“Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire”

Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Room 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
@ 12:00 pm

In Africa, the late twentieth century was a time of military coups and martial “revolutions.” In Nigeria and other former British colonies, the army officers who took power tried to remake their societies along military lines. They had utopian visions, and Samuel Fury Childs Daly describes the dismal ideology …

2025 Doria Dee Johnson Lecture with Kelly Lytle Hernández

Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St, Auditorium Room 121
@ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

“The Whites-Only Immigration Regime” Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History and Social Justice Kelly Lytle Hernández (UCLA)   After the U.S. Civil War, federal authorities slowly built a whites-only immigration regime that targeted Black and …

“BioCultural Diversity and Agency in the Anthropocene: Dams and Precarity along the Mekong” – Prasenjit Duara

Hybrid Event: Zoom & Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8108
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Register Here for Zoom

“BioCultural Diversity and Agency in the Anthropocene: Dams and Precarity along the Mekong” Prasenjit Duara (Duke University) This event is presented in collaboration with the Institute for International and Regional Studies National Resource Center (IRIS …

Karpat Zoom Lecture, Oya Pancaroğlu

Zoom
@ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Zoom Link OYA PANCAROĞLU (Professor, Department of History, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey) Mount Argaeus/Erciyes, the extinct volcano that rises to a height of 3917 meters in the central Anatolian plateau, has had a long history …

2025 Karpat Lecture

Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
@ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Karpat Lecture Christine Philliou (University of California, Berkeley)   Sponsored by: Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies, Center for European Studies, Middle East Studies Program