Arendtian Peace: Transforming Conflict through Wordly Politics
Carol Rifelj Lecture Series
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Events
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
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Le Consort
This world-class baroque chamber ensemble follows up on its beloved 2024 series debut with a free concert inviting us to the baroque era, in which the trio Sonata was the most popular chamber music formation. “A trio sonata soirée” will spotlight examples by famous composers such as Bach and Telemann, alongside some unjustly neglected Baroque masters, illustrating the immense expressive range and creativity of this repertoire.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Free
Open to the Public -
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Saturday, March 14, 2026
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Songs and Arias
Music Department vocal students present an lively evening of songs and arias.
This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall
About streaming and sound: Our streams are meant to capture the “sound in the room” without post-production sound editing. Bear in mind the sound quality will not compare to a studio recording.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Free
Open to the Public
Monday, March 16, 2026
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
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Goitse
Come celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the award-winning Celtic quintet Goitse (a Gaelic word for “come here,” pronounced “Go-wit-cha”). Named Live Ireland’s “Traditional Group of the Year” and Chicago Irish American News’ “Group of the Year,” Goitse is leading the new generation of traditional Irish ensembles. Their distinctive sound lies in the quality of their original compositions, interspersed with age-old traditional tunes, making each performance unique.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
$30/20/10/5
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Wednesday, March 18, 2026
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She Who Knows: Resistance to Gendered Racialization in Early-19th-Century Ottoman Tunis and Present-day Reverberations
This lecture turns to the Ottoman province of Tunis, a terminus for trans-Saharan human trafficking in the late 18th and early 19th century, to center the lives of enslaved women forcibly conveyed to the province. It examines how the violence of slavery intersected with French economic intervention in the region as well as with emerging racial ideologies held by Tunisian and western African elites. This lecture critiques disembodied historical perspectives conventionally preserved in state archives, like those of the chief doctor to the Ottoman governor of Tunis.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
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Thursday, March 19, 2026
Monday, March 30, 2026
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
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Thirty Years of Chinese Transformation: the View from One Village
Carol Rifelj Lecture Series
Ellen has been engaged in fieldwork in one village in China since 1993, visiting periodically and writing two monographs based on that fieldwork (one on morality and one on food). Having just come back from fieldwork again this past sabbatical year, in this lecture she would like to take the long view and ask how the transformations, continuities and emerging contradictions she has observed can provide us a more microscopic and longitudinal understanding than we often get based on journalistic accounts or urban-based research.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
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