American Academy in Berlin
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In support of the American Academy in Berlin Fellows Program
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
36 months
Description
The American Academy in Berlin, founded in 1994 by U.S. Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, is dedicated to strengthening transatlantic ties through advanced study and dialogue in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and public policy. With Corporation support, the Academy seeks to establish the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, where one distinguished scholar, artist, or policy expert will be selected and will spend four months in residence at the Academy, focusing on European security, democracy, and transatlantic Over a three-year cycle, this fellowship will deepen the Academy’s focus on critical global challenges, expand its programming, and extend its impact across Germany, Europe, and the wider transatlantic community.
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As a final grant for support of the Gerhard Casper Fellowship
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
The American Academy in Berlin (the Academy) was founded in 1994 at the initiative of Richard Holbrooke, then the American ambassador to Germany. Independent, nonpartisan, and privately funded, the Academy is committed to sustaining and enhancing the long-term intellectual, cultural, and political ties between the United States and Germany. Inaugurated in the 2021 in honor of Gerhard Casper, trustee and former president of the Academy for his commitment to transatlantic exchange, the Gerhard Casper Fellowship Program has been at the core of the Academy’s activities, creating understanding and critical, substantive debate on both sides of the Atlantic. With Corporation support one Gerhard Casper fellow will be awarded each year, in the fall or spring semester, for three years. Each fellow pursues their individual fellowship projects, engage with counterparts and present their work in a lecture, reading, or concert
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For support of the Gerhard Casper Fellowship
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
The American Academy in Berlin (the Academy) was founded in 1994 at the initiative of Richard Holbrooke, then the American ambassador to Germany. Independent, nonpartisan, and privately funded, the Academy is committed to sustaining and enhancing the long-term intellectual, cultural, and political ties between the United States and Germany. The fellowship program has been at the core of the Academy’s activities, creating understanding and critical, substantive debate on both sides of the Atlantic. A new fellowship has been established in honor of Gerhard Casper, trustee and former president of the Academy for his commitment to transatlantic exchange. With Corporation support one Gerhard Casper fellow will be awarded each year for two years to a scholar from the humanities, social sciences, or political theory. The fellowship will focus on dealing with issues beyond day-to-day politics and by addressing the question: “What does it mean to be human?”. Their work will be shared with their colleagues, audiences at lectures, readings, discussions, concerts, and film screenings, which form the core of the Academy’s rich program of public events.
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For support of its Fellowship Program
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
According to a 2018 Pew Research Center and Körber-Stiftung public opinion survey, nearly seventy-five percent of Germans believe that the relationship between Germany and the United States is worsening. Mutual understanding between Germans and Americans enables the two nations to collaborate in addressing global issues such as climate change, economic instability, or threats posed by rising political and religious extremism. The American Academy in Berlin supports the role of the humanities and social sciences in sustaining and enhancing long-term intellectual, cultural, and political ties between the United States and Germany. Each year, the American Academy awards up to 23 semester or year-long Berlin Prize fellowships to established and emerging scholars, writers, and artists from the United States. Berlin Prize recipients give lectures, readings, and concerts and hold seminars and symposiums at the Academy and across Germany. Through its fellows, the Academy showcases the diversity of American thought, scholarship, and creativity, offering a more nuanced view of the United States than Germans receive from the news. With Corporation support, the Academy will continue to promote cooperation and understanding on both sides of the Atlantic through its fellowship program.
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As a final grant for support of the American Academy in Berlin's Fellowship Program
Date
Mar. 08, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
The American Academy in Berlin (the Academy) was founded in 1994 by Richard Holbrooke, then the American Ambassador to Germany. Their mission is to maintain long-term intellectual, cultural and political ties between the United States and Germany. A major program within the Academy is the Berlin Prize Fellowships. Each year, the Academy awards up to twenty-three fellowships to outstanding scholars, writers, and artists from the United States. The fellows are given an opportunity to pursue independent projects which they in turn showcase with Berlin audiences at various public lectures, film screenings, concerts, and other events. With Corporation support, the Berlin Prize Fellows will have an opportunity to share with various audiences the many facets of American thought, scholarship, and creativity, working off a series of themes including “migration and integration”, giving the program additional focus then in years past.
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For the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum seminar "Towards a New Balkans Diplomacy"
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The Richard C. Holbrooke Forum was conceived by the American Academy in Berlin as a special remembrance of its founder and his lifelong commitment to applying the tools of diplomacy and statecraft for solving the protracted challenges to the well-being of humanity. With Corporation support, the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum will convene a special seminar, “Towards a New Balkans Diplomacy”, to discuss the future of Western diplomacy and statecraft in the Balkans. The seminar aims to look at the past to identify what worked in the mid-1990s, and why. Looking into the future, the Forum will address a number of issues including breaking the gridlock on democratic transformation within the region; the role of the U.S., political elites as agents of positive change; reconciliation; and geopolitics.
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For support of the Richard Holbrooke Forum workshop, “The Global Migration Crisis"
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The Richard C. Holbrooke Forum was founded in 2013 and conceived by the American Academy in Berlin (the Academy) as a special remembrance of its founder and his lifelong commitment to applying the tools of diplomacy and statecraft for solving the protracted challenges to the well-being of humanity. With Corporation support, the Academy, at its February 2016 forum, will sponsor the workshop, The Global Migration Crisis: Its Challenges to the United States, Europe and Global Order. Topics for discussion will include: the magnitude and state of play of the migration crisis in Europe, the United States, and East Asia; problems and solutions both nationally, regionally, and globally; and to extent solutions are being facilitated or hindered by existing legal frameworks.
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For support of the American Academy in Berlin's Fellowship Program
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The American Academy in Berlin (the Academy) was founded in 1994 by Richard Holbrooke, then the American Ambassador to Germany. Their mission is to maintain long-term intellectual, cultural and political ties between the United States and Germany. A major program within the Academy is the Berlin Prize Fellowships. Each year, the Academy awards up to twenty-four fellowships to outstanding scholars, writers, and artists from the United States. The fellows are given an opportunity to pursue independent projects which they in turn share with Berlin audiences at the Academy’s public lectures, film screenings, concerts, and other events. With Corporation support, the Academy will sponsor 24 fellows from the United States, providing them with an opportunity to pursue a significant scholarly or creative project for a semester or full year at the Academy’s community Villa Arnhold in Wannsee, outside of Berlin.
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Toward a series of nuclear nonproliferation roundtables
Date
Sep. 16, 2010
Duration
12 months