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Published Friday, March 12, 2010 in Past
Humanities

From the Phraseological to the Real: Bonhoeffer in America

How one short year in America changed a German theologian's thought -- and life -- forever.

When the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer went to the United States in 1930, he was a rising academic star who had illuminated Berlin with his intellectual prowess. At age 24 he had already completed two doctoral dissertations, the first of which was on the entire history of German transcendental idealism, starting with Schleiermacher, Fichte, and Kant, and running up through the Hegelians. Bonhoeffer was on his way to do postgraduate work in New York City at the Union Theological Seminary, but he didn't have high hopes for American Protestant theology.

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Published Monday, March 8, 2010 in Past
Economics

Outlook for Financial Regulation

The chair of President Obama's Economic Recovery Board, Paul Volcker, addresses new challenges facing financial regulation and what the United States can do to help prevent future crises in capital markets.

"This challenge is certainly global," says former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker concerning the future of international financial regulation, "but much depends on our two countries working together to solve the problem." Volcker, now at the helm of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, spoke on March 6 at the Federal Presidential residence, Schloss Bellevue, to an audience of distinguished guests -- diplomats, bankers, and fiscal policy legislators -- from across Europe and the United States. The Academy's Spring 2010 Richard von Weizsäcker Distinguished Visitor, Volcker was introduced by German Federal President Horst Köhler and by Peter Y. Solmssen, an Academy Trustee on the management board of Siemens AG, who delivered remarks on the Academy's behalf. Following his talk, Volcker sat down for an in-depth discussion with Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank, Jürgen Fitschen of Deutsche Bank, and Ambassador John Kornblum, a Trustee of the American Academy in Berlin, who moderated. 

Paul Volcker speaking at Schloss Bellevue on March 6, 2010 as the Richard von Weizsäcker Distinguished Visitor of the American Academy in Berlin. Photo: Hans Glave
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Upcoming
Social Sciences
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 8:00 pm
Knowing Hearts and Minds: American Social Science and the Quest to Understand and Influence Foreign Publics
Alexander Star
Deputy Editor, New York Times Magazine

Winter 2010 Program

This winter offers a new batch of intriguing lectures and talks at the Hans Arnhold Center: Obama and international law; the many arts of translation; Jeremy Rifkin on the empathic civilization; Albrecht Dürer as collector; India's role in the New World Order; Bonhoeffer in America; and fiction by Amy Waldman and Francisco Goldman. To read about these lectures and more, please download the Winter 2010 Program. We look forward to welcoming you, so please remember to register well in advance of all lectures at program(at)americanacademy.de

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