Beyond the Lecture: Tricia Rose
Tricia Rose, director the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University, on the resurgence of white supremacy in the Trump era, and the hidden perils of liberal "colorblindness."
Beyond the Lecture: Adam Tooze
Economic historian Adam Tooze discusses the 2008 global financial crisis—the subject of his forthcoming book, Crashed—and about German investment, US tariffs, and the fate of global trade.
Tricia Rose: The Hidden Perils of Resurgent White Supremacy in the Trump Era
The director of Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Tricia Rose, discusses the resurgence of white supremacist trends in the Trump era and what they mean for American society and political life in the near future.
Kristen Renwick Monroe: Third Reich Émigrés and Traumatic Political Change
Political scientist Kristen Renwick Monroe examines two central topics of her ongoing research into international politics and moral choice during wars and genocide: first, the psychology of recognizing genocide, and second, the psychological process by which human lives are sewn back together after extreme political trauma.
Barbara Nagel: The Terror of Flirtation from Critical Theory to #MeToo
With a hint of nostalgia, Princeton literary scholar Barbara Nagel looks back to early theories of flirtation in Critical Theory and German realism to trace the literary–historical emergence of what she terms a “terror of flirtation.”
Michael Sandel: Trump, Populism, and the Future of Democracy
Philosopher Michael Sandel argues that before mainstream parties can hope to win back public support, they should learn from the populist protest that has displaced them.
The Bay of Angels
Writer Carole Maso discusses her war-inflected novel-in-progress, The Bay of Angels.
Beyond the Lecture: Keith David Watenpaugh
Keith David Watenpaugh, director of Human Rights Studies at the University of California, Davis, speaks with American Academy president Michael Steinberg.
Fellow Spotlight: Christian Ostermann
Cold War historian Christian Ostermann is working on a biography of Markus Wolf (1923-2006), the longtime foreign intelligence chief of the German Democratic Republic.
Fellow Spotlight: Paul Reitter
Historian Paul Reitter is reconstructing several intellectual crises within the humanities in nineteenth-century Germany.