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Data Stories Manchester

University of Manchester · John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH

Using historical maps and collections alongside contemporary data, we will explore questions around poverty, inequality, housing, health and the cost of living across Greater Manchester.…

London Economics Walk: Exploring Economics Ideas That Shaped Our World

University College London · Bloomsbury Campus - Meeting Point: Drayton House Reception

This walking tour will take you on an intellectual journey from the early 19th century until today. Walking in the streets of Bloomsbury, we visit places associated with Jeremy Bentham,…

Liverpool, Reparations and Reparatory Justice - Performance

University of Liverpool · The Black-E

Liverpool, Reparations and Reparatory Justice – Research Showcase 1hr 15 minutes exhibiting art and performances created as part of reparatory research into legacies of slavery…

Big Tech, Democracy, and Human Rights

Center for South Asia · Alumni Center, Fisher Conference Room ( Barnes/McDowell/Cranston), 326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305

This conference is hosted by the Center for South Asia (Stanford Global Studies), with the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), We Are Noor, and DRF USA.

Roundtable on Postcolonial Archives and the Practice of Democracy

Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia · Watson School of International and Public Affairs, 111 Thayer Street

Join us for a Roundtable on Postcolonial Archives and the Practice of Democracy with:

Social Contracts and States of Nature

Graham School

Social contract theory, the idea that people’s relationship with their society or government is based on a contract between them, has been debated by political philosophers for centuries.

Arts and America at 250: We Stand at the Intersection of Creativity and Politics

Court Theatre · Logan Center

Artists have always responded to great inflection points in American history, and the 250th anniversary of our nation, at a particularly polarized time, is no different.

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…

Artists Go to Work (Keynote Conversation)

Court Theatre · Logan Center

Continuing Court Theatre’s artist-centered examination of America@250, this keynote features a conversation between Chicago-based artists who work at the intersection of art and civic life, nominated…

Artists Go to Work (Breakout Sessions)

Court Theatre · Logan Center

Join Court Theatre for a series of interactive breakout sessions hosted by Chicago-based artists who work at the intersection of art and civic life, nominated through a partnership between Illinois…

HSS 60th Anniversary Celebration | Keynote Conversation

California Institute of Technology · Baxter Lecture Hall, Caltech, Pasadena

Leviathan Unchained: Rethinking the Framers on Executive Power

Festival Foyer: Explore, Discover, Connect

University of Warwick · Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7FD

All day exhibit featuring a variety of exhibits and booths from a range of experts and University of Warwick researchers

Acting Local, Thinking Global

University of Warwick · Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, CV4 7FD

Through a series of short talks and an audience discussion, discover the research, ideas and initiatives helping to build healthier, fairer and more sustainable futures.

Food, Money and Dignity Community Conversations on the Cost of Living

Aston University · Edgbaston Community Centre.

This free, in-person event will take place at Edgbaston Community Centre on Saturday 7 November 2026, from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. It will bring parents, carers and community voices together…

Lives Disrupted: Homicide, Inequality and Public Storytelling

University of Warwick · Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick

30-40 mins

HSS 60th Anniversary Celebration | Conference

California Institute of Technology · Baxter Lecture Hall, Caltech, Pasadena

Please join us as we celebrate 60 remarkable years since Caltech established the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences in 1966, renaming its original Division of Humanities founded in 1926.

Zadih (ٕزَد): Rethinking the Workplace

King's College London · The Exchange, Bush House, King’s College London, Strand campus, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG

Zadih (ٕزَد) is a collaboration between research, art and testimony, brought to life through Dr Kamini Gupta’s research on the importance of physical workspaces for women,…

Book launch: Escaping the Conflict Trap?

King's College London · Strand Campus, London

Join the Africa Research Group for the launch of the new book 'Escaping the Conflict Trap?: Seeking Stability in Liberia and Sierra Leone' (Lynne Rienner).

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent) "From Recognition to Misrecognition: Indigeneity, the AI Dialectic and the Anthropomorphic Temptation"

University of Manchester · Boardroom, 2nd floor, Arthur Lewis Building, Manchester

Abstract: What happens when a social anthropologist conducts a sustained dialectical exchange with an AI system on a topic he knows intimately through decades of ethnographic fieldwork?

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

University of Oxford · All Souls College - Old Library