International Relations Events

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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
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2025 Ampersand International Arts Festival March 17 - March 23
Multiple Locations 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
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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
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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
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
Research in Progress:  Joshi & Karakaya-Stump March 27
3:30pm - 5pm Swem Library, Ground Floor, The Hive Events Space View Full Event
Unlikely Allies
Unlikely Allies: How Hip Hop Reformed the Criminal Justice System-Film Screening with Q & A  March 27
5:30pm - 8pm Andrews Hall, Room 101 View Full Event
Iman Zaki
Iman Zaki: Theater as Resistance March 31
5pm - 7pm Reves Center for International Studies, Reves Room View Full Event
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


    2025 Ampersand International Arts Festival
    Monday, March 17 - Sunday, March 23
    Multiple Locations

    The week-long Ampersand Festival features special guests, films, music, theater, dance, author talks, and professional workshops.

    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. 

    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. 

    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.

    Research in Progress:  Joshi & Karakaya-Stump
    Thursday, March 27
    3:30pm - 5pm
    Swem Library, Ground Floor, The Hive Events Space

    The Global Research Institute presents the Research in Progress:  Joshi & Karakaya-Stump

    Unlikely Allies: How Hip Hop Reformed the Criminal Justice System-Film Screening with Q & A 
    Thursday, March 27
    5:30pm - 8pm
    Andrews Hall, Room 101
    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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