A.G. Steer Professor of German and associate dean in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Martin Kagel is co-director of the Berlin Seminar in Transnational European Studies. A joint initiative of the University of Georgia Franklin College and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the week-long residency in Berlin each June is in its second year of expanding the understanding of transnational Europe among U.S.-based scholars and advancing the discourse on campus on issues related to Europe, the E.U., and Germany's role in the European Union.

Alan Flurry and Kagel discuss political, economic and human rights issues from the most recent Berlin seminar including climate change, Brexit, Immigration, nationalism, populism, film, photography, the media, migration, and more.