Virtual Talk Series

Across two virtual trans-Atlantic talk series, 1014 explores myriad pressing global topics including the relationship between outer space and Earth’s societies, and ongoing threats to democracy across the globe.

The Place of Space

Over the course of four virtual conversations, 1014 hears from researchers, academics, and intellectuals about the increasingly important role that outer space has served Earth’s societies since its initial exploration in the mid-20th century. Curated and moderated by Nick Travaglini, co-chair of New School Policy and Design for Outer Space (NSPDOS) of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space.

February 7, 2022: Earth’s Orbit: Threshold to the Stars, with Fred Scharmen, program director and Associate Professor at The Graduate Program in Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University; Cristian van Eijk, international lawyer based at the University of Cambridge; and Anuradha Damale, incoming Policy Fellow and program manager at BASIC.

February 10, 2022: Selenian Communion: Cooperating on the Moon, with Mclee Kerolle, deputy executive director, The Space Court Foundation Inc.; Britt Adkins, founder of Celestial Citizen; and Tamara Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Jagiellonian University.

August 17, 2022: Another Leap?, with Angeliki Kapoglou, researcher and designer; Divya Persaud, scientist and musician; and Joalda Morancy, engineer and writer.

August 31, 2022: Star Light, Star Bright, with Elizabeth Hamilton, Assistant Professor at the Fort Valley State University, author and art historian; Lukas Feireiss, curator, artist, writer and Visiting Professor for transdisciplinary artistic and design teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts; and Damon Bradley, research engineer, entrepreneur, DJ, NASA veteran and founder of DeepSpace Technologies.

Democracies Under Pressure

In this ongoing series – presented in partnership with the American Council on Germany (ACG) – 1014 invites experts from both sides of the Atlantic for virtual conversations about threats to democracies across the globe. Will the liberal, rules-based world order survive the current breaches of sovereignty and humanitarian law that multilateral organizations have been unable to prevent? Co-moderated by Steven Sokol, president of the American Council on Germany, and Katja Wiesbrock Donovan, executive director at 1014.

May 24, 2022: The War in Ukraine – What’s at Stake?, with Liana Fix, program director in the International Affairs Department of the Körber Foundation in Berlin; and Michael Kimmage, Professor of History at the Catholic University of America.

June 7, 2022: The Folly of “Regime Change”, with Benjamin Denison, a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities.

June 21, 2022: Energy Security and the War in Ukraine, with Samantha Gross, director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at the Brookings Institution; and Rainer Quitzow, Research Group Leader at IASS Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam.

October 11, 2022: The ‘Democratic Fallout’ of the War in Ukraine, with Alexander Cooley, Claire Tow Professor of Political Science and Vice Provost for Academic Centers and Libraries at Barnard College and Academy Adjunct Faculty at Chatham House; and Gwendolyn Sasse, director of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) and Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

November 15, 2022: Global Trends in Authoritarian Interference in Elections, with John Glenn, senior director of the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies; and Sarah Pagung, Associate Fellow in the

International Order and Democracy Program at the German Council on Foreign Relations.

November 16, 2022: Food Security and the Economic Implications of the War in Ukraine, with Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, CEO and managing director, Food Systems for the Future; former executive director, United Nations World Food Program; and Alexander Müller, managing director, TMG Think Tank for Sustainability.

December 7, 2022: Finding Common Ground: German and U.S. Policies Toward China, with Sinologists Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Professor for Sinology at the University of Trier and a Senior Associate Fellow at MERICS; and Yun Sun, Senior Fellow and co-director of the East Asia Program and director of the China Program at the Stimson Center.

December 14, 2022: Covid, War, and Energy: The Economic and Social Impact of Simultaneous Crises, with Jutta Allmendinger, president, WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of Educational Sociology and Labor Market Research, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; and Adam Tooze, Shelby Cullom Davis Chair of History and director of the European Institute, Columbia University. Moderated by Ines Pohl, journalist and Washington D.C. bureau chief for Deutsche Welle.