Warfare of Art & Law Podcast Stephanie Drawdy

To learn more, please visit Laura Morelli's site.

Show Notes:
0:00 Laura Morelli  discussing the WWII era art looting
1:15 genesis of writing about the looting of Florentine art collections in The Last Masterpiece 
2:45 German Jewish artist Rudolph Levy as guest of German Art History Institute 
4:30 Stolperstein for Levy
5:00 perspectives in WWII Italy: museum officials, German expatriates and Allies
8:30 German Eva Brunner and American Josephine Evans - characters in The Last Masterpiece 
9:30 decisions on where to begin and end The Last Masterpiece
13:30 decision to use fictional characters versus historical figures in book
14:40 German Art History Institute Director Prof. Friedrich Kriegbaum
16:00 Kriegbaum’s participation in Hitler’s 1938 tour of Florence
18:25 Brunner’s back story
20:10 German photographer Hilde Lotz-Bauer who worked for Prof. Kriegbaum photographing Allied damage to historical monuments in Florence 
24:15 Evans based on Women’s Army Corp (WACs)
28:25 women who worked with and supported the Monuments Men
29:00 justice in terms of the individual actions and decisions that enabled the survival of art looted during WWII
31:30 books by Robert Edsel and Ilaria Dagnini Brey
32:15 survival bias 
33:30 van Dyck painting
33:40 Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s work for Germany to return looted Dutch painting
35:00 impact of propaganda during WWII
38:10 Michelangelo’s Secret Room with 16th C drawings 
42:20 2024 release of book related to hiding places in Tuscan countryside in 1943-44


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Music by Toulme.

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© Stephanie Drawdy [2024]

To learn more, please visit Barbara Hinske's website.

Cover photo of Barbara Hinske, 2020 Jean Laninga Creative.

Show Notes:

0:00 Guiding Emily Series to effect change for good in the sighted community

1:15 background in engineering and the law

2:00 whodunit books by Barbara’s father

2:25 double vision by auto accident led to Rosemont series

3:55 her approach to writing while still working as an attorney

7:00 work with a writing coach

8:15 writing coach Linden Gross

8:45 Author Conference on Clubhouse

10:30 Rosemont Series 

13:50 Guiding Emily Series

14:45 Guiding Emily movie on Hallmark in April 2024

15:00 genesis of Guiding Emily at Foundation for Blind Children

22:50 discrimination against the visually impaired community

24:45 unemployment rate of the visually impaired community

26:00 panel to address employability of individuals from visually impaired community

30:05 viewers@hallmarkmedia.com

35:20 exclusion of unsighted parents

37:30 guide dog graduation ceremony

40:20 Guiding Emily presentation

41:40 power of art to shift and address social issues

42:00 The Christmas Club

44:00 pregnant unsighted individual’s experience

45:30 Canadian child at Foundation for Blind Children

46:55 definition of justice

49:15 The Write Approach podcast

51:20 Hinske’s strong older female protagonists 

53:50 Final Circuit 

57:30 self-published in e-book and print; traditionally published in audio

58:00 Hinske’s legacy to uplift, encourage and empower
Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com

To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.

Music by Toulme.

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To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com.

Thanks so much for listening!

© Stephanie Drawdy [2024]

Featuring excerpts from Episode 108, an interview with Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq, and Episode 105, an interview with Milena Chorna, with musical composition by Toulme, Copyright 2024.
Many thanks to M.C. Sungaila who sparked the idea for "Manifestation of Freedom". 



Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com

To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.

Music by Toulme.

To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.

To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com.

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© Stephanie Drawdy [2024]

Show Notes:
0:00 M.C. Sungaila discussing history / preservation of space exploration
1:50 Sungaila’s Portia Project Podcast interview with Space Law Expert Michelle Hanlon
2:45 Sungaila’s experience with University of Mississippi School of Law’s Air and Space Program
5:30 unclear language related to space law
8:00 mining on the moon
9:40 lessons from Holocaust-era restitution cases like Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation
12:30 For All Moonkind
13:30 International Symposium on Cultural Heritage in War and Peace: Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage through Past, Present and Future
16:45 Sungaila’s proposed framework to create space cultural heritage commission
22:45 The Artemis Accords
24:50 Italian Opera added to UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list
25:15 treaty requiring registration of space objects
25:35 For All Moonkind’s moon registry
26:10 One Small Step To Protect Human Heritage in Space Act
27:40 Sungaila’s projection
29:30 Dubai space court
31:25 urgency of space cultural heritage preservation
32:40 definition of justice
35:40 9th Cir's 9 Jan 2024 opinion in Cassirer and the question of ethics and law
39:45 Mismatch between domestic law and international obligations
42:10 Institute on Space Law and Ethics
44:00 issues related to satellites, drones, air taxis
Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com

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Music by Toulme.

To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.

To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com.

Thanks so much for listening!

© Stephanie Drawdy [2024]

Cover image by Nosrat Tarighi of Sanjay Sethi at an AFI event entitled Revolutions and Movements

To learn more, please visit the sites for Artistic Freedom Initiative and Sethi & Mazaheri, LLC.


Show Notes:


2:00 overview of Sethi’s background and work as Founding Partner of Sethi & Mazaheri, LLC and Co-Executive Director of Artistic Freedom Initiative (AFI)
3:45 genesis and mission of AFI
5:00 AFI’s services
8:00 AFI’s residency program
9:00 AFI’s Artists for Social Change
9:45 challenges to helping artists
13:00 AFI’s creation of a sponsorship model
13:30 AFI’s program in Germany
15:00 determination of artists in imminent danger
16:20 assistance for female artists
18:20 university placements for female artists
18:40 the New School’s fellowships for Afghan artists at risk
19:00 Germany’s program for artists at risk
21:00 Journals of Exile at the Berliner Ensemble
22:10 programs through AFI’s Artists For Social Change
23:45 Brazilian Singer Songwriter Bia Ferreira
25:20 AFI’s Afghan Artists Protection Project & Iranian Artists Support Project
27:00 challenges of single intent visas like student visas and O-1 visas
28:30 denial of entry based on immigration intent for Afghan versus Iranian artists 
30:00 applications from Myanmar, Egypt, Nicaragua, India and particular Kashmir
31:00 impact of prior and upcoming elections 
31:30 Poland shifted back to center left with loss of Law and Justice (PiS) party
31:50 Slovakia’s election of Robert Fico with agenda similar to Hungary’s Viktor Orbán
32:00 Slovenia’s election of liberal Robert Golob
32:10 Brazil’s election of leftist former president, defeating Pres. Jair Bolsonaro
32:15 Indian PM Narendra Modi’s Hindu Nationalist Party projected to win 
32:30 elections in Italy and the Netherlands
32:45 new and different threats to cultural sectors globally
33:00 AfI’s Artistic Freedom Monitor - initial reports on Poland and Hungary
36:00 regimes replaced museum/cultural institution heads with right wing politicians
36:00 Curation of shows under those regimes would conform to nationalist ideals
37:25  defunding anti-regime institutions or anti-Catholic in Poland 
37:50 intimidation of non-conforming artists
38:10 Poland’s use of blasphemy law to criminally charge non-conforming artists
38:00 chilling effect of such subversive mechanisms 
39:15 AFI’s position that arts decisions should be merits-based and non-ideological   
39:30 response to Artistic Freedom Monitor’s reports
40:00 erroneous belief that arts are inconsequential in public & political dialogue 
41:35 elevation of AFI’s advocacy efforts to an international forum 
44:00 collaboration to lobby for artistic and creative freedom
45:00 impact of artificial intelligence 
47:50 legacy of his work
49:50 how his notion of justice has evolved




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To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.

Music by Toulme.

To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.

To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com.

Thanks so much for listening!

© Stephanie Drawdy [2024]

Show Notes:
2:00 Dr. Joanna Sliwa’s background
4:20 Dr. Elizabeth White’s background 
5:20 Majdanek concentration camp
8:00 1989 - White received the manuscript of Dr. Janina Mehlberg’s unpublished memoir from Dr. Arthur Funk
10:30 Dr. Janina Mehlberg’s humanitarian work in Polish concentration camp during WWII
12:20 Mehlberg’s alias as Countess Suchodolska
13:30 2018 - Dr. Joanna Sliwa began work with Dr. White to research Mehlberg's memoir
15:00 reading from The Counterfeit Countess
20:00 balance of co-authoring The Counterfeit Countess
22:20 research process
24:00 surprises from the research 
27:45 Countess Karolina Lanckorońska
30:30 Saturnina Malm
33:30 Dr. Stefania Perzanowska 
35:00 view of women’s roles during war and instances of persecution 
38:00 empathic approach of Mehlberg as a model for today
42:00 propoganda
46:00 individual ways to address hate
49:00 justice
51:45 legacy
54:30 Sliwa’s focus on marginalized groups, including future volume on experiences of older jews before, during and after the Holocaust  


Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com

To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.

Music by Toulme.

To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.

To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com.

Thanks so much for listening!

© Stephanie Drawdy [2024]