Wednesday, September 4

• 12:00 PM The Iraqi Refugee Crisis and its Lessons for Syria

Tuesday, September 17

• 12:30 PM Plastic Money: The Construction of Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Post-communist Countries | A luncheon discussion with Alya Guseva

Wednesday, September 18

• 5:00 PM Harold Schweizer (Bucknell University): "THE POETRY OF SUFFERING AND WAITING"

Thursday, September 19

• 7:00 PM Obama as Commander in Chief: Statesman or Wuss?

Friday, September 20

• 11:00 AM 2013 Student Arts Crawl

Tuesday, September 24

• 4:00 PM Directions in the Study of Athenian Democracy

Friday, September 27

• 1:00 PM Evolutionary Explanations of Morality

Tuesday, October 1

• 12:30 PM Conspiracy of One: Tyler Kent’s Secret Plot against FDR, Churchill, and the Allied War Effort – A luncheon discussion with Peter Rand

Wednesday, October 2

• 1:00 PM The Future of American Espionage
• 5:00 PM Dan W. Brock (Harvard Medical School): "PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE AND END-OF-LIFE ISSUES"

Thursday, October 3

• 7:00 PM A Musical Journey Through Latin America

Tuesday, October 8

• 7:00 PM Discoveries Lecture: The Climate Crisis: Tracking Boston's Carbon Dioxide and Methane Digestion

Wednesday, October 9

• 2:00 PM Can Mediation Institutions Save Coordination of Collective Bargaining in Scandinavia?

Thursday, October 10

• 12:30 PM Prof. Ursula Reitemeyer's (Münster) "The Holocaust: Memorialization in the Context of a Reflexive Modernity"

Wednesday, October 16

• 5:00 PM Ann Jurecic (Rutgers): "SUSAN SONTAG AND THE REPRESENTATION OF SUFFERING"
• 6:00 PM European Voices: Romania A Reading and Conversation with Romanian author Mircea Cartarescu
• 6:00 PM El Sueno de Lu (The Dream of Lu)

Thursday, October 17

• 6:00 PM Tres deseos (Three Wishes) 2008

Friday, October 18

• 1:00 PM Time in Cosmology

Monday, October 21

• 4:00 PM Setting and Sense in Sophocles' and Euripides' Electras
• 6:00 PM Svadba (“The Wedding”) by Pavel Lungin

Tuesday, October 22

• All Day Cuisine des mères: Heritage, gender and the construction of culinary culture A luncheon discussion with Rachel Black
• 4:00 PM Chasing "Empty Signifiers"? Egyptian Theatre Before and After the "Arab Spring"
• 6:00 PM Malu de Bicicleta (Malu on a Bicycle) 2009

Wednesday, October 23

• 12:00 PM The Continuing Crisis in Congo