Guest Teachers

Whenever needed, and often just to enrich the discussion, expertise is brought in from the outside. ECLA of Bard students are taught, not just by the faculty and postdoctoral fellows, but by a stream of guest teachers who join the discussion for a day, a week or a term.

In the 2011-2012 AUTUMN TERM the guest teachers were:

JARRELL ROBINSON
Autumn Term 2011/12
Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago
AY/BA1 Core Lecture: Plato's Republic Book II

HEINRICH MEIER
Autumn Term 2011/12
Director of Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung
Special Guest Lecture: Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss

TOBIAS JOHO
Autumn Term 2011/12
PhD candidate, University of Chicago
AY/BA1 Core Lecture: The Peloponnesian War

GLENN W. MOST
Autumn Term 2011/12
Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago
AY/BA1 Core Lecture: The Bacchae

THEODORE ZIOLKOWSKI
Autumn Term 2011/12
Professor Emeritus of Yale Graduate School
PY/BA4 Core Seminar: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

CLAUDIA BARACCHI
Autumn Term 2011/12
Professor at the University of Milano–Bicocca
AY/BA1 Core Lecture:  Plato's Republic Book X

In the 2011-2012 WINTER TERM the guest teachers were

JENNIFER CLARVOE
Poet and Professor at Kenyon College
AY/BA1 Core Lecture: Ovid’s Amores

BRUNO MACAES
Senior Policy Adviser to Portugal's Prime Minister
Politics Club Talk: Financial Crisis

THOMAS ROMMEL
Professor at Jacobs University, Bremen
Lecture: Sympathy and Self-interest in 18th-Century British Culture

KLAUS WIVEL
Reporter and Commentator at Weekendavisen, Denmark
State of the World Week: Censorship and Belief

ROGER BERKOWITZ
Academic Director, Hannah Arendt Center
Bard College
State of the World Week:Censorship and Transparency

JUTTA LIETSCH
Southeast Asia correspondent for the taz
State of the World Week: Censorship in China

KARSTEN VOIGT
Board Member of the Atlantik-Brücke
State of the World Week: Forming Public Opinion

HEBA AMIN
Egyptian artist, DAAD scholar
State of the World Week: Technology and Dissent

RICHARD KRAUT
Professor at Northwestern University
Special Discussion of What is Good and Why

MAX WHYTE
Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago
PY/BA4 Core Lecture: Nietzsche and the Third Reich

CAROLINE PATEY
Professor at Universita' degli Studi di Milano
Guest Lecture: Faces and Forms of Intertextuality

DEREK SCALLY
The Irish Times Berlin corespondent
State of the World Week:Censorship and Belief

MIKLOS HARASZTI
Hungarian writer and human rights advocate
State of the World Week: Censorship and the State

CHRISTIANE WILKE
Assistant Professor at Carleton University, Canada
State of the World Week: Silencing and the State

NICHOLAS KULISH
The New York Times reporter in Berlin
State of the World Week: Forming Public Opinion

EVGENY MOROZOV
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
State of the World Week: Technology and Dissent

JEFFREY GOLDFARB
Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York
Discussion of Prof.Goldfarb's book Reinventing Political Culture

BARTHOLOMEW RYAN
Post-Doctorate Fellow at New University of Lisbon
PY/BA4 Core Seminars: Carl Schmitt’s Intrusion on Hamlet

 

In the 2011-2012 SPRING TERM the guest teachers were:

FRANK RUDA
Research Associate in Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin
Seminar on Hegel's 'Who Thinks Abstractly?’ in the Core Course on Property

GEORGE G.GRABOWICZ
Professor at Harvard University
Politics Club: On Ukrainian Politics and the Role of Intellectuals

ANDREAS BLANK
Professor at the University of Hamburg
Core Course Seminar: The Right of Necessity

RAN HALEVI
Senior fellow at the Centre de Recherches Politiques Raymond Aron (EHESS), Paris
Politics Club: Israeli Democracy and the Politics of War

BABETTE BABICH
Professor at Fordham University, New York
Guest Lecture: The Aesthetics of the Between

THOMAS SCHMIDT
Professor at Humboldt University
Guest Lecture: Why lying is wrong (when it is wrong)

GEORGI GOSPODINOV
Poet and Writer, Bulgaria
Reading: Survival Kits for Apocalypses