Events – Center for Global and Regional Studies (CGRS)

Sunday, Feb 25, 2024 - Monday, Feb 24, 2025

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CGRS Travel Writing Contest • Dec 7, 2023 - Apr 7, 2024 Virtual

February 2024

Mon 26

7:00pm International Film Forum: Gurumbé. Songs of your Black Memories - 2h In-Person • Weitz Cinema • from International Film Forum

Wed 28

7:00pm Screening of the Film " Gladiator " - 2h 45m In-Person • LDC 104 • from Classics

Thu 29

12:00pm Classics Table in LDC East Dining Hall - 1h In-Person • LDC East Dining Hall • from Classics
12:00pm Conversation with Sanyu Mojola, PhD - 1h In-Person • Anderson 329 • from Pre-Health Program
4:00pm Tea and Cookies with Sanyu Mojola, PhD - 45m In-Person • SOAN Lounge (Leighton Hall) • from Sociology and Anthropology
5:00pm Public Talk: Benjamin Hansen (U of MN): Christians and Others in Umayyad Palestine: Religious Interaction, Competition, and Cooperation - 1h In-Person • Laird 205 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

March 2024

Thu 7

12:00pm Classics Table in LDC East Dining Hall - 1h In-Person • LDC East Dining Hall • from Classics
4:30pm AMST Colloquium Comps presentation for the Class of 2024 - 1h In-Person • The Weitz Center for Creativity Hamlin Creative Space • from American Studies
4:30pm Asian Studies Senior Comps Presentation - 1h In-Person • Boliou 161 • from Asian Studies

April 2024

Tue 2

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC dining room • from French and Francophone Studies

Thu 4

12:00pm French for Your Future Event: Opportunities at Carleton - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies

Sun 7

CGRS Travel Writing Contest (ends) Virtual

Wed 10

4:00pm Embodiment and Racial Bias in "Brendan's Voyage" - 1h In-Person • Leighton 305 • from Digital Arts and Humanities
4:30pm Candidate Talk - Alluring Sinography: Revisiting Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Sat 13

6:00pm Bilingual Bingo Night - 1h 30m In-Person • Language Center (LDC 220) • from Language Center

Sun 14

6:00pm Screening of 'Black Panther' and Q & A with Dr. John Kani - 3h 30m In-Person • Weitz Cinema • from Arts at Carleton

Mon 15

7:00pm Reading of 'The Island' and Discussion with Dr. John Kani - 2h In-Person • Weitz Theater • from Arts at Carleton

Wed 17

4:30pm Candidate Talk - Why do Giraffes Have Spots? The Life, Discourse, and Patterns in 1930s Japan - 1h In-Person • LDC 244 • from Asian Languages & Literatures
5:00pm Talk by Dr. Amna Khalid and Dr. Jeff Snyder: "Free Expression and Academic Freedom Under Fire: Campus Censorship from the War on “Woke Indoctrination” to the War in Gaza" - 1h 30m In-Person • Olin 141 • from History

Fri 19

Foro Latinoamericano (begins) In-Person • Alumni Guest House • from Latin American Studies
7:00pm Conversation with Dr. John Kani - 2h In-Person • Kracum Performance Hall • from Arts at Carleton

Sat 20

Foro Latinoamericano (ends) In-Person • Alumni Guest House • from Latin American Studies

Tue 23

5:30pm Mere hamnafas, mere humnawa: Fighting fascism with poetry, hope, and solidarities in South Asia - 1h 30m In-Person • Boliou 104 • from Asian Studies

Wed 24

5:00pm Flowing, Firm: Nature and Mastery in Bernini's Braids with Karen Lloyd - 1h In-Person • Boliou 104 • from Art & Art History

Tue 30

11:30am Ancient Foods of Greece and Persia - 2h 15m In-Person • LDC East Dining Hall • from Classics

May 2024

Wed 1

11:30am Ancient Foods of Greece and Persia - 2h 15m In-Person • LDC East Dining Hall • from Classics
4:30pm Ukraine in the third year of Russian aggression: heroism, challenges and prospects - 1h In-Person • Leighton 305 • from European Studies
6:30pm Screening of the film "300" (2006) In-Person • LDC 104 • from Classics

Thu 2

11:30am Ancient Foods of Greece and Persia - 2h 15m In-Person • LDC East Dining Hall • from Classics

Fri 3

11:30am Ancient Foods of Greece and Persia - 2h 15m In-Person • LDC East Dining Hall • from Classics

Wed 8

4:45pm On Faith, Peace, & Justice: Reflections of a Queer Palestinian Quaker - 1h In-Person • Chapel • from Middle East Studies
5:30pm Poetry Without Borders - 1h 30m In-Person • Weitz Center Commons • from Humanities Center

Thu 9

Taaja Foster '24 Presents "Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine: Examining TCM in Modern China" In-Person • LDC 244 • from Asian Languages & Literatures
12:00pm Student Conversation with Dr. Sa'ed Atshan - 1h In-Person • Chapel • from Division of Inclusion, Equity, and Community
8:00pm Join the French and Spanish TAs/Tutors for Ice Cream and Video Games - 2h In-Person • Language Center (2nd floor of LDC) • from Spanish

Mon 13

5:00pm Spanish Comps Presentations: Ben More, Aleks Prasolov, and Ahtziry Tinajero - 1h 30m In-Person • LDC 104 • from Spanish

Tue 14

5:00pm Spanish Comps Presentations: A.J. Ristino and Kaba Shalita - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Spanish

Thu 16

4:30pm American Precariat, Parables of Exclusion - 1h 30m In-Person • AGH Meeting Room • from Humanities Center
4:30pm Taaja Foster '24 Presents "Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine: Examining TCM in Modern China" - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Mon 20

12:30pm Chinese Restaurants in Minnesota: Life Stories of Generations of Immigrants In-Person • LDC 243 • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Wed 22

6:00pm Film Screening, "Queens of Syria" (Yasmine Fedda) - 2h 30m In-Person • LDC 104 • from Classics

Mon 27

7:00pm Film Screening, "Pupa: I Don't Want to Go to School" (2012) - 2h 15m In-Person • Weitz Cinema • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Tue 28

12:00pm CGRS End of Year Celebration of Interdisciplinary Programs - 1h In-Person • Leighton 4th floor lounge
12:00pm Poster Session of CLAS 165: Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy - 1h In-Person • Anderson Atrium • from Classics
1:00pm Mesa de español (ends) In-Person • LDC Dining Hall • from Spanish

September 2024

Thu 19

11:40am CGRS Welcome Ice Cream Social - 1h 40m In-Person • CGRS Lounge Leighton 4th Floor

Tue 24

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies
4:30pm Paris Lost & Found: Reading and Discussion with Scott Carpenter - 1h In-Person • Leighton 304 • from English

Thu 26

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies
5:00pm The Language Learner's Playbook - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Language Center

Fri 27

12:00pm Black Femicide and Morrisonian Democracy - 2h In-Person • Wetiz 236 • from Africana Studies
4:00pm Emilio Alvarez Quioto | Garífuna People and Culture - 3h In-Person • Great Hall • from Division of Inclusion, Equity, and Community

October 2024

Tue 1

12:00pm Can You Dig It? Summer Fieldwork and Research - 1h In-Person • Anderson 121 • from Classics
12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies

Thu 3

12:00pm Classics Table in LDC East Dining Hall - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Hall • from Classics
12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies

Tue 8

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies

Wed 9

4:00pm Schreibwerkstatt - 1h (event repeats) In-Person • Language Center • from German
7:15pm Movie Night: Goodbye Lenin - 2h In-Person • Boliou 104 • from German

Thu 10

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies
5:00pm Organizing for Climate Justice in Germany and Beyond - 1h 30m In-Person • Weitz Commons • from German
5:10pm OCS in Madrid Info Session - 50m In-Person • LDC 104 • from Spanish

Tue 15

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies
12:00pm Paris Internship Info Session - 1h In-Person • LDC 104
5:15pm Fall Lefler Lecture - Dr. Jennifer Dominique Jones - 1h 30m In-Person • Leighton Hall 305 • from History

Thu 17

12:00pm Dr. Seamus Dwyer: Scripts and Literature: Graphic Design and Literary Criticism in the Manuscripts of England and France, 1370-1425 - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies
6:30pm Majors and Minors Fair - 1h 30m Great Hall • from Sophomore Week

Fri 18

4:30pm Undergraduate Research and Internship Symposium - 2h In-Person • Weitz Commons, LOME • from Office of the Provost

Tue 22

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies

Wed 23

5:30pm Lecture: Music Making in Palestine During the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Agency and Innovation; Dr. Issa Boulos - 1h 30m In-Person • Leighton 305 • from Middle Eastern Languages

Thu 24

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies
7:30pm Concert: An Evening of Palestinian Music: Songs of Resistance and Resilience; Dr. Issa Boulos: singing, oud; Majed Abu Ajamia, qanun. - 1h 30m In-Person • Kracum Performance Hall • from Middle Eastern Languages

Mon 28

Día de Muertos at the Language Center (begins) In-Person • Language Center (LDC 220) • from Language Center

Tue 29

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies

Thu 31

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies
5:00pm Dr. Vincent Lloyd Gives Ian Barbour Lecture, "Abuse: A Problem of Religion and Modernity" - 1h In-Person • Severance Great Hall • from Religion

November 2024

Sun 3

Día de Muertos at the Language Center (ends) In-Person • Language Center (LDC 220) • from Language Center

Tue 5

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies

Thu 7

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies

Tue 12

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies

Thu 14

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies

Sat 16

2:00pm Classics Department Symposium - 3h In-Person • Weitz 236 • from Classics

Tue 19

12:00pm French Language Table - 1h In-Person • LDC Dining Room • from French and Francophone Studies
2:00pm Carleton's Community Archaeology Day 2024 - 2h In-Person • Anderson Atrium and Anderson 121 • from Archaeology

Wed 20

11:00am Latin 204 Investiture - 1h 30m In-Person • Library Athenaeum • from Classics

January 2025

Tue 7

12:00pm Early Music Instrument Petting Zoo - 1h In-Person • Weitz M31 (lower level) • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German

Thu 9

12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German
5:00pm Classics Department Film Screenings - Disney’s Hercules (1997) - 2h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Classics

Fri 10

4:00pm Kaffeeklatsch - 1h In-Person • German Lounge (LDC 3rd Floor) • from German

Mon 13

4:30pm OCS Financing Info Session - 1h Olin 141 • from Off-Campus Studies
7:00pm International Film Forum: Northern Lights - 2h In-Person • Weitz Cinema • from International Film Forum

Tue 14

11:00am College Year in Athens Info Table - 3h In-Person • Sayles Table 2 • from Off-Campus Studies
12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German

Wed 15

4:30pm Ireland: Place in the Literary & Spiritual Imaginations Info Session - 1h In-Person • Leighton 236 • from Off-Campus Studies

Thu 16

12:00pm Curtain’s Up: Home and Identity in Euripides’ Medea and Fincher’s Gone Girl (2014)- Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Anastasia Pantazopoulou - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Classics
12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German
5:00pm Round River Conservation Studies Info Session - 1h In-Person • Leighton 236 • from Off-Campus Studies

Fri 17

4:00pm Kaffeeklatsch - 1h In-Person • German Lounge (LDC 3rd Floor) • from German

Sat 18

3:00pm The MARS Radio Hour - 1h Virtual • KRLX Radio 88.1 FM https://content.krlx.org/radioplayer/krlx-fm/ • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Sun 19

7:00pm Film Showing: Unser Kurzes Leben (Our Short Lives) - 1h 45m In-Person • Boliou 104 • from German

Tue 21

12:00pm LDC Works-in-Progress Series with Prof. Juliane Schicker & Celia Vander Ploeg Fallon '25, and Prof. Victoria Thorstensson - 1h In-Person • LDC104 • from German
12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German
5:00pm History of Computing in England Info Session - 1h In-Person • Leighton 236 • from Off-Campus Studies

Thu 23

11:30am OCS World's Fair - 1h 30m In-Person • Severance Great Hall • from Off-Campus Studies
12:00pm CANCELLED Africana Studies' Caribbean Lunch - 1h In-Person • Leighton 305 • from Africana Studies
12:00pm CANCELLED Mandela-Grimké Lecture '25 - Updated - 1h In-Person • Leighton Hall, Room 305 • from Africana Studies
12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German
5:00pm OCS Madrid Info Session! Experiencing Spain: Ecology, Economy, and Social-Political Transitions - 1h In-Person • Weitz 233 • from Spanish
5:15pm We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite - 1h 30m In-Person • Weitz 236 • from History
6:30pm Weitz Fellowship: Information Session with the Nine Organizations - 1h 30m Virtual • For more information or to register, see Handshake • from Career Center

Fri 24

4:00pm Kaffeeklatsch - 1h In-Person • German Lounge (LDC 3rd Floor) • from German
5:00pm Classics Department Film Screening - Petersen’s Troy (2004) - 2h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Classics

Sat 25

3:00pm The MARS Radio Hour - 1h Virtual • KRLX Radio 88.1 FM https://content.krlx.org/radioplayer/krlx-fm/ • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Mon 27

2:00pm Mousai Talks - Classics Show on KRLX hosted by Anastasia Pantazopoulou and Cecilia Cozzi - 1h Virtual • from Classics

Tue 28

12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German

Wed 29

4:30pm The Five Stages of Grief: AI and Literary Translation - 1h In-Person • Leighton 304 • from Russian
5:00pm What's in a Document? Birth Certificates and the Construction of Identity in American Law and History - 1h 30m In-Person • Athenaeum • from Philosophy

Thu 30

12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German
5:00pm Classics Department Film Screening - Snyder’s 300 (2007) - 2h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Classics

Fri 31

4:00pm Kaffeeklatsch - 1h In-Person • German Lounge (LDC 3rd Floor) • from German

February 2025

Sat 1

3:00pm The MARS Radio Hour - 1h Virtual • KRLX Radio 88.1 FM https://content.krlx.org/radioplayer/krlx-fm/ • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
5:30pm Film Showing: Conclave (2024) w/Pizza - 2h In-Person • Leighton 304 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Mon 3

2:00pm Mousai Talks - Classics Show on KRLX hosted by Anastasia Pantazopoulou and Cecilia Cozzi - 1h Virtual • from Classics

Tue 4

12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German

Wed 5

4:30pm Dr. Walter H. Judd Lectureship in Asian Studies, "Chinese Cinema's Historical Dialectics of Realism and Convention: The Case of Jia Zhangke's Post-Socialist Realism" - 1h In-Person • Library Athenaeum • from Asian Languages & Literatures
5:00pm Greece at a Crossroads: History, Landscape, and Material Culture Info Session - 1h In-Person • Leighton 304 • from Off-Campus Studies

Thu 6

12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German
4:30pm The Roar of the Desert: A Journey to Israel's Back Yard - Ayelet Gundar-Goshen - 1h 15m In-Person • Library Athenaeum • from Judaic Studies
5:00pm Classics Department Film Screening - Scott’s Gladiator (2000) - 2h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Classics
5:15pm 25 Frank B. Kellogg Research Lecture - 2h In-Person • Anderson 121 • from Political Science and International Relations

Fri 7

4:00pm Kaffeeklatsch - 1h In-Person • German Lounge (LDC 3rd Floor) • from German

Sat 8

3:00pm The MARS Radio Hour - 1h Virtual • KRLX Radio 88.1 FM https://content.krlx.org/radioplayer/krlx-fm/ • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Mon 10

2:00pm Mousai Talks - Classics Show on KRLX hosted by Anastasia Pantazopoulou and Cecilia Cozzi - 1h Virtual • from Classics

Tue 11

12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German

Thu 13

12:00pm Falling in Love With the Ancients? All You Want to Know About Majoring and Minoring in Classics - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Classics
12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German
5:00pm Classics Department Film Screening - Ross’ The Hunger Games (2012) - 2h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Classics

Fri 14

4:00pm Kaffeeklatsch - 1h In-Person • German Lounge (LDC 3rd Floor) • from German

Sat 15

3:00pm The MARS Radio Hour - 1h Virtual • KRLX Radio 88.1 FM https://content.krlx.org/radioplayer/krlx-fm/ • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Mon 17

2:00pm Mousai Talks - Classics Show on KRLX hosted by Anastasia Pantazopoulou and Cecilia Cozzi - 1h Virtual • from Classics
4:30pm French and Francophone Studies in Paris - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Off-Campus Studies

Tue 18

12:00pm LDC Works-in-Progress Series with Prof. Stephanie Cox and Prof. Héctor Melo Ruiz - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from French and Francophone Studies
12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German
5:00pm Bard NYC Info Session - 1h In-Person • Leighton 236 • from Off-Campus Studies
5:15pm Winter Lefler Lecture - Dr. John Soluri - 1h 30m In-Person • Leighton Hall 305 • from History

Wed 19

4:30pm German Studies in Austria Info Session - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Off-Campus Studies
5:30pm Unpacking Islamophobia: Historical Roots and Contemporary Formations - 1h 30m In-Person • Weitz 236 • from Religion

Thu 20

12:00pm Mittagstisch (German Lunch Table) - 1h In-Person • LDC (Shearer Room) • from German
5:00pm Classics Department Film Screenings - Chabat’s Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2005) - 2h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Classics

Fri 21

4:00pm Kaffeeklatsch - 1h In-Person • German Lounge (LDC 3rd Floor) • from German

Sat 22

3:00pm The MARS Radio Hour - 1h Virtual • KRLX Radio 88.1 FM https://content.krlx.org/radioplayer/krlx-fm/ • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Mon 24

2:00pm Mousai Talks - Classics Show on KRLX hosted by Anastasia Pantazopoulou and Cecilia Cozzi - 1h Virtual • from Classics
4:30pm Wilderness Field Station Info Session - 1h In-Person • Leighton 236 • from Off-Campus Studies

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