Calendar

All Topics (April 6 through May 3)

Monday, April 8

• 12:30 PM WALTER RODNEY SEMINAR: ETHIOPIA AND THE ART OF CROSS CULTURAL EXCHANGE (Christine Sciacca)
• 2:30 PM The Nocturnal City
• 4:00 PM Research on Tap: BU and Africa: Culture, Development, Health, Environment, and Governance

Wednesday, April 10

• 2:00 PM Neopopulisms: Causes and Consequences - A Lecture by Paolo Graziano
• 4:00 PM Countering the ‘Woke’ Agenda in Muslim Communities: Neo-traditionalism and Strategies for Political Engagement and Disengagement - Lecture by Walaa Quisay
• Feeling Sick: The Early Years of Aids in Spain
• 5:00 PM Beauty Regimes: A History  of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941 with Genevieve Clutario (Wellesley College)

Thursday, April 11

• 12:30 PM “Inheriting the Bomb:” Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament and Why It Matters

Friday, April 12

• 11:00 AM "Why Empire Matters Today" & "Shadow Empires" - Keynote Lectures with Alex Colas & Thomas Barfield (CURA Colloquium)

Tuesday, April 16

• 1:00 PM Works in Progress Spring 2024

Wednesday, April 17

• 5:30 PM Earth Day 365 | "Inundation District" Film Screening

Monday, April 22

• 12:30 PM WALTER RODNEY SEMINAR: NAVIGATING LINGALA (Josh Castillo)

Tuesday, April 23

• All Day The Rise of China in the Eyes of the US and Japan: Divergence and Convergence in Threat Perceptions, with Chikako Ueki

Thursday, April 25

• 7:00 PM Film Screening: Stealing a Nation. Mauritius/Chagos. 60 min. John Pilger

Friday, April 26

• 9:00 AM Daylong Workshop on Religion and Empire

Saturday, April 27

• 9:30 AM Understanding the history of the Chagos Islands

Monday, April 29

• 12:00 PM What is Democracy Promotion? (Workshop in International History & Theory)
• 12:30 PM WALTER RODNEY SEMINAR: HISTORY AND THE FETISH: THE DELCOMMUNE NKISI AS HISTORICAL OBJECT (Cecile Fromont)

Tuesday, April 30

• 12:30 PM Challenges and Opportunities for the European Union as a Global Actor

Wednesday, May 1

• 5:00 PM Architects Without Frontiers: A Journey from Divided Cities to Zones of Fragility
• Architects Without Frontiers: A Journey from Divided Cities to Zones of Fragility
• Architects Without Frontiers: A Journey from Divided Cities to Zones of Fragility
• 6:00 PM Israelism Film Screening

Thursday, May 2

• 4:30 PM A Session with our Distinguished Alumnus Dr. Moeed Yusuf

Friday, May 3

• 2:30 PM Urban Inequalities Workshop