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Tuesday 10 November
- 7:00 PM-8:30 PM in BostonIn person
The Park Street Corporation Speaker Series Presents Rita Charon
Boston College · Gasson Hall, 100, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Rita Charon: From Words to Healing: The Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Sciences of Narrative Medicine
- 6:00 PM-7:00 PM in PasadenaIn person
Writers in Residence Program
California Institute of Technology · Dabney Hall, Lounge, Caltech, Pasadena
A Conversation with Author Jeff VanderMeer
Wednesday 11 November
- 5:00 PM-6:00 PM in the UKIn person
Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre presents Alex Hyde and Lizzy Stewart
Goldsmiths, University of London · 137, Richard Hoggart Building
Join us to hear writers Alex Hyde and Lizzy Stewart read from and discuss their new novels, ‘Exhibition’ and ‘The Wreck’
- 6:30 PM-7:30 PM in the UKIn person
PBS Autumn Showcase: Grace Nichols, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and Don Mee Choi
Newcastle University · Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University | Get directions
All our events are free and open to all, but pre-booking is required. To reserve your place, click the booking link below or telephone our booking voicemail line 0191 208 6136.
- 4:00 PM-5:30 PM in ProvidenceIn person
Oliver Franklin: Building an Afro-American Book Collection to Maintain Sanity in Late 20th Century America
Library · Rockefeller Library
Building an Afro-American Book Collection to Maintain Sanity in Late 20th Century America
- 5:30 PM-6:30 PM in CaliforniaIn person
BOOK LAUNCH: Literature and Emergency Law in Kashmir and Northern Ireland
African & African American Studies · Building 80, Auditorium, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
The Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS) in collaboration with the Center for South Asia (CSA) cordially invite the Stanford Community for a special book launch!
- 5:30 PM-7:00 PM in CaliforniaIn person
Medical Humanites: Lean poetry, disappearing bodies, transcendent self—the poetics of Anorexia Nervosa in Louise Gluck
Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages · Humanities Center, Boardroom, 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305
With Speaker James Lock, MD Erick Rothenberg, MD Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics Stanford University
Thursday 12 November
- 11:00 AM-12:00 PM in the UK
Dr Miles Leeson talks Iris Murdoch Amongst the Artists
University of Chichester
Artwork by 20th-century British artists – including work by Iris Murdoch displayed in public for the first time – will be part of a major new exhibition at the University of Chichester.
- 12:00 PM-2:00 PM in IrelandIn person
Translanguaging and Minority Languages
Trinity College Dublin · Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
A LIFELANGS Public Lecture by Prof Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country, EHU), organised by the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences.
- 4:00 PM-5:00 PM in the UKIn person
EACW Research Seminar: Trans Visibility
University of Manchester · A113, Samuel Alexander Building, Manchester
Short paper by Prof. Eagan Dean (Freiburg Center for Advanced Study/College of Wooster (USA)), followed by response and conversation with our own Dr. Gareth Gavin. (Dean will be sharing work from his…
- 4:30 PM in the UKIn person
Catrin Menai, Aberystwyth University: "Meadow-Thinking: How Knowledge Disperses and Takes Root Across Forms" CAInC Research Seminar
Bangor University · Alun 2.01, College Road.
Drawing on research at the National Botanic Gardens, the choreography of green-hay meadow restoration and broader ecological practices become a starting point for considering how meaning emerges…
- 10:00 AM-11:00 AM in CaliforniaOnline
Open Wide the Doors: The Prison Memoirs of Mahvash Sabet
Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies
In 2018, during her brief respite of freedom between two decade-long prison sentences, Mahvash Sabet asked Bahiyyih Nakhjavani and Azita Mottahedeh to work on her memoirs and make a book that could…
- 7:00 PM-8:30 PM in IrelandIn person
Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture 2026 - Reading Between the Battle Lines: The place of Libraries in a Time of Conflict
Trinity College Dublin · Edmund Burke Lecture Theatre, Arts Block
The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture 2026 will be delivered by Dame Louise Richardson.
- 4:30 PM-6:00 PM in BostonIn person
Holding Haitian Girlhood: On Seeing and Being Seen in Claire of the Sea Light
Boston College · Devlin Hall, 101, 255 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES PROGRAM 2026-2027 NEW DIRECTIONS LECTURE SERIES:
- 5:00 PM in New YorkIn person and online
Freund Reading Featuring Benjamin Garcia and Sophia Veltfort
Cornell University · Klarman Hall, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, 232 East Ave, Ithaca, NY 14853
The Department of Literatures in English celebrates the winners of the 2026 Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing in recognition of excellence in publication.
- 5:30 PM in ProvidenceIn person
André Alexis: Writers on Writing
Literary Arts · 70 Brown St., Providence
André Alexis will take part in Writers on Writing, a reading series hosted by Literary Arts.
- 6:00 PM-7:30 PM in ChicagoIn person
A Homecoming in Poetry: An Evening with Dylan Lloyd Author of Coffee Walk Poetry
Library · Regenstein Library, Room 122A
The University of Chicago Library is proud to co-sponsor a reading and signing with Dylan Lloyd, author of the Amazon #1 bestselling poetry collection Coffee Walk Poetry — and a writer with deep…
- 5:00 PM-7:00 PM in BoulderIn person
Robert Frost: America’s Poet and American Politics
University of Colorado Boulder · Duane Physics and Astrophysics, G130, 2000 Colorado Avenue, Boulder, CO 80309
When: Thursday, November 12, 2026, reception 5:00 to 5:30, panel discussion 5:30 to 7:00 pm Where: Duane Physics G130 (DUAN G130) In-person registration
- 7:30 PM in MinneapolisIn person
Rachel Gordan Presents: The Jew Who Passed: Laura Z. Hobson and the American Bargain of Belonging
Center for Jewish Studies · 4330 Cedar Lake Rd, Minneapolis, MN 55416
Before Gentleman’s Agreement became the Academy Award–winning postwar film starring Gregory Peck, it was the bestselling novel of Laura Z. Hobson, a Jewish American woman whose life was shaped by the…
- 7:30 PM in Los AngelesIn person
An Evening with Jhumpa Lahiri
Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative · Bovard Auditorium (ADM), 3551 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089
ADMISSION: Admission is free and open to everyone. Reservations required.