American Academy Lecture at Freie Universität
Inequality, Insecurity, and America’s Democratic Crisis
Jacob S. Hacker
The fundamental economic shifts behind America’s democratic malaise...
Max Beckmann Lecture
In Conversation: Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall
Artist Jeff Wall on his art and craft...
American Academy Lecture at HCA
Indebted Citizens and the Political Development of Private Debt Relief in America
Chloe Thurston
How has the increase in investing and home ownwership changed US political culture?...
Mercedes-Benz Lecture
American Democracy during the Rise of Fascism, 1922-1941
William Hitchcock
Only by confronting fascism in the world could Americans secure democracy at home....
American Academy Lecture at HU
The Past, Present, and Future of the Global Legal Order
Oona Hathaway
This event is a cooperation with the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy at Humboldt Universität....
Mary Ellen von der Heyden Lecture
Writing Toward a Post-Capitalist World
Alexandra Kleeman
“It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”...
American Academy Lecture at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Public Freedom and Private Happiness: Hannah Arendt and the American Revolution
Karen Feldman
What is the relationship between public freedom and private joy?...
American Academy Reading at Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg
Blackouts: A Reading
Justin Torres
Torres reads from his National Book Award-winning novel....
American Academy Lecture at HCA
Fascism in America: Reflections on the 1930s
William Hitchcock
Recounting the rise of 1930s fascist movements in the United States...
Nina Maria Gorrissen Lecture
New Works on Empire, Ecology, and the Nonhuman
Candice Lin
Cross-species relationships, colonialism, mineral histories, environmental toxicity, and non-human living beings...