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Is Culture Worth Saving? Art, Monuments, and Modern Warfare

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 at 19:30

American Academy in Berlin

American Academy in Berlin, 19, Am Sandwerder, Wannsee, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin, 14109, Deutschland

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An Axel Springer Lecture at the American Academy in Berlin, where Hugh Eakin (Editor at Large, Foreign Affairs) asks whether culture is worth saving amid modern warfare. He traces how monuments and art endure or erode in conflict, linking cultural violence to contemporary wars.

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