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Published Thursday, April 22, 2010
Humanities

Janet Gezari

Literary historian and Siemens Fellow Janet Gezari looks at the late work of Vladimir Nabokov and asks what makes the master's late aesthetic hang together with his earlier novels.
Published Thursday, April 15, 2010
Arts and Culture

Joan La Barbara

Experimental composer and extended vocalist Joan La Barbara reflects upon a life in contemporary music and shares a haunting recording of recent work.
Published Thursday, March 25, 2010
Humanities

Kati Marton

Kati Marton, journalist and author of The Great Escape and, most recently, Enemies of the People, discusses both the story of Budapest's 20th century genius exiles and her own family's experience under communist Hungary.
Published Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Social Sciences

Alexander Star

Winning "hearts and minds" is not just an exercise in military might, says Alexander Star. Academic understanding must help soldiers figure out the internal terrain of the foreign.
Published Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Humanities

The Berlin Journal on NPR Berlin (Spring 2010)

The Berlin Journal on NPR Berlin and NPR Worldwide (airdates March 20 & 22) features interviews with Fellows historian Joel Harrington, novelist Francisco Goldman, and Charles Marsh, a professor of religious studies.
Published Friday, March 12, 2010
Humanities

Charles Marsh

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's time in America, says Charles Marsh, changed his life and thought forever, bringing the German theologian from the "phraseological to the real."
Published Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Economics

Paul Volcker

Former hairman of the United States Federal Reserve and current chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Paul Volcker, speaks at Schloss Bellevue as the Academy's Richard von Weizsäcker Distinguished Visitor.
Published Thursday, March 4, 2010
Politics

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.
Published Thursday, March 4, 2010
Arts and Culture

A Conversation with Donald Runnicles

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.
Published Friday, February 26, 2010
Arts and Culture

Frank Langella

Actor Frank Langella sits down with the Academy's Executive Director to talk stage, screen, and the apparent ease of art done well.
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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.