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28 Mar 23

The Power of the “Reich” in the German Imagination

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

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22 Mar 23

Fellow Spotlight: Tiffany N. Florvil

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.

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21 Mar 23

The Curious Case of the Trautonium and the Early Years of Electronic Music

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.

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16 Mar 23

Turkish Artistic Practices in West Berlin

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

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15 Mar 23

Fellow Spotlight: Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza's most recent book is "Liliane’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice," which plumbs the depths of her late sister’s writings.

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13 Mar 23

The Russia Within

Paul Werth discusses a smaller entity within that larger, multinational country ruled from Moscow or St. Petersburg.

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09 Mar 23

Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War

Michael Doyle discusses the difficult compromises over Ukraine and Taiwan needed to facilitate the international cooperation necessary to avert the global threats of our time.

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07 Mar 23

Fellow Spotlight: Lorrie Moore

Acclaimed short-story writer and novelist Lorrie Moore is writing a narrative about her father’s 1936 visit to Germany with his family.

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07 Mar 23

Fellow Spotlight: Abraham L. Newman

Abraham L. Newman studies how European policymakers are struggling to make sense of the “weaponized interdependence” of global trade.

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28 Feb 23

The Future of Water

Cymene Howe considers the direct connections between melting Arctic ice and the plight of coastal cities.

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