Talks at 1014

Talks at 1014 Fifth Avenue bring together experts, activists, intellectuals, and artists to discuss subjects across the fields of society, culture, and ideas – providing trans-Atlantic perspectives on today’s global topics.

March 3, 2022: Nord Stream 2 and Germany’s Precarious Dependency on Russian Gas, a talk with Sascha Müller-Kraenner, executive director of Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V., an independent non-profit organization which was founded in 1975 and is focused on environmental and consumer protection; and Steven Sokol, president of American Council on Germany (ACG).

May 12, 2022: Plastic: Remaking Our World, a talk with Jochen Eisenbrand, chief curator at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein. Eisenbrand introduces the topic of the museum’s current exhibition Plastic: Remaking Our World during the festival NYCxDESIGN at 1014 and chairs a panel about the rise and fall of a material that has been elemental to the design world and become a symbol of modernity. Featuring Lola Ben-Alon, Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP and director of the Natural Materials Lab; and Charlotte McCurdy, an award-winning designer and researcher and Assistant Professor at Arizona State University.

September 14, 2022: Engineering Education for the 21st Century, a talk with Julika Griem, director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI Essen) and vice president of the German Research Foundation; Myles W. Jackson, Albers-Schönberg Professor in the History of Science at Princeton University’s Institute for Advance Study (IAS); Jelena Kovačević, Dean of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering; and Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University, director of the Center for Science and Society. Moderated by Kurt Becker, Vice Dean for Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. Co-presented with Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation).

October 25, 2022: Andreas Reckwitz: Loss and Modernity, a lecture by Andreas Reckwitz, Professor of General Sociology and Cultural Sociology at the HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin and Thomas Mann Fellow. Followed by a conversation with Paul Kottman, Professor of Comparative Literature and chair of Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research. The lecture is co-hosted at Goethe-Institut New York; and co-presented with GoetheInstitut, DFG German Research Foundation, and Thomas Mann House.