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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:20211101T173000
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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:20211103T120000
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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: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/
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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: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: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: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: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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