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Spring 2026 Event Series

Please check the details of each event for format and location. All events, as always, are free and open to the public.

 

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**POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER**

"The Captive Maternal: Antifascist Renegades, Runaways, and Rebels"

// Williams College

• • • Friday, January 23, 3:00pm
    • Clement Hall, Room 317
    • Convenient parking in the Zach Curlin Garage

Join the Philosophy Department for a lecture and discussion with Joy James, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College. Dr. James will share recent work on the concept of "The Captive Maternal," defined as a social function shaped under colonial conquest, chattel slavery, and an antiblack world. Her talk traces how coerced caretaking and sacrifice can mutate into refusal and resistance, moving from everyday compromise to protest to organized collective struggle, and, in some cases, to the creation and defense of autonomous 鈥榤aroon鈥� zones. Centering agape as love understood as political will, the project argues that Black generative labor is routinely stolen and repurposed by state, corporate, and nonprofit power; and asks what it would mean to reclaim that power to build protective communities with real infrastructures of survival (housing, food, health, study, art, and security)

 

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Urban Affairs Colloquium Series

"Democracy, Development, and Engaged Research: New Challenges and Future Directions, from the Perspective of Participatory-Action Research in Sicily"

 

// University of Catania, Italy

• • • Thursday, February 5, 4:00pm
    • UC Fountain View Room
    • Convenient parking in the Zach Curlin Garage

 

 

 

 

 

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Hooks National Book Award Ceremony

• Saturday, February 7
• 2:00PM
• New Location: University of 糖心Vlog传媒 Rose Theater 
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The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of 糖心Vlog传媒 will present the Hooks National Book Award to Joy-Ann Reid, author of Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America.

Please note the new location for the presentation and lecture. The event has been moved from the University Theater to the Rose Theater.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Chopin in the Salons: A Performance and Panel Discussion

 

• Monday, February 23, 6:00-8:00pm
• Scheidt Family Performing Art Center Room 1204

Panelists: Ewelina Boczkowska (Musicology), Melanie Conroy (World Languages and Literatures), William McKeown (Art History)

Guest Artists: Cicilia Yudha (piano) and Misook Yun (soprano) 

 

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"Why the Humanities and Sciences Should Be Friends: On Biodiversity"

// University of Oklahoma 

• • • Thursday, February 26
    • Reception at 5:30 // Lecture at 6:00pm
    • UC River Room Room
    • Convenient parking in the Zach Curlin Garage

Join us for the Department of History's Sesquicentennial Lecture with Dr. Kyle Harper. 

Kyle Harper is the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, Professor of Classics and Letters, Senior Advisor to the President, and Provost Emeritus at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma. He is also a Fractal Faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute, and in 2023-24 the holder of an annual Chair at the Coll猫ge de France (chaire 鈥淎venir Commun Durable鈥�) in Paris. Harper has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in addition to a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.

Harper is a historian whose work seeks to integrate the natural sciences into the study of the human past. He writes on the history of humans as agents of ecological change and asks how we can approach questions such as biodiversity, health, climate change, and environmental sustainability from a historical perspective.

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"Thirty Years On: Mapping Transnational Feminist Engagements Since the Fourth World Conference on Women"

Selina Makana // University of 糖心Vlog传媒 

• • • Thursday, March 26
    • Reception at 3:30 // Lecture at 4:00pm
    • Maxine Smith University Center Fountain Room
    • Convenient parking in the Zach Curlin Garage

Join us for the Women's History Month Lecture, sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program, the Department of History, the African and African American Studies Program, the Center for International Educational Services, the International Studies Program, and the Department of Political Science. 

 

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"Heidegger and the Problem of Regional Ontology"

// University of Toronto

• Friday, April 17 3:00pm
• Clement Hall, Room  317
• Convenient Parking in Zach Curlin Garage

Join the Philosophy Department for a lecture and discussion with Tarek Dika, Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. Heidegger argues that the regional ontology of life can only proceed via 鈥減rivative interpretation鈥� in which Dasein's existence serves as the basis from which what it is to be a living being in general can be determined. Many of the debates about Heidegger's ontology of life have been about whether there is rigorous distinction between Dasein and animal life. But Heidegger鈥檚 regional ontology of life raises a broader problem about the relation between fundamental ontology and regional ontology. The upshot of the existential analytic is that temporality is the ontological sense of Dasein鈥檚 being as care. What role, if any, does temporality play in the regional ontology of life (not only 鈥渁nimal鈥� life, but also 鈥減lant鈥� and indeed even cellular life)? What is a 鈥減rivative interpretation," and is Dasein鈥檚 temporality sufficient to provide a regional ontology of life via such an interpretation? Is temporality the horizon whereby being (qua life) is understood?

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Talbot Roundtable on Multiliteracies, Multimodalities, and Genre

• Date: Thursday, April 23rd
• Time: Reception: 4:30pm | Talks: 5:00pm
• Location: University Center River Room (Room 300).

The Department of English welcomes Dr. Suresh Canagarajah and Dr. Matt Kessler for the Deb Talbot Roundtable 2026 as a featured event for the Conference on Multiliteracies, Multimodality and Genre. Dr. Canagarajah鈥檚 talk is titled 鈥淪tory of a Biochemistry Journal Article: Writing Practices in Search of a Theory,鈥� and Dr. Kessler鈥檚 talk is titled 鈥淢ultimodal Practices and Literacy in Higher Education: Key Issues and Questions."

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