Timothy Snyder On Language And “Not-Even Fascism”
Timothy Snyder on Language and “Not-Even Fascism”
Historian Timothy Snyder spoke about language and fascism at an event hosted with Intelligence Squared Germany.
Max Beckmann Talk With Arthur Jafa
Max Beckmann Talk with Arthur Jafa
On December 17, 2018, the American Academy in Berlin hosted Arthur Jafa as the 2018 Max Beckmann Distinguished Visitor.
The Winter 2019 Program
The Winter 2019 Program
Download the winter 2019 program of lectures and discussions by resident fellows and Distinguished Visitors.

Possibly one of the coolest forums in the country. - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

We must fight for transatlantic institutions like the American Academy in Berlin, which forges and preserves the bonds that help keep the free world vibrant, safe, and decent. - Roger Cohen, New York Times columnist and American Academy alumnus

I found my time at the American Academy to be an enormously rich intellectual experience. - Thomas Friedman

The American Academy in Berlin, located directly on Lake Wannsee, resides in one of the most beautiful properties in Berlin and organizes some of the most interesting events in the German capital. - Cicero Magazine

The American Academy in Berlin is the world's most important center for American intellectual life outside the United States. — Der Spiegel

Transatlantic partnership at a high intellectual level, in the style of mutual respect.
— Süddeutsche Zeitung​

Given the temper of our times, the Academy’s role is more important in 2017 than even my husband might have imagined in 1994. — Kati Marton, Author and Journalist

It is difficult to imagine a more inspirational, daring, and rewarding place to engage the mind than the salon on the Wannsee. — The Washington Post

Video & Audio

Fellow Spotlight: Haun Saussy
Fellow Spotlight: Haun Saussy
Literary historian Haun Saussy is working on reconstructing the overlapping cosmopolitan worlds of premodern East Asia.
Fellow Spotlight: Gyula Gazdag
Fellow Spotlight: Gyula Gazdag
Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag is writing a screenplay about WWI German, French, and British soldiers who rise from the dead.
Fellow Spotlight: Tung-Hui Hu
Fellow Spotlight: Tung-Hui Hu
Tung-Hui Hu aims to articulate the "lethargy" of being caught inside digital systems of algorithmic control.
Fellow Spotlight: Rosalind Morris
Fellow Spotlight: Rosalind Morris
Rosalind Morris's project encompasses nearly twenty years of field research in South Africa’s gold-mining regions.
Fellow Spotlight: Priscilla Layne
Fellow Spotlight: Priscilla Layne
Priscilla Layne is completing work on her second book, about German Afrofuturist concepts in literature and theater.
Fellow Spotlight: Yaa Gyasi
Fellow Spotlight: Yaa Gyasi
Writer Yaa Gyasi is working on a second novel, about "the costs of assimilation and integration on the immigrant."
Fellow Spotlight: Alexander Galloway
Fellow Spotlight: Alexander Galloway
Media theorist Alexander Galloway widens the prehistory of computation to include nineteenth-century media.
Fellow Spotlight: P. Carl
Fellow Spotlight: P. Carl
Writer and dramaturg P. Carl is at the American Academy in Berlin working on a memoir of gender transition. 
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