Program
More than a hundred times a year, the Academy opens its doors for lectures, readings, concerts, panel discussions, and debates with its fellows, guest speakers, and the interested public.
Explore upcoming events
Discover what’s coming up in the Academy’s public program this semester.
Join American Academy in Berlin President Daniel Benjamin for a timely panel discussion of the US midterms
Recasting international economic law in a fragmented world
Writer Carmen Maria Machado in conversation with Evangelina Kindinger at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unpacking the results of the 2026 midterm elections with “The Economist’s” James Bennet
Join Architect Annabelle Selldorf at the Neue Nationalgalerie
Journalist Andrea Bernstein uses the occasion of America at 250 to ask: What is the path back to truth, memory, facts, and historical understanding?
Podcast host Aaron Cohen shares insight into his upcoming season on Mahler’s Fifth Symphony
A conversation with Katie Kitamura about her sources that informed her novel “Audition,” kicking off a new series at the Volksbühne
The future of global technology is being shaped by the intimate struggles of families
Explore past events
Look back on past lectures, readings, and conversations from the Hans Arnhold Center.
The lasting impact of Nazi ideologies on the German psyche
New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe on his latest book
Image reproduction and the Early Modern mental universe
The nature of money, institutional trust, and the current crypto crossroads
Panel discussion with John R. Bolton, Norbert Röttgen, Ethan Kapstein, and Majid Sattar.
A discussion with Daniel Benjamin and Emily Haber on the tragedy of 9/11, twenty-five years on.
Christian Kracht and Katie Kitamura discuss the art of writing.
Welcome the new class of Berlin Prize Fellows to the German capital