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SUMMARY:A Cyberspace of One's Own: The New Belarus (App)
DESCRIPTION:“Can democracy be coded into an app? This talk examines how Belarusian IT professionals in exile have attempted to build democratic futures through a bespoke mobile application and reveals the contradictions embedded in that effort. Designed to enable civic participation and national community-building\, the app instead produces what Alana Felton calls “simulated democracy”: a digital environment where citizens become consumers\, political participation becomes user experience\, and national identity becomes a UX problem to be solved. Through close readings of the app’s interface\, promotional videos\, and crowdfunding features\, alongside analysis of interviews with co-founder Pavel Liber\, this presentation will trace how democratic aspirations get translated—and transformed—by technocapitalist platform logics. \nAbout the speaker: Alana Felton is assistant director of college writing at Pomona College\, where she oversees the Center for Speaking Writing and the Image and supports the College’s students through writing and communication instruction. Her interdisciplinary research explores how digital technologies shape political imagination\, resistance and communication practices. Her current book project\, Futurecraft: Technologies of Belarusian Resistance\, examines how oppositional actors—IT workers\, activists\, artists and hackers—use digital tools to organize dissent and envision alternative political futures under authoritarian rule. Alana holds a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures from Yale University. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/a-cyberspace-of-ones-own-the-new-belarus-app
LOCATION:Hampton Room\, Scripps College
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SUMMARY:The Red Scare and the Music of Hanns Eisler: Veronika Eberhart on Marxist and Aesthetic Strategies of Composer Hanns Eisler
DESCRIPTION:Veronika Eberhart will share her research from the MAK Schindler Residency in Los Angeles. The session will explore the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings and the work of Eisler\, a close collaborator of Bertolt Brecht known for his politically engaged music. Through archival material\, sound\, and speculative gestures\, Eberhart will highlight Eisler’s compositional strategies alongside her own artistic reception. The talk will also draw on her recent book\, “Garten sprengen” (Spector Books\, 2024). \nVeronika Eberhart is an artist\, musician\, and researcher working at the intersection of sculpture\, text\, sound\, and moving image. Grounded in feminist and class-based theories\, her work draws on a background in sociology (University of Vienna and Copenhagen) and fine arts (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna). Eberhart is currently a PhD researcher in Architecture in Hasselt\, Belgium. Her films have been screened at international film festivals\, including the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and Porto/Post/Doc – Film & Media Festival. As a musician\, she has toured extensively with her bands Lime Crush and Plaided. Her recent book Garten sprengen (Spector Books\, 2024) accompanied a solo exhibition at IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art\, Belgium. She was awarded the Schindler Scholarship at the MAK Center Los Angeles (2019) and completed the WIELS residency in Brussels (2020). \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/the-red-scare-and-the-music-of-hanns-eisler-veronika-eberhart-on-marxist-and-aesthetic-strategies-of-composer-hanns-eisler
LOCATION:Hampton Room\, Scripps College
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260211T121500
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SUMMARY:Europe's Many Shades of Migration Diplomacy: Unintentional and Enabling?
DESCRIPTION:This talk highlights Europe’s under‑acknowledged role in shaping migration diplomacy by recentering European agency both historically and in the present. Rather than viewing Europe primarily as a target of pressure from states in the Global South\, the talk argues that Europe has long acted as an introducer of migration diplomacy through imperial systems of population management\, an enabler through externalization and structured cooperation with third countries\, and an unintentional practitioner whose policies create diffuse and often unforeseen diplomatic effects. Efforts to control mobility in North Africa\, the Sahel\, and Turkey repeatedly generate five patterned unintended consequences: greater harm to migrants\, exposure to migration blackmail\, reputational backlash as partners contrast themselves with Europe\, the spread of restrictive EU practices to other regions\, and political erosion when European funding strengthens illiberal actors. By broadening the concept beyond deliberate strategy\, the talk shows how European migration diplomacy operates through fragmented\, indirect\, and sometimes concealed forms of power that raise important questions about agency\, accountability\, and responsibility in global migration governance. \nAbout the Speaker: Juliette Tolay is Associate Professor of Political Science at Penn State Harrisburg. Her research focuses on international migration governance\, migration diplomacy\, and the politics of asylum. Her work combines conceptual and historical analysis with comparative field research (Europe\, Turkey\, Latin America) to examine how migration policies function as instruments of power\, legitimacy\, and international positioning. She has published in leading journals including Millennium\, Review of International Studies\, Journal of Refugee Studies\, and International Migration. Her current research explores temporary protection regimes\, post-imperial mobility governance\, and the evolving limits of migration diplomacy.
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/europes-many-shades-of-migration-diplomacy-unintentional-and-enabling
LOCATION:Humanities Museum (HUM 225)
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SUMMARY:Euroskepticism and the Mainstream Right
DESCRIPTION:The 2016 Brexit vote\, in which a small majority of UK voters said they wanted to leave the European Union\, was followed by calls for Frexit\, Nexit\, and Öxit\, as European far-right leaders pledged that their countries would also leave the EU. We will discuss how a party that had never won seats in the UK Parliament forced the Conservatives to pledge an in / out referendum on EU membership\, as well as what led far-right parties elsewhere in Europe to abandon their own “-xit” promises. \nAbout the Speaker: Kim Twist is an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. Challenges for democracies are the core of her research\, which focuses on right-wing extremism in Western Europe. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/euroskepticism-and-the-mainstream-right
LOCATION:Hampton Room\, Scripps College
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SUMMARY:How to Start a Pogrom: The Lepers' Plot of 1321 in France and Aragon
DESCRIPTION:In 1320\, King Philip V of France suppressed the “Shepherds\,” a rural movement that had tried to restart the crusades by massacring communities of Jews and Muslims across France and Aragon. In 1321\, he approved the executions and expulsions of those same communities\, this time for colluding with lepers to poison wells and “infect people everywhere with their disease.” This talk traces the development of the Lepers’ Plot conspiracy theory\, from simple accusations of well poisoning to a fantasy of collusion between the Sultan of Babylon\, the head of the Jewish community\, and the “leaders” of the lepers to wipe out Christendom. It explores why the second attempt worked when the first did not\, and what this can tell us about the roots and success of contamination plot conspiracy theories. \nAbout the speaker: Elise Wang is a medievalist who focuses on the long history of social regulation. Her first book\, “The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature\,” explored the origins of felony in the English common law and in devotional and secular literature. Her current project is a trade book on medieval conspiracy theories that we still tell today\, including blood libel\, water contamination plots\, and satanic cults. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/how-to-start-a-pogrom-the-lepers-plot-of-1321-in-france-and-aragon
LOCATION:Humanities Museum (HUM 225)
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