The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in Times of War
Ian Buruma considers the confused national loyalties, ideological delusions, and sheer opportunism that can lead to collaboration in wartime.
The Breath Archives: Affective Documents, Collective Memory, and the Afterlives of Femicide
Cristina Rivera Garza explores the ways in which her late sister’s personal papers breathe new life into the “archives of breathlessness” that undergird state and patriarchal violence.
Climate Adaptations: Local and Global
Cymene Howe and Sophie Mok discuss the ways in which cities and communities are adapting to climate change locally and globally.
Confronting the Threats of Antimicrobial Resistance
Mary Wilson addresses the importance of understanding the main drivers of antimicrobial resistance and the benefits of interventions from a One Health perspective.
Sustaining Democracies: The Role of Conversations across Difference
Ronald Crutcher probes the forces behind the decline of conversation in Western democracies and the implications for democracy itself.
Europe in an Age of Economic Warfare
Abraham Newman explains how the chokepoints of the global economy have become the battlefield upon which interstate tensions play out.
Gina McCarthy in Discussion
The former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and first National Climate Advisor discusses how to turn the climate crisis into an opportunity.
Truth and Trust in Public Health
Harvey Fineberg considers five dilemmas confronting public-health messaging; introduction by Lothar Wieler, former president of the Robert Koch Institute.
Where Do Novels Come From? Lauren Groff and Lorrie Moore in Conversation with Gregor Dotzauer
In cooperation with the U.S. Embassy Berlin and the English Theatre Berlin
Friends or Something Else? Alliances in War and Peace
Margaret MacMillan examines the nature, dynamics, and types of alliances -- and the reasons why they succeed or fail.