The Berlin Prize
Presentation of the Fall 2024 Class of Fellows
Keynote by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Rector and Permanent Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin...
Current Affairs in the United States: Coalitions and Conflict Series
Europe and the United States in the Shadow of War
Michael Kimmage
Historian Michael Kimmage in discussion with Oleksii Makeiev, Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany....
Special Event at the Hertie School
Honorary Doctorate for Arnold Schwarzenegger
Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger receives an honorary doctorate...
Richard C. Holbrooke Lecture
Origins of the War in Ukraine
Michael Kimmage
Why the war started and how its origins have influenced its course....
John McCloy Transatlantic Forum
It Was the Best of Times: The Bright Future of the Transatlantic Alliance
Michael Kimmage
What's next for the US-Europe relationship?...
John W. Kluge Film Screening
Life is a Comedy, Not a Drama
Jenji Kohan
Famed TV producer Jenji Kohan interrogates the comedic-dramatic divide...
Inaugural Berthold Beitz Lecture
A Wiser World: The Global Quest for Good Judgement
Zachary Shore
Zachary Shore looks at the personal qualities, group dynamics, and historical conditions that have made wise decisions more or less likely to arise....
Gerhard Casper Lecture
Traditional Jewish Literature and Trans Politics
Max K. Strassfeld
Some rabbinic sources counter traditional Judeo-Christian ideas of binary gender....
Mary Ellen von der Heyden Reading
Germany, My Elsewhere
Nell Irvin Painter
Reflections on the experience of Germany and the ways it has shaped Nell Painter's thinking....
Mary Ellen von der Heyden Reading
Inflections of Belief
Ayana Mathis
Writer Ayana Mathis discusses the religious inflections in the fiction she reads, writes, and critiques....