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Program
As part of the American Academy's public program, each week we offer public lectures, concerts, screenings, or readings by Academy fellows, distinguished visitors, and special guests. Most evening lectures take place at the Hans Arnhold Center, but the Academy also partners with a handful of cultural institutions in Berlin for special events: Radialsytem V, the JFK Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin, Kino Babylon, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the United States Embassy, and the Hertie School of Governance, among others.
If you would like to attend an event, please register online, or send an email to program@americanacademy.de. Seating is limited, so please register well in advance of the lecture or event you would like to attend. We look forward to welcoming you at the Hans Arnhold Center.
Next Event
The Fantastic
Karen Russell's novel Swamplandia! (2011) features a cast ranging from alligator wrestlers and a balding brown bear named Judy Garland, to a Bird Man specializing in buzzard removal and rioting melaleuca trees, all narrated by Ava, one of three Sawtooth grandchildren who run a floundering tourist attraction of the book's title. As a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow in Fiction at the Academy this spring, Russell will be working on some new phantasmagorical creations. She reads from her work in progress, The Fantastic, on February 23. Moderated by Andrew Gross, Assistant Professor of Literature, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin