Unfortunately, we all know it: midterms season is here. This time of the semester definitely gets busy, but luckily, if you are looking for a break from your studies, simply check out this week’s “Every Event on Campus” and find the event just for you!

Here at Bwog, we do our best to bring your attention to important guest lecturers and special events on campus. If you have a correction or addition, let us know in the comments or email events@bwog.com.

Recommended:

Against Narrative: Olga Tokarczuk & Anti-Narrative Tradition

  • Monday, October 16, 12 to 1:30 pm, International Affairs Building 1219 or online.
  • Hosted by the East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute, this lecture by István Deák Visiting Assistant Professor Daniel Pratt will delve into Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s non-narrative storytelling techniques which are increasingly helping to make sense of the world around us.
  • Reserve your seat here, register for the Zoom webinar option, or watch on YouTube.

Book Talk. “How Russia Loses”

  • Monday, October 16, 2 to 3:30 pm, International Affairs Building 1201 or online.
  • Hosted by the Harriman Institute, author Thomas Kent will discuss his book How Russia Loses to explore six cases where miscalculations by Vladimir Putin led to a reversal of the country’s powerful influence.
  • Reserve your seat here, register for the Zoom webinar option, or watch on YouTube.

Can (and should) constitutional scholars save liberal democracy?

  • Monday, October 16, 6 to 7:30 pm, International Affairs Building Lindsay Rogers Room (7th floor).
  • Sponsored by the European Institute and the European Legal Studies Center, Jan Komárek and Bernard Harcourt will reflect on the responsibilities that constitutional scholars may have to face contemporary crises in the U.S. and Europe.
  • Register here.

“Some People Need Killing” with Patricia Evangelista and Maria Ressa

  • Tuesday, October 17, 5:30 to 7:30 pm (Conversation from 6 to 7 pm), Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall.
  • The Dart Center and PEN America will host a conversation with Nobel Peace Prize-winner and press freedom advocate Maria Ressa and investigative journalist Patricia Evangelista about Evangelista’s new book Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country. The discussion will focus on the state-sanctioned violence of the Phillippines’ drug war. 
  • Register here.

Reproductive Injustice Symposium

  • Friday, October 20, 12 to 6 pm, Barnard Hall James Room (4th floor).
  • This Barnard College symposium will include workshops and talks that will explore and reflect on important issues including reproduction, race, gender, sexuality, and personal autonomy. The schedule is as follows:
    • 12 pm: Lunch.
    • 12:30 to 2 pm.: Keynote by author Dorothy Roberts.
    • 2:15 to 3:30 pm: Simultaneous workshops with Sister Song, Collective Power, the Reproductive Justice Collective, and the Design Center at Barnard College.
    • 3:30 to 4 pm: Coffee break.
    • 4 to 5:30 pm.: Panel discussion with Amaryah Armstrong, Ash Williams, Dána-Ain Davis, Toni Bond Leonard, and moderator Beck Jordan-Young on their research and organizing work, addressing the current moment of reproductive justice in the U.S.
    • 5:30 pm: Closing remarks.
  • Register here.

Italy’s Diasporas: Two Decades of Historiography

  • Friday, October 20, 12 to 1:30 pm, online.
  • Taking Donna Gabaccia’s Italy’s Many Diasporas (2000) as a starting point, the author will discuss with Lucy Riall and Konstantina Zanou the developments in the historiography on the Italian and other diasporas over the last two decades. 
  • Registration required.

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