Events 2025-26
Most CGES Online and hybrid events are recorded. Explore upcoming Fall 2025 events listed below, or browse through the 2024 & Spring 2025 CGES Online Events. Get direct access to a list of all recorded webinars on CGES Online's Archive below.
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Fall 2025 Events
October 20, 2025
CGES Co-Sponsored Event
2:30 - 3:50 pm ET (US)Mandel Reading Room 303, Brandeis University Campus
This presentation explores how migrant memory activists at Berlin’s International Women* Space and Anu/Middle East Union (2020–24) foster solidarity through media, literature, publications, and events addressing racism and inequality. Speaker: Irit Dekel, Indiana University Bloomington.
October 21, 2025
CGES Online Event
This talk will show how Thomas Mann's landmark German modernist novel "Der Zauberberg" ("The Magic Mountain", 1924) has developed something of a cult following among non-academic readers around the world over the course of the past century. Moving from interwar Germany and Soviet Russia to present-day Hollywood and Japan, it will analyse how and why various readers - from tuberculosis sufferers to prisoners of war and beyond - made Mann's book their own.
October 28, 2025
CGES Hybrid Event
October 30, 2025
CGES Hybrid Event
November 5, 2025
CGES Hybrid Event
In 1939, the ocean liner MS St. Louis undertook a dramatic voyage with over nine hundred Jewish refugees that caught the world's attention and has been remembered in numerous printed texts, films, and artifacts. On Shoreless Sea is the first work to comprehensively analyze the journey's unfolding, its historical context, and its key representations in various media. Author Roy Grundmann illuminates the voyage's historical significance and demonstrates its relevance to our present, in which prosperous nations once again stem mass migration.
November 12, 2025
CGES In-Person Event
November 17, 2025
CGES Online Event
In this webinar you will learn about civil initiatives in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt. The municipality of Bad Nauheim chose Doughnut Economics as their DNA for transformation into a sustainable and healthy city. Among other consultancies the Next Economy Lab develops concepts for towns and cities, businesses and unions embracing the Doughnut principles. Dr. Nicole Hartmann presents the Donut framework, how it encourages and empowers communities of practice in Germany and invites to turn destructive narratives and actions into stories of hope, courage and building a livable future.
December 1, 2025
CGES Hybrid Event
Today, when democracy is again endangered in much of the world, Mann’s antifascist radio addresses have acquired new urgency. A new volume by Jeffrey High and Elaine Chen presents English translations of all of Mann’s 58 radio addresses for the first time, with a foreword by Mann’s grandson Frido Mann, an introduction by leading Mann scholar Hans Rudolf Vaget, careful annotations, and a selection of photographs.
Past Events
October 9, 2025
CGES Hybrid Event
As two of the world’s leading democracies and economic powers, Germany and the United States have long been pillars of stability and cooperation in global affairs. Yet shifting geopolitical dynamics, evolving security challenges, and domestic political changes on both sides of the Atlantic are testing this partnership. Attendees joined CGES for an engaging talk with Vladimir Balzer as he explored how these forces reshaped German-American relations and what they mean for the future of transatlantic cooperation.
October 6, 2025
CGES Online Event
Authors Lena Gorelik and Mirjam Zadoff discussed how German writers are coping with German "Staatsraeson" vis-a-vis Israel, the impact of the ongoing war crimes against the Palestinian people, and the reaction by local German authorities and institutions.
September 19, 2025
CGES Online Event
CGES hosted Doris Metz, the filmmaker behind "Petra Kelly-Act Now" for a post-screening discussion.
September 16, 2025
CGES In-Person Event
Petra Kelly, co-founder of the German Green Party, was a pioneering advocate for peace, environmental protection, and human rights. Inspired by the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King’s concept of civil disobedience, she championed radical social change and solidarity worldwide. Her issues are today more topical than ever before.
September 10, 2025
CGES Online Event
Previous research has repeatedly shown that various populist far-right parties (PFRPs) engage in some form of resistance to climate action. To better understand their approach to climate related issues, this presentation examines how established PFRPs in Germany (AfD), Spain (Vox), and Austria (FPÖ) frame and interpret climate change in their political communication. Although PFRPs have achieved notable electoral success across Europe, mainstream parties continue to play a dominant role in shaping public discourse. Ultimately, the findings reveal that climate obstructionism is neither uniform nor confined to the political fringes, but a complex and transnational phenomenon rooted in a wider right-wing alliance.
September 9, 2025
CGES Online Event