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Current Affairs in the United States: Coalitions and Conflict Series

Europe and the United States in the Shadow of War

Michael Kimmage

Historian Michael Kimmage in discussion with Oleksii Makeiev, Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany....

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Special Event at the Hertie School

Honorary Doctorate for Arnold Schwarzenegger

Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger receives an honorary doctorate...

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Richard C. Holbrooke Lecture

Origins of the War in Ukraine

Michael Kimmage

Why the war started and how its origins have influenced its course....

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John W. Kluge Film Screening

Life is a Comedy, Not a Drama

Jenji Kohan

Famed TV producer Jenji Kohan interrogates the comedic-dramatic divide...

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26 Sep 24

Inaugural Berthold Beitz Lecture

A Wiser World: The Global Quest for Good Judgement

Zachary Shore

Zachary Shore looks at the personal qualities, group dynamics, and historical conditions that have made wise decisions more or less likely to arise....

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Gerhard Casper Lecture

Traditional Jewish Literature and Trans Politics

Max K. Strassfeld

Some rabbinic sources counter traditional Judeo-Christian ideas of binary gender....

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09 Oct 24

US Embassy Literature Series 2024

The Unsettled: A Novel

Ayana Mathis

A reading and discussion with novelist Ayana Mathis...

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Mary Ellen von der Heyden Reading

Germany, My Elsewhere

Nell Irvin Painter

Reflections on the experience of Germany and the ways it has shaped Nell Painter's thinking....

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21 Oct 24

Mary Ellen von der Heyden Reading

Inflections of Belief

Ayana Mathis

Writer Ayana Mathis discusses the religious inflections in the fiction she reads, writes, and critiques....

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Please check back in late summer for the listing of our fall 2024 events. In the meantime, head over to our video archive of past events to catch up on the lectures you may have missed.

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