The True North Jazz Project performs original music, jazz standards, world music, and unique interpretations of pop and rock tunes. Featuring Joe North, saxophone; Ryan Cerullo, piano; Buddy Griffith, bass; and Ryan Odell, drums.

This event is free and open to the public.

Featuring Faculty with Curtis Dozier, Associate Professor and Chair of Greek and Roman Studies.

This symposium brings together scholars working across the Mediterranean and East Asia to explore the manifold dimensions of letter-writing in premodern cultures. Through perspectives spanning ancient Rome, early medieval China, and medieval Japan, the event examines how epistles shaped education, literary self-presentation, emotions, and relationships of power across different historical and cultural contexts.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Film Department is hosting a screening of the 2026 Oscar-nominated film The Secret Agent, followed by a discussion with filmmakers Kleber Mendonça Filho and Emilie Lesclaux, along with Fabio Andrade, Assistant Professor of Film.

This event is free and open to the public.

We are on the cusp of a golden age of space travel in which, for the first time, large numbers of people will be able to venture into space. Some intend to stay. But what happens—and will happen—to us in the extreme conditions of space? Join us for a talk by Scott Solomon, Teaching Professor of BioSciences at Rice University and Director of the Center for Science Communication and Public Engagement.

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Kleber Mendonça Filho and Emilie Lesclaux, in conversation with Prof. Fabio Andrade, will discuss how popular genre films—the kind of movies we often associate with escape from the real world and its troubles—can be used to think through and speak out against authoritarian regimes.

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This lecture explores the dramatic and human factors that transformed the Chinese landscape from wooden buildings supported by ceramic-tile roofs to twisted metal and megatall. The political and emotional story begins around 1840.

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In this biography, written from the vantage point of Chapal Rani herself, author Sandip Roy documents the life and experiences of a once-famous female impersonator of the Jatra theater.

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A night of jazz, soul, and rock featuring new arrangements of old classics, a band of student musicians, and original compositions.

This event is free and open to the public.