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Monday 7 December
- 5:30 PM-6:30 PM in MelbourneIn person
Moving architecture: relocation in the age of urban intensification
Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning · Lecture Theatre (B117), Glyn Davis Building (133 - Melbourne School of Design)
Conservation theory has long frowned on the relocation of historic buildings, finding it acceptable only as an alternative to demolition. However, given the accelerated rates of demolition that are…
- 1:15 PM in the UKIn person
Monday Lunchtimes
Royal Northern College of Music · RNCM Concert Hall
In this free Monday Lunchtimes event, RNCM musicians perform music for solo violin piano by Chopin and Prokofiev
Tuesday 8 December
- Tue, 08 December 2026, time on the event page
Queer Sites in South Asia: Cruising and Worldbuilding in India and Sri Lanka’s Gardens and Beaches
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Join anthropologist Dr Brian A. Horton (Brandeis University) and art historian Dr Edwin Coomasaru (University of Bristol) for a discussion of queer sites in South Asia, from gardens to beaches, to…
- 6:00 PM-7:00 PM in MelbourneIn person
“From absence to ab-sense: speculations from the air-conditioned states and societies of Asia”
Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning · Lecture Theatre (B117), Glyn Davis Building (133 - Melbourne School of Design)
From absence to ab-sense: speculations from the air-conditioned states and societies of Asia is a free public lecture and keynote presentation SAHANZ/AUHPH Conference: Absence
- 3:00 PM in the UKIn person
Yalda Night: Celebration of the Longest Night of the Year
University of Salford · Old Fire Station G05 (Council Chamber), M5 4NL, United Kingdom
Join us for a special celebration of Yalda Night, a tradition celebrated across Iran, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Central Asia and beyond.
- 4:15 PM-6:00 PM in the UKIn person
Book Launch and Photography Exhibition
University of Portsmouth · Park Building, Heritage Hub (LRC), King Henry I Street, Portsmouth, PO1 2BZ
Book launch: Sleep Stories (Scherer); Quality Matters (Mikuska); exhibition by Margaux Revol on nighttime parenting
- 12:15 PM-1:30 PM in Rochester, New YorkIn person
Civic Canopy: The Living Infrastructure of Urban Trees
University of Rochester · Edward G. Miner Library, Bhagat Classroom, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester 14642
What changes when we stop seeing trees as background scenery and begin seeing them as vital participants in civic life?
- 6:00 PM in the UKIn person
Shakespeare Now: Creativity and Controversy
Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall
How Shakespeare is performed in contemporary theatre and film raises sometimes heated questions about representation, politics, and relevance. Should – must? – Richard III be played by an actor with…
- 6:00 PM in CaliforniaIn person
2026 Fall MFA Documentary Film Screening
Department of Art & Art History · McMurtry Building, Oshman Hall, 355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
The Department of Art & Art History presents a fall screening of six short films by first-year graduate students in the Documentary Film & Video MFA program. Q&A with filmmakers and a small reception…
Wednesday 9 December
- Wed, 09 December 2026, time on the event page
Singulariter afficitur … ad gloriosissimum lignum crucis: Jean duc de Berry and the Cross
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Join Dr Susannah Kingwill as she discusses Jean duc de Berry and the Cross.
- 2:00 PM-3:00 PM in MelbourneIn person
The elephant in the room: a talk by Dr Elizabeth Darling
Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning · Lecture Theatre (B117), Glyn Davis Building (133 - Melbourne School of Design)
This free public lecture is also a part of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference: Absence.
- 6:00 PM in the UKIn person
How to See the World As a Child Sees It
Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall
Since 2013, artists Andy Field and Beckie Darlington have collaborated with children from across the world to create artworks that enable adults to see things through those young people’s eyes.
- 5:30 PM-7:00 PM in CaliforniaIn person
Print Revolutions: Chinese Impressions, 1630s–1960s, with Clarissa von Spee (Curator, Cleveland Museum of Art)
Department of Art & Art History · McMurtry Building, Oshman Hall, 355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
In August 2025, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) announced the acquisition of well over 200 rare, 18th century Suzhou woodblock prints from the…
Thursday 10 December
- Thu, 10 December 2026, time on the event page
A Book Talk: Women Artists and Abstract Art in Postwar Rome
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Following the publication of Women Artists and Abstract Art in Postwar Rome: Connected by Travel in summer 2026, co-editors Jelena Stojković and Daniel Sturgis talk about their research of a…
- 8:00 PM in EugeneIn person
Mason Jennings
University of Oregon · WOW Hall, 291 W 8th Ave. Eugene, OR 97401
ON SALE AT THE UO TICKET OFFICE IN THE EMU
Monday 14 December
- 1:10 PM-2:00 PM in the UKIn person
Gamelan Music from West Java
University of Manchester · Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Manchester
Students on the Ensemble Performance in Gamelan module take to the stage to demonstrate their newly acquired skills in Sundanese music from West Java, Indonesia. An exciting concert of traditional…
- 1:15 PM in the UKIn person
Monday Lunchtimes
Royal Northern College of Music · RNCM Concert Hall
Music for voice and piano, and clarinet and piano
- 5:00 PM in ChicagoIn person
The Privacy of Loss in Hamnet and Hamlet
Graham School · Gleacher Center
Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet (and the Oscar-winning film adaptation directed by Chloé Zhao) is two things at once: a story about love and grief, and an effort to imagine how Shakespeare’s Hamlet…
- 6:00 PM in ChicagoIn person
Tituba: Artist Talk Featuring esperanza spalding and Josephine Lee in Conversation with Avery Willis Hoffman
Court Theatre · Logan Center for the Arts
Explore the unique sonic world, melodies and rhythms of Court Theatre’s Tituba with this special artist talk, part of Court Theatre’s America@250 - Now is the Time: Artists Go to Work.
Thursday 17 December
- 1:15 PM in the UKIn person
Thursday Lunchtimes: Music for Winds by Strauss and Raff
Royal Northern College of Music · RNCM Concert Hall
In this free Thursday Lunchtimes event, RNCM musicians from the School of Wind perform by Richard Strauss and Joachim Raff with Kevin Gowland (flute)