Philip D. Murphy Introducing the Fall 2011 Class of Fellows

The Honorable Philip D. Murphy, US Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, delivered the keynote address to the fall 2011 class. Following Ambassador Murphy’s introduction, each fall fellow gave a short presentation of their projects, ranging from the medieval culture of writing pre-Gutenberg to the creation of a new suite of poems, from the curious German letters of Samuel Beckett to the unseen affinities between multiculturalism and neoliberalism. Over the coming three months, each fellow will deliver a public lecture or reading at the Hans Arnhold Center, all open to the public (view the complete program on our website www.americanacademy.de).