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

Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 7:00 pm
Arts and Culture
Ellen Maria Gorrissen Lecture
Photography and the Event
Martin Jay
Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley, California
Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 7:00 pm
Politics
Foreign Policy Forum
Development in a Changing Climate
Rosina M. Bierbaum
Dean of the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, Michigan

Generously supported by Daimler-Fonds

Thursday, November 4, 2010, 7:00 pm
Arts and Culture
Mary Ellen von der Heyden Reading
The Lost Time Accidents
John Wray
Writer, New York, New York
Friday, November 12, 2010, 7:00 pm
Humanities
Anna-Maria Kellen Lecture
Telling it Like it Wasn’t: Varieties of Historical Counterfactual Narrative
Catherine Gallagher
Eggers Professor of English Literature, University of California at Berkeley, 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.


Thursday, November 18, 2010, 7:00 pm
Arts and Culture
Guna S. Mundheim Artist's Talk
Two Sheets Thick
Aaron Curry
Sculptor, California
Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 7:00 pm
Humanities
Holtzbrinck Lecture
Florida: A Memoir in Progress
Anne Hull
Journalist, The Washington Post, Washington, DC
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
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, December 7, 2010, 7:00 pm
Holtzbrinck Lecture
Burden of Dreams
Han Ong
Novelist, New York, New York

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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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