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Moral Fragmentations and Boundaries
Sunday, April 19, 2026
9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub
Writers from Palestine: A Day of Poetry, Performance Art, Movie Screening, and Conversation with the Artists
Friday, April 10, 2026
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Heritage Hall, 122 HUB-Robeson Center
Asian Studies Lecture Series Presents: Akiko Takenaka
Thursday, April 2, 2026
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
302 Pond Laboratory
“The View from the Islamic Port-City: Mercantile Disputes and Scribal Encounters in the Early Modern World”
Thursday, March 19, 2026
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
302 Pond Laboratory
“Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Why the Western Roman Empire Fell and the Eastern Empire Survived”
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
062 Willard Building
“Reflections on the Reign of Technocracy” with Navyug Gill
Thursday, January 29, 2026
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
302 Pond Laboratory
We Are/We Were: Histories of Penn State Students Shaping Who and What Penn State is For
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
1:45 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
Mann Assembly Room, Paterno Library
“The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran”
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
5:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
302 Pond Laboratory
Religious Studies Reads: “Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy”
Thursday, November 13, 2025
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
302 Pond Laboratory
“The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century”
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
5:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
102 Weaver Building
The Barbara Jordan Lecture Series: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Robb Hall, Hintz Family Alumni Center
“The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders”
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
5:00 p.m.
121 Borland Building
“‘What you sew, you shall rip’: The Bible, Horror, and Captivity in Appalachia”
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
12:15 p.m.–1:15 p.m.
102 Weaver Building
“The Politics of the Roman Slave Revolts”
Friday, October 17, 2025
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
102 Weaver Building
Gaza from War to Genocide: Two Years since October 7
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library

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Spring 2021 Graduates

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