
The Winter 2019 Program
The winter 2019 program at the American Academy in Berlin sees topics ranging from the material history of Islam to North Korea’s nuclear threat, from the Russian origins of laws of war to writing about disability in Berlin, plus lectures by Federal German president Frank Walter-Steinmeier, architect David Chipperfield, Metropolitan Museum of Art president Daniel Weiss, and former deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes. Download the full program, and check event listings to register online.
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The 2017 Henry A. Kissinger Prize
On the evening of June 20, 2017, the trustees of the American Academy in Berlin awarded…

William Drozdiak on Emmanuel Macron and the Future of Europe

Al Gore at the American Academy

Remembering George H.W. Bush (1924-2018)

The US Midterm Elections

Celebrating Twenty Years of Fellowships
This fall, the American Academy in Berlin is proud to celebrate twenty years of Berlin…

The Winter 2018 Program

James Comey Book Presentation
On Tuesday, June 19, 2018, former director of the FBI James Comey joined DIE ZEIT’s…

Remembering Erivan Haub (1932-2018)

Gayatri Spivak at the American Academy

The Holbrooke Forum in Estonia

Remembering Helmut Kohl (1930-2017)
The American Academy in Berlin mourns the passing of Helmut Kohl, a longstanding friend and…

The Global Triangle Project
On May 5, 2017, the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum hosted a workshop entitled The Global…

The Spring 2018 Program
This spring offers a range of timely lecture topics at the American Academy in Berlin,…

Beyond “Wilkommenskultur”

The Spring 2017 Class of Fellows
On the evening of Tuesday, January 24, 2017, the American Academy welcomed its thirty-eighth class…

Announcing the 2017-18 Class of Berlin Prize Fellows
BERLIN—May 10, 2017—The American Academy in Berlin has awarded Berlin Prizes—semester-long fellowships in Berlin—to 21…

The 2018-19 Berlin Prize
BERLIN—April 25, 2018—The American Academy in Berlin has awarded Berlin Prizes—semester-long fellowships in Berlin—to 24…

New Stuttgart Head-to-Head Series Partnerships
The American Academy’s Head-to-Head Series was established in 2012 to strengthen German-American ties in the…

The Spring 2017 Program
The spring 2017 public program includes lectures on the self-contained nuclear "plutopias" of the Cold War,…

The 2017 Gala at The Met

Timothy Snyder on Language and “Not-Even Fascism”

Berlin Journal 32

Katholisches Schulzentrum Edith Stein
On the afternoon of Friday, April 13, 2018, American Academy president Michael P. Steinberg visited…

Max Beckmann Talk with Arthur Jafa

Welcoming the Spring 2018 Class of Fellows

The Fall 2017 Program
From an assessment of President Donald Trump's world to the rise of populism across the globe,…

John McCain Receives the 2018 Henry A. Kissinger Prize
BERLIN—May 3, 2018—The American Academy in Berlin has awarded the 2018 Henry A. Kissinger Prize…

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities

The Fall 2017 Class of Fellows
On the evening of Thursday, September 21, 2017, the American Academy welcomed its thirty-ninth class of…

Remembering Wolfgang Mayrhuber (1947-2018)
The American Academy in Berlin mourns the passing of Wolfgang Mayrhuber (seen in the above…

Remembering Anna-Maria Kellen (1918-2017)
The American Academy in Berlin mourns the passing of Anna-Maria Kellen, who died in New…

Inaugurating the Max Beckmann Distinguished Visitorship
In April 2017, the American Academy in Berlin inaugurates the Max Beckmann Distinguished Visitorship honoring…

New President of the American Academy in Berlin: Terry McCarthy

Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time

Alumni Seminar in New York
On the afternoon of April 5, 2018, the American Academy in Berlin held an alumni…

Panel Discussion: US-German Relations One Year Later

Remembering Senator John McCain (1936-2018)

The Fall 2018 Program
As the fellowship program of the American Academy in Berlin celebrates its twentieth anniversary, our…
