ONLINE: Holtzbrinck Lecture
William Dorsey Swann, Queen of Drag: Uncovering America’s Black Queer History
Channing Joseph tells the story of William Dorsey Swann, a formerly enslaved Black man who became the earliest-known self-described drag queen....
ONLINE: Foreign Policy Forum
Merkel’s Legacy
Award-winning journalist and author Kati Marton discusses her new book on Chancellor Angela Merkel....
American Academy Lecture at Freie Universität Berlin
Overcoming the Constitutional Barriers to Economic Equality in the United States
Bertrall Ross discusses the intentional decision by the framers to the US Constitution to politically disempower the poor....
ONLINE: John P. Birkelund Lecture
Seeing, Sensing, Feeling: Sexual Subjects, Precarious Lives
Juana María Rodríguez asks: How do representational forms shape the subjective experiences of the life stories we are consuming?...
ONLINE: Holtzbrinck Lecture
Tapped Out: What Do We Owe the World’s Coal Regions?
ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis asks what politics in the age of decarbonization should do about the communities reliant on coal....
ONLINE: Richard von Weizsäcker Lecture
The Origins of Intellectual Property in German Renaissance Art
Shira Brisman argues that sixteenth-century German goldsmith-engravers played a unique role in advancing the metaphor between the creative output of craftsmen and the gatherable resources of the earth...