Free history and archaeology events, page 9 of 18

Pursuit of Discovery: An Afternoon with Marie Curie and Lise Meitner - Digital Theater & Science Talks

MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research · Building 54, 100, 21 AMES ST, Cambridge, MA 02139

What if you could hear the origin story of radioactivity and nuclear fission from the scientists who discovered them?

ARCE-ISAC Joint Lecture: Treasure Fit for a Queen: Royal Burials from el-Kurru, Sudan

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures · The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC)

ARCE-ISAC November Lecture, 5–6pm in person and on Zoom,

New Directions in Jewish Intellectual History: Knowledge Production and Modernity - a conference in memory of Paul Mendes-Flohr

Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies · Swift Hall Third Floor Lecture Room

This November 8–9, the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and the University of Chicago Divinity School will host a conference in memory of the late Paul Mendes-Flohr, Dorothy…

Modernisation of Piracy: Colonial Hong Kong and Its Dangerous Maritime Connections, c. 1890-1950

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

A lecture by Dexter Hse (TCD) for the International History Research Seminar Series.

How to Activate Collective Memory: Localizing Historical Antifascism to Counter the Far Right

University of Oxford · All Souls College - Old Library

Widowhood and Bereavement during the English Civil Wars

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

A seminar by Prof Andrew Hopper (University of Oxford) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series.

Annual Bedford Lecture

Royal Holloway, University of London

This year's Bedford Lecture will be given by Professor Kate Williams, historian and novelist and Professor of Public Engagement with History, University of Reading.

Agata Zborowska: The Visual History of Polish Chicago

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures · Social Science Research, Tea Room

With this visual essay—combining screenings of newly collected archival films with live narration—Agata Zborowska explores the possibility of, and sketches a framework for, a new visual history of…

AIA National Lecture: The Romans in India and the Indian Ocean

University of Colorado Boulder · Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Paleontology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80309

About the talk: Derek Kennet will look at the fascinating question of Roman trade in the Indian Ocean and Roman contact with India. It is one of the least well-known aspects of the Roman period that…

What made us ‘hunter-gatherers of words’?

University College London · IAS Common Ground, Room G11, Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL Bloomsbury Campus, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom

Explore the origins of human language at this interdisciplinary UCL workshop, examining the roles of cooperation, gender, childhood, kinship and ritual, followed by a book launch.

Connecting Eurasia: Communication and Trade in the Mongol Empire

Central European University · Venue to be confirmed

Mongol rule brought unprecedented changes to Eurasian exchange and interconnectedness, transforming the structures and practices of interregional trade and communication.

“A Mystery Still”: Historical (Trans) Gender Variance and James “Miranda” Barry

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

This lecture focuses on the intense posthumous speculation about the reputedly female body of the high-raking nineteenth-century military surgeon James Barry (1789?-1865).

“Saxea ut effigies bacchantis”: Revisiting narrative scenes on Gandhāran toilet trays

University of Oslo · GM 452

Ashwini Lakshminarayanan (University of Oslo)

Softa and Yafta: Revisiting Power, Protests, and Massacres in the Late Ottoman Empire

Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room B505, Vienna

This talk highlights the importance of the softa (madrasa students) to our understanding of the late Ottoman Empire and sectarian politics in the Middle East.

Who Belongs Where? Documents and Mobility on the Russo-Qajar Frontiers

University of Oxford · St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building

Speaker: Dr Malikabonui Zehni All welcome, no booking necessary. The event will be chaired by Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College).

Book launch: 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power'

SOAS University of London · R101, Main Building, SOAS

The SOAS Middle East Institute (SMEI) and the SOAS South Asia Institute (SSAI) are pleased to host a book launch for Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power published by…

'The Desire for Syria in Medieval England': EK Myerson in conversation with Hope Doherty-Harrison

Birkbeck, University of London · Birkbeck Clore Management Centre

Book Talk

Lunch & Reading Circle with Meredith Oda - Asian American Histories, Spaces, and Movements Series

Chao Center for Asian Studies · Herring Hall

Join Dr. Meredith Oda, Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, for a lunch-time reading circle. We will read and discuss Dr.

Revisiting national pasts: Reflections from the trenches

Royal Holloway, University of London

Hellenic Institute Annual Lecture by Stathis Kalyvas, Gladstone Professor of Government, University of Oxford.

Screening of Becoming American at the JCB

John Carter Brown Library · 94 George Street

Join us on Tuesday, November 10 at 1 p.m. for a screening of “Becoming American” at the JCB. This event is free and open to the public; registration is required.