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The American Academy in Berlin has appointed Ambassador Daniel Benjamin as its new president. Benjamin is currently director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College.

The spring 2020 program offers a wide-ranging selection of free public lectures and readings at the Hans Arnhold Center, in Berlin, and in several other German cities.

The American Academy in Berlin mourns the loss of trustee emeritus Richard K.Goeltz, who served the Academy as finance committee chair from 2008-2014.

On January 21, 2020, Chancellor Angela Merkel received the Henry A. Kissinger Prize at an award ceremony at Charlottenburg Palace.

Poet and playwright Claudia Rankine talks about conversations that feature in her forthcoming book—about race, privilege, and whiteness.

The thirty-third issue of the Berlin Journal features a suite of related essays on the fragility and composition of democracy, essays on literary history, work from the June 2019 Mellon workshop, and new fiction by Academy fellows.

The fall 2019 program begins in mid-September and features a wide array of engaging topics. Download the PDF.

Academy supporters, friends, and colleagues gathered at the lakeside Hans Arnhold Center to welcome the fall 2019 class of fellows.

Academy trustee Leah Joy Zell hosted a reception for George Packer for his new book, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century,

Daniel Weiss of The Met and Sir David Chipperfield on the role of museums and architecture in the service of the greater social good.