Is Russia a "Verbrecherstaat?" - A Perspective from International Law
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 project on aggressive wa... Read more
29 Apr 2022
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32mins
Threats from the Margin? - Ladee Hubbard's novel "The Descendants"
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 Fellow in Fiction worki... Read more
28 Feb 2022
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28mins
"The Family Chao:" Lan Samantha Chang on How to Narrate a Community
"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 fall 2021, Lan Samantha Ch... Read more
31 Jan 2022
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37mins
Who Is Classics for?
Who Is Classics for?
In this episode of "Beyond the Lecture," we take a behind-the-scenes look at a debate currently roiling classical schola... Read more
14 Apr 2021
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28mins
Next Generation
Next Generation
What was it like to be the first black person at an all-white private school in the American South? The very first, that... Read more
15 Dec 2020
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31mins
The Importance of Being Thomas Mann
The Importance of Being Thomas Mann
There are few novelists who made more of an impact on twentieth-century German literature than Thomas Mann. His works ha... Read more
12 Nov 2020
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33mins
Ninth Beast: A Quarantine Story
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 tiny New York City apartme... Read more
10 Sep 2020
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24mins
Corona Dispatches: Scholars at the American Academy reflect on the pandemic and its meanings
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 reflect on the various i... Read more
3 Jun 2020
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27mins
Singing to Glaciers: What Iceland can teach us about grief & our common future
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 Springer Fellow) and C... Read more
12 May 2020
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52mins
What Happened When Claudia Rankine Talked to White Men About Privilege
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 Berlin as a Distinguished... Read more
9 Dec 2019
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51mins