Topics in Strategic Studies – Spring 2026 Series
Online Event - Zoom MeetingWeek of Events
Sunday, June 14, 2026
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Monday, June 15, 2026
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Featured June 15, 2026 -Featured Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition
Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition
Alternate Mondays, next on June 15, 5-6:30 pm ET MEP's alternative literature group begins a new series of novels, short fiction and non-fiction. Speculative fiction, reborn from traditional science fiction, and also known by its alter ego "visionary fiction" and other identities, including horror, more than ever offers space for exploration of class, race, gender, ... Read more
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
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Featured June 16, 2026 -Featured Topics in Strategic Studies – Spring 2026 Series
Topics in Strategic Studies – Spring 2026 Series
We are currently reading 'The Choice of Civil War' by Pierre Dardot et al. Alberto Toscano calls this work "a trenchant and provocative study of the symbolic, legal and material violence that has been deployed over the past half-century to secure the rule of capital across the planet. The Choice of Civil War breaks with antiseptic images of neoliberalism as the production of docile subjects or the marketization of everyday life, revealing it as the theory and practice of class warfare."
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
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Thursday, June 18, 2026
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June 18, 2026 -The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
Join ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight ... Read more
Friday, June 19, 2026
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Saturday, June 20, 2026
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June 20, 2026 -Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2
Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2
Read and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 3 of Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations'.