Event Calendar

All Topics (April 1 through April 16)

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

Friday, April 5

• 2:00 PM The Dmitriev Affair: Film Screening & Conversation with Director Jessica Gorter
• U.S. Ambassador David Hale Speaking Event

Monday, April 8

• 12:30 PM WALTER RODNEY SEMINAR: ETHIOPIA AND THE ART OF CROSS CULTURAL EXCHANGE (Christine Sciacca)
• 3:30 PM Offshoring Migration Control: Transmigrants and the Construction of Mexico as a Buffer Zone
• 4:00 PM Research on Tap: BU and Africa: Culture, Development, Health, Environment, and Governance
• Research on Tap: BU and Africa

Wednesday, April 10

• 12:15 PM The Patriarchal Political Order: The Making and Unravelling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India
• 2:00 PM Neopopulisms: Causes and Consequences - A Lecture by Paolo Graziano
• 4:00 PM Countering the ‘Woke’ Agenda in Muslim Communities: Neo-traditionalism and Strategies for Political Engagement and Disengagement - Lecture by Walaa Quisay
• Feeling Sick: The Early Years of Aids in Spain
• 5:00 PM Beauty Regimes: A History  of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941 with Genevieve Clutario (Wellesley College)

Thursday, April 11

• 9:00 AM From First Movers to Market Shapers: The Many Roles of Development Finance Institutions in the Early Phase-down of Coal Plants
• 12:30 PM Inheriting the Bomb: Ukraine's Nuclear Disarment and Why it Matters
• “Inheriting the Bomb:” Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament and Why It Matters

Friday, April 12

• 11:00 AM "Why Empire Matters Today" & "Shadow Empires" - Keynote Lectures with Alex Colas & Thomas Barfield (CURA Colloquium)

Tuesday, April 16

• 1:00 PM Works in Progress Spring 2024