Is Russia a "Verbrecherstaat?" - A Perspective from International Law
With the Russian attack on Ukraine, the Academy's spring 2022 Daimler fellow Lawrence Douglas's...
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Threats from the Margin? - Ladee Hubbard's novel "The Descendants"
In fall 2021, New Orleans-based writer Ladee Hubbard spent her time as Mary Ellen von der Heyden...
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"The Family Chao:" Lan Samantha Chang on How to Narrate a Community
During her stay at the American Academy as the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow in Fiction in...
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In this episode of \"Beyond the Lecture,\" we take a behind-the-scenes look at a debate currently...
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What was like to be the first black person at an all-white private school in the American South?...
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The Importance of Being Thomas Mann
There are few novelists who made more of an impact on twentieth-century German literature than...
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Ninth Beast: A Quarantine Story
The world is on hold and we are all going a bit stir-crazy. Strange things are happening in a...
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Corona Dispatches: Scholars at the American Academy reflect on the pandemic and its meanings
In this episode of „Beyond the Lecture,” scholars and artists at the American Academy in Berlin...
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Singing to Glaciers: What Iceland can teach us about grief & our common future
In this episode of "Beyond the Lecture," cultural anthropologists Dominic Boyer (spring 2020 Axel...
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Singing to Glaciers: What Iceland can teach us about grief and our future
In this episode of "Beyond the Lecture," cultural anthropologists Dominic Boyer (spring 2020 Axel...
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What Happened when Claudia Rankine Talked to White Men about Privilege
Poet, playwright, and Yale University professor Claudia Rankine was at the American Academy in...
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Linda Gordon on the KKK & the roots of US anti-immigrant policy
Historian Linda Gordon was recently at the American Academy in Berlin, as a Marcus Bierich...
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Beyond the Lecture: Anne Finger on Disability and the Politics of Memory
Writer Anne Finger is in Berlin to research histories of disability in the city. In this episode,...
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Composer and pianist Wang Lu was born in the Xi’an, China, the country’s ancient capital. Brought...
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Beyond the Lecture: Martin Puchner
Literary historian Martin Puchner's journey with languages started early and unexpectedly: a...
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Beyond the Lecture: Sir David Chipperfield
Sir David Chipperfield is a world-renowned architect who has designed and refurbished some of the...
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Beyond the Lecture: Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa
New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen was at the American Academy in late November to talk about...
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Beyond the Lecture: Elizabeth Kolbert
Many climate scientists say it's past midnight on the environmental clock. New Yorker staff...
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P. Carl is a dramaturg, nonfiction writer, theater producer, and Distinguished Artist in...
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Beyond the Lecture: Frances FitzGerald
On October 11, 2018, Pulitzer-prize winning author and journalist Frances FitzGerald delivered a...
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