Bavarian American Academy Annual Conference – Roger Cohen: “Transatlantic Relationships”
Speaker: Roger Cohen, Op-Ed Columnist, New York Times.
Topic: Transatlantic Relationships: The Bond that Went Freelance
Language: English
When: Thursday, 4th July 2019 (1900-2100).
Where: Munich Documentation Centre, Max-Mannheimer-Platz 1, 80333 Munich
Register at: info@amerika-akademie.de
Entry: Free
Organizer: Bavarian American Academy in cooperation with the Munich
Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism -
https://www.ns-dokuzentrum-muenchen.de/en/home
Contact: Dr. Margaretha Schweiger-Wilhelm
During its evolution since 1789, the United States has enjoyed a reputation of being more liberal, egalitarian and democratic than many other nations. However, since the 2016 election, the world has been questioning what happened to the “Pax Americana.” For our 4th of July meeting, Roger Cohen will be offering special insights on his view of the current transatlantic relationships.
Among his many fields of global interest, Roger Cohen is one of America’s top-notch analysts on state of the transatlantic relationships with insightful columns appearing in The New York Times regularly on Wednesdays and Saturdays. In 2009 he was was named Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times and joined The Times in 1990. He has served as a foreign correspondent and Foreign Editor, worked for The Wall Street Journal and Reuters and is the author of several books (Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis, Final Gamble, The Girl From Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey).
His work has received numerous top-level recognitions, including the Peter Weitz Prize from the German Marshall Fund, the Arthur F. Burns Prize, the Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence, and the SOPA prize. He has been awarded the Joe Alex Morris lectureship for distinguished foreign correspondence by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, has served as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, and was the inaugural Chair of the Poynter Center at Indiana University, Bloomington.