The Spring 2018 Program

The Spring 2018 Program

This spring offers a range of timely lecture topics at the American Academy in Berlin, from populism and democracy to white supremacy in the Trump era, from the terror of flirtation to the humanities in an age of disenchantment. Download the Academy’s spring 2018 program (April through May).

Image: GAMA, 
Zucht (Thriving), 2016 (detail), oil on wood. 
Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Michael Schultz

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The Spring 2019 Program

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The Spring 2023 Program

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