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SUMMARY:De Bry's America and Merian's France: Taking Stock at Home and Abroad\, 1590-1660
DESCRIPTION: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 called “topographies” – were intertwined in conception\, content\, and production. Taking as case studies the descriptions of America published from 1590 by the De Bry press and the topographies of European countries published by their heirs\, the Merian press\, this paper examines the ways in which the authors and publishers approached societies unfamiliar to them in Virginia and in places much closer to home. Significantly\, architecture was a consistent interest\, and treated in broadly similar ways\, whether it was in indigenous settlements in North America or in major European cities. \nAbout the speaker: Kristoffer Neville’s work focuses on the early modern culture in northern Europe\, and particularly on the integration into a more coherent and synthetic history of art of regions and traditions that often been seen as distinct. He has recently completed a book on the cultural history and significance of the courts in Copenhagen and Stockholm within northern Europe ca 1550-1720\, and is beginning work on a new project on topography as a basis for history writing\, with particular focus on its significance for the formation of architectural history. Other ongoing interests include architecture around 1700\, prints and publishing\, and early architectural literature. \nRSVP here
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/de-brys-america-and-merians-france-taking-stock-at-home-and-abroad-1590-1660
LOCATION:Humanities Museum (HUM 225)
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SUMMARY:Tim's Vermeer: Movie Screening and Discussion with Tim Jenison & Farley Ziegler
DESCRIPTION:Movie 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 century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning eight years\, Jenison’s research project takes him to Deitt\, Holland\, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces\, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney\, and even to Buckingham Palace to see a Vermeer masterpiece in the collection of the Queen. More information at https://www.sonyclassics.com/timsvermeer/. \nRSVP here
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/tims-vermeer-movie-screening-and-discussion-with-tim-jenison-farley-ziegler
LOCATION:Humanities Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T170000
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SUMMARY:Is the EU Foreign Policy Still Relevant?
DESCRIPTION:Since 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 the 2013 landmark deal between Belgrade and Pristina in the EU-facilitated dialogue\, the contribution to the JCPOA\, the conclusions of the 2014 new generation Association Agreements with Ukraine\, Georgia and Moldova\, the 2016 EU Global Strategy\, PESCO\, the CETA Agreement with Canada\, the 2020 new Africa Strategy\, the 2020 Strategic Partnership with ANSEAN\,  not to mention that the EU Justice and Home Affairs increased role in counter-terrorism and in migration policies. However\, whether that translated in a recognized role in world affairs is a different question. The EU is also tarnished by contradictions\, for instance on human rights and democracy\, holding them as founding principles\, while its member states often forget them in their bilateral relations. If the EU gives up on its soft power\, not having a true military power\, it can only see its credibility and influence vane. \nAbout the Speaker: Prof. Federiga Bindi is Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and at the University of Wyoming. She also teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. for the European University Institute and has published among others\, three editions of The Foreign Policy of the European Union: Assessing Europe’s Role in the World (2022\, 2012 and 2010);  Europe and America: The End of Transatlantic Relations? (2019) The Frontiers of Europe: A Transatlantic Problem? (2011); Italy and the EU (2011)\, and Analyzing European Union Politics (2012). Prof. Bindi has worked at several leading research institutions including the Brookings Institution\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\, Johns Hopkins University\, the Women’s Institute for Policy Research in Washington DC\, Sciences Po in Paris\, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs\, the University of Lisbon\, and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Dr. Bindi held several policy appointments in government\, including serving Senior Advisor to Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini\, and Fellow in the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee under Sen. John Kerry’s chairmanship. She also advised several international organizations including the European Commission\, the Council of Europe\, UNIDO and OAS and is currently advising the Nobel Prize Laureate AFSC (American Friends Service Committee) on European affairs. Prof. Bindi also headed the international affairs department at the Italian National School of Administration and served as director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/is-the-eu-foreign-policy-still-relevant
LOCATION:Hampton Room\, Scripps College
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SUMMARY:The Standpoint of Marx's Capital
DESCRIPTION: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 in Marx’s lifetime\, it would become one of the most consequential books in history. This magnificent new edition of Capital is a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century. It is the first translation into English to be based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself\, the only version that can be called authoritative\, and it features extensive commentary and annotations by Paul North and Paul Reitter that draw on the latest scholarship and provide invaluable perspective on the book and its complicated legacy. At once precise and boldly readable\, this translation captures the momentous scale and sweep of Marx’s thought while recovering the elegance and humor of the original source. \nAbout the speaker: Paul North writes and teaches in the tradition of critical theory\, emphasizing Jewish thought\, emancipatory strains in the history of philosophy\, and European literatures. \nFor more information\, please visit https://german.yale.edu/publications/capital-critique-political-economy-volume-1
URL:https://www.scrippscollege.edu/eucenter/event/the-standpoint-of-marxs-capital
LOCATION:Humanities Museum (HUM 225)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260128T121500
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260204T121500
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T121500
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="EU Center":MAILTO:eucenter@scrippscollege.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260311T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260311T180000
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CREATED:20260225T184201Z
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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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