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Published Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Humanities
Published Monday, March 19, 2007
Politics

Richard Clarke

Richard Clarke on the future of technology and his new book, "Breakpoint"
Published Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Humanities

Wolf Lepenies

American-European vistas, the possibility of mutual understanding -- with a touch of irony
Published Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Politics
Published Monday, October 16, 2006
Media

Barry Diller

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.
Published Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Arts and Culture

Geoffrey Wolff

Novelist Geoffrey Wolff takes on the Stasi and the NSA through a work of compelling, interrogated fiction.
Published Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Economics

Ambassor William Timkin, with Wolfgang Ischinger

US Ambassador to Germany asks, "Two Separate Realities? The Business and Diplomacy of Transatlantic Relations." Moderated by Michael Backfish
Published Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Politics

Frances Fitzgerald

Redefining the Religious Right: the culture wars within the American evangelical community
Published Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Humanities

Thomas Powers

Writer Thomas Powers discusses how and why German physicist Werner Heisenberg did not achieve nuclear success -- even if he easily could have.
Published Monday, October 1, 2007
Arts and Culture

Mike Kelley

Art critic Michael Kimmelman in discussion with Midwest-born, LA artist Mike Kelley on his work and an alternative logic of modernism
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Fall 2010 Program

Highlights of the American Academy’s fall 2010 program include lectures by noted academics Stanley Corngold, Catherine Gallagher, Martin Jay, and Laura Engelstein; Central Asia expert Ahmed Rashid discussing his new book with former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer; readings by New-York based authors John Wray and Han Ong; an inquiry into atheism and the modern novel by James Wood; a lecture-recital by composer/vocalist Ken Ueno; and clusters of events devoted to public policy as well as to the music of Richard Wagner. The fall semester’s visitors and fellows include Robert D. Hormats, US Under Secretary of State for Economic Business, and Agricultural Affairs; Pulitzer-Prize winning journalists Anne Hull and Dana Priest; Columbia University’s president emeritus Michael Sovern; climate policy expert Rosina Bierbaum; and writer and Iraq advocate Kirk Johnson.

Please download the Fall 2010 Program for further details. We look forward to welcoming you to the American Academy’s Hans Arnhold Center. Kindly remember to register in advance at program(at)americanacademy.de.

Unless otherwise noted, all events begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.