Beyond the Lecture Podcast
1) Jeffrey Eugenides & Daniel Kehlmann: The Craft of Novel Writing
Two powerhouse authors from each side of the Atlantic: American Jeffrey Eugenides -- a former Academy fellow -- and German-Austrian Daniel Kehlmann discuss the craft, challenges, and joys of novel wri...Show More
2) Migration Stories: The Evolution of German-Jewish Identity
Today’s German-based Jewish writers navigate complex identities that encompass Holocaust migration history and diverse diasporic narratives. In this episode of “Beyond the Lecture,” literary scholar a...Show More
3) Why It’s So Hard to Talk About Taiwan
Taiwan is frequently in the news, but context is scarce. In this episode of "Beyond the Lecture," journalist and spring 2024 Holtzbrinck Fellow Michael Meyer talks about his research and writing on th...Show More
4) Children of Violence – Intergenerational Trauma and Political Identity
Our “Beyond the Lecture” podcast is back! In this episode, spring 2024 Nina Maria Gorrissen fellow and expert in comparative political behavior Noam Lupu talks about his research into how intergenerat...Show More
5) Is Russia a "Verbrecherstaat?" - A Perspective from International Law
With the Russian attack on Ukraine, the Academy's spring 2022 Daimler fellow Lawrence Douglas's project on aggressive war, atrocity and the "Verbrecherstaat" suddenly became very current. On this epi...Show More
6) Threats from the Margin? - Ladee Hubbard's novel "The Descendants"
In fall 2021, New Orleans-based writer Ladee Hubbard spent her time as Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow in Fiction working on her new novel, "The Descendants." On this episode of "Beyond the Lecture...Show More
7) "The Family Chao:" Lan Samantha Chang on How to Narrate a Community
During her stay at the American Academy as the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow in Fiction in fall 2021, Lan Samantha Chang gave the finishing touch to her much-anticipated new novel "The Family Chao,...Show More
8) Who Is Classics for?
In this episode of "Beyond the Lecture," we take a behind-the-scenes look at a debate currently roiling classical scholarship and pedagogy. It’s a debate about how the field should be approached now a...Show More
9) Next Generation
What was it like to be the first black person at an all-white private school in the American South? The very first, that is. In this episode, we explore this question through the work of investigative...Show More
10) The Importance of Being Thomas Mann
There are few novelists who made more of an impact on twentieth-century German literature than Thomas Mann. His works have been translated into over thirty languages and remain the subject of much deb...Show More