Sabbatical Review: Professor Michael Steinberg

Professor Michael Steinberg, Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, spent two months of the 2020 Fall Semester as a returning fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study Berlin), despite the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the displacement of most of its seminars to Zoom.

At the same time, his residency in Berlin enabled Steinberg to work on one of the three major projects of his sabbatical year: an assignment as guest curator of the exhibition Richard Wagner und das deutsche Gefühl/Richard Wagner and the Nationalization of Feeling at the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) Berlin.

The exhibition opened on April 8, 2022 and runs through September 11, 2022.

Learn more about the exhibit

Read a recent piece by the New York Times, "Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame?".

Pictured: The opening ceremony on April 7, 2022 where Professor Steinberg spoke as a guest curator.