2025 URCEU: Will Europe Meet This Moment?
Europe has awoken to a stark new geopolitical reality. The post-Cold War era of European integration, transatlantic cooperation, and benign globalization is gone. For over three years Russia has waged […]
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2025 URCEU: Never Waste a Crisis: How the EU Uses its Digital Policies to Become More Innovative, Competitive and Safe
Hampton Room, Scripps CollegeThe European Union was born out of a crisis. After WWII, six countries agreed to pull together coal and steel procurement to make war between them "not merely unthinkable, but […]
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Understanding Georgia’s Ongoing Protests
Humanities Museum (HUM 225)Since late 2024, Georgia has experienced significant social and political unrest, marked by persistent street protests. For over four months, Georgians have been taking to the streets daily demanding snap […]
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The Importance of Endorsing Liberal Democracy for Human Development and Wellbeing in Europe: Insights from the ESS10 in Tumultuous Times
Hampton Room, Scripps CollegeAn important question facing European countries and the European Union is whether valuing democracy adds any insight, beyond basic human values such as benevolence and universalism, in accounting for variations […]
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The Representation of Romani People in Renaissance Italian Comedy
Humanities 119Dr. Matteo Leta is a scholar of Renaissance Italy at Warwick University where he is working on movements of Roma people across Europe during the Renaissance. Dr. Leta holds a […]
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De Bry’s America and Merian’s France: Taking Stock at Home and Abroad, 1590-1660
Humanities Museum (HUM 225)This work-in-progress presentation explores the ways that two popular early modern genres – accounts of travel to distant places, and the more systematic description of discrete regions, which were often […]
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Tim’s Vermeer: Movie Screening and Discussion with Tim Jenison & Farley Ziegler
Humanities AuditoriumMovie screening and discussion with Tim Jenison and Farley Ziegler: Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th […]
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Is the EU Foreign Policy Still Relevant?
Hampton Room, Scripps CollegeSince the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, the EU managed to have visible accomplishments in virtually all policy areas of the EU foreign policy. From the setting up of the EEAS, to […]
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The Standpoint of Marx’s Capital
Humanities Museum (HUM 225)Karl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Though only the first volume saw publication […]
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A Cyberspace of One’s Own: The New Belarus (App)
Hampton Room, Scripps College"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 […]
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The Red Scare and the Music of Hanns Eisler: Veronika Eberhart on Marxist and Aesthetic Strategies of Composer Hanns Eisler
Hampton Room, Scripps CollegeVeronika 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, […]
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Europe’s Many Shades of Migration Diplomacy: Unintentional and Enabling?
Humanities Museum (HUM 225)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 […]
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Euroskepticism and the Mainstream Right
Hampton Room, Scripps CollegeThe 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 […]
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How to Start a Pogrom: The Lepers’ Plot of 1321 in France and Aragon
Humanities Museum (HUM 225)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 […]