Video
The Academy’s video library gathers recordings from more than two decades of public programming. Here you will find fellows presenting their research and creative work, conversations with writers and artists, and debates on the questions shaping politics, history, and culture on both sides of the Atlantic. New recordings are added throughout each semester, and the full archive is free to explore.
Fascism’s Lingering: Regime Change and Moral Reckoning
What Theodor Adorno and his Institute for Social Research team learned about the lasting impact of Nazi ideologies on the German psyche in 1950-51.
Moveable Type and the Early Modern Imaginary
Image reproduction and the Early Modern mental universe
The USA and Europe: Between Alliance and Shared Responsibility
Panel discussion with John R. Bolton, Norbert Röttgen, Ethan Kapstein, and Majid Sattar.
From Coins to Crypto: How the Evolution of Money Challenges the Evolution of Governance
Tracing the history of when monetary innovation collided with political transformation
9/11 Twenty-Five Years Later: What We Learned, What We Still Need to Know
Academy president Daniel Benjamin on the War on Terror
Fellow Spotlight: Aaron Cohen
Aaron Cohen’s podcast “Embrace Everything” will cover Gustav Mahler’s Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh symphonies.
Fellow Spotlight: James Van Dyke
James Van Dyke is researching Otto Dix’s interest in visions and hallucinations, ghosts and inner demons—”Dämonie.”
Fellow Spotlight: Sara Cwynar
Sara Cwynar’s project centers around automatons, early expressions of artificial intelligence,
Fellow Spotlight: Katie Kitamura
Katie Kitamura is working on a novel about national history and personal memory, and how the two intersect in art.
Fellow Spotlight: William Burke-White
William Burke-White asks how international economic law can adapt to enable global economic connectivity, even as consensus weakens.
Fellow Spotlight: Andrea Bernstein
Andrea Bernstein’s intellectual history will look at her own work as it converged with the work of her parents, Richard J. and Carol L. Bernstein.