SPRING PROGRAM FEBRUARY – JULY 2021 The American Academy in Berlin SPRING PROGRAM FEBRUARY – JULY 2021 We are delighted to present the spring 2021 program of events at the American Academy in Berlin. While we do hope to welcome our guests in person to the Hans Arnhold Center this spring, at the time of this printing the public health situation remains dynamic; event dates and formats may change accordingly. Until the public health situation allows us to again host events at the American Academy, all events will be held online. We therefore request that you please visit our website, americanacademy.de, for the most up-to- date information about our programs and register in advance for all events. We remain committed to providing a safe environment for our speakers and guests and very much look forward to resuming our regular in-person programming as conditions allow. FEBRUARY Tuesday, February 23 7:30 p.m. NINA MARIA GORRISSEN LECTURE Tuesday, February 2 6:00 p.m. Roman Diversity: Modern Lessons from an AMERICAN ACADEMY LECTURE AT HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN Ancient Empire A Tale of Two Camps: Nandini Pandey, Associate Professor of Im / mobilities and Inequalities Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Horn of Africa Nathalie Peutz, Associate Professor Wednesday, February 24 7:30 p.m. of Anthropology, New York University Abu Dhabi KURT VIERMETZ LECTURE Registration via [email protected] Some Assembly Required: In cooperation with the Integrative Research Decoding Four Billion Years of Institute Law & Society, Faculty of Law, Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Neil Shubin, Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Tuesday, February 16 7:00 p.m. University of Chicago STEPHEN M. KELLEN LECTURE In cooperation with S. Fischer Verlage Religion and the Rise of Capitalism Benjamin M. Friedman, Thursday, Feburary 25 7:30 p.m. William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University HOLTZBRINCK LECTURE When Love was Forbidden: Sex and Intimacy in Thursday, February 18 7:00 p.m. Iran’s Revolutionary Generation Presentation of the Naghmeh Sohrabi, Charles (Corky) Spring 2021 Fellows Goodman Chair in Middle East History, Welcoming remarks by Susanne Baer, Brandeis University Justice, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany Generously supported by Nina von Maltzahn MARCH Thursday, March 11 7:30 p.m. BERTHOLD LEIBINGER LECTURE Tuesday, March 2 7:30 p.m. Displacement ANNA-MARIA KELLEN LECTURE in the Horn of Africa: Racialization, Migration, James Baldwin: and the United Nations The Making of an American Icon Nathalie Peutz, Associate Professor , Professor of Studies Robert Reid-Pharr of Anthropology, New York University of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Abu Dhabi Harvard University Tuesday, March 16 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 5 4:00 p.m. RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE LECTURE FRITZ STERN SEMINAR IN MEMORY OF SONYA O. ROSE (1935–2020) Rethink, Reset, Recalibrate: Gender, War, and Citizenship: U.S.–China Relations from Transatlantic Roundtable to Donald Trump to Joe Biden Launch the Oxford Handbook Elizabeth Economy, Senior Fellow, of Gender, War, and the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Western World since 1600 and Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Stefan P. Dudink, Senior Lecturer, Radboud University Nijmegen; Susan R. Grayzel, Professor of History, Thursday, March 18 7:30 p.m. Utah State University; Karen Hagemann, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor AIRBUS LECTURE of History and Adjunct Professor of the Virgin Galactic and the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense, Making of a Modern Astronaut University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Nicholas Schmidle, Writer, The New Yorker Kimberly Jensen, Professor of History and Gender Studies, Western Oregon University; Thomas Kühne, Strassler Professor of Thursday, March 23 7:30 p.m. Holocaust History, Clark University; and Richard Smith, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths, AXEL SPRINGER LECTURE University of London Age of Emergency: For more information, see gwc2.web.unc.edu. Colonial Violence at the In cooperation with the Netherlands Institute End of the British Empire for Advanced Studies Amsterdam, the Erik Linstrum, Associate Professor Radboud University Nijmegen, and the of History, University of Virginia University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill With generous support from Thursday, March 25 7:30 p.m. Henry H. Arnhold and Verlag C. H. Beck DAIMLER LECTURE Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence between Text and Image Nora Alter, Professor of Film and Media Arts, Temple University APRIL Tuesday, April 27 7:30 p.m. GERHARD CASPER LECTURE Thursday, April 15 7:30 p.m. Being Black in Europe: NINA MARIA GORRISSEN LECTURE Identity and Invisibility , Professor Emeritus of Stepping onto the Pedestal: Allison Blakely European and Comparative History, Boston An Animating History University of Art Restitution from the This lecture is made possible Napoleonic Wars through philanthropic support from Alice Goff, Assistant Professor of Carnegie Corporation of New York. German History and the College, The University of Chicago Wednesday, April 28 7:30 p.m. LOCATION: Hospitalhof Stuttgart, Monday, April 19 7:30 p.m. Büchsenstraße 33, 70174 Stuttgart RICHARD VON WEIZSÄCKER LECTURE HEAD-TO-HEAD: A MEETING OF INSPIRED MINDS Wagner and His Aftermath: Mythic Culture in Germany Love, Death, and Revolution and America in 1970s Iran Alex Ross, Music Critic and Author Naghmeh Sohrabi, Charles (Corky) Goodman Chair in Middle East History, In cooperation with Rowohlt Verlag Brandeis University In cooperation with the Evangelisches Tuesday, April 20 7:30 p.m. Bildungszentrum Hospitalhof Stuttgart and the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum JOHN P. BIRKELUND LECTURE Stuttgart IN THE HUMANITIES Generously supported by Trump and the Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, Great Electoral Crisis of 2020 Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, and Lawrence Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Berthold Leibinger Stiftung GmbH Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College Thursday, April 29 7:30 p.m. FRITZ STERN LECTURE Wednesday, April 21 7:00 p.m. The Travails of Theorizing STEPHEN M. KELLEN BOOK TALK about the Integration of Europe: America in the World: Neo–Functionalism and A History of U.S. Diplomacy Its Competitors and Foreign Policy Philippe C. Schmitter, Professor Emeritus, Robert B. Zoellick, Senior Fellow, Belfer Department of Political and Social Sciences, Center for Science and International Affairs, European University Institute Harvard Kennedy School; and former With generous support from President, World Bank Henry H. Arnhold and Verlag C. H. Beck In conversation with Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman, Munich Security Conference; and Trustee, American Academy in Berlin MAY Tuesday, May 11 7:30 p.m. ANDREW W. MELLON LECTURE Tuesday, May 4 7:30 p.m. IN THE HUMANITIES The Refugee Crisis: ELLEN MARIA GORRISSEN LECTURE Crossing, Cutting, and Burning Tony Cokes: Words and Spaces the Mediterranean Seametery Tony Cokes, Professor of Modern Culture Hakim Abderrezak, Associate Professor and Media, Brown University of French and Francophone Studies, University of Minnesota Thursday, May 6 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 18 INVITATION ONLY INGA MAREN OTTO LECTURE Unifying and Integrating HENRY A. KISSINGER PRIZE Compositional and Honoring James N. Mattis Improvisational Language 26th U.S. Secretary of Defense and retired as a Composer–Performer Marine Corps General Anna Webber, Composer, Flutist, Generously supported by Bloomberg and Saxophonist Philanthropies, Robert Bosch GmbH, and Cerberus Beteiligungsberatung Monday, May 10 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 26 7:30 p.m. LOCATION: Hospitalhof Stuttgart, Büchsenstraße 33, 70174 Stuttgart RICHARD VON WEIZSÄCKER LECTURE HEAD-TO-HEAD: Why Do I Write the A MEETING OF INSPIRED MINDS Same Tale Differently? Gate of Tears: Migration and André Aciman, Author; and Immobility across the Red Sea Professor of Comparative Literature, Nathalie Peutz, Associate Professor City University of New York of Anthropology, New York University Abu Dhabi May 2021 In cooperation with the Evangelisches Bildungszentrum Hospitalhof Stuttgart INGA MAREN OTTO CONCERT and the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Anna Webber in Concert Zentrum Stuttgart Anna Webber, Composer, Flutist, Generously supported by and Saxophonist Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, and Berthold Leibinger Stiftung GmbH JUNE JULY Monday, June 7 – 11 INVITATION ONLY Monday, July 5 6:30 p.m. ANDREW W. MELLON WORKSHOP LOCATION: IN THE HUMANITIES Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Im / Mobilities: Residenzschloss, Hans-Nadler-Saal, New Directions in the Taschenberg 2, 01067 Dresden Humanities LISA AND HEINRICH ARNHOLD LECTURE Co-organized by Laila Amine, Schreiben von unterwegs: Associate Professor of English, Postkarten von Walter Benjamin University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Liliane Weissberg, Hakim Abderrezak, Associate Professor Christopher H. Browne Distinguished of French and Francophone Studies, Professor in Arts and Sciences and University of Minnesota Professor of German and Comparative Please write to Literature, University of Pennsylvania [email protected] In cooperation with for more information about the workshop Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden program and participation. This lecture will be held in German. July 10 – 14 INVITATION ONLY ANDREW W. MELLON WORKSHOP IN THE HUMANITIES Past and Future Genders: Latin America and Beyond Organized by Moira Fradinger, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale