skip to Main Content
Apr 25 2023

Europe in an Age of Economic Warfare

Abraham Newman explains how the chokepoints of the global economy have become the battlefield upon which interstate tensions play out.

Read more
Apr 24 2023

Gina McCarthy in Discussion

The former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and first National Climate Advisor discusses how to turn the climate crisis into an opportunity.

Read more
Apr 20 2023

Truth and Trust in Public Health

Harvey Fineberg considers five dilemmas confronting public-health messaging; introduction by Lothar Wieler, former president of the Robert Koch Institute.

Read more
Apr 18 2023

Where Do Novels Come From? Lauren Groff and Lorrie Moore in Conversation with Gregor Dotzauer

In cooperation with the U.S. Embassy Berlin and the English Theatre Berlin

Read more
Apr 18 2023

Friends or Something Else? Alliances in War and Peace

Margaret MacMillan examines the nature, dynamics, and types of alliances -- and the reasons why they succeed or fail.

Read more
Apr 04 2023

Gender, Genre & Pathetic Literature: A Reading

Eileen Myles’s anthology "Pathetic Literature" (2022) highlights the ways in which the “pathetic” has migrated to poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and theatrical writing.

Read more
Apr 03 2023

An Unprecedented Indictment, A World of Political Turmoil

A discussion with "Financial Times" US national editor and columnist Edward Luce, and former US attorney and deputy assistant attorney general Harry Litman. Moderated by Daniel Benjamin, president of the American Academy in Berlin.

Read more
Mar 30 2023

Illiberal Human Rights?

Gráinne de Búrca maps out two recent sets of ideological developments and traces how they have sought to reconfigure the postwar international human-rights order into an illiberal rights regime.

Read more
Mar 29 2023

Past & Future Cold Wars: Lessons for Winners and Losers

Fred Kaplan discusses how this not-really-quite-a-new-Cold-War is likely to shape the international landscape for decades to come.

Read more
Mar 28 2023

The Power of the “Reich” in the German Imagination

John Connelly explores the long-term consequences of Germany’s emergence as a nation that was at once imperial and ethnic.

Read more

« First ‹ Previous 1 9 10 11 12 13 21 59 Next › Last »

Back To Top

Join the Academy's loyal and
generous supporters by making a gift today!
Support the American Academy