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SUMMARY:From Anti-War to Climate Justice: What’s Driving the Left in Germany and the United States?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG and the Goethe Institut in New York will host a discussion and reception with Dr. Sheri Berman\, Political Scientist and Author of Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancient Regime to Present Day; and Lukas Hermsmeier\, Journalist and Author of Uprising – Amerikas neue Linke. This event is part of our series Foreign Correspondent Unplugged and will be available as a podcast later this week.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/from-anti-war-to-climate-justice-whats-driving-the-left-in-germany-and-the-united-states/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T093000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Ballot: Parsing the Results of the EU’s Parliamentary  Election and Anticipating What Lies Ahead
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Council on Germany will host a breakfast briefing with Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook\, Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor at the Bertelsmann Foundation. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Facgusa.mystagingwebsite.com%2Fpolicy-engagement%2Fjune-13th-breakfast-briefing-with-cathryn-cluver-ashbrook%2F” css=”.vc_custom_1717681998412{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text] \nCathryn Clüver Ashbrook is Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Berlin. She served previously as CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). Ms. Clüver Ashbrook was executive director of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge\, Massachusetts for ten years. The project\, which she co-founded\, addresses 21st-century foreign policy challenges through research by international leaders in academia and diplomacy as well as teaching conflict research and prevention. Beginning in 2018\, Ms. Clüver Ashbrook also directed a research program on Europe and transatlantic relations. Previously\, she served on the management board of the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels and worked as both a consultant and senior journalist at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in France and China\, among other countries. She began her career as a television journalist at CNN International in Atlanta and London. \nMs. Clüver Ashbrook contributes to international publications\, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post\, as well as leading German media on transatlantic relations – especially trade and security policy – and German foreign and digital policy. Additionally\, she advises foreign ministries in Europe and South America on their digital strategy. She received her undergraduate honors degree in international relations and French civilization from Brown University\, a master’s degree in European studies from the London School of Economics\, and a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School\, where she was a Hauser Fellow in Non-Profit Management. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/beyond-the-ballot-parsing-the-results-of-the-eus-parliamentary-election-and-anticipating-what-lies-ahead/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
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SUMMARY:The Future of Transatlantic Relations in Light of the  2024 EU and U.S. Elections
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On June 20\, the ACG will host a breakfast briefing with Dr. Franziska Brantner\, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action\, and Member of the German Bundestag (Greens). \nFranziska Brantner has been serving as the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action since December 2021. Dr. Brantner was an elected member of the Bundestag representing the Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) from 2013 to 2021 where she represented the 274th district Heidelberg. During this time\, she was in various parliamentary groups including the Children and Family Policy group\, the Committee on Foreign Affairs\, and the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union. In this position\, she served as the spokesperson for European Policy for her party. From 2009 to 2013 Dr. Brantner was a member of the European Parliament\, where she served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and as spokeswoman for The Greens/European Free Alliance party. Her political career began in 1996 when she joined the regional board of “The Green Youth of Baden-Würtemberg.” \nDr. Brantner received her PhD from the University of Mannheim in 2010 with her doctoral thesis on the United Nations’ capacity for reform. She studied at Sciences Po and Columbia University for her undergraduate and graduate degrees. Dr. Brantner is a member of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s General Assembly and the Chair of the Supervisory Board of Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-future-of-transatlantic-relations-in-light-of-the-2024-eu-and-u-s-elections/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240625T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240625T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
CREATED:20240626T171914Z
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SUMMARY:Exit Interview: Reflecting on Seven Years in New York
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By popular demand\, the ACG is delighted to make today’s discussion with Consul General David Gill a hybrid event. Mr. Gill will join us in person in our New York office to reflect on his seven years in NYC and his preparation for his next posting in Ireland. \nDavid Gill grew up in a Protestant minister’s family in Herrnhut\, Saxony\, in former East Germany. He was denied a higher education by the Communist regime for political reasons. Instead\, he trained and worked as a plumber before joining a preparatory protestant school and later the theological seminary of the Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg. In 1990\, he initially was the chairman of the Normannenstrasse Citizens’ Committee\, which oversaw the dissolution of the Ministry of State Security at the Stasi headquarters and served as the secretary of the Special Committee for the dissolution of the Stasi of the East German Parliament. After reunification\, Mr. Gill became spokesman and head of the research division of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi-Files before studying Law in Berlin and Philadelphia. \nAfter holding positions in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and at the Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in Berlin\, he served as the Deputy Representative of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany to the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union. During Federal President Joachim Gauck’s term from 2012–2017\, he was state secretary and chief of staff of the President. Since August 2017\, Mr. Gill has been the German Consul General in New York.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/exit-interview-reflecting-on-seven-years-in-new-york/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events,Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240627T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240627T140000
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SUMMARY:The Digital Euro: Why Do We Need It?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG and the German American Chamber of Commerce will host a discussion and luncheon with Burkhard Balz\, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank. \nBurkhard Balz has been a member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank since September 2018. Prior to this\, he was a member of the European Parliament (CDU) and served as the EPP Group’s Coordinator on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs starting in 2014. Before his time in the European Parliament\, Mr. Balz was the Head of the Department for Institutional Clients at Commerzbank AG from 2004 to 2009. He has also held the positions of Corporate Customer Advisor at Commerzbank AG (2002-2004) and Desk Officer at the Commerzbank AG Liaison Office to the European Union in Brussels (2001-2002). \n  \nMr. Balz studied Law and Political Science at the University of Göttingen.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-digital-euro-why-do-we-need-it/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240711T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240711T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
CREATED:20240711T211740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240711T211740Z
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SUMMARY:Elections in Germany and Europe:  Outlook for Transatlantic Relations in a Super Election Year
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG and the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung in New York will host a discussion and reception with Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert\, Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Former President of the German Bundestag.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/elections-in-germany-and-europe-outlook-for-transatlantic-relations-in-a-super-election-year/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240814T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240814T093000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
CREATED:20240806T135046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240806T135046Z
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SUMMARY:Data Quality in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join The American Council on Germany and The Hasso Plattner Institute in NYC for a discussion with Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann\, Professor for Information Systems\, Digital Engineering Faculty at the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam. \nProf. Dr. Felix Naumann studied mathematics\, economy\, and computer sciences at the University of Technology in Berlin and completed his PhD thesis in the field of data quality at Humboldt University of Berlin in 2000. After working as a Postdoctoral Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center working on data integration topics\, he became assistant professor for information integration at Humboldt-University. Since 2006 he holds the Chair for Information Systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) at the University of Potsdam in Germany. He has been visiting researcher at QCRI\, AT&T Research\, IBM Research\, and SAP. His research interests include data profiling\, data quality and cleansing\, and data integration\, recorded in over 250 scientific publications. Next to numerous program committee memberships for international conferences\, he has organized several conferences in various roles and he is the Editor-in-Chief of ACM’s Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/data-quality-in-the-age-of-ai/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
ORGANIZER;CN="American Council on Germany":MAILTO:events@acgusa.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240912T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240912T093000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
CREATED:20240911T162218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T162239Z
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SUMMARY:Under Construction: A Transatlantic Blueprint  for Ukraine’s Recovery
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join the American Council on Germany for a breakfast briefing with Heather Conley President of the German Marshall Fund (2007 Young Leader) \n  \nHeather Conley is the sixth president of the German Marshall Fund. She arrives at GMF after 12 years at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)\, where she most recently served as senior vice president for Europe\, Eurasia\, and the Arctic and as director of the Europe\, Russia\, and Eurasia Program. She previously served four years as executive director of the Office of the Chairman of the Board at the American National Red Cross\, where she supported the first comprehensive reform of the governance structure of the American Red Cross Board since 1947\, incorporating modern best-governance practices. She worked closely with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the International Movement’s policies and programs in the Middle East and elsewhere. From 2001 to 2005\, Ms. Conley was deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs with responsibilities for U.S. bilateral relations with the countries of Northern and Central Europe. She co-led the U.S. interagency effort to enlarge NATO and secure Senate ratification of an Amended NATO Treaty\, and she created a senior level U.S. dialogue with the eight Nordic and Baltic states\, the Enhanced Partnership in Europe (e-PINE). \nMs. Conley began her career in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. She was selected to serve as special assistant to the coordinator of U.S. assistance to the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union\, and she has received two State Department Meritorious Honor Awards. Ms. Conley frequently appears as a foreign policy analyst and Europe expert on CNN\, MSNBC\, BBC\, NPR\, and PBS\, among other prominent media outlets. She received her B.A. in international studies from West Virginia Wesleyan College and her M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/under-construction-a-transatlantic-blueprint-for-ukraines-recovery/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
ORGANIZER;CN="American Council on Germany":MAILTO:events@acgusa.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
CREATED:20240911T161430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T161430Z
UID:10001018-1726660800-1726666200@www.acgusa.org
SUMMARY:Elections in Eastern Germany and the United States:  Reactions and Observations from the Next Generation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join the American Council on Germany (ACG) and the German-American Institute Saxony (DAIS) for a roundtable discussion on the recent elections in Eastern Germany and the upcoming elections in the United States with three students from Eastern Germany\, who will have just completed a study tour to Washington\, DC\, Pennsylvania\, and upstate New York.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/elections-in-eastern-germany-and-the-united-states-reactions-and-observations-from-the-next-generation/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
ORGANIZER;CN="American Council on Germany":MAILTO:events@acgusa.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240923T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240923T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
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SUMMARY:German-American Relations after the U.S. Election: A German Business Perspective
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a discussion and reception with Eckart von Klaeden\, Vice President and Head of External Affairs of Mercedes-Benz Group AG (1997 Young Leader).[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Eckart von Klaeden joined Daimler AG – now Mercedes-Benz Group AG – in 2013\, and has been Head of External Affairs ever since. In his current position\, he is responsible for the Group´s external relations and political dialogue worldwide. He reports directly to the Chairman of the Board of Management\, Ola Kaellenius. \nMr. von Klaeden served as a member of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 2013. As a Member of Parliament\, he held various positions: among others from 2000 – 2005 as parliamentary director\, from 2005 – 2009 as foreign policy spokesperson for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. As of 2004\, he was a member of the CDU’s Federal Executive Committee\, from 2006 – 2013 he also served as a member of the Presidium and from 2006 – 2010 as treasurer of the CDU. As of 2009\, he was Minister of State at the Office of the Federal Chancellor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/german-american-relations-after-the-u-s-election-a-german-business-perspective/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
CREATED:20240923T132411Z
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SUMMARY:How Can International Cooperation Strengthen Democracy and Combat Antisemitism in Germany and the United States?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a breakfast briefing with Dr. Sharon Nazarian\, President of the Y&S Nazarian Family Foundation and Inaugural Gahl Hodges Burt Scholar at the American Academy in Berlin. \nDr. Sharon S. Nazarian was earlier this year the inaugural Gahl Hodges Burt Scholar at the American Academy in Berlin. She is an expert on antisemitism and its intersection with democratic crisis across Europe\, North America\, and Australia. Dr. Nazarian is the president of the Y&S Nazarian Family Foundation\, with a regional office in Israel called the Ima Foundation. She is the founder of the Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at University of California\, Los Angeles\, housed at UCLA’s International Institute\, which provides a systematic\, academic study of contemporary Israel. In 2017\, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) appointed Dr. Nazarian as senior vice president in international affairs. She served in this role for five years\, acting as chief diplomat and policymaker of ADL\, meeting with heads of state\, foreign ministers\, and leaders of Jewish communities around the world and advancing ADL’s initiatives for fighting antisemitism and racial hatred globally. She also oversaw ADL’s Israel office. \nDr. Nazarian currently serves as a member of ADL’s national board of directors\, a trustee of the board of Freedom House\, and is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. She also chairs the board of the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA and sits on the board of governors of University of Haifa. Dr. Nazarian studied journalism and international relations at the University of Southern California\, where also received her master’s and doctoral degrees in political science\, specializing in political economy and economic development in newly industrialized countries.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/how-can-international-cooperation-strengthen-democracy-and-combat-antisemitism-in-germany-and-the-united-states-2/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
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SUMMARY:Meeting Common Challenges in a Complex Environment: Sustainability\, Supply Chains\, and Semiconductors
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a reception and discussion with Holly Evans\, Senior Vice President of Environmental Policy and Legal Affairs at Responsible Business Alliance\, and Corinna Wolf\, Vice President and Global Head of Sustainability for Infineon Technologies.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Facgusa.mystagingwebsite.com%2Fpolicy-engagement%2Fsept-25-2024-discussion-with-holly-evans-and-corinna-wolf” css=”.vc_custom_1727097935856{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/meeting-common-challenges-in-a-complex-environment-sustainability-supply-chains-and-semiconductors/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
CREATED:20240923T132825Z
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SUMMARY:Radical Universalism
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG and the Goethe Institut New York will host a discussion with Omri Boehm\, Associate Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research. This discussion is part of our Double Exposure series\, on what the idea of solidarity means in different contexts.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fradical-universalism-with-omri-boehm-tickets-1021855536417%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator%26mc_cid%3D9e71893646%26mc_eid%3D1cbde7144f” css=”.vc_custom_1727098080653{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/radical-universalism/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241002T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241002T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
CREATED:20240927T152215Z
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SUMMARY:East Meets West: Recalibrating the Economic Interdependence Between Europe and China
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a discussion and reception with Thomas Heck\, Partner and the German Foreign Business Network Leader at PwC US\, and Frauke Steiner\, Partner and the Leader of the German Business Network in the U.S at EY. \n  \nThomas Heck is a Partner on Secondment and the German Foreign Business Network Leader at PwC US. In this role\, he is serving German MNCs with operations in the United States and collaborates with PwC teams from all PwC Lines of Services in the U.S. and Germany. His clients include companies from various industries such as automotive\, chemicals and retail & consumer products. In his previous role\, Mr. Heck was the Head of the China Business Group at PwC Germany and Chairman of the European China Business Group at PwC from August 2016 until April 2024. He advised Chinese companies on their investments in Europe as well as European companies with their investment in China and Asia. During a secondment to China from 2012 – 2016\, Mr. Heck led the German Business Group of PwC Hong-Kong and Mainland China. During a secondment to New York 2005-2007\, he served US MNCs as an audit manager. \nMr. Heck graduated from Hochschule Pforzheim in 1998. From 2000 to 2005\, he was a guest lecturer at Pforzheim Business School. From 2012 to 2016\, he was a guest lecturer at Tongji University in Shanghai. Mr. Heck is a frequent speaker at conferences and guest on podcasts. \nFrauke Steiner is a Partner in the Assurance practice at EY Germany and has been assigned to EY US since summer 2024. She leads the firm’s German Business Network in the U.S.\, where she supports German\, Austrian\, and Swiss businesses. She has significant industry experience in the automotive sector and industrial production. \nMs. Steiner joined EY in 2006 and worked in Nuremberg. Before her secondment to New York\, she spent eight years in China as one of three GBN representative for China auditing\, coordinating engagements\, and advising German-speaking clients doing businesses in Greater China. Ms. Steiner has several years’ experience auditing listed DAX40 enterprises including the assessment of internal control environment (SOX) as well as providing audit and advisory services to mid-size and larger companies in Germany and subsidiaries overseas. \nMs. Steiner studied Business Administration at the University of Nuremberg and holds a dual degree Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) from Tsinghua University and INSEAD European Business School.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/east-meets-west-recalibrating-the-economic-interdependence-between-europe-and-china/
LOCATION:American Council on Germany\, Germany
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T200000
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SUMMARY:Freedom – Limitations and Exclusion
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On October 10\, the ACG and 1014 will host a discussion and reception with Dr. Alexander Görlach\, Adjunct Professor at the NYU Gallatin School\, and Dr. Aziz Rana\, Professor of Law and Government at Boston College.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fdiscussion-freedom-limitations-and-exclusions-tickets-1022924774537%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator” css=”.vc_custom_1727725038504{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. Alexander Görlach is an adjunct professor at NYU Gallatin School\, where he teaches democratic theory. Before that\, he had various positions as a visiting scholar and  fellow at Harvard University in the United States\, Cambridge University\, and Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York and a senior advisor to the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. He holds a ThD in comparative religion and a Ph.D. in linguistics. His academic interests include democratic theory\, politics and religion\, and theories of secularism\, pluralism\, and cosmopolitanism. In the academic year 2017-18\, he was a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University and City University Hong Kong. Since then\, he has focused on the rise of China and what it means for the democracies in East Asia. Dr. Görlach is an honorary professor of ethics and theology at Leuphana University in Lüneburg\, Germany. He is the founder of the debate magazine The European\, which he also ran as its editor-in-chief from 2009 to 2015. Today\, he is an op-ed contributor to the New York Times\, Neue Zürcher Zeitung\, and the South China Morning Post. He is a columnist for the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche\, Deutsche Welle\, and Focus Online. He is a frequent commentator on German News Channel WeLT TV. \nDr. Aziz Rana is a law professor at Boston College Law School\, where his research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development. His work focuses on how shifting notions of race\, citizenship\, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the founding. \nRana’s first book\, The Two Faces of American Freedom (Harvard University Press)\, situates the American experience within the global history of colonialism\, examining the intertwined relationship in American constitutional practice between internal accounts of freedom and external projects of power and expansion. His forthcoming book\, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them (University of Chicago Press\, 2024)\, explores the modern emergence of constitutional veneration in the twentieth century — especially against the backdrop of growing American global authority — and how veneration has influenced the boundaries of popular politics. \nHe received a B.A. from Harvard College\, my J.D. from Yale Law School\, and my Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/freedom-limitations-and-exclusion/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T093000
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SUMMARY:The Final Countdown:  A German Perspective on the U.S. Election
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a discussion with Juliane Schäuble\, U.S. Correspondent of Der Tagesspiegel \n  \nJuliane Schäuble has been reporting for the Berlin-based daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel from Washington\, D.C. since June 2018. Before her current position\, she most recently headed the political department\, where she was responsible for the front page and the political section. She has more than 10 years of experience in the business and political department. Ms. Schäuble has developed and continues to organize political conferences on a regular basis in cooperation with the Freie Universität Berlin and the Schwarzkopf-Stiftung. She earned her master’s degree in political science at the University of Potsdam\, Germany. Her studies included one semester at American University in Washington\, DC\, where she took classes in American foreign policy and worked part-time for the American Council of Young Political Leaders. \nIn 2009 and 2010\, she was trained in the Media Manager Program of the publishing house Georg von Holtzbrinck. In 2006\, she was a Fellow of the Johanna Quandt Foundation for economic journalists. Ms. Schäuble has taken part in numerous leadership programs\, including the Manfred Wörner Seminar of the German Marshall Fund and the Armed Forces Office of the German Defense Ministry; Atlantik-Brücke’s German-American Young Leaders Conference; the Collaborative Leadership Program of Leadership Berlin – Netzwerk Verantwortung; and the Young Leaders Conference of the Council for the United States and Italy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-final-countdown-a-german-perspective-on-the-u-s-election/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T093000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
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SUMMARY:The Future of the Transatlantic Partnership Against the Backdrop of Political Uncertainty in Germany and the US
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a discussion with State Minister Markus Blume\, Bavarian State Minister for Science and the Arts and Member of the Bavarian State Parliament (CSU) \n  \nMarkus Blume has been appointed Bavarian State Minister for Science and the Arts in 2022. He served as Secretary General of the CSU from 2018 to 2022 and has been a Member of the Bavarian State Parliament since 2008. Mr. Blume first studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich\, and then political science at the Bavaria School of Public Policy Munich. Markus Blume is a highly respected policymaker and widely seen as the driving force of Bavaria’s political\, economic\, and technological modernization. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-future-of-the-transatlantic-partnership-against-the-backdrop-of-political-uncertainty-in-germany-and-the-us/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241028T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
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SUMMARY:Double Exposure: Ethnicity and the Politics of Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG and the Goethe Institut will host a discussion with Dr. Susan. Neiman and Dr. Keidrick Roy. \n  \nWhat unites individuals to engage in political struggles across geographical\, social\, religious\, and political divides and perceived boundaries? How do solidarity movements challenge the interests and positions of powerful states and systems\, both past and present? Solidarity work between minority groups and communities has fluctuated throughout history with common efforts and transnational solidarity has been integral to change and progress. However\, international solidarities and their ideological differences have evolved overtime. Join moral philosopher Susan Neiman and scholar Keidrick Roy for a discussion on the intersection of politics\, ethnicity\, race\, and solidarity in today’s complex world. What is political solidarity? How is political solidarity shaped by race\, religion\, and ethnicity? If there is no shared vision for the future\, is collective solidarity hopeless? Together\, they will explore how collective memory and history influences our political landscape and the challenges of encouraging solidarity across racial\, ethnic\, and ideological divides. \n  \nSusan Neiman is an American philosopher and writer. She has written extensively on the Enlightenment\, moral philosophy\, metaphysics\, and politics. Her work shows that philosophy is a living force for contemporary thinking and action. \nBorn and raised in Atlanta\, Georgia\, during the Civil Rights Movement\, Dr. Neiman dropped out of high school to join American activists working for peace and justice. Later she studied philosophy at Harvard University\, earning her Ph.D. in 1986 under the direction of John Rawls and Stanley Cavell. In the 80s she spent six years in Berlin\, studying at the Free University and working as a freelance writer. She was professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University. In 2000 she assumed her current position as director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. \nDr. Neiman has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, a Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio\, and a Senior Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. She is now a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She is the author of nine books\, translated into 15 languages\, which have won prizes from\, among others\, PEN\, the Association of American Publishers\, and the American Academy of Religion. Her shorter pieces have appeared in The New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, The Globe and Mail\, The Guardian\, Die Zeit\, Der Spiegel\, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\, and many other publications. \n  \nKeidrick Roy is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a scholar of American history\, literature\, and political thought since the Revolutionary era. In 2025\, he will be Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. His research brings the ideas of prominent and lesser-known African American figures across U.S. history to bear on urgent social and political concerns\, including the place of race\, religion\, and optimism in modern society. Dr. Roy’s forthcoming book\, American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism\, reveals how a Black liberal tradition that developed in the years leading up to the Civil War holds vital lessons for us today as hate groups threaten U.S. democracy. \nDr. Roy has received national attention through media outlets such as CBS News Sunday Morning and the Chicago Review of Books and appears in the HBO documentary Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches. He has also curated two major exhibitions on Black American figures at the American Writers Museum in Chicago\, including Frederick Douglass\, Ida B. Wells\, and Ralph Ellison. Before joining academia\, Dr. Roy served as a nuclear operations officer in the military and has since been an award-winning educator at the United States Air Force Academy and Harvard.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/double-exposure-ethnicity-and-the-politics-of-solidarity/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241029T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241029T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
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SUMMARY:Elections\, Law\, and Politics
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On October 29\, the ACG and 1014 will host a discussion as part of our Superwahljahr series with Prof. Franz Mayer\, Chair in Public Law\, European Law\, Comparative Law\, and Law and Politics at the University of Bielefeld and Scholar in Residence at Columbia University[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Prof. Franz Mayer holds the Chair in Public Law\, European Law\, Public International Law\, Comparative Law and Law and Politics at the University of Bielefeld (Law Faculty). He studied Law\, Political Science and History at the Universities of Bonn and Munich\, at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) and at Yale Law School. Visiting researcher Harvard Law School 2000; annual Visiting lecturer University of Warsaw since 2000; Visiting professor at Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) 2007 and at Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas) 2010; General Course Academy of European Law\, European University Institute\, Florence\, 2011; Senior Emile Noël Fellow\, NYU School of Law 2011; Visiting professor of Law at Columbia Law School Winter term 2012/2013; Short Term International Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School Fall term 2024 (non-resident). \nProfessor Mayer was Counsel in proceedings at the German Constitutional Court to the German Parliament in the Treaty of Lisbon-trial in 2008-2009 and in the first case related to the Euro-crisis\, the case on the Euro stabilization mechanism 2010-2012\, his most recent case for the German Parliament was the Next Generation EU-case on the €800 billion temporary recovery instrument (2021-2022). He was Counsel at the German Constitutional Court to the German government in the CETA case (2016-2022) and in the case on the Unified European Patent Court (2017-2020). His most recent case for the German government concerns the constitutionality of the new EP election law (2023-2024). In 2023\, he was part of a Franco-German Group of 12 experts invited by the German and the French minister for Europe to write a report on institutional reform of the EU. \nHis teaching and research interests focus on European constitutional and administrative law\, on comparative law\, on the relationship between European law and politics\, on parliaments in times of globalization\, on internet law\, sports law (European soccer law) and more generally on international law and public law. Since 2016\, he has been a member of the German Football Association’s Federal Court (DFB Bundesgericht)\, ethics chamber. He has dual French and German citizenship and lives in Berlin with his family.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register” style=”classic” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fdiscussion-superwahljahr-2024-elections-law-and-politics-tickets-1047881320237″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/superwahljahr-2024-elections-law-and-politics/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241029T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241029T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
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SUMMARY:German-American Relations after the U.S Election and  ahead of German Elections in 2025
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On October 29\, the American Council on Germany and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) New York Office will host an event with Hermann Gröhe\, member of the German Bundestag and Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group. \n  \nHermann Gröhe is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister of Health in the third cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2013 until 2018. Becoming a member of the CDU in 1977\, Mr. Gröhe has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1994. Between 1998 and 2005\, he was his parliamentary group’s spokesperson on human rights and humanitarian aid. He subsequently served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2005 until 2008. From 2008 until 2009\, Mr. Gröhe briefly served as Minister of State at the Federal Chancellery under Chancellor Angela Merkel. \nDuring his time in office as Federal Minister of Health\, Mr. Gröhe focused heavily on global health issues. In March 2016\, Mr. Gröhe was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth\, which was co-chaired by presidents François Hollande of France and Jacob Zuma of South Africa. He later led Germany’s delegation to the 2016 High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS in New York. \nSince March 2018\, Mr. Gröhe has been serving as deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. In this capacity\, he oversees the group’s initiatives on social affairs and development policy. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/german-american-relations-after-the-u-s-election-and-ahead-of-german-elections-in-2025/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241112T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241112T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
CREATED:20241104T220229Z
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SUMMARY:Let's Talk Democracy: Quo Vadis\, America?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join 1014\, the American Council on Germany\, and the Goethe Institut for a discussion with Dr. Alexander Görlach Adjunct Professor\, NYU Gallatin School and Dr. Daniel Ziblatt\, Director\, Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and Professor of Government\, Harvard University. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Flets-talk-democracy-quo-vadis-america-tickets-1048892003217%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nDr. Alexander Görlach is an adjunct professor at NYU Gallatin School\, where he teaches democratic theory. Before that\, he held various positions as a visiting scholar and fellow at Harvard University\, as well as Cambridge and Oxford Universities in the United Kingdom. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York and a senior advisor to the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. He holds a doctorate in Comparative Religion and a doctorate in Linguistics. His academic interests include democratic theory\, politics and religion\, and theories of secularism\, pluralism\, and cosmopolitanism. In the academic year 2017-18\, he was a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University and City University Hong Kong. Since then\, he has focused on the rise of China and what it means for the democracies in East Asia. Dr. Görlach is an honorary Professor of Ethics and Theology at Leuphana University in Lüneburg\, Germany. He is the Founder of the debate magazine The European\, which he also ran as its editor-in-chief from 2009 to 2015. Today\, he is an op-ed contributor to the New York Times\, Neue Zürcher Zeitung\, and the South China Morning Post. He is a columnist for the business magazines Wirtschaftswoche\, Deutsche Welle\, and Focus Online. He is a frequent commentator on German News Channel WELT TV. \n  \nDr. Daniel Ziblatt is the director of Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies where he is also Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University. He leads a research group based in Germany at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. His research focuses on Europe and the comparative study of democracy. He is the author of four books\, including How Democracies Die (2018)\, co-authored with Steven Levitsky\, a New York Times best-seller and described by The Economist magazine as “the most important book of the Trump era.” The book has been translated into thirty languages. In 2023\, he published Tyranny of the Minority (w/ Steve Levitsky)\, an analysis of American democracy in comparative perspective\, also a New York Times bestseller. Prior to this\, he was the author of the prize-winning book Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Cambridge University Press\, 2017)\, a history of democracy in Europe\, in addition to a book on European state-building entitled Structuring the State (Princeton University Press\, 2006). In 2023\, Ziblatt was elected member of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/lets-talk-democracy-quo-vadis-america/
LOCATION:Goethe\, 30 Irving Place\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241113T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
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SUMMARY:2024 John J. McCloy Awards Dinner
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URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/2024-john-j-mccloy-awards-dinner/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T200000
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CREATED:20241108T213121Z
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SUMMARY:Multilateralism under Trump 2.0: A German Perspective
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Council on Germany and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) New York Office invite you to a discussion and reception with Roderich Kiesewetter\, Member of the German Bundestag (CDU/CSU) on “Multilateralism under Trump 2.0: A German Perspective”[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fdiscussion-on-multilateralism-under-trump-20-a-german-perspective-tickets-1075672688969%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator” css=”.vc_custom_1731101439538{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Roderich Kiesewetter is Member of the German Parliament (CDU) and former General Staff Officer of the Bundeswehr. He studied economics in Munich and Austin/Texas. He served for almost 30 years in the German Armed Forces in various command\, staff assignments and in various foreign missions. He has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009. Kiesewetter is representative of foreign affairs for the CDU/CSU-Caucus and deputy chairperson of the Parliamentary Oversight Panel. In 2022 he was elected as Spokesperson for crisis prevention. Since 2019 Kiesewetter is Speaker of the advisory council of the Federal Academy for Security Policy Council.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/multilateralism-under-trump-2-0-a-german-perspective/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
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SUMMARY:What Comes Next? The Impact of the New European Commission’s Digital Policy on Transatlantic Businesses
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join the American Council on Germany and the American Business Forum on Europe for a Lunch Discussion with Oliver Süme\, Partner at Fieldfisher and Chair of the Board of the Internet Industry Association (eco) on “What Comes Next? The Impact of the New European Commission’s Digital Policy on Transatlantic Businesses” \nThe European AI Act was adopted on August 1\, 2024\, and although the new AI supervisory authority is still under construction\, there is already additional digital regulation appearing at the horizon: The European Data Act will apply in September 2025\, regulating the entire Internet of Things Industry and aiming to further enhance Europe’s data economy. What impact will this very complex regulatory framework have on transatlantic businesses and what can we expect from the new European Commission\, which will begin its work in December 2024?[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fdiscussion-with-oliver-sume-tickets-1070620648179%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator” css=”.vc_custom_1731101295162{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Oliver Süme is a Partner at the European law firm Fieldfisher and Chair of the Board of the Internet Industry Association. He advises his international clients on all legal challenges in Technology Law\, in particular IT contract law\, data protection and legal issues relating to IT security. Mr. Süme is also Chair of the Board of eco – Association of the Internet Industry and heads the data protection working group of EuroISPA\, the European umbrella organization of internet service providers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/what-comes-next-the-impact-of-the-new-european-commissions-digital-policy-on-transatlantic-businesses/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241125T193000
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SUMMARY:“Double Exposure: Is Interest Politics Dead?”
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG and the Geothe Institut are having a discussion with Dr. Delia Baldassarri and Dr. Jan-Werner Müller on “Double Exposure: Is Interest Politics Dead?” \nToday’s societies are characterized by a high degree of diversity and complexity. Cultural\, ethnic\, religious\, and linguistic differences can make social cohesion difficult. Against this backdrop\, political and public institutions can foster solidarity across social groups. How do these different interest groups interact with public and political institutions? As polarization and populism reshape the political arena\, understanding the role of interest politics is critical. Independent courts\, political parties\, and a free press can play a critical role in this regard. Dr. Delia Baldassarri and Dr. Jan-Werner Müller will explore the forces promoting and disrupting social cohesion in today’s complex environment.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Delia Baldassari is Julius Silver\, Roslyn S. Silver\, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University. She holds courtesy appointments in the Wilf Family Department of Politics and in the Management and Organizations Department at the Stern School of Business. Dr. Baldassarri earned a B.A. and a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento\, Italy (2003; 2006)\, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University (2007). Previously\, she was an Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor at Princeton University. \nDr. Baldassarri’s research interests are in the fields of Economic Sociology\, Political Sociology\, Social Networks\, and Analytical Sociology. Her current research projects include a study of the emergence of cooperation in complex societies\, focusing on the empirical case of ethnically heterogeneous communities and a book project\, Partisan Misfits\, that investigates the demographic and social network bases of partisanship in American public opinion. Dr. Baldassarri has received a few career awards\, including the Freeman Award\, given by the International Network of Social Network Analysis to distinguished scholars in the field of social networks\, the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship\, the Raymond Boudon Award for early career achievement from the European Academy of Sociology\, and the Hans L. Zetterberg Prize in Sociology. \nJan-Werner Müller studied at the Free University\, Berlin\, University College\, London\, St. Antony’s College\, Oxford\, and Princeton University. From 1996 until 2003 he was a Fellow at All Souls College\, Oxford; from 2003 until 2005 he was Fellow in Modern European Thought at the European Studies Centre\, St. Antony’s College. Since 2005 he has been teaching in the Politics Department\, Princeton University. \nDr. Müller has been a visiting fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg\, Berlin\, Collegium Helsinki\, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna\, and a number of other institutes; he has also been a Member of the School of Historical Studies\, Institute of Advanced Study\, Princeton.  He has  taught as a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, Paris\, the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität in Munich\, American University\, Beirut\, the Law School of Haifa University\, the Humboldt Universität in Berlin\, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques\, Paris.  He has delivered the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford and the Tanner Lectures at Cambridge; he also offered lectures on the European Union and democracy at the Collège de France in 2024. \nDr. Müller is a co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts\, Berlin (ECLA; today: Bard Berlin)\, Berlin\, Germany’s first private\, English-speaking liberal arts college\, for which he served as founding research director. He maintains a strong interest in international teaching and research initiatives centered on the liberal arts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/double-exposure-is-interest-politics-dead/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241203T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241203T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171402
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SUMMARY:A Central Banker’s View on the Current Developments in Germany\, Europe and the United States
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Council on Germany is having a discussion with Burkhard Balz on “A Central Banker’s View on the Current Developments in Germany\, Europe and the United States” \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Burkhard Balz Burkhard Balz\, born in 1969\, has served on the Bundesbank’s Executive Board since September 2018 and is responsible for the Directorates General Payments and Settlement Systems\, Cash Management\, Digital Euro and International Central Bank Dialogue. He is a member of the Eurosystem High-Level Task Force on central bank digital currency. Mr. Balz is also a Member of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures of the Bank for International Settlements. Since January 2024 he is alternate member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlement. \nFrom 2009 up until joining the Deutsche Bundesbank\, Mr. Balz was a Member of the Euro-pean Parliament\, where he sat on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and served as the financial policy spokesman of the European People’s Party (EPP) between 2014 and 2018. Mr. Balz was Chair of the European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum from 2014 to 2018\, which is composed of financial market stakeholders and high-level representatives of the EU Institutions. Prior to his membership of the European Parliament\, Mr. Balz held various positions at Commerzbank AG in Brussels and Hanover.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/a-central-bankers-view-on-the-current-developments-in-germany-europe-and-the-united-states/
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SUMMARY:Global Trends and Rising Challenges:  A Recap of the 2024 Super Election Year
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]1014\, the American Council on Germany\, and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York Office are holding a discussion with Dr. Liana Fix and Dr. John Glenn on “Global Trends and Rising Challenges: A Recap of the 2024 Super Election Year”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dr. Liana Fix is a fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is a historian and political scientist\, with expertise in German and European foreign and security policy\, European security\, transatlantic relations\, Russia\, Eastern Europe\, and European China policy. Dr. Fix is also the author of A New German Power? Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2021). She is an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University in the Center for German and European Studies and the Center for Eurasian\, Russian\, and East European Studies. \nPrior to joining CFR\, Dr. Fix was program director for international affairs at Körber-Stiftung in Berlin. She was also a resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington\, DC\, and a DAAD/AICGS fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. From 2018 to 2019\, she was a fellow for global governance futures at the Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues. From 2014 to 2016\, Dr. Fix was a doctoral fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations. From 2012 to 2013\, Dr. Fix worked as a Mercator fellow for international affairs at the German Federal Foreign Office\, the EU Delegation in Tbilisi\, and the Carnegie Moscow Center. \nDr. Fix has contributed essays\, policy papers\, and articles to journals including Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, and the Washington Quarterly\, among others. She is also a frequent contributor to international and German-language media. \nDr. Fix received her MSc in theory and history of international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and her PhD in political science from the Justus Liebig University Giessen. She is a member of the Aspen Rising Leaders\, the BMW Responsible Leaders Network\, and of Women in International Security. \n  \nDr. John K. Glenn is senior director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies\, where he oversees and develops the Forum’s cross-cutting analytic and research activity in areas including transnational kleptocracy\, the integrity of the information space\, emerging technology\, and modern authoritarian influence. He has over 20 years of international experience in the nonprofit\, foundation\, and academic sectors\, having previously served as policy director at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition\, director of foreign policy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States\, and executive director of the Council for European Studies. \nHe serves as adjunct faculty at the Elliott School for International Relations at George Washington University where he teaches graduate seminars on transatlantic relations\, having previously taught at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is also an HFX Fellow on the Agenda Working Group for the Halifax International Security Forum. \nDr. Glenn holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and Ph.D. and A.M. from Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is the author of numerous articles\, reports\, and books on international affairs and democratic development\, including Framing Democracy (Stanford University Press) and The Power and Limits of NGOs (Columbia University Press\, co-edited with Sarah Mendelson).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/global-trends-and-rising-challenges-a-recap-of-the-2024-super-election-year/
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SUMMARY:German Politics and the Future of German-American Relations
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG is having a discussion with Till Knorn\, German Consul General in New York\, on\, “German Politics and the Future of German-American Relations.” \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Till Knorn has been the German Consul General in New York since August 2024. Prior to that he served as the Chief of Protocol in the German Foreign Office (2020 to 2024) after three years as the Deputy Chief of Protocol. From 2015 to 2017\, he was Head of Division\, responsible for state and official visits. From 2013 to 2015\, Mr. Knorn was Deputy Head of the Political Section at Germany’s Permanent Mission to the UN in New York. Other positions in the Foreign Office included two years as the Deputy Head of the Crisis Response Center in Berlin (2011 to 1013)\, Desk Officer responsible for the UN Security Council (2003 to 2005)\, and a posting to Sri Lanka as the Head of the Legal and Consular Affairs Section (2001 to 2002). From 2006 to 2011\, he was seconded to the State of Hessen\, where he served as the Foreign Policy Advisor to the Minister-President. Mr. Knorn began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Hamburg and joined the Federal Foreign Office in 1999. He was a high school exchange student in St. Louis\, MO\, and is a lawyer by training.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/german-politics-and-the-future-of-german-american-relations/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T180000
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SUMMARY:Democracy in the United States and Germany: Resilient or Fragile?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\n\n1014\, the ACG\, and the Goethe-Institut are hosting a discussion and reception with Dr. Alexander Görlach and Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe state of Western democracies has been a central theme in the U.S. election and is also significant in Germany\, where the governing coalition has collapsed and securing ruling majorities has become increasingly difficult. With a new administration in Washington and snap elections looming in Germany\, this discussion\, part of the “Let’s Talk Democracy” series\, will examine the current trends: Are our democracies resilient to the threats posed by\, inter alia\, populist movements? Can we take our liberal democracies for granted\, or do we need to protect increasingly fragile systems? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fdemocracy-in-the-united-states-and-germany-resilient-or-fragile-tickets-1117925117119%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator” css=”.vc_custom_1736968338149{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook is Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Berlin. She served previously as CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). Ms. Clüver Ashbrook was executive director of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge\, Massachusetts for ten years. The project\, which she co-founded\, addresses 21st-century foreign policy challenges through research by international leaders in academia and diplomacy as well as teaching conflict research and prevention. Beginning in 2018\, Ms. Clüver Ashbrook also directed a research program on Europe and transatlantic relations. Previously\, she served on the management board of the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels and worked as both a consultant and senior journalist at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in France and China\, among other countries. She began her career as a television journalist at CNN International in Atlanta and London. \nMs. Clüver Ashbrook contributes to international publications\, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post\, as well as leading German media on transatlantic relations – especially trade and security policy – and German foreign and digital policy. Additionally\, she advises foreign ministries in Europe and South America on their digital strategy. She received her undergraduate honors degree in international relations and French civilization from Brown University\, a master’s degree in European studies from the London School of Economics\, and a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School where she was a Hauser Fellow in Non-Profit Management. \nDr. Alexander Görlach is an adjunct professor at NYU Gallatin School\, where he teaches democratic theory. Before that\, he held various positions as a visiting scholar and fellow at Harvard University\, as well as Cambridge and Oxford Universities in the United Kingdom. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York and a senior advisor to the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. He holds a doctorate in Comparative Religion and a doctorate in Linguistics. His academic interests include democratic theory\, politics and religion\, and theories of secularism\, pluralism\, and cosmopolitanism. In the academic year 2017-18\, he was a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University and City University Hong Kong. Since then\, he has focused on the rise of China and what it means for the democracies in East Asia. \nDr. Görlach is an honorary Professor of Ethics and Theology at Leuphana University in Lüneburg\, Germany. He is the Founder of the debate magazine The European\, which he also ran as its editor-in-chief from 2009 to 2015. Today\, he is an op-ed contributor to the New York Times\, Neue Zürcher Zeitung\, and the South China Morning Post. He is a columnist for the business magazines Wirtschaftswoche\, Deutsche Welle\, and Focus Online. He is a frequent commentator on German News Channel WELT TV.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/democracy-in-the-united-states-and-germany-resilient-or-fragile-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250130T080000
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SUMMARY:Germany at a Crossroads? Navigating Germany’s Political  Landscape Ahead of the Election
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On January 30\, the ACG will host a breakfast briefing with Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook\, Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor at the Bertelsmann Foundation. \nCathryn Clüver Ashbrook is Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Berlin. She served previously as CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). Ms. Clüver Ashbrook was executive director of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge\, Massachusetts for ten years. The project\, which she co-founded\, addresses 21st-century foreign policy challenges through research by international leaders in academia and diplomacy as well as teaching conflict research and prevention. Beginning in 2018\, Ms. Clüver Ashbrook also directed a research program on Europe and transatlantic relations. Previously\, she served on the management board of the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels and worked as both a consultant and senior journalist at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in France and China\, among other countries. She began her career as a television journalist at CNN International in Atlanta and London. \nMs. Clüver Ashbrook contributes to international publications\, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post\, as well as leading German media on transatlantic relations – especially trade and security policy – and German foreign and digital policy. Additionally\, she advises foreign ministries in Europe and South America on their digital strategy. She received her undergraduate honors degree in international relations and French civilization from Brown University\, a master’s degree in European studies from the London School of Economics\, and a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School where she was a Hauser Fellow in Non-Profit Management.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/germany-at-a-crossroads-navigating-germanys-political-landscape-ahead-of-the-election/
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