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How New is the New Nuclear Age?

Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) · Encina Hall, William J. Perry Conference Room, 616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

About the event: Since the mid-2010s, scholars and analysts have declared the emergence of a dangerous ‘new’ or ‘third’ nuclear age. Beyond academia, the concept of the new nuclear age is proving…

The Dangers of Focusing on the Danger of Digital Media Use

Tech Impact and Policy Center · Building 120, McClatchy Hall, Main Quad, Studio S40 - bring your Stanford ID card/mobile ID to enter the building, Stanford, CA 94305

Join the Tech Impact and Policy Center on November 17th from 12PM–1PM Pacific for a seminar with Robin Nabi.

Pembroke Seminar Research Lecture: The Unfulfilled Promise of Meritocracy in Organizations

Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women · Pembroke Hall

As part of the 2026-27 Pembroke Seminar, “The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge” (led by Paja Faudree, Associate Professor of Anthropology and…

2026 Stone Memorial Lecture by Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Office of the Provost · The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Research in Black Culture and History, Stone Center Auditorium, 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC

Lecture Title: A Homemade Field of Love: Expansive Understandings of Growth in Times of Change

Open discussion with Corinne Mitsuye Sugino, author of Making the Human

University of California, Riverside

Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans With Corinne Mitsuye Sugino

From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V Jackson—In Conversation

University of British Columbia · Green College

From the Deep is Ayana V Jackson’s first major institutional exhibition, commissioned for the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in 2023.

School of Humanities and Arts Campbell Lecture with Ben Rhodes

Dean of Humanities · Susan and Fayez Sarofim Hall

Join us for the 2026 Campbell Lectures with Rice alumnus Ben Rhodes, bestselling author, political commentator and national security analyst.

2026 Warschaw Conference on Practical Politics

Center for the Political Future · Town and Gown (TGF), 665 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90089

Save the Date! The USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future hosts its annual Warschaw Conference on Practical Politics on November 18, 2026 in Town & Gown at USC. More information to come!

Dear You (2026): A Roundtable on Transnational Ties, Chinese Soft Power and Geopolitical Anxieties

University of Westminster

The Contemporary China Centre at the University of Westminster is pleased to announce the next event in our Conference Deconstructed - Dear You (2026): A Roundtable on Transnational Ties, Chinese…

Gilded Time: Boom-bust subjectivities in informal gold mining economies

University of Birmingham · Arts Building, Birmingham, B15 2TT, and online

Join guest speaker Associate Professor Amy Penfirled (University of Bristol) for this edition of the DASAtalks seminar series.

'Lived citizenship', women's grassroots activism and cross-border solidarity: the Irish Countrywomen's Association (ICA) and the Federation of Women's Institutes of Northern Ireland (WINI), 1950s-1980s

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

A lecture by Prof Caitriona Beaumont (LSBU) as part of the Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series.

Understanding Transnational Repression

Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room D-001, Vienna

In October 2018, Saudi journalist in exile Jamal Khashoggi was brutally killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. This killing is just one example of an act of transnational repression.

Morgan Centre special seminars: The ageing of family change - Torbjörn Bildtgård & A new gift for the barren ones: Examining the introduction of egg donation in Norway – Ingvill Stuvøy

University of Manchester · Room 2.79, Williamson Building, Manchester

Please join us for a special double seminar featuring two visiting researchers at the Morgan Centre for Research Into Everyday lives. Light refreshments will be available from 3pm.

Still Whitewashing Britain: Race, Class and the UK Citizenship Test

University of Glasgow

Identities event held in collaboration with Sociology at Lancaster University. Speaker: Dr Anna Tuckett, Brunel University of London. Chaired by: Dr Aaron Winter, Lancaster University.

Prof. Andrea Prat (Columbia University) - Political Power and Market Power

ETH Zurich

This Workshop & Lecture Series on the Law & Economics of Innovation is a joint project of ETH Zurich and the Universities of St. Gallen and Zurich.

Fixing a Broken NPT Review Process

Harvard University

Speaker: Dr. Mark Goodman, Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Nonproliferation Studies The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has been remarkably successful at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and…

How to Make an Incel Book Launch

University of Portsmouth · Park Building Room 1.23, King Henry I Street, Portsmouth, PO1 2BZ

Join us for the launch of How to Make an Incel: Mapping the Journey to Antifeminism and Misogyny

Novels and Women in Oman

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies · Jerusalem Room, George Street, Oxford

Film screening and Discussion in honor of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

ETH Zurich

Patricia Franquesa's film "My Sextortion Diary" is a powerful and provocative real-life story, prescient in reflecting the unhappy reality facing those people who are forced to deal with the awful…

A critical theory of opinion

University College London · Room 728, IOE, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H0AL, United Kingdom

How does thought lapse into ‘opinion’?