July 14, 2016. On Bastille Day, Kluge Fellow Michael Sizer discusses the popular politics of late medieval Paris (1380-1422) and what bearing it may have on the way we understand popular political culture today. The late Middle Ages was one of the most tumultuous periods in European political...

July 28, 2016. Kluge Fellow Jeong-Mi Park discusses how the South Korean government controlled prostitution catering to servicemen in the last century, in the context of war, military occupation, economic development and globalization. She also reveals the ways in which the Korean government...

Aug. 18, 2016. This talk by Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South Juan Cole will provide a tour of the irenic messages of the Qur'an. The Muslim scripture, the Qur'an or Koran, has been analyzed a great deal for its ideas on a whole range of subjects, from late antique economic...