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Apr 29 2025
May 05 2025

Lloyd Cutler Lecture

How the National Security Constitution Evolved and What To Do about It?

Harold Hongju Koh

Harold Hongju Koh explains how America’s national security laws have evolved from a baseline of shared powers to one of executive unilateralism....

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May 05 2025

Holtzbrinck Lecture

In Search of Truth: A Journalist’s Journey

Mona El-Naggar

Veteran journalist Mona El-Naggar offers a close look at her career as a reporter and storyteller....

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May 12 2025

Richard von Weizsäcker Lecture

History and Geopolitics of Global Inequality: The Past Thirty Years

Branko Milanovic

The economic and political shifts influencing global power structures since the end of the Cold War....

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May 13 2025

Dirk Ippen Lecture

Tracing the Black Sonic Avant-Garde

Adam Shatz

Adam Shatz traces the Black sonic avant-garde from the early days of Bebop to the birth of Free Jazz....

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May 15 2025

American Academy Lecture at HCA

Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

Jefferson Cowie

The history of freedom is also the history of oppression in America...

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May 19 2025

Marina Kellen French Lecture

Art in a State of Siege: Berlin, Kurinskij, Nuremberg, 1942-1947

Joseph Koerner

Joseph Leo Koerner presents his new book, "Art in a State of Siege."...

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May 21 2025

American Academy Lecture

The United States, China, and the Future of AI and Global Innovation

Samm Sacks

How will the trajectory of Chinese relations impact transformative technologies?...

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