American Academy in Berlin
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Fostering close transatlantic bonds in the arts, humanities, and public affairs.
In case you missed Jacob S. Hacker’s lecture on the crisis of the Democratic Party and the future of American democracy, you can find an audio transcript on our website: www.mpifg.de/1445466/2025... @jacobhacker.bsky.social @americanacademy.bsky.social
»Die Republikaner haben sich der extremen Rechten angepasst und so den Trumpismus ermöglicht.« In der @americanacademy.bsky.social habe ich die Historikerin Lisa McGirr aus @harvard.edu zu Trumps Vorbildern befragt – und welche Rolle die Nazis dabei spielen. www.spiegel.de/geschichte/u...
(S+) »Die USA gleiten in eine autokratische Herrschaft«: Historikerin über Trumps Amerika
In den USA schlägt der Kulturkampf in Gewalt um. Harvard-Forscherin Lisa McGirr erklärt, welche historischen Vorbilder die Trump-Regierung hat und welche Rolle dabei der deutsche Nationalsozialismus s...
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After Zelenskyy’s meeting with new chancellor in Berlin, a look at how far German gov is now willing to go in boosting Ukraine’s military capabilities. With Marina Miron @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Gideon Rose @americanacademy.bsky.social @johnkampfner.bsky.social youtu.be/MMYK0tRHiW4?...
Zelenskyy in Berlin: How far will Merz go in backing Ukraine? | DW News
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Join Joseph Leo Koerner at @americanacademy.bsky.social tomorrow (19 May) at 7:30 pm CEST, where he will present his new book, Art in a State of Siege. To learn more about this hybrid event, visit:
Art in a State of Siege: Berlin, Kurinskij, Nuremberg, 1942-1947 - American Academy in Berlin
Marina Kellen French Lecture Art in a State of Siege: Berlin, Kurinskij, Nuremberg, 1942-1947 Joseph Leo Koerner presents his new book, Art in a State of Siege
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Very excited to be joining the Spring 2026 fellows at the American Academy in Berlin @americanacademy.bsky.social What an amazing group of people! www.americanacademy.de/announcing-t...
Announcing the 2025-26 Class of Fellows - American Academy in Berlin
Learn more about the incoming class of Berlin Prize Fellows and their projects.
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So grateful to be joining a truly amazing set of fellow fellows at the American Academy in Berlin (@americanacademy.bsky.social)--including @oonahathaway.bsky.social. @cape-team.bsky.social is doubly represented with @chloethurston.bsky.social joining, too! www.americanacademy.de/announcing-t...
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I am absolutely thrilled and humbled to be on this list with such incredible artists, writers, and scholars. I have never felt our work to be more urgent and I look forward to the time to do what this new project needs. www.americanacademy.de/announcing-t... @americanacademy.bsky.social
Announcing the 2025-26 Class of Fellows - American Academy in Berlin
Learn more about the incoming class of Berlin Prize Fellows and their projects.
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I'm so grateful for the extraordinary opportunity to join such a fantastic group of scholars, writers, and artists (including @jacobhacker.bsky.social!) this fall at the American Academy in Berlin (@americanacademy.bsky.social). www.americanacademy.de/announcing-t...
Announcing the 2025-26 Class of Fellows - American Academy in Berlin
Learn more about the incoming class of Berlin Prize Fellows and their projects.
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I am humbled to be among this year's Berlin Prize fellows, joining a wide-ranging group of scholars, writers, and artists (including the yidishist in hiding, Ross Perlin). The move to Ohio will be delayed to spend the fall on the shores of the Wannsee reading Yiddish trash...
Congratulations to Stephen Holmes — our faculty co-director at the Reiss Center on Law & Security & professor at @nyulaw.bsky.social — on being awarded the Berlin Prize by @americanacademy.bsky.social! His project examines "Demography, Identity, & Putin’s War" www.americanacademy.de/announcing-t...
Announcing the 2025-26 Class of Fellows - American Academy in Berlin
BERLIN—May 7, 2025—The American Academy in Berlin is pleased to announce the Berlin Prize recipients for the 2025-26 academic year. The Berlin Prize is awarded
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Looking back at last Friday's Henry A. Kissinger Prize honoring @kajakallas.bsky.social, @evikasilina.bsky.social, & Ingrida Šimonytė—an evening of moving speeches, wide-ranging conversations, & a confident reaffirmation of our shared transatlantic values. Recap: buff.ly/43Uad0M
The @americanacademy.bsky.social awarded @kajakallas.bsky.social, @evikasilina.bsky.social, and Ingrida Šimonytė the Henry Kissinger Prize for their contributions to transatlantic relations. Wolfgang Ischinger praised them as “champions of transatlantic partnership, cooperation, and mutual trust.”
Man ir patiess gods saņemt prestižo Henrija Kisindžera balvu kopā ar tuvākajām Baltijas māsām – @kajakallas.bsky.social un Ingrida Šimonytė!
The @americanacademy.bsky.social has awarded the Henry A. Kissinger Prize to HR/VP @kajakallas.bsky.social in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the transatlantic relationship. Full speech from HR/VP here: europa.eu/!WBhCf7 Photo credit: Chris Marxen / American Academy in Berlin
Tonight we proudly awarded the Henry A. Kissinger Prize to @kajakallas.bsky.social, High Representative for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy & @ec.europa.eu Vice-President, Former 🇪🇪 Prime Minister; @evikasilina.bsky.social, 🇱🇻 Prime Minister; & Ingrida Šimonytė, Former 🇱🇹 Prime Minister.
Ahead of his talk tomorrow night, head to our website and check out this year's Berlin Journal for an excerpt of spring fellow and New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's graphic novel "Einstein in Kafkaland:" buff.ly/O3NnZgt 📸 #2 Annette Hornischer
"It is far too soon to predict how this strange new world will play out. But the psychological barriers that have long kept [nuclear] proliferation at bay may already have fallen away," writes spring fellow Gideon Rose in his latest @foreignaffairs.com article: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Get Ready for the Next Nuclear Age
How Trump might drive proliferation.
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Academy trustee and @theatlantic.com editor Jeffrey Goldberg on 3sat's Kulturzeit last night to discuss that state of US media. 📺 Watch the interview here (starting at 4:35): buff.ly/cSgBRfe
Fascinating panel discussion about artificial intelligence and its role in the arts this week with playwright Ayad Akhtar, writer Daniel Kehlmann, and @theatlantic.com editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who moderated the event. In cooperation with Deutsches Theater. 📸 Annette Hornischer
Is NATO on the rocks? What next for European security? On ABC Radio National's BIG IDEAS Former @foreignaffairs.com editor & managing editor, @cfr.org adjunct senior fellow Professor Gideon Rose speaks at @americanacademy.bsky.social Berlin podcast www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Security in Europe hangs in the balance. Is NATO on the rocks? - ABC listen
Europe needs to rethink its strategies and policies to protect the continent in the future. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China's predatory mercantilism, and the rise of populist neoisolationism in th...
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Thanks to @theatlantic.com staff writers George Packer & @anneapplebaum.bsky.social & the magazine's editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg—leading voices in journalism & former Academy fellows—for a probing, scary, & inspiring panel discussion on the future of democracy in America. 📺: buff.ly/rGzEOqH
Notes from a panel talk 10/10 "The Future of Democracy in America: A Conversation with The Atlantic", with @theatlantic.com writers @anneapplebaum.bsky.social George Packer & editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. Mod. by Daniel Benjamin, President of @americanacademy.bsky.social, Berlin March 3, 2025.
A full house at @americanacademy.bsky.social for: "The Future of Democracy in America: A Conversation with @theatlantic.com"—with Jeffrey Goldberg, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social & George Packer
"Literature makes visible what mainstream discourses conceal," said spring 2025 fellow & German literature professor Agnes Mueller at her Academy talk about contemporary German–Jewish fiction by young post-Holocaust writers. 📺 Watch here: buff.ly/3F0rLWv 📸 Annette Hornischer
"The choices we make to invest in the resilience and robustness of [cyberspace] to then defend this space…is what will determine whether we go down the good path or the not good path," said Chris Inglis, Fmr National Cyber Director at the White House, at his talk about the future of cyber security.
"Of the 100 official acts that the new Trump administration has launched in recent weeks, perhaps 5 or 10 are really important. We journalists have to find out which ones we should pay attention to—& which ones we should not," Jeffrey Goldberg tells @dirkpeitz.bsky.social: buff.ly/41x6KeQ
Jeffrey Goldberg: "Wir sind nicht im politischen Widerstand"
Donald Trump dämonisiert Medien, noch mehr als in der ersten Amtszeit. Jeffrey Goldberg ist Chefredakteur des "Atlantic". Wie geht sein Magazin mit der neuen Realität um?
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Academy president Daniel Benjamin was on 3sat's Kulturzeit last night to talk about shifts in US politics, how to maintain transatlantic ties and the Academy's enduring mission. 📺 Watch the interview here (starting at 5:15): buff.ly/4bk9QWA
JD Vance, der Papst und die Nächstenliebe
US-Vizepräsident JD Vance konvertierte 2019 zum katholischen Glauben. Nun streitet er mit dem Papst über das Glaubensfundament der Liebe.
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"Germany’s memory culture may be flawed & insufficient in many ways. But young migrants have set their migratory experiences in Germany against the forever-present backdrop of Holocaust to create works of fiction that address the current moment," ✍️ spring fellow Agnes Mueller in the Berlin Journal.
"We really could be at a critical juncture in history right now." Given Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China's predatory mercantilism, & a second Trump presidential term, spring fellow & fmr "Foreign Affairs" editor Gideon Rose examined what might be necessary to protect Europe in decades to come.
