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Events

September 18, 2026

New Russian Documentary Theory: Aleksandr Rastorguev

The New Russian Documentary
September 22, 2026

Celebrating Recent Work by Hamid Dabashi

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
September 24, 2026

Neurons to Narratives: Cognitive Labor and Documentary Storytelling

Thursday Lecture Series
September 24, 2026

Brazil Climate Futures

General Programming
September 24, 2026

Out of the Witches' Caldron: Towards Fullerian Natural Law

Natural Law
September 29, 2026

Petroleum in (and out of) the Visual Arts: Ernst Logar on Reflecting Oil

Climate Series
September 29, 2026

Seeds of Diaspora: a Discussion

General Programming
October 1, 2026

Arctic Empires: Architecture of Dominance, Welfare, and Colonial Modernity

Thursday Lecture Series
October 6, 2026

Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual: An Evening with Nubar Hovsepian

General Programming
October 7, 2026

A Fight for Time: A Screening and Discussion

Public Humanities, Justice Forum
October 7, 2026

Celebrating Recent Work by Jack Halberstam

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
October 8, 2026

Sharing Saints and Children: The Kith and Kin Revisited

Thursday Lecture Series
October 8, 2026

Celebrating Recent Work by Muhsin al-Musawi

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
October 12, 2026

Celebrating Recent Work by Meredith Gamer

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
October 14, 2026

Celebrating Recent Work by Martha Howell

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
October 15, 2026

Beyond Defeat: Refashioning Fascism in the Postwar World

Thursday Lecture Series
October 15, 2026

Fashion under Fascism

General Programming
October 19–22, 2026

Morocco in Spain

General Programming
October 22–23, 2026

Immanuel Wallerstein and Columbia: A Conference

General Programming
October 22, 2026

Iberian Modernisms and the Rif War: Spain, Morocco, and the Transcolonial

Thursday Lecture Series
October 26, 2026

Celebrating Recent Work by Eleanor Johnson

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
October 29, 2026

Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture: Edward Said, Jonathan Swift, and the Demands of Literature

The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture
November 5, 2026

Ut saltatio pictura: The Challenge of "Imitative" Theatrical Dance in 18th-Century France

Thursday Lecture Series
November 10, 2026

Celebrating Recent Work by Matthew Engelke

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
November 12, 2026

Prophetic Curves: Graphic Methods of Statistical Prediction around 1900

Thursday Lecture Series
November 17, 2026

Celebrating Recent Work by Claudia Breger

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
November 18, 2026

Celebrating Recent Work by Branka Arsić

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
November 19, 2026

The Family Prison

Thursday Lecture Series
December 3, 2026

Between Authorities: Central Sahelian Seekers of Knowledge in Colonial Cairo

Thursday Lecture Series
December 10, 2026

The Architecture of Honest Graft: Politics, Patronage, and the Making of the American City

Thursday Lecture Series

Highlights

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SOF Daniela M. Traldi organizes Climate Futures conference, publishes article in Portuguese
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SOF Whitney Laemmli publishes first book, on movement
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SOF Fellow Hidetaka Hirota cited in the Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship
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Opportunity: Claremont Publication Prize for the Study of Religion
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Brian Goldstone awarded Pulitzer Prize for There Is No Place for Us
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Former Public Humanities Fellow Scot McFarlane publishes first book