| Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures

February 2026
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1	2	3	4	5 Environmental Humanities Environmental Humanities & Dept of English Present a Lecture with Nathan Hensley- "Action Without Hope: Victorian Literature After Climate Collapse" Thu, Feb 5 2026, 5 - 6:30pm	6 For the Humanities For the Humanities Lecture with Alberto Toscano: "Caesarism Today" Fri, Feb 6 2026, 2 - 3:30pm Lab Programming Collaborative Curation Lab Presents Exhibition Opening of “Spirits of the Forest: Contemporary Art from Papua New Guinea” Fri, Feb 6 2026, 4 - 5:30pm Other Book Launch with A.D. Carson on "Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory through Mixtape Memoir" Fri, Feb 6 2026, 5:30 - 6:30pm	7
8	9	10	11	12 For the Humanities Graduate Student Lunch with Ignacio Sánchez Prado Thu, Feb 12 2026, 12 - 1:30pm For the Humanities For the Humanities and Global Spanish Initiative Present “The Utopia of Humanities and the Right to Culture” Thu, Feb 12 2026, 4 - 5:30pm	13 Islamic Worlds Islamic Worlds Initiative Lecture with Zaid Adhami- "Islam and Authenticity: Between Community and Individuality" Fri, Feb 13 2026, 10am - 12pm For the Humanities Book Seminar-Panel with Ignacio Sánchez Prado & Victor Albisu: "Taco" Fri, Feb 13 2026, 12 - 1:30pm	14
15	16 Fellowship Programming IHGC Fellowship and States, Saints & Other Sovereigns Series Lecture- "Politics, Space and Identity in Karlin Hasidic Tales" Mon, Feb 16 2026, 5:15 - 6:30pm	17 Lab Programming Collaborative Curation Lab Presents "A Conversation with MANTUA NANGALA & SALLY ROWE NAKAMARRA" Tue, Feb 17 2026, 2 - 4pm	18 Dept of English and Environmental Humanities Present a Workshop on Decolonial Hope and Action in the Classroom Wed, Feb 18 2026, 2 - 3:30pm Environmental Humanities Depart of English and Environmental Humanities Present- "Speculative Futurity: How Latinx Artists Teach Hope in Dark Times” Wed, Feb 18 2026, 4 - 5:30pm	19 Other Poetry, Mysticism, and Performance Working Group Presents "Meditating on Hymns from the Guru Granth Sahib" Thu, Feb 19 2026, 12 - 1pm Lab Programming Games Lab Lecture with Juan Llamas-Rodriguez: "Play, Power, and Voice in Digital Migration Games" Thu, Feb 19 2026, 4:30 - 6pm	20 Lab Programming Games Lab Workshop with Juan Llamas-Rodriguez: "Immigration Bureaucracy as a No-Fun Game" Fri, Feb 20 2026, 9 - 11am	21
22	23	24	25 Other Mo/Co Workshop- “Living Fossils: Modern Science, Egyptian Bodies, and the Historical Imagination” Wed, Feb 25 2026, 11am - 12:30pm	26	27 Fellowship Programming IHGC Fellowship Symposium: "Ottoman Society at the End of Empire" Fri, Feb 27 2026, All day For the Humanities Book Launch with Denise Walsh: Imperial Sexism Fri, Feb 27 2026, 12 - 1:30pm	28