Video & Audio

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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