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AKADEMIE FORUM: MARY NOLAN & EMILY HABER
Pierre Boulez Saal, Foyer (Berlin)
Quo vadis, America? The Past, Present, and Future of Transatlantic RelationsTalk and Discussion Since the new Trump administration took office in January 2025, we have witnessed what appears to be a significant departure from long-standing democratic traditions and the rules-based international order that has prevailed for the past 75 years. Although the Western Alliance has faced various challenges and fluctuations since World War II, the demise of the transatlantic partnership has only now emerged as a serious possibility. To understand why, we need to explore what informs Donald Trump’s domestic and foreign policy agenda. How does the American right envision the future and how has it gained such influence over the judiciary, the educational system and national, state and local government? Are once shared values and traditions eroding? If so, what does that mean for Germany and Europe moving forward? Mary (Molly) Nolan is Professor of History emerita at New York University, where she taught from 1980 to 2018. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and taught at Harvard from 1975 to 1980. She is the author of America’s Century in Europe: Reflections on Americanization, Anti-Americanism and the Transatlantic Partnership; The Transatlantic Century: Europe and America, 1890–2010; Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany; and Social Democracy and Society: Working-class Radicalism in Düsseldorf, 1890–1920. She coedited Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century; The University against Itself; and The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties. Recent articles include “Women, Gender and the Radical Right: Then and Now,” “Transnational Visions of Modernity: America and the Soviet Union,” and “Transatlantic Trouble in Historical Perspective: What’s New, What’s Not?” She is currently writing on gender, fascism and populist right radicalism. Emily Haber was born in 1956 in Bonn. Having retired in 2023, she has had a distinguished career in diplomacy and government service. Her work experience includes serving as the German Ambassador to the United States from 2018 to 2023. Prior to that, she was the State Secretary in the German Interior Ministry, overseeing security and migration, from 2014 to 2018. She also held the position of State Secretary at the German Foreign Office from 2011 to 2014 and served as the Political Director of the Foreign Office from 2009 to 2011. Between 2006 and 2009, she worked as the Special Envoy for the Western Balkans and Southeastern Europe at the German Foreign Office. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Cologne, earned in 1980, and completed her high school graduation in Athens, Greece, in 1975. She is married and has two children. Presented in EnglishFeaturing a musical performance by Tähe-Lee Liiv (piano), student at the Barenboim-Said Akademie A collaboration of the Barenboim-Said Akademie and 1014 Deutschland e.V. with additional support from ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS