EVENTS
“America at 250: A View from Australia, Italy, and France,” January 30 America at 250 Lecture Series Kickoff | 01/30/2026
REGISTER HERE The Kinder Institute’s America at 250 Lecture Series exploring the global significance of the nation’s semiquincentennial anniversary kicks off on Friday, January 30, with a pair of talks delivered by University of Technology Sydney Professor Tamson Pietsch and Mario Del Pero of the Centre for History at Paris’ Sciences Po, who will provide […]
“America at 250: A View from Mexico,” February 13 America at 250 Lecture with Prof. Erkia Pani | 02/13/2026
REGISTER HERE For the second installment of the Kinder Institute’s Spring 2026 lecture series exploring the global significance of the United States’ 250th anniversary, Erika Pani, Research Professor at El Colegio de México’s Centro de Estudios Históricos, will situate the nation’s historical trajectory in the context of its two-centuries-long relationship with Mexico (see abstract below). […]
“America at 250: A View from Canada and Iceland,” February 20 America at 250 Lecture with Eliza Reid | 02/20/2026
REGISTER HERE Acclaimed author and former First Lady of Iceland Eliza Reid will deliver the third America at 250 lecture, exploring how storytelling has shaped and can re-shape the ways in which we understand the United States within the context of an interconnected world (see abstract below). The event will be held on Friday, February […]
“America at 250: A View from Japan,” March 13 America at 250 Lecture with Rice University’s Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu | 03/13/2026
REGISTER HERE Rice University Dunlevie Family Chair in History Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu will continue our Spring 2026 America at 250 Lecture Series, looking at the nation’s story through the prism of its evolving connection with modernizing East Asia (see description below). The event will be held on Friday, March 13 in the ballroom at the […]
“America at 250: A View from Korea,” April 10 America 250 Lecture with Mizzou PhD Alum and Chung-Ang University Prof. Brandon Clark | 04/10/2026
REGISTER HERE For the first of two America 250 lectures scheduled for April, Brandon Park, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, will take an empirical approach, examining contemporary public opinion data to assess the present state of the US-Korea relationship (see description below). The lecture will be held […]
“America at 250: A View from Home,” April 17 America at 250 Lecture with Kinder Institute Director Jay Sexton | 04/17/2026
REGISTER HERE For the penultimate lecture in our Spring 2026 series exploring the global significance of the semiquincentenial anniversary of the US, Kinder Institute Director Jay Sexton will look outward from the Kansas-Missouri border, considering how the violent, Civil War-era history of the region, as well as the collective memory of said history, speaks to […]
“America at 250: A View from the United Kingdom,” May 12 America 250 Concluding Lecture with Kinder Institute Senior Fellow Lawrence Goldman | 05/12/2026
REGISTER HERE Making his return to Columbia after serving during Fall 2018 as one of the Kinder Institute’s first Distinguished Research Fellows, Lawrence Goldman will wrap up the Spring 2026 lecture series with an examination of the nation’s 250-year arc through the lens of the evolution of the United States’ special relationship with the United […]