All Topics (January 25 through March 5)
Monday, January 26
- 10:00 AM Wildfires in Turkiye: Reversing the Narrative from Fire Impacts to Planetary Urbanization and Rural Decline
- 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Series: Regulators as the Hidden Gatekeepers of Innovation in Africa with Jonathan Greenacre
Wednesday, January 28
- 12:30 PM Following the Gold Road: Global Medieval Africa in the Time of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai with Fallou Ngom and Gana Ndiaye
- 5:00 PM Making Sense of Japan’s Defense Policy
Monday, February 2
Wednesday, February 4
- 8:30 AM Teacher Workshop: Teaching Hard History for Elementary Learners with Primary Source
- 1:30 PM Cambodia and Thailand: Conflict, Diplomacy, and Regional Power
- 3:00 PM Gentrification: Ideas to Action ft. The Death & Life of Gentrification
Friday, February 6
- 12:00 PM Desiring Sex, Desiring Piety: Sexual Moralities, Islam, and the Good (Gay) Muslim in Amman, Jordan
Monday, February 9
- All Day Teach East Africa Week 2026
- 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Series: “Rethinking Maternalism: Motherhood, Power, and Embodiment in Côte d’Ivoire” with Elizabeth Jacob
- 5:00 PM China and the Philippines: A Connected History for our Untangling World
Wednesday, February 11
Thursday, February 12
- 9:00 AM 2026 Conference on the Jewish Left
- 4:00 PM Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China
- Learning from Japan: Expos Past, Present and Future
- 7:00 PM Global Read Webinar with award-wining author Jordan Ifueko
Thursday, February 19
Monday, February 23
- 5:00 PM Can China’s New Venture Capitalists Solve the Local Government Debt Problem?
- Can China’s New Venture Capitalists Solve the Local Government Debt Problem?
Wednesday, February 25
- 4:00 PM African Literature Book Group Discussion: Discussing Dream Count by Chimamanda Adichie
- The Diplomacy of Gift Exchange: During the 1853-1854 Perry Expedition to Japan
Monday, March 2
- 12:00 PM Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire
- 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Series: “Re-analysis of the BU/University of Naples Orientale Excavations at Bieta Giyorgis, Aksum, 1993-2003” with Kathryn Bard