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

January
14
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.
April
2
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
With Ted (Edward) Beatty, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame and

Past Colloquia

March
2
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
February
26
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.
February
19
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 
December
1
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
October
15
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 
October
10
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.