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Upcoming Events
  • East-West Crossings: Luncheon for Colloquium Members
    Date: October 19, 2026
    Time: 12:00 PM - 1:50 PM
    Location: Wilson Hall 142
    More Info about East-West Crossings: Luncheon for Colloquium Members
  • Caribbean Currents Presents The Art of the Archipelago: Private Tour of the Fralin’s Permanent Collection
    Date: October 20, 2026
    Time: 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
    Location: Fralin Museum of Art, Rugby Road
    More Info about Caribbean Currents Presents The Art of the Archipelago: Private Tour of the Fralin’s Permanent Collection
  • Political Theory Colloquium: Diego Tapia Riquelme, "International Governance of Migration, Self-determination, and Legitimacy"
    Date: October 30, 2026
    Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
    Location: Gibson Hall 296
    More Info about Political Theory Colloquium: Diego Tapia Riquelme, "International Governance of Migration, Self-determination, and Legitimacy"
  • Digital Humanities Mixer with Keynote
    Date: November 5, 2026
    Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
    Location: TBA
    More Info about Digital Humanities Mixer with Keynote
  • Islamic Worlds Initiative: Alireza Doodstar, "The Impish Revolutionary: Mischief, Play, and Counter-Sovereignty in Iran"
    Date: November 6, 2026
    Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
    Location: Wilson 142
    More Info about Islamic Worlds Initiative: Alireza Doodstar, "The Impish Revolutionary: Mischief, Play, and Counter-Sovereignty in Iran"
All Events
Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty
Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty
Aynne Kokas
2022
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Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo
Tessa Farmer
2023
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Imperial Sexism: Why Culture and Women's Rights Don't Clash
Denise M. Walsh
2025
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Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
Allison Margaret Bigelow
2020
Cracking Up
Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States
Jülide Etem
2021
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Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire
Erik Linstrum
2023
A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community
A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community
Jarrett Zigon
2019
Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics
Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics
Charlotte Rogers
2019
The Revolution’s Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea
The Revolution’s Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea
Nomi Dave
2019
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Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo Xinyu
Jack W. Chen
2021
The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West
The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West
2020
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The Aesthetics of Solidarity: Our Lady Guadalupe and American Democracy
Nichole M. Flores
2021
The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder
The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder
Paul Dobryden
2022
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The Humanities and Everyday Life
Michael Levenson
2018
Elemental Narratives: Reading Environmental Entanglements in Modern Italy
Elemental Narratives: Reading Environmental Entanglements in Modern Italy
Enrico Cesaretti
2020
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature
Christopher Krentz
2022
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Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840-1960
Giulia Paoletti
2024
Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770-1820
Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770-1820
Douglas Fordham
2019
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Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
Amanda Phillips
2021
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This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form
Debjani Ganguly
2016
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