http://www.americanacademy.de The Academy firmly believes in sharing knowledge, which is why it makes videos of its evening events available for download in the Video Archive. Direct from the shores from the Wannsee, myriad conversations, discussions, lectures, and press conferences at your fingertips. en-us © The American Academy Berlin Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:23:42 GMT Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:23:42 GMT No The Academy videos available for download. Sunil Khilnani How did one of the most class-riddled, colonized countries in the East ascend to an independent, global-power democracy? Sunil Khilnani explains the wonder of India. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:06:03 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_cf6284.mp4 Donald Runnicles of the Deutsche Oper Berlin sits down with Pamela Rosenberg of the Berlin Philharmoniker to discuss music and art in the German capital. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:02:33 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_3e2cc8.mp4 Actor Frank Langella sits down with the Academy's Executive Director to talk stage, screen, and the apparent ease of art done well. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:09:42 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_d4f029.mp4 Jeffrey Chipps Smith Art historian Jeffrey Chipps Smith details the collecting habits of one of the northern Renaissance's most prolific and beloved creators. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:30:49 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_0606ca.mp4 Jeremy Rifkin Jeremy Rifkin of the Foundation on Economic Trends teases out the ways and means of creating a more empathetic, global society. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:23:57 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_86a55a.mp4 Peter Wortsman Translator and Holtzbrinck Fellow Peter Wortsman interprets the strange syntax of living between languages. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:36:53 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_d6dc55.mp4 The American and German Nuclear Non-Proliferation Quartets meet for an evening discussion at the American Academy, in conjunction with the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:48:08 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_2ded57.mp4 John B. Bellinger III What has the Obama Administration achieved in the realm of international law, one year into its term? Not enough, says a former Bush Administration legal adviser. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:33:09 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_55d511.mp4 Cicero's Editor-in-Chief Michael Naumann welcomes the Spring 2010 Class of Fellows to Berlin; Fellows each then present the project they will be working on while in the German capital. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:16:49 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_334764.mp4 Ronald D. Asmus Ronald Asmus of the German Marshall Fund discusses the Russo-Georgian war of August 2008 -- and its resonating consequences. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:12:46 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_5760e1.mp4 Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Daimler Fellow Benjamin Buchloh dissects the early work of Gerhard Richter to flesh out the ways in which the artist confronted the German culture of disavowal. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:09:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_5be695.mp4 Michael Queenland Artist Michael Queenland talks about his work and how the world of everyday objects is imbued with meaning from America's religious past. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:57:35 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_23190a.mp4 Susan Howe Poet Susan Howe discusses her fascination with exodus and immigration, Jonathan Edwards' of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Emily Dickinson's envelopes. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:50:52 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_c51d99.mp4 Jochen Hellbeck German Transatlantic Fellow Jochen Hellbeck discusses the ideological facets of Soviet-German representation throughout the Battle of Stalingrad. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:25:48 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_3ea2ca.mp4 The US Ambassador to Germany delivers a major foreign policy address at the American Academy in Berlin, addressing issues ranging from Afghanistan to nonproliferation, and from Iran to global climate change. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:45:09 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_d28e58.mp4 Leonard Barkan Why has taste been relegated to the lower rungs of the aesthetic order, even though food, drink, and feasting have forever played a role in art and literature? Princeton's Leonard Barkan hungers for an explanation. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:39:53 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_003d16.mp4 The "Berlin Journal" on NPR Berlin and NPR Worldwide (airdates Nov. 14 & 16) features interviews with fall 2009 Fellows historian Mary Sarotte, novelist Nathan Englander, art critic Benjamin Buchloh, and journalist George Packer. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:23:22 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_ca3031.mp4 Parag Khanna Parag Khanna talks about multipolarity in international relations and how the emerging global order looks a lot like it did in the Middle Ages. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:11:40 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_5b6c64.mp4 Philip Zelikow Philip Zelikow, Director of the 9/11 Commission and Axel Springer Fellow at the Academy this fall, says we are at a new entry point in world history. How did America help us get here? Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:29:33 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_340380.mp4 Laura Secor Journalist Laura Secor details the recent suppression of the post-election Mousavi opposition in Iran and the intellectual roots of the detention, torture, and forced confessions hoisted upon civil leaders over the preceding decades. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:46:27 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_916500.mp4 George Packer American exceptionalism has run into some problems, not least and most recently in Afghanistan. Holtzbrinck Fellow George Packer explains what's been ailing Uncle Sam. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:57:13 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_1c1387.mp4 Nathan Englander Writer Nathan Englander reads from his new translation of the Haggedah, his novel The Ministry of Special Cases, and opines on the malleability of historical narratives. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:34:39 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_2cb5a8.mp4 Liaquat Ahamed What can the Great Depression teach the world financial community about the most recent recession and how to avoid another? David Rubenstein Distinguished Visitor Liaquat Ahamed explains. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:02:43 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_8bbde0.mp4 Thomas Friedman, author of Hot, Flat, and Crowded, discusses how the combination of the recession and global warming will create the new Green Revolution. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:10:31 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_78b18b.mp4 Rick Atkinson Four-time Pulitzer-winning historian Rick Atkinson, a fall 2009 Axel Springer Fellow, discusses the last stages of World War II and the craft of constructing historical narrative. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:23:21 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_966cc8.mp4 With the German elections on the horizon, John Vinocur, columnist at the International Herald Tribune, frets that not nearly enough change is on the horizon. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:50:35 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_2ec7b9.mp4 Antonin Scalia US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a fall 2009 Lloyd Cutler Distinguished Visitor, addresses the ways in which globalization affects national sovereignty and democratic choice. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:14:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_590109.mp4 The 2009 Fall Fellows presentation, with introductory remarks by US Ambassador Philip D. Murphy and keynote speech by Joshcka Fischer. Each Fellow then presents his or her Academy project. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:53:33 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_5ec2d7.mp4 This second "Berlin Journal" radio show, which aired on NPR Berlin on June 27 & 29, features interviews with spring 2009 Fellows journalist Adrian LeBlanc, novelist Donald Antrim, painter Amy Sillman, and art historian Juliet Koss. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:10:31 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_f25d97.mp4 David Rubenstein Distininguished Visitor Benjamin Friedman, an economist at Harvard University, discusses the moral and social perils of the economic crisis in the United States Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:35:11 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_39e83d.mp4 Director of the Metropolitan Opera Peter Gelb gives a recap of the opening of the new season in Times Square and talks about the role of the arts -- specifically opera -- in a complex world. Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:59:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_f6f9ed.mp4 Google's chief economist and UC Berkeley professor Hal Varian discusses computer mediated transactions and the future of electronic commerce. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:43:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_b6f9db.mp4 Mahnaz Afkhami Founder and President of the Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace talks about her work for the democratic empowerment of women in majority Muslim societies. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:41:07 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_658c9e.mp4 Former German president Richard von Weizsäcker is honored with the 2009 Henry A. Kissinger Prize at the American Academy in Berlin. Speeches by Henry A. Kissinger, Richard C. Holbrooke, and Richard von Weizsäcker Tue, 26 May 2009 08:20:08 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_8b9420.mp4 Daniel Visconti Wed, 13 May 2009 08:56:05 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/Black_Bend_-_Visconti.mp3 Donald Kommers German constitutional law expert Donald Kommers discusses the Basic Law's amendatory process -- with US comparisons. Thu, 07 May 2009 11:42:57 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_367af9.mp4 US Attorney General Eric Holder on "Closing Guantanamo," a lecture delivered at the American Academy in Berlin in association with the US Embassy. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:07:26 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_1fddae.mp4 Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. Harvey Mansfield argues that the Platonic-Aristotelian notion of thumos, a part of the soul concerned with self-impoortance and self-defense, provides a better way to understand what politics does -- and what political science should be doing. Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:08:49 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_ea1114.mp4 The American Academy and NPR have created "The Berlin Journal," featuring interviews with Fellows, Distinguished Visitors, and friends. This edition features film historian Edward Dimmendberg, composer Daniel Visconti, and Russia expert Angela Stent. Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:02:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_df38e2.mp4 Juliet Koss analyzes a variety of artistic practices at the beginning of the Soviet Union and finds construction a vast and sprawling concern. Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:40:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_f2618f.mp4 Devin Fore Devin Fore explores the paradoxes of post-humanism in Russian and German theater of the 1920s and 30s. Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:59:52 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_5f726c.mp4 Susan Pedersen Susan Pedersen discusses how getting out from under British rule and League of Nation mandate status involved in Iraq in massive diplomatic hurdles and with a broad cast of players. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:30:10 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_942091.mp4 Walter Pincus Veteran Washington Post journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Walter Pincus was at the American Academy as a David Rubenstein Distinguished Visitor to discuss the state of the American news business. Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:00:11 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_1a9c8a.mp4 Professor Fritz Stern, emeritus of Columbia University and a founding trustee of the American Academy in Berlin, delivered the laudatio for Chancellor Merkel before she received an honorary Doctor of Letters from The New School, at the Hans Arnhold Center. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:31:17 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_4921cd.mp4 On February 19, 2009, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of The New School's University in Exile, President Bob Kerrey presented German chancellor Angela Merkel with an honorary Doctor of Letters. Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:44:17 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_07773d.mp4 Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution and Richard von Weizsäcker Distinguished Visitor, addresses some next steps in the West's relations with Russia. Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:17:05 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_881a44.mp4 New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell argues in his new book, Outliers, that success in a variety of fields does not just come from talent. Rather, it comes from a conflation of conditions, culture, and opportunities. Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:39:13 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_45514b.mp4 New York Times chief art critic, Michael Kimmelman, introduces the spring 2009 group of fellows, followed by a short presentation by each on their Academy projects. Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:02:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_59299d.mp4 Stephen Breyer The Honorable Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, delivers the inaugural Lloyd Cutler lecture at the Hans Arnhold Center. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:14:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_1431e7.mp4 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/Stephen.Breyer.mp3 Heide Fehrenbach Fall 2008 Haniel Fellow Heide Fehrenbach discusses the role of interracial, international adoption after the Second World War. Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:21:34 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_d92989.mp4 Joel Agee Joel Agee reads from his memoir In the House of My Fear. Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:16:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_3b5727.mp4 Angela Stent Russia expert and George H.W. Bush/Axel Springer Fellow Angela Stent discusses the ways and means of Putin, Medvedev, and the new Russian confidence. Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:40:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_56e61b.mp4 Historian David Sabean, German Transatlantic Fellow at the Academy in fall 2008, has long focused on familial relations -- how they have altered and thereby thrown some relationships into the realm of the taboo. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:42:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_a3ef03.mp4 Parag Khanna, director of the Global Governance Initiative at the New America Foundation, speaks about multi-Americanism, shared global challenges, and saying goodbye to the 1990s. Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:26:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_fe20fa.mp4 From the Sex Pistols and the British to design and "Shallow 1-21," his new video-sound exhibit at Scheibler Mitte gallery, godfather of punk Malcolm McLaren lets loose. Jo Groebel, a German media expert, braves the waters as moderator. Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:10:36 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_a81a1e.mp4 Juliet Floyd How can mathematics be beautiful? While some philosophers have held that "soft" descriptors should be kept out of the field, Juliet Floyd finds both math and aesthetics cross over in the realms of thinking machines and conceptual art. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:41:56 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_be15df.mp4 Patty Chang An excerpt from Patty Chang's lecture Touch Would, on October 22, 2008, where she discusses her work on Walter Benjamin, Anna-Mae Wong, and Shangri-La Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:04:18 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_07f2dd.mp4 Historian Simon Schama discusses both sides of the current American election -- and in which ways the polarities between high and low politics are nothing new to Presidential campaigns. Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:35:48 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_d979d6.mp4 Kenneth Pollack David Rubenstein Foreign Policy Distinguished Visitor Kenneth Pollack discusses how and why Western, particularly US, involvement in the Middle East will look quite the same as it has -- for years to come. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:33:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_dff067.mp4 Globalization advocate Jagdish Bahgwati of Columbia University argues that the changes free trade initiates outweigh -- and contradict -- the social protests they so often elicit. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:32:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_bfc67a.mp4 At the Hans Arnhold Center on June 5 students and professors from the Curtis Institute of Music, in Philadelphia, performed works by Frideric Handel, Robert Schumann, and Leonard Bernstein, a Curtis alumnus. Paramount were selections from Bernstein's 1956 comic operetta, "Candide," based on Voltaire's 1759 satirical novella. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:54:59 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_afab1b.mp4 Ben Heineman argues that there is only one way for companies to avoid the failures that result from cutting corners and fudging numbers: CEOs must create a business culture of integrity through exemplary leadership and transparency. Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:01:35 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_27da68.mp4 How did the National Socialists conceive of the role of international law? Moreover, how did they view Germany's own participation, or lack thereof, in extant international legal agreements of 1933? Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:20:41 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_a345fd.mp4 Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman worries that income inequality in America has destroyed the middle class of his 1950s childhood. American movement-conservatives, he argues, are in large part to blame. Thu, 22 May 2008 15:14:53 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_3bab7c.mp4 David Denby With the advent of the iPod, Blue Ray, hi-def flatscreens, and the increasing need for Hollywood to pacify investors, movies in America are facing a crisis, says the New Yorker's film critic David Denby. A happy ending, he fears, is not yet in sight. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:41:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_086077.mp4 How would a victory in Iraq and Afghanistan allow the US to reorient its position in the Middle East from one of reliance upon non-democratic states to one based on ones that have ousted Al-Qaeda and managed to balance Iran's quest for territorial domination? Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:23:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_eb76f4.mp4 Tom Daschle Co-chair of Barack Obama's presidential campaign and former South Dakota Senator, Thomas Daschle, spoke about climate change, alternative energy, and a US-German partnership that leads with energy efficiency and alternatives. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:30:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_992e1e.mp4 Daniel Mendelsohn Growing up on Long Island, Daniel Mendelsohn was interested in genealogy. His resemblance to a great-uncle who perished in WWII took him later on a chilling, often hilarious romp around the world in search of relatives of Uncle Shmiel. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:18:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_f47642.mp4 Former Ambassador to Afghanistan Robert P. Finn addressed an audience that included the Afghan, Iranian, and Moroccan Ambassadors, and the Afghan Minister of Education, on the present and future of Afghanistan and his experience there. Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:46:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_0a6789.mp4 Anne Applebaum Washington Post columnist and historian Anne Applebaum talks about where Russia and Vladimir Putin are heading, what they are doing, and why the West endures it -- all just days before an election that put Mr. Medvedev in power. Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:33:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_cfd522.mp4 Steven Simon Could Palestine, given enough economic might on loan from the world community, become the next supermetropolis? Steve Simon of the Council on Foreign Relations -- and the RAND Corporation's Arc Plan -- thinks it can. Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:44:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_9e602a.mp4 The US Central Intelligence Agency and the office of the President have most often had a contentious relationship since the agency was founded, says New York Times reporter Tim Weiner. And that to the country's peril. Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:37:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_baf670.mp4 Art historian Elizabeth Sears looks at the legacy of Aby Warburg, some outstanding achievements of his institute, and his passion for reimagining how images are read. Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:04:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_c95e34.mp4 Mitch Epstein Photographer and Spring 2008 Guna S. Mundheim Fellow Mitch Epstein traveled across America to survey the industrial landscape -- and shine a spotlight on relations between power and the people. Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:58:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_58c64a.mp4 John Rockwell Former New York Times cultural correspondent and Distinguished Visitor at the Academy John Rockwell, long an aficionado of Berlin, speaks of his standing fascination with the German capital, its literature, and, "ganz besonders," its music. Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:49:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_a83cf5.mp4 Economist Robert Reich discusses emergent technologies and economic growth in the American and global economy in his new book, Supercapitalism. Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:37:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_f3aa72.mp4 Jason Scott Johnston Jason Scott Johnston's controversial talk on some general perceptions of how serious global climate change is, what the media report about its advance, and what exactly environmental realists should be doing about it. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:30:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_733830.mp4 Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan, Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel delivered a November 19, 2007 address at the American Academy in Berlin. Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:38:45 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/Angela.Merkel.mp3 On the occassion of the 60th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, German chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the history and future perspectives of the transatlantic union -- and the pressing responsibilities of the West. On the occassion of the 60th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, German chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the history and future perspectives of the transatlantic union -- and the pressing responsibilities of the West. Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:11:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_7dd0ba.mp4 Sylvester Ogbechie Art historian Sylvester Obgechie is engaged in recovering both contemporary African artists and uncovering the influence of traditional African art on modernism. Art historian Sylvester Obgechie is engaged in recovering both contemporary African artists and uncovering the influence of traditional African art on modernism. He's also painting a new picture of African art’s reception in the West. Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:09:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_99.mp4 Mark Butler Musicologist Mark Butler discusses the funky ways in which electronic dance music and its DJs complicate music theory and issues of ontology. Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:55:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_1d329f.mp4 Georg Simmel introduced a new kind of writing about the phenomenology of everday life; Elizabeth Goodstein examines how the German sociologist influenced not only contemporary philosophy, but also how we conceive of the modern essay. Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:11:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_98.mp4 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:03:44 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/herf.mp3 Art critic Michael Kimmelman in discussion with Midwest-born, LA artist Mike Kelley on his work and an alternative logic of modernism Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:02:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_c080c4.mp4 Mike Kelley on his work of the last fifteen years, in cooperation with Jablonka Gallery, Berlin American artist Mike Kelley on his new work, in conjunction with Jablonka Gallery, Berlin Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/M.Kelly.mp3 Longtime journalist and political observer Richard Reeves talks of the perils, promises, and predictions for the next American president. Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:41:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_59.mp4 Michael Tilson Thomas, musical director of the San Francisco orchestra, talks about his longtime fascination with -- and then performs -- the music of American composer Charles Ives Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:15:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_82.mp4 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:30:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/070924LawrenceWright.mp3 The strident director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art discusses the myths and realities surrounding antiquities collecting. Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:39:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_81.mp4 A longtime observer of the political game offers a rumination on who will win the 2008 US presidential election. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:17:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_62.mp4 Two giants of diplomacy on the legacy of Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech, twenty years on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:24:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_68.mp4 A round table discussion took place at the American Academy, featuring Executive Director Gary Smith, on the sixtieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan. Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:30:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/marshal.plan.arte_01.mp4 Novelist Geoffrey Wolff takes on the Stasi and the NSA through a work of compelling, interrogated fiction. Novelist Geoffrey Wolff talks of a fictionalized US Senate hearing based on his research in the archives of the East German secret police. Tue, 29 May 2007 09:02:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_60.mp4 When, asks the art historian Hans Belting, was modern art? Thu, 24 May 2007 14:02:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_63.mp4 Have the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq been helped or hindered by American technological supremacy? Mon, 14 May 2007 09:50:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_86.mp4 American-European vistas, the possibility of mutual understanding -- with a touch of irony Tue, 08 May 2007 09:22:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_66.mp4 Lawrence Lessig Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford Law Professor, copyright expert, and champion of open-source software provides a multimedia presentation on the importance of making cultural material freely and widely accessible online. Fri, 04 May 2007 16:58:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/LawrenceLessig.mp4 US Ambassador to Germany asks, "Two Separate Realities? The Business and Diplomacy of Transatlantic Relations." Moderated by Michael Backfish

Wed, 02 May 2007 08:39:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_73.mp4 Chairman of the SEC, Christopher Cox, discusses international trade and finance. Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Christopher Cox, discusses international trade and finance. Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:05:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_65.mp4 The professor and chair of the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago unravels the transformational story of fossil DNA Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:53:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_85.mp4 James D. Wolfensohn Former World Bank president James Wolfensohn speaks about the world geopolitical situation, with introductory remarks by German president Horst Köhler, at the Schloss Bellevue in Berlin.
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:10:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_48.mp4 Who controls the Capital? Resistance to Integration in Europe Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:44:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/070426Posen.mp3 Who controls the Capital? Resistance to Integration in Europe Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:29:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_67.mp4 Writer Thomas Powers discusses how and why German physicist Werner Heisenberg did not achieve nuclear success -- even if he easily could have. Writer Thomas Powers discusses how and why German physicist Werner Heisenberg did not achieve nuclear success -- even if he easily could have. Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:41:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_50.mp4 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:08:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/070609Powers.mp3 Three experts discuss India's future, introduced by Meera Shankar, Ambassador of the Republic of India. Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:43:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_53.mp4 Richard Clarke on the future of technology and his new book, "Breakpoint" Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:37:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_37.mp4 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:31:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/070414_Max_Boot.mp3 Historian Glen Bowersock, confronting analysts of contemporary cultural collisions between Islam and Christianity, lends his knowledge of the Roman world to show that civilizations don't clash, they overlap. Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:05:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_72.mp4 Katherine Boo Framing the Poor: Poverty, Possibility, and the Media in Twenty-First Century America Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:12:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/070428KateBoo.mp3 Vali Nasr speaks about the regional implications of the Shia revival in the Middle East. Vali Nasr speaks about the regional implications of the Shia revival in the Middle East. Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:57:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_58.mp4 A conversation with the author of Everything Is Illuminated Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:17:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_74.mp4 The author of Man Walks into A Room in conversation with Felicitas von Lovenberg Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:36:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_71.mp4 On the occassion of the release of The Good Shepherd, a dialogue between Robert DeNiro and Academy trustee and film director Volker Schlöndorff; guest appearance by actor Matt Damon Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:02:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_71.mp4 The Berkeley historian on tattoos, ideological slavery, and the complex evolution of late Antique Christianity Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:14:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_64.mp4 Amory B. Lovins Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:18:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/310107AmoryLovins.mp3 Press briefing with US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs, Christopher R. Hill, who spoke about the future of the Six-Party Talks and the way forward with North Korea Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:59:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_54.mp4 True Believers: the nature of collaboration and opposition under communism in Hungary Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:50:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_87.mp4 Dallas Federal Bank President Richard W. Fisher speaks about his former and current views of the German Economy. Dallas Federal Bank President Richard W. Fisher speaks about his former and current views of the German Economy. Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:51:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_57.mp4 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:11:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/070106odonovan.mp3 Father Lee O'Donovan speaks about foundational ethics in a global world. Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:42:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_93.mp4 The dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on keeping faith with American values: a foreign policy that works Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:04:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_51.mp4 Redefining the Religious Right: the culture wars within the American evangelical community Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:07:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_69.mp4 Web 2.0: A Bubble Upgraded? Media mogul Barry Diller discusses technology, print media, and web economics with the American Academy's president, Norman Pearlstine. Web 2.0: A Bubble Upgraded? Media mogul Barry Diller discussing technology and web economics with the American Academy's president, Norman Pearlstine. Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:01:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_61.mp4 Security analyst Bruce Hoffman of Georgetown University asks, "Al Qaeda: in retreat on on the march?" Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:01:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_77.mp4 American journalist and writer Gay Talese reads from his most recent work and discusses the writing life Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:36:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_75.mp4 US under secretary for political affairs, Nicholas Burns, talks about going to the UN with a sanctions regime against Iran, among other topics confronting the international security environment Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:02:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/video_raw_52.mp4 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:26:00 GMT http://www.americanacademy.de/uploads/tx_exozetaab/060630_german_identity_special.mp3