Fall 2026
October 7
"Ecstasy and Entropy: On Two Leitmotifs of Environmental Consciousness"
Presented by Alexander Sorenson (German/Russian)
October 21
"Morpho-Cinema and the Febrile Eye"
Presented by Zeke Saber (Cinema)
October 28
"A Literature of Schoolteachers: African Writing and Colonial Conquest"
Presented by Cullen Goldblatt (Comparative Literature)
November 4
"From Disco Swaggers to Bharatnatyam: Dance Idioms and Regional-National Masculinities in 1980s Hindi Cinema"
Presented by Hena Sarkar (English)
November 11
"Governing through Translation: Language, Documents, and the U.S. Occupation of Japan"
Presented by Jie He (Translation, Research, and Instruction Program)
November 18
"'Strange Conduct’ and ‘Sufferings': Postpartum Disorders and Maternal Health in Slavery"
Presented by Diane Miller Sommerville (History)
December 2
"Hope in the Soil: Prefigurative Politics in the Urban Agriculture and Food Movements in San Diego-Tijuana"
Presented by Belinda Ramirez (Sociology)