
The colloquium meets generally three times per quarter on Thursdays at 4:30pm in the Lane History Building, Room 307, unless noted below.
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Colloquia 2025-26
Current & Upcoming Colloquia
Date
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 4:30pm - Monday, March 9, 2026, 6:00pm
Location:
various rooms, note the locations below, History Bldg 200 Room 205 and 203 and 380-380C for March 2
A speaker series aligned with Professors Thomas Icard and Rosa Cao's Philosophy and AI course. The speakers will take place 4:30-6pm in History Building.
Date
Thursday, April 2, 2026, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Stanford Humanities Center Board Room
and lunch the next day - April 3, in History 307 for grad students to meet with the authors
and lunch the next day - April 3, in History 307 for grad students to meet with the authors
With Ted (Edward) Beatty, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame and
Past Colloquia
Date
Monday, March 2, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
History Building Room 305
We Were Here – The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe provides an innovative exploration of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe through art, c
Date
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Pigott Hall (Bldg 260), Room 113
A data-centric vision of women’s health is reshaping medicine, reproductive technology, wellness culture, and sports science.
Date
Thursday, February 19, 2026, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Location:
CESTA (Bldg 160, Wallenberg Hall)
Title: Charting the Ottoman Empire: Wealth, Power and Death, 1750–1850
December
3
Date
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Location:
History lounge, room 302
A lunch discussion of work by
Date
Monday, December 1, 2025, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Location:
CoDa E145
Lunch will be served. Co-sponsored by the Symbolic Systems Group
November
3
Date
Monday, November 3, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
As part of Islam and Science series, co-sponsored by the Abbasi Program.
October
28
Date
Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
As part of Islam and Science series, co-sponsored with the Abbasi Program
Date
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 8:00am - Sunday, February 22, 2026, 8:00pm
Location:
RUTH LEVISON HALPERIN GALLERY (211), Cantor Arts Center on campus
Cunning Folk: Witchcraft, Magic, and Occult Knowledge
Date
Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Date
Friday, October 10, 2025, 11:30am - 1:00pm
Location:
Bldg 200 Room 302
Join us for a new reading group - the Adam Smith Reading group, sponsored by the History Department with Professor Jessica Riskin as the faculty lead.