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Kate MacNiven: The Silent Witch of Monzie

University of Aberdeen · The Sir Duncan Rice Library, Fl. 7, Craig Suite

Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

Stewards of the Land: In Conversation with Stevie Ruiz & Jessica Kim

Institute on California and the West (ICW)

ICW is proud to present Dr. Stevie Ruiz, Professor of Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Northridge, in conversation with Jessica Kim about his new book, Stewards of the Land: Race and…

Wireless Futures: Speculative Media and German Modernity

Cornell University · Olin Library, Room 108, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Join us for a Chats in the Stacks book talk with Erik Born, associate professor in the Department of German Studies, as he discusses his latest book, Wireless Futures: Speculative Media and German…

Transnational Asia Speaker Series | Nora Yitong Qiu

Chao Center for Asian Studies · Sewall Hall

The Qing Way: Material Culture, Identity, and Gendered Life in Late Imperial China

LECTURE “The King Can Do No Wrong”: Daniel Lee, Berkeley

Law, Letters, and Society · Social Sciences Research Building

It is settled law that states, owing to their sovereignty, are immune from suit. This principle of sovereign immunity, however, is a relatively recent innovation in the history of modern public law.

ART & the ENDS of CONSENSUS: David Sadighian

History of Art and Architecture · List Art Building

Building Consensus: Architectures of Beaux-Arts Internationalism

Drop-In Samizdat* Workshop (*DIY Unofficial, Unsanctioned, Limited Edition Publication)

Stanford University Libraries · Hohbach Hall, lobby/interactive zone, 557 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

Take a seat at a manual typewriter and create a limited edition, uncensored, unofficial publication to circulate from hand to hand. Just like Eastern European dissidents used to do in the 1960's and…

Lecture | Biography of a Revolution: Rethinking Egypt’s 2011 through Feminist Genealogy

Center for Middle Eastern Studies · Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Abstract: Why does a revolution need a biography? In Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt (2025), Lucia Sorbera argued against a still-persistent framing of the 2011…

Eitner Lecture with M. D. Usher, "Journey to the West: Buddhists in Ancient Alexandria"

Department of Classics · Building 500, Archaeology Center, 106, 488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

Reception: Stanford Archaeology Center (500-106). Appetizers and drinks provided from 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Rachel Gordan Presents: The Jew Who Passed: Laura Z. Hobson and the American Bargain of Belonging

Center for Jewish Studies · 4330 Cedar Lake Rd, Minneapolis, MN 55416

Before Gentleman’s Agreement became the Academy Award–winning postwar film starring Gregory Peck, it was the bestselling novel of Laura Z. Hobson, a Jewish American woman whose life was shaped by the…

Rice Anthropology Brown Bag Talk with Travis Pickering

Anthropology · Sewall Hall

Please join Rice Anthropology for a Brown Bag Talk, “Life and Death at Swartkrans Cave, South Africa: What Two-Million-Year-Old Fossils and Artifacts Tell Us About Early Human Existence,” with Travis…

Workshop - Shared Pasts: Collaborative Archaeology in Mesoamerica and the Andes

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies · Social Science Research, Tea Room

This workshop equips participants with the tools and perspectives needed for public engagement in interpreting and preserving Mesoamerican and Andean archaeological heritage.

America in the World at 250: A View from a Bloody Borderland

The University of Texas at Austin · LBJ - SRH 3.122

As we conclude the nation’s semiquincentennial, at a moment when the American experiment once again teeters on the precipice of political violence, historian Jay Sexton reflects on the history of a…

Book Talk: Palimpsests Past and Present: The Sufis and Sultans of the Maklī Necropolis, 1380–1660 with Fatima Quraishi

Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia · Watson School of International and Public Affairs, 111 Thayer Street

Join us for a book talk with Fatima Quraishi, Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. A scholar of South Asian art and architecture, Quraishi’s research focuses on the…

Comfort Women Justice in North Korea Between Sovereignty and Civic Struggle

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

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WORKSHOP | Workshop on Non-Lingual Writing and Reading

Center for Global Antiquity · Horace Mann House

Research on writing and reading in pre-modern worlds often assumes some dependence of writing upon language. Although awareness of nonlinguistic signs is not new, and is not surprising to anyone who…

Tracing What Remains: Memory, Place, and Chinese American Histories

Anderson Collection at Stanford University · Anderson Collection, Denning Family Resource Center, 314 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305

Presented in conjunction with Patty Chang's surfacing, Tracing What Remains: Memory, Place, and Chinese American Histories brings together films that examine the histories of Chinese communities…

ONLINE LECTURE - Is a joint cultural environmental history of the Hurricane Belt and the Ring of Fire possible and necessary? Toward a global archipelagic eco-poetics of relation

Trinity College Dublin · Online Lecture

A lecture by Dr Yairen Jerez Columbié (University College Cork) for the Environmental History Research Seminar Series.

War, the End of Empire, and the Expansion of Women’s Political Citizenship

University of Oxford · All Souls College - Hovenden Room

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Tasneem Yousef and Khairul Amal

University of Edinburgh · Room 2.12, Appleton Tower (please note, this venue has been updated)

Join us for a hybrid seminar by Tasneem Yousef and Khairul Amal (PhD candidates, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) on their respective research specialisms.