Holtzbrinck Lecture
A Brief Portrait of Small Deaths: A Novel in Search of the Other Berlin
Maaza Mengiste
Reimagining the lives of some of Berlin's marginalized populations as the Nazis came to power....
A Lecture by Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie reflects on her long-standing artistic practice....
Anna-Maria Kellen Lecture
Facing Mortality in Gardens along the Seine
Rachel Cohen
The remarkable reverberations of three artists at work....
Ellen Maria Gorrissen Lecture
Landscape and Memory
Dawoud Bey
The visual weight of the lives that once shaped the landscape...
Charles Haimoff Lecture in German Studies
Beethoven’s Ninth at the Berlin Philharmonic, 1963
Stephen Hinton
How architecture and music converged at the Berlin Philharmonic in 1963...
Stephen M. Kellen Lecture
The Crisis of the Liberal World Order
Martin Wolf
What -- once again -- ails the West?...
Berthold Beitz Lecture
The Future of United Nations Peacekeeping
Sabrina Karim
How will peacekeeping meet geopolitical realities?...
Lloyd Cutler Lecture
Is This America? Requiem for a Nation Lost, Vision for an America Refounded
Sherrilyn Ifill
Can America develop a curriculum to “re-found” the nation?...
Marcus Bierich Lecture
Genocide Prevention: The Troubled Fate of a Post-War Ideal
Scott Straus
This session investigates whether the moral arc of international politics has fundamentally bent backward....
Axel Springer Lecture
Is Culture Worth Saving? Art, Monuments, and Modern Warfare
Hugh Eakin
Protecting culture can be a potent form of preventing conflict and brokering peace....
