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Talk: "Women’s Elegies in Israel (Bedouin, Christian, Druze and Jewish Yemenite)" by Roni Henkin-Roitfarb

The University of Texas at Austin · MES Reading Room, Calhoun Hall (CAL) 516 ???? — University of Texas at Austin

Elegies are highly appreciated as a ‘women’s genre’ in Arabic literature, but have always been frowned upon, especially by men, when accompanying women’s mourning practices, considered contradictory…

Lexical richness in children’s video media and child-directed speech

University College London · English Department Student Common Room, Room 229, Foster Court, Gower St site, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom

Survey of English Usage Linguistics Seminar with Anna Gowenlock (UCL).

CHINA+100: Book launch and exhibition opening

University of Manchester · The Holden Gallery, Grosvenor Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Cavendish St, Manchester, M15 6BR

Join us for the launch of the China+100 anthology with Comma Press and attend the preview of our exhibition.

Mahmoud Darwish’;s Ghost(s): Return to the Present

American University of Beirut · Charles Hostler Auditorium

Audience: Alumni,Faculty,Graduate,Public,Undergraduate Event Type: Lecture

Book launch: China +100

University of Manchester · Holden Gallery, Grosvenor Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road

A Reading with Joanne Diaz

English · Sciences Library

Poet Joanne Diaz (Illinois Wesleyan University) joins English and the Nonfiction Writing Program for a reading from her new book, Electric Dress (2026), as part of the Image, Language, Memory…

Comics: More Than Words: Hanako Asakura - Manga as (or in?) Conversation: History, Fandom, and the Classroom

Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages · Building 260, Pigott Hall, Rm 252, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Please join Comics: More Than Words for Manga as (or in?) Conversation: History, Fandom, and the Classroom a discussion with Hanako Asakura (San Francisco State University).

From Yahweh to Jupiter: Orthodox Muscovy Deals with the Classical World

Stanford Humanities Center · Humanities Center, SHC Board Room, 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305

Join the Other Europe Research Workshop in hosting Dr. Erica Camisa Morale (Slavic Languages & Literatures) for a talk entitled From Yahweh to Jupiter: Orthodox Muscovy Deals with the Classical World.

Passing: A writing workshop with Fieldnotes

Goldsmiths, University of London · Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art

Join us for ‘Passing’, a writing workshop exploring identity, displacement and the travelling fragment.

The UK Swear Map Pub Quiz

University of Sheffield · Sheffield Tap, Sheffield Station, 1b Sheaf Street, Sheffield S1 2BP

Pub quiz and interactive talk exploring the use of swear words and slang in everyday life

Terms of Art: “Defeat” • A Talk by Elisa Tamarkin

Cogut Institute for the Humanities · Cogut Institute, Andrews House

The term “defeat” suggests a variety of stakes and ramifications across the fields of military history, gaming studies, and more. In this talk, literary scholar Elisa Tamarkin (University of…

Kafka Prize Reading

University of Rochester · Rush Rhees Library, Welles Brown Room, 755 Library Road, Rochester, NY 14627

The Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize Committee is delighted to announce this year's winner: Shoshana von Blanckensee for her novel Girls Girls Girls (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2025). Congratulations to Shoshana!

Diego Gerard Morrison: Writers on Writing

Literary Arts · 70 Brown St., Providence

Diego Gerard Morrison will take part in the Literary Arts series, Writers on Writing.

MIT / French Library Author Talks: Camille de Peretti on Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Boston French Library, 53 Marlborough St, Boston, MA 02116

In 1910, Gustav Klimt painted a young woman, then painted over her portrait. The painting was stolen in 1997 and unexpectedly resurfaced two decades later.

Where ASL Lives: Language, Place, and Deaf Community Identity

Cornell University · Tompkins County Public Library, BorgWarner Community Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Brenda Schertz, Teaching Professor of Linguistics and coordinator of Cornell University's ASL/Deaf Studies Program, will speak on "Where ASL Lives: Language, Place, and Deaf Community Identity".

Society for the Humanities Fall Fellows' Conference on Survival

Cornell University · A. D. White House, Guerlac Room, 29 East Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

What might it mean to flourish in a world on the brink of extinction or exhaustion?

The Politics of Writing

American University of Beirut · Nicely 212

Audience: Alumni,Faculty,Graduate,Public,Undergraduate Event Type: Discussion - Round table,Talk

EMSI Long 18th Century Seminar with Jess Keiser, Tufts University

Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI) · Huntington, Seaver 1 & 2, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA

The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Long 18th Century Seminar will meet with Jess Keiser, Associate Professor of English at Tufts University, on Friday, October 30, 2026.

Frankenstein’s Lasting Legacy

College of Liberal Arts

When Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818, she was answering the anxieties, rapid scientific leaps, and ethical boundary-pushing of her own time. Over two centuries later, her legendary…

Free Halloween Talk: Dracula and the Devil

University of Worcester · The Hive, Worcester

On the eve of Halloween, people can delve into the dark legends and demonic folklore that gave rise to literature's most iconic vampire at a special talk at The Hive.