IACI Upcoming Events
In November of 2012 representatives of college clubs on the Cape got together to share ideas for collaboration on events and share experiences. The Intercollegiate Alumni of the Cape and the Islands now comprises eleven Cape Cod Alumni Clubs.
Harvard Club of Cape Cod to present
Israel and the Middle East – September 23 at 4:00 PM via Zoom
Israel’s position in the Middle East has changed dramatically from prior decades. The relative decline of major Arab powers and the warming and even normalization of Israel’s ties with the Gulf states has transformed an Arab-Israeli conflict into a more complex web of rivalry with Iran and its proxies, often with Arab countries siding with Israel.
Alongside these regional changes is the continuing and in some ways worsening Israeli-Palestinian conflict, posing a fundamental crisis to Israel’s own identity. How might a new Israeli government navigate these complex realities? How might it pursue its interests with a Biden administration intent on limiting America’s involvement in the Middle East?
Dr. Natan Sachs is the Director of the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy. His research focuses on Israel’s foreign policy, its domestic politics, and on U.S.-Israeli relations. Dr. Sachs has taught on the Arab-Israeli conflict at Georgetown University’s Government Department and at its Security Studies Program. He has provided Congressional testimony, has published widely, including in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The New York Times Global, and routinely provides commentary for media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, BBC, PBS Newshour and NPR.
To register for this event, click here.
IACI Past Events
Cornell Club of Cape Cod:
So, how was the honeymoon? Assessing Biden’s first 100 days in office.
On Wednesday, April 28th The Cornell Club of Cape Cod presented a Zoom webinar from 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM with Mark Petracca appraising the first 100 days of the Biden administration.
Mark Petracca grew up in Quincy, MA, received an A.B. in Government from Cornell University (1977), and an A.M. (1979) and PhD (1986) in Political Science from the University of Chicago. He taught at Chicago, Amherst College, Beijing University (PRC) as well as the University of California, Irvine from 1984 until his retirement in 2018. While at UCI he served as Chair of the Department of Political Science for 13 years (1996-2002; 2004-2011) and for 7 years as Associate Dean for the School of Social Sciences (2011-2018). A student of American politics, constitutional law, and democratic political theory, Petracca has written widely for scholarly and public audiences, appeared frequently on TV and radio for more than 30 years in the U.S, and abroad, testified on multiple occasions before the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, and served as an expert witness on numerous occasions in various state and federal court cases. A well regarded teacher, Petracca received numerous awards for teaching excellence while at UCI including the 2002-2003 UCI Academic Senate’s “Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award for Teaching” (the university’s highest teaching honor).
Cornell Club of Cape Cod: What We Love About the Cape!
Sites to See…Places to Be!
The Cornell Club of Cape Cod’s Social Webinar gathering provided a lively discussion on the best restaurants, cafes, bakeries, shops, museums, hiking trails and beaches from Provincetown to Falmouth. Such hidden gems such as Province Lands of Provincetown. Park at the lot just off Route 6 at Snail Road, walk towards the ocean and find yourself among rolling dunes stretching for miles, lonely pines, deserted old cranberry bogs, and the ruins of the Peaked Hill Bars Coast Guard Station. To envision what Old Cape Cod looked like, take a drive down the Lower Road from Wellfleet to Truro. Highlights included the Chatham Monomoy Refuge Center, a delicious chocolate chip cookie or almond croissant at the Eat Cake for Breakfast bakery in Brewster to the scenic picnic area at the Sandwich entrance to the Cape Cod Canal. Everyone agreed there is certainly a lifetime of experiences to enjoy on our beloved Cape Cod. Click here to see the full list by category and here to view it by town..
Harvard Club of Cape Cod: The Last Negroes at Harvard Special Guests Kent Garrett and Friends
To view a webcast of this presentation, click here.
In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited an unprecedented eighteen “Negro” boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, Kent Garrett, would begin to reconnect with his classmates and explore their vastly different backgrounds, lives, and what their time at Harvard meant.
In their book, “The Last Negroes at Harvard”, Garrett and his partner Jeanne Ellsworth recount how these eighteen youths broke new ground, with ramifications that extended far past the iconic Yard. By the time they were seniors, they would have demonstrated against national injustice and grappled with the racism of academia, had dinner with Malcolm X and fought alongside their African national classmates for the right to form a Black students’ organization.