ONLINE: Nina Maria Gorrissen Lecture
Why Did the Uighurs Become Buddhist?
Johan Elverskog explores the Uighurs’ conversion in the larger context of Eurasian geopolitics and the contemporary messianic belief that the end of the Dharma was nigh....
ONLINE: Gerhard Casper Lecture
The Imperial Roots of Modern Greece
When did the Greeks become Greek?...
Head-to-Head: A Meeting of Inspired Minds
The Constitutional Foundation of Inequality in the United States
Bertrall Ross and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser examine how the framers of the U.S. Constitution to politically disempowered the poor....
U.S. Embassy Literature Series
A Reading from “The Rib King”
A reading and Q&A with novelist Ladee Hubbard, who will read from her most recent novel, The Rib King....
ONLINE: Mary Ellen von der Heyden Reading
The Descendants: A Novel
Ladee Hubbard reads from her novel-in-progress, "The Descendants," and discusses the heart of the matter....
ONLINE: Head-to-Head: A Meeting of Inspired Minds
America’s Black Queer History
In the 1880s, a formerly enslaved Black American, William Dorsey Swann, became the earliest-known self-described “drag queen."...
ONLINE: American Academy Digital Book Presentation
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Writer Anthony Doerr reads from his new novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, followed by a Q&A....
ONLINE: Kurt Viermetz Lecture
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance
Eswar Prasad predicts that the era of cash is drawing to an end....
ONLINE: Airbus Lecture
China Africa Encounters: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Realities
Helen Siu explores the crucial layers of maritime historical connections across Asia....
ONLINE: Berthold Leibinger Lecture
The Fifteenth Amendment and the Constitutionalization of Democratic Self-Governance in the United States
Bertrall Ross traces two centuries of English and American political thought that culminated in the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment (1869)....