romantic Revolution
    Poetry and Poetics
    Enlightenment Media and the Rise of Berlin's Haskalah
    Menschen-Tiere and Tier-Menschen: Creaturely Perspectives in German Literature and Culture (in German)
    Goldene Zwanziger/Roaring Twenties: Art and Culture in Weimar Berlin (in German)
    Jewish Berlin from the Enlightenment to the Present (in German)
    The German Public Sphere (in German)
    Social Change and the German Public Sphere (in German) 
    Feminism and Community (OSUN Network Course, co-taught with Laura Scuriatti)
    German for Reading Knowledge
    German Conversation
    German A1 – C2
    Academic Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences


    Selected Publications

    Book Manuscript (in progress)

    • Transatlantic Philology: Emerson, Germaine de Staël, Herder, and the Critical Practices of Reordering Religion and Antiquity

    Edited Volume

    • Herder and Religion. Contributions from the 2010 Conference of the International Herder Society at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, eds. Staffan Bengtsson, Heinrich Clairmont, Robert E. Norton, Johannes Schmidt, and Ulrike Wagner (Heidelberg: Synchron Publishers, 2016).

    Articles/Book Chapters

    • “On Dialogical Writing, Self-forming, and Salon Culture: Rahel Varnhagen, Henriette Herz, and Fanny Lewald.” Special Issue on “The Women Philosophers in Hegel’s Time.” Hegel Bulletin 3 (2022), forthcoming.
    • “Religious Experience, Storytelling, and Ethical Action in Muhammad Iqbal's Javid Nama and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan,” co-authored with Maria Khan. Literature and Theology, forthcoming.
    • “Fanny Lewald (1811 – 1889).” The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition, eds. Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
    • “Nineteenth-Century American Translations of German Philology.” Germanic Philology: Perspectives in Linguistics and Literature, eds. Tina Boyer and Heiko Wiggers, Vernon Press, forthcoming.
    • “Baukunst und Satzbaukunst als Wissens- und Lebensdisziplin: Herder und Goethe im Dialog.” Herder und die Künste, ed. Stefan Greif (Heidelberg: Synchron Publishers), forthcoming.
    • “Everyday Aesthetics and the Practice of Historical Re-enactment: Revisiting Cavell’s Emerson.” Over and Over and Over Again: Re-Enactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory, eds. Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Arianna Sforzini, 113-120, Cultural Inquiry, 21 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022).
    • “Schleiermacher’s Geselligkeit, Henriette Herz, and the ‘Convivial Turn.’” Conviviality at the Crossroads: Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters, eds. Oscar Hemer, Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Per-Markku Ristilammi, 65-87 (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). 
    • “Utopias of Purposelessness: Sacred and Secular Sociability around 1800.” Groups, Coteries, Circles and Guilds: Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community, ed. Laura Scuriatti, 17-40 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019).
    • "Herder und die Philologie. Fünf Thesen zu einer produktiven Beziehung. Am Beispiel des Volksliedprojekts," co-authored with Kaspar Renner, Herder Jahrbuch / Herder Yearbook 13 (2016): 13-41.
    • "Origin as Fiction and Contest: Herder's Reinvention of Religious Experience in Vom Geist der Ebräischen Poesie." Herder and Religion. Contributions from the 2010 Conference of the International Herder Society at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. ed. Staffan Bengtsson et al., 57-71 (Heidelberg: Synchron Publishers, 2016).
    • "Transcendentalism and the Power of Philology: Herder, Schleiermacher, and the Transformation of Biblical Scholarship in New England." Amerikastudien / American Studies 57.3 (2012): 419-445.
    • "Herders Anthropologie und die Funktion einer Sprache der Liebe und Freundschaft." Liebe als Metapher. Übertragungskonzepte eines interpersonalen Verhältnisses, ed. Walter Delabar and Helga Meise, 121-150 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012).
    • "Der Mensch siehet nur, wie ein Mensch siehet: Modern Functions of Ancient Greek Literature in Light of Herder's Anthropological Thinking." Herder Jahrbuch / Herder Yearbook 11 (2012): 107-129.
    • "From Words to Worlds: De l'Allemagne and the Transnational Recasting of the Ancient Past." Germaine de Staël: Forging a Politics of Mediation, ed. Karyna Szmurlo, 247-262 (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011).
    • "The Aesthetics of bildende Nachahmung: A Transatlantic Dialogue between Karl Philipp Moritz and Ralph Waldo Emerson." Yearbook of German-American Studies 45 (2010): 33-59.
       
    Contact
    Dr. Ulrike Wagner

    Contact
    Director, German Studies Program
    Phone: +49 30 43733 209
    Email: u.wagner[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Israel Waichman
    Israel Waichman

    Israel
    PhD in Economics
    Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

    Israel Waichman


    Israel
    PhD in Economics
    Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

    Prof. Dr. Israel Waichman holds a PhD in Economics (Dr. sc. pol., 2009) from the University of Kiel. While engaged in his PhD studies, he also completed the advanced study program in International Economics Policy Research at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He also attained a European Master in Law and Economics (2004) and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Haifa, Israel. Prior to his appointment at Bard College Berlin, Israel Waichman was an assistant professor for Environmental and Resource Economics at the (Alfred-Weber-Institute) University of Heidelberg.

    Prof. Dr. Waichman is a behavioral economist who is using controlled experiments to study issues mainly related to environmental economics and sustainability. In particular, his research focuses on institutions that could potentially overcome collective-action problems (such as avoiding the tragedy of the commons and preventing climate change) and also on experimental investigations of environmental policy instruments (e.g., testing different emission permit trading schemes). Prof. Dr. Waichman’s research was published in internationally renowned journals among them Nature Communications, European Economic Review, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Experimental Economics, Economics Letters, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic Psychology, and Environmental & Resource Economics.

    Finally, Prof. Dr. Waichman is also interested in the practical implementation of behavioral and experimental methods. He was the academic advisor to a European Commission project using behavioral experiment to investigate the merits of geographical indication regulation. He is also among the founding members of SINE, a berlin-based Think and Do Tank offering solutions for data sharing dilemmas.

    Courses taught
    Microeconomics for social science / economics
    Mathematics for social science / economics
    Econometrics
    Cost Benefit Analysis
    Experimental Economics
    Environmental and Resource Economics

    Publications in peer-reviewed journals

    • “The Creation of Social Norms under Weak Institutions”, in press, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (with Florian Diekert, Tillmann Eymess, and Joseph Luomba)
    • "Challenging the conventional wisdom: Experimental evidence on heterogeneity and coordination in avoiding a collective catastrophic event," 2021, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 109, 02502 (with Till Requate, Markus Karde, and Manfred Milinski)
    • "The effects of contemporaneous peer punishment on cooperation with the future", 2020, Nature Communications, 11, 1815 (with Joannes Lohse)
    • "Is there no "I" in "TEAM"? Interindividual-intergroup discontinuity effect in a Cournot competition experiment", 2020, Journal of Economic Psychology, 77, 102181 (with Korbinian von Blackenburg)
    • "Linking wealth and punishment effectiveness: Punishment and cooperation under congruent heterogeneities", 2020, Economic Inquiry, 58, 86-103
    • "Tell the truth or not? The Montero mechanism for emissions control at work", 2019 Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 95, 133-152 (with Till Requate, Eva Camacho Cuena, and Ch'ng Kean Siang)
    • "When punishment strikes late. The effect of a delay in punishment and punishment feedback on cooperation and efficiency", 2019, Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 12(1), 1-17 (with Lukas Stenzel)
    • "Payment procedure and generalizability of social dilemma experiments", 2016, Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 9(3-4), 200-216 (with Andreas Voss)
    • "Group size and the (in)efficiency of pure public good provision". 2016, European Economic Review, 85, 272–287 (with Johannes Diederich, and Timo Goeschl)
    • "Old age and prosocial behavior: Social preferences or experimental confounds?", 2016, Journal of Economic Psychology, 53, 118–130 (with Sara E. Kettner)
    • "Reciprocity in labor market relationships: Evidence from an experiment across high-income OECD countries", 2015, Games, 6, 473-494 (with Ch’ng Kean Siang, Till Requate, Aric Shafran, Eva Camacho-Cuena, Yoshio Iida, and Shosh Sharabani)
    • "Communication in Cournot competition: An experimental study", 2014, Journal of Economic Psychology, 42, 1-16 (with Ch’ng Kean Siang and Till Requate)
    • "Do short-term laboratory experiments provide valid descriptions of long-term economic  interactions? A study of Cournot Markets", 2014, Experimental Economics, 17(3), 371-390 (with Hans-Theo Normann and Till Requate)
    • "Equal split in the informal market for group train travel", 2013, Economics Letters, 118(2), 327-329 (with Till Requate, and Artem Korzhenevych)
    • "Investment incentives under emission trading: An experimental study", 2012, Environmental and Resource Economics, 53(2), 229-249 (with Eva Camacho-Cuena, and Till Requate)
    • "Farmers' performance and subject pool effect in decentralized bargaining markets", 2012, Economics Letters, 115(3), 366-368 (with Christiane Ness)
    • "On the role of social wage comparisons in gift-exchange", 2011, Economics Letters, 112(1), 75-78 (with Ch’ng Kean Siang, and Till Requate)
    • "“A profit table or a profit calculator?” A note on the design of Cournot oligopoly experiments", 2011, Experimental Economics, 14(1), 36-46 (with Till Requate)
    • "Managers and students playing Cournot - evidence from duopoly and triopoly experiments", 2011, Applied Economics Letters, 18(2), 115-120 (with Ch’ng kean Siang, and Till Requate)
    • "A comparison of bootstrap and Monte-Carlo testing approaches to Value-at-Risk diagnosis", 2010, Computational Statistics, 25(4), 725-732 (with Helmut Herwartz)
    • "A Cournot experiment with managers and students: Evidence from Germany and Malaysia", 2010, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 10, Article 30 (with Ch’ng kean Siang, and Till Requate)
    • "Comercios de derechos de emisión, adopción de tecnología y heterogeneidad de industrias: un enfoque experimental", 2009, Cuadernos Económicos de I.C.E., 77, 69-94 (with Eva Camacho-Cuena, Till Requate, and Jose Luis Zofío, in Spanish)

    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Israel Waichman

    Economics
    Phone: +49 30 43733 232
    Email: i.waichman[at]berlin.bard.edu

    Contact
    Economics
    Phone: +49 30 43733 232
    Email: i.waichman[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Michael Weinman
    Michael Weinman

    USA
    PhD in Philosophy
    The New School for Social Research

    Michael Weinman


    USA
    PhD in Philosophy
    The New School for Social Research

    Michael Weinman is Professor of Philosophy at Bard College Berlin since 2013, after originally arriving as a Guest Professor in 2010. He is the author or editor of five books, most recently, Plato and the Moving Image (Brill, 2019), co-edited with Shai Biderman of Tel Aviv University. In 2018, he published The Parthenon and Liberal Education in the SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy from SUNY Press, an investigation of the Parthenon as an education in the liberal arts co-authored with Bard College Berlin faculty member Geoff Lehman. His earlier books address the role of pleasure in Aristotle's ethical thought and the relevance of Virginia Woolf's experimentation with narrative for debates about subjectivity in continental philosophy, respectively.

    Michael also has published articles and book chapters on Ancient Greek science, especially mathematics, and its reception in 20th-century German philosophy and on themes in contemporary political philosophy. His current recent interests focus on Arendt’s heterodox understanding of power and political violence for contemporary debates about populism and the challenges facing the liberal international order today and on the changing perception of the entwinement of mind and world in nature writing and narrative fiction from Goethe through Woolf.

    Classes Taught at Bard College Berlin:
    Core Courses:
    Early Modern Science
    Forms of Love
    Origins of Political Economy
    Plato's Republic and Its Interlocutors
    Property

    Foundational and Advanced Modules:
    Freedom of Expression
    Nationalism
    Constitutions, Ancient and Modern
    Truth in Action: Ethics and Practical Reason
    The Calculus and the "Mathematization of Nature"
    Aristotle's (so-called) Organon
    Character in Aristotle's Poetics, Politics, and Rhetoric
    Michel de Montaigne: Essays
    The Violence in and of Political Life

    General Teaching Interests:
    Ancient Greek philosophy; Ethics and political philosophy; Philosophy and literature; 20th century Continental philosophy

    Publications:

    Books, authored or edited

    • Vormann, B. and M. Weinman, eds. 2020. Illiberalism: Understanding a Global Phenomenon. New York and London: Routledge.
    • Biderman, S. and Weinman, M, eds. 2019. Plato and the Moving Image, Leiden: Brill.
    • Lehman, G. and Weinman, M. 2018. The Parthenon and Liberal Education. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
    • Weinman, M. 2012. Language, Time and Identity in Woolf’s The Waves: The Subject in Empire’s Shadow. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
    • Weinman, M. 2007. Pleasure in Aristotle’s Ethics. London: Continuum Books.

    Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters
    • Weinman, M. 2020. “Arendt and the Legitimate Leadership of Plural Persons: Hierarchy and the Limits of Horizontal Power Relations.” In: Maria Robaszkiewicz and Tobias Matzner, eds. Hannah Arendt: Challenges of Plurality, Dordrecht: Springer.
    • M. Weinman and B. Vormann. 2020. “From a Politics of No Alternative to a Politics of Fear: Illiberalism and Its Variants.” In Boris Vormann and Michael Weinman, eds. Illiberalism: Understanding a Global Phenomenon. New York and London: Routledge.
    • M. Weinman and B. Vormann. 2020. “The Good City in an Era of Planetary Urbanization.” In Gregor Fitzi, Jürgen Mackert und Brian S. Turner, eds. Successful Cities - Crises of Citizenship. New York and London: Routledge.
    • Weinman, M. 2020. “What, if any, mathematics might Thales or his contemporaries have learned from ‘the East’?” In: Hahn, Robert and Alex Herda, eds. Knowledge in Archaic Greece. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
    • Weinman, M. 2019. “Arendt and the return of ethnonationalism.” In Demos vs. Polis: The New Populism Liberal Herald, Vol. 4.
    • Weinman, M. 2019. “The Myth of Er as Rationalizing Recording Device.” In Plato and the Moving Image, eds. Shai Biderman and Michael Weinman. Leiden: Brill, pp. 100-120.
    • Weinman, M. 2019. “Epic.” In Palgrave Handbook on Philosophy and Literature, eds. Michael Mack and Barry Stocker. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 185-202.
    • Reed, I. and Weinman, M. 2018. “Agency, Power, Modernity: A Manifesto for Social Theory.” European Journal for Cultural and Political Sociology (DOI: 10.1080/23254823.2018.1499434)
    • Weinman, M. 2018. Arendt and the Legitimate Expectation for Hospitality and Membership Today. Moral Philosophy and Politics (5:1), pp. 127-50. (DOI: 10.1515/mopp-2016-0043)
    • Weinman, M. 2018. “Misrepresentation, misrecognition and statue politics.” In: #Charlottesville: Before and Beyond. New York: Public Seminar Books.
    • Lehman, G. and Weinman, M. 2018. “Recursive knowledge procedures informing the design of the Parthenon.” In Revolutions and Continuity in Ancient Greek Mathematics, ed. Michalis Sialaros. Berlin: De Gruyter; pp. 235-70.
    • Weinman, M. 2017. Stanley Rosen’s Auseinandersetzung with Heidegger: On the occasion of Platonic Production (Andy German, ed., 2014). Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (38:1).
    • Weinman, M. 2016. “Phronēsis after the post-metaphysical age: Aristotle and practical philosophy today.” In Thinking the Plural: Richard J. Bernstein’s Contributions to American Philosophy, eds. Marcia Morgan and Megan Craig. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield; pp. 3-20.
    • Weinman, M. 2016. “Living Well and the Promise of Cosmopolitan Identity: Aristotle’s ergon and Contemporary Civic Republicanism.” In Civic Republicanism: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics, eds. Geoffrey C. Kellow and Neven Leddy. Toronto: University Toronto; pp. 59-71.
    • Weinman, M. 2015. Doing the impossible: The trace of the other between eulogy and deconstruction: Rereading Derrida’s Work of Mourning. Philosophical Papers (44:2); 261-76. (DOI: 10.1080/05568641.2015.1056958)
    • Weinman, M. 2014. Metaphysics, Lam and the echo of Homer: First philosophy as a way of life. Philosophical Papers (43:1); 67-88. (DOI: 10.1080/05568641.2014.901695)
    • Weinman, M. 2013. “Education: The ethical-political energeia.” Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle. London: Bloomsbury Books; pp. 263-76.
    • Weinman, M. 2011. Living well and sexual self-determination: Expanding human rights discourse about sex and sexuality. Law, Culture, and the Humanities 7:1; 101-20.
    • Weinman, M. 2009. Making ‘men see clearly’: Physical imperfection and mathematical order in Ptolemy’s Syntaxis. In: Ann Ward, ed. Matter and Form: From Natural Science to Political Philosophy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books; 57-70.
    • Weinman, M. 2006. State Speech vs. Hate Speech? What to Do about Words that Wound. Essays in Philosophy (7:1).
    • Weinman, M. 2001. Cultural Engendering and Points of Resistance: Foucault, Butler, and Sexual Subjectivities.  International Studies in Philosophy (33:1; 123-143).

    Book reviews
    • Weinman, M. 2018. Winslow, R. Organism and Environment: Inheritance and Subjectivity in the Life Sciences (Lexington, 2017). Review of Metaphysics 72(1).
    • Weinman, M. 2016. Cairns, D. (Lester Embree, ed.), The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl (Springer 2013), for Phenomenological Reviews.
    • Weinman, M. 2014. Horky, P. S., Plato and Pythagoreanism (Oxford 2013). Archai (13); 165-169.

    Other publications
    Contributing Editor, Publicseminar.org, 2015 - Present. Details here.

    Contact
    Prof. Dr. Michael Weinman

    Contact
    Philosophy
    Phone: +49 30 43733 222
    Email: m.weinman[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Andreas Martin Widmann
    Andreas Martin Widmann

    Germany
    PhD in German Literature
    Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz

    Andreas Martin Widmann


    Germany
    PhD in German Literature
    Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz

    Andreas Martin Widmann received a PhD in Modern German Literature from the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz. He has taught in the German Departments of Royal Holloway College and University College London, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a faculty member of the summer school program of Middlebury College, VT. His research interests include historical fiction, literature and ecology, literature of exile and creative writing. He is the author of one academic monograph (Kontrafaktische Geschichtsdarstellung, 2009), as well as of various articles and essays on 20th century literature, film and popular culture in journals and edited volumes, and the editor of the first academic study on the life and work of Hans Keilson. He has written two novels (Die Glücksparade, 2012 and Messias, 2018) and is currently working on a third one.


    Contact
    Dr. Andreas Martin Widmann

    Contact
    German Studies
    Email: m.widmann[at]berlin.bard.edu

Guest Faculty

  • Fred Abrahams
    Fred Abrahams

    USA
    MA in International Affairs
    Columbia University
     
  • Carla Åhlander
    Carla Åhlander

    Sweden/Italy
    Performance- and theatre studies, Commedia School (Copenhagen)
    Photography studies at Fatamorgana Fotoskole (Copenhagen), SACI (Florence), Lund University
  • Aaron Allen
    Aaron Allen

    USA
    MA in Security Studies
    Georgetown University
  • Angela Anderson
    Angela Anderson

    USA/Germany
    MA in Film and Media Studies
    The New School
  • Yossi Bartal
    Yossi Bartal

    Germany
    Gender Studies and Musicology
    Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
  • Joseph Bjelde
    Joseph Bjelde

    USA
    PhD in Philosophy
    UC Berkeley
  • Sladja Blažan
    Sladja Blažan

    Germany
    Ph.D. North American Literature and Culture
    Humboldt University
     
  • Dave Braneck
    Dave Braneck

    USA
    MA in North American Studies
    Freie Universität Berlin
  • Noam Brusilovsky
    Noam Brusilovsky

    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.

    Image by Lea Hopp

    Contact:
    Noam Brusilovsky

    Contact
    [email protected]
  • Eva Burghardt
    Eva Burghardt

    Germany
    MA in Theater
    Hochschule der Künste Bern
  • Jean-Rémi Carbonneau
    Jean-Rémi Carbonneau

    Canada
    PhD in Political Science
    Université du Québec à Montréal
  • Jacalyn Carley
    Jacalyn Carley

    USA
    BA in Dance Education
    George Washington University, Washington DC

    Cofounder Tanzfabrik Berlin
  • Vanessa de Senarclens
    Vanessa de Senarclens

    Switzerland 
    PhD in French Studies / Habilitation in French Literature and Cultural Studies
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Sam Dolbear
    Sam Dolbear

    United Kingdom
    PhD in Critical Theory
    Birkbeck, University of London

    Sam Dolbear


    United Kingdom
    PhD in Critical Theory
    Birkbeck, University of London
    Contact
    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.


    Contact
    Dr. Sam Dolbear
    Literature
    [email protected]
     
  • Florian Duijsens
    Florian Duijsens

    Netherlands
    MA in Arts and Science; Liberal Studies
    Maastricht University; The New School for Social Research
     
  • Berit Ebert
    Berit Ebert

    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 ​​​

    Monographs
    Wie Europa Zeus bändigte: Transnationalität im Gleichstellungsrecht der Europäischen Union. (How Europe Tamed Zeus: Transnationality in European Union Gender Equality Law). Tectum Verlag 2021.

    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.

    Contact
    Dr. Berit Ebert

    Contact
    Political Science
    Email: b.ebert[at]berlin.bard.edu
  • Cassandra Ellerbe
    Cassandra Ellerbe

    USA
    PhD in Anthropology / Comparative Cultural Studies
    Universiteit Gent
  • Rabea Erradi
    Rabea Erradi

    Germany
    MA German Literature/MA German as a Foreign Language
    Freie Universität Berlin
  • Ariane Faber

    Germany
    MA in North American Studies and Theater Studies
    Freie Universität Berlin
  • Jana Fedtke

    Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
    University of South Carolina at Columbia
  • Paul Festa
    Paul Festa

    USA
    Advanced Certificate
    The Juilliard School
  • Nora Freytag

    MA in German as a Foreign Language and Languages for Specific Purposes
    Technical University of Berlin
  • Manuel Gebhardt
    Manuel Gebhardt

    Germany
    MA in Philosophy, OttoFriedrich-Universität, Barmberg
    MA in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
     
  • April Gertler 
    April Gertler 

    USA
    MFA in Photography
    Bard College
  • Julia Hart
    Julia Hart

    USA
    BA in German Literature and Theater Studies, Yale University
    BA in Theater Directing, Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg 
  • Thomas Hilgers
    Thomas Hilgers

    Germany
    PhD in Philosophy
    University of Pennsylvania
  • Benjamin Hochman
    Benjamin Hochman

    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
  • Sinem Kilic
    Sinem Kilic

    Germany
    PhD Candidate in Philosophy
    Freie Universität Berlin / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • John Kleckner 
    John Kleckner 

    USA
    BFA in Painting
    University of Iowa
  • Aysuda Kölemen
    Aysuda Kölemen

    Turkey
    PhD in Political Science
    University of Georgia, Athens, USA
  • Anastassia Kostrioukova
    Anastassia Kostrioukova

    Russia/Canada
    MA in Slavic Languages Literatures and Linguistics, University of Toronto
    MA in Comparative Literature, New York University
     
  • Timo Lochocki
    Timo Lochocki

    Germany
    PhD in Comparative Politics
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Dafna Maimon
    Dafna Maimon

    Finland/Israel
    MFA
    The Sandberg Institute 
  • Gavin McCrea
    Gavin McCrea

    Ireland
    PhD in Creative and Critical Writing
    University of East Anglia
     
  • Ramona Mosse
    Ramona Mosse

    Germany/USA
    PhD in English and Comparative Literature 
    Columbia University
  • Razieh-Sadat Mousavi
    Razieh-Sadat Mousavi

    Iran
    MA in History of Science
    University of Tehran
  • Clio Nicastro
    Clio Nicastro

    Italy
    PhD in Aesthetics and Theory of Arts
    University of Palermo
  • Andrea Ottone
    Andrea Ottone

    Italy
    PhD in History 
    University of Naples 'Federico II'
  • Laura López Paniagua
    Laura López Paniagua

    Spain
    PhD in Contemporary Art
    Universidad Complutense de Madrid & Freie Universität, Berlin
  • Joon Park
    Joon Park

    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.

    Contact:
    Joon Park

    Contact
    [email protected]
  • Joshua Paul
    Joshua Paul
  • Asad Raza
    Asad Raza

    MA at New York University
    USA
  • Janina Schabig
    Janina Schabig

    Germany
    Film Studies at Freie Universität, Berlin
    Film Production at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
    Art Direction at Miami AD School Europe, Hamburg
  • Markus Schultze-Kraft
    Markus Schultze-Kraft

    Germany/El Salvador
    PhD in Political Science
    University of Oxford
  • Ross Shields
    Ross Shields

    USA
    PhD in German Studies and Comparative Literature
    Columbia University
  • Ariane Simard
    Ariane Simard

    Germany/USA
    MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction
    University of California, Irvine
  • Isabell Spengler
    Isabell Spengler

    Germany
    MFA in Film and Video / Meisterschülerin Experimental Film
    California Institute of the Arts / Universität der Künste Berlin
     
  • Hans Stauffacher
    Hans Stauffacher

    Switzerland/Germany
    MA in Philosophy
    Freie Universität Berlin
  • Marianna Szczygielska
    Marianna Szczygielska

    Poland
    PhD in Comparative Gender Studies
    Central European University
     
  • Kathy-Ann Tan
    Kathy-Ann Tan

    Germany
    Habilitation and PhD in North American Literatures and Cultures
    Curator, Writer and Independent Scholar
  • Michael Thomas Taylor
    Michael Thomas Taylor

    Canada / USA
    PhD in German
    Princeton University 
  • Andreas Weber
    Andreas Weber

    Dipl. Biol. Dr. phil. Marine Biology and Culture Studies 
    Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
    Germany
  • Clare Wigfall
    Clare Wigfall

    Great Britain
    MA in Creative Writing
    University of East Anglia
  • Caroline Wolf
    Caroline Wolf

    Germany
    Diploma in Architecture / Dipl.-Ing. 
    Technische Universität Berlin
  • Tirdad Zolghadr
    Tirdad Zolghadr

    Curator and Writer

    Tirdad Zolghadr


    Curator and Writer

    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 the forthcoming "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.

    Contact:
    Tirdad Zolghadr

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    [email protected]
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