USMCA at Two: What Comes Next?

Wednesday, July 20 // 1–2:00 p.m. (ET)

On July 1, 2022, the United States, Mexico and Canada reached the two-year anniversary mark of the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement or USMCA. Trade Ministers of Canada, Mexico and the United States marked the anniversary with a meeting in British Colombia of USMCA's "Free Trade Commission" to review work underway and next steps in the context of a challenging set of circumstances.

Join the Wilson Center's Canada and Mexico Institutes for a discussion on what the priorities should be in the months and year ahead for implementing USMCA and how that work fits into the broader frame of strengthening North American prosperity and competitiveness. Following introductory remarks by Congressman Kevin Brady, Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne will lead a panel discussion with leaders in the business and trade community from the US, Canada and Mexico.

Mermaid Revolutionaries? Milkmaids on Pointe? Socialist Realism and Making Ballet "Soviet" in the 1930s

Tuesday, July 19 // 1–2:00 p.m. (ET)

By the early 1930s, the question of whether ballet should be incorporated into Soviet culture had been answered in the affirmative. And yet, questions remained about how to transform the former court art into an art form for mass Soviet audiences.

Drawing upon archival stenographic records from discussions involving dancers, choreographers, librettists, stage directors, critics, bureaucrats, and others, Title VIII Research Scholar Lee Singh will show that the discussions boiled down to three main questions: what subjects were appropriate, how to structure ballet stories, and what kinds of embodied storytelling methods were appropriate for Soviet ballet.