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2023
Roundtable: "Art in Public Space"
      Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Places of Remembrance - 30 Years Anniversary
      Boca Raton Museum of Art

2022
PODCAST: HANNAH ARENDT - BETWEEN WORLDS   
    Goethe-Institut Washington DC.
BANALITY OF EVIL / INSTAR      Kassel, documenta fifteen

2021
BAVARIAN QUARTER MEMORIAL - INTRO & TOUR
      University of Chicago College Advisory Council.
HISTORY, REMEMBRANCE & THE USE OF PUBLIC SPACE
      American Council on Germany (ACG) & 1014, NYC - online
SHAPING BERLIN
      DAAD Centre for German Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, online.     

MEMORY & MEMORIALS
      UCSB, online-session
.

2020
ART & TRADE
      online-Seminar, Leuphana University Lueneburg
.
BERLIN SALON
      UPenn, online-session.
TWO MEMORIALS
      Wende Museum L.A. & Boca Raton Museum of Art, online lectures.

2019
ROSIE WON THE WAR
      Panel/Talk, Deutsches Haus at NYU, NYC
.
ARCHITECTURE AND POLITICS
      Seminar at the Department of Politics, Princeton University
.
ARTIST TALK

     Department of German, Princeton University
.
ROSIES

     Humanities Council and Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University, NJ
.
ART AND MEMORY IN BERLIN

      
Lecture at the Beverly Hills City Hall, Los Angeles, CA.

2018
ARTIST TALK
      OSU, Columbus, OH.
BERLIN: ART, OVERLAY, TRANSFORMATION
     Austin School of Architecture, University of Texas, TX.
ACTIVISM THROUGH ART

      Lecture at the Citizenship and Civil Disobedience Conference, Hannah-Arendt-Center / Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY.
ARTIST TALK

      Bauhaus Universität Weimar.
ARTIST TALK
      Lecture at the Brown Center for Public Humanities, Brown University, Providence, RI.

2017
FORGET-ME-NOT: A DISCOURSE ON ART, MONUMENTS & MONUMENTALITY
      Lecture at the Architecture Theory Seminar "Memorial and the Lived Space of Recollection", TU Berlin.
LIFE~BOAT
      Flotilla Conference, Confederation Center, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
.

2016
Können Sie mir bitte sagen wo der Vortrag von Stih&Schnock stattfindet ? / Could you please tell me where the lecture by Stih&Schnock is taking place ?
      Stadtgalerie & Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel.

ROSIE WON THE WAR
      The National World War II Museum - New Orleans, LA
.
Artists Talk
      Center for Public Humanities at Brown University, Providence, RI.

Demo:Polis discussion
      Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

2015
Works & Concepts
       School of Visual Arts, New York City
.
Berlin & Rosies

       Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
.
Berlin, Art & Memory
       Nightingale Brown House, Brown University, Providence
.
Sinergia: Ostia Antica & Rome
       Casa della Memoria e della Storia, Rome
.

2014
Dark Sides of Berlin,
       Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, New Haven
.
Places of Remembrance-Roundtable,
       Princeton University, Princeton
.
Hannah Arendt smoked here,
      Scuola di Architettura e Società, Politecnico di Milano.

Beyond Memorialisation / REcall conference,
       Nordic Embassies / Felleshus, Berlin
.
Hannah Arendt Was Here,
      University of Southern California, Max Kade Institute, Los Angeles
.

2013
Concepts For Parking Lots in Devastated City Centers,
      Visiting Designer Course, RISD
, Providence, RI.
Where is the Reichstag ?,
       Bard College Berlin
.
Who Needs Art, We Need Potatoes,
       Kunstraum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
.
The German Connection: Raft With Stranded Objects,
       Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis
.
Messenger Art - Lecture on Memory & Interventions,
       Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Fame & Art(ists),
       Graduate School of Art, Washington University Saint Louis.

2012
Sesquicentennial Commemorative Project,
       Cornell University, Ithaca.
Memory, Public Art and Social Sculpture - Seminar,
       Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.
Freund Fellowship / Seminar & Critiques,
       Graduate School of Art, Washington University Saint Louis.
Le Monument en Debat / Streit ums Denkmal,
       Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte & Punctum & Sorbonne, Paris.
Liebesgrüsse aus (West)-Berlin / Kunstinterventionen im Dialog,
       Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Erlangen

2011
Deutsches Haus, NYU.
The City College of New York, Spanish Harlem/NYC.
The Humanities Institute, SUNY, Stony Brook/NY.

2010
Graduate Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design,
        L.A. / El Segundo, CA.
Show Your Collection - The Presence of the Past in German Collections and Museums,
        Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA.
Artists at Work in the New Berlin,
        UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Graduate School of Art,
        Washington University, Saint Louis, MO.
Mapping Culture: Textile, Track, and Trace
        Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto/Canada.
Symposium: Institution as Medium / Curating as Institutional Critique?
        Museum Fridericianum, Kassel.
Spectral Traces lecture & ASPECT workshop, Odd Fellows Hall,
        Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences & The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture,
       Cooper Union, NYC.

2009
University of Western Ontario, London/Ontario
Dartmouth College, Hanover/NH
George Washington University, Washington DC
George Mason University, Fairfax/VA
Kunsthochschule Kassel
MICA, Baltimore/MD
Brown University, Providence/RI
UB Department of Architecture, Buffalo/NY
UW-Madison
UW-Milwaukee

2008

Center for German Studies – Lecture/Seminar/Workshop
        Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
The Art of Collecting / Show Your Collection
        Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem.
Artists at Work – The New Berlin
        Oberlin College, OH.
Art and Remembrance – Connecting the Past and the Present
        Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
ILA-Colloquium + Lecture
        Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

Princeton Art Museum / German Department
        Princeton University, NJ.

Keynote speech at the "GerMania" conference
        Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem/Israel.

2007

Art and the City
        Humanities Institute Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Show/Tell 03
        Goethe Institut, New York City, NY.
Memory, Art and Social Sculpture
        Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
University Seminar on Cultural Memory, the Institute of Research on Women and Gender, Deutsches Haus,
ICLS, the Departments of Art History (Barnard and Columbia), English and Comparative Literature and Architecture.
        Columbia University, New York City, NY.


2005

Places of Remembrance
        Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.

Die Kunst des Sammelns - Flick in Berlin

        Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign, Zurich/CH.


2004

Like James Bond - Art with an Assignment

        School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL.

Public Art and Social Sculpture

        Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

        University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Public Space and Memory

        Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Kunst für alle Fälle

        Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign, Zurich/CH.

The Unmastered Past in Contemporary Art

        Symposium Bauhaus-University, Weimar.


2003

Signs From Berlin

        Goethe Institut, New York City, NY.

Kunst und Architektur

        Institut für Städtebau und Landschaftsplanung, TU Braunschweig.

Kunst im öffentlichen Raum

        Symposium der Obersten Baubehörde Bayerns, Bamberg.


2002

Kunst für alle Fälle - Art For All Purposes

        Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München.


2001

Public Art and Social Sculpture

        University of Chicago, IL.

Dark Sides of Berlin

        Visiting Artists, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL.

Art & Architecture – Monuments & Propaganda

        Stockholm, Schweden.

Art and Politics

        Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.


2000

Social Sculpture

        Rouse Visiting Artists, GSD / Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Exchange & Research as Rockefeller Fellows

        Bellagio, Italy.



1999

Reflections on Art, Space and Commemoration

        Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN.

Interventions - On Public Art

        University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (College of Liberal Arts, Humanities Institute,

        Center for German and European Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,

        College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture).

Who Needs Art, We Need Potatoes

       Boise State University, Boise, ID.

Bus Stop und Bayerisches Viertel

        Depot im Museumsquartier, Wien/A.


1998

Kunst im sozialen Kontext

        Basistage, Salzburg.

Kunst im Alltag

        Graduiertenkolleg an der Gesamthochschule Siegen.


1997

Why Do We Need Memorials Today?

        Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.

Überlegungen zu Kunst im öffentlichen Raum

        Symposium an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg.

Two Holocaust Memorials for Berlin

        University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.


1995

Vergangenheitsbewältigung und Denkmalskultur in Deutschland heute

        Goethe Institut, Boston, MA.

The Bavarian Quarter in Berlin

        University of Washington State, Seattle, WA.

Sprache und Holocaust

        Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin und Sender Freies Berlin.


1994
Places of Remembrance

        Rockefeller College, Princeton University, NJ.

The Holocaust in the Arts Today

        Panel discussion, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.

Die Politik des Gedenkens und die tagtägliche Konfrontation

        Symposium "Kultur der Evidenz", Einstein Forum, Potsdam.
Spomen Židovima u Berlinu
        Jüdische Gemeinde & Goethe Institut, Zagreb, Kroatien.

***

Renata Stih & Frieder Schnock were Fellows at the Bellagio Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in 2000 and Whitney J. Oates Fellows in the Humanities Council and Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University during the 2019-2020 academic year.

Prof. Renata Stih & Prof. Dr. Frieder Schnock taught at Bauhaus University, Weimar (2003/4), at MICA, Baltimore (2009),
at
Zurich College of Art (ZHdK), Zürich (2010), at the
Graduate School of Art, Washington University, Saint Louis (2012 & 2013),
at Berlin's University of Applied Sciences (1991 -present / 2010 -present) and at Leuphana University, Lüneburg (2012 -present
).

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