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NYU Berlin Glocal Academy
Empowering Sustainable Change & Glocal Communities

Join the first-ever NYU Berlin Glocal Academy to share knowledge, practices, partnerships, and other resources to empower you as local change-makers to develop projects using a glocal lens. Over five days, you will analyze current issues, tapping into the knowledge of experts in fields such as psychology, mindful leadership and spiritual life, conflict resolution and facilitation, media, climate crisis, and emerging technologies. Each day will include small-group discussions, mentorship and training sessions, and opportunities to connect with Berlin locals.

The academy will lay the foundation for the development of your individual local projects aiming to further a sustainable development goal such as the ones defined by the UN or other organizations.

The Glocal Academy will take place this fall in a hybrid format (mixed personal/online) over the course of five days:
September 24–25, October 1–2, and October 8.

To apply, fill out this google form, which asks you to respond to three short (< 250 words) reflection prompts and upload your resume/cv.

Please submit your application by August 17.

Select Past Events

Spring 2021

Fall 2020

• Reading and Q&A with Author Judith Hermann
  Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Spring 2020

• Liberation Day – 1945
  On May 8, Berlin marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe and the end of the Nazi regime. Join a conversation with Prof. Atina Grossmann (The Cooper Union) and NYU Berlin lecturers Sasha Disko, Björn Hofmeister, and Carsten Wieland to explore a broad variety of viewpoints on the date’s historical importance and controversies surrounding the commemoration. 
  
  Wednesday, May 13 | 4:00–5:00pm CEST

Fall 2019

Summer 2019

Spring 2019

• Guest Lecture with Peaches (musician and artist)
  Wednesday, April 24, 6:15–7:30pm | NYU Berlin
  Schönhauser Allee 36 Haus 2F, 10435 Berlin

• Guest Lecture with Gudrun Gut (musician and composer)
  Wednesday, April 10, 6:15–7:30pm | NYU Berlin
  Schönhauser Allee 36 Haus 2F, 10435 Berlin

• Reading with Christiane Rösinger (musician and writer)
  Monday, April 8, 10:00am–12:00pm | NYU Berlin
  Schönhauser Allee 36 Haus 2F, 10435 Berlin

• Guest Lecture with Manuel Göttsching (musician and composer)
  Wednesday, April 3, 6:15–7:30pm | NYU Berlin
  Schönhauser Allee 36 Haus 2F, 10435 Berlin

• Guest Lecture with Michael Rother (musician and composer)
  Wednesday, March 20, 6:15–7:30pm | NYU Berlin
  Schönhauser Allee 36 Haus 2F, 10435 Berlin

Fall 2018

Summer 2018

Spring 2018

• The Psychology of Thinking about the Future
  Book Presentation with editors Gabriele Oettingen, A. Timur Sevincer and Peter M. Gollwitzer in conversation with Lysann Zander
  
  This volume brings together leading researchers from multiple psychological subdisciplines to explore the central role of future-thinking in human behavior across the lifespan. It presents cutting-edge work on the mechanisms involved in visualizing, predicting, and planning for the future. Implications are explored for such important domains as well-being and mental health, academic and job performance, ethical decision making, and financial behavior.
  
  Monday, April 23 at 7pm | NYU Berlin
  Schönhauser Allee 36 Haus 2F, 10435 Berlin

• Lunchtime Seminar with Karl Bartos
  Friday, April 27, 1:45-3:00pm | NYU Berlin
  Schönhauser Allee 36 Haus 2F, 10435 Berlin

To RSVP, please email berlin.academics@nyu.edu

Fall 2017

• A centrist backlash? Trump, Brexit and the Politics of European Security
  Lunchtime seminar with political scientist Dr. Fabrizio Tassinari, moderated by NYU Berlin's director Dr. Gabriella Etmektsoglou. Tuesday, October 10, 1:45–3:00pm at the Academic Center.

• Film Screening: B-Movie - Lust and Sound in West Berlin, 1979–1989 followed by Q&A with protagonist Mark Reeder
  Wednesday, November 1, 4:30-7pm at the Academic Center      
  

Summer 2017

• A Concert in the Spirit of Gesamtkunstwerk
  Thursday, June 1, 7:00pm–8:00pm at Machinenhaus in the Kulturbrauerei, Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin
  Inspired by the Wagnerian ideal of Gesamtkunstwerk and The Artwork of the Future in the 21st Century, the concert will feature musicians from Berlin’s Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, performing works by Purcell, Jennifer Walsh and Peter Ablinger—and highlighted by compositions by NYU Steinhardt Professors Tae Hong Park and Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe. Professor Wolfe’s multimedia piece With a Blue Dress On (2014), composed for electronics, foot tapping, and solo violin will be performed by Sarah Goldfeather, while Park‘s composition Bbb—Big Cities, Big Noise, Big Data will include members of Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop as well as the composer.

• The Trump Effect – Race, Regression & Restoration
  NYU Berlin and Humanity in Action Germany invite you for a public lecture by Tanya Monique Washington (Georgia State University)
  Tuesday, May 30, 2017 7:30–9:30pm
  Auditorium of the Jakob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1-3, 10117 Berlin
  

Spring 2017

• Reading and Book Discussion with German Author Kathrin Röggla
  Tuesday, April 25, 7:00–8:30pm, NYU Berlin Academic Center

• Women, Gender and Media Images of the Refugee Crisis: Germany in Global Perspective
  Radha Hegde (Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University), Regina Römhild (Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and Arjun Appadurai (Media, Culture and Communication, NYU & Visiting Professor, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, HU Berlin) will discuss the ways in which media help us to understand (and sometimes misunderstand) the role of gender in the current refugee crisis, in Germany and in the wider world. How can we place gender issues related to migration within broader geopolitical contexts of violence, trauma and gender? How are visual representations of refugee women and children framing responses to migration? Is the refugee crisis producing certain types of documentation and genres of narration? The conversation will be moderated by writer and photographer Taiye Selasi.
  Friday, April 21, 2017, 5:00-6:30pm, reception to follow.
  Humboldt University Library - Grimm Zentrum Auditorium, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1/3, 10117 Berlin

• FUOCOAMMARE (Fire At Sea) Screening
  Thomas Hailer (Berlinale Curator) and Johannes Lukas Gartner (Program Director, Humanity in Action) will join Dr. Gabriella Etmektsoglou (Director, NYU Berlin) for a discussion of the themes raised by this film, winner of the 2016 Berlinale Golden Bear for Best Film and 2017 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature.
  Tuesday, April 11 at 7:00pm, Kino in der Kulturbrauerei

• A Vision of Europe in Times of Division: Re-imagining the Process of European Integration
  with Dr. Fabrizio Tassinari, Head of Foreign Policy studies at the Danish Institute for International Studies and visiting Professor of European Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin; moderated by NYU Berlin's Director Dr. Gabriella Etmektsoglou
  Tuesday, April 11, 1:45–3:00pm, NYU Berlin Academic Center Room “Prenzlauer Berg.”

• Discussion with journalist and Syria expert Kristin Helberg
  NYU Berlin and the NYU Alumni Club in Germany invite students, alumni, parents, and other guests to join a conversation with journalist Kristin Helberg, a Syria expert who reported from Damascus from 2001 to 2008. Helberg has published about the recent conflict in Syria and the experiences of Syrian refugees.
  Wednesday, March 22 at 7:15pm, NYU Berlin Academic Center

• Migration in the Age of Globalization: Challenging the Concept of the Nation-State and Cultural Identity a seminar with Astrid Schmidt-King, J.D., LL.M.
  Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 1:30-3:00pm, NYU Berlin Academic Center.

Fall 2016

• The Devil’s Wheels - Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic.
  A book presentation by Dr. Sasha Disko, hosted by Dr. Stefan Höhne.
  Thursday, December 8, 2016, NYU Berlin Academic Center, 4th floor.

• Reading and Book Discussion with German Author Judith Hermann
  Tuesday, December 6, 7:00pm–8:30pm, NYU Berlin Academic Center
  
  
• Experiments in the Future of Sound Curation a seminar by Jan Rohlf, Founder of CTM Festival for Adventurous Music and Arts; hosted by Jan St. Werner (NYU Berlin, Mouse on Mars).
  

Spring 2016

• Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History, April 21-July 21. The Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History provides a unique forum for the institutionally somewhat homeless field of environmental history and aims to foster scientific exchange in that field (and adjacent areas of research) in the Berlin-Brandenburg area and beyond.
  This years colloquium includes a broad spectrum of topics ranging from animal production in Germany to the role of natural history in Adorno’s work.
  
  • Find the detailed program here.
• Questioning Aesthetics Symposium "Migratory People, Migratory Images", June 17-18, 2016. Auditorium of the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. For inquiries about attendance please contact Karen Hornick. Find the detailed program here (PDF).

• "Where to Invade Next?" - Film Screening and Discussion hosted by Dieter Kosslick in Conversation with Michael Moore, April 29, 2016, Hackesche Höfe Kino, Berlin.
  The film will be presented by Dieter Kosslick, Director of the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), where it celebrated its European premiere this past February. After the screening, the audience will be invited to join Dieter Kosslick and Michael Moore in a conversation about various aspects of the movie and, more broadly, ways to foster transcultural learning, opportunities for artistic intervention, and the impact of globalization on processes of identity exploration, community creation, and value formation. The event will be followed by a reception in the foyer of Hackesche Höfe Kino.

• "...merely players?": Theater in Berlin Today
  Tuesday, April 19, 1:30-3:00pm, Frannz
  If „all the world’s a stage“, Berlin certainly contributes enormously to its variety of players: the city is home to numerous theaters and artists that not only endeavor to find new ways of expression on the stage but also always strive to engage life in the city and the world.
  For our second lunchtime panel, we welcome theater makers of Berlin for a discussion on the varied theater landscape of the city and how contemporary issues are negotiated on the stage.
  Our guests are Florian Borchmeyer (Dramaturg, Schaubühne), Claus Caesar (Dramaturg, Deutsches Theater), and Steffen Sünkel (Dramaturg, Berliner Ensemble).

• WORDscapes Berlin
  Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 1:30-3:00pm, Frannz
  How can you capture a city in words – a city like Berlin – open, creative, and constantly changing? Can you document this change with words?
  Join us for the first lunchtime panel, entitled WORDscapes Berlin. We welcome Berlin author David Wagner and journalist Doris Akrap for a discussion on different perceptions of the city and how these perceptions change over time, especially in writing.
  In his stories, David Wagner traces the changes the city has encountered over the past years and describes the multifaceted life in Germany’s capital with the curious gaze of a flaneur. He is the author of numerous stories and novels and also writes for major German newspapers, including Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Berliner Zeitung. His new collection of stories, Sich verlieben hilft, will be published in March 2016.
  Doris Akrap is an editor for the newspaper taz and author of their weekly Berlin column. She is the co-founder of Hate Poetry, an organization of journalists against racist letters to the editor, for which she received the Special Price as Journalist of the Year 2014 by Medium Magazin.

Fall 2015

• German Re-Unification: 25 Years Later
  Tuesday, October 6, 2015, 1:45-3:00pm, NYU Berlin Academic Center
  A lunchtime seminar that maps the progress of German (re-)unification with guest speaker Stephan Sievert from the Berlin Institute for Population and Development. Earlier this year the Berlin Institute for Population and Development produced a study of how far East and West have come together over the past 25 years.

• Joint Event with the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk
  Tuesday, October 13, 2015, 1:45-3:00pm, NYU Berlin Academic Center
  Reading by and discussion with Tal Nitzán, award winning poet, writer, editor and a major translator of Hispanic literature.
  

• Reading by author Sarah Schmidt (in German)
  Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 1:45-3:00pm, NYU Berlin Academic Center
  Reading by and discussion with Sarah Schmidt, author of
  Berlin stories Bad Dates and Bitte nicht freundlich.

• Where is the Pergamon Altar? Visitor Orientation and Managing Expectations in the Pergamon Museum
  Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 10:00-12:45pm, NYU Berlin Academic Center
  A workshop featuring Sharon Macdonald (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Jane Masséglia (Ashmolean Museum), Katharina Lorenz (University of Nottingham). Organized by NYU Berlin professors Annette Löseke and Stephanie Pearson. Upon arriving at the Pergamon Museum, many visitors today are disappointed to learn that the famous namesake monument of the museum, the Pergamon Altar, is closed. It will remain off view for the next five years as the museum undergoes urgently-needed renovations. How can the Altar be presented in a compelling and informative way despite this closure? How can visitors’ expectations be positively addressed? In a collaborative project between two classes (“Ancient Art in Berlin: Discovering the Collections of Museum Island” and “Shaping an Educational Landscape: Museum Island”), NYU Berlin students are drafting solutions to these challenges and presenting their ideas to the museum direction for consideration.
  
  
• Film Screening: "Wir sind jung. Wir sind Stark" (2014)
  Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 6:00-9:30pm, NYU Berlin Academic Center
  Screening (We Are Young. We Are Strong; in German with English subtitles) of the critically acclaimed film followed by discussion with the film's director Burhan Qurbani and screenwriter Martin Behnke. With an introduction by NYU Berlin Professors Sasha Disko and Axel Bangert. The highly acclaimed film, which screened at numerous international festivals including Tribeca Film Festival, follows a fictional day in the life of a group of German youths in Rostock at the time of the anti-asylum-seeker riots in 1992. When it premiered at the Film Festival in Rome in October 2014, 25 years following Germany's "peaceful revolution", the filmmakers were praised for providing an important artistic contribution that recalled the darker episodes in the history of unification. The events portrayed in the film were widely regarded as having been specific to the unsettling times of the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Sadly, today the recent, sometimes violent, protests in Germany and all over Europe against refugees arriving from Asia and Africa, and against refugee shelters, suggest that the events may have been less specific to its time than we hoped. The questions raised in We are Young. We are Strong are suddenly more pertinent than ever.

• The Quest for Union: Identity, Politics and Money in the European Union
  Tuesday, November 24th, 2015, 1:45-3:00pm, NYU Berlin Academic Center
  The road to a supranational postwar Europe has been full of promises and hurdles. From its origins as a small community of six Western European states, focused largely on economic cooperation, the European Union grew into an institution comprising 27 states, covering Western and (after the end of the Cold War) Eastern Europe, that cooperate on a range of additional areas, including foreign policy, security, justice, employment and immigration. Some states even share a common currency, the Euro. However, the recent Greek financial crisis and the humanitarian crisis of the refugees arriving in Europe exposed so much disunity among the EU's members that some observers are questioning whether this could be the beginning of the EU's end. Has the European Union really become a union, or did it always remain a community of nation states that might now fall apart under the strain of political and economic disagreements? The participants of this panel discussion are Ulrich Brueckner (NYU Berlin and Jean Monnet Professor at Stanford University in Berlin), Ares Kalandides (NYU Berlin and Managing Director of INPOLIS), and Michael Popp (German Federal Ministry of the Interior).
  

Spring 2015

• Syria: Metamorphosis into Multiple Conflicts
  Tuesday, March 10th, 2015, 1:45-3:00pm
  Syria has been in the news ever since the uprising against President Assad's government in 2011 and has since then deteriorated into a battlefield with multiple warring parties. For this lunchtime seminar Dr. Carsten Wieland, a diplomat with the German Foreign Office and former academic and journalist, will provide a unique insight as somebody who is closely involved in the United Nations' attempts to bring the conflict to an end. In 2014, Wieland was political advisor to the Joint Special Envoy of the UN and the Arab League for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, and followed the Syria negotiations in Geneva. As an academic, Wieland has published widely on Syria's recent history.

• Lesung und Buchdiskussion mit Sarah Khan
  Dienstag, 24. März, 2015, 13:30-15:00 Uhr
  In ihrem Buch "Die Gespenster von Berlin. Wahre Geschichten" zeigt die Berliner Autorin Sarah Khan, dass Berlin die Hauptstadt der Gespenster ist. Als "Gespensterdetektivin" liest sie die geheimnisvollen Spuren, die sehr häufig auch an die deutsche Geschichte und ihre Abgründe führen. Die Schriftstellerin und Journalistin veröffentlichte Romane, Erzählungen, Reportagen und Essays und erhielt 2012 den Michael-Althen-Preis für Kritik der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung (FAZ).

• On the Practice of Walking & Photography as a Medium: Artist Talk with Michael Höpfner
  Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 1:45-3:00pm
  A lunchtime seminar with artist and photographer Michael Höpfner. As part of his artistic approach "art through and as walking," Höpfner questions concepts of perception and thought by exploring "alien" territories and ways of life on foot. He wanders through remote regions on civilization's margins that defy global progress, only to be caught up by it in the end. His photographs of Western China and Central Asia document experiences of space and time that eradicate both the images of the "exotic" modeled by western colonialism and idealized projections of an authentic, untouched nature.
  

Fall 2014

• The Rise of Environmentalism
  Tuesday, November 11th, 2014, 1:45–3:00pm
  A lunchtime seminar focusing on an important feature of postwar West German society: the rise of environmentalism. Our two distinguished guest speakers are experts on the topic: Dr. Ute Hasenöhrl, a chronicler of the German environmental movement, and Dr. Andrew Tompkins, a historian of German and French anti-nuclear movements. Together they will tackle the issue from two perspectives: its rootedness in traditional nature conservation and the new, transnational anti-nuclear movement.

• Greening Democracy: The Movement Against Nuclear Energy and the Emergence of Political Environmentalism, 1968–1983
  Tuesday, November 13, 2014, 6:30-8:30pm
  Stephen Milder (Rutgers University) will present his book project, providing a fascinating new perspective on German and transnational environmentalism as well as anti-nuclear activism in a pivotal period. The talk is part of the Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History series, jointly organized by Astrid M. Kirchhof (Humboldt-University Berlin) and Jan-Henrik Meyer (NYU Berlin). 

• 1945 – 1989 – 2014: Jews and Jewish Life in Germany
  Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 1:45-3:00pm
  A lunchtime session hosted by Gabriella Etmektsoglou exploring Jewish life in Germany during three historical time periods. Our speakers, Professor Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union, New York; 2014–15 Guest Professor, Humboldt University), NYUB Professor Eva Lezzi and an Ernst-Ludwig-Ehrlich-Studienwerk (ELES) fellow will cover topics on Jewish life in and around 1945, 1989, and present day respectively.
  

• Artist Talk with Video Artist Ulu Braun
  Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 1:45-3:00pm
  An artist talk with Ulu Braun, an award-winning video artist explores the field between the visual arts and auteur cinema since 1997. Braun is one of the key figures who have transferred painting into video art and have played a significant role in defining and further developing the genre of video collage. His works have been exhibited in museums and galleries, screened at film festivals, and have won him multiple grants and awards, such as the 2014 Berlin Art Prize.
  

Spring 2014

• Ghost Dance in Berlin: Bittersweet Musings of an American Author of German-Speaking Jewish Heritage
  Tuesday, March 18th, 2014, 1:45-3:00pm
  An author talk with Peter Wortsman
  
• The First World War: 100 Years later – Does it still matter?
  Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 1:45-3:00pm
  A lunchtime discussion panel marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, with contributions from three distinguished historians of the period. Professors William Mulligan (University College Dublin), Christoph Nübel (Humboldt University) and Björn Hofmeister (Free University) discussed the First World War as the first total war, the immediate impact on German history, the “war guilt” debate in histography and whether it is still influencing international politics today.

Fall 2013

Speculative Certainty: Art as Knowledge Production
Tuesday, November 26th, 2013, 1:45pm

NYU Berlin's open-access lecture series curated by Professors Andrew Graydon and Alex Arteaga.

Spring 2013

• Screening of "Berlin – Symphony of a Metropolis" with Live Soundtrack by Tronthaim
  Wednesday, March 20th, 2013, 7:45pm
  Central Kino, Rosenthaler Straße 39

• A Dream Deferred? (Equal) Opportunities for Migrants in German Society and the Labor Market
  Thursday, March 7th, 2013, 7:00pm
  Science Forum on Gendarmenmarkt Square

• Currency Exchange: An Exhibition by NYU Berlin students at the Berlinische Galerie
  Friday, May 3rd to Sunday, May 5th, 2013, 6:30pm
  Alte Jakobstraße 124, 10969 Berlin

• Gallatin Symposium on Ethnicity, Migration & Citizenship
  Friday, May 3rd & Saturday, May 4th, 2013
  A symposium on ethnicity, migration, and citizenship, bringing together faculty from NYU sites in Europe as well as faculty from NYU sites in Europe as well as faculty from NYU New York, to explore how issues of ethnicity, religion and migration are reshaping the meaning and practice of citizenship.
  

Fall 2012


• Lunchtime Seminar with Harald Leibrecht (FDP), Member of the German Bundestag and Coordinator for Transatlantic Cooperation

  Tuesday, November 27th, 2012, 1:45pm
  
  
• Lunchtime Seminar with Professor Lora Viola (Free University, John F. Kennedy Institute)

  Tuesday, November 20th, 2012, 1:45pm
  
  
• NYUB & Humboldt University Conference on Global Higher Education

  Thursday, November 8th & Friday, November 9th, 2012
  
  
• Berlin Wall Memories – two lunchtime events

  October 2nd and October 9th, 2012, 1:45pm
with Claudia Rusch (author), Joseph Pearson (historian), and the Berlin’s Story Project of NYUB students