forthcoming: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 8:00 pm
Humanities
Holtzbrinck Lecture
Talking in Tongues: Translating Others and Myself
Peter Wortsman
Translator-Writer, New York
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Thursday, February 11, 2010, 6:30 pm
Social Sciences
Kurt Viermetz Lecture
The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
Jeremy Rifkin
Founder and President, The Foundation on Economic Trends; Founder, Third Industrial Revolution; author and policy advisor,

In Discussion with Frank Walter Steinmeier, Chairman of the SPD

Location: Deutsche Telekom, Berlin Representative Office, Französische Strasse 33 a-c.

In cooperation with Campus Verlag

The Kurt Viermetz Distinguished Visitorship honors one of the Academy’s founding trustees by inviting eminent American economic and finance figures to Berlin on an annual basis. Jeremy Rifkin’s visitorship will include discussions with politicians and corporate leaders, expert roundtables, and a number of private meetings, in addition to his public lectures.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 8:00 pm
Humanities
Anna-Maria Kellen Lecture
Albrecht Dürer as Collector
Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Kay Fortson Chair in European Art, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 8:00 pm
Social Sciences
American Academy Lecture
The Slum Behind the Beautiful Forevers: An Intimate Look at Poverty and Opportunity in Mumbai
Katherine Boo
Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, New York
Monday, March 1, 2010, 8:00 pm
Arts and Culture
American Academy Talk
A Conversation with David Runnicles

Donald Runnicles, General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; moderated by Pamela Rosenberg, General Manager, Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker

Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 8:00 pm
Social Sciences
Inaugural Metro Lecture
The Great Power Game: India in the New World
Sunil Khilnani
Starr Foundation Professor and Director of the South Asia Studies Program, The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 8:00 pm
Arts and Culture
Berlin Prize Lecture
The Submission
Amy Waldman
Writer and Journalist, New York
Thursday, March 11, 2010, 8:00 pm
Humanities
Ellen Maria Gorrissen Lecture
From the Phraseological to the Real: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and America, 1930-1931
Charles Marsh
Professor of Religious Studies, Virginia
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 8:00 pm
Social Sciences
Berlin Prize Lecture
Knowing Hearts and Minds: American Social Science and the Quest to Understand and Influence Foreign Publics
Alexander Star
Deputy Editor, New York Times Magazine, New York
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 8:00 pm
Politics
Foreign Policy Forum
A Hungarian Navigates the Terrible Century - From Fascism through Communism, a Conversation with Kati Marton about Her Books, The Great Escape and Enemies of the People

Kati Marton, Journalist and Author

Generously supported by the Daimler-Fonds

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