Search our archive of past events, seminars and lectures. Past events Search Tags Asian Studies Celtic and Scottish Studies English and Scottish Literature European Languages and Cultures Film and Intermediality French and Francophone Studies German Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Italian Life at LLC Meet our graduates Postgraduate Research Russian Scandinavian Studies Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Teaching The Alwaleed Centre Translation Studies Undergraduate Event date Date from Date to Feb 05 2026 17.30 - 19.00 Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare Join us on 5 February, when Dr Julie M. Norman (UCL) discusses her new book, ‘Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare’, co-authored with Maia Carter Hallward. It tells the story of Gaza from its early foundations, across decades of occupation, to the devastation of the ongoing war. The Alwaleed Centre Further information Feb 12 2026 13.30 - 15.00 Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam Join us when Dr Ken Chitwood, (Universität Bayreuth and the University of Southern California), discusses his book 'Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam' (University of Texas Press 2025). The Alwaleed Centre Further information Feb 16 2026 17.00 - 19.00 Fasting in Christianity and Islam 2026 sees the world's two largest religious communities, the Christian and the Muslim, begin their periods of fasting, respectively Lent and Ramadan, on the same date, Wednesday 18th February. We mark this coincidence with talks from Professor Hugh Goddard and Shaykh Amin Buxton. The Alwaleed Centre Further information … 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 This article was published on Wednesday 28 January 2026
