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

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

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

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

Ela Gezen is working on a project about Turkish artistic and cultural practices in West Berlin during the 1970s and '80s that blends cultural studies, history, and migration studies.

Paul W. Werth investigates the long and complex history of Russia’s border, spanning three continents, from the medieval period through the present.

Has the war in Ukraine has prompted sufficient international support for the evolution of the UN and the broader postwar multilateral architecture?

Cymene Howe brings research in the social sciences to bear on the physical connections and adaptation responses to ice melt and sea-level rise.

Lauren Groff reads from her recent work and discusses historical fiction in the age of fake news.

Fiction writer Lauren Groff is at the Academy working on a novel-in-progress entitled "Doom-Eager."