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Creating and Challenging the Transatlantic Intelligence Community

Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington

Transatlantic intelligence cooperation played a key role in collecting and analyzing information during the Cold War, and the resulting intelligence product informed the decision-making process at the highest levels of government in Europe as well as in the United States. This conference will review the origins of the transatlantic intelligence partnership during the immediate postwar years and its evolution during the Cold War. It will explore the mechanisms for intelligence exchange between individual agencies as well as the ad hoc and informal interactions between members of intelligence organizations. In addition, papers will examine the causes and consequences of frictions in […]

Michael Green — “By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783”

Mortara Center Conference Room 3600 N Street NW (corner of 36th and N), Washington

Michael Green will discuss his new book, By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 (Columbia University Press, 2017), which follows the development of US strategic thinking toward East Asia, identifying recurring themes in American statecraft that reflect the nation's political philosophy and material realities. Drawing on archives, interviews, and his own experience in the Pentagon and White House, Green finds one overarching concern driving US policy toward East Asia: a fear that a rival power might use the Pacific to isolate and threaten the United States and prevent the ocean from becoming a […]

Ethnographic Film Series: “Cartoneros”

Q?rius Theater, Ground Floor, Natural History Museum 10th St. & Constitution Ave. NW, Washington

Documenting the paper recycling process in Buenos Aires, Cartoneros (2006, 60 min., Argentina) by Ernesto Livon-Grosman tells the stories of those involved—trash pickers, middlemen in warehouses, and executives in large corporate mills—and invites us to rethink the value of trash. A discussion will follow the screening. The Ethnographic Film Series is sponsored by the National Anthropological Archives and organized by Joshua A. Bell, cultural anthropologist and curator of globalization, National Museum of Natural History. Founded in 1975, the National Anthropological Film Collection (formerly known as the Human Studies Film Archives) forms part of the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives, and is devoted […]

Floyd Coleman with David C. Driskell

The David C. Driskell Center 1214 Cole Student Activities Bldg., University of Maryland, College Park

Floyd Coleman is an artist and scholar of African American art and art history. He has published on a variety of subjects, including African American murals, Elizabeth Catlett, jazz and the African American artist, and art at historically black colleges and universities. Coleman has also been featured in over 20 solo exhibitions since his first solo exhibition at a commercial gallery in 1963. He is professor emeritus of art history at Howard University and was the organizer of the annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art for over 20 years. Coleman will speak with David C. Driskell about subject […]

Conversations with Artists: Jim Shaw

The Phillips Collection 1600 21st Street NW, Washington

Over the past 30 years, LA-based artist Jim Shaw has become one of America’s most influential and visionary artists. His work moves between painting, sculpture, and drawing and builds connections between his own psyche and America’s larger political, social, and spiritual histories by mining the cultural refuse of the 20th century. For this conversation, Shaw is joined by Klaus Ottmann, deputy director for curatorial and academic affairs, The Phillips Collection. Conversations with Artists is a lively series that provides an opportunity to hear from and speak with leading contemporary artists in an informal setting. $12; free for members and students. […]

Creating and Challenging the Transatlantic Intelligence Community

German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington

Transatlantic intelligence cooperation played a key role in collecting and analyzing information during the Cold War, and the resulting intelligence product informed the decision-making process at the highest levels of government in Europe as well as in the United States. This conference will review the origins of the transatlantic intelligence partnership during the immediate postwar years and its evolution during the Cold War. It will explore the mechanisms for intelligence exchange between individual agencies as well as the ad hoc and informal interactions between members of intelligence organizations. In addition, papers will examine the causes and consequences of frictions in […]