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SUMMARY:Germany's New Government: A View from the Opposition
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With a new government coming up to speed in Berlin\, there is no shortage of domestic policy issues on the agenda. From energy and the environment to public health and Covid response and from infrastructure and digitalization to fiscal policy\, there is a lot to do. But\, what is the view from the opposition? \nJoin the American Council on Germany and the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung for a virtual discussion with Markus Blume\, Secretary General of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4716421129881%2FWN_6ArqF3HsQWKWOp8y2NyrJg” css=”.vc_custom_1642113023658{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Markus Blume has been a Member of the Bavarian State Parliament since 2008 and the Secretary General of the Christian Social Union (CSU) since 2018. He has also served as the Chairman of the CSU Economic Commission since 2011 and was the editor-in-chief of the new CSU party platform which was presented in 2016. Mr. Blume first studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich\, and then political science at the Bavaria School of Public Policy Munich.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/germanys-new-government-a-view-from-the-opposition/
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SUMMARY:Berlin Keynote from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Atlantik-Brücke and its partners\, the American Council on Germany\, Aspen Institute Germany\, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States are honored to host U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken for a keynote on the transatlantic partnership. We cordially invite you to join our live stream for this exceptional occasion. \nThursday\, January 20\, 2022\n3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. (CET)\n9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. (ET)\nLivestream[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Watch Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.contentflow.de%2Fatlantik-bruecke%2F” css=”.vc_custom_1642601643609{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/berlin-keynote-from-u-s-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220118T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220118T100000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin. Join us on Tuesday\, January 18 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with journalist Miriam Hollstein\, Chief Political Reporter for FUNKE Zentralredaktion.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6616420060401%2FWN_v7WjTGYAT-uBm5aldyRTeA” css=”.vc_custom_1642006075091{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Miriam Hollstein serves as the Chief Reporter for FUNKE Zentralredaktion. She wrote for the Berliner Zeitung while still a student and worked as an editor for Internationale Politik. She worked as a foreign reporter for the Welt am Sonntag\, and from 2006-2014 was a WELT-Gruppe’s domestic policy editor and reporter. From 2015-2020 she worked for the Bild am Sonntag\, first as domestic policy and then from 2018 as chief reporter politics. Her reporting brought her into regular contact with the office of the German Chancellor. Since March 2020 she works as a freelance writer and moderator. \nIn 2009 she published the first graphic biography of Angela Merkel\, entitled “Miss Tschörmanie\,” together with illustrator Heiko Sakurai. She appears regularly on the German news program „Phoenix“\, where she speaks on political and societal issues. She regularly travels internationally for reporting assignments. In addition\, she was a 2005 Marshall Memorial Fellow\, a 2008 ACG McCloy Fellow\, and was recognized in 2015 by the DEFA Stiftung (German Film Corporation Foundation) for her contribution to the preservation of German film heritage.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-29/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220117T110000
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SUMMARY:Russia’s Threat to Ukraine: The West Responds
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Russian President Vladimir Putin has placed crosshairs on Ukraine\, a country he sees as linked to Russia and the people of Ukraine as “one people” with Russians. To back up this fixation with repairing a “historic injustice” Moscow has amassed a force of over 100\,000 troops and supporting armor and aircraft along the border with Ukraine. Leading the West’s response\, President Biden has threatened “massive consequences” if Russia invades Ukraine. \nAmerican and Russian diplomats are meeting this week. However\, the lines are drawn: Putin is demanding an end to NATO’s eastward expansion\, include Ukraine\, and Biden and the West say there will be a very high economic price to pay as well as increased deployments on NATO’s eastern flank. \nWhat is the context for this provocation and what are the U.S. and Allies prepared to do? Join the American Council on Germany and the Tennessee World Affairs Council for a discussion with former ACG Board member Ambassador John Kornblum about the crisis. Joining us from Berlin\, he will also discuss how we got to where we are and what the possible courses of action for the U.S. and Europe might be. The conversation will be led by ACG Young Leader alumnus Dr. Thomas Schwartz\, Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. This event is held in cooperation with the Belmont University Center for International Business and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tnwac.org%2Fcalendar%2Frussias-threat-to-ukraine-the-west-responds-ambassador-john-kornblum-on-u-s-europe-response%2F” css=”.vc_custom_1641925579366{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Ambassador John C. Kornblum has a long record of service in the United States and Europe both as a diplomat and as a businessman. He is recognized as an eminent expert on U.S.-European political and economic relations\, in particular in central and eastern Europe. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1997 to 2001. Before that\, he occupied a number of high-level diplomatic posts\, including U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs\, special envoy for the Dayton Peace Process\, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Process)\, Deputy U.S. Ambassador to NATO\, and U.S. Minister and Deputy Commandant of Forces in divided Berlin. From 2001 to 2009\, he was Chairman of Lazard Freres Germany. He currently serves as Senior Counsellor to the international law firm Noerr LLP and as a senior advisor to the worldwide consultancy Accenture. Ambassador Kornblum has also served on a number of Supervisory and Advisory Boards\, including those of ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG\, Bayer AG\, Russell Reynolds\, and Motorola Europe. He is a member of the Boards of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany\, the American Academy in Berlin\, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin\, and of numerous nonprofit organizations on both sides of the Atlantic\, and he is a former ACG Board member. He received a B.A. from Michigan State University in 1964\, and he has been the recipient of many awards\, including a Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit from Germany and an Order of Merit from Austria. \nDr. Thomas Schwartz (1989 ACG Young Leader) is a historian of the foreign relations of the United States\, with related interests in American politics\, the history of international relations\, Modern European history\, and biography. His most recent book is Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography (Hill and Wang\, 2020).  Earlier in his career\, Schwartz was the author of America’s Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany (Harvard\, 1991)\, which was translated into German. This book received the Stuart Bernath Book Prize of the Society of American Foreign Relations\, and the Harry S. Truman Book Award\, given by the Truman Presidential Library. He is also the author of Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam (Harvard\, 2003)\, which examined the Johnson Administration’s policy toward Europe and assessed the impact of the war in Vietnam on its other foreign policy objectives. He is the co-editor with Matthias Schulz of The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter\, (Cambridge University Press\, 2009). \nProfessor Schwartz has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council\, the German Historical Society\, the Norwegian Nobel Institute\, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, and the Center for the Study of European Integration. He has served as President of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. He served on the United States Department of State’s Historical Advisory Committee as the representative of the Organization of American Historians from 2005-2008. Professor Schwartz received The Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching on April 3\, 2013\, at the Spring Faculty Assembly\, Vanderbilt University. In 2008 Professor Schwartz received the Annual Alumni Education Award from the Vanderbilt Alumni Association. Schwartz is the recipient of the 2008 Book Award by Chi Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order. This award is given to a faculty member who has been particularly influential in the lives and education of members of KAO. Professor Schwartz presented\, “The Arab Spring: Revolution in the Middle East\,” on April 19\, 2011\, as part of the Samuel L. Shannon Distinguished Lecture Series at Tennessee State University. Professor Schwartz has also presented lectures for the OAH Distinguished Lecturers Program. \nProfessor Schwartz taught for five years at Harvard University and has been teaching at Vanderbilt since 1990.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/russias-threat-to-ukraine-the-west-responds/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220114T110000
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SUMMARY:Negotiating with Russia: What if the Talks Fail?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Earlier this week\, senior U.S. and Russian officials held talks in Geneva. Representatives from the two countries are slated to participate in a NATO-Russian Council meeting in Brussels on Wednesday and will come together again at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Vienna on Thursday. \nThese meetings come at a time when relations between Russia and the United States are fraught. Tensions stem largely from the situation on the border with Ukraine\, where Russia has positioned thousands of troops. U.S. intelligence sources believe that Moscow is planning a military offensive\, but Russia denies any intent to invade Ukraine. The situation is further complicated because Russia sent troops into neighboring Kazakhstan last week after the oil-producing former Soviet republic was hit by a wave of unrest. \nIn two conversations over the past five weeks\, U.S. President Joe Biden warned Putin that Russia would face unprecedented economic sanctions in the event of further aggression against Ukraine. The Group of Seven nations and the European Union have also threatened “massive consequences.” Join the ACG for a discussion with Russia experts Dr. Stefan Meister and Dr. Angela Stent about this week’s talks with Russia.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F5616419175033%2FWN_NBALq5PHTZC7__9azMObnQ” css=”.vc_custom_1641917588520{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. Stefan Meister has been the head of the German Council on Foreign Relations’ Program on International Order and Democracy since August 2021. From 2019 until then\, he worked as director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s South Caucasus Office. \nFrom 2017 to 2019\, Dr. Meister was head of the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe\, Russia\, and Central Asia at DGAP\, where he had previously headed its program for Eastern Europe\, Russia\, and Central Asia. Before that\, he was a senior policy fellow in the Wider Europe Team at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in Berlin and London. In the 2015/16 term\, Dr. Meister was a visiting fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington\, DC\, where he wrote on Russian disinformation and propaganda. He has served as an election observer for the OSCE in post-Soviet countries several times and worked on conflict transformation and institution building in post-Soviet countries. \nDr. Meister is co-author of Geopolitics and Security: A New Strategy for the South Caucasus (KAS/DGAP/GIP\, 2018)\, The Russia File (Brookings\, 2018)\, Eastern Voices (Center for Transatlantic Relations/DGAP\, 2017)\, and The Eastern Question (Brookings\, 2016). \nHe studied international relations and East European history in Jena\, Leipzig\, and Nizhni Novgorod and holds a Ph.D. from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena with a thesis on the transformation of Russian higher education and research system. \nDr. Angela Stent (1982 ACG Young Leader) is Senior Adviser to the Center for Eurasian\, Russian\, and East European Studies at Georgetown University where she is also Professor Emerita of Government and Foreign Service. She is also a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-chairs its Hewett Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs. From 2004-06 she served as the national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. From 1999 to 2001\, she served in the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. \nDr. Stent’s publications include: From Embargo to Ostpolitik: The Political Economy of West German-Soviet Relations\, 1955-1980 (Cambridge University Press\, 1981); Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification\, The Soviet Collapse and The New Europe (Princeton University Press\, 1999); The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press\, 2014)\, for which she won the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Douglas Dillon prize for the best book on the practice of American Diplomacy. Her most recent book is Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest (Twelve Books\, 2019) for which she won the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy’s prize for the best book on U.S-Russian Relations. \nShe was a member of the senior advisory panel for NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe for Admiral James Stavridis and General Philip Breedlove. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a contributing editor to Survival and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cold War Studies\, World Policy Journal\, Internationale Politik\, and Mirovaia Ekonomika i Mezhdunarodnie Otnosheniie. She has served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Russia and Central Asia. She was a trustee of the Eurasia Foundation. Dr. Stent received her bachelor’s from Cambridge University\, her Master’s of Science with distinction from the London School of Economics and Political Science\, and her master’s and doctorate from Harvard University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/negotiating-with-russia-what-if-the-talks-fail/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220110T090000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin. \nJoin us on Monday\, January 10 at 9:00 am ET for the first Kaffeepause of the year with Bloomberg Opinion columnist Andreas Kluth. In addition to talking about what is going on in Berlin\, he’ll also share his outlook for 2022.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6016414780924%2FWN_YKnRO0GUSOe-vjwPEXqx0g” css=”.vc_custom_1641478129415{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Andreas Kluth is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. Between March of 2017 and February of 2019\, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global\, the English-language edition of Germany’s leading business newspaper. For the two decades before that\, he wrote for The Economist — in London\, Hong Kong\, Silicon Valley\, Los Angeles\, and Berlin.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-28/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211220T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211220T100000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin.\nJoin us on Monday\, December 20 at 9:00 am ET for the last kaffeepause of the year with ACG Young Leader alumnus Matthias Deiß\, Deputy Director of ARD’s television studio in Berlin.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here ” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4816395782411%2FWN_u6qXUGEiQjmzfmOPhd_24w” css=”.vc_custom_1639578333851{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Matthias Deiß is the Deputy Director of ARD’s Hauptstadtstudio in Berlin and deputy editor-in-chief of television. From 2018 to 2021\, he served as the editorial director for ARD’s political magazine Kontraste. Prior to this\, he worked from 2012 to 2017 as a TV correspondent with ARD. He studied communications and political science at the University of Munich and at the German School of Journalism in Munich.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-27/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211217T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211217T120000
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SUMMARY:Germany’s New Government is in Place: What will it do now?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Merkel era is over. Last week a new government led by the center-left Social Democrats – together with the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats – took office. How much of a break will this be from the conservative-led governments over the past 16 years under the leadership of Angela Merkel? \nThe new government made up of three parties exemplifies continuity and change. As the coalition agreement shows\, we can expect consensus and stability – but this government also wants to go in new directions and address important challenges facing the country. This government is likely to be more progressive and future-oriented than its predecessor. \nJoin us on December 17 at 11:00 am ET for an online discussion about the new German government with the Political Editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung\, Stefan Kornelius.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6916395003331%2FWN_1DY0sIE7Tm-DMreovCZuaw” css=”.vc_custom_1639500373811{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Stefan Kornelius is the Political Editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Previously he served as Foreign Editor of the paper for nearly 20 years. In his reporting career\, he has covered Germany’s Christian Democratic Party (CDU)\, the chancellorship of Helmut Kohl\, and defense issues in Europe. He served as Berlin Bureau Chief\, and from 1996 to 1999 he was the paper’s Washington correspondent. Prior to that he was a correspondent in Bonn. \nHis biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel\, entitled Angela Merkel\, the Chancellor and her World\, has been translated into 13 languages. Mr. Kornelius is a graduate of the Henri-Nannen-Journalistenschule and studied in Bonn and at the London School of Economics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/germanys-new-government-is-in-place-what-will-it-do-now/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211213T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211213T100000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin.\nJoin us on Monday\, December 13 at 9:00 am ET for a discussion on the latest developments in Berlin with Matthew Karnitschnig\, Chief European Correspondent for Politico.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F1716389882899%2FWN_hfVE7W6-RAOITyL7GOIGWA” css=”.vc_custom_1638988332624{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Matthew Karnitschnig is POLITICO’s Chief Europe Correspondent\, based in Berlin. He joined the publication in 2015 from the Wall Street Journal\, where he spent 15 years in a variety of positions as a reporter and editor in the U.S. and Europe. \nIn a career spanning two decades\, Mr. Karnitschnig has been on the front lines of some of the defining political and economic stories of our time. In 2008\, he covered the fall of Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis that ensued. He was part of a team of Journal reporters that won a Gerald Loeb Award and was named a Pulitzer finalist for National Reporting in 2009. \nHe subsequently spearheaded the WSJ’s coverage of the eurozone debt crisis as the paper’s Germany bureau chief and European economics editor. He led the team that was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 2011 and won an Overseas Press Club award in 2012. \nMr. Karnitschnig previously worked as a journalist for Business Week\, Reuters\, and Bloomberg. \nThe son of an Austrian father and American mother\, he grew up in Arizona\, where he got his start reporting as a stringer for the Phoenix Gazette during high school.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-26/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211210T110000
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SUMMARY:Beyond Biden’s ‘Democracy Summit’: Internal and External Challenges to Democracy at Home and Abroad
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Later this week\, President Joe Biden will convene more than 100 world leaders as well as representatives from civil society and the private sector for the highly anticipated virtual “Summit for Democracy.” This online event is the first of two proposed gatherings and focuses on “renewing democracy in the United States and around the world.” Holding the summit is a major step in meeting one of Biden’s main campaign promises\, but it is not free of controversy. How much can such a meeting actually achieve? \nJoin the American Council on Germany on Friday\, December 10 at 11 am ET (5 pm CET)\, for a discussion about the internal and external challenges to democracy in Europe\, the United States\, and around the world with Dr. Frances Brown\, Co-Director and Senior Fellow in the Democracy\, Conflict\, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\, and Ralf Fücks\, Managing Director of the Center for Liberal Modernity in Berlin. We’ll also hear what they hope comes out of the “Democracy Summit.” \nThis event is supported by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F2816388230436%2FWN_Y2uPgdOrRBmiOWK8YV5anA” css=”.vc_custom_1638823080256{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. Frances Z. Brown is a senior fellow and co-director of the Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy\, Conflict\, and Governance Program. She previously worked at the White House\, USAID\, and in non-governmental organizations\, and writes extensively on conflict\, governance\, and U.S. foreign policy. \nIn her last role before leaving government\, Dr. Brown served as director for democracy and fragile states on the White House National Security Council (NSC) staff\, where she helped manage policy processes on democracy support\, key political transitions\, and post-conflict stabilization efforts. Serving in both the Obama and Trump administrations\, she also convened a fragile states interagency committee\, aimed at elevating comparative insights on conflict into policy deliberations. \nPrior to the NSC\, Dr. Brown served at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Transition Initiatives\, managing stabilization and political transition programs in Afghanistan\, the Middle East\, and Africa from the field and Washington. Previous research roles include fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations\, Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies\, the U.S. Institute of Peace\, as well as her doctoral work at Oxford\, which examined donors’ bottom-up state-building and stabilization programs in conflict-affected states. Other experience outside of government includes two years in Beirut\, Lebanon; a year at the Kabul-based Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit; consulting for the Quadrennial Defense Review; shorter project-management roles in Iraq\, Jordan\, Kuwait\, and Pakistan; and political risk forecasting. \nShe has published field research projects on Afghanistan stabilization and subnational governance with the U.S. Institute of Peace\, on Syria stabilization with Carnegie\, and shorter analyses in the American Interest\, Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Christian Science Monitor\, the International Herald Tribune\, and elsewhere. On television\, Brown has commented on U.S. foreign policy for BBC World News\, ABC News (Australia)\, Al-Jazeera\, and elsewhere. She is a security fellow with the Truman National Security Project and a prior term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \nRalf Fücks is Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the Center for Liberal Moder­nity\, fol­low­ing 21 years as Pres­i­dent of the Hein­rich-Böll-Stiftung\, the polit­i­cal foun­da­tion asso­ci­ated with the Greens. At the center of his work were green eco­nom­ics and eco­log­i­cal inno­va­tion\, migra­tion\, the future of Europe\, and inter­na­tional pol­i­tics. Before that\, he was co-chair of the German Green Party (1989/​​90) and Senator of Envi­ron­ment and City Devel­op­ment in Bremen. \nMr. Fücks is con­sid­ered to be an innovative thinker\, seeking cross-party dis­course. He is an advo­cate for liberal ecology pol­i­tics\, focus­ing on inno­va­tion rather than pro­hi­bi­tion. He is a regular con­trib­u­tor to national and inter­na­tional media and co-author to numer­ous books. In 1991\, he was editor of the book “Sind die Grünen noch zu retten?” (Is There a Future for the Green Party?). In 2013 his book “Intel­li­gent Wachsen – Die grüne Rev­o­lu­tion” (Smart Growth – The Green Rev­o­lu­tion) was pub­lished in German\, fol­lowed by English\, Polish and Russian edi­tions. His second book\, “Frei­heit vertei­di­gen – wie wir den Kampf um die offene Gesellschaft gewin­nen” (Defend­ing Freedom – How We Can Win the Fight For An Open Society) is dealing with the chal­lenge liberal democ­racy is facing at home and glob­ally. In Sep­tem­ber 2019\, the anthol­ogy “Soziale Mark­twirtschaft ökol­o­gisch erneuern” (“Green­ing the Social Market Economy”) was pub­lished by Fücks together with Thomas Köhler at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/beyond-bidens-democracy-summit-internal-and-external-challenges-to-democracy-at-home-and-abroad/
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SUMMARY:Measuring the Pulse: German-American Relations on the Mend?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In late November\, a new survey on the German-American relationship conducted by the Pew Research Center and the Körber Stiftung was released. After elections in both countries and a transfer of power in the U.S. earlier this year\, the bilateral relationship appears to be on the mend. Large majorities in the U.S. and Germany believe that the relationship between their two countries is good. In a marked change from 2020\, Germans are now much more likely to name the U.S. as an important partner on a number of key issues – including the environment and trade. However\, despite an improvement in opinions about the relationship\, few Americans name Germany as their most important foreign policy partner. \nIn addition to focusing on the bilateral relationship\, the survey looks at German and American attitudes on how to best address the challenges posed by China\, Russia\, and Afghanistan; the impact of digitalization; and\, the use of military force. \nJoin the American Council on Germany for a discussion of the survey results with Julia Ganter\, the Editor of the Körber-Stiftung’s The Berlin Pulse\, and the Associate Director of Global Attitudes Research at the Pew Research Center Jacob Poushter – which will be moderated by ACG Board member Dr. Charles Kupchan\, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F7616384550086%2FWN_TJUhToPGT9eaWZg3kCfjbQ” css=”.vc_custom_1638455072936{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Julia Ganter is Program Manager for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung\, and the Editor of The Berlin Pulse\, the foundation’s annual foreign policy publication. \nPrior to joining the Körber-Stiftung\, she coordinated the Task Force for Protecting Europe from Economic Coercion at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). She gained previous work experience in the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin\, the GIZ in Brasília\, the German Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa)\, from NGO-work in Brazil and as editor of the monthly magazine Lateinamerika Nachrichten. \nMs. Ganter holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Free University of Berlin\, Humboldt University Berlin\, and the University of Potsdam. \nJacob Poushter is an associate director at Pew Research Center. He is an expert in international survey research and writes about international public opinion on a variety of topics\, including the international image of the United States and perceptions of global threats. He is also responsible for designing survey questionnaires\, managing survey projects\, analyzing data\, and developing topics for the annual Global Attitudes Survey. \nMr. Poushter received a master’s degree in international affairs from American University and a bachelor’s degree in history from Williams College. He is also an author of studies on global attitudes of cultural change\, views of the American-German relationship\, and contrasting opinions among elites and the American public. He regularly talks about the Center’s findings in print and broadcast media and has been featured on Bloomberg TV and CTV\, as well as in other international media outlets. He has also traveled to Canada\, Europe\, and Asia to explain the Center’s work and has participated in numerous presentations and panels in Washington\, DC. \nModerator: ACG Board Member Dr. Charles Kupchan is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government. From 2014 to 2017\, he served as special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) in the Barack Obama administration. He was also the director for European affairs on the NSC during the first Bill Clinton administration.  Before joining the Clinton NSC\, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the policy planning staff.  Previously\, he was an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. \nDr. Kupchan is the author of Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself From the World (2020)\, No One’s World: The West\, the Rising Rest\, and the Coming Global Turn (2012)\, How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace (2010)\, The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (2002)\, Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001)\, Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community (1999)\, Atlantic Security: Contending Visions (1998)\, Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe (1995)\, The Vulnerability of Empire (1994)\, The Persian Gulf and the West (1987)\, and numerous articles on international and strategic affairs.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/measuring-the-pulse-german-american-relations-on-the-mend/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin.\nJoin us on Monday\, December 6 at 9:00 am ET for a discussion on the latest developments in Berlin with Tom Nuttall\, Berlin Bureau Chief for The Economist.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4116383794970%2FWN_cHWu_G8iS6ap6ACML5qzbg” css=”.vc_custom_1638379564002{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Tom Nuttall has been The Economist‘s Berlin bureau chief since November 2018. Before that\, he spent four years based in Brussels writing the Charlemagne column. He has also worked as US west coast correspondent in Los Angeles\, and as an editor on the Europe desk in London. Before joining The Economist he worked as an editor at the European Council on Foreign Relations\, a think-tank\, and spent several years as a senior editor at Prospect magazine.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-25/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T110000
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SUMMARY:China’s Influence in Europe
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]China’s rapid global rise has created new challenges for the United States\, the European Union\, and individual European countries. As China’s economic and political footprint has expanded\, Beijing appears to provide an alternative to the West and offers opportunities for rapid economic development. But\, China also takes advantage of local vulnerabilities and weaknesses to exert influence. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is just one example of how Beijing is seeking greater economic\, political\, and soft power in Southeastern\, Central\, and Eastern Europe – where more favorable regulatory and economic conditions exist than in Western Europe. \nWhile China’s expanding footprint can bring socioeconomic opportunities\, it can also exacerbate governance shortfalls\, undermine political and economic stability\, and complicate the EU’s ability to reach consensus on key issues. Join the American Council on Germany for a discussion about China’s growing influence in Europe with independent journalist Melissa Chan and Dr. Mareike Ohlberg\, Senior Fellow in the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F8416383716482%2FWN_FDsJiuzdT2OgEhOSM1F6Xw” css=”.vc_custom_1638371741911{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Melissa Chan is an Emmy-nominated journalist based between Los Angeles and Berlin. She has reported everywhere from Cuba to Canada\, Mongolia to Moscow\, North and South Korea. These days she focuses on transnational issues\, often involving China’s influence beyond its borders. She has written for The New York Times where she was nominated for a Loeb Award — business journalism’s highest honor — and for The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, Time\, The Guardian\, Foreign Policy\, and more. As a contributor to the Vancouver-based Global Reporting Centre\, she investigates the complexities of global trade and its costs on ordinary people. \nAs a television journalist\, Ms. Chan takes viewers on investigative journeys through long-format news documentaries\, including the award-winning Fault Lines series. She has reported from Europe as a correspondent for VICE News Tonight\, and also presents European broadcaster DW’s news program on Asia. With Al Jazeera English\, she served as China correspondent before her expulsion from the country for the channel’s reports. Her work there received awards\, including two Human Rights Press Awards from Amnesty International and a citation from the Overseas Press Club. She was listed in Foreign Policy’s Pacific Power Index\, a list of 25 people shaping the future of US-China relations. \nDr. Mareike Ohlberg is a senior fellow in the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and leads the Stockholm China Forum. Before joining GMF\, she worked as an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies\, where she focused on China’s media and digital policies as well as the Chinese Communist Party’s influence campaigns in Europe. Prior to that\, she was an An Wang postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a postdoctoral fellow at Shih-Hsin University in Taipei. She spent several years living and working in Greater China. She is co-author of the book Hidden Hand: How the Communist Party of China is Reshaping the World (2020). Dr. Ohlberg has a doctoral degree in Chinese studies from the University of Heidelberg and a master’s degree in East Asian regional studies from Columbia University. She is a frequent commentator in the media on the global implications of China’s rise.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/chinas-influence-in-europe/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211123T110000
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SUMMARY:The Evolving Humanitarian Crisis at Europe’s Door
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In recent months\, there has been an increase in the number of migrants trying to cross the border from Belarus into Poland – and with that the European Union. As the waves of people from Afghanistan\, Iraq\, Syria\, and other countries has spiked and winter weather has become more severe\, the situation is becoming more dire. European leaders have accused the government of Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenko of facilitating illegal border crossing into Poland – as well as Latvia and Lithuania – in retaliation for EU sanctions. Although Lukashenko denies these accusations\, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding as the 3\,000 to 4\,000 migrants stranded at the border are creating the most dramatic challenge to the EU’s borders since 2015\, when hundreds of thousands of migrants gathered in Turkey to enter Europe. \nJoin the American Council on Germany for a discussion about the crisis on the border with Belarus and how the EU and the transatlantic community can best respond with Dr. Jörg Forbrig\, Senior Fellow and Director for Central and Eastern Europe at The German Marshall Fund of the United States\, and Katsiaryna Shmatsina\, Fellow at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”register here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F9416373490367%2FWN_jHfrZXTAQCi2L8TpXXnyLg” css=”.vc_custom_1637349099278{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. Jörg Forbrig is a Senior Fellow and the Director for Central and Eastern Europe in the German Marshall Fund’s Berlin office. His work focuses on Europe’s East broadly\, including the Eastern-most member countries of the European Union and NATO\, the EU’s Eastern neighborhood\, and Russia. In addition\, he leads GMF efforts to assist civil society in Belarus\, and he works closely with the Balkan Trust for Democracy and the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation to bolster democracy assistance to Central and Eastern Europe at large. Prior to joining GMF in 2002\, Dr. Forbrig worked as a Robert Bosch Foundation fellow at the Center for International Relations in Warsaw\, Poland. \nHe has been published widely on democracy\, civil society\, and Central and Eastern European affairs\, including the books Reclaiming Democracy (2007)\, Prospects for Democracy in Belarus (2006)\, and Revisiting Youth Political Participation (2005). He is also a regular contributor to major international media. Dr. Forbrig studied political science\, sociology\, and Eastern European affairs at universities in Germany\, Poland\, and Hungary. He holds a Ph.D. in social and political sciences from the European University Institute in Florence and a master’s in political science from Central European University in Budapest. He speaks English\, Russian\, Polish\, and Slovak in addition to his native German.\nKatsiaryna Shmatsina is a Fellow at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies\, where she focuses on foreign and security policy\, international risk\, Russia\, Eurasia\, and NATO. Previously\, she worked for the American Bar Association where she was involved with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)\, especially in projects on good governance and rule of law in UNDP in-country offices. She also served as a pro bono local expert on Belarus for the World Bank’s Doing Business and Women\, Business\, and the Law reports. \nIn the summer of 2019\, she was a research fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw. In 2018\, she was awarded a fellowship at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security\, Washington DC. In 2016\, she received a Civil Society Leadership Award from the Open Society Foundations. Ms. Shmatsina holds a master’s degree in International Relations from Syracuse University\, New York (2016) and a degree in law from Belarusian State University (2013). Apart from mother-tongue Belarusian\, she commands Russian\, English\, German\, and French[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-evolving-humanitarian-crisis-at-europes-door/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211122T090000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin. \nJoin us on Monday\, November 22 at 9:00 am ET for a discussion on the latest developments in coalition negotiations\, the fight against COVID\, and more with Sumi Somoskanda\, Senior News Anchor at DW News (Deutsche Welle).[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F7016373495519%2FWN_GJiNOKtPQf2ZsmdrUYWXvg” css=”.vc_custom_1637349611490{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Sumi Somoskanda is currently a senior news anchor at DW News (Deutsche Welle)\, Germany’s international broadcaster. Sumi reports on Germany for various international publications\, including The Atlantic\, Foreign Policy\, Washington Post\, Al Jazeera\, Global Post\, Newsweek\, PRI\, and USA Today. She served as an editor at the Berlin Policy Journal\, Germany’s premiere English-language foreign affairs magazine. \nShe regularly moderates panels and conferences both in Germany and the US and lectures American university students at the CIEE Global Institute in Berlin. Sumi is an alumna of the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship program and part of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network. In addition to her native English\, she speaks fluent German and Spanish\, and conversational Tamil.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-24/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211119T120000
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SUMMARY:Plundered Treasure – And The Nazi Art Thief Who Stole It
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Between 1933 and 1945\, the Nazis developed and operated an elaborate procurement system for art which they had looted from Jews and other victims of persecution during the Third Reich. Works of art were confiscated\, and many art collectors were forced to sell below value. In 2000\, a report to the U.S. Congress by historian and Holocaust researcher Dr. Jonathan Petropoulos revealed the full extent of the theft: Some 600\,000 works of art were taken by the Nazis within the sphere of influence of the Germans – a third in Germany and Austria alone. Many still have not been recovered. \nIn his latest book\, Göring’s Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World\, Dr. Petropoulos tells the story of Bruno Lohse\, one of the key art experts who helped the Nazis loot European Jews. Join the American Council on Germany for a conversation with Young Leader alumnus Jonathan Petropulos\, which will be led by Dr. Ronald J. Granieri\, Associate Professor of History in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College and Templeton Education Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute\, who is also a Young Leader alumnus.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F1016370745713%2FWN_mb56i3hcSDmcGTF–HsccA” css=”.vc_custom_1637074605643{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. Jonathan Petropoulos is an American historian who writes about National Socialism and the fate of art looted during World War II. Dr. Petropoulos is John V. Croul Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont\, California. \nHe began working on the subject of Nazi art looting and restitution in 1983 when he started his graduate work in history and art history at Harvard as a student of the late Richard M. Hunt\, Vice Chairman of the ACG. He is the author of several books on the subject. His most recent book is Göring’s Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World. \nFrom 1998 to 2000\, Dr. Petropoulos served as Research Director for Art and Cultural Property on the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States\, where he helped draft the report\, Restitution and Plunder: The U.S. and Holocaust Victims’ Assets. In this capacity\, he supervised a staff of researchers who combed archives in the United States and Europe in order to understand better how representatives of the U.S. government (including the Armed Forces) handled the assets of Holocaust victims both during and after the war. As Research Director\, he provided expert testimony to the Select Committee on Culture\, Media and Sport in the U.K. House of Commons and to the Banking and Finance Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. \nDr. Ronald J. Granieri is Associate Professor of History in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College and Templeton Education Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). \nA graduate of Harvard and the University of Chicago and a former Federal Chancellor Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung\, Dr. Granieri is the author of The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer\, the CDU/CSU\, and the West\, 1949-1966 as well as articles on German history\, European-American relations\, the Cold War\, and contemporary politics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/plundered-treasure-and-the-nazi-art-thief-who-stole-it/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T090000
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SUMMARY:Progress or Status Quo on Climate Change? Takeaways from COP26
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Over the past two weeks\, representatives from nearly 200 countries convened in Glasgow for COP26 to discuss new plans to tackle climate change. The conference was regarded as the best – and last – chance to save the earth from the catastrophic consequences of global warming. However\, many attendees\, analysts\, and observers believe it fell short. Although the countries agreed there is a problem\, few actionable solutions were hammered out. \nJoin us on November 18 at 9:00 am ET for a discussion with Bundestag Member Lisa Badum (The Greens)\, who attended COP26 as part of the German delegation. She will reflect on the climate deal which was reached and what it means for the future of climate change policy. This event is supported by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F2016370744426%2FWN_WsaCov_eQPWftl1TBwJRow” css=”.vc_custom_1637074475478{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Lisa Badum has been a Member of the German Bundestag since the autumn of 2017 for the constituency of Bamberg and for the whole of Upper Franconia. She is the spokeswoman for climate policy in the green parliamentary group. She is a member of the Environment Committee and Deputy Member of the Committee on Economic and Energy Affairs. From 2012 to 2017\, she worked in the civil energy department at NATURSTROM AG. She served as a research assistant and advisor to Bundestag Member Uwe Kekeritz (Alliance 90 / The Greens) from 2010-2013. She has a background in political science and received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Bamberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/progress-or-status-quo-on-climate-change-takeaways-from-cop26/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T090000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin. Join us on Monday\, November 15 at 9:00 am ET\, for a discussion about German politics with opinion writer for Der Tagesspiegel Malte Lehming. .[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F5016365739644%2FWN_-lq6n7sBTuaj3RQWJvil0A” css=”.vc_custom_1636574042700{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Malte Lehming works as a writer for the Tagesspiegel\, where he heads the opinion page. From late 2000 to 2005\, he was the newspaper’s Washington bureau chief. He joined the Tagesspiegel in 1991 as foreign policy editor — focusing on security policy\, transatlantic relations\, and the Middle East. From 1989 to 1991\, he worked as a personal assistant and speechwriter for former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Mr. Lehming studied philosophy\, German literature\, and European history in Hamburg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-23/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T113000
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SUMMARY:Foreign Policy Priorities for the Next German Government
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Boston Warburg Chapter\, Northeastern University\, and World Boston will host a discussion and luncheon with Metin Hakverdi\, Member of the Bundestag (SPD). \nThere is no charge to attend this event.\nPlease note: Proof of vaccination is required to attend.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Metin Hakverdi joined the SPD in 2002 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013. His reelection in Hamburg-Harburg on September 26th was resounding — with nearly 40 percent of the vote. He serves on the Bundestag’s Committee on European Union Affairs and on the Finance Committee. He is the Chairman of the USA/North America Working Group within the SPD Parliamentary Group and a member of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group in the German Bundestag. \nBefore being elected to the Bundestag\, Mr. Hakverdi was a member of the Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 2008 to 2013\, where he was on the Budget Committee and the Committee of Public Companies and Assets. He attended high school in Simi Valley\, California\, in 1985/86 and studied law at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel and at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. He became licensed to practice law in 2000.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/foreign-policy-priorities-for-the-next-german-government/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161809
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SUMMARY:Germany’s New Foreign Policy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Social Democrat Party (SPD) is set to lead the next government in Germany at a critical moment when expanding Chinese influence\, Russian interference\, Brexit\, and growing authoritarianism in Europe and elsewhere meet climate change and migration crises. What will the new governing coalition do to meet these challenges and what will be Germany’s foreign policy priorities? \n\nJoin the German Society of Pennsylvania and the American Council on Germany’s Philadelphia Warburg Chapter for an in-person lunch discussion with Bundestag Member Metin Hakverdi\, chair of the SPD’s Working Group on USA/North America in the German Parliament—where he also serves as a member of the Parliamentary Committee for European Union Affairs. \n\nThe event will take place Wednesday\, November 3 from 12:00-1:30 pm at the German Society’s historic home at 611 Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia. Lunch will be provided. Some parking is available\, and the building is accessible by public transportation.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.germansociety.org%2Fclasses%2Fgermanys-new-foreign-policy-a-conversation-and-lunch-with-bundestag-member-metin-hakverdi-spd-chair-of-the-spd-parliamentary-working-group-on-usa-north-america%2F” css=”.vc_custom_1635271051240{background-color: #1e73be !important;}”][vc_column_text]Metin Hakverdi has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013. He went to High School in Simi Valley\, California\, from 1985–86\, studied law at the Christian-Albrecht- University in Kiel and the Indiana University Maurer School of Law\, and was licensed to practice as a lawyer in 2000. Hakverdi joined the SPD in 2002. He was a member of the Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 2008 to 2013\, where he was on the Budget Committee and the Committee of Public Companies and Assets. In the Bundestag\, he is a member of the Committee European Union Affairs and the Finance Committee. Hakverdi is Chairman of the Working Group on USA/North America within the SPD Parliamentary Group. He is a member of the German–U.S. Parliamentary Friendship Group in the German Bundestag\, the Atlantik-Brücke e.V.\, and Global Bridges e.V.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/germanys-new-foreign-policy/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161809
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SUMMARY:A New Government; A New Foreign Policy? What to Expect from Berlin after Angela Merkel
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On November 1\, the ACG will host a discussion and reception with Dr. Markus Ziener\, Helmut Schmidt Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. With support from 1014. \nPlease Note: Proof of vaccination is required to attend.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dr. Markus Ziener is a Professor of Journalism at the Hochschule für Medien\, Kommunikation und Wirtschaft (HMKW)\, University of Applied Sciences\, in Berlin. He teaches political theory and economics\, mass media\, journalistic writing\, and the history of the press. He is also the global affairs correspondent of the newspaper The Straits Times in Singapore and a regular contributor to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Deutschlandfunk/Deutschlandradio. \nFrom 2006 to 2012\, he was Washington Bureau Chief of Handelsblatt\, Germany’s business daily. Prior to that\, he worked as a field reporter\, covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has also served as Handelsblatt’s correspondent in Moscow (1994–1999) and Eastern Europe (1990–1994). From 1999 to 2001\, he was foreign editor with the Financial Times Deutschland. \nOriginally from Darmstadt\, he obtained his Ph.D. in politics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\, examining financial crises and reforms in Poland. He also spent time at Duke University through a GMF fellowship for foreign journalists.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/a-new-government-a-new-foreign-policy-what-to-expect-from-berlin-after-angela-merkel/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161809
CREATED:20211028T202953Z
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin.\nJoin us on Monday\, November 1 at 9:00 am ET to discuss the latest developments in coalition talks and COP26 with Rob Schmitz\, International Correspondent at NPR.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F9416354528856%2FWN_fUf2jbUOR9amO9GG5OpyeA” css=”.vc_custom_1635452941285{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Rob Schmitz is NPR’s international correspondent based in Berlin\, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe\, Schmitz has covered Germany’s levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic\, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland\, and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic. \nPrior to covering Europe\, Schmitz provided award-winning coverage of China for a decade\, reporting on the country’s economic rise and increasing global influence. His reporting on China’s impact beyond its borders took him to countries such as Kazakhstan\, Mongolia\, Vietnam\, Thailand\, Australia\, and New Zealand. Inside China\, he’s interviewed elderly revolutionaries\, young rappers\, and live-streaming celebrity farmers who make up the diverse tapestry of one of the most fascinating countries on the planet. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road (Crown/Random House 2016)\, a profile of individuals who live\, work\, and dream along a single street that runs through the heart of China’s largest city. The book won several awards and has been translated into half a dozen languages. In 2018\, China’s government banned the Chinese version of the book after its fifth printing. The following year it was selected as a finalist for the Ryszard Kapuściński Award\, Poland’s most prestigious literary prize. \nMr. Schmitz has won numerous awards for his reporting on China\, including two national Edward R. Murrow Awards and an Education Writers Association Award. His work was also a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award. His reporting in Japan — from the hardest-hit areas near the failing Fukushima nuclear power plant following the earthquake and tsunami — was included in the publication 100 Great Stories\, celebrating the centennial of Columbia University’s Journalism School. In 2012\, Schmitz exposed the fabrications in Mike Daisey’s account of Apple’s supply chain on This American Life. His report was featured in the show’s “Retraction” episode. In 2011\, New York’s Rubin Museum of Art screened a documentary Schmitz shot in Tibetan regions of China about one of the last living Tibetans who had memorized “Gesar of Ling\,” an epic poem that tells of Tibet’s ancient past. \nFrom 2010 to 2016\, Mr. Schmitz was the China correspondent for American Public Media’s Marketplace. He’s also worked as a reporter for NPR Member stations KQED\, KPCC\, and MPR. Prior to his radio career\, Schmitz lived and worked in China — first as a teacher for the Peace Corps in the 1990s\, and later as a freelance print and video journalist. He also lived in Spain for two years. He speaks Mandarin and Spanish. He has a bachelor’s degree in Spanish literature from the University of Minnesota\, Duluth\, and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. \n.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-22/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211025T093000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin. Join us on Monday\, October 25 at 9:30 am ET to discuss Olaf Scholz and the SPD with Christiane Hoffmann\, Journalist for Der Spiegel.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4316345716205%2FWN_DNhtuirIR_25Hha6jLNABw” css=”.vc_custom_1634571663208{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Christiane Hoffmann is a journalist for Der Spiegel. She joined Der Spiegel in January of 2013\, where she was deputy head of the Berlin bureau\, serving in this role until December 2018. She has held various positions in Germany and abroad for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung\, including as a correspondent in Moscow from 1996 to 1999\, as a correspondent in Tehran from 1999 to 2004\, and as a correspondent in Berlin from 2010 to 2012.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-21/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211020T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211020T133000
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SUMMARY:Bundestagswahl 2021:  Post-Election Recap and the Path Forward
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On October 20\, Peter Beyer\, Member of the German Bundestag and Coordinator for Transatlantic Relations for the Foreign Ministry\, will join the Los Angeles Warburg Chapter for a roundtable discussion on the recent federal election in Germany.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fbundestagswahl-2021-post-election-recap-and-the-path-forward-tickets-188434230857″ css=”.vc_custom_1634571383894{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Peter Beyer has been the Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation since April 2018. He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2009 and a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 1996. Mr. Beyer is also a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs\, where he serves as Special Rapporteur on Transatlantic Relations. He is Executive Vice President of the Southeast Europe Association. Prior to his current roles\, he served as Managing Chairman of the Heiligenhaus town branch of the CDU and a member of the Heiligenhaus town council from 2008 to 2009. In addition\, he was an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Mettmann county branch of the CDU. Before joining the public sector\, he worked as an attorney specializing in industrial property law in the Cologne office of Mayer Brown LLP\, the Los Angeles office of Murchison & Cumming LLP\, and the Chicago office of Brinks\, Hofer\, Gilson & Lione LLP. Mr. Beyer completed his undergraduate studies at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Bonn\, and received his Master in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/bundestagswahl-2021-post-election-recap-and-the-path-forward/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211018T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211018T103000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin.\nJoin us on Monday\, October 18 at 9:30 am ET to discuss populist movements in Germany and the recent resignation of Sebastian Kurz in Austria with Emily Schultheis\, freelance journalist and recent fellow with the Institute of Current World Affairs.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F5716345111285%2FWN_fFYsNFgaR92rP6wZKmxEsw” css=”.vc_custom_1634571555432{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Emily Schultheis is a freelance journalist and recent fellow with the Institute of Current World Affairs\, based between Vienna and Berlin. She writes primarily about German and Austrian politics and the rise of populist far-right parties across Europe. Over the course of her political reporting career\, her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, Politico\, The Guardian\, Politico Europe\, The Associated Press\, Foreign Policy\, Slate\, BBC Online\, The Los Angeles Times\, CNN\, CBS News\, NBC News\, National Journal\, Der Tagesspiegel\, Deutsche Welle and Spiegel International\, among others. \nFrom 2011 to 2017\, she covered U.S. national politics and elections from Washington\, first for Politico and then for the National Journal and CBS News. She is also a previous recipient of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship\, the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship\, and the East-West Center Jefferson Fellowship for her reporting on international politics and populism.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-20/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T130000
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SUMMARY:History\, Remembrance\, and the Use of Public Space
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A few years after the Wall came down\, the Berlin city government launched a competition for a work of public art honoring the memory of Berlin Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The conceptual artists Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock submitted their idea\, and won the competition. In 1993\, they installed Orte des Erinnerns (Places of Remembrance)\, a permanent\, decentralized memorial along the streets of Berlin’s district of Schöneberg documenting the anti-Semitic laws and decrees enacted incrementally by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. \nStih & Schnock are conceptual artists based in Berlin. Their work explores how memory functions in the social sphere – and how it can be reflected in museums and urban spaces. Recognized internationally\, articles about their collaborative work have appeared in the New York Times\, New Yorker\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times. They have also lectured at major U.S. universities including the Art Institute of Chicago\, Harvard\, Princeton\, Columbia\, Emory\, and Brown Universities. As part of 1014’s “Past & Future: A Weekend of Architecture\, Culture\, and Community\,” the American Council on Germany will host a conversation with Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock on collective memory in society and the use of public space.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F1316340528260%2FWN_OqQxATyJSZKmacEH9a2sqg” css=”.vc_custom_1634052864544{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Stih & Schnock is a Berlin-based artist duo\, formed by Renata Stih\, a professor in Berlin and Lüneburg and a member of Berlin’s art in public space advisory commission\, and Frieder Schnock\, an artist\, art advisor and a former curator at the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel. Their works deal primarily with collective memory in society. Human rights issues and the Holocaust are recurring reference points in their artistic interventions. \nRenata Stih (painting\, sculpture\, art theory\, College of Art in Karlsruhe/Germany) currently teaches art and technology\, film\, and media at Beuth University of Technology in Berlin and at Leuphana University in Lüneburg\, and has published widely on art\, film\, and architecture. Frieder Schnock studied art and art history at the College of Art in Karlsruhe/Germany\, TU Karlsruhe\, FU Berlin\, and College of Art Braunschweig\, where he earned his PhD in art history. He developed the professionalization program at Berlin’s Artist Association with 1000 participants per year and teaches visual studies at Beuth University of Technology in Berlin and is a professor at Leuphana University. \nRenata Stih and Frieder Schnock have been artists-in-residence and have also regularly lectured at U.S. universities and colleges\, including Brown University\, Princeton University\, Columbia University\, Rhode Island School of Design\, UTexas Austin\, School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, University of Chicago\, Maryland Institute College of Art\, University of California\, LA\, Harvard Graduate School of Design\, Zurich University of the Arts\, among other. Their works have been exhibited at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart\, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale\, the Jewish Museum of New York\, the Museum London (Ontario)\, the Saint Louis Art Museum\, the Boca Raton Museum of Art\, and at New York University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/history-remembrance-and-the-use-of-public-space/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T200000
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SUMMARY:After Angela: Germany in the Post-Merkel Era
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On September 26\, Germans took to the polls in a historic election. Voters who have never known a Chancellor other than Angela Merkel voted for the first time. Change and continuity are both on the agenda and four political factions – the Social Democrats\, Christian Democrats\, Greens\, and Free Democrats – are jockeying to form a new government and with it the chance to set German foreign and domestic priorities for a generation to come. Who will win out and where will the next governing coalition lead Germany? \n\nJoin the German Society of Pennsylvania and the American Council on Germany’s Philadelphia Warburg Chapter for an in-person conversation with German journalist and author\, Martin Klingst\, on German politics after Merkel. \n\nThe event will take place Thursday\, October 14th at 7:00 pm at the German Society’s historic home at 611 Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia. Some parking is available\, and the building is accessible by public transportation. The discussion will also be live-streamed for remote viewing. \n\nIf you would like to attend\, register here or call our office at (215) 627-2332. Please indicate if you will be attending in person or online. Those attending in person will be required to present documentation that they have been vaccinated against Covid-19.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.germansociety.org%2Fclasses%2Fafter-angela-germany-in-the-post-merkel-era%2F” css=”.vc_custom_1633963107707{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/after-angela-germany-in-the-post-merkel-era/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161809
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SUMMARY:Twenty-Eighth Annual John J. McCloy Awards Dinner
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Council on Germany’s Twenty-Eighth Annual John J. McCloy Awards Dinner honoring Oliver Bäte\, Chairman of the Board of Management of Allianz SE\, with the 2021 McCloy Award\, and Robert B. Zoellick\, Lead U.S. Official for the Two-Plus-Four Negotiations on German Unification and Former President of the World Bank\, U.S. Trade Representative\, and Deputy Secretary of State\, with the 2021 Transatlantic Leadership. Award[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”More Information” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.acgusa.org%2Fsupport-the-acg%2Fparticipate-in-the-mccloy-dinner%2F2021-john-j-mccloy-awards-dinner%2F” css=”.vc_custom_1633533138814{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/twenty-eighth-annual-john-j-mccloy-awards-dinner/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161809
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin. \nJoin us on Monday\, October 11 at 9:00 am EDT\, for a discussion about German politics with former NPR international correspondent Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson\, who now hosts the podcast “Common Ground.”[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” css=”.vc_custom_1633532988636{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is the host of the podcast Common Ground and is based in Berlin. Prior to this\, she served as Special Correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard on NPR’s award-winning programs\, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered\, and read at NPR.org. From 2012 until 2018\, she was NPR’s bureau chief in Berlin. She won the ICFJ 2017 Excellence in International Reporting Award for her work in Central and Eastern Europe\, North Africa\, the Middle East\, and Afghanistan. \nShe was also based in Cairo for NPR and covered the Arab World from the Middle East to North Africa during the Arab Spring. In 2006\, she opened NPR’s first bureau in Kabul\, from where she provided listeners with an in-depth sense of life inside Afghanistan\, from the increase in suicide among women in a country that treats them as second-class citizens to the growing interference of Iran and Pakistan in Afghan affairs. For her coverage of Afghanistan\, she won a Peabody Award\, Overseas Press Club Award\, and the Gracie in 2010. She received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award from Colby College in 2011 for her coverage in the Middle East and Afghanistan. \nMs. Nelson spent 20 years as a newspaper reporter\, including as Knight Ridder’s Middle East Bureau Chief. While at the Los Angeles Times\, she was sent on extended assignment to Iran and Afghanistan following the Sept. 11\, 2001\, terrorist attacks. She spent three years as an editor and reporter for Newsday and was part of the team that won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for covering the crash of TWA Flight 800. \nA graduate of the University of Maryland\, Nelson speaks Farsi\, Dari\, and German.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-19/
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SUMMARY:The Domestic And Foreign Policy Priorities Of An Ampel Coalition Under Olaf Scholz
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Following the September 26 German federal election\, an Ampelkoalition – or “traffic light” coalition of the Social Democrats\, Greens\, and Free Democrats – looks increasingly likely. But\, it is not a given. There are other coalition possibilities. As these parties – plus the Christian Democrats – explore possible coalition options\, there are questions about where the parties align and where they differ\, and what the priorities of a new government might be. \nJoin the American Council on Germany for an online conversation with author and journalist Martin Klingst to explore the domestic and foreign policy priorities of a governing coalition led by the SPD’s Olaf Scholz.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F5116334402471%2FWN_qAcgdb-EQJuT9s3Sw1xFHQ” css=”.vc_custom_1633440281600{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Martin Klingst studied law in Freiburg\, Geneva\, and Hamburg before embarking on a career in journalism in 1987\, beginning with NDR. He spent much of his career with DIE ZEIT – including as Senior Political Correspondent in Berlin and before that U.S. Correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief. From 2020 to June 2021\, he was Chief Speechwriter and Head of Strategic Communication in the Office of the German Federal President. \nMr. Klingst is the author of “Trumps Amerika: Reise in ein weißes Land” and “Guido Goldman: Transatlantic Bridge Builder.” He is currently a non-resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and an advisor to Atlantik Brücke.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-domestic-and-foreign-policy-priorities-of-an-ampel-coalition-under-olaf-scholz/
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