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2026 Judicial Institute Annual Lecture - What’s in an anniversary?

University College London · Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute for Child Health, 30 Guildford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, United Kingdom

A talk in the UCL200 series by The Right Honourable the Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill (Lady Chief Justice)

Hungarian-born Holocaust Survivor Gives Testimony on Campus

University of Colorado Boulder · Clare Small Arts and Sciences, 207, 1725 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO 80309

The CU and broader publics are invited to a lunchtime talk by Barbara Steinmetz, a Hungarian-born child survivor of the Holocaust, who managed to escape Hitler-controlled Europe to the Dominican…

What History is NOT

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

In the past, history was presented to us as a settled story: a pile of dates to memorise, a handful of “great men” to admire, a heritage of statues and plaques to defend from “erasure”.

Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World

Clements Center for National Security · LBJ School of Public Affairs, Bass Lecture Hall, 2315 Red River St., Austin, TX 78712-1536

On November 3, 2026, the Clements Center for National Security and the LBJ School of Public Affairs will host “Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World”…

2026 Australia Studies Institute Reese Lecture: Vannessa Hearman, "In the hands of ordinary people: Australia’s changing relationship with Indonesia and Timor-Leste"

King's College London · Strand Campus, London

The Australia Studies Institute is hosting Associate Professor Vannessa Hearman to deliver the 2026 Reese Memorial Lecture on her new book 'The Good Sea.'

TOUR – All Netted Together: Darwin, Wallace, and the Social Life of a Theory

University of Calgary · Taylor Family Digital Library

Join Annie Murray and Lulu Petsrosyan for a tour of the much anticipated All Netted Together: Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and the Social Life of a Theory.

The Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History: Alexander Marr, University of Cambridge

College of Arts and Sciences · Hyde Hall, University Room, 176 E. Franklin Street Chapel Hill, NC

Pictorial Intelligence in Renaissance Art: Holbein’s Wit

CEAS Spotlight Lecture Series ft. Tina Lu (Yale University)

Center for East Asian Studies · Joseph Regenstein Library Room 122 1100 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637

“Cheng Yi’s Legacy and an Alt History of the Vernacular”

History Dept. Seminar: "A Paper World: Urbano Monte's Global Perspective ca. 1587"

University of Oregon · McKenzie Hall, 375, 1101 Kincaid Street, Eugene, OR 97403

Join the Department of History and Paula Findlen, Stanford University, for a talk on "A Paper World: Urbano Monte's Global Perspective ca. 1587."

The Story of Us: a nation revealed through Census 1926

Trinity College Dublin · Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub

A lecture by Zoe Reid (NAI), Jessica Baldwin (NAI) and Greg Walls (TCD) as part of the Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series.

Main Building Zentrum (EN)

ETH Zurich

The ETH Main Building has been towering above the city since the 1860s. Albert Einstein used to walk its corridors back in his day. Let us take you on a tour of its maze-like corridors, all the way…

Introducing the Grand Egyptian Museum

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies · Jerusalem Room, George Street, Oxford

Cost of Living in a Medieval Society

University of Birmingham · The Alan Walters Building

This two hour, interactive role playing workshop explores how an economic crisis affects different groups in society depending on their wealth, power, and institutional position.…

Distinguished Lecture Series: Professor Craig Clunas

SOAS University of London · Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), SOAS, Russell Square

We are pleased to welcome you to the second Distinguished Lecture Series event for the 's Global Alumni Network. Speaker Professor Craig Clunas, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Trinity…

Material Witness: Understanding the Objects of Auschwitz

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Visitors to Auschwitz are confronted by scores of objects: shoes and suitcases, brushes, glasses, even human hair. Stolen from the victims of the Holocaust, they testify to the scale of the…

Taking Pictures in Postwar Japan (1945-1955)- a talk with Dr. Emily Cole, UT Tyler

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

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TOUR – Weaving Conflict: Afghan War Carpets at Nickle Galleries

University of Calgary · Taylor Family Digital Library

Beginning around 1980, Afghan weavers began incorporating images of fighter jets, guns, and tanks into their carpet designs—likely in response to the arrival of Soviet forces in 1979.

Lunch Club Series | Navigating Heritage: Chinook Art and Public History Along the Columbia River

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

Lunch Club provides affiliates of the Stanford Archaeology Center with a community-oriented forum for engagement with current issues in archaeology. On Nov 4, 2026, we will host Dr.Jon Daehnke from…

Stephen Kinzer — Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine

Watson School of International and Public Affairs · Watson School of International and Public Affairs, 111 Thayer Street

In his groundbreaking new book, Stephen Kinzer tells this long-hidden story. Beginning in the refugee camps of postwar Europe, where CIA officers recruited their first Ukrainian agents, it follows…

The Absence and Presence of the Berlin Wall

Department of Germanic Studies · Hyde Park Campus: Main Quadrangle Classics, Room 20

Speakers: Gesche Würfel and Alta Price