The Fall 2025 Program
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The Future of America's Democratic Party
American Political Economy Lecture
Jacob S. Hacker
World on the Brink: China, America, and the New Cold War
Kurz Viermetz Lecture
Dmitri Alperovitch
What Cassandra, Daughter of Potter, not Priam, Said
Mary Ellen von der Heyden Lecture
Jamaica Kincaid
The Nature of the Future
Holtzbrinck Lecture
Elizabeth Kolbert
War Unbound
Axel Springer Lecture
Oona Hathaway
Yiddish Trash: Popular Fiction in Diaspora
Charles Haimoff Lecture in German Studies
Saul Noam Zaritt
The Art (and Agony) of the Interview
John W. Kluge Lecture
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Is This America? Requiem for a Nation Lost, Vision for an America Refounded
Lloyd Cutler Lecture
Sherrilyn Ifill
The 2025-26 Berlin Journal
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The 2025-26 Berlin Journal
The latest issue of the Academy's signature annual publication, featuring work by this year's fellows.
The Fall 2025 Program
The fall 2025 program has arrived, teeming with topical lectures, panel discussions, and readings for your upcoming autumn evenings.
Announcing the 2025-26 Class of Fellows
Learn more about the incoming class of Berlin Prize Fellows and their projects.
Recent Videos & Podcasts
Jacob S. Hacker is conducting research on the US Democratic Party and proffering thoughts on its future.
Nora Krug is working on “Revenge,” a collection of visual biographies and reflections on the subject of revenge and war, across conflicts, cultures, and societies.
Ross Perlin is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a research institute dedicated to documenting endangered languages in New York City and beyond.
Chloe Thurston is writing a book called "Investing in America: The Politics and Political Development of an Asset-Based Society."
Jamaica Kincaid is working on a novel, “What Cassandra, Daughter of Potter Not Priam, Said," drawing on the Greek mythological figure.
Oona Hathaway examines the breakdown of international humanitarian law in the wars since 9/11.
New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert is writing a book about ice ages that conveys the importance of environmental "feedbacks."
Saul Zaritt is working on “Yiddish Trash,” a study of popular Yiddish fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Justin Torres is working on “The Rule of Three," a novel about three bachelor brothers, all in their forties, in a shared moment of crisis.
William Hitchcock is working on a book entitled "A Shadow over the World: American Democracy in the Age of Fascism, 1922-1941."
Karen Feldman is researching the rhetorical, epistemic, and affective dimensions of moralizing, primarily in philosophical texts.
Alexandra Kleeman is working on “The Taxon Cycle,” a quasi-utopian novel about monetary systems on the brink of collapse and transition.