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SUMMARY:Polish Communist Spies\, the CIA\, and the Road to NATO Expansion with John Pomfret
DESCRIPTION:As the United States cobbles together a coalition to undo Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait\, six US officers are trapped in Iraq with intelligence that could ruin Operation Desert Storm if it is obtained by the brutal Iraqi dictator. Desperate\, the CIA asks Poland\, a longtime Cold War foe famed for its excellent spies\, for help. Just months after the Polish people voted in their first democratic election since the 1930s\, the young Solidarity government in Warsaw sends a veteran ex-Communist spy who’d battled the West for decades to rescue the six Americans. John Pomfret’s gripping account of the 1990 cliffhanger in Iraq is just the beginning of the tale about intelligence cooperation between Poland and the United States\, cooperation that one CIA director would later describe as “one of the two foremost intelligence relationships that the United States has ever had\,” and one that paved the way for NATO’s eastward expansion. \nRaised in New York City and educated at Stanford and Nanjing universities\, John Pomfret is an award-winning journalist and writer who worked with the Washington Post for decades. Pomfret was a foreign correspondent for 20 years and spent eight years covering big wars and small in Afghanistan\, Bosnia\, Congo\, Sri Lanka and Iraq. Pomfret spent seven years covering China—one in the late 1980s during the Tiananmen Square protests and then from 1997 until the end of 2003 as the bureau chief for the Washington Post in Beijing. Pomfret is the author of the best-selling “Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China” (1996). His book\, “The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China\, 1776 to the Present” (2016) was awarded the 2017 Arthur Ross Award by the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book\, “From Warsaw With Love: Polish Spies\, the CIA and the Making of an Unlikely Alliance” was published in October 2021. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/polish-communist-spies-the-cia-and-the-road-to-nato-expansion-with-john-pomfret
LOCATION:Hampton Room\, Scripps College
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SUMMARY:Let There Be House: Queer of Color Perspectives on Germany's Techno Scene in the 1990s
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Tom Smith is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in German at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. His research focused on queer approaches to contemporary Germany. He was selected as an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker in 2019 and regularly presents his work on BBC Radio. \nEvent will include refreshments\, book raffle\, music and dancing.
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/let-there-be-house-queer-of-color-perspectives-on-germanys-techno-scene-in-the-1990s
LOCATION:Humanities Museum (HUM 225)
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SUMMARY:Representing Gender in Court: Juridical Women in the Time of Boccaccio's Madonna Filippa (Decameron 6.7)
DESCRIPTION:Boccaccio’s character Madonna Filippa brilliantly defends herself in court against an adultery charge—and dodges a cruel capital punishment. Readers have long assumed that since medieval Italian women had no place in court\, Filippa’s story must be an ironic parody. This presentation inserts Boccaccio’s heroine into her historical context of medieval northern Italy\, where several women jurists rose to prominence in legal studia and yeshivas. The rich lore surrounding 14th c. Novella d’Andrea and her peers overlapped with ancient narratives that inspired Boccaccio\, like Valerius Maximus’ account of the oratrix Hortensia. Modern readers have yet to fully appreciate Boccaccio’s deep interest in women’s voices at law\, but one prominent medieval reader\, Christine de Pizan\, recognized Boccaccio’s engagement with the real and pressing issue of women’s participation in the discourses of justice.
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/representing-gender-in-court-juridical-women-in-the-time-of-boccaccios-madonna-filippa-decameron-6-7
LOCATION:Vita Nova 100\, Scripps College
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SUMMARY:The U.S. and the Struggle for International Justice in Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in an unprecedented alignment of international actors supporting accountability processes. And the atrocities committed in Ukraine have been extensively documented. But achieving accountability through international mechanisms like the International Criminal Court is more challenging than it seems. Drawing on his recent experience as a policy advisor in the Pentagon\, Professor Boduszyński will discuss the political\, legal\, diplomatic\, and other challenges that efforts to promote accountability through international institutions face. \nMieczysław (Mietek) Boduszyński is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Pomona College. Prior to joining Pomona\, Boduszyński was a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State with postings in Albania\, Kosovo\, Japan\, Egypt\, Libya and Iraq. During the 2022-2023 academic year\, he worked at the Pentagon for the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy as a policy advisor on issues related to civilian protection as well as atrocities\, war crimes and accountability in Ukraine. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/the-u-s-and-the-struggle-for-international-justice-in-ukraine
LOCATION:Hampton Room\, Scripps College
ORGANIZER;CN="EU Center":MAILTO:eucenter@scrippscollege.edu
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SUMMARY:The Difference a Date Makes: “9/11” versus “1973” in the Global History of NYC
DESCRIPTION:DARA ORENSTEIN\, George Washington University \nSeptember 11\, 2023\, 5:00-6:00pm\nVita Nova\, Scripps College \nRSVP HERE \nIt seems safe to say that the Twin Towers stand for globalism. Ever since they fell on the morning of September 11\, 2001\, they have endured as something much larger than local landmarks. Whether abstracted on magazine covers\, sanctified in street murals\, or domesticated in snow-globes\, these two skyscrapers have come to signify the scale of American influence abroad\, albeit with their brand of imperial cosmopolitanism now understood as more vulnerable than invincible. They hate us ‘cause they ain’t us\, as the bumper stickers put it\, with a drawing of a firefighter and a flag. But mythology is not history. To apprehend the Twin Towers teleologically in light of their destruction is to flatten our appreciation of how they functioned and how they were represented\, and thus why they mattered\, during the three decades that they held sway in the capital of capital\, New York City. After the suits-with-shovels dedicated them in 1973\, how exactly did the workers in and around these buildings interact with global capitalism from 9 to 5? Aside from the tourists visiting the observation deck\, where was the world at the World Trade Center? Where was “Europe”? The Iron Curtain? Where were the lines of demarcation between the East and the West? And what sorts of documents might serve as illuminations of the banal operations of these borders and boundaries\, given that much of the archival record relevant to such questions was lost on 9/11? As a preview of a larger project\, this talk will spotlight two artifacts of the rise of the Twin Towers during the long 1970s\, a New York Telephone phone book published specifically for the “World Trade Area” in 1977\, and a work of performance art by a Belgian artist that was installed outside between the buildings and the harbor during the summer of 1982. \nDara Orenstein is an associate professor of American studies at George Washington University\, where she teaches courses on cultural history and cultural theory. Her first book\, Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism\, is about the long and little-known history of export-processing zones in the United States. A propos of her presentation at Scripps\, she was born at the Kaiser in Harbor City and raised in Modesto\, and she spoke with a Queens\, NY\, accent until around age 6.
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/the-difference-a-date-makes-9-11-versus-1973-in-the-global-history-of-nyc
LOCATION:Vita Nova 100\, Scripps College
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