Airbus Lecture
Living through the Sixth Extinction
Pulitzer recipient Elizabeth Kolbert details what the possibility of extinction means for both humans and the millions of other species who share the planet....
Andrew W. Mellon Lecture in the Humanities
The Afterlives of Gold: Mining and Migrancy in Southern Africa
Drawing on two decades of ethnographic fieldwork and using film footage from a documentary on informal mining in the de-industrializing spaces of South Africa’s gold mines, Rosalind Morris considers...
Lloyd Cutler Lecture
American Lawyers: Defending Democracy and the Rule of Law
Roberta Cooper Ramo argues that American lawyers’ most fundamental duties are to protect the democratic process and the independence of the courts....
Dirk Ippen Lecture
Idling Next to the Network
Tung-Hui Hu explores the weighty dynamics of always-on social media by examining the work of “lethargic” artists....
Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold Lecture
Afrofuturism—The Future Is Unwritten
Philipp Khabo Koepsell and Priscilla Layne will discuss Afrofuturism, black masculinity, German norms, and the influence of hip hop in Germany....
Ellen Maria Gorrissen Lecture
Imagination in Service of Historic Reality
Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag discusses his experience with censorship in communist Hungary, and why he is now working on a film about the First World War....
American Academy Alumni Seminar
Politics – Culture – Identity
In the spirit of keeping the Academy's intellectual network alive, a group of distinguished scholars and artists will convene at Stanford University to examine broader questions of identity politics....
Marina Kellen French Discussion
Art, Migration, and Human Dignity
Ai Weiwei and Gereon Sievernich discuss the impact of Ai's time in the German capital on his artwork....
John W. Kluge Lecture
Democracy and Imagination
Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of ten books of nonfiction, most recently The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia....
Nina Maria Gorrissen Lecture
The Ottoman Wars and the German Homefront, 1470-1620
Carina L. Johnson explores the lived experiences of soldiers and refugees integral to shaping imperial politics during the Holy Roman-Ottoman conflicts....