Events Calendar – History – Carleton College

Monday, Nov 15, 2021 - Monday, Nov 14, 2022

day week month year

November 2021

Mon 15

3:30pm History SDA Office Hours - 1h 30m Leighton Hall 204
5:00pm Transgressive Bodies - 1h Leighton 305

Mon 22

3:00pm OIL Study Break - 2h OIL • from Office of Intercultural Life

December 2021

Wed 8

12:00pm Winter Break Wednesday: Grilled Cheese Foodtruck! - 1h 30m In Front of Sayles • from Office of Intercultural Life
12:00pm Winter Break Wednesdays: Grilled Cheese Truck - 1h 30m Outside of Sayles • from Office of Intercultural Life

Mon 13

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

January 2022

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

6:00pm OIL MLK Day Dinner - 1h Weitz Center Commons • from Office of Intercultural Life

Tue 18

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

Wed 19

4:30pm "Nine Days: The Race to Save MLK's Life and Win the 1960 Election" Book Talk w/ Paul Kendrick - 1h Zoom: https://carleton.zoom.us/j/2736964239?pwd=cWVUK0pneVBHTGhzWHJPYTdEbm5uQT09 • from Office of Intercultural Life

Fri 21

5:00pm OIL Kickback: Virtual Game Night! - 1h Virtual • from Office of Intercultural Life

Wed 26

5:30pm OIL Talk: Who is American Democracy Working for? - 1h Weitz 236 • from Office of Intercultural Life

February 2022

Fri 4

12:00pm Black at Carleton: 1966-1979 Exhibit Opening - 1h Upper Sayles • from Office of Intercultural Life

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 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

Fri 18

10:50am Black at Carleton tour and discussion - 1h In-Person • Upper Sayles gallery • from Africana Studies
5:30pm OIL Kickback #2: "Nokutela" - 2h Boliou 104 • from Office of Intercultural Life
5:30pm Screening of Chérif Keïta's film 'Nokutela' - 1h 30m In-Person • Boliou 104 • from Africana Studies

Sun 20

5:30pm SDA History Dept Pizza Event - 1h In-Person • Leighton Hall Room #305

Tue 22

5:15pm The Unbearable Lightness of Being Mahatma Gandhi - 1h 30m Leighton 305

Thu 24

5:30pm OIL Talk #2: Let's Talk Sex - 1h Great Hall • from Office of Intercultural Life

March 2022

Tue 1

5:00pm Pizza & Possibilities - 1h 30m In-Person • Leighton Hall 202

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
5:00pm OIL Kickback #3: Board Games & Hot Cocoa! - 1h In-Person • OIL Office/Upper Sayles • from Office of Intercultural Life

Fri 18

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

April 2022

Mon 4

3:30pm Book Celebration for Tony Adler - 1h Leighton Hall 236

Mon 11

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

Tue 12

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

Thu 14

5:00pm Dr Carlos Zúñiga Nieto LATAM Lecture - 1h 30m Leighton Hall 304

Sat 16

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

Thu 21

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

Sat 23

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

Sat 30

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

May 2022

Thu 5

5:00pm Rescuing Socrates: Roosevelt Montas - 1h Weitz 236

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

Wed 11

3:30pm Dr Pedro Quijada History of Latin America Job Talk - 1h Leighton Hall 304
4:30pm Dr. Alex Wellerstein Lecture - 1h 30m Virtual • Zoom event

Sat 14

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

Tue 17

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

Thu 19

6:30pm Funny Asian Women Kollective Comedy Show - 1h 30m In-Person • Skinner Memorial Chapel • from Office of Intercultural Life

Sat 21

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

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

Sat 28

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

June 2022

Fri 10

2:30pm Senior Week History Department Reception - 1h Lawn south of Leighton Hall Rain location - main floor Leighton Hall

September 2022

Thu 15

12:00pm 2022 Applefest! - 1h In-Person • Leighton Hall Front Patio

Mon 19

5:00pm Musa al-Gharbi: The U.S. Divided: Inequality and Symbolic Conflicts in America (and Beyond) - 1h 30m In-Person • Leighton Hall 305

Thu 22

3:00pm Special Collections Open House: New Acquisitions in Medieval and Renaissance Studies - 2h In-Person • Special Collections, Gould Library 170 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Tue 27

5:00pm Nicholas Buccola Lecture: Who are We, the People? James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the American Dream - 1h 30m In-Person • Weitz #236

Thu 29

3:30pm Boyd-Niles Travel Fellowship: Travelers' Tales - 1h Laird 205 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Fri 30

3:30pm An Epic Tale from Early England-A Community Reading of Beowulf - 4h 30m Hybrid • Leighton 236 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

October 2022

Sat 1

History Department Costume Contest (begins) Virtual • Virtual Event
4:00pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h KRLX 88.1 FM • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Thu 6

5:00pm OIL Talk #1 "The Queen Flooding the News!" - 1h In-Person • Alumni Guest House Meeting Room • from Office of Intercultural Life

Fri 7

12:00pm Post Convocation Luncheon and Musical Performance - 1h In-Person • Severance Great Hall • from Office of Intercultural Life

Sat 8

4:00pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h KRLX 88.1 FM • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Tue 11

History Comps draft due to Comps advisor

Wed 12

4:30pm Workshop Wednesday: First Year Glad Hour - 1h In-Person • Olin 141 • from Office of Intercultural Life

Thu 13

12:00pm Africana Studies Music Hour! - 1h 4th Leighton, Africana Studies Lounge • from Africana Studies

Sat 15

2:00pm BIPOC Family Reception - 2h In-Person • Upper Sayles • from Office of Intercultural Life
4:00pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h KRLX 88.1 FM • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Mon 17

11:00am OIL and TRIO Mentorship Program Mall of America Trip - 7h In-Person • Information shared with Mentors and Mentees • from Office of Intercultural Life
5:30pm Film Showing: Simon del Desierto - 1h 30m In-Person • Leighton 304 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Tue 18

12:00pm Ethical Issues in Africana Studies - 1h Anderson 329 • from Africana Studies
1:00pm Informal Conversation with AFST Job Candidate Chielozona Eze - 1h Anderson 329 • from Africana Studies
5:00pm The Radicalness of Desire: Zora Neale Hurston and Black Woman's Feminist Praxis - 1h 15m Leighton 305 • from Africana Studies

Fri 21

History Comps proposal due to Comps Director Igra
12:00pm Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote: A Marathon Reading of Part I - 1d (begins) Upper Sayles, South Balcony • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Sat 22

12:00pm Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote: A Marathon Reading of Part I (ends) Upper Sayles, South Balcony • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
4:00pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h KRLX 88.1 FM • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Mon 24

5:00pm Herbert P. Lefler Fall Lecture: Shahzad Bashir - 1h 30m In-Person • Leighton Hall Room 305

Tue 25

12:00pm History & You.... a winning combo? - 1h In-Person • History Lounge Leighton Hall 204

Wed 26

5:00pm Art History Talk: Binding the Globe: Race and Empire in Luxury Atlases from the 16th century Mediterranean World - 1h In-Person • TBD • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Fri 28

6:00pm Even the Wind is Afraid (1968) Mexican Cult Classic Thriller - 2h 30m In-Person • Leighton Hall 305

Sat 29

4:00pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h KRLX 88.1 FM • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Mon 31

History Department Costume Contest (ends) Virtual • Virtual Event

November 2022

Thu 3

5:00pm Dr. Andrew Welton, The Secrets of the Medieval Swordsmith: Experiments with Art and Archaeology - 1h 30m In-Person • Leighton 305 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Sat 5

10:00am Demonstration of Medieval Smelting Techniques - 7h In-Person • Art Yard (by Farmhouse and the Water Tower) • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
4:00pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h KRLX 88.1 FM • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Tue 8

12:00pm On The Muxes--Mexico's Third Gender. A lecture by Dr. Alfedo Mirandé - 1h In-Person • Language and Dining Center Room 104

Thu 10

12:00pm Africana Studies Music Hour! - 1h In-Person • 4th Leighton Lounge • from Africana Studies

Fri 11

10:00am S'mores Bonfire Cancelled: Bagel Breakfast Instead! - 1h 30m In-Person • History Lounge Leighton Hall 204

Sat 12

4:00pm MARS Radio Hour - 1h KRLX 88.1 FM • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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