The Spring 2023 Program

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The Spring 2023 Program

It’s a new semester at the American Academy in Berlin, and we are proud to welcome our fifthieth class of fellows! The spring 2023 schedule of events features lectures and readings on topics ranging from the history of Russian territorial boundaries to Turkish artistic practices in 1980s Berlin, from the origins of electronic music to Europe in an age of economic warfare, and new fiction by Lauren Groff, Lorrie Moore, and Cristina Rivera Garza, among much more.

Download the spring 2023 program.

Cover Image: Simen Johan, Untitled #178 (2013). Courtesy Yossi Milo Galley. 

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