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11/01/2024

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10/01/2024

We hope you had a good start to the New Year! At the Academy, we're prepping for the spring semester and looking forward to the arrival of 13 new Berlin Prize fellows -- writers, scholars, a translator, an epidemiologist (!) -- who will set up their offices in the Fellows' Pavilion over the coming weeks. Check out their profiles to see what's in store: https://buff.ly/3rM6byb

📸 Annette Hornischer

09/01/2024

"Biden's trend is negative. That makes Trump the favorite," Academy visitor and former political director in the Clinton White House, Doug Sosnik, spoke with Tagesspiegel's Christoph von Marschall about Joe Biden's weaknesses heading into the 2024 presidential elections:
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This article was also published by FOCUS online:
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For more on this issue, check out Sosnik's talk he gave at the Academy:
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Die Wähler denken, dass es ihnen unter Trump besser ging und der in entscheidenden Sachgebieten kompetenter ist, sagt Ex-Präsidentenberater Sosnik. Hier spricht er über Bidens Schwächen.

20/12/2023

The fall 2023 semester ended last week; our spring 2024 program will begin in late January. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date on all upcoming events (https://buff.ly/44Sqsks), and visit our website to learn more about the spring fellows (https://buff.ly/3rM6byb). We look forward to welcoming you next year at the Academy. Happy holidays!

📸 Annette Hornischer

20/12/2023

Looking for a last bit of political chatter before the holidays are in full swing? Here's a tip: Peter Baker (chief White House correspondent for the New York Times) and Susan Glasser (author of the New Yorker column "Letter from Biden’s Washington") talk with Academy President Daniel Benjamin about Biden, Trump, and the future of America: https://buff.ly/3GOtwUj

📸 Annette Hornischer

The New Yorker
The New York Times

19/12/2023

"I had been interested in the subject of character for almost all of my adult life – both because of its essential importance as a determinative leadership quality and...its role in shaping how we live among others and within ourselves," said Johns Hopkins University Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Daniel H. Weiss, at his talk on the idea of character through the ages.

Find the video of his talk here: https://buff.ly/3v6KquH

📸 Annette Hornischer

Johns Hopkins University
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

15/12/2023

Thank you to our fall 2023 fellows for a remarkable semester! We look back on an intellectually fulfilling three and a half months of lectures, discussions, and impromptu meetings with all of you. And we look forward to welcoming you at the Hans Arnhold Center on Wannsee again!

Camila Agosto, A.K. Burns, Mariana P. Candido, Holly Case, Jorge Coronado, Michael W. Doyle, Liana Finck, Stuart Kirsch, Saira Mohamed, Andrew Moravcsik, David H. Price, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Mabel O. Wilson

📸 Annette Hornischer

13/12/2023

Thanks to everyone who joined us at BABYLON last week for the screening of "Every Body" -- a moving documentary about three intersex individuals -- followed by a Q&A session with director Julie Cohen.

📸 Annette Hornischer

13/12/2023

"Much to my real concern, I see elements of things that resemble, in certain regards, the Cold War reemerging today. And that's the motivation for writing this book," fall 2023 fellow and professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University Michael W. Doyle tells host Andrew Pace in the latest episode of the "New Books in Diplomatic History" podcast, which highlights Doyle's book "Cold Peace."

Columbia University
Columbia | SIPA
Columbia Law School
New Books Network
W. W. Norton & Company

Michael W. Doyle, "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War" (Liveright, 2023)