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4 Feb  2026
4:00 PM
Sesame Street Around the World:  Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships
4 Feb  2026
4:00 PM
Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule
5 Feb  2026
3:30 PM
Incoming: Words and Movement from the Periphery in Arabic Travel Writing

Incoming: Words and Movement from the Periphery in Arabic Travel Writing

In this lecture, Björn Bentlage will present a comparative and contrastive reading of Ottoman era travel narratives with a near contemporary view from the periphery represented through ʿAlā’ Khālid’s 2024 memoir Karnifāl al-Qāhira (‘Cairene Carnival’).

5 Feb  2026
5:00 PM
Questioning Racial Binaries: Co-Ethnic Racialisation, Intersectionality, and Immigration Hierarchies in East Asia

Questioning Racial Binaries: Co-Ethnic Racialisation, Intersectionality, and Immigration Hierarchies in East Asia

Drawing on migration trends in East Asia, including Singapore, China, Japan, and South Korea, this virtual lecture by Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho (National University of Singapore) advances contemporary scholarship on ethnicity, migration, and racialisation by examining new dynamics of racism that complicate the conventional white/Other binary often referenced in Western migrant-receiving societies.

6 Feb  2026
2:00 PM
Cybernetic Maoism and the Origins of the Chinese Internet

Cybernetic Maoism and the Origins of the Chinese Internet

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu Associate Professor of History Washington University in St. Louis

8 Feb  2026
3:30 PM
Israel Film Festival: <i>Of Dogs and Men</i>

Israel Film Festival: Of Dogs and Men

Join us on February 8th for the Center’s sponsored screening at the 37th Israel Film Festival of this moving and quietly affecting docudrama, shot on location in Kibbutz Nir Oz just weeks after the October 7 attacks.

9 Feb  2026
6:00 PM
Music Alive in the Archive: Celebrating the Music and Legacy of Hua Wenyi

Music Alive in the Archive: Celebrating the Music and Legacy of Hua Wenyi

Through conversation, performance, and archival presentation, the evening honors Hua Wenyi’s life, her teaching, and her enduring artistic spirit.

10 Feb  2026
12:00 PM
Greenland: Seeking self-determination between Europe and the US

Greenland: Seeking self-determination between Europe and the US

A conversation with Ulrik Pram Gad, senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and specialist in the role of Greenland in Arctic security.

10 Feb  2026
12:30 PM
Asylum Frontiers: The Impacts of Border Externalization in Guatemala
11 Feb  2026
3:00 PM
[Roundtable Discussion] Gen Z Protests in Pacific Rim Cities, 2019 to 2024

[Roundtable Discussion] Gen Z Protests in Pacific Rim Cities, 2019 to 2024

Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine) joined by Prof. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (University of California, Irvine) and Prof. Ju Hui Judy Han (UCLA)

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Cybernetic Maoism and the Origins of the Chinese Internet

Friday, February 6, 2026
2:00 PM

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu Associate Professor of History Washington University in St. Louis Read More

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Greenland: Seeking self-determination between Europe and the US

Tuesday, February 10, 2026
12:00 PM

A conversation with Ulrik Pram Gad, senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies... Read More

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The 2025-26 Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development

Thursday, February 12, 2026
4:30 PM

Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Professor at Harvard University and former chief economist, IMF Read More