The Trans-Atlanticist
Episode Archive
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Transatlantic Wisdom #2: The Image of Our Mind: Pope, Schlegel, Franklin, and Blake
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. In the second episode, Coyle and Swensen trace the evolution of thought from the Enlightenment period (1685-1815) through the Romantic era (18...
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Transatlantic Wisdom #1: Wiping Away the Horizon: Friedrich Nietzsche and Wallace Stevens
Everything that matters is difficult to understand. In the first episode of Transatlantic Wisdom, Michael Coyle and Alan Swensen unpack the meaning of Nietzsche’s famous line that we have kille...
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Introducing Transatlantic Wisdom
The Trans-Atlanticist at the Amerikazentrum in Hamburg is delighted to announce the launch of our new six-part series called Transatlantic Wisdom, which explores the rich interchange of ideas be...
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Gratitude, Guilt, and Greed: Understanding Germany’s Relationship with Russia
In this episode, Andrew Sola and Christina Neuhaus, political correspondent for the Agence France-Press in Berlin, analyze the complexities of Germany’s relationship with Russia since World War ...
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Lady Fiction #13: Where Are the Men? Same-Sex Societies in American Literature
In light of the pending rollback of abortion rights by the US Supreme
Court's conservative majority, Stefanie Schäfer and her guest Judith
Rauscher turn to a world without men--as i...
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French Presidential Elections and Parliamentary Elections in Hungary
In this episode, Andrew Sola and the Trans-Atlanticist's EU expert Guenter Danner discuss the French election rematch between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. They then delve into the consequ...
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LadyFiction #12: Art, Science, and the Legacies of Slavery in Esi Edugyan's Washington Black
With her guest Nele Sawallisch, Stefanie discusses Esi Edugyan's 2018
novel Washington Black. With Olaudah Equiano's 1789 autobiography as
intertext, the novel entangles the adventur...
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Ukraine, Russia, and the Future of Europe
War has returned to Europe. Andrew Sola and Dr. Guenter Danner, our EU expert, unpack what the war means for Ukraine, Russia, and the future of the continent. Was the West delusional in believi...
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LadyFiction #11: From Beyoncé to Sarah Baartman and Back: Celebrity Performance and Black Feminism
In our first episode 2022, Lady Fiction takes a cue from Black History
Month to ask about the legacies of black woman celebrities in the US
cultural archive. Stefanie Schäfer's guest...
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LadyFiction #3: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names
This episode of LadyFiction discusses Zimbabwean author NoViolet
Bulawayo’s “We Need New Names” (2013), a novel about a young girl who
leaves behind her shantytown childhood to pursu...