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What steps can we take to preserve economic dynamism in the face of numerous political, social, and monetary pressures? In this year’s Stephen M. Kellen Lecture, Deutsche Bank CFO James von Moltke examines contemporary economic headwinds and the levers that…

Azade Seyhan examines the historical conditions that necessitate the preservation of intellectual heritages through transport and translation.

Roberto Suro discusses the social and political challenges recent immigration poses to polities in the United States and Germany.

Artist Renée Green discusses and shows images from her project "Pacing," at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.

Writer Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House, discusses her currently untitled second novel, which she’s working on as a fall 2019 fellow at the Academy.

Artist, writer, and filmmaker Renée Green discusses Pacing, her two-year project at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, which focuses on the building’s iconic design by Le Corbusier.

Presenting the fall 2019 class of fellows

Roberto Suro examines the challenges that recent flows of asylum-seeking migrants pose for many Western democracies

Former American Academy in Berlin board chairman Karl von der Heyden discusses his autobiography at the Jewish Museum Berlin.

Adam Ehrlich Sachs discusses his novel The Organs of Sense, about a young Leibniz's encounter with a blind astronomer.