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Dr. Amy Gutmann, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, was the keynote speaker at this year’s Richard C. Holbrooke Workshop, “Democracy Support in an Era of Democratic Erosion: A Transatlantic Discussion,” led by spring 2022 Berlin Prize Fellow Michael J. Abramowitz. Since it was established in 2013 in memory of the Academy’s founder, the annual Workshop aims…

How should we understand Ukraine’s extraordinary determination? What affect is the war having on citizens' sense of national identity and historical understanding?

In this talk, Benjamin Friedman discusses whether the next generation of workers faces a genuine threat from advancing workplace technology.

Damián Fernández undertakes a reassessment of how historians and modern political theorists have approached the question of government and the formation of polities during the transitions from Antiquity to the Middle Ages – focusing specifically on the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (507-711 CE).

In this lecture, David Kennedy investigates the current global role of law.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay questions the double disappearance of Jews from North Africa and the history of French colonization in Algeria.

Lawrence Douglas explores how the competing understandings of the core crimes of the criminal state has worked to form--and deform--the emerging fabric of international criminal law.

In this lecture, Michael J. Abramowitz discusses why protecting democracy and combating authoritarianism must be a shared responsibility.

Lawrence Douglas offers a synthetic understanding of law’s response to the worst human rights violations.

Lauren Benton traces the history of representations of “endless war” to patterns of violence in European empires, arguing that various kinds of chronic violence were structural features of the age of empire.