Video & Audio

Mary Ann Doane examines the concept of scale and its increasing centrality to analysis of the work of the image in contemporary culture.

Historian Rebecca Boehling researches Western Allies’ approaches to the process of undoing Nazi influences in postwar German society, examining the divergent theories behind denazification and how they were implemented

In this lecture, Nobel-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz offers insights and arguments from his latest book, The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe (2016). Although the euro was hailed by its architects as a lever that would bring Europe together and promote prosperity, it has actually, Stiglitz argues, done the opposite: promoted divergence rather than convergence.

Esra Akcan's September 22, 2016 lecture at the American Academy defines "openness" as a foundational modern value albeit prone to contradictions, and open architecture as the translation of the ethics of hospitality into architecture. It particularly focuses on a single street corner in Berlin, at Checkpoint Charlie.

Artist Daniel Joseph Martinez’s practice takes the form of photography, painting, site-specific installation, printed works, performance, and public interventions to question issues of personal and collective identity, vision and visuality, and the fissures formed between the appearance and the perception of difference.

Timothy Brown, a Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the Academy in fall 2016, focuses on twentieth-century German and transatlantic political and cultural history, radical mass movements and the revolts of 1968, popular music and youth subcultures, and environmental politics.

Historian Alex Novikoff teaches medieval history at Fordham University. His research simultaneously embraces the scholastic culture of the High Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations, and the many interconnections between pedagogy and performance practice.

The language and culture of the Mandean people of Iraq, argues Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow Charles Häberl, are key to understanding both the ancient and modern Near East.

Architectural historian Esra Akcan's project brings a fresh approach to architectural history both in terms of its concept—open architecture and the right to the city—and by means of her style, including extensive interviews and visual documentation.

Mary Ann Doane is Class of 1937 Professor of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley. At the Academy, Doane was completing a book on the use of the close-up in film practice and theory, and the ways in which screen size and its corresponding scale have figured in the negotiation of the human body’s relation to space in modernity.