forthcoming: Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 7:00 pm
Politics
Book Presentation
Descent into Chaos

Ahmed Rashid, Journalist and Author; moderated by Joschka Fischer, Former Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany

In cooperation with WELTKIOSK

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Thursday, December 16, 2010, 7:00 pm
Social Sciences
Bosch Public Policy Lecture
What it Means to be an Immigration Country
Tamar Jacoby
President and CEO, Immigration Works USA, New York
Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 7:00 pm
Arts and Culture
American Academy Composer's Talk
The Music of Ken Ueno: Ideogrammic Relationality and the Entropy of Cigarette Butts
Ken Ueno
Assistant Professor of Music, University of California at Berkeley, California
Thursday, December 9, 2010, 7:00 pm
Humanities
Berlin Prize Lecture
The Cosmopolitan Ethics of Stefan Wolpe and Yoko Ono
Brigid Cohen
Assistant Professor of Music, North Carolina
Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 7:00 pm
Humanities
American Academy Talk
True to the Original: A Misunderstanding

Jürgen Flimm, Artistic Director, Staatsoper Unter den Linden
This lecture will be held in German with an English translation available.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 7:00 pm
Holtzbrinck Lecture
Burden of Dreams
Han Ong
Novelist, New York, New York
Thursday, December 2, 2010, 7:00 pm
Humanities
Berlin Prize Lecture
Franz Kafka and the Poetry of Risk Insurance
Stanley Corngold
Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, New Jersey
Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 7:00 pm
Humanities
Berthold Leibinger Lecture
“We Are in the Hands of the Lord”: Virginia Woolf and Religion
James Wood
Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism, Harvard University, Massachusetts
Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 7:00 pm
Humanities
Holtzbrinck Lecture
Florida: A Memoir in Progress
Anne Hull
Journalist, The Washington Post, Washington, DC
Thursday, November 18, 2010, 7:00 pm
Arts and Culture
Guna S. Mundheim Artist's Talk
Two Sheets Thick
Aaron Curry
Sculptor, California
Monday, November 15, 2010, 7:00 pm
Social Sciences
Twentieth Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold Lecture
What it Means to Be an Immigration Country
Tamar Jacoby
President and CEO, Immigration Works USA, New York

Moderated by Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, Professor of North American Studies,
Technische Universität Dresden

Location: Festsaal, Rektoratsvilla, TU Dresden, Mommsenstraße 11, 01069 Dresden

Please register with villa-salzburg@t-online.de or (0351) 47 69 00

In cooperation with Dresden Heritage e. V.

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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.

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