Remembrance: war, peace and memory

From Heroic Glory to Victimhood: Holocaust Singularity and the Making of Post-Heroic Memory

Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room B505, Vienna

This talk explores how modern memory culture shifted from the public recognition of heroes, martyrs and sacrifice toward the recognition of victims and victimhood. The central argument is that this…

Disappeared Persons in the Context of the Colombian Armed Conflict

University of Huddersfield · Holocaust Centre North

An exhibition sharing co-created stories of forced disappearance in Colombia, exploring memory, justice and the search for loved ones.

Hungarian-born Holocaust Survivor Gives Testimony on Campus

University of Colorado Boulder · Clare Small Arts and Sciences, 207, 1725 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO 80309

The CU and broader publics are invited to a lunchtime talk by Barbara Steinmetz, a Hungarian-born child survivor of the Holocaust, who managed to escape Hitler-controlled Europe to the Dominican…

Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World

Clements Center for National Security · LBJ School of Public Affairs, Bass Lecture Hall, 2315 Red River St., Austin, TX 78712-1536

On November 3, 2026, the Clements Center for National Security and the LBJ School of Public Affairs will host “Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World”…

Material Witness: Understanding the Objects of Auschwitz

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Visitors to Auschwitz are confronted by scores of objects: shoes and suitcases, brushes, glasses, even human hair. Stolen from the victims of the Holocaust, they testify to the scale of the…

TOUR – Weaving Conflict: Afghan War Carpets at Nickle Galleries

University of Calgary · Taylor Family Digital Library

Beginning around 1980, Afghan weavers began incorporating images of fighter jets, guns, and tanks into their carpet designs—likely in response to the arrival of Soviet forces in 1979.

Taking Pictures in Postwar Japan (1945-1955)- a talk with Dr. Emily Cole, UT Tyler

College of Liberal Arts · Will C. Hogg Building (WCH), 4.118, 120 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, TX 78712

ABSTRACT

Tatyana Voltskaya: Poetry In Wartime

University of Rochester · Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Room D, 755 Library Road, Rochester, NY 14627

Public Poetry Reading and Discussion

Barbie in the Bunker: Childhood, War, and Imagination | Maša Kolanović

The University of Texas at Austin · Alienated Majesty Books, 613 W 29th Street

Join us for a conversation with Croatian author Maša Kolanović about her novel Underground Barbie, moderated by Dr. Mary Neuburger, a historian of modern Eastern Europe and Director of UT Austin’s…

Book launch: Escaping the Conflict Trap?

King's College London · Strand Campus, London

Join the Africa Research Group for the launch of the new book 'Escaping the Conflict Trap?: Seeking Stability in Liberia and Sierra Leone' (Lynne Rienner).

How to Activate Collective Memory: Localizing Historical Antifascism to Counter the Far Right

University of Oxford · All Souls College - Old Library

Widowhood and Bereavement during the English Civil Wars

Trinity College Dublin · Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub

A seminar by Prof Andrew Hopper (University of Oxford) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series.

War, Sanctions and the Intimacy of Everyday Life

Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies · Encina Commons, 123, 615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305

In this panel conversation, Negar Mottahedeh and Salar Mameni discuss themes of war, loss, sanctions and the possibility of love and intimacy with Iranians from the position of exile in the diaspora.

Softa and Yafta: Revisiting Power, Protests, and Massacres in the Late Ottoman Empire

Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room B505, Vienna

This talk highlights the importance of the softa (madrasa students) to our understanding of the late Ottoman Empire and sectarian politics in the Middle East.

Sudan’s War: Political Economy, Regional Interests and the Search for a Viable Peace

SOAS University of London · Main Building RB01, SOAS Main Building (RB01) & Online

Why has the war in Sudan proved so difficult to end, and what are the domestic and external interests that sustain it? Professor Mekki Medani El Shibly will examine the political economy and regional…

Revisiting national pasts: Reflections from the trenches

Royal Holloway, University of London

Hellenic Institute Annual Lecture by Stathis Kalyvas, Gladstone Professor of Government, University of Oxford.

The Entente at the End: The Allied Experience of 1918

University of Reading · Room G27, Edith Morley, Whiteknights campus

On the Western Front, the final year of war swung from potential disaster to unexpected victory for the Entente allies. The pressure placed on them by the German Spring Offensive almost broke the…

L. Maria Bo, "Writing on Water: Cold War Literary Translations and the Chinese Diaspora," in conversation with Vaughn Rasberry

Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity · Building 360, CCSRE Conference Room, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), 450 Jane Stanford Way Building 360, Stanford, CA 94305

During the Cold War, the ideological struggle to win the hearts and minds of the Chinese took place on the pages of literary texts. A battle of the books between Washington D.C. and Beijing mobilized…

Beyond the Ceasefire: The Continuing Crisis in Tigray

University of Manchester · A2.6, Ellen Wilkinson Building, Manchester

HCRI public event about the situation in Tigray, Ethiopia, following the civil war and the 2022 ceasefire.

Veterans Day Screening of We Lift Each Other

Division of Academic and Student Affairs · Witherspoon Student Center, Cinema, 2810 Cates Ave., Raleigh, NC 27606

In observance of Veterans Day, NC State LIVE invites the campus community and the public to a free screening of We Lift Each Other. The film follows a dance company and a group of veterans over one…