ONLINE: Road to Election Night & Beyond
Inauguration Day in America: Linking Washington and Berlin
Thirteen transatlantic experts will convene in Berlin to help you make sense of the inaugural process and its implications on both sides of the Atlantic....
ONLINE: Stephen M. Kellen Lecture
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Benjamin M. Friedman examines how what we now call economics was decisively shaped by religious though....
ONLINE: Nina Maria Gorrissen Lecture
Roman Diversity: Modern Lessons from an Ancient Empire
Nandini Pandey explores the literary and material remnants of Roman diversity....
Anna-Maria Kellen Lecture
James Baldwin: The Making of an American Icon
How did a poor, queer African American, like Baldwin become one of the most celebrated spokespersons of his generation for African American culture and the Civil Rights movement?...
ONLINE: Fritz Stern Seminar in Memory of Sonya O. Rose (1935-2020)
Gender, War, and Citizenship: Transatlantic Roundtable to Launch the Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600
A Transatlantic roundtable to launch the "Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600."...
Berthold Leibinger Lecture
Displacement in the Horn of Africa: Racialization, Migration, and the United Nations
Nathalie Peutz examines contemporary encounters between Yemeni “refugees,” racialized as Arab, and Ethiopian “migrants,” racialized as African, in a port town of Djibouti....
Daimler Lecture
Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence between Text and Image
In this talk, Nora Alter takes a close look at filmmaker and critic Harun Farocki’s early writings....
Nina Maria Gorrissen Lecture
Stepping onto the Pedestal: An Animating History of Restitution from the Napoleonic Wars
Alice Goff offers a novel view of the contradictions within nineteenth-century Prussia’s liberal cultural politics—and the consequences for our own understanding of restitution and museology in Ge...
Andrew W. Mellon Lecture in the Humanities
The Refugee Crisis: Crossing, Cutting and Burning the Mediterranean Seametery
Hakim Abderrezak discusses sea crossings and what he terms “the so-called ‘refugee crisis’” to interrogate the terminology individuals and scholars use to examine this human tragedy....