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Events
Nov
07
Multi
ASC Event. African Women Film Festival 2025
Voices of Resilience: The Power of Storytelling in African Cinema
8:00 AM
Vandenberg, Henderson, and Hussey
Michigan League
Nov
07
Friday Lecture Series | "What Strange Woman is Here?": Laura Benedict's Fieldwork among the Bagobos of the Southern Philippines, 1906-1908
Juan Fernandez, PhD, University of Wisconsin – Madison
12:00 PM
Room 110
Weiser Hall
Nov
07
Lessons of Authoritarianism and Democratic Resilience in Latin America: "Memoria" as Resistance: Comparative Human Rights Education in Chile and Argentina
Mayki Gorosito, Former Executive Director of the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory, Argentina; Juan Carlos Vega Briones, Archive Manager, Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Chile
4:00 PM
1010
Weiser Hall
Nov
10
Have Funding, Will Travel
4:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Nov
11
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Treasure Sand: Management of Abrasive Minerals in Qing Court Production
Yulian Wu, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University; Member, Historical Studies, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (2025-2026)
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Nov
12
LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | Transgender in Late Imperial China
Matthew H. Sommer, Bowman Family Professor of History, Stanford University
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
