Tuesday, January 1

• All Day New Year's Day-University Holiday

Wednesday, January 16

• All Day First Day of Classes

Thursday, January 17

• 5:00 PM Co-Curricular Event: Alex Whiting

Friday, January 18

• 9:30 AM Grad Program for Neuroscience-Chalk Talk

Monday, January 21

• All Day Martin Luther King Day Holiday
• All Day MLK Day-University Holiday

Thursday, January 24

• 4:00 PM Hanging a Sheep’s Head and Selling Dog Meat: Religion and Governance in China

Tuesday, January 29

• 3:30 PM Physics Colloquium
• 5:30 PM Religion at the Smithsonian

Wednesday, January 30

• 12:00 PM Gastronomical Archaeology:Food, materiality, and the Aesthetics of Dining
• 12:30 PM The Arab Spring & the Arts
• 2:00 PM Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
• 4:15 PM East Asian Archaeology Forum (EAAF) Lecture
•   Contested Heritage: Archaeological Research and Issues of Ethnic Identity in NE China
• 5:00 PM Abigail Jacobson on Ihsan Tourjman’s Diary and Jerusalem During World War I
•   Book Talk: Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks - Jenny White

Thursday, January 31

• 3:00 PM Kamiar Rahnama Rad - Columbia University

Monday, February 4

• 4:00 PM Benjamin Shaby, UC- Berkeley

Tuesday, February 5

• 11:00 AM OVERKILL: The Case for Reevaluating US Nuclear Strategy
• 3:30 PM Physics Colloquium
• 5:00 PM The Odyssey of Gregory White: His transition from maximum-security prisoner to merchant mariner
• 5:15 PM Co-Curricular Event: WGBH

Wednesday, February 6

• 2:00 PM Limits of Turkey’s Conservative Change: Between Confidence and Arrogance
• 7:00 PM Machiavelli's "The Prince" After 500 Years

Thursday, February 7

• 4:00 PM Hao Chen, Stanford