Ninth Beast: A Quarantine Story
The world is on hold and we are all going a bit stir-crazy. Strange things are happening in a tiny New York City apartment, where a young podcaster uses his isolation time to open a mysterious portal to the afterlife.…
Liliane Weissberg Discusses Three Postcards from Walter Benjamin’s Collection
A presentation by Liliane Weissberg on three postcards from Walter Benjamin's collection.
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.