Global Research Workshops

In an effort to foster the sharing of research across academic fields and national boundaries, SGS has established a Global Research Workshop program, which will support workshops that explore interdisciplinary, transregional themes.

Past Events

French-Speaking Worlds: “Writing History After the Colonial Turn” by Emmanuelle Saada (Columbia University)

Date
Tue April 14th 2026, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Rm 216

"Becoming the Marquise de Pompadour: The Letters of Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson"

Date
Tue March 3rd 2026, 5:00pm

French-Speaking Worlds: "After the Coup: Literature in an Age of Tyranny" by Maurice Samuels (Yale) 

Date
Tue February 17th 2026, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
216

Friedrich Nietzsche, a Poet, and the French Revolution

Date
Thu February 12th 2026, 5:00pm

French-Speaking Worlds: "Friedrich Nietzsche, a Poet, and the French Revolution" by Guillaume Métayer (CNRS)

Date
Thu February 12th 2026, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
216

“Milky Gold” for the Empire: Dairy Cows, Cooperative Enterprise, and Settler Colonialism in Interwar Hokkaido

Date
Mon February 2nd 2026, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305
SHC Board Room

French-Speaking Worlds: Framing Post-Growth Ideas: How French Political and Journalistic Discourses Shape Social Acceptability of Degrowth and Sufficiency

Date
Tue January 27th 2026, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Rm 252

"Framing Post-Growth Ideas: How French Political and Journalistic Discourses Shape Social Acceptability of Degrowth and Sufficiency"

Date
Tue January 27th 2026, 5:00pm

Critical Caste Studies and The Question of Aesthetics - Talk by Gajendran Ayyathurai

Date
Thu December 4th 2025, 9:00am - 11:00am
Location:
Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305
SHC Board Room

Bitterness and Power: The Transformation of Brazilian Coffee into a U.S. Staple

Date
Wed December 3rd 2025, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305
SHC Board Room