Events – Center for Global and Regional Studies (CGRS) – Carleton College

Tuesday, Sep 14, 2021 - Tuesday, Sep 13, 2022

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Ongoing

Why Treaties Matter Exhibit • Sep 9, 2021 - Oct 17, 2021 Hamlin Creative Space • from American Studies

September 2021

Tue 14

12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall

Thu 16

12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall

Tue 21

12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
12:00pm The French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies
4:00pm Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar: Collin M. Stultz, MD PhD - 1h 30m Olin 141 (Zoom together) or by Zoom • from Africana Studies

Wed 22

5:00pm Department meeting - 2h from Spanish

Thu 23

12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
12:00pm The French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies

Sun 26

2:00pm Pétanque & Snacks - 1h 30m Bald spot • from French and Francophone Studies

Mon 27

4:30pm Black Beauty: An African Woman’s Tale of Race and Body Politics - 1h 15m Leighton 305 • from Africana Studies

Tue 28

12:00pm Conversation on African Feminism and being an African Feminist Scholar - 1h Sayles Hill Lounge
12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
12:00pm The French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies

Wed 29

4:00pm Fall French Reception Open to All French Classes & Friends - 1h LDC • from French and Francophone Studies
4:30pm Why Britain? Towards a New View of the Industrial Revolution - 1h Weitz Center for Creativity 230

Thu 30

12:00pm AMST Welcome Back Event - 1h Weitz Class of '61 Courtyard Tent • from American Studies
12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
12:00pm The French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies
8:00pm Guest Lecture: Mark Applebaum '89 - 1h 30m Applebaum Recital Hall • from American Studies

October 2021

Tue 5

12:00pm Meet-a-German Virtual event
12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
12:00pm The French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies

Thu 7

12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
12:00pm Special Collections: New Acquisitions Open House - 4h Library 170-Special Collections • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
12:00pm The French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies
5:00pm Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about OCS - 1h Leighton 305
5:00pm Introducing Adeeb Khalid’s Central Asia - 1h Leighton Hall Rm 402 • from Middle East Studies
6:30pm Majors and Minors Fair - 1h 30m Sevy Great Hall • from Asian Studies

Fri 8

10:50am Convocation with Anton Treuer - 1h Skinner Chapel • from American Studies

Sat 9

5:45pm Medieval and Renaissance Studies Autumn Feast - 2h 15m Great Hall

Mon 11

11:30am Foods of Ancient Rome--Lunches in LDC - 2h 15m East Dining Hall • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
12:00pm Indigenous Peoples' Day Celebration - 7h from American Studies

Tue 12

11:30am Foods of Ancient Rome--Lunches in LDC - 2h 15m East Dining Hall • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
12:00pm The French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies
4:30pm Japan Study Program Information Sessions - 1h LDC 104 • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Wed 13

11:30am Foods of Ancient Rome--Lunches in LDC - 2h 15m East Dining Hall • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Thu 14

11:30am Foods of Ancient Rome--Lunches in LDC - 2h 15m East Dining Hall • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
12:00pm The French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies

Sun 17

Why Treaties Matter Exhibit (ends) Hamlin Creative Space • from American Studies
9:30am Rice Cty Historical Society, Jeffers Petroglyphs & Lower Sioux Agency - 10h Pickup Location: Parking lot at 1st and Nevada, across from Anderson Hall • from Archaeology
10:30am Fr. Activity: A Mystery Solved Over French Breakfast - 1h 30m Parish House • from French and Francophone Studies

Tue 19

12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
12:00pm The French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies

Wed 20

5:00pm Department Meeting - 2h from Spanish
5:30pm German Studies in Berlin Information Session - 1h LDC 104
8:00pm Spanish Studies in Madrid Information Session - 1h Zoom

Thu 21

12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
12:00pm The French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies
4:30pm European Studies Lecture Featuring Henning Schröder Leighton 305
5:00pm History, Religion, and Urban Change in Rome Information Session - 1h Leighton 304
5:15pm Paris Internship Program Informational Session - 1h Leighton 236
7:30pm Carleton Theater Presents: EVERYBODY - 1h 30m Weitz Theater • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Fri 22

3:30pm Dr. Zenzele Isoke - The Poetics of the Speaking Flesh - 1h 30m Alumni Guest House Meeting Room • from Africana Studies
7:30pm Carleton Theater Presents: EVERYBODY - 1h 30m Weitz Theater • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Sat 23

7:30pm Carleton Theater Presents: EVERYBODY - 1h 30m Weitz Theater • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Sun 24

2:00pm Carleton Theater Presents: EVERYBODY - 1h 30m Weitz Theater • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Tue 26

12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
12:00pm The French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies
7:00pm Visions of California Information Session - 1h Laird 206 • from American Studies

Wed 27

11:00am Carleton Global Engagement Programs Information Table - 3h Sayles Great Space
4:30pm Race, Class, and Food in the American South - 1h Leighton Hall, Room 304 • from American Studies
7:00pm Carleton Global Engagement Programs Information Session - 1h Leighton 236
7:30pm Carleton Theater Presents: EVERYBODY - 1h 30m Weitz Theater • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Thu 28

12:00pm Fieldwork and Research Experience in Archaeology - 1h Anderson 121 • from Archaeology
12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
12:00pm The French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies
7:00pm Tarde de Cocina - 1h 30m Parish House Basement • from Spanish
7:30pm Carleton Theater Presents: EVERYBODY - 1h 30m Weitz Theater • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Fri 29

5:00pm Fr. Activity: Werewolves, The Sweeney Todd, Other Curious Discoveries - 1h 30m Parish House • from French and Francophone Studies

Sat 30

7:30pm Carleton Theater Presents: EVERYBODY - 1h 30m Weitz Theater • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

November 2021

Tue 2

12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall

Thu 4

12:00pm Asian Studies Comps Presentation Leighton 236
12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
12:00pm Myth, History, and Archaeology: Zeus and Pan on Mt Lykaion in Arcadia - 1h LDC 104
12:00pm The French Table - 1h LDC Dining Hall • from French and Francophone Studies
4:00pm How Data Killed Facts by Jill Lepore, Harvard - 1h Weitz Cinema
7:00pm Jack Zipes: Discovering Buried Fairy Tales to Keep Ourselves Alive - 1h 30m Zoom

Fri 5

5:00pm Mary Ann Shadd Cary & Nineteenth-Century Black Women’s Radicalism - 1h 30m Leighton 305

Sat 6

7:00pm French Activity: Movie Night - 2h Parish House • from French and Francophone Studies

Sun 7

7:00pm Weihnachtsplätzchen backen Parish Basement

Tue 9

12:00pm French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies
12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall

Wed 10

7:00pm Roger Beebe: Films for One to Eight Projectors - 2h Weitz Cinema • from International Film Forum

Thu 11

12:00pm French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies
12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall
5:00pm Associated Kyoto Information Meeting - 1h LDC 104 • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Sat 13

1:00pm Islands in Time: Annual Classics Symposium - 4h Weitz 236 • from Classics

Tue 16

12:00pm French Table - 1h LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies
12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h LDC Dining Hall

Wed 17

5:00pm Department Meeting - 2h from Spanish

December 2021

Mon 13

Plautus and Roman Comedy (begins) from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

January 2022

Thu 6

12:00pm Mittagstisch in LDC - 1h

Tue 11

5:00pm Teaching the Global Middle Ages with Dr. Geraldine Heng - 1h 45m Virtual: Zoom • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Thu 13

3:15pm The Invention of Race: A Discussion with Dr Geraldine Heng - 1h 40m Virtual: Zoom • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
5:00pm Africana Studies / GWSS candidate research talk - 1h In-Person • Leighton 305 • from Africana Studies

Mon 17

5:00pm Spanish Studies in Madrid Information Session - 1h LDC 104

Tue 18

5:00pm Africana Studies / GWSS candidate research talk - 1h In-Person • Leighton 305 • from Africana Studies

Wed 19

4:30pm Associated Kyoto Program Info Meeting - 1h Hybrid • LDC 104 • from Asian Languages & Literatures
5:00pm Department Meeting - 2h from Spanish

Thu 20

4:30pm Joe McCarthy, Masculine Identity, and the Possibilities of Gossip - 1h Zoom • from American Studies
5:00pm Middle East Studies Faculty Lecture with Professor Stacy Beckwith LDC 104 • from Middle East Studies

Thu 27

8:00pm Jonathan Paradise Israel Experience Scholarship Info Meeting - 1h Virtual • from Judaic Studies

February 2022

Tue 1

Mesa de español Virtual • On Zoom • from Spanish

Thu 3

Mesa de español Virtual • On Zoom • from Spanish
12:00pm (Un)knowing the Inca Imperial Economy - 1h Hybrid • LDC 104 • from Archaeology

Tue 8

Mesa de español Virtual • On Zoom • from Spanish
11:30am Odysseus' Culinary Odyssey - 2h 15m In-Person • LDC-East Dining Hall • from Classics

Wed 9

11:30am Odysseus' Culinary Odyssey - 2h 15m In-Person • LDC-East Dining Hall • from Classics

Thu 10

Mesa de español Virtual • On Zoom • from Spanish
11:30am Odysseus' Culinary Odyssey - 2h 15m In-Person • LDC-East Dining Hall • from Classics
4:30pm Un|Readable Art: Xu Bing's Conceptions of Text Beyond Culture - 1h Hybrid • LDC 104 • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Fri 11

11:30am Odysseus' Culinary Odyssey - 2h 15m In-Person • LDC-East Dining Hall • from Classics

Mon 14

5:00pm Africana Studies dinner - 2h In-Person • Weitz Commons • from Africana Studies

Tue 15

12:00pm Career Panel with AfStu faculty - 1h Hybrid • Leighton 305 and on zoom • from Africana Studies

Wed 16

5:00pm Department Meeting - 2h from Spanish
5:00pm History, Religion, and Urban Change In Rome Information Session - 1h Leighton 304 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
5:00pm Open Mic Night: Celebrating Black Love - 2h In-Person • Sayles-Hill Lounge • from Africana Studies

Thu 17

12:00pm Tabling in Sayles Great Spce - 1h In-Person • Sayles • from Africana Studies
4:30pm Un|Readable Art: Xu Bing's Conceptions of Text Beyond Culture - 1h Hybrid • LDC 104 • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Fri 18

10:50am Black at Carleton tour and discussion - 1h In-Person • Upper Sayles gallery • from Africana Studies
12:00pm Revisiting the Grotto of Tiberius at Sperlonga - 1h Hybrid • LDC 104 • from Archaeology
5:30pm Screening of Chérif Keïta's film 'Nokutela' - 1h 30m In-Person • Boliou 104 • from Africana Studies

Mon 21

4:30pm French & Francophone Studies in Paris Information Session - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Off-Campus Studies

Tue 22

4:30pm The Body as Culture: Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder in China - 1h Hybrid • LDC 335 • from Asian Languages & Literatures
5:15pm The Unbearable Lightness of Being Mahatma Gandhi - 1h 30m Leighton 305
7:00pm International Film Forum: Hale County This Morning, This Evening - 2h In-Person • Weitz Cinema • from International Film Forum

Thu 24

5:00pm La compañia (2018): desdoblar las fuentes, compostar los materiales. - 1h In-Person • Gould Library Athenaeum • from Latin American Studies

March 2022

Tue 1

4:30pm The Body as Culture: Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder in China - 1h Hybrid • LDC 104 • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Wed 2

American Studies Comps Colloquium Exhibit: American Individualism (begins) Upper Sayles-Hill • from American Studies

Thu 3

7:00pm History, Religion, and Urban Change In Rome Zoom Information Session - 1h Zoom • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Fri 4

Forms of Choice. The Art of Writing in the Middle Ages (begins) Gould Library, East Wing, 4th Level • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Mon 7

6:00pm American Studies Comps Colloquium Presentation: American Individualism - 1h Upper Sayles-Hill: hall outside Hill Lounge • from American Studies

Wed 9

American Studies Comps Colloquium Exhibit: American Individualism (ends) Upper Sayles-Hill • from American Studies
3:10pm CCST e-portfolio presentations - 1h 20m Leighton 236

Fri 18

Plautus and Roman Comedy (ends) from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

April 2022

Mon 11

4:30pm Dr. Tony Wood LATAM Lecture - 1h 30m Leighton Hall 304 • from History

Tue 12

5:00pm 2021 Edward M. "Ted" Mullin Presentations - 1h In-Person • Leighton Hall 402 • from History

Wed 13

5:00pm Dept. Meeting - 2h from Spanish

Thu 14

4:00pm Annual Veblen-Clark Lecture - 1h 15m In-Person • Weitz 236 • from Economics
5:00pm Dr Carlos Zúñiga Nieto LATAM Lecture - 1h 30m Leighton Hall 304 • from History

Sat 16

3:30pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Thu 21

5:00pm Foro Latinoamericano - 2h In-Person • Gould Library Athenaeum • from Latin American Studies
5:00pm “Racism without ‘Race’? Claiming and Contesting National and Global Constructions of Blackness in Contemporary Germany.” - 1h In-Person • Leighton 305 • from Africana Studies

Fri 22

4:30pm French Election Roundtable - 1h In-Person • Leighton 305 • from European Studies
5:00pm Foro Latinoamericano - 2h In-Person • Applebaum Recital Hall - Weitz • from Latin American Studies

Sat 23

10:30am Foro Latinoamericano - 2h 30m In-Person • Gould Library Athenaeum • from Latin American Studies
3:30pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Mon 25

4:30pm Lecture by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Religion - 1h In-Person • Leighton 304 • from Religion
7:00pm International Film Forum: PONEVEZH TIME (2014) - 2h In-Person • Weitz Cinema • from Judaic Studies

Tue 26

12:00pm AMST Comps Presentations - 1h Leighton 304 • from American Studies
5:00pm 2022 Annual European Studies Lecture - 1h 30m Leighton 304 • from European Studies
8:00pm The Forkosh Family Lecture in Judaic Studies presents Yehonatan Indursky: The Making of “Shtisel” - 1h In-Person • Weitz Cinema • from Judaic Studies

Wed 27

4:30pm 2022 French Oral Comps Presentations (In Englsih) - 1h In-Person • LDC 335 • from French and Francophone Studies

Thu 28

12:00pm AMST Comps Presentations - 1h Anderson 121 • from American Studies

Sat 30

3:30pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

May 2022

Tue 3

5:15pm Ira T. Wender Lecture in Middle East Studies - 1h Great Hall • from Middle East Studies

Fri 6

LTAM Comps Talks Alumni Guest House Meeting Room • from Latin American Studies

Sat 7

3:30pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Mon 9

5:00pm A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures - 1h 15m Boliou 104 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
7:00pm International Film Forum: OKINAWA: THE AFTERBURN - 2h In-Person • Weitz Cinema • from International Film Forum

Tue 10

4:30pm International Film Forum: Virtual Panel on Pandemic Narratives - 1h Virtual • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Thu 12

12:00pm The French Table - 1h In-Person • mini-Bald Spot • from French and Francophone Studies
4:30pm Dazai Osamu and the Sacrifical Spirit: Hope and Hopelessness in Wartime Japan - 1h Hybrid • LDC 104 • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Sat 14

3:30pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Tue 17

12:00pm The French Table - 1h In-Person • mini-Bald Spot • from French and Francophone Studies
4:30pm Dazai Osamu and the Sacrifical Spirit: Hope and Hopelessness in Wartime Japan - 1h Hybrid • LDC 104 • from Asian Languages & Literatures
7:00pm Dr Bissera Pentcheva (Art History, Stanford): The Sound of Many Waters: Visions of the Divine in the Byzantine Liturgy of Hagia Sophia - 45m In-Person • Kracum Auditorium • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
8:00pm Concert: Singing with the Angels in Medieval Constantinople: Byzantine chant from Hagia Sophia and by the Nun Kassia - 1h 30m Kracum Auditorium • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Wed 18

4:30pm French and Francophone Studies End-of-The-Year Party - 1h In-Person • LDC building entrance • from French and Francophone Studies

Thu 19

12:00pm The French Table - 1h In-Person • mini-Bald Spot • from French and Francophone Studies
5:30pm The Armory: Sonnets about America's Gun Culture - Sun Yung Shin - 1h In-Person • Boliou 104 • from English

Sat 21

3:30pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Mon 23

7:00pm International Film Forum: AMORES PERROS - 2h In-Person • Weitz Cinema • from International Film Forum

Tue 24

12:00pm "The Art of Inequality: Mexican Cinema in the Neoliberal Era" - 1h In-Person • AGH Meeting Room • from Latin American Studies
12:00pm The French Table - 1h In-Person • mini-Bald Spot • from French and Francophone Studies

Wed 25

3:30pm Jamie Rankin Talk: How can I learn all these words? Research-Based Strategies for L2 Teaching and Curriculum Development - 1h 30m LDC 104 • from German
4:30pm AMST Year End Picnic - 2h In-Person • Red Barn Farm • from American Studies
5:00pm Department Meeting - 2h from Spanish

Thu 26

12:00pm The French Table - 1h In-Person • mini-Bald Spot • from French and Francophone Studies
5:30pm Poetry Without Borders - 1h Weitz Commons (WCC 104) • from Language Center

Fri 27

Forms of Choice. The Art of Writing in the Middle Ages (ends) Gould Library, East Wing, 4th Level • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
5:00pm EUST Capstone Symposium - 1h 30m Leighton 236 • from European Studies
6:00pm Carls in the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program: Working in Japan - 1h Hybrid • LDC 104 • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Sat 28

3:30pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Tue 31

12:00pm The French Table - 1h In-Person • mini-Bald Spot • from French and Francophone Studies
1:00pm Carleton's Community Archaeology Day - 4h In-Person • Anderson 121/122 • from Archaeology

June 2022

Wed 1

4:30pm Middle East Forum - 3h In-Person • Leighton 304 • from Middle East Studies

Fri 10

2:30pm Senior Week American Studies Department Reception - 1h Lawn west of Goodsell Observatory, by the tree closest to Laird (rain: Goodsell Observatory lobby) • from American Studies
2:30pm Senior Week French and Francophone Studies Department Reception - 1h Japanese Gardens (behind Watson Hall) • from French and Francophone Studies
2:30pm Senior Week Latin American Studies Department Reception - 1h Japanese Garden (behind Watson Hall) • from Latin American Studies
2:30pm Senior Week Spanish Department Reception - 1h Japanese Garden (backside of Watson Hall) • from Spanish

September 2022

Tue 13

12:00pm Mesa de español - 1h In-Person • Language and Dining Center • from Spanish
4:30pm German Stammtisch in the libe! - 2h Third floor of the Library • from German

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