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All Topics (March 27 through April 15)

Thursday, March 27

• 9:00 AM Layered Taiwan: Interwoven Pasts and Multiple Futures
• 12:30 PM A Conversation about Finance and Anti-Democratic Politics (Workshops in International Theory & History)
• Every Vote Counts: Mobilizing Voter Engagement Among Marginalized Communities in Nevada
• 4:00 PM China’s Evolving Nuclear Policy

Friday, March 28

• 12:00 PM Punishing Hurtful Words in the Western Mediterranean: Blasphemy and “National” Religions
• 1:00 PM Katanga Film Screening and Discussion with Director Dani Kouyaté
• 2:30 PM Translating Arabic Theory: Portable Concepts for a New Lexicon

Saturday, March 29

• 10:00 AM Unity in Diversity Film Shorts Screening

Monday, March 31

• 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Kwame Otu

Tuesday, April 1

• 12:30 PM Geoeconomic Fragmentation and the World Economy
• Geoeconomic Fragmentation and the World Economy
• The War in Ukraine and the Future of European Security
• 5:00 PM Populism, Religion, and Nationalism in Asia: Analyzing Muslim Majorities and Minorities

Wednesday, April 2

• 6:00 PM Teotihuacan: Origins, Urbanism, and Daily Life (Harvard University)

Thursday, April 3

• 3:30 PM Music, Civil Society, and the Search for Peace in Colombia

Friday, April 4

• All Day From Foundation to Future: Pardee's Decennial Celebration
• 2:30 PM The Eternal Promise of Missile Defense (Workshop in International Theory and History)

Monday, April 7

• 12:00 PM Refugee Politics and Conflict Management: Two Processes Out of Sync?

Tuesday, April 8

• 5:00 PM Montenegro and Serbia: A Velvet Divorce

Wednesday, April 9

• 8:30 AM A 120-Year Retrospective: The Russo-Japanese War and Treaty of Portsmouth with Implications for Today
• 5:00 PM Institutionalizing Black Europe: The Center for Black European Studies at Carnegie Mellon University

Thursday, April 10

• 4:00 PM Antiblackness and Global Health: A Response to Ebola in the Colonial Wake

Friday, April 11

• 12:00 PM Sacred Cities, Civic Futures: The Role of Pilgrimages in Shaping Civil Society in Iraq and India

Monday, April 14

• 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Gloria Emeagwali

Tuesday, April 15

• 1:30 PM Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization: Reconstructing Fiscal Institutions Beyond Colonial Legacies