In this talk, Barry Eichengreen explains how significant departures from the status quo ante led to deeper European integration, and asks whether and how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will prompt a similar reaction.

In her Academy project, Marchand asks: “What does it tell us about the modern historical sciences that we recognize as ‘the father of history’ a figure who has also been regularly vilified as ‘the father of lies’?”

Rankine plans to adapt the transcript of two recorded conversations between James Baldwin and poet Audre Lorde into a play.

Joshua Sellers will examine the relationship among election-law doctrines, electoral structures, policies, practices, and racial equity.

Annette Gordon-Reed argues that it is necessary to reassess the state of the American experiment and to reconsider the idea of American exceptionalism.

Introduction by Wolfgang Ischinger, President of the Foundation Council of the Munich Security Conference Foundation.

How are global ideas of gender changing in the contemporary world and in which ways can "gender" be understood as an artifact of the structures behind the modern Eurocentric worldview?

What might be Putin’s own assessment of his situation and what would need to happen for him to change course? What might the Russia that emerges from this war look like?

In this talk, Dominic Thomas examines and decodes various forms of colonial representation to better understand how iconographic propaganda was instrumentalized to legitimize and enforce colonial rule.

Joshua Yaffa reports on his experiences in Ukraine, where he witnessed the war up close.