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Narrm Oration 2026

University of Melbourne Main Calendar · The David P. Derham Theatre (GM15), Law Building (106)

Join us at the University of Melbourne’s 18th Narrm Oration, the University’s flagship public address that celebrates and amplifies the voices of leading Indigenous thinkers, leaders, and cultural…

European, Comparative & Transnational Research Hub Seminar - For a Queer Materialist Critique of EU Law: About Law as an Ideological State Apparatus and Heterosexuality as a Mode of Production

London School of Economics and Political Science · Law School Meeting room 5th Floor (CKK 5.17), Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE London, WC2A 3LJ

Shifting Borders, Shifting Responsibility? The Impact of Europe’s Externalisation Policies

Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room Auditorium, Vienna

The event will examine one of the most pressing and contested developments in contemporary migration governance: the externalisation of migration and asylum policies, including the deportation of…

Book Launch: Race in the Modern World

University of Glasgow · Humanities Research Hub 1 University Gardens

Book launch celebrating the volume co-edited by Dr Sarah Dunstan, 'Race in the Modern World: An Intellectual History'

Panel Discussion: 'A new G2? How China-US relations on trade, tech…

University of Oxford · Oxford Martin School & Online

Professor Rana Mitter, Dr Gillian Tett and Professor Yeling Tan will explore these issues in the context of the multiple meetings between US and Chinese leaders this year, and look at the continuing…

“Hark to the Music”: Problematising Gender Motifs in the Singing of Folk Songs in Cinema

University of Chichester

“Hark to the Music”: Problematising Gender Motifs in the Singing of Folk Songs in Cinema

4th Annual Egmont Lee Founders' Lecture: Restorying Urban Indigenous Presence

University of Calgary · Burnswest Theatre, The Confluence, 790 9 Ave SW

More than half of Indigenous Peoples in Canada live in cities, and yet we are often perceived as being out of place in, or absent from, the here and now.

Public Lecture with Nobel Laureate James A. Robinson, University of Chicago

Faculty of Business and Economics · Copland Theatre (B01), The Spot (110)

Wealth in People: Africa in Comparative Perspective

Friday Forum – Science, Hope and Shaping Futures

The Good Science Project · Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Thinking about the social value of your science? Anxious that your work should make the world a better place? Keen to understand how your ideas, combined with a practical understanding of policy…

Why I Stay: An Afternoon with Rev. Dr. Ray Aldred

University of Calgary · Calgary Central Library

The Chair of Christian Thought, in partnership with the Calgary Public Library, The Chair of Christian Thought Bentall Lecture onEducation and Theology:​ In this lecture, Rev. Dr.

Art Beyond the Nation: “Statehood in Contemporary Art from Kazakhstan”

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Join Sven Spieker as he examines artworks by contemporary Kazakh artists who work with the material trappings of statehood, including flags and maps.

Alex Ungprateeb Flynn (UCLA) "The Momentinho and the March: Temporalities of Struggle in Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement"

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

Drawing on fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork with Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST), this talk presents material from the recently published Pathways to Utopia (Indiana University Press…

'Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family and Inequality in Post-Socialist China'

SOAS University of London · RG01, SOAS Main Building

How do China’s LGBTQ+ people respond to intensified state repression? How do they construct community and identity amid persistent stigmatisation and pursue non-normative desires within strong yet…

From Investment to Impact: Advancing Non-Medical Drivers of Health in Texas

James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy · Baker Hall

From Investment to Impact: Advancing Non-Medical Drivers of Health in

Presentation: Interim Architectures of Climate Relocation in Senegal

ETH Zurich

The “IKEA shelter” has become a well-known and contentious solution for managing the world’s refugees. This talk traces its curious arrival as part of a climate-induced, state-led relocation project…

Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World

University of Oxford · St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building

Speaker: Dr Steve Monroe All welcome, no booking necessary. The event will be chaired by Professor Neil Ketchley (St Antony's College).

"The Democratic Curse": Analysis of the Identity Crisis of Democracies

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

The scope and magnitude of the current backsliding in Western and non-Western democracies raise three questions addressed in this presentation: What are the root causes of democratic erosion? How the…

Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict

Cornell University · Mann Library, Room 160, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Join us for a Chats in the Stacks book talk with authors Lori Khatchadourian, a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies; Jusik Ghulyan, research associate with the Cornell Institute of…

A Matrilineal Descent: Racial Inheritances in Victorian Paintings of Mothers and Their Children

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Join us for a lecture presented by Keren Hammerschlag

Counternarratives of West African Visual Artists’ migration to Britain

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

Join guest speaker Professor Pamela Kea (University of Sussex) for this edition of the DASAtalks seminar series.