A New Way Forward for Global Cooperation
Development economist Jeffrey Sachs discusses a strategy for a new multilateralism to maintain peace, prosperity, and environmental sustainability.
Making Sense of (and in) Senseless Times
Writers Paul La Farge, Jan Brandt, and moderator Simone Schröder discuss fiction, fact, and the disorderly present
Corona Dispatches
Scholars at the American Academy reflect on the pandemic and its meanings
The Poetry of Painting: A Conversation
A discussion between cultural and literary historian Liliane Weissberg and artist Jo Baer.
Singing to Glaciers: What Iceland Can Teach Us about Grief and Our Common Future
Cultural anthropologists Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe discuss Icelandic glaciers, grief, and, of course, Björk.
Fellow Spotlight: George Steinmetz
George Steinmetz asks how knowledge can shape imperial politics.
Fellow Spotlight: Tom Conley
Tom Conley examines how spatial reason informs a range of documents created in early modern France.
Kevin Jerome Everson on New Work
Artist and filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson discusses his most recent projects and gives insight into his unique and creative approach to filmmaking.