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12:00 PM-1:00 PM in CaliforniaIn person and online
Jana Hunter- The Child of Freedom: Temporal Sovereignty in Habsburg Bohemia
The Europe Center · Encina Hall, William J. Perry Conference Room, Encina Hall Central, 2nd Floor, 616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Who decides what time it is? In Habsburg Bohemia, that question drew in nearly every other: nation and empire, identity and sovereignty, capital and a newly connected world.
12:00 PM-1:00 PM in CaliforniaIn person
Lunchtime Curator Talk | California Current: Art and Histories from the Bay Area
Cantor Arts Center · Cantor Arts Center, Freidenrich Family Gallery (221), 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305
Join Maggie Dethloff, Assistant Curator of Photography and New Media, on this special tour of California Current: Art and Histories from the Bay Area.
12:00 PM-1:00 PM in Los AngelesOnline
Racist by Design: In Conversation with Kelly Lytle Hernández & Bill Deverell
Institute on California and the West (ICW)
ICW is proud to present Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández, Professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA, in conversation with Bill Deverell about her new book, Racist by Design.
4:00 PM-6:00 PM in ProvidenceIn person
Greta LaFleur | Gay at the Hay Series
Initiative on Sexualities and Genders · John Hay Library
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12:00 PM-1:30 PM in Los AngelesOnline
EMSI LA2026 “Historical Memory, Federal Agencies, Mission Conservation”
Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI)
A virtual conversation with Yve Chavez (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Oklahoma) and Sarah Montoya (Co-Director, Indigenous Humanities Lab, Virginia Commonwealth University)…

5:30 AM-7:00 PM in ViennaIn person
The Founding Fathers of the European Renaissance: How a Collective Memory Was Forged and Used in the 15th Century
Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room B505, Vienna
The rise of the humanist movement during the Quattrocento went hand in hand with the invention of a a narrative – the dawn of a new literary era – and the identification of a pantheon of founding…
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…
6:00 PM-7:00 PM in Calgary
CHOMS: Ms. Carole Rush
University of Calgary
"The History of the Glasgow Coma Scale"

12:00 PM in ProvidenceIn person
CRAM: Ra’anan Boustan (Yale Divinity School)
Center for Global Antiquity · Rhode Island Hall
CRAM is a work-in-progress group for graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty researchers working on the cultures and religions of the Ancient Mediterranean.
5:30 PM-7:00 PM in the UKIn person
Book talk: 'State Matters: Theorising state fragmentation and consolidation from Iraq'
SOAS University of London · R101, Main Building, SOAS
Why does the state matter to its people? How do people know and experience the state? And how did the state come to be both desired and dreaded by its subjects?
7:30 PM in MinneapolisIn person
Rowan Dorin Presents: Before 1492: Expelling Jews and “Jews” in Medieval Europe
Center for Jewish Studies · Minnesota JCC Capp Center 1375 St Paul Ave, St Paul, MN 55116
Vilified for their supposed usury, condemned by church leaders, and expelled by opportunistic rulers—such was the fate not only of medieval Europe’s Jewish communities, but also of the many Christian…

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.
5:00 PM-6:30 PM in the UKIn person
Archives or their-chives? ‘Rebuilding the truth’ of the Second Sino-Japanese War
SOAS University of London · Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), Russell Square: College Buildings
In 1953 construction workers in Changchun, northeast China, unearthed a huge trove of wartime records of the Imperial Japanese Army and Kenpeitai.
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…

12:00 PM-12:50 PM in ProvidenceIn person
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology | Marina Redina-Thomas
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology · Rhode Island Hall
Marina Redina-Thomas, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Egyptology and Assyriology, will present her research in an informal lecture.

6:00 PM in the UKIn person
The Romantic History of Copyright
Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall
Today, a copyright fight is underway: between big technology companies that need lots of data to train their AI models and creators who do not want to give that data up for free.

5:30 PM-7:00 PM in ViennaIn person
Fiction and the Archives: Parallel Readings of Archival Documents and Ottoman Fiction in the Early Modern Period
Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room D-001, Vienna
Abstract: In Fiction in the Archives, Natalie Zemon Davis emphasized how early modern subjects used narration to tell their stories—their narratives were not mere inventions, yet the way they…

6:30 PM-8:00 PM in the UKIn person
Annie Shirer - A Kininmonth Lassie and Collector of Folklore
University of Aberdeen · MacRobert Building, MR051
Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

10:00 AM-2:30 PM in the UKIn person
Zachary Herz's The God and the Bureaucrat: Historicising Jurisprudence Book Symposium
Queen Mary University of London · Room 313, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS (TBC)
Criminal Justice