Fellow Spotlight: Priscilla Layne
Priscilla Layne is completing work on her second book, about German Afrofuturist concepts in literature and theater.
Fellow Spotlight: Yaa Gyasi
Writer Yaa Gyasi is working on a second novel, about "the costs of assimilation and integration on the immigrant."
Fellow Spotlight: Alexander Galloway
Media theorist Alexander Galloway widens the prehistory of computation to include nineteenth-century media.
Fellow Spotlight: P. Carl
Writer and dramaturg P. Carl is at the American Academy in Berlin working on a memoir of gender transition.
The Fall 2018 Fellows Presentation
Presenting the fellows of fall 2018, welcomed by Gereon Sievernich, curator of the Haupstadtkulturfonds.
Beyond the Lecture: Linda Greenhouse
Veteran new York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse discusses the state of the Court and the journalist–justice rapport.
Beyond the Lecture: Tricia Rose
Tricia Rose, director the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University, on the resurgence of white supremacy in the Trump era, and the hidden perils of liberal "colorblindness."
Beyond the Lecture: Adam Tooze
Economic historian Adam Tooze discusses the 2008 global financial crisis—the subject of his forthcoming book, Crashed—and about German investment, US tariffs, and the fate of global trade.
Tricia Rose: The Hidden Perils of Resurgent White Supremacy in the Trump Era
The director of Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Tricia Rose, discusses the resurgence of white supremacist trends in the Trump era and what they mean for American society and political life in the near future.