Presentation of the Spring 2019 Fellows
Presenting the spring 2019 class of fellows. Welcoming remarks by Günter Ziegler, president of the Freie Universität Berlin.
Beyond the Lecture: Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa
New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen discusses Russia, cynicism, doublethink, and the imaginative powers of democracy with Moscow correspondent Joshua Yaffa.
The Road to Unfreedom: Democracy, Neofascism, and the Importance of Language
Yale historian Timothy Snyder on politics and language in the age of "Not-Even Fascism"
Artist Talk with Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
Artist Arthur Jafa speaks about his concluding exhibition at the Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin
Another World Literature: New Approaches to a Literary History of East Asia
Haun Saussy proposes a new starting point for scholars of Chinese literary history.
Masha Gessen: Democracy and Imagination
Masha Gessen on democracy, totalitarianism, and the force of political imagination.
Art, Migration, and Human Dignity
Artist Ai Weiwei speaks with Berlin curator Gereon Sievernich about his life and work.
Fellow Spotlight: Carina L. Johnson
Historian Carina L. Johnson is researching anti-Ottoman propaganda in sixteenth-century Germany.
Beyond the Lecture: Elizabeth Kolbert
New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert on the sixth extinction and state of the biosphere.
Fellow Spotlight: Haun Saussy
Literary historian Haun Saussy is working on reconstructing the overlapping cosmopolitan worlds of premodern East Asia.