What big history says about how royal women exercise power

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 13, 2019July 13, 2019 History, Politics

Click Here to Listen to: What big history says about how royal women exercise power by Laura Spinney on the aeon website.

Detail from a mural in Chapelle Sainte-Radegonde de Chinon (Chapel of Saint Radegund in Chinon, France). The figure has been variously identified as Eleanor of Aquitaine, her son Henry, or some other member of her family. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Room 6.19

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 11, 2019July 11, 2019 Books, Film, History, Literature, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: ROOM 6.19 Click Here to Read: The ROOM Website

We delighted that this special edition of Room will be featured at the IPA in London this summer – as an interactive poster and a community project. The IPA has also invited the next Room Roundtable discussion to take place in London on Friday afternoon July 26.

YIVO’s Jonathan Brent Receives Lithuanian State Awar

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 10, 2019July 10, 2019 History, Literature, Politics

Click Here to Read: YIVO’s Jonathan Brent Receives Lithuanian State Award on the YIVO website on July 9, 2019.

Lauterpacht: The Victorian Tradition in International Law

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 8, 2019July 8, 2019 Books, History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Lauterpacht: The Victorian Tradition in International Law by Martti Koskenniemi. European Journal of International Law, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 215–263.

Italy arrests 18 for allegedly brainwashing and selling children:

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 4, 2019July 4, 2019 Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Italy arrests 18 for allegedly brainwashing and selling children: The accused include psychotherapists working for a social work association in Moncalieri, near Turin, and the mayor of Bibbiano by AFP on the Journal.ie website in June 27th 2019.

Italia President Guiseppe Conte Photo: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri. Public Domain via Wikmedia Commons.

Should We Love Our Country?

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 2, 2019July 2, 2019 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Should We Love Our Country? Fourth of July ruminations on the nation-state and the state of the nation By Paul Berman on the Tablet website on July 2, 2019.

July 4th fireworks, Washington, D.C. 2008 Photo: Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Antony Polonsky, “The Jedwabne Debate: Poles, Jews and the Problems of a Divided Memory”

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 1, 2019July 1, 2019 Books, History, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Antony Polonsky, “The Jedwabne Debate: Poles, Jews and the Problems of a Divided Memory,” in Murray Baumgarten, Peter Kenez and Bruce Thompson, eds., Varieties of Antisemitism: History, Ideology, Discourse (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009), 179-192.