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The Queer Thing about Sin | Harry Tanner

Stanford Humanities Center · Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall, 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305

In The Queer Thing About Sin (Bloomsbury 2025), Harry Tanner reveals the ancient origins of homophobia. By the end of the 5th century BCE, Greek plays were being staged which ridiculed homosexuality…

Data Stories Manchester

University of Manchester · John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH

Using historical maps and collections alongside contemporary data, we will explore questions around poverty, inequality, housing, health and the cost of living across Greater Manchester.…

Franco: A Biography

Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room Auditorium, Vienna

Compared to Mussolini, Hitler, or Stalin, cruel conquerors, Franco did not stand out as an influential figure in 20th-century European politics. But he was not a weak or minor dictator.

Edinburgh Film Seminar: Ian Christie

University of Edinburgh · Adam House Basement Theatre

An in-person screening and discussion of documentary film 'Voices from the Chorus' (2026) with co-director and film scholar Professor Ian Christie (Birkbeck, University of London).

London Economics Walk: Exploring Economics Ideas That Shaped Our World

University College London · Bloomsbury Campus - Meeting Point: Drayton House Reception

This walking tour will take you on an intellectual journey from the early 19th century until today. Walking in the streets of Bloomsbury, we visit places associated with Jeremy Bentham,…

Liverpool, Reparations and Reparatory Justice - Performance

University of Liverpool · The Black-E

Liverpool, Reparations and Reparatory Justice – Research Showcase 1hr 15 minutes exhibiting art and performances created as part of reparatory research into legacies of slavery…

EMSI Annual Conference: American Revolution International

Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI) · The Huntington, Ahmanson Classroom, 1151 Oxford Rd, San Marino, CA 91108

The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute will host its Annual Conference on November 6–7, 2026, at The Huntington.

Roundtable on Postcolonial Archives and the Practice of Democracy

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

Join us for a Roundtable on Postcolonial Archives and the Practice of Democracy with:

Free First Friday at the Museum

University of Oregon · Museum of Natural and Cultural History, 1680 East 15th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97403

The Museum of Natural and Cultural History offers free admission on the first Friday of the month. Investigate Oregon's amazing fossils and ecosystems, and delve into its cultural history—from the…

American Lectures in the History of Religion | Annette Yoshiko Reed: “Erasures of Religion and History: Amnesia of Origins: Temporal Regimes of Comparison in Late Antiquity and Modernity”

Divinity School · Swift Hall

Across three evenings in Chicago, Annette Yoshiko Reed, PhD, Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, will deliver the…

Christopher F. Kim | “Marriage is the Stairway to Disaster or Fortune”: Marital Statecraft and the Decline of the Early Chinese Aristocracy

Center for Global Antiquity · Rhode Island Hall

Eastern Zhou China (770–256 BCE) was a world in transformation. Over that time, the power of the early Chinese aristocracy and the kin-ordered states they ruled deteriorated amid destructive…

EASC Guest Speaker Series: Encountering Bajiao: Plants, Perception, and Meaning-Making in Premodern China - Talk by Prof. Meimei Zhang

East Asian Studies Center (EASC) · Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs, 150, 3518 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089

Encountering Bajiao: Plants, Perception, and Meaning-Making in Premodern China Friday, November 6, 2026 | 12:30PM-2:00PM | DMC 150 (ROOM CHANGE!) | RSVP

Dictaminal Attitudes: Transcribing and Compiling Peter of Blois

Library · Regenstein Library, Room 122A-B

The Kim-Park Program for the Study of the Book is pleased to present Dictaminal Attitudes: Transcribing and Compiling Peter of Blois with Thomas C. Sawyer, Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature…

CMES Friday Lecture with Omer Cheta: “How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt”

Center for Middle Eastern Studies · Saieh Hall for Economics, Room 146

Omar Y. Cheta is Assistant Professor of History at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs. His primary research interest is the history of law and capitalism in late…

SLE Salon: Orlando Reade Explores How Paradise Lost Has Influenced Political Struggles and Revolutionary Movements over the Past 400 Years

Structured Liberal Education (SLE) · Florence Moore Hall, SLE Main Lounge, 436 Mayfield Ave, Stanford, CA 94305

Drawing from his own experiences teaching Paradise Lost in New Jersey prisons, English scholar Orlando Reade deftly investigates how the poem was read by people embedded in struggles against tyranny…

Amateur, Avant-Garde, or Underground? Gay Filmmaking at Mid-Century

Film Studies Center · Logan Center, Screening Room

Mid-century home movies and amateur films shot by gay men testify to the vibrant and fulfilling lives these men lived in the face of social rejection and legal prosecution.

Food for All: Community, Consumption & Wellbeing

University of Warwick · Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, CV4 7FD

A series of interactive and engaging talks from leading academics from across University of Warwick. Including demonstrations and samples of locally produced foods.

Joining Hands with the Ancient Romans – Being Human Festival 2026

University of Birmingham · Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2ND

Explore the importance of our bodies and gestures in communicating and negotiating, and why non-verbal communication is just as important as verbal interaction.

The Dynamics of Conflict in a Medieval Civil War: England’s Wars of the Roses, c.1450-1500

University of Oxford · All Souls College - Old Library

HSS 60th Anniversary Celebration | Conference

California Institute of Technology · Baxter Lecture Hall, Caltech, Pasadena

Please join us as we celebrate 60 remarkable years since Caltech established the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences in 1966, renaming its original Division of Humanities founded in 1926.