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Jan 15 2019

Beyond the Lecture: Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa

New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen discusses Russia, cynicism, doublethink, and the imaginative powers of democracy with Moscow correspondent Joshua Yaffa.

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Jan 14 2019

The Road to Unfreedom: Democracy, Neofascism, and the Importance of Language

Yale historian Timothy Snyder on politics and language in the age of "Not-Even Fascism"

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Dec 17 2018

Artist Talk with Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions

Artist Arthur Jafa speaks about his concluding exhibition at the Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin

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Dec 13 2018

Another World Literature: New Approaches to a Literary History of East Asia

Haun Saussy proposes a new starting point for scholars of Chinese literary history.

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Nov 28 2018

Masha Gessen: Democracy and Imagination

Masha Gessen on democracy, totalitarianism, and the force of political imagination.

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Nov 26 2018

Art, Migration, and Human Dignity

Artist Ai Weiwei speaks with Berlin curator Gereon Sievernich about his life and work.

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Nov 15 2018

Fellow Spotlight: Carina L. Johnson

Historian Carina L. Johnson is researching anti-Ottoman propaganda in sixteenth-century Germany.

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Nov 14 2018

Beyond the Lecture: Elizabeth Kolbert

New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert on the sixth extinction and state of the biosphere.

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Nov 13 2018

Fellow Spotlight: Haun Saussy

Literary historian Haun Saussy is working on reconstructing the overlapping cosmopolitan worlds of premodern East Asia.

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Nov 06 2018

American Lawyers: Defending Democracy and the Rule of Law

Roberta Cooper Ramo on the role and duties of American lawyers in times of crisis.

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