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Monday 16 November
- 7:00 PM-8:30 PM in the UKOnline
'Yoga Breath': open-access book launch
SOAS University of London
SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies is delighted to host Dr Magdalena Kraler (University of Vienna) to launch the open-access version of her book, Yoga Breath.
- 1:00 PM-2:00 PM in CaliforniaIn person
Curator Led Talk | surfacing
Anderson Collection at Stanford University · Anderson Collection, Wisch Family Gallery, 314 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305
Join Marci Kwon, Exhibition Co-Curator & Co-director of the AAAI, on this special tour of surfacing.
- 5:00 PM-6:30 PM in Rochester, New YorkIn person
Thinking with Homer, Cultural Appropriation in Antiquity…and Beyond
University of Rochester · Rush Rhees Library, Hawkins-Carlson Room, 755 Library Road, Rochester, NY 14627
Cultures have long begged, borrowed, and stolen from one another, and stories of Troy have proven especially attractive for many peoples to think with and think about. The Romans are a prime example…
- 6:00 PM-7:00 PM in Calgary
CHOMS: Mr. Sam Fleming
University of Calgary
"Sophocles' Aias: Mental Illness, Suicide, and Its Background in Homeric Epic, Hippocratic Medicine, and Greek Tragedy"
- 5:30 PM-7:00 PM in BoulderIn person
Distinguished Manila-based Scholar on the Changing Memories of the Philippine Rescue of European Jews During the Holocaust
University of Colorado Boulder · University Memorial Center (UMC), Aspen Room 285-289, 1669 Euclid Avenue, Boulder, CO 80309
The CU and broader public are invited to a talk by Professor Jose Maria Edito K. Tirol (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines). Prof. Tirol will shed light on why the rescue of 1,300 Central…
Tuesday 17 November
- 5:00 PM in the UKIn person
The Concept of Shura in Qajar Iran: From Mirrors for Princes and Constitutionalist Treatises
University of Oxford · St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building
Speaker: Dr Alisa Shablovskaia All welcome, no booking necessary. The event will be chaired by Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College).
- 6:00 PM-8:30 PM in the UKIn person
Marks of a Maker: The stories coffins tell us
University College London · Object Based Learning Laboratory, Old Refectory, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology hosts an interactive pop-up inside the Object Based Learning Laboratory exploring new coffin research.
- 6:15 PM-7:30 PM in IrelandIn person
The Minority Mind: Jews and Protestants in Catholic Ireland, 1912-1968
Trinity College Dublin · Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
A lecture as part of the Aspects of the Irish Jewish Experience seminar series.
- 5:00 PM in ChicagoIn person
The Algorithmic Past: AI and the New Conditions of Historicity
Department of Art History · Cochrane-Woods Art Center 157
AI technologies, both discriminative and generative, are profoundly transforming the very conditions of historicity: the technical, epistemological, and political conditions under which the past…
Wednesday 18 November
- 1:00 PM-3:00 PM in the UKIn person
Lunch Hour Lecture (in-person) - The Architectural History of UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus
University College London · Wilkins Building, UCL, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Colin Thom of the Survey of London explores the rich variety of often striking buildings that today make up UCL’s Bloomsbury campus.
- 2:00 PM-3:30 PM in IrelandIn person
'Lived citizenship', women's grassroots activism and cross-border solidarity: the Irish Countrywomen's Association (ICA) and the Federation of Women's Institutes of Northern Ireland (WINI), 1950s-1980s
Trinity College Dublin · Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
A lecture by Prof Caitriona Beaumont (LSBU) as part of the Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series.
- 4:15 PM in the UKIn person
RNCM Research Forum: Reviving Past Sounds
Royal Northern College of Music · RNCM Carole Nash Recital Room
In this free RNCM Research Forum, academics and performers shine a light on musical works that have been unheard for centuries, now being rediscovered and reworked for modern audiences
- 4:30 PM-5:30 PM in IrelandIn person
Well Nigh Inebriating Us with the Sultan’s Verses”: Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī and the Making of a Poet-King
Trinity College Dublin · Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
The 2026 Cochrane Fellow Lecture, co-hosted by the Trinity Centre for the Book and the Chester Beatty Library.
- 5:30 PM-7:00 PM in the UKOnline
Archival Rupture: Obeah and Translation in the Black Atlantic
University College London
This talk explores methodological approaches to reading the archives of slavery in the early modern Caribbean.
- 12:30 PM-2:00 PM in Chapel HillIn person
Thinking South: SOHP Field Scholars
College of Arts and Sciences · Love House, 410 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill
Emerging scholars share how they use oral history to explore the stories that shape the South, from Carolina history to brown lung advocacy. Brown bag lunch; beverages provided.
- 12:00 PM-1:00 PM in Los AngelesOnline
EMSI LA2026 "American Landmarks: The Walking Purchase of 1737"
Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI)
The American Landmarks series explores historical touchstones in The Huntington’s collections, including objects featured in the “This Land Is…” exhibition, through a mix of panel discussions and…
- 12:00 PM-1:30 PM in CaliforniaIn person
The Greek and Arabic Reception of Ptolemy's Almagest between the 7th and 9th Centuries | Maria Mavroudi
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies · Encina Commons, 123, 615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
The period between the seventh and the ninth centuries has frequently been portrayed in scholarship as “dark”, especially because its intellectual production appears low.
- 5:00 PM in BostonIn person
Rights & Records: Germany’s Stasi Records Archive & Ireland’s National Centre for Research and Remembrance
Boston College · Connolly House, Andover Room, 300 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Rights & Records: Germany's Stasi Records Archive & Ireland's National Centre for Research and Remembrance
- 5:30 PM-7:15 PM in Rochester, New YorkIn person and online
Corner Society for the History of Medicine: Disability and the American Civil War
University of Rochester · Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue, Rochester, NY
During the Civil War and long after, the bodies of Union soldiers and veterans were sites of powerful cultural beliefs about duty and sacrifice. However, the realities of living with a disability…
- 4:30 PM in ChicagoIn person
Emanuel Fiano - Nāmusā: On Divine Law in Late Antiquity
Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies · Classics Building, Room 110
Registration required by November 16 - Prof. Fiano’s paper will be pre-circulated.