Literature, Politics, and Identity: A Conversation with Andrey Kurkov

Celebrated author Andrey Kurkov will discuss his literary works and reflections on contemporary Ukraine in conversation with Dr. Roman Koropeckyj.

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Center for European and Russian Studies

Book Talks

States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security

Joshua W. Busby, Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin

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Burkle Center for International Relations

Influence of Taiwanese Films on a Writing Career: Author Talk with Po-Ching Chen (陳栢青)

This event will feature an exhibition of Taiwanese literature and a lecture by Taiwanese writer Po-Ching Chen on his career. The talk will be delivered in Mandarin with English interpretation support.

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Asia Pacific Center

Reflections on a Writing Career: Po-Ching Chen (陳栢青)

Taiwanese author Po-Ching Chen (陳栢青) speaks with students and faculty about his writing career. The talk will be delivered in Mandarin with English interpretation support.

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Asia Pacific Center

CISA Speaker Series.

A Just Home: Lessons from the Laws of Social Reproduction

THis talk considers the law’s key role in producing and entrenching the invisibility of women’s reproductive labour while also crucially mediating the terms on which ‘homes’ as sites of social reproduction are created and sustained.

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Center for India and South Asia

Place and Identity in Israel

Israel’s Palestinian-Arab Citizens: Why They Play by the Rules

On November 14th, Sammy Smooha—Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Haifa—will discuss Israel's Palestinian-Arab citizens, how the state discriminates against them, and why they "play by the rules."

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Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies

"Legal and Spatial Precarity"

Come join us for a discussion with Professor Sudarat Musikawong on examining Thailand as an origin of "debt bondage" rather than a destination of the trafficking of migrant workers.

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Center for Study of International Migration

Plotting Coordinates of Blackness in Central America

Dr. Gómez Menjívar will explore the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.Organized by the Program on Caribbean Studies.

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Latin American Institute

"Where We Stand"

Hear Djamila Ribeiro discuss the instant best seller ["Where We Stand"] that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil. Organized by the Center for Brazilian Studies.

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Latin American Institute

Film Screening: "Strangers in a Promised Land"

A screening of the remastered 1984 documentary about the struggles of Armenian immigrants arriving in California in the early 1900s, followed by a discussion with prominent member of the Fresno Armenian community Mr. Bryan Bedrosian, and Carla Garapedian, Ph.D. of the Armenian Film Foundation.

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The Promise Armenian Institute