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Friday 13 November
- 1:15 PM in the UKIn person
Faculty of Music Lunchtime Recital Series
University of Oxford · Recital Hall, Schwarzman Centre
Rilke’s Poetry
- 4:00 PM-5:30 PM in the UKIn person
Book launch: Neoliberal Feminism and the Discourse of Self Improvement
University College London · Room 728, UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL, United Kingdom
Join academics Rodrigo Borba and Sandra Duffy as they lead discussions on the new book by Giuliana Ferri, Associate Professor of Language and Intercultural Communication at UCL Institute of Education.
- 12:30 PM in New YorkOnline
Bilingual Meeting / Encontro Bilíngue: "Letter to My Daughter" / "Cartas a Minha Filha" by Maya Angelou
Cornell University
Bilingual Meeting (Portuguese / English): Ubuntu Book Club meets once each semester, bringing together students from the Federal Institute of São Paulo (Matão Campus), Cornell University, and several…
- 4:30 PM-6:30 PM in ProvidenceIn person
Imagining Democracy Book Series: : Jack (Chip) Turner: Die Your Own Death: Walt Whitman’s Existential Democracy.
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) · 280 Brook Street, Stephen Robert Hall
Die Your Own Death: Walt Whitman’s Existential Democracy
Saturday 14 November
- 9:30 AM-1:30 PM in ProvidenceIn person
WORKSHOP | Workshop on Non-Lingual Writing and Reading
Center for Global Antiquity · Horace Mann House
Research on writing and reading in pre-modern worlds often assumes some dependence of writing upon language. Although awareness of nonlinguistic signs is not new, and is not surprising to anyone who…
Monday 16 November
- 1:00 PM-2:00 PM in the UKIn person
Creative Conversations: Jay Gao
University of Glasgow · University Memorial Chapel
Creative Conversations Date: Monday 16 November 2026 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: University Memorial Chapel Category: Public lectures,
- 3:00 PM-5:00 PM in the UKIn person
Yael Navarro (University of Cambridge) "Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe"
University of Manchester · Boardroom, 2nd floor, Arthur Lewis Building, Manchester
Abstract: In this seminar, I will give an account of my return to my field notebooks and library materials on Antakya, Turkey, after the city’s complete destruction with the earthquakes of 6 and 20…
- 5:15 PM-6:30 PM in the UKIn person and online
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Tasneem Yousef and Khairul Amal
University of Edinburgh · Room 2.12, Appleton Tower (please note, this venue has been updated)
Join us for a hybrid seminar by Tasneem Yousef and Khairul Amal (PhD candidates, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) on their respective research specialisms.
- 6:00 PM-7:30 PM in the UKOnline
Recognising language and learning disorders in multilingual children
University College London
Join this event to hear Paola Bonifacci explore how to distinguish atypical development from temporary learning needs.
- 11:15 AM-12:15 PM in CaliforniaIn person
November Museum Minis: Storytime at the Anderson
Anderson Collection at Stanford University · Anderson Collection, The Denning Family Resource Center, 314 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305
Museum Minis is a welcoming monthly storytime at the Anderson Collection for children ages 0–5 and their caregivers. Each session features two engaging, age-appropriate books inspired by the…
- 4:30 PM in BostonIn person
Why and How the Russians Teach Literature
Boston College · Devlin Hall, 101, 255 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
A lecture by Prof. Dr. Boris Lanin. A leading historian of Russian and East European utopian and dystopian literature, Boris Lanin shaped how literature was taught in Russian schools until Putin’s…
- 5:00 PM-6:30 PM in Rochester, New YorkIn person
Thinking with Homer, Cultural Appropriation in Antiquity…and Beyond
University of Rochester · Rush Rhees Library, Hawkins-Carlson Room, 755 Library Road, Rochester, NY 14627
Cultures have long begged, borrowed, and stolen from one another, and stories of Troy have proven especially attractive for many peoples to think with and think about. The Romans are a prime example…
- 5:30 PM in BostonIn person
Suzanne Matson As Creatures Launch
Boston College · Burns Library, 89 College Road, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, USA
As Creatures (11/12/26 from Cloudbank Books) is the third poetry volume from Suzanne
- 6:00 PM-8:00 PM in BostonIn person
MIT / French Library Author talk: Elisa Shua Dusapin on The Old Fire
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Boston French Library, 53 Marlborough St, Boston, MA 02116
Join National Book Award winner Elisa Shua Dusapin for a conversation about The Old Fire, her acclaimed new novel about two estranged sisters, a childhood home, and all that remains unspoken between…
- 6:00 PM-7:00 PM in Calgary
CHOMS: Mr. Sam Fleming
University of Calgary
"Sophocles' Aias: Mental Illness, Suicide, and Its Background in Homeric Epic, Hippocratic Medicine, and Greek Tragedy"
- 5:00 PM-7:00 PM in BoulderIn person
Philosophy and Poetry
University of Colorado Boulder · Kittredge Central, N114 Multipurpose A & B, 2480 Kittredge Loop Rd., Boulder, CO 80309
When: Monday, November 16, 2026 Time: Reception 5:00–5:30 pm, panel discussion 5:30–7:00 pm Where: Kittredge Central, N114 Multipurpose A & B RSVP here
- 5:00 PM-6:30 PM in CaliforniaIn person
Book Talk: Prof. Cécile Alduy in Conversation with Prof. Josh Landy
Department of French and Italian · Building 260, Pigott Hall, Rm 216, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
The French and Italian Department and French Speaking Worlds: Here and Now present: A Book talk on D’abord ils sont venus chercher les mots [First They Came for Words], les Arènes, 2026, by Prof.…
Tuesday 17 November
- 6:30 PM-7:30 PM in MelbourneIn person
Birthing a Nation: Jonson’s Black Shakespearean Masque
Faculty of Arts · Forum Theatre (153), Arts West - North Wing (148A)
Recent criticism of Ben Jonson’s A Masque of Blackness (1605) has generally focused on a racial blackness in early seventeenth-century Britain, but this presentation argues that these readings, while…
- 4:00 PM-5:30 PM in the UKIn person
ARC Conversations: Newspeak, Oldspeak and the Unspoken - The Power of Language to Shape the World
University of Glasgow · Advanced Research Centre
How does language shape what we know, imagine and act upon? Nearly eighty years after Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, ARC Conversations brings together leading voices from urban studies, data science…
- 5:00 PM in the UKIn person
Keele Hall Readings: Julia Cranney
Keele University · Raven Mason Suite, Keele Hall
Award-winning playwright, screenwriter and actor Julia Cranney joins the Keele Hall Readings series for an evening of readings and conversation in the Raven Mason Suite, Keele Hall. Discover the work…