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Wednesday 28 October
- 12:00 PM-1:30 PM in Los AngelesIn person and online
Narrating Constraint: Mapping Jewish Women’s Mobility and Memory in Paris under the Vichy Regime and Nazi Occupation
Campus Humanities · Taper Hall (THH), 309K, 3501 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089
A public lecture by Kyra Schulman (PhD candidate in History, University of Chicago) 2026-2027 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow
- 1:00 PM-5:00 PM in CaliforniaIn person
Emergent Properties: Decennial Reflections on Collections
David Rumsey Map Center · David Rumsey Map Center (Green Library), 557 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
In 2026 the David Rumsey Map Center celebrates its tenth year—a moment to reflect on how the Center has added value to scholarship on campus and around the world. Our collections are vast and not…
- 4:00 PM-5:30 PM in ProvidenceIn person and online
New Book Talk: Medicine by the People by Dr. Jim Downs
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) · 96 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912
Join CSREA for a conversation with Dr. Jim Downs about the often-overlooked people who have shaped American healthcare. From smallpox inoculation and childbirth to tuberculosis prevention…
- 1:30 PM-2:30 PM in VancouverIn person
Chung | Lind Gallery Weekly Drop-In Tour
University of British Columbia · Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Join us at our weekly drop-in tour through the Chung | Lind Gallery every Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. PT. Led by Rare Books and Special Collections and the University Archives archivists, tours can take…
- 5:00 PM in BostonIn person
Sport and Culture in Ireland: The Atlas of Irish Sport
Boston College · Connolly House, Andover Room, 300 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Sport and Culture in Ireland: The Atlas of Irish Sport
- 5:15 PM-6:45 PM in BostonIn person
The Ambivalences of Return: Diasporic Utopias and Anti-Migrant Policies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Building 14, 304, 160 MEMORIAL DR, Cambridge, MA 02139
"Return" is a central notion for thinking about the diasporic condition in general (W. Safran). In the "radical imaginations" (R.D.G. Kelley) of the Black Americas of the late nineteenth and…
- 5:30 PM-7:15 PM in Rochester, New YorkIn person and online
Corner Society for the History of Medicine: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality
University of Rochester · Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue, Rochester, NY
This talk examines how early Atlantic slave trading communities made human corporeality articulable with a new set of ideas about finance, facts, objectivity, and measurable risk that emerged in the…
- 5:30 PM in ProvidenceIn person
The Second Hellenic Republic as a State of Exception: Military Intervention, Political Violence, and the Crisis of Democracy
Modern Greek Studies · Horace Mann House
Join us for The Second Hellenic Republic as a State of Exception: Military Intervention, Political Violence, and the Crisis of Democracy, a lecture by George Souvlis.
- 5:00 PM-6:30 PM in ChicagoIn person
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: Sarah Rivett, “Before ‘The Raven:’ Indigenous Literature and the American Canon”
Department of English Language and Literature · Rosenwald Hall, Room 405
The Department of English Language and Literature welcomes Sarah Rivett for the 2026 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture, “Before ‘The Raven:’ Indigenous Literature and the American Canon.” The…
- 3:00 PM-5:00 PM in VancouverIn person
Snapshots of Excellence: UBC’s Killam Accelerator Research Fellows’ Showcase
University of British Columbia · Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Four early-career UBC researchers were given two years to focus on a challenge that could advance their vastly different fields of study. Hear what they discovered and sample the incredible breadth…
- 4:00 PM-5:00 PM in CaliforniaOnline
Reimagining Democracy: America at 250
Continuing Studies
As part of its free public programming, Stanford Continuing Studies is proud to present the third annual Reimagining Democracy, a weekly speaker series produced with the Office of Community…
- 5:00 PM-6:30 PM in CaliforniaIn person
French Speaking Worlds: Audrey Celestine - Negritude Experiments: Aimé Césaire and the Politics of Culture in Martinique (1970s)
Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages · Building 260, Pigott Hall, Rm 252, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Please join French Speaking Worlds: Then and Now for Negritude Experiments: Aimé Césaire and the Politics of Culture in Martinique (1970s), a talk with Audrey Celestine (New York University)
- 5:30 PM in PasadenaIn person
Special Preview Days: Caltech JPL Archival Exhibition
California Institute of Technology · Beckman Institute 131, Caltech, Pasadena
Caltech and JPL Archives present: Dare Mighty Things: From Rocketry to Space Exploration at Caltech JPL.
Thursday 29 October
- Thu, 29 October 2026, time on the event pageIn person
JANE! An intimate exploration of Gilded Age excess and the enigmatic life and death of Jane Stanford
Cantor Arts Center · Cantor Arts Center, Stanford Family Rooms, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305
Curated by Associate Curator of European Art, Patrick R. Crowley, JANE! celebrates the aesthetic and affective excesses of Jane Stanford, the Gilded Age founder and matriarch of Stanford University.
- 1:00 PM-3:00 PM in the UK
Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics
University of Manchester
A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this…
- 3:00 PM-5:00 PM in ViennaIn person and online
Doctoral defense: "The Streets of Empire: Colonial Ideology, Capital and Labour in Madras City During the British Raj" - Viswesh Rammohan
Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room Senate room, B-319, Vienna
Chair: Matthias Riedl, Department of Historical Studies, CEU
- 12:00 PM-12:50 PM in ProvidenceIn person
Brown Bag Series in Archaeology | Rocco Palermo
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology · Rhode Island Hall
Rocco Palermo, Visiting Scholar in Archaeology and the Ancient World, will present his research in an informal lecture titled, “Thousands of Years, Thousands of Stories. Five Years of Investigations…
- 5:00 PM-6:00 PM in the UKIn person and online
'The famous Roldana’: new perspectives on the Spanish woman sculptor Luisa
University of Glasgow · 8 University Gardens, room 101
In this joint seminar with History of Art (University of Glasgow), Carlos Maura Alarcón (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) discusses new research on this Early Modern woman sculptor, including…
- 5:30 PM-6:45 PM in the UKIn person
Documentary film screening: 'Guerrilla Archive'
SOAS University of London · Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), Main Building, SOAS
We are delighted to welcome you to a documentary film screening of Guerrilla Archive, jointly hosted by the SOAS Middle East Institute (SMEI) and the Project (University of Exeter).
- 5:30 PM-7:00 PM in the UKIn person
In conversation: contemporary art and the legacies of empire
University of St Andrews · Wardlaw Museum, 7 The Scores, KY16 9AR, St Andrews
Join us for a conversation exploring how contemporary art in Scotland can engage with the legacies of colonialism and empire.