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Jan 22, 2026

Book Launch: Mark Letteney – Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration

Please join the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies as we celebrate the recent publication of SCJS faculty member and history professor Mark Letteney's new book: Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration, co-authored by Matthew D. C. Larsen. This book examines spaces, practices, and ideologies of...

Jan 23, 2026

2026 McDiarmid Lecture: Kirk Ormand (Oberlin) "Bodies and Social Class in Archaic Greek Invective"

Jan 28, 2026

Public Lecture: Umbrella Sky – Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature

Join us for a talk on Miriam Udel's new book: Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature, hosted by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.Around the turn of the twentieth century, a group of Yiddish-speaking educators, authors, and cultural leaders...

Jan 30, 2026

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand (Appalachian State University): "The Medieval, the Middle Ages, and the German Kulturgemeinschaft"

Everyone loves the Middle Ages, or so it seems, says Umberto Eco in “The Return of the Middle Ages.”The Middle Ages often provide a comforting script for stories that may bind a community together, driving a kind of nostalgia for...

Feb 2, 2026

TALK | Trump in the World 2.0: The US, India and the World

Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on The US, India and the World as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Winter Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. RSVP here for...

Feb 3, 2026

Clinton Westman | Welcome & Research Presentation | In the Land of Giants? Climate, Infrastructure, and Politics in Canada’s Oil Sands

Join us for a special Welcome and Research Presentation with 2025-26 UW Fulbright Canada Special Foundation Fellow, Clinton Westman. Coffee and pastries will be provided. Canada’s energy industry, like many other sectors in the country’s economy, is at a strategic inflection...

Feb 5, 2026

Book Talk: 'The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyu' with Ping Wang, University of Washington

The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun : Literary Expression and the Natural World (University Press 2025).During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties...

Feb 10, 2026

Katz Distinguished Lecture: Emily M. Bender, "Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities"

The production and promotion of so-called "AI" technology involves dehumanization on many fronts: the computational metaphor valorizes one kind of cognitive activity as “intelligence,” devaluing many other aspects of human experience while taking an isolating, individualistic view of agency, ignoring...

Feb 11, 2026

TEAL Digital Scholarship Series 2025-26: Detecting Shifts in Linguistic Register in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction

The Tateuchi East Asia Library (TEAL) is proud to present the 2025-2026 TEAL Digital Scholarship Series, a dynamic program showcasing cutting-edge research by scholars in the fields of Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies. This series highlights how innovative digital tools...