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Views from UChicago: Book Talk - Angela S. Garcia

Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture · Joseph Regenstein Library Room 100B

“Enduring Illegality: Time and the State of Waiting in Undocumented Middle Life” by Angela S. Garcia

Sex, Lies and Statistics: Book launch

University College London · To be sent to ticket holders, UCL Bloomsbury campus, Gower St, London, WC1E 6AE, United Kingdom

Join this event to celebrate the publication of Sex, Lies and Statistics: Why We Need Evidence-Based Policy on Sex and Gender.

Book Talk - Fear of Queer Taiwan: Anti-LGBTQ Movements between Taiwan and the U.S. Religious Right

Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) · Encina Hall, Philippines Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Taiwan has been praised as the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2019, celebrating its vibrant democracy and LGBTQ+ communities. Taking a different approach to studying this social…

The Science of Second Chances in Criminal Justice Policy

Taubman Center · Watson School of International and Public Affairs, 111 Thayer Street

Join the Taubman Center for American Politics & Policy as we host economist and criminal justice expert Jennifer Doleac to discuss her recent book titled The Science of Second Chances A Revolution in…

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.…

Law, Technology and Society (LTS) Hub - Democratic Antitrust for Digital Markets: Leveraging Competition Law for Liberal Democracy

London School of Economics and Political Science · Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE London, WC2A 3LJ

Constitutional Judicial Review and Democratic Legitimacy: Non-Democratic Courts v Non-Democratic Legislatures

University of Oxford · Bonavero Institute of Human Rights - Gilly Leventis Meeting Room

This research is supported by the Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2024-2025), and will be

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…

'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture

University of Manchester · Theatre B, Roscoe Building, Manchester

Join us for the Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture as our guest speaker Dame Rachel Griffith, Professor of Economics, reflects on the gender pay gap, and why it is still so prevalent in highly skilled work.

Archiving the Ongoing Gaza Genocide

Center for Contemporary Arab Studies · 3700 O St. NW, CCAS Boardroom, ICC 241, Washington, D.C.

As Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues, a number of entities are doing the critical work of documenting the lives lost and destruction. In this panel discussion, Jehad Abusalim of the Gaza Genocide…

Reversing the Gaze: Europe viewed from a young generation

University of Oxford · Seminar Room

Ice cream dumplings: Transpositioning through friction across digital mediums

University College London · Room A5.02, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL, United Kingdom

Join this event to hear Gordon Blaine West examine how food meanings shift across different communication mediums.

Book launch: 'The Quest for Democracy in Saudi Arabia'

SOAS University of London · R101, Main Building, SOAS

The Quest for Democracy in Saudi Arabia brings together scholars and activists to examine the possibilities and challenges of democratic change in Saudi Arabia.

Documentary screening and Director Q&A: SPI (2025)

SOAS University of London · SWLT, Brunei Gallery SOAS

The Centre of Taiwan Studies is delighted to screen SPI (2025), followed by a director Q&A, exploring family relationships, intergenerational tensions, and the preservation of Indigenous Tayal…

Forum - What You Don't Know About Homelessness in Canada

University of Calgary · 906 8th Avenue S.W. 5th Floor Calgary, Alberta T2P 1H9

Join the School of Public Policy (https://loop.usercontent.microsoft/%5bSchool%20of%20Public%20Policy%20Website%20Link%5d) on Tuesday, November 17, for the next Forum Event of the 2026/27 academic…

Checks, Balances, or Backsliding? The 2026 US Midterm Elections

University of Glasgow · The Humanities Lecture Theatre The Gilbert Scott Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ

Just weeks after Americans return to the polls, this lecture asks what the 2026 midterm results mean for a Congress that has struggled to function as a co-equal branch of government.

Stranger Things? The Cultural Politics of Late Capitalism

Royal Holloway, University of London

This talk investigates how our present conjuncture has become a crisis of culture as much as a crisis of politics, locking us into a state of cultural entrapment and temporal stagnation.

The Minority Mind: Jews and Protestants in Catholic Ireland, 1912-1968

Trinity College Dublin · Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub

A lecture as part of the Aspects of the Irish Jewish Experience seminar series.

Mexico’s Disappearance Crisis: Crimes Against Humanity and the Politics of Denial

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies · Social Science Research, Tea Room

This lecture revisits Mexico’s disappearance crisis in light of the 2026 decision of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances, which found well-founded indications that enforced disappearances…

Estonia at the Front Line: Security, Resilience, and Technology: A Discussion with the Prime Minister of Estonia Kristen Michal

Stanford University Libraries · Hohbach Hall, Room 122, 557 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

Join us for an engaging discussion with Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia Kristen Michal on: