@americanacademy.bsky.social
Fostering close transatlantic bonds in the arts, humanities, and public affairs.
»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...
18.06.2025 18:59 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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?...
29.05.2025 12:25 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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:
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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
03.04.2025 09:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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.”
31.03.2025 15:32 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Man ir patiess gods saņemt prestižo Henrija Kisindžera balvu kopā ar tuvākajām Baltijas māsām – @kajakallas.bsky.social un Ingrida Šimonytė!
28.03.2025 23:10 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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
Giedrius Puodžiūnas, Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the Federal Republic of Germany, accepted the award on Ingrida Šimonytė's behalf.
📸 1 Annette Hornischer / 2,3 Chris Marxen
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.
28.03.2025 23:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
10.03.2025 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
George Packer, Anne Applebaum, Jeffrey Goldberg and Academy president Daniel Benjamin. Photo credit: Annette Hornischer / American Academy in Berlin
George Packer, Anne Applebaum, and Jeffrey Goldberg. Photo credit: Annette Hornischer / American Academy in Berlin
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
05.03.2025 15:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
04.03.2025 08:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
03.03.2025 18:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"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
Welcome remarks by Claudia Oeking, Head of public affairs at Airbus, and Daniel Benjamin, president at the American Academy in Berlin, who also moderated the Q&A.
📸 Annette Hornischer
Drawing on insights from his career, he examined the nature of cyberspace, the threats it poses, their far-reaching implications for societies on both sides of the Atlantic, and the most effective ways to protect it.
28.02.2025 13:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"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.
28.02.2025 13:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🎟 Join us next week for events with Academy trustee & @theatlantic.com's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, here at the Academy, Deutsches Theater, & Berliner Festspiele: www.americanacademy.de/events/upcom...
27.02.2025 12:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"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
27.02.2025 12:38 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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
