Global Studies Events

This calendar presented by Global Studies
outdoors, outside, wren, trees, wren yard, front, lord botetourt statue
Midterm grading period March 3 - March 23
Location not specified View Full Event
Facing War Poster
Political Use and Misuse of the Past in Russia, America and Elsewhere March 3
5pm Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium View Full Event
These Sacred Hills poster
These Sacred Hills Film Screening March 4
6:30pm - 8:30pm Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium View Full Event
Washington Hall
Roots of the Crisis: State, Capital & Labor in Iran, Professor Peyman Jafari March 5
5pm - 6:30pm Washington Hall, Room 201 View Full Event
Abby Rapoport headshot (courtesy photo)
Place-Based Journalism: Perspectives from Independent Media March 17
5pm Reves Center for International Studies, Reves Room View Full Event
Del Aguila Gracey, Rocio
GSWS Colloquia Presents Rocío del Águila Gracey  March 19
12pm - 1pm Boswell Hall (formerly Morton Hall), Room 314 View Full Event
Professor Amy Malek
Cyromania: Imperial Nostalgia and Iranian-American Strategies of Inclusion in Los Angeles March 19
3:30pm - 4:30pm Washington Hall, Room 101 View Full Event
GRI Book Launch: The Origins of the Contemporary Global Order March 20
5:30pm - 7:45pm Swem Library, The Hive Event Space, G30, ground floor of Swem Library View Full Event
Maria Bucur Image
A School Like no Other: The Cernauti Institute for the Blind and Deaf in Interwar Romania March 21
4:30pm Washington Hall, Room 201 View Full Event
Omaid Sharifi
ArtLords March 24
5pm - 7pm Music Arts Center, Concert Hall View Full Event
Kaqchikel Artist, Maria Elena Curruchichce
Maya Paintings, Murals and Feathers: A Talk by Kaqchikel  Artist, Maria Elena Curruchichce March 25
11am - 12:20pm Washington Hall, Room 201 View Full Event
Katie Holten talk event flyer
Artist, Author, Activist Katie Holten: The Language of Trees: Forest Thinking to Reimagine the World March 25
3pm - 4:15pm Swem Library, Ford Classroom View Full Event
Qurʾān excerpt
Trapped in History? Sex, Gender, and Creation in the Qurʾān - Rahel Fischbach March 26
11:30am - 12:45pm Wren Building, Room 204 View Full Event
Scene from Documentary “White Flower” (Ix Mayab, 2013)
Anthropology Brown Bag:  Indigenous Memory through Painting and Weaving March 26
12pm - 1pm Washington Hall, Room 101 View Full Event
GRI Book Launch: Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe: People Power March 26
4pm - 6pm Swem Library, The Ford Classroom View Full Event
Maria Elena Curruchiche
Weaving and Textile in Kaqchikel Culture:  A Talk by Maya Artist, Maria Elena Curruchiche March 27
11am - 12:20pm Washington Hall, Room 201 View Full Event
Iman Zaki
Iman Zaki: Theater as Resistance March 31
5pm - 7pm Reves Center for International Studies, Reves Room View Full Event
Midterm grading period
Monday, March 3 - Sunday, March 23
Location not specified
    Political Use and Misuse of the Past in Russia, America and Elsewhere
    Monday, March 3
    5pm
    Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium
    These Sacred Hills Film Screening
    Tuesday, March 4
    6:30pm - 8:30pm
    Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium

    These Sacred Hills Film Screening: Facing an existential threat from a proposed green energy project, the Rock Creek Band of the Yakama Nation fights to protect their sacred sites and cultural resources. 

      Roots of the Crisis: State, Capital & Labor in Iran, Professor Peyman Jafari
      Wednesday, March 5
      5pm - 6:30pm
      Washington Hall, Room 201


      Place-Based Journalism: Perspectives from Independent Media
      Monday, March 17
      5pm
      Reves Center for International Studies, Reves Room

      Abby Rapoport, cofounder and publisher of Stranger’s Guide, will deliver the 2025 McSwain-Walker Lecture, "Place-Based Journalism: Perspectives from Independent Media."

      GSWS Colloquia Presents Rocío del Águila Gracey 
      Wednesday, March 19
      12pm - 1pm
      Boswell Hall (formerly Morton Hall), Room 314

      Resistance of indigenous women in Peruvian and Central American documentaries: A reading from the ethics of care and solidarity


      Cyromania: Imperial Nostalgia and Iranian-American Strategies of Inclusion in Los Angeles
      Wednesday, March 19
      3:30pm - 4:30pm
      Washington Hall, Room 101
        GRI Book Launch: The Origins of the Contemporary Global Order
        Thursday, March 20
        5:30pm - 7:45pm
        Swem Library, The Hive Event Space, G30, ground floor of Swem Library

        Join GRI for the launch of The Origins of the Contemporary Global Order (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) by former W&M Dean of Faculty Carl Strikwerda. Co-sponsored by W&M Libraries.

        A School Like no Other: The Cernauti Institute for the Blind and Deaf in Interwar Romania
        Friday, March 21
        4:30pm
        Washington Hall, Room 201


        ArtLords
        Monday, March 24
        5pm - 7pm
        Music Arts Center, Concert Hall

        Omaid Sharifi, President and Co-founder of ArtLords, will speak about the role of art in fostering freedom and democracy, for the third event of the Spring 2025 Scholarly Perspectives Series on Arts & Democracy. 

        Maya Paintings, Murals and Feathers: A Talk by Kaqchikel  Artist, Maria Elena Curruchichce
        Tuesday, March 25
        11am - 12:20pm
        Washington Hall, Room 201
          Artist, Author, Activist Katie Holten: The Language of Trees: Forest Thinking to Reimagine the World
          Tuesday, March 25
          3pm - 4:15pm
          Swem Library, Ford Classroom

          NEW DATE!  Artist, activist, and bestselling author, Katie Holten to speak on the Language of Trees and what it means to love a forest.

          Trapped in History? Sex, Gender, and Creation in the Qurʾān - Rahel Fischbach
          Wednesday, March 26
          11:30am - 12:45pm
          Wren Building, Room 204

          Dr. Rahel Fischbach will present part of her forthcoming book, Between God and History: Politics of Modern Muslim Qurʾānic Hermeneutics. 

          Anthropology Brown Bag:  Indigenous Memory through Painting and Weaving
          Wednesday, March 26
          12pm - 1pm
          Washington Hall, Room 101
            GRI Book Launch: Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe: People Power
            Wednesday, March 26
            4pm - 6pm
            Swem Library, The Ford Classroom

            Join GRI for the launch of Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe: People Power (Routledge, 2024), co-written by Paula Pickering. Co-sponsored with W&M Libraries, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and Government.

            Weaving and Textile in Kaqchikel Culture:  A Talk by Maya Artist, Maria Elena Curruchiche
            Thursday, March 27
            11am - 12:20pm
            Washington Hall, Room 201
              Iman Zaki: Theater as Resistance
              Monday, March 31
              5pm - 7pm
              Reves Center for International Studies, Reves Room

              Iman Zaki, cultural manager, researcher, consultant, and theater maker, is the third artist of the Spring 2025 Scholarly Perspectives Series on Arts & Democracy. 

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