Winter 2026

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• January 21: Allan Lumba – “The Neocolonial Geologic of Philippine Growth“
• February 11: Davin Luce – “Picturing Protection and Guidance at the Threshold: the Ontology of Itineracy in Peripatetic Monk Paintings from Mogao Cave 17, Present-Day Gansu Province China“
• February 25: Kate Reeve – “Laws of Waste: Pastoral Leases and Aboriginal Presence in South Australia“
• March 11: Azizul Rasel – “State, Class, and Ethnicity: Class Alliance and Class Fracture Among the Working Classes of East Pakistan”
• March 25: Debanjan Das – “’Discovering’ and Translating Ancient India Sexuality: Richard Francis Burton, the Kamasutra, and the Anangaranga“
• April 11: Yuan Yi– “China at the Center of Global Cotton Trade: When Cotton Was Yellow”