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Mar 22 2023

Fellow Spotlight: Tiffany N. Florvil

Tiffany Florvil is working on an intellectual biography of May Ayim (1960-96), who became one of the most important Black German thinkers, poets, and activists of the postwar period.

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Mar 21 2023

The Curious Case of the Trautonium and the Early Years of Electronic Music

Myles Jackson details the interdisciplinary scientific research that culminated in Friedrich Trautwein’s 1930 invention of the trautonium, an electronic music instrument that could mimic human vowel sounds.

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Mar 16 2023

Turkish Artistic Practices in West Berlin

Ela Gezen on the Turkish artists, intellectuals, and academics who founded numerous associations in West Berlin throughout the 1970s and 80s.

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Mar 15 2023

Fellow Spotlight: Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza's most recent book is "Liliane’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice," which plumbs the depths of her late sister’s writings.

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Mar 13 2023

The Russia Within

Paul Werth discusses a smaller entity within that larger, multinational country ruled from Moscow or St. Petersburg.

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Mar 09 2023

Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War

Michael Doyle discusses the difficult compromises over Ukraine and Taiwan needed to facilitate the international cooperation necessary to avert the global threats of our time.

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Mar 07 2023

Fellow Spotlight: Lorrie Moore

Acclaimed short-story writer and novelist Lorrie Moore is writing a narrative about her father’s 1936 visit to Germany with his family.

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Mar 07 2023

Fellow Spotlight: Abraham L. Newman

Abraham L. Newman studies how European policymakers are struggling to make sense of the “weaponized interdependence” of global trade.

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Feb 28 2023

The Future of Water

Cymene Howe considers the direct connections between melting Arctic ice and the plight of coastal cities.

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Feb 28 2023

Fellow Spotlight: John Connelly

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

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