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9 Feb  2026
6:00 PM
Music Alive in the Archive: Celebrating the Music and Legacy of Hua Wenyi

Music Alive in the Archive: Celebrating the Music and Legacy of Hua Wenyi

Through conversation, performance, and archival presentation, the evening honors Hua Wenyi’s life, her teaching, and her enduring artistic spirit.

10 Feb  2026
12:00 PM
Greenland: Seeking self-determination between Europe and the US

Greenland: Seeking self-determination between Europe and the US

A conversation with Ulrik Pram Gad, senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and specialist in the role of Greenland in Arctic security.

10 Feb  2026
12:30 PM
Asylum Frontiers: The Impacts of Border Externalization in Guatemala
11 Feb  2026
9:30 AM
Action Cinema from Hong Kong to Hollywood: Andy Cheng in Person

Action Cinema from Hong Kong to Hollywood: Andy Cheng in Person

Guest talk by Cheng Kai-Chung, also known as Andy Cheng, Hong Kong actor, stuntman, choreographer, martial artist, and director.

11 Feb  2026
3:00 PM
[Roundtable Discussion] Gen Z Protests in Pacific Rim Cities, 2019 to 2024

[Roundtable Discussion] Gen Z Protests in Pacific Rim Cities, 2019 to 2024

Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine) joined by Prof. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (University of California, Irvine) and Prof. Ju Hui Judy Han (UCLA)

12 Feb  2026
11:00 AM
Coexistence and Other Fighting Words

Coexistence and Other Fighting Words

Join us on February 12 for a webinar with world-renowned computer scientist and philosopher Professor Judea Pearl, who will discuss his new book on Israel, antisemitism, campus unrest, and other related subjects.

12 Feb  2026
11:00 AM
Understanding Food Literacy: Navigating Nutrition in Modern Society

Understanding Food Literacy: Navigating Nutrition in Modern Society

Ju Han, Associate Professor, Department of Home Economics Education, Kangwon National University

12 Feb  2026
12:00 PM
A Brief History of Violence in Mexico (UNC Press, 2025)
12 Feb  2026
2:30 PM
Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam
Book Talks

Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam

Book celebration with Cindy Anh Nguyen (UCLA) with reception to follow

12 Feb  2026
4:00 PM
Noise and Redundancy: Nonsense Literature as World Literature During the Cold War

Noise and Redundancy: Nonsense Literature as World Literature During the Cold War

This lecture by Evelyn Shih (University of Minnesota) proposes a particular kind of nonsense literature as a countermeasure to regimes of authoritarian cultural control and the drive towards “oneworldedness” that characterized the communications crisis during the Cold War, linking examples from European surrealism, the négritude movement, and Latin American magical realism with what was happening in Taiwan and South Korea,...

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Greenland: Seeking self-determination between Europe and the US

Tuesday, February 10, 2026
12:00 PM

A conversation with Ulrik Pram Gad, senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies... Read More

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Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam

Thursday, February 12, 2026
2:30 PM

Book celebration with Cindy Anh Nguyen (UCLA) with reception to follow Read More

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The 2025-26 Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development

Thursday, February 12, 2026
4:30 PM

Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Professor at Harvard University and former chief economist, IMF Read More