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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.

U.S. Mexico Border Conference: Environmental Justice and Immigrant Rights

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences · CHASS Interdisciplinary South, 1128

Join Comité de Justicia Ambiental de la Frontera and the Inland Empire Labor & Community Center at UC Riverside (IELCC-UCR) for a binational conference bringing together scholars, advocates…

Beyond Woman, Life, Freedom: Feminist Networks and Solidarities in Iran and the Region

Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women · Pembroke Hall

Join us for the inaugural event of the Pembroke Center’s Transnational Feminisms Initiative, led jointly by Professor Lingzhen Wang and Professor Nadje Al-Ali.

East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks ft. Leland Lazarus (Lazarus Consulting LLC)

Center for East Asian Studies · 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 (Franke Institute for the Humanities)

Dragon in the Americas: China’s Power, Presence, and Regional Influence

2026 Nehru Memorial Lecture | Sir Anish Kapoor | Please Remain Seated: The Cockroach, the Artist, and the Return of the Repressed

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

The lecture will explore the creative role of the negative and of erasure in art and poetry in the context of contemporary developments in India.

America in the World at 250: A View from a Bloody Borderland

The University of Texas at Austin · LBJ - SRH 3.122

As we conclude the nation’s semiquincentennial, at a moment when the American experiment once again teeters on the precipice of political violence, historian Jay Sexton reflects on the history of a…

Comfort Women Justice in North Korea Between Sovereignty and Civic Struggle

College of Liberal Arts · Will C. Hogg Building (WCH), 4.118, 120 Inner Campus Dr., Austin, TX 78712

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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

Myung Sup Lim Public Lecture: "Role of Traditions and Cultural Change in South Korea's Industrialization"

University of Oregon · Allen Hall, 140, 1020 University Street, Eugene, OR 97403

Professor Ha will present a talk about his recent book Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea (University of Washington Press, 2024).

MENA Salon - Week III: Who are the Houthis?

Center for Middle Eastern Studies · Center for Middle Eastern Studies

The Center for Middle East Studies (CMES) MENA Salon is an informal space for the UC Berkeley community to discuss topics of contemporary relevance to the Middle East and North Africa, with meetings…

Food Glorious Food: How We Will Beat Hunger

Jackson School of Geosciences · Robert A. Welch Hall (WEL), 2.224, 105 24TH ST E, Austin, Texas 78705

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Celebrating Queer Intersectionality Film Series | Queering Outreach Work & Building 3rd Spaces

University of Calgary · CMHA Prosper Place Clubhouse, 10232 106 Street NW, Edmonton, AB

Scroll down to complete the form below and "Register" to join us in person at CMHA Prosper Place Clubhouse (Edmonton) The UCalgary Faculty of Social Work Queer and Trans Action Group (QTAG) invites…

Trailblazers Film Festival 2026: Her Lens, Her Legacy

University of Colorado Boulder · Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305

The 2026 Trailblazers Film Festival, Her Lens, Her Legacy, celebrates BIPOC women who are changing the narrative of who and how we see in the outdoors. CU Boulder Assistant Professor MG Evangelista…

Sacred Flowscapes: Negotiating and Imagining the Spaces of Chinese Religion in Singapore

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Join Terence Heng as he maps out the making of Chinese Religion sacred spaces, showing how such spaces are a product of “spiritual imagination”, a material and embodied process through which…

Breaking Cycles of Conflict

King's College London · King's Building, Strand Campus, London

We are delighted to announce that we will be holding an international conference to mark the end of the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme.

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…

War, the End of Empire, and the Expansion of Women’s Political Citizenship

University of Oxford · All Souls College - Hovenden Room

Chinese brands, chinese stories? Commerce, culture and a globalising China

SOAS University of London · RG01, SOAS Main Building

What, if anything, is uniquely Chinese about Chinese brands and their global experiences? As Chinese companies expand overseas under the banner of chuhai 出海, this roundtable asks what these brands…

Exit, Exception, and the Future of Sovereignty

SOAS University of London · Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS KLT

SustainableED Virtual Seminar: Cassandra R. Davis, “A Call to Justice: Understanding how Environmental Disasters Disrupt our Schools, Students, and Communities and Providing Guidance to Enact Change”

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In the 2010s, the United States faced 119 billion-dollar disasters, totaling roughly $802 billion and claiming over 5,200 lives. Research also shows that these environmental disruptions are occurring…