Presentation of the Spring 2026 Fellows
The Berlin Prize
Promise and Betrayal: Jews, Universities, and Antisemitism in the 20th Century
Fritz Thyssen Visiting Speaker Series
Derek Penslar
The Day After the War in Ukraine
Airbus Lecture
Stephen E. Biegun
A Brief Portrait of Small Deaths: A Novel in Search of the Other Berlin
Holtzbrinck Lecture
Maaza Mengiste
Facing Mortality in Gardens along the Seine
Anna-Maria Kellen Lecture
Rachel Cohen
Landscape and Memory
Ellen Maria Gorrissen Lecture
Dawoud Bey
Beethoven’s Ninth at the Berlin Philharmonic, 1963
Charles Haimoff Lecture in German Studies
Stephen Hinton
News
The Spring 2026 Program
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The 2025-26 Berlin Journal
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The Fall 2025 Program
The fall 2025 program is teeming with topical lectures, panel discussions, and readings for your autumn evenings.
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William Hitchcock is working on a book entitled "A Shadow over the World: American Democracy in the Age of Fascism, 1922-1941."
Karen Feldman is researching the rhetorical, epistemic, and affective dimensions of moralizing, primarily in philosophical texts.
Alexandra Kleeman is working on “The Taxon Cycle,” a quasi-utopian novel about monetary systems on the brink of collapse and transition.
Jacob S. Hacker is conducting research on the US Democratic Party and proffering thoughts on its future.
Nora Krug is working on “Revenge,” a collection of visual biographies and reflections on the subject of revenge and war, across conflicts, cultures, and societies.
Ross Perlin is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a research institute dedicated to documenting endangered languages in New York City and beyond.
Chloe Thurston is writing a book called "Investing in America: The Politics and Political Development of an Asset-Based Society."
Jamaica Kincaid is working on a novel involving the Greek mythological figure Cassandra.
Oona Hathaway examines the breakdown of international humanitarian law in the wars since 9/11.
New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert is writing a book about ice ages that conveys the importance of environmental "feedbacks."
Saul Zaritt is working on “Yiddish Trash,” a study of popular Yiddish fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Justin Torres is working on “The Rule of Three," a novel about three bachelor brothers, all in their forties, in a shared moment of crisis.