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Thursday 5 November
- 5:30 PM-7:00 PM in CaliforniaIn person
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…
- 8:00 PM-9:30 PM in CalgaryIn person
Down the Rabbit Hole
University of Calgary · 1721 29th Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2T 6T7
Join host Marcello Di Cintio, UCalgary Writer-in-Residence, Amanda Leduc and University of Alberta Writer-in-Residence, Jana G. Pruden for "Down the Rabbit Hole" a conversation on non-fiction…
- 6:45 PM-8:00 PM in CaliforniaIn person
Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, "Beyond Inclusion: Indigenous Abundance, Aloha ʻĀina, and Radical Futures"
Native American Studies · 418 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305, Henry and Monique Brandon Family Community Room
What does it mean to cultivate well-being in a world structured by colonialism, militarism, racial capitalism, and ongoing dispossession? In this talk, Kanaka Maoli scholar, poet, educator, and…
Friday 6 November
- 9:30 AM-5:30 PM in ProvidenceIn person
The Novel in the Age of AI (Day 2)
John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study (JNBC) · Nightingale-Brown House
The Novel in the Age of AI: A Workshop organized at Brown University by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study and Novel: A Forum on Fiction
- 12:00 PM-1:00 PM in EugeneIn person
OHC Work-in-Progress Talk: "Paperwork Politics: Literary Responses to Empire from the Southeast Asian Diaspora"
University of Oregon · Prince Lucien Campbell Hall (PLC), 159, 1415 Kincaid Street, Eugene, OR 97403
The Oregon Humanities Center hosts weekly Work-in-Progress Talks to showcase the humanities research of its many fellows. This week, Jasmine An presents her research on "Paperwork Politics: Literary…
- 12:30 PM-2:00 PM in Los AngelesIn person
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
- 3:00 PM in ChicagoIn person
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…
- 4:00 PM-5:00 PM in CalgaryIn person and online
Book Launch - ' Exploring the Dynamics of Speaking and Learning Spanish in Western Canada, by Dr. Angela George
University of Calgary · Via Zoom
Please join us on Nov 6 at 3:00pm (Calgary time) for a virtual book launch for the book Exploring the Dynamics of Speaking and Learning Spanish in Western Canada by Professor Angela George at…
- 7:00 PM in New YorkIn person
ASL Literature Series: Flying Words Project
Cornell University · Klarman Hall, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, 232 East Ave, Ithaca, NY 14853
The ASL Program at the Department of Linguistics proudly presents Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner of the Flying Words Project.
- 4:30 PM in EugeneIn person
Creative Writing Reading Series: Michael Copperman
University of Oregon · Erb Memorial Union (EMU), 231-232, Cedar and Spruce Rooms, 1395 University Street, Eugene, OR 97403
Join the Creative Writing program for a fiction reading by Michael Copperman.
- 4:30 PM-5:30 PM in CaliforniaIn person
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…
Saturday 7 November
- 9:30 AM-5:30 PM in IrelandIn person
First Principles: Editing Seamus Heaney
Trinity College Dublin · Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
A unique celebration of Ireland’s foremost poet through conversations with his editors organised by the School of English.
- 3:00 PM in ChicagoIn person
Grandpa and the Library: How Charles White Learned to Paint
Logan Center · Logan Center, Gallery
Join us on Saturday, November 7th for a reading of “Grandpa and the Library: How Charles White Learned to Paint” with author Ian White as part of the Charles White Across Media exhibition and the…
Monday 9 November
- 1:00 PM-2:00 PM in the UKIn person
Creative Conversations: Michelle Gallen
University of Glasgow · University Memorial Chapel
Michelle Gallen debut novel, Big Girl, Small Town was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. Her critically acclaimed second novel, Factory Girls, won the Comedy Women in Print award and was…
- 5:00 PM-7:00 PM in the UKIn person
Professor Dimitra Fimi Inaugural Lecture
University of Glasgow · Wolfson Medical Building, Yudowitz Lecture Theatre
"A kind of elvish craft": In conversation with Prof. Tolkien
- 12:00 PM-1:30 PM in RaleighIn person
Rainbow Research: LGBTQ Representation
Division of Academic and Student Affairs · Talley Student Union, LGBTQ Pride Center (5230), Raleigh, NC 27606
The African American Cultural Center librarian has partnered with the LGBTQ Pride Center to create a series of community spaces to learn about and explore Black LGBTQ populations through reading and…
- 7:00 PM-8:00 PM in the UKOnline
Brunel Writers Talking: Benjamin Wood
Brunel University of London
As part of Brunel's Writers Talking series we welcome Benjamin Wood, Winner of the Nero Book Awards Fiction Prize 2026.
- 5:30 PM-7:00 PM in CaliforniaIn person
War, Sanctions and the Intimacy of Everyday Life
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies · Encina Commons, 123, 615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
In this panel conversation, Negar Mottahedeh and Salar Mameni discuss themes of war, loss, sanctions and the possibility of love and intimacy with Iranians from the position of exile in the diaspora.
Tuesday 10 November
- 10:30 AM-6:00 PM in the UKIn person and online
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.
- 5:00 PM-8:00 PM in the UKIn person
Book Launch Leila Aboulela: Writing as Refuge by Bhakti Shringarpure
SOAS University of London · Senate Alumni Lecture Theatre (SALT), Senate House
Leila Aboulela: Writing as Refuge is the first full length biography of critically acclaimed Sudanese writer, Leila Aboulela as well as the first in a forthcoming series of African writers’…