The Remarque Forums

A biennial ‘retreat’ sponsored by the Remarque Institute, the Forum has as its aim is to invite promising young men and women from Europe and North America from a variety of fields of public life to spend a  few days together free from daily pressures. Participants are expected  to take an active part in discuss ions on broad topics of common interest in European/US affairs; but the main goal of the Forum is met  by the meeting itself. By forging personal links between people who in decades to come may play an important part in public life, in policy  making, and in the world of arts and learning, the Institute seeks to help overcome the loss of the generation who shaped transatlantic  exchanges and policy making in the decades after World War II.

After each Forum smaller ‘follow-up’ meetings are held in which some fifteen people take part in a shorter and more informal version of the  earlier conference, focusing on a theme derived by mutual agreement from the conference discussions. Furthermore, the Remarque Institute  encourages Forum participants to come to New York for short visits as fellows of the Institute. We provide travel costs, a free studio  apartment in Greenwich Village, an office on Washington Square and some limited secretarial, travel and research support. In the case of  visitors from Europe a stipend may be provided. Most importantly, we facilitate encounters between visitors and people of similar  professional interests in New York.

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