Berlin, Germany
Bard College Berlin is an accredited German-American university that offers intensive, transdisciplinary education in the humanities and social sciences. The student body is highly international and diverse in terms of geography, culture, class, and economic background and meets with faculty in small seminars taught in English. An emphasis on critical thinking, intellectual ambition, creativity, and the connection between life in and outside the classroom is a fundamental feature. Qualifying students can earn both an American and a German BA degree.
EHCN Representative: Bard College Berlin Janina Schabig is a Lecturer and the Technical Manager for Audiovisual Media at Bard College Berlin. She facilitates student productions and leads workshops in photo, video and sound design and teaches an Introduction to Filmmaking class at the college. Agata Lisiak is Associate Professor of Migration Studies and Academic Director of the Internship Program at Bard College Berlin. She works at the intersections of migration studies, urban sociology, visual cultures, and gender studies, and has published internationally on urban girlhood, migrant motherhood, migrant femininities, cultural memory, and walking in the city, among other topics, with The Feminist Review; European Journal of Cultural Studies; Families, Relationships, and Societies; City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action; and other academic journals and collected volumes. With MA degrees in International Relations and Literary Studies, and a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies, Agata has held visiting fellowships at National Sun Yat-sen University, The Open University, and the University of Birmingham, and was a Marie Curie Actions fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften von Menschen in Vienna (2013–2014). She has also worked in the cultural sector as a project coordinator and curator for, among others, Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Agata is currently working on a book and a podcast on politics, space, and power.Janina Schabig
Agata Lisiak