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Humanitarian Assistance in International Law: book talk and discussion

University College London · Hong Kong Alumni Room (Room 221), Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, London, WC1H 0EG, United Kingdom

Join author Marina Sharpe and expert discussants to explore how international law shapes humanitarian assistance during conflict, disaster and displacement, marking the publication of her new book.

Manufacturing Vulnerability in the Uyghur Region: State-Imposed Forced Labour and the Crisis of Corporate Complicity

SOAS University of London · RG01, SOAS Main Building

The Uyghur Region of China (officially known as Xinjiang, known by many of its Indigenous people as East Turkestan) has been the center of the PRC's strategic program of state-sponsored forced labour.

Military Coordination & Cooperation

Watson School of International and Public Affairs · McKinney Conference Room

Join Watson’s Visiting Scholars in International and Public Affairs for a talk on Military Coordination and Cooperation.

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…

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Giulio D'Errico and Becka Wolfe

University of Edinburgh · Room 2.14, Appleton Tower

Join us for a hybrid seminar by Giulio D'Errico and Becka Wolfe (Co-coordinators of ECHO Mobile Library) detailing the history and importance of the ECHO Mobile Library to asylum seekers, migrants…

Book Talk: "Engaged Spirituality: Stories of Religious Resilience, Inspiration, and Pursuing the Common Good"

Center for Religion and Civic Culture (CRCC)

Join the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture to discuss how spirituality can help us reimagine the ways we engage the troubling realities of contemporary life.

Division of Health Social Work Grand Rounds

Dell Medical School · HDB 1.208 Auditorium and Zoom

Please join us for our upcoming Grand Rounds event!

Book Launch: Fictions of Freedom

King's College London · Bush House, Strand Campus, London

In-person event hosted by King's Business School

Blockers: rebels in the deep state

London School of Economics and Political Science · In-person public event (LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders)

For the Next Generation: Mental Health in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Youth

Asian American Research Center at Stanford · Building 360, CCSRE Conference Room (First Floor), Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), 450 Jane Stanford Way Building 360, Stanford, CA 94305

Join the Asian American Research Center at Stanford (AARCS) for this free public event to launch a new book, "For the Next Generation". This new edited volume brings together the latest scholarship…

Ask Me Anything: What’s Next for U.S. Politics?

Chicago Center on Democracy · Classics Building, Room 110

Midterm elections serve as a way to gauge public opinion on the state of the nation and thus opinion of the current administration. With slim majorities in both the Senate and the House, and…

Tim Bakken, Professor of Law, U.S. Military Academy, West Point on The Consequences of Silence When Academic Freedom and Expression are at Risk: Learning to Speak and Act According to Your Conscience

Medicine & the Muse Program in Medical Humanities & the Arts · Angela Nomellini & Ken Olivier building (ANKO), 109 The Learning Hall, 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

This presentation will describe Mr. Bakken’s personal experience as well as a broader overview of the dynamics within universities when students, staff, faculty, and members of other institutions…

Screening of "Let the City Speak" documentary followed by Q&A

USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism · Wallis Annenberg Hall (ANN), Auditorium, 3630 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089

Let the City Speak is a feature-length documentary that follows QUETZAL, a Chicano rock band that emerged from East LA's vibrant music scene in the 1990’s.

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.

Stories of peace, conservation and culture: an evening of conversation with the Melanesia Bio-Cultural Network

Melbourne Oceania Institute · Science Gallery Melbourne, 114 Grattan Street, Parkville

Oceania Institute Oration 2026

Partnership as practice: knowledge-making, public engagement and dissent

Faculty of Arts · Forum Theatre (153), Arts West - North Wing (148A)

2026 Arief Budiman Lecture

“A Mystery Still”: Historical (Trans) Gender Variance and James “Miranda” Barry

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

This lecture focuses on the intense posthumous speculation about the reputedly female body of the high-raking nineteenth-century military surgeon James Barry (1789?-1865).

OSMO Speaker Series: Dr Emma Hoes on "The Hidden Politics of Everyday Media"

University of Oxford · Manor Road Building - Seminar Room E

Economic Mobility in Houston and Harris County

Kinder Institute for Urban Research

When global oil prices fell roughly 70% between 2014 and 2016, Houston’s economy took a severe hit. The Kinder Institute’s forthcoming Economic Mobility Report finds that more than a decade later…

Sudan’s War: Political Economy, Regional Interests and the Search for a Viable Peace

SOAS University of London · Main Building RB01, SOAS Main Building (RB01) & Online

Why has the war in Sudan proved so difficult to end, and what are the domestic and external interests that sustain it? Professor Mekki Medani El Shibly will examine the political economy and regional…