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All Topics (December 12 through February 13)

Thursday, December 12

• 10:00 AM Pardee Graduate Application Help & Tips

Friday, December 13

• 12:00 PM Colloquium: ” Narrative repetitions and fragile rhythms: rituals and silences of care towards an end of (Jewish?) kibbutz life”

Tuesday, December 17

• 2:30 PM Pardee Graduate Program Information Session

Wednesday, January 8

• 9:30 AM Public Webinar on Climate and Development: New Research from the Journal of Globalization and Development

Wednesday, January 22

• 4:00 PM African Literature Book Group Discussion: Reading Mamle Wolo's Flying through Water
• 6:00 PM “A Life in the American Century” Featuring Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Friday, January 24

• 12:00 PM Of Ziyarat, Nationalist and Religious Identities: Gendered Perspectives on Shia Pilgrimage in Iraq

Tuesday, January 28

• 6:00 PM “Science Across Borders” Featuring Tim Ritchie

Thursday, January 30

• 12:30 PM Venezuela, Maduro's Election Fraud and Inauguration: Lessons for the Trump Administration
• 5:00 PM The Law of International Society: Remarks on a Domesticated Notion

Friday, January 31

• 12:00 PM A One-State Solution

Monday, February 3

• 12:00 PM The Macro-Critical Aspects of Climate Change and Climate Change Policy

Tuesday, February 4

• 4:00 PM The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

Thursday, February 6

• 12:30 PM Politics by Non-Politicians: Elon Musk, Social Media, and the 21-st Century Election Landscape
• 2:00 PM The Politics of Primary Health Care
• 4:00 PM Boston Launch of “Toward a Better Security Order”
• 5:00 PM Toward Gender Parity in Japan: Who Supports Gender Quotas and Why?

Friday, February 7

• 12:00 PM Pious Sunnis, Indigenous Sufis: Negotiations of Muslim Identity and Belonging in Indonesia
• 2:30 PM Love's Labors Lost: Turkish, Kurdish, and the Desires of Translation

Monday, February 10

• 12:30 PM Al in Taiwan Newsroom: Collaboration, Challenges, and Opportunities
• Walter Rodney Seminar: Dr. Nana Kesse

Tuesday, February 11

• 12:30 PM Visiting Latin American Leaders Working to Address the Needs of Underserved and At-Risk Youth
• 3:00 PM Nationstate and the Stateless: Hannah Arendt on the End of Human Rights

Wednesday, February 12

• 5:00 PM Book Talk with Esther Hu, Author:   Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons

Thursday, February 13

• 5:00 PM Religion and the Republic: Book Launch & Discussion