Event Calendar

All Topics (March 22 through April 4)

Friday, March 22

• 12:00 PM Measuring Concepts: What We Learn from New Survey Questions about Concepts and Political Behavior — A Workshop with Jane Green
• The Afterlife of Pan-Africanism and the Spirit of Development

Monday, March 25

• 12:00 PM Ready for Revolution?: Practices of Democratic Preparation from V.I. Lenin to Octavia Butler (Workshop in International History & Theory)
• Ready for Revolution?: Practices of Democratic Preparation from V.I. Lenin to Octavia Butler (Workshop in International History & Theory)
• 12:30 PM WALTER RODNEY SEMINAR: ECO VILLAGES REVISITED: THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA, POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, AND PUBLIC OPINION IN GREENING AFRICA (Christopher Graham)
• 3:30 PM Poland’s Business-led Developmentalism in Comparative Perspective — A Lecture by Marek Naczyk
• 5:15 PM Book Talk: Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State

Tuesday, March 26

• 5:30 PM First Voice Generation Screening

Wednesday, March 27

• 2:00 PM A Conversation with Eliud Wabukala, Archbishop Emeritus of Kenya
• 4:00 PM French Book Group Discussion: Reading The Silence of the Chagos by Shenaz Patel
• 8:00 PM Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Thursday, March 28

• 2:00 PM Conversations on Literature & Culture: Chantal Ringuet with Alicia Borinsky
• 4:00 PM Tensions in the Taiwan Strait: The Role of US Allies
• The 2024 Paul Streeten Distinguished Lecture in Global Development Policy: ‘A Woman’s Work is Never Done’ - How Gender Norms Enable Labor Coercion, Inside and Outside the Home

Friday, March 29

• 9:45 AM 2024 Human Capital Initiative Research Symposium
• 12:00 PM Empires of Intolerance: Colonial Legacies and Attitudes Toward Homosexuality in the Global South

Monday, April 1

• 3:30 PM Public Grief, Memory and Political Transformation in Mexico

Tuesday, April 2

• 5:00 PM Counter-History in China: Challenging the Headline Narratives with Ian Johnson (Concil of Foreign Relations)

Wednesday, April 3

• 4:00 PM African Literature Discussion Group: Reading The Season of Crimson Blossoms by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
• Film Screening & Director Talk: Expedition Content
• 5:00 PM Victorian Kuniongs and Pioneer Chinese Christian Women: Gender, Christianity, and Literacy with Esther Hu (Boston University)
• 5:30 PM African Language Theater Night & Free Community Dinner

Thursday, April 4

• 5:00 PM Claiming the Nation: Religion & Politics in the Philippines, with Jayeel Cornelio
• Claiming the Nation: Religion and Politics in the Philippines with Jayeel Cornelio (University of Louisville)
• Writing across Borders: A Reading and Conversation with Selma Asotić