An Open Letter to the Hannah Arendt Center

 

An Open Letter to the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College to reflect own position to racism

Dear Professor Roger Berkowitz, Director of the Hannah Arendt Center, and dear Leon Botstein, President of Bard College:
It is with great regret that we have learned that the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) politician Marc Jongen was invited to give a talk for the 2017 Annual Conference of the Hannah Arendt Center, „Crises of Democracy: Thinking in Dark Times“ (October 12-13, 2017), and that you both have defended the invitation in the aftermath.
In recent years, many people have felt an ever more urgent need to organize and act on behalf of refugee rights, and attacks on those rights are launched more often by the AFD than by any other party. The AFD continues to mobilize against refugees, against Muslims and immigrants from Islamic countries, and against women who defend the right to abortions.  The AFD moved into the Bundestag despite widespread protest. One of its first actions was to urge the government to withdraw basic rights from people from Islamic countries and to suspend the entry of refugees to Germany. It represents harsh neo-liberal policies to cut funding for social welfare programs and has attacked the rights of the working class. It is promoting a conspiracy theory according to which Germans are exploited by international powers, the rhetoric infected by clear implications of anti-Semitism.
Marc Jongen sees his own task as promoting a “culture war” which he seeks to make socially acceptable though lectures at the universities and other respectable venues. To give an example, at his conference lecture he stated: „In Germany we have experienced a tremendous loss of inner security. We have experienced a new kind of terrorism, formerly unknown, in our country, a rise of crimes committed by new immigrants. Also, if it is not politically correct to say so, but it is the truth proven by the statistics, namely severe crimes like robberies or rape, even murder. And the climate in the country has completely changed.”
The facts on the ground are clearly different. Many refugees are threatened by often violent racist attacks, and  innumerable refugee homes have been bombed or burned to the ground. Jongen’s and the AFD’s rhetoric projects German and global economic and political problems onto the refugees, who do not have the power to defend themselves and are given few opportunities to do so. Any responsible engagement with current immigration patterns would begin with talking with and about immigrants themselves, and to analyze the situation structurally and systemically rather than stoking xenophobic fears for political gain.

Hannah Arendt, who had to flee from Nazi Germany, espoused principles that are unequivocally opposed to the politics and rhetoric of the AFD and of any nationalist program that scape-goats the vulnerable. We should remind you of Hannah Arendt’s own words. In her text “We, Refugees” she articulates the experience of Jewish refugees, concluding: „The comity of the European peoples went to pieces when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to be excluded and persecuted.“  The refugees, according to Arendt, are the vanguard of their peoples, because they are excluded from all nations. Even today, their mode of existence should make us realize the need for policies that have become more urgent than ever: open borders, identities across nation states, a new world without wars and expulsions.
The Hannah Arendt Center has now enabled what Hannah Arendt herself had so eloquently warned against: a coercive ideology that calls for refugees to assimilate to their host nation states through punitive measures, threats and rewards, imposing the norms of the respective society where refugees are continuously forced to prove themselves as good citizens by relinquishing their identity: many of the refugees are now asked to abandon their muslim faith in order to be recognized as citizens. This is coercion and unjust, and in clear violation of civil rights that have been acknowledged by the vast majority of nations

In light of these circumstances, we request and expect a statement from Bard College and the Hannah Arendt Center that gives a critical account of why this invitation was extended, and we call for a public statement that renounces any and all forms of racism.

 

1. Dr. Halis Yildirim
2. Arash Dosthossein – Refugee activist – Refugee struggle for freedom, Germany
3. Narges Nasimi  – Refugee activist – Refugee struggle for freedom,  Germany
4. Prof. John Week – Professorial Research Associate with the Department of Development Studies, SOAS.
5. Prof. Moishe Postone – Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Modern History and the College,Center for Jewish Studies, The University of Chicago
6. Prof. Terry Pinkard, University Professor, Georgetown University
7. Prof. Alexander von Pechmann, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
8. Prof. Dr. Dr. Kristian Köchy, University of Kassel
9. Dr. Louis Bayman – University of Southampton
10. Prof. Regina Kreide – Professor of Political Theory and History of Ideas,  Institute of Political Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen
11. Prof. Beate Roessler, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
12. Prof. dr. emeritus Aviel Verbruggen – University of Antwerp
13. Associate Professor Anne-Lise Francois – Berkeley
14. Prof. Robin D. G. Kelley, Dept of History, UCLA
15. Prof. em. Sondra Hale, Research Professor/Professor Emerita, Anthropology and Gender Studies University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
16. Dr. Heidi Salaverría, philosopher, Hamburg
17. Prof. Dr.  Nikolaus Müller-Schöll – Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
18. Dr Andrew Chitty, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex
19. Dr. Daniel Bendix, Universität Kassel
20. Associate Professor Sibylle Fischer – NYU
21. Professor Joel Whitebook – Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
22. Leslie Gauditz – University of Bremen
23. Prof. David Biale – Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor , Director, Program in Jewish Studies, University of California,
24. Visting Prof. Jan Rehmann – Visiting Professor for Critical Theory and Social Analysis, Union Theological Seminary, New York
25. Meryem Cag, Refugee, Member of Trade Union BES (Turkey)
26. Professor em. Heinz D. Kurz – Department of Economics and Graz Schumpeter Centre, University of Graz, Austria
27. Prof. Winnie Lem, International Development Studies, Trent University, Canada
28. Seniorprof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Gerhardt – Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
29. Prof. Dr. Martin Vialon (Yeditepe University), Now: Carl v. Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
30. Prof. Arien Mack, Marrow Professor of Psychology, Editor Social Research, New School for Social Research
31. Prof. Warren Montag, Professor of English, Occidental College, Los Angeles
32. Prof. Susan Buck-Morss, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
33. Prof. Pamela K. Gilbert -Albert Brick Professor, Department of English, University of Florida
34. Prof. Eric Fassin-Professeur de science politique à l’Université Paris VIII.
35. Sima Aprahamian, Simone de Beauvoir Institute – Concordia University Montreal
36. Prof. Robert Hackett -School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
37. Prof. Dr. Rahel Jaeggi – Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Philosophie
38. Dr. Dagmar Comtesse, Wiss. Mitarbeiterin, Exzellenzcluster Normative Orders, Frankfurt
39. Prof. Krassimir Stojanov, Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Education, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt.
40. Prof. Frederick Neuhouser, Barnard College
41. Prof. Bertell Ollman, Dept. of Politics, NYU
42. Leonie Otto, research associate at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
43. Prof. Werner Bonefeld, University Professor, University of York (UK)
44. Dr Nicole Thiara – English, Media and Creative Cultures, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
45. Dr. Gordon Finlayson – University of Sussex
46. Dr Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto – Posdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Medieval Literature, Universities of York and Southern Denmark
47. Prof. Dr. Thomas M. Schmidt – Professur für Religionsphilosophie ,Goethe-Universität
48. Em.Prof.Dr.Herman De Ley – Dpt. Philosophy and Moral Science, Ghent University
49. Dr Laurent Mignon – Associate Professor of Turkish, Fellow of St Antony’s College
50. Prof. Dr. Lena Inowlocki – Frankfurt am Main
51. Associate Professor Franz Knappik – University of Bergen
52. Prof. Dr. Gottfried Heinemann – Institut für Philosophie, Universität Kassel
53. Sally Sedgwick – Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago
54. Associate Professor -Sociology & Women’s Studies, College of Staten Island, City University of New York.
55. Dr. Robin Celikates, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
56. Prof. Suzan Ilcan, Sociology, University of Waterloo, Canada
57. Prof. Dr. Hans Jörg Sandkühler – Universität Bremen.
58. Prof. Andreas Huyssen – Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature,
    Columbia University
59. Prof. Dr. Peter Schrott – Social Science and Economics,  Hochschule Heilbronn
60. Prof.Dr. Christoph K. Neumann – Institute of Near and Middle East Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
61. Prof. Dr. Gie van den Berghe – Department of Ethics, University of Ghent (Belgium)
62. Prof. em. Catherine Colliot-Thélène, Université de Rennes 1
63. Dr Fiona Jenkins – Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Australian National University
64. Alex Karschnia, andcompany&Co, Berlin
65. Asst. Prof. Karen Pinto, Islamic and Middle Eastern History, Boise State University
66. Associate Professor Saadia Toor, Sociology & Women’s Studies, College of Staten Island, City University of New York.
67. Associate Professor Maria Kronfeldner -Department of Philosophy CEU, Budapest
68. Dr. Frieder Vogelmann, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen
69. Prof. Dr. Sabine Hark -Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre -Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (ZIFG), Center for Interdisciplinary Women
    and Gender Studies, TU Berlin
70. Prof. Eric L. Santner – Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies, Professor of Germanic Studies, Committee on Jewish Studies, and the College; Chair of the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
71. Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich -Chair of Sociology,  LMU Munich
72. Prof. Dr. Hauke Brunkhorst – Europa-Universität Flensburg
73. Dirk von Lowtzow, Musician, Berlin
74. Jan Deck, independent performing artist
75. Dr. Mbolo C. Yufanyi Movuh -Associate researcher, Georg August University Goettingen, Germany, Cordinator, PEACE (Peer Exchange of African Communities for Empowerment) Germany – Organiser, The VOICE Refugee Forum Network Germany.
76. Christiaan Boissevain – Trade-Union member; IG-Metall (Germany) Shop Stewart and Antifaschist Activist (Munich)
77. Prof. Dr. Juliane Rebentisch -Philosophie und Ästhetik , Vizepräsidentin, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach
78. Prof. Dr. Sophie Loidolt – Gastprofessorin, Institut für Philosophie Universität Kassel
79. Dr Jacqui Lovell, Leeds Beckett University
80. Prof. Bonnie Honig – Nancy Duke Lewis Professor, Political Science And Modern Culture and Media (MCM), Brown University
81. Dr Peter Skrandies  -Co-ordinator (German & Sociolinguistics), Language Centre, London School of Economics & Political Science
82. Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak – University Professor in the Humanities , Columbia University
83. Silke-Maria Weineck, Professor, Comparative Literature and German Studies, University of Michigan
84. Dr. Annette Ohme-Reinicke, University of Stuttgart
85. Prof. Dr. Michael Weingarten, University of Stuttgart
86. Dana – Refugee – Munich, Germany
87. Prof. Dr. Daniel Loick, Frankfurt
88. Univ.-Prof. Diedrich Diederichsen, Theory, Practice, and Communication of Contemporary Art , Institute for Art History and Cultural Studies, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien
89. Dr. Sebastian Kirsch, theatre studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
90. Dr. Joy Kristin Kalu, performance scholar and dramaturg, Sophiensaele Berlin
91. Prof. i.R. Dr. habil. Christina von Braun -HU Berlin
92. Associate Professor Maria Kronfeldner-Department of Philosophy,CEU, Budapest
93. Elisabeth Abendroth, Frankfurt am Main
94. Prof. Lori Marso, Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, Professor of Political Science, Union College.
95. Tina Turnheim – PhD candidate, Berlin
96. Kevin Rittberger – Autor, Regisseur, Berlin
97. max rothbart -actor, Basel
98. Konstanze Schmitt – artist, Berlin
99. Prof. Eran Schaerf – Zurich University of the Arts
100. Hugo Holger Busse – Architekt und Kurator, Berlin
101. Necati Öziri -Autor und Dramaturg
102. Christoph Schäfer, Künstler, Hamburg
103. Matthias Naumann – Neofelis-Verlag, futur II konjunktiv
104. Bernd Göhrig – Initiative Kirche von unten
105. Prof. Adam Broomberg – Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK), http://handsoffourrevolution.com/
106. Dr. Eva Meyer, Schriftstellerin und Filmemacherin, Berlin
107. Aljoscha Begrich –Dramaturg, Maxim Gorki Theather
108. Jun.-Prof. Dr. Francesca Raimondi – Philosophie, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
109. Leon Gabriel, Research Assistant, Institute for Theatre, FIlm and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt
110. Prof. Dr. Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky -Institut für Medienwissenschaft, Fakultät für Philologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
111. Assistant Professor Yasser Munif, Institute for Liberal Arts, Emerson College
112. Steven Klein, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
113. Nicholas Smith, Dep. of Philosophy, Sodertorn University Stockholm
114. Prof. Dr. Alexa Färber (Dean)- HafenCity Universität Hamburg (HCU)
115. Prof. Athena Athanasiou, Panteion University, Athens (Greece)
116. Professor Lynne Segal, Birkbeck, University of London
117.  Prof. Avital Ronell, University Professor of the Humanities at N.Y.U.; Jacques Derrida Professor of Media and Philosophy, The European Graduate School, Switzerland
118. Assist. Prof. Talin Suciyan, Institute of Near and Middle East Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
119. Associate Professo Eric M. Fink, Department of Law, Elon University School of Law
120. Dr. Metin Genç- Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur I, Universität zu Köln
121. Prof. Dr. Schamma Schahadat – Slavisches Seminar, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tübingen
122. Prof. Dr. Martin Nonhoff – Juniorprofessor für Politische Theorie, Universität Bremen
123. Associate Professor Stefan Kipfer – Faculty of Environmental Studies,York University
124. Prof. Dr. María do Mar Castro Varela – Alice Salomon University, Berlin
125. Prof. em. Dr. Dr. Peter Alheit – Georg-August-University of Goettingen
126. Professor Michael Loughlin – Fellow, England Centre for Practice Development, Canterbury Christ Church University
127. Dr Alessandra Mezzadri – Senior lecturer in development studies, SOAS, London
128. Dr. Ergün Özgür – Leibniz-ZMO
     
129. Raphael Salkie – Professor of Language Studies, University of Brighton, UK
130. Eren Yildirim Yetkin, Frankfurt am Main
131. Dr. Marietta Kesting – Juniorprofessorin für Medientheorie, cx centrum für interdisziplinäre studien, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
132. Professor Elizabeth Dore – University of Southampton, UK
133. Moustapha Biaye – Refugee activist – Refugee struggle for freedom,  Germany
134. Prof.em. Micha Brumlik – Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien, Berlin
135. Prof. Andrew Arato – Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory at the New School for Social Research, New York
136. Prof. Michael Löwy – emeritus research director CNRS Paris
137. Prof. Dr. Ethel Matala de Mazza – Literaturwissenschaftlerin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
138. Hassan Maarefipour – Refugee activist, Heidelberg, Germany
139. Dr. Karen Ng – Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
140. Prof. Dr. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez – Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
141. Associate Professor Asli Telli Aydemir – Research Fellow, University of Siegen
142. Dr. Giuseppe Acconcia – journalist and researcher, Padua University
143. Prof. Walter G. Andrews – Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington, Seattle
144. Prof. Dr. Melih Kırlıdoğ – Fellow, Center for Advanced Internet Studies
145. Prof. Diane Davis – Chair of the Department of Rhetoric & Writing, The University of Texas at Austin; Kenneth Burke Professor of Rhetoric and Philosophy, The European Graduate School, Switzerland.
146. Professor Dr. Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. – Institute of History, First and Second Year Seminars, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
147. Professor Lydia H. Liu – Columbia University
148.  Prof. Howard Winant – Distinguished Professor of Sociology ,University of California, Santa Barbara
149. Prof. Dr. Ulrike Bergermann – Media Studies, HBK University of the Arts, Braunschweig, Germany
150. Miray Erbey – Doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
151. Jeanette Ehrmann, Justus Liebig University Giessen
152. PD Dr. Jürgen Nielsen-Sikora – Hans Jonas-Institut, Fakultät Bildung – Architektur -Künste,Universität Siegen
153. Richard Gebhardt – Political Scientist, Cologne
154. Sofien Ben Rzig – refugee activist, Chemnitz, Germany
155. Ufuk Yildirim – MAN works council members, IGM Trade Union, antifaschist activist Munich, Germany
156. Dr. Alisha M.B. Heinemann – University of Bielefeld, Germany
157. Prof. Dr. Hajo Funke – FU Berlin
158. Dr. Daniel Kersting – Institut für Philosophie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
159. Professor Dr. (emeritus) Lamice El-Amari – Berlin
160. Hans-Georg Eberl – Filmmaker, language teacher, refugee solidarity activist, Vienna/Paris
161. Dr. Eylem Çamuroğlu Çığ – Media Studies Department, Bayreuth University
162. Ivonne del Valle, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
163. Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht – Dept. of Social Anthropology and Cultural Research, Bremen University, Germany
164. Prof. Geert Lovink – media theorist and internet critic, www.networkcultures.org, Amsterdam University of Apllied Science
165. Prof. Alice Creischer – Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin
166. Andreas Siekman – Artist, Berlin
167. Prof. Dr. Martin Schraven, Universität Bremen
168. Dr. Noémi Lévy-Aksu, Birkbeck Collecte, University of London
169. Gabi Perabo, Soziologin und Bloggerin, Frankfurt am Main
170. Güneş Gümüş, University of Ankara
171. Olivia Stutz – Schauspielerin und Theatermacherin, Berlin
172. Prof. Sam Binkley – Emerson College, Boston
173. Dr. Hanna Meissner – TU Berlin
174. Dafni Sofianopoulou – social educator and actress, Athens, Berlin
175. Associate Professor Sruti Bala – Theatre Studies, University of Amsterdam
176. Dr. Mirjam Lewandowsky -wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
177. Dr. Ansgar Lyssy – LMU, Munich
178. Julie Sascia Mewes M.A., PhD Candidate, Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin (Germany)
179. Dr. des. Jonas Heller, Department of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
180. Hasan Saglam – Refugee artist and author,  Reutlingen, Germany
181. Prof Nadje Al-Ali – Professor of Gender Studies, SOAS University of London
182. Prof. Kati Röttger, Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam
183. Prof. Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu – Visiting scholar, Université libre de Bruxelles
184. Dr. Clemens Apprich – Leuphana University of Lüneburg
185. Prof. Dr. Jan Assmann – University of Konstanz
186. Prof. Dr. Joseph Maran – University of Heidelberg
187. Prof. Greg Albo, York University, Toronto
188. Dr. Çetin Gürer – Universität Bremen
189. Dr. Anke Zechner, Frankfurt am Main
190. Prof. David Barkin – Profesor Distinguido, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitiana-Xochimilco, Mexico
191. Prof. Aijaz Ahmad – Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of California
192. Dr. Christian Martin, LMU, Munich
193. Assistant Prof. Uli Beisel -Assistant Professor of Culture and Technology, Bayreuth University, Germany
194.   Prof. Nico Baumbach – Columbia University
195. M.A. Yumin Li, HU Berlin
196. Prof. Dr. Christoph Brunner -Leuphana University of Lüneburg
197. Michael Beron – PhD candidate, Berlin
198. Prof. Dr. Gazi Caglar, Fakultät Soziale Arbeit und Gesundheit, HAWK
199. Prof. Claudia Breger, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
200. Prof. Frieder Otto Wolf, FU Berlin
201. Dr. Patricia Dailey, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Columbia University
202. Dr. Stefan Born – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
203. Prof. Dr. Stefan Römer – Universität der Künste Berlin
204. Prof. Katharina Pistor -Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law Director, Center on Global  Legal Transformation,Columbia Law School
205. Prof. Lydia Goehr – Dept. of philosophy, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
206. Dr. Alice von Bieberstein, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
207. Alexander Alberro, Professor of Art History, Barnard College
208. Prof.Dr. Sabine Broeck – Universität Bremen
209. Prof. Dr. Katja Crone – Technische Universität Dortmund
210. Professor Nora Räthzel, Department of Sociology, Umeå University, Sweden
211. Ingo Tomi, actor, Berlin
212. Fatoş Atali-Timmer – Center for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies (CMC) , Institut für Pädagogik, Fachgruppe diversitätsbewusste Sozialpädagogik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität
213. Prof. Zillah Eisenstein, Antiracist Feminist Theory,  Writer, activist, http:zillaheisenstein.wordpress.com, Ithaca College, NY, USA
214. Dr Albena Azmanova, University of Kent
215. Prof. Dr. Mine Gencel Bek
216. Prof. Geoff Eley – Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, Professor of History and German Studies, Department of History
     University of Michigan
217. Assoc. Prof. Lisaberh During – philosophy, Pratt institute. Brooklyn NY
218. Katharina Hoppe – Goethe-University, Frankfurt
219. Tobias Linnemann – Universität Oldenburg
220. Prof. Dr. Manuela Bojadzijev – Globalisierte Kulturen an der Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
221. Prof. Dr. Susanne Leeb – Zeitgenössische Kunst an das Institut für Philosophie und Kunstwissenschaft (IPK) der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
222. Dr. Helene Decke-Cornill – em. Prof. für Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Hamburg
223. Nicole Messenlehner, Künstlerin, Berlin
224. Prof. Dr. Renate Lorenz, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
225. Anselm Franke Head of Department of Visual Arts and Film, Haus der Kulturen der Welt,  HKW
226. Moritz Pankok, TAK Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg, Berlin
227. Prof. Arnold Dreyblatt – Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, Member, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
228. Professor Carole Browner, UCLA
229. Prof. Dr. Dr. Brigitte Falkenburg – Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
230. Prof. Michael Harris – Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University
231. Dr. Rebecca Gutwald – associate professor, philosophy and political theory, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
232. Prof. Dr. Astrid Albrecht-Heide – Berlin
233. Prof. Dr. Nanna Lüth – Junior Professor Art Didactics and Gender Studies, University of the Arts Berlin
234. Prof. i. R. Dr. Michael Hartmann – TU Darmstadt
235. Vertr. Prof. Dr. Henning Hahn – Universität Hamburg/Universität Kassel
236. Klaus Walter – Author, Radio Producer, Frankfurt, Germany
237. Dr. Vera Hoffmann-Kols – University of Cologne
238. Prof. Dr. Gottfried Heinemann – Universität Kassel
239. PD Dr. Jessica Heesen -International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, Universität Tübingen
240. Dr. Stefania Maffeis – Freie Universität Berlin
241. Dr. Mario Candeias, Director Institut of Critical Social Analysis Berlin
242. Prof. Dr. Ivo Hammer, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hildesheim (retired)
243. Valerie Smith – curator
244. Prof. Charles Larmore – W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professor in the Humanities, Brown University
245. Prof. Dr. Elif Özmen – Lehrstuhl für Praktische Philosophie, Institut für Philosophie der JLU Gießen
246. Dr. André Grahle, Akademischer Rat, Lehrstuhl für Philosophie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
247. Via Lewandowsky – Artist, Berlin
248. Professor Shelly Silver, Columbia University
249. Harun Demircan, Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt
250. Dr. Serhat Karakayali – Humboldt University, Berlin
251. Dr. des. Eva von Redecker, Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
252. Prof. Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
253. Dipl. Ing. Léonie Droste, stagedesigner & M.A. student in Philosophy and tutor at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
254. Prof. Dr. Jan Distelmeyer – European Media Studies, University of Applied Postdam
255. Dr. Anne Pollok – Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina
256. Prof. em. Raymond Haroutioun Kévorkian – University Paris 8
257. Maan Mouslli -Documentare Filmemacher,  Osnabrück
258. Dr. Ozlem Galip, Oxford
259. Prof. Dr. Mark Arenhövel, Internationale Politik, TU Dresden
260. Prof. Dr. Birgit Mahnkopf – Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
     
261. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sabeth Buchmann – Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
262. Prof. Dr. Dan Zahavi – University of Copenhagen
263. Prof. em. Prabhat Patnaik –  Iawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
264. Neunteufel, Maria Waltraut – Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Main
265. Prof. Dr. Michael Kämper-van den Boogaart – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
266. Prof. Dr. Sandra Umathum – Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts
267. Konstantin Wecker
268. Prof. Peter Adamson – Professor für spätantike und arabische Philosophie
     LMU München
269. Eske Schlüters, Artist, Hamburg
270. Prof. Dr. Christian Thein – JGU Mainz, Philosophisches Seminar
271. Prof. Dr. Angela Koch – Kunstuniversität Linz / Austria
272. Gennaro Avallone – Università di Salerno, Italy
273. Professor Michael Loughlin – Fellow, England Centre for Practice Development, Canterbury Christ Church University
274. Prof. Ulf Kadritzke, Berlin School of Economics and Law
275. Prof. Dr. Christina Schües -Institut für Medizingeschichte und Wissenschaftsforschung, Universität zu Lübeck
276. Prof. Dr. Kristina Musholt – Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig
277.  Prof. Jens Hanssen, Visiting Professor, Arabistik Lehrstuhl, Uni Göttingen
278. Zara Pfeiffer – Munich
279. Moritz Riemann – Philosophy Department, University of Kiel
280. N. Ekrem Düzen, PhD – Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (IKG) – Universität Bielefeld
281. Prof. R. Radhakrishnan – Chancellor’s professor of English and Comparative Literature
     University of California-Irvine
282. Dr. Deniz Yonucu-Leibniz- ZMO
283. Karolin Meunier, Künstlerin – Berlin
284.  Ewa Einhorn, Künstlerin – Berlin 
285. Nina Simon, University of Bayreuth – Germany
286. Aslihan Özcan – University of Bayreuth – Germany
287. Prof. Hamit Bozarslan    EHESS, Paris
288. Nenad Čupi  – Autorin
289. Maria Abu El Haija – Bayreuth
     
290. Dr. Yudit Namer – School of Public Health, Bielefeld University
291. Eva Fuchslocher, PhD Candidate – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
292. Shmuel Vardi, PhD candidate – University of Potsdam
293. Prof. Dr. Daniel Becker – Europa-Universität Viadrina
294. Philipp Chmel, Aufbruch – Politik von unten! / Wien
295. Samer Marash – TU Munich
296. Luca Nitschke – PhD fellow – Technical University Munich
297. Prof. Dr. Stefanie Wenner – Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft und Produktionsdramaturgie, HfBK Dresden
298. Jan Rettig – phd candidate, university of bremen 
299. Benedikt Simon, University of Erfurt
300. Anne-Marlen Engler, PhD-Student, Humboldt-Universität Berlin 
301. Dr. Tanja Ehmann, Fachhochschule Potsdam
302. Bediz Yılmaz, Universität Osnabrück/IMIS
303. Sam Binkley, Emerson College, Boston
304. PD Dr. Verina Wild -Institute of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine
     LMU Munich
305. Associate Professor  Max Weiss  – Departments of History and Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
306. Prof. Francois Cusset, Sciences Po, Paris
307. Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Frigga Haug, Institute for Critical Theory, Berlin
308. Prof. a.D. Dr. Jürgen Link, TU Dortmund -https://zeitschrift-kulturrevolution.de
309. Dr. Dana Mills – Lecturer, School of History, Philosophy and Culture
     Faculty of Humanities and Social Science,  Oxford Brookes University
310. Prof. Dr. phil. Joseph Vogl – Hu Berlin
311. Prof. Sally Haslanger – Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology