multi-day
CANCELED - 2020: New Directions in Asian American Aesthetics
All day, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
In honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1995 student hunger strike that led to the establishment of the Asian...
Past Events (Calendar)
multi-day
Liberating History: Leila and the Wolves (1984)
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Online screening of LEILA AND THE WOLVES followed by a pre-recorded discussion between filmmaker Heiny Srour and Dr. Rebecca C....
multi-day
The University as Hyper Producer of Inequity - Sekile Nzinga
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics and The Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) Co-Sponsor A Lecture With Sekile Nzinga PhD,...
multi-day
The Impasse of Blackness: Interrogating the Possibility of Resolution
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
“The Impasse of Blackness: Interrogating the Possibility of Resolution” is a program of experimental film from the UK, the third...
multi-day
2021 National LGBTQ Health Conference
All day, sponsored by Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH)
The 2021 National LGBT Health Conference will be held virtually on May 20 – 21, 2021. The conference’s keynote and symposia...
multi-day
Title IX at 50 Opening Event: Holding Court with Mary Carillo and Katrina Adams
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Title IX at 50
The opening of a three-day commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Title IX. Mary Carillo and Katrina Adams, two of the...
multi-day
African Seminar group meeting
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
The Africa Seminar (AfriSem) provides an interdisciplinary and area-defined setting for graduate students studying Africa to develop, present, and draw...
multi-day
African Seminar group meeting
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
The Africa Seminar (AfriSem) provides an interdisciplinary and area-defined setting for graduate students studying Africa to develop, present, and draw...
Jan
31
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Feb
3
2020
New Directions Lecture: Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Soqotra (Yemen) (Nathalie Peutz)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for the Winter 2020 lecture in our quarterly New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies...
Feb
3
2020
A Tale of Two Camps: Yemeni Refugees & Ethiopian Migrants in the Horn of Africa (Nathalie Peutz)
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Colloquium on Refugees, Migrants, and Statelessness at the Evanston Public Library for this...
Feb
4
2020
LACS Faculty Colloquium: Tracing Shared Histories of State-Sponsored Violence: João Pina’s La sombra del Condor (Lily Frusciante)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
From December 15, 2015, through the end of February 2016, the Sala PAyS at the Parque de la Memoria in...
Feb
5
2020
PAS L+L: Ashley Wong & Francesca Truffa - Effect of Beliefs and Gender Roles on Girls' Math Education
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture. Ashley Wong & Francesca Truffa, Northwestern University Effect of...
Feb
5
2020
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Feb
5
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Feb
6
2020
What’s Going on in Colombia? Conversatorio with María Camila Palacio & Laura García Montoya
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the LACS Program for the launch of our Conversatorio series, conversations about contemporary issues in Latin America and...
Feb
6
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Feb
11
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Feb
12
2020
Suburban Islam: Religious and National Belonging in Chicago's Exurbs (Justine Howe)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide...
Feb
12
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Feb
14
2020
LOCAL COLOR: Shave Ice, Rainbow Aesthetics, and Hawai'i State Multiculturalism
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Speaker event feature Dr. Hi'ilei Hobart, Native Studies Assistant Professor of Anthropoloty, UT Austin
Feb
14
2020
The Aftermath of the Assassination of Qassem Soleimani
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
The assassination of Qassem Soleimani and the subsequent shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 shook the world. But...
Feb
19
2020
PAS L+L: Lauren MacLean - Does Electricity Demobilize Citizens?: Access to the Grid and Reduced Political Participation in Africa
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture. Lauren MacLean, Political Science, Indiana University at Bloomington Does...
Feb
19
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Feb
19
2020
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Feb
20
2020
Film Screening & Discussion: The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for this FREE screening of the documentary film The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid (Ali...
Feb
25
2020
"The Importance of Being Wilde" with R. Zamora Linmark
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Asian American Studies is proud to present R. Zamora Linmark reading and speaking about his book, The Importance of Being...
Feb
25
2020
Populating Latin Americanism: A Lecture by Fernando Degiovanni
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for the fourth lecture in the 2019-2020 Latin America Imagined series. Never achieved at a political level in...
Feb
25
2020
Community Arts & Activism Student Panel
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
The Asian American Studies Program present a Community Arts & Activism Student Panel featuring four undergraduate students who will speak...
Feb
26
2020
PAS L+L: Denielle Elliott - Scientific Collaborations and Legal Accountability in Kenya
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture. Denielle Elliott, Anthropology, York University Scientific Collaborations and Legal...
Feb
26
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Feb
26
2020
C. Riley Snorton and Toby Beauchamp, "Survey: Contemplation. Control. Creativity."
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by 2019-2021 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
Join us for the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora's second event of the year, and an evening of discussion exploring...
Feb
27
2020
Conversatorio: What’s Going on in Chile?
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the LACS Program for the second event in our Conversatorio series, conversations about contemporary issues in Latin America...
Feb
28
2020
Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality — A Talk by Ian Lustick
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program at the Evanston Public Library for this presentation by political scientist Ian Lustick of the...
Mar
2
2020
The Criminalization of Kindness: The Legality and Politics of Migrant Rescue across the Sahara and the Mediterranean
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Across the globe in migrant receiving states there has been an increase in state criminalization of civil assistance for refugees...
Mar
3
2020
LACS Faculty Colloquium: Mapping Water: Archaeology, Colonial Landscapes and Water Insecurity (Mark Hauser)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Constructed as sought-after places, colonies, as imagined by multiple actors in metropolitan drawing rooms, were also lived by those forced...
Mar
4
2020
Intellectual Networks and Islamic Realization in 18th Century North Africa (Zachary Wright)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide...
Mar
4
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Mar
4
2020
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Mar
5
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Mar
5
2020
Cuban Animation from the 1960s to Today—Screening & Conversation with Cuban Animator Ivette Avila
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the Americas Media Initiative and Northwestern's Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Program for this screening and conversation...
Mar
5
2020
Block Cinema: A Moon for My Father (2019) with filmmaker Mania Akbari in person
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
A Moon For My Father (Mania Akbari, 2019, UK/Iran/Germany, DCP, 85 min) At age 30, Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari was diagnosed with...
Mar
9
2020
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Presentations by MENA graduate students on their research Details to come...
Mar
9
2020
Digital Lineages and Digital Labor - Mar Hicks
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Unfortunately, this event has been postponed. This talk looks at how digital systems and labor, historically and in our current moment,...
Mar
9
2020
Anthropology Colloquium: Andrea Ballestero, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“A Future History of Water, or, How to Wonder with techno-legal devices? ” How do people commit to intervening in the future...
Mar
9
2020
Keyman Visiting Professor talk, "Local elections in competitive authoritarian regimes: Turkey’s 2019 municipal elections as critical juncture"
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Kerem Öktem, 2019-2020 Keyman Visiting Professor presents his talk, "Local elections in competitive authoritarian regimes: Turkey’s 2019 municipal elections as...
Mar
10
2020
GSS TA Info Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Gender & Sexuality Studies supports several Teaching Assistantships in conjunction with our 200-level courses. The Teaching Assistantships provide an opportunity...
Mar
11
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Mar
13
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Apr
8
2020
LACS (Virtual) Faculty Colloquium: Latin America’s Century of Citizenship (Paul Gillingham)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
We’re moving the LACS Faculty Colloquium online! Please join us — on Zoom — to hear Paul Gillingham, Associate Professor...
Apr
13
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
13
2020
Anthropology Colloquium, Zoe Crossland, Columbia University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Rethinking biopower: nonhuman forms of life and sovereignty in precolonial Madagascar Precolonial history tends to be left outside of discussions of...
Apr
13
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
14
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
14
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
15
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
15
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
20
2020
Anthropology Colloquium: Susan F. Hirsch, George Mason University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“Rule of Law vs. Rule of Justice: Comparing Anthropologies of Muslim Law.” This presentation focuses on the challenge of anthropological comparison...
Apr
20
2020
Webinar: Public Diplomacy Mediawork—The Exercise of Soft Power Between Iran & the US (Hamid Naficy)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Evanston Public Library for this FREE webinar with Hamid Naficy, a pioneering scholar...
Apr
21
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
22
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
22
2020
Gender & Sexuality Studies Undergraduate Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Join us for our spring installment of quarterly lunches for students. Meet current GSS students, staff, and faculty.
Apr
27
2020
Anthropology Colloquium: Ben Orlove, Columbia University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Co-sponsored by Science in Human Culture Co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies Co-sponsored by the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Apr
29
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
30
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
May
1
2020
Conversatorio: What’s Going on in Brazil?
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the LACS Program and the Center for International and Area Studies — on Zoom — for the third...
May
4
2020
Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria (Lisa Wedeen)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the Middle East and North African Studies Program for this discussion with Lisa Wedeen on her new book,...
May
5
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
May
6
2020
LACS (Virtual) Faculty Colloquium: The Violent Bias in the Study of Civil War (Ana Arjona)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The study of civil war has focused, for obvious reasons, on violence. Yet, civil war is about much more than...
May
6
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
May
7
2020
CANCELLED: Ann Russo — Feminist Accountability
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Details TBA Ann Russo is an Associate Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at DePaul University who focuses on queer, antiracist,...
May
11
2020
Anthropology Colloquium: Sonya Atalay, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Co-sponsored by the CENTER FOR NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS RESEARCH (CNAIR) Co-sponsored by the Kaplan Institute for the Humanties
May
11
2020
Webinar: Watermelon Democracy: Egypt’s Turbulent Transition (Joshua Stacher)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Evanston Public Library for this FREE webinar with the political scientist Joshua Stacher,...
May
13
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
May
14
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
May
29
2020
Gender & Sexuality Studies Senior Thesis Forum
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Celebrate the work of this year's GSS thesis writers! • Maya Glenn – "Black Queer Women’s Articulations of Masculinity and Femininity...
Jun
2
2020
LACS (Virtual) Faculty Colloquium: Corporations, Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Colombia (Molly M. Melin)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Colombia, having recently emerged from the longest ongoing civil war in the Western Hemisphere, offers evidence of the transformative effect...
Jun
5
2020
Gender & Sexuality Studies Year-End Celebration and Awards Ceremony
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
The Gender & Sexuality Studies community is invited to join us in a virtual celebration of our graduating seniors, undergraduate...
Jun
8
2020
Offshore Citizens: Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf — New Directions Lecture by Noora Lori (via Zoom)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us on Zoom for this discussion with Professor Noora Lori of Boston University, author of Offshore Citizens: Permanent...
Jun
18
2020
Asian American Studies Program Facebook Watch Party - Congratulations Class of 2020!
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Facebook Watch Party: www.facebook.com/AsianAmericanNorthwestern www.facebook.com/AsianAmericanNorthwestern
Jul
29
2020
Afrisem Virtual Conference
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
AFRISEM Virtual Conference Africa's Place in a Globalizing World: Reimagining Governance, Science, Technology, Art, and Culture When: July 29 & 30, 2020,...
Jul
30
2020
Afrisem Virtual Conference
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
AFRISEM Virtual Conference Africa's Place in a Globalizing World: Reimagining Governance, Science, Technology, Art, and Culture When: July 29 & 30, 2020,...
Sep
1
2020
Academic Directions Fair: Roads to Business (Panel)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Roads to Business at Northwestern
Learn about life at Northwestern from current faculty, staff, and students. Northwestern graduates go on to lead successful careers in business...
Sep
2
2020
Meet the LACS Program (on Zoom) at the Academic Directions Fair!
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Join us for this Zoom session to learn about Northwestern's Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Program at the Academic...
Sep
2
2020
Meet the MENA Program (on Zoom) at the Academic Directions Fair!
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this Zoom session to learn about Northwestern's Middle East and North African Studies Program at the Academic...
Sep
2
2020
GSS Virtual Academic Directions Fair - Q&A
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
An informal chat and q&a about our program, course offerings, and what you can do with gender and sexuality studies...
Sep
3
2020
African Studies Virtual Academic Direction Fair
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Northwestern undergraduates: join us for a Zoom chat September 3, at 1pm! Swahili professor Peter Mwangi will be there to...
Sep
16
2020
Chicago Field Studies Fall 2020 Orientation
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
At Orientation, CFS students will learn about making the most of their internship, identify learning goals for the quarter, get...
Sep
25
2020
GSS Open Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an important figure (along with many others) in the struggle to extend civil...
Sep
28
2020
Support the 41: Iranian Student Activism in Northern California, 1970-1971 (Ida Yalzadeh)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the Middle East and North African Studies Program, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Chabraja Center for...
Oct
2
2020
Global Lunchbox: Funerals, Protests, and Martyrs: Listening to the Arab Revolutions (Shayna Silverstein)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Please join us for the Global Lunchbox series, a weekly conversational forum hosted by the Weinberg College Center for International...
Oct
2
2020
Wole Soyinka and Chris Abani in Conversation
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
A viritual event where authors Wole Soyinka and Chris Abani will have a discussion. Friday, October 2, 2020, 12pm (CST), 6pm...
Oct
6
2020
LACS Faculty Colloquium: History in a Time of Epidemic: Some Lessons from Latin America (Paul Ramírez)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In light of the current COVID crisis, this presentation offers a historian’s reflections on the impact and significance of past...
Oct
7
2020
GSS Community Meeting about the Gender Queer, Non-Binary, and Trans Task Force Report
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
This community meeting, intended for students, staff, and core and affiliate faculty in Gender & Sexuality Studies, is designed as...
Oct
7
2020
Feminist First Year
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center
New and Transfer Students, Join us for Feminist First Year! October 7th 7:00 - 8:30 pm In this hour and a half you will...
Oct
8
2020
BIPOC Communities and the 2020 Election
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Wondering how the 2020 Elections are affecting Asian American, Black, and LatinX voters? Come listen to expert Northwesern Professors Cadava,...
Oct
14
2020
Annual LGBTQIA+ Faculty Fall Welcome Reception
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Diversity and Inclusion
The Women’s Center and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion invites you to join us in our reception for...
Oct
15
2020
Liberating History: The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011)
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Online screening of THREE DISAPPEARANCES followed by a pre-recorded discussion between filmmaker Rania Stephan and Dr. Hannah Feldman THE THREE DISAPPEARANCES...
Oct
20
2020
ANUW's Virtual Fall Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by Association of Northwestern University Women (ANUW)
Join the 2020 Virtual Fall Breakfast keynote speaker Sekile M. Nzinga, PhD, MSW, as she discusses her career in higher...
Oct
20
2020
[UN SDGs Webinar 2] Ecologies of Crisis and the Proliferation of Violence
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
The year 2020 has brought about global insecurity in unprecedented and inexplicable ways. This panel will take the Arab World,...
Oct
20
2020
Women's Center Open House- Evanston
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center
Join us for an online gathering from noon to 1pm. Then swing by the east lawn of the Women's Center to...
Oct
20
2020
Conversatorio: La Pandemia de COVID-19 en Latinoamérica
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This event will be in Spanish. Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (on Zoom) for the opening conversatorio...
Oct
21
2020
"The Morel Hinge: Borges, Bioy Casares, and the Transition to Genre Science Fiction in Latin America" (Rachel Haywood Ferreira)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Rachel Haywood Ferreira, Associate Professor, Iowa State University's on "The Morel Hinge: Borges, Bioy Casares, and the Transition to Genre Science...
Oct
22
2020
Liberating History: Fatma 75 (1975)
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Online screening of FATMA 75 followed by a live discussion with a scholar of Maghrebi women's cinema Florence Martin FATMA 75 (Selma...
Oct
26
2020
Archival Studies in Arab Women's Essay Film (Róisín Tapponi of the Habibi Collective)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In this talk, the London-based curator, writer and editor Róisín Tapponi will explore the role of the archive in Arab...
Oct
26
2020
Anthropology Career Diversity Series: Alaka Wali, Curator of North American Anthropology, The Field Museum
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Please join us for an event in our “Diversity in Anthropological Careers” series. Dr. Alaka Wali will be having an...
Oct
27
2020
In Mexico There Are No Mexicans: Lucas Alamán, Decolonization, and Modernization, 1792-1853 (Eric Van Young)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us on Zoom for this lecture by historian Eric Van Young. The Mexican statesman, entrepreneur, public intellectual, and historian...
Oct
28
2020
COVID and Forced Migration in Africa: Caring for Refugees in a Pandemic
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Clementine Nkweta-Salami (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) regional director for East, Horn and Great Lakes Region) will discuss...
Oct
29
2020
Liberating History - Present Futures: Sci-Fi and Social Ecology (Habibi Collective Shorts I)
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
PRESENT FUTURES: SCI-FI AND SOCIAL ECOLOGY is a program of short films from Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and their diaspora, guest...
Oct
30
2020
Liberating History - Inherited Memory: Blood Runs Thicker Than Water (Habibi Collective Shorts II)
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
INHERITED MEMORY: BLOOD RUNS THICKER THAN WATER is a program of short films from Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, and their diaspora,...
Nov
3
2020
LACS Faculty Colloquium: Notes from a Chingona’s Archive: Grassroots Emergence of Latina Reproductive Justice (Mónica Russel y Rodríguez)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In this talk, Mónica Russel y Rodríguez will provide a detailed view of the emergence of Latina reproductive health policy...
Nov
3
2020
BIPOC Communities and the 2020 Election
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Wondering how the 2020 Elections are affecting Asian American, Black, and LatinX voters? Come listen to expert Northwestern Professors Gerry...
Nov
5
2020
BIPOC Communities and the 2020 Election
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Wondering how the 2020 Elections are affecting Asian American, Black, and Latinx voters? Come listen to expert Northwestern Professors Cadava,...
Nov
10
2020
LACS Graduate Workshop: Deisi Cuate (Spanish and Portuguese) & Sophie Reilly (Anthropology)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Presenters: Deisi Cuate (Spanish and Portuguese) and Sophie Reilly (Anthropology) Join Zoom Meeting: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98279274748 Meeting ID: 982 7927 4748 Deisi received her B.A. in Hispanic Studies...
Nov
11
2020
GSS Community-Building Event with Trans* and Gender Non-Conforming Majors and Minors
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Please join Gender & Sexuality Studies faculty and our campus affiliates for an event to bring together trans* and gender...
Nov
12
2020
A Virtual Lecture on Movement(s) Toward Degrowth
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, sponsored by Environmental Policy and Culture
Professor Susan Paulson of the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, will be giving a lecture where she...
Nov
12
2020
Imagining Transgender Cultural Production as Revolt
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Traditional cultural industries have long excluded those deemed non-normative, including queer and transgender people of color. These barriers include gatekeeping...
Nov
13
2020
Global Lunchbox: Writing Games and the Making of Literary Worlds: The Case of the Afghan Writer Asef Soltanzadah
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Please join us for the Global Lunchbox series, a weekly conversational forum hosted by the Weinberg College Center for International...
Nov
14
2020
kaçak: forms of informality and commodity in modern turkey -- a virtual symposium of ethnography
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Saturday Nov 14 10 am Chicago / 7 pm Istanbul Please register for this event: https://bit.ly/2GA5qAO Electricity and petroleum stolen from state laid...
Nov
16
2020
Anthropology Career Diversity Series: Mary L. Gray, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, Microsoft Research: "Far Afield: Anthropology as Industrial Punk Intervention
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Foundational mathematics, economics, and physics, inform most of what we recognize as Big Tech’s toolkits: computer science, data science, and...
Nov
16
2020
Anthropology Career Diversity Series: Mary L. Gray, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, Microsoft Research: "Far Afield: Anthropology as Industrial Punk Intervention
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Foundational mathematics, economics, and physics, inform most of what we recognize as Big Tech’s toolkits: computer science, data science, and...
Nov
17
2020
Slavery, Colonialism, and Race in the Muslim World
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
The Northwestern University in Qatar Faculty Working Group on Race Invites you to this event in the year-long series Decentering...
Nov
23
2020
MENA Graduate Colloquium
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Fall Quarter MENA Graduate Colloquium Presenters Maryam Athari (Art History): "Diagnostic Revelations: Rifat Chadirji's Street Photography" Issrar Chamekh (Political Science) "Pathways to Elective Office: Candidate...
Nov
24
2020
LACS Graduate Workshop: Carlos Halaburda (Spanish and Portuguese) & Andrés Rodriguez-Cáceres (Sociology)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Presenters: Carlos Halaburda (Spanish and Portuguese) & Andrés Rodriguez-Cáceres (Sociology) Register for this workshop to receive the Zoom link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtduyvpzotGNaKNNSqUSkWYe93xupP1Qf-
Nov
30
2020
A Class That Does (Not) Matter: Rethinking Cold War Latin America from the Middle (Ricardo López-Pedreros)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program for this lecture by historian Ricardo López-Pedreros. The last decade has seen...
Nov
30
2020
Race and Blackness in Middle East Studies: A MENA Conversation
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This event is free and open to everyone, but registration is required: bit.ly/race-middle-east-studies Participants Mandana Limbert is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens...
Dec
2
2020
Conversatorio: La Pandemia de COVID-19 en Latinoamérica
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This event will be in Spanish. Please join Northwestern University's Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (on Zoom) for this conversatorio...
Dec
3
2020
There and Back Again: Tracking Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
On Thursday, December 3rd at 4 PM CT, Elizabeth Rodini will present There and Back Again: Tracking Gentile Bellini’s Portrait...
Dec
8
2020
LACS Faculty Colloquium: Architectural Migration in the Early Modern Spanish Habsburg World (Jesús Escobar)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Jesús Escobar is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern and a specialist in the architecture and...
Dec
8
2020
Itinerant Objects: Early Modern Mobility and the Spaces In Between
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Elizabeth Rodini will present Itinerant Objects: Early Modern Mobility and the Spaces In Between on Tuesday, December 8th at 4...
Jan
5
2021
LACS Faculty Colloquium: Media and Governance in Latin America: Polarization in the Digital Age and the (Failed) Quest for Plurality (Jairo Lugo-Ocando)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Jairo Lugo-Ocando is director of executive and graduate education and professor in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q). He...
Jan
13
2021
Conversatorio: Black Politics in Latin America Today (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of African American Studies, and the Andean Cultures and...
Jan
18
2021
A Roundtable on U.S. Foreign Policy under Biden: China, Africa, Latin America & the Middle East
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Please join Northwestern's Center for International and Area Studies and the Evanston Public Library for this roundtable discussion examining the...
Jan
19
2021
Tiffany Lethabo King talk on new book, "The Black Shoals" (2019)
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by 2019-2021 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora welcomes Tiffany King, Associate Professor in African American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality...
Jan
21
2021
Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Sebastián Valenzuela (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the Winter Quarter, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Jan
25
2021
Anthropology Career Diversity Series - Anne Compton, U.S. Department of State
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
The Anthropology Career Diversity Series presents an informal conversation with Anne Compton, U.S. Department of State Cultural Heritage Center Bureau...
Jan
26
2021
Phases of Blackness: Afro-Argentines, Anti-Blackness, and Argentina's National Identity—Erika Edwards (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of African American Studies, and the Andean Cultures and...
Jan
27
2021
Queer &: Envisioning Community
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA)
Queer &: is a collaboration of Multicultural Student Affairs and Social Justice Education exploring queer solidarity, accountability, and futures in...
Feb
1
2021
LACS Graduate Workshop: Catalina Rodríguez (Spanish & Portuguese) & Usdin Martínez (Political Science)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for this meeting: https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtdOqrqDIoHtU9B9MgfKLM8hY2dwnYA1aX Catalina Rodríguez (Spanish and Portuguese - NU) "Titania's Fashion Chronicles: Between Global Modernities and National Identities" The late nineteenth...
Feb
1
2021
Octavia Butler’s KINDRED in Translation: Examining Oppression via Genre-Writing — Mona Kareem in Conversation with Justin Mann
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the Middle East and North African Studies Program for this conversation with poet and translator Mona Kareem, moderated...
Feb
2
2021
LACS Faculty Colloquium: Responding to Societal Crises in the Ancient World: New Research at the Ancient Maya City of Aventura, Belize (Cynthia Robin)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
About the talk In this LACS Faculty Colloquium talk, Cynthia Robin will present ongoing research at the ancient Maya city of...
Feb
8
2021
Aravrit: Language as a Space of Inclusion
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for a conversation about the potential encapsulated in a language to create powerful emotional space and visibility. We...
Feb
8
2021
Anthropology Career Diversity Series - Monica Russel y Rodriguez, Assistant Provost for Diversity & Inclusion, Northwestern University
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Dr. Mónica Russel y Rodríguez joined the Provost’s Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion after serving for nine years as Associate...
Feb
9
2021
Afrisem: Navigating the U.S. Job Market for Africanists
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Afrisem is the Africa Seminar for graduate students. AfriSem is pleased to announce that on Tuesday, February 9, at 11...
Feb
9
2021
Unwanted Witnesses: Journalists and Conflict in Contemporary Latin America - Gabriela Polit Dueñas and Jorge Coronado in Conversation
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Please join the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program and the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University for...
Feb
11
2021
Department of Sociology Culture and Society Workshop: Erik Lovell, NU Sociology
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Erik Lovell presents: Learning Sexuality Through Regulation: Social Services as Sexual Fields Zoom Meeting
Feb
12
2021
Beyond an Isthmus: Diaspora, Aesthetics, and Post-War Identity in Central America Series
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Lecture by Arturo Arias (UC Merced). The event is co-sponsored by The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities For more info please...
Feb
15
2021
Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia—A New Directions Lecture by Rosie Bsheer
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for the Winter Quarter lecture in our New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies series,...
Feb
16
2021
LACS Graduate Workshop: Jesse Rothbard (Spanish & Portuguese)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Jesse Rothbard (Spanish and Portuguese): "En las ruinas de Sodoma: Queer Resistance and World-Making in Latin American Narratives of Crime” Register in...
Feb
22
2021
Racializations: MENA and US Perspectives (A MENA Conversation)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This event is free and open to everyone, but registration is required: bit.ly/mena-racializations Please join the Middle East and North African Studies...
Feb
24
2021
Africanization: The Bridge to Edward Blyden's Final Intellectual Transformation (Harry Nii Koney Odamtten)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Africanization: The Bridge to Edward Blyden's Final Intellectual Transformation Join ISITA for a talk by Harry Nii Koney Odamtten (history, Santa...
Feb
25
2021
Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Yeidy M. Rivero (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the Winter Quarter, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Feb
25
2021
The Loose Ends of Empire: Unforgetting Colonialism
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
"The Loose Ends of Empire: Unforgetting Colonialism" is a program of experimental film and audio-visual works from the UK, the...
Mar
2
2021
LACS Faculty Colloquium: Empezar por el final: Constellative feminist activism and viral exigencies (Marcela A. Fuentes)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In this talk, Fuentes will share her current work on feminist articulations and performative tactics and the challenges of doing...
Mar
2
2021
Brave Space Alliance: Mutual Aid and Community Engagement Live Streaming Interview
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center
To celebrate Women*s History Month and dig into our theme on Mutual Aid and Community Engagement, Northwestern’s Women’s Center will...
Mar
3
2021
Voices Across Time: Sharing Women’s Experiences of Re-entry
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
“Voices Across Time'' features a live screening and conversation with members of Grace House and Beyondmedia Education with moderation by...
Mar
4
2021
Trópico Andino Series: A Conversation with Felipe Martínez-Pinzón (Brown University)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Please join the Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group for a conversation with Felipe Martínez-Pinzón the author of Una cultura...
Mar
4
2021
LACS Graduate Workshop: Utopia, Spiritual Community, and Mexico's Right-Wing Catholics
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Utopia, Spiritual Community, and Mexico's Right-Wing Catholics Nathan Ellstrand (History - Loyola University Chicago) "Hope for a New Society – Sinarquista Colonization...
Mar
4
2021
Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Clemencia Rodríguez (Temple University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the Winter Quarter, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Mar
5
2021
Cancelled - Global Lunchbox: Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation (Rebecca Johnson)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Please join us for the Global Lunchbox series, a weekly conversational forum hosted by the Weinberg College Center for International...
Mar
5
2021
Chicago Abortion Fund: Mutual Aid and Community Engagement Live Streamed Interview
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center
To celebrate Women*s History Month and dig into our theme on Mutual Aid and Community Engagement, Northwestern’s Women’s Center will...
Mar
8
2021
Dialogue with Kamran Heidari, Director of the Documentary Film Dingomaro: Iran’s Black South
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Registration is required for this event: bit.ly/dingomaro Please join the MENA Graduate Student Group for this dialogue with the Iranian filmmaker Kamran...
Mar
8
2021
Anthropology Colloquium: William A. White, III, University of California, Berkeley
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Taking the First Steps: Illusory Truth and Anti-Racism Archaeology The 2020 Race Uprisings prompted many archaeology organizations and anthropology departments in...
Mar
8
2021
NU in Living Color: Black and Brown Faculty Discuss Racism on Campus
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, universities have begun to confront the painful reality that their organizations...
Mar
9
2021
Women's History Month Annual Symposium: Mutual Aid and Community Engagement
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center
Join us for a day dedicated to Mutual Aid and Community Engagement. Sekile Nzinga will offer opening remarks on the...
Mar
10
2021
Black Literary Islam in the Caribbean (Aliyah Khan)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Black Literary Islam in the Caribbean: Autobiographical Writings of Enslaved Sufi West Africans in Colonial Jamaica, and Sufi Poetry in...
Mar
11
2021
Assata's Daughters: Mutual Aid and Community Engagement Live Streamed-Interview
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center
To celebrate Women*s History Month and dig into our theme on Mutual Aid and Community Engagement, Northwestern’s Women’s Center will...
Mar
18
2021
Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Silvio Waisbord (George Washington University)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the Winter Quarter, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Mar
18
2021
Arrivance and the Anti-Poetics of Diaspora: Alonso de Sandoval as testimoniante for the Christian West—Jerome Branche (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This event, originally scheduled for Tuesday March 9 at 12:30 p.m. CT, has been rescheduled for Thursday March 18 at...
Mar
22
2021
GSS TA Info Session
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Gender & Sexuality Studies supports several Teaching Assistantships in conjunction with our 200-level courses. The Teaching Assistantships provide an opportunity...
Apr
2
2021
Political Violence and Self-Defense in Turkey: History and Ethnography (Melissa Bilal and Haydar Darıcı)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Registration is required for this event: http://bit.ly/political-violence-turkey This event brings together two scholars working on two self-defense struggles of the peoples of...
Apr
5
2021
The Colloquium for Global Iran Studies (CoGIS) Launch Event
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
You are cordially invited to the launch of The Colloquium for Global Iran Studies (CoGIS) at Northwestern. CoGIS aims to...
Apr
6
2021
LACS Faculty Colloquium: World Culture and Political Revolutions in Latin American History (James Mahoney)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please note that this event will take place not at the usual time of 12:30 p.m. but at 11:00 a.m....
Apr
7
2021
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity (Iqbal Akhtar)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity Join ISITA for a talk by Iqbal Akhtar (religious studies/politics and...
Apr
7
2021
Reckoning With The Atlanta Spa Shootings: Racialized and Sexualized Violence Towards Asian/Americans from Past to Present
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Panelists: Ji-Yeon Yuh (Northwestern University), Yuri Doolan (Brandeis University), Carolyn Choi (Dartmouth College); Elena Shih (Brown University) Moderator: Sumun Pendakur (DEI...
Apr
8
2021
Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Ulises A. Mejias (SUNY Oswego)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the Spring Quarter, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Apr
8
2021
Black Trans Feminism and Translatinx Citizenship
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
Join us for an event on “Black Trans Feminism and Translatinx Citizenship", April 8th – 5:30-7:30 pm via Zoom supported...
Apr
9
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
12
2021
MENA Faculty Colloquium with Charif Shanahan: Reading from a New Poetry Collection in Progress
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Charif Shanahan (he/him/his), Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of English and an Affiliate Faculty Member of the MENA...
Apr
13
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
13
2021
"We Don't Want to Live on the Margins of the Margins": Black Women Claiming Space in Unequal Brazilian Cities — A Lecture by Keisha-Khan Y. Perry (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of African American Studies, and the Andean Cultures and...
Apr
15
2021
Glimpses of Iranians in Wander-land: Threshold Literature and the Satire of Survival
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the Colloquium for Global Iran Studies for an event in which the critically acclaimed novelist and writer Bahiyyih...
Apr
15
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
18
2021
"In-Between": Arab-Jews in Palestine/Eretz Israel at the Turn of the 20th Century
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY AND LANGUAGE - PAST AND PRESENT "In-Between": Arab-Jews in Palestine/Eretz Israel at the Turn of the 20th Century Guest...
Apr
19
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
19
2021
Anthropology Colloquium: Bernard Perley, University of British Columbia
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Picturing Language Life: an EthnoGraphic AlterNative The pandemic has upended everyone’s lives. This current COVID crisis is less a reset moment...
Apr
20
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
21
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
21
2021
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups (Alexander Thurston)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups Join ISITA for talk by Alexander Thurston (political science,...
Apr
21
2021
Conversatorio: Afro-Latin American Studies and its Institutionalization (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of African American Studies, and the Andean Cultures and...
Apr
22
2021
Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Eugenia Mitchelstein (Universidad de San Andrés)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the Spring Quarter, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Apr
26
2021
Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire (Lâle Can)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for this event: http://bit.ly/spiritual-subjects Please join us for the Spring Quarter lecture in our New Directions in Middle East and North...
Apr
26
2021
Anthropology Colloquium: Nicole Fabricant, Towson University
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Fighting to Breathe: Environmental Justice Organizing on Baltimore's Toxic Periphery Who pays the price for industrial development and resulting pollution? In...
Apr
27
2021
Trópico Andino Series: Visualizing Race and Racial Difference from the Andean Highlands to the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Please join the Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and the African American...
Apr
28
2021
Mafalda Global: Una conversación con Isabella Cosse (in Spanish)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
En Mafalda: A Social and Politica History of Latin America’s Global Comic (Duke UP, 2020), Isabella Cosse reconstruye la historia...
Apr
29
2021
Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Magdalena Saldaña (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the Spring Quarter, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Apr
29
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
29
2021
Faheem Majeed and LaCharles Ward in conversation (Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora)
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by 2019-2021 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
Faheem Majeed and LaCharles Ward will join us to talk about their work and reflect on the Colloquium's ongoing theme...
May
2
2021
Arab-Jewish Culture in Israel Today: Producers, Consumers, and Gatekeepers
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND LANGUAGE - PAST AND PRESENT Arab-Jewish Culture in Israel Today: Producers, Consumers, and Gatekeepers Guest Speakers: “Arab-Jewish Language,...
May
3
2021
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Presenter: Jesús C. Muñoz (Comparative Literary Studies/MENA) Title: Poetics of Glowing Histories in Flesh and Art: Witnessing the Lives of the...
May
3
2021
Solidarity and Struggle: Connecting Student Movements
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Undergrad Group on Monday May 3 at 12:00 p.m. Chicago time / 8:00 p.m. Beirut time...
May
4
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
5
2021
Ajami Archives of Muslim Africa: Their Significance in African Studies (Fallou Ngom)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Ajami Archives of Muslim Africa: Their Significance in African Studies Join ISITA for a talk by Fallou Ngom (anthropology, Boston University). Moderated...
May
6
2021
Trópico Andino Series: Grieving Words: Colonial Writing and the Construction of the Afro-Andean Otherness (16th, 17th and 19th centuries)
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Please join the Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group for a conversation with Jacqueline Alvarez-Rosales the author of De la...
May
7
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
7
2021
GLOBAL LUNCHBOX | Book Launch for Rebecca C. Johnson's Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Registration is required for this event: http://bit.ly/stranger-fictions Please join the Weinberg College Center for International & Area Studies and the Middle East...
May
10
2021
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Presenter: Jesús C. Muñoz (PhD Student, Comparative Literary Studies/MENA Program) Title: “Poetics of Glowing Histories in Flesh and Art: Witnessing the...
May
11
2021
Questioning the Racial Thermometer: Black Intellectual Vanguards and their Arguments for Equality in Colombia, 1885-1948 — A Lecture by Francisco Javier Flórez Bolivar (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This event will be in Spanish. Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of African American Studies,...
May
12
2021
#SOSColombia: Un conversatorio sobre protesta social y violencia estatal
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
#SOSColombia: Un conversatorio sobre protesta social y violencia estatal Miércoles 12 de mayo, 5pm (hora Colombia y CST) El evento será en...
May
13
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
13
2021
LACS Graduate Workshop: "Musical Monstrosity in El hombre y el monstruo (1958)” — Emily Masincup
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LACS Graduate Workshop — Emily Masincup Title: "Musical Monstrosity in El hombre y el monstruo (1958)” Abstract For nearly a century, horror films...
May
13
2021
Law in Motion Lecture: "Fighting to Win: The Roles of Lawyering and Law Reform in Liberation Struggles" with Dean Spade
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Legal Studies
Join the Center for Legal Studies for our annual Law in Motion Lecture with guest speaker Dean Spade. May 13, 2021,...
May
17
2021
MENA Languages Monday—Turkish Edition | Street Animals & their Place in Turkish Culture: A Conversation about the Film STRAY
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for this conversation on the place of street animals in Turkish history and culture, with special emphasis...
May
17
2021
Anthropology Colloquium: Sergio Lemus, Texas A&M University
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
The Use of Border Theory: An Anthropological Approach to Explain Colorism among Mexican Yarderos in Chicago By the 1990s, Mexican migration...
May
18
2021
Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and Authoritarianism in Unrevolutionary Mexico: A Book Talk with Paul Gillingham and Gema Kloppe-Santamaría
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join Northwestern's Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and Noria Research for this conversation with historians Paul Gillingham and...
May
19
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
19
2021
Mosques, Culture Clubs, and Embodied Ritual Debates: Re-making Islam in a New African Diaspora (Michelle Johnson)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Mosques, Culture Clubs, and Embodied Ritual Debates: Re-making Islam in a New African Diaspora Join ISITA for a talk by Michelle...
May
20
2021
Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Profs. Natalia Aruguete (Universidad de Quilmes) & Ernesto Calvo (University of Maryland)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the Spring Quarter, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
May
20
2021
The Colloquium for Global Iran Studies Presents: A Panel on Iranian Diaspora Studies
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for this event: http://bit.ly/iranian-diaspora-studies The Colloquium for Global Iran Studies Presents: A Panel on Iranian Diaspora Studies Panelists: Persis Karim, Neda Nobari Chair...
May
21
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
23
2021
Performance and Conversation with Tair Haim, Acclaimed Sololist of the band A-WA
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND LANGUAGE - PAST AND PRESENT Performance and Conversation with Tair Haim, Acclaimed Soloist of the band A-WA Tair...
May
24
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
25
2021
HOW WE COME TOGETHER: Book discussion of Alicia Garza's The Purpose of Power and invitation for planning future events
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Almost a year ago when many of us proclaimed our solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests, we pledged to renew...
May
25
2021
Trópico Andino Series: ECOGENOETNOCIDIO, PLUS-DOLOR Y POETICA DE LA VIDA AFRODESCENDIENTE EN LAS AMERICAS (Eco-Geno-Ethnocide, Surplus Pain and Poetics of Afro-Descended Life in the Americas)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Please join the Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group for a conversation with Santiago Arboleda Quiñonez as part of a...
May
30
2021
Arab-Jewish Intersecting Identities: Gender, Protest and Politics
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND LANGUAGE: PAST AND PRESENT Arab-Jewish Intersecting Identities: Gender, Protest and Politics Guest Speakers: “The History of the Mizrahi Protest:...
Jun
1
2021
Afrisem: Navigating the Global Job Market for Africanists
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Afrisem is hosting the panel "Navigating the Global Job Market for Africanists" on June 1 at 11am (CDT). Register in...
Jun
2
2021
LACS Graduate Workshop | Elsa de la Rosa: Transpacific Migration, Pan-American Racism: Anti-Chinese Discrimination in Northern Mexico (1900-1940)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Elsa de la Rosa "Transpacific Migration, Pan-American Racism: Anti-Chinese Discrimination in Northern Mexico (1900-1940)" REGISTER: https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rfu6grzosGdEsK1CEBQb2Pe87v-BtqyLM
Jun
2
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jun
3
2021
Dreaming Rivers, Weaving Collectives with filmmaker Judah Attille, Cairo Clarke, and han heung 한흥 恨興 media collective
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Dreaming Rivers, Weaving Collectives presents a short film from the visionary collective Sankofa Film and Video. Filmmaker Judah Attille joins...
Jun
4
2021
2021 Keyman Conference: Queer Conditions | Kuir Haller I
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
2021 Conference: Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies...
Jun
4
2021
MENA Faculty Colloquium with Ibrahim Abusharif (NU-Q)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Social Media and Religious Authority in the Gulf Crisis Ibrahim N. Abusharif is an associate professor in residence in the Journalism...
Jun
4
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jun
8
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jun
8
2021
Minimal Computing for Open Education
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Minimal Computing is a critical framework for using technology to produce and distribute digital texts. Open education is the practice...
Jun
8
2021
For the People: A Roundtable on Community Organizing and Mutual Aid
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by 2019-2021 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
Join us for the final installment of the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora's series Survey: Contemplation. Control. Creativity. Joined by the...
Jun
10
2021
Afrisem Conference:African Knowledge that Agitates
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Save the date: the Africa Seminar (Afrisem) graduate student conference "African Knowledge that Agitates" will take place virtually June 10-12,...
Jun
10
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jun
10
2021
A Forum on Mark Hauser's Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for a roundtable discussion on Mark Hauser's book Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism (University...
Jun
11
2021
2021 Keyman Conference: Queer Conditions | Kuir Haller II
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
2021 Conference: Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies...
Jun
13
2021
Performance and Conversation with Ziv Yehezkel, Renowned Israeli Singer and Composer
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY AND LANGUAGE -PAST AND PRESENT Performance and Conversation with Ziv Yehezkel, Renowned Israeli Singer and Composer Ziv Yehezkel is...
Jun
18
2021
2021 Keyman Conference: Queer Conditions | Kuir Haller III & Roundtable
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
2021 Conference: Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies...
Aug
9
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Aug
11
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Aug
13
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Aug
24
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Aug
26
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Aug
31
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
2
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
2
2021
GSS Virtual Academic Directions Fair - Q&A
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
An informal chat and q&a about our program, course offerings, and what you can do with gender and sexuality studies...
Sep
7
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
8
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
13
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
16
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
23
2021
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at 1819 Hinman, Room 303; no need to register, just arrive on time!
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
24
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
24
2021
Welcome Reception for MENA Faculty & Graduate Students
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
RSVP: https://www.paperlesspost.com/events/43993549-b43d9a34/replies/649434218-a8529921
Sep
27
2021
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at 1819 Hinman, Room 303; no need to register, just arrive on time!
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
27
2021
MENA Grad student Welcome Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Location TBD
Sep
28
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
28
2021
Feminist First Year
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center
Feminist First Year is an opportunity for students *new to campus to learn about feminist student organiuzations, meet staff from...
Sep
29
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
30
2021
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Matías Dodel (Universidad Católica del Uruguay)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Sep
30
2021
Feminist First Year
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center
Feminist First Year is an opportunity for students *new to campus to learn about feminist student organiuzations, meet staff from...
Oct
4
2021
New Directions | The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity — A Dialogue with Darryl Li
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for this event: https://bit.ly/universal-enemy Please join us for the Fall 2021 event in the New Directions in Middle East and North...
Oct
5
2021
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at 1819 Hinman, Room 303; no need to register, just arrive on time!
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
7
2021
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Carmen Gonzalez (University of Washington)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Oct
7
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
7
2021
The Long and the Short of It: Imagining Latin American History — Mary Weismantel and James Mahoney in Dialogue
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for this event: https://bit.ly/latin-american-history Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program for this dialogue between two members of our...
Oct
7
2021
GSS Fall Reception
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Will be outdoors. Exact location currently being finalized. All snacks will be individually wrapped. Click here for event poster. Email Eliot at gender@northwestern.edu...
Oct
11
2021
Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai — A Lecture by Amélie Le Renard
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for this event: https://bit.ly/dubai-privilege Please join Northwestern's Middle East and North African Studies Program for this talk by Amélie Le Renard,...
Oct
11
2021
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at 1819 Hinman, Room 303; no need to register, just arrive on time!
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
12
2021
Women's Center Open House, Evanston
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center
Our fabulous, purple fanny packs are stuffed with goodies and waiting for you at the Evanston Women's Center. We won't be...
Oct
12
2021
LACS Faculty Colloquium: A Forum on Pablo Boczkowski's Book "Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty"
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for this event: https://bit.ly/information-plenty Please join us for the first meeting of the LACS Faculty Colloquium in the 2021-2022 academic year,...
Oct
14
2021
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. David Nemer (University of Virginia)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Oct
15
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
15
2021
GLOBAL LUNCHBOX | Mary Weismantel on her new book "Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots"
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Register for this event: https://bit.ly/playing-with-things Please join us for the Global Lunchbox, a weekly forum convened by the Weinberg College Center for...
Oct
20
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
21
2021
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Mauro P. Porto (Tulane University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Oct
21
2021
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at 1819 Hinman, Room 303; no need to register, just arrive on time!
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
25
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
25
2021
Testimony: Poetry as Storytelling — A Conversation with Nathalie Handal
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for this event: https://bit.ly/nathalie-handal The MENA Interdisciplinary Working Group on Story-telling and Violence: Narratives of Insecurity in the Middle East and...
Oct
26
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
27
2021
LORETTA ROSS: Reproductive Justice as a Human Right
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Activist. Public Intellectual. Professor. Loretta Ross joined the women’s movement in 1978 by working at the first rape crisis center in...
Oct
28
2021
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Tamara L. Falicov (University of Kansas)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Nov
1
2021
Solidarity When: A MENA Conversation about the Past, Present & Future of Solidarity Politics
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/mena-solidarity-when Please join us for this conversation with scholars working on connected political and social movements both...
Nov
2
2021
The Immiscible Times of Caribbean Cyberpunk — Emily Maguire & Edward King in Conversation
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for this event: https://bit.ly/caribbean-cyberpunk Please join us for this meeting of the LACS Faculty Colloquium, in which Northwestern professor Emily Maguire...
Nov
4
2021
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Julieta Brambila (Universidad de las Americas Puebla)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Nov
5
2021
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at 1819 Hinman, Room 303; no need to register, just arrive on time!
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
8
2021
Refugee Status: Privileged — MENA Faculty Colloquium with Rana Kazkaz
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/rana-kazkaz Rana Kazkaz is Assistant Professor in Residence in the Communication Program at Northwestern University in Qatar...
Nov
8
2021
Anthropology Colloquium: Dr. Erica Britt, University of Michigan
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Oral History and the Discursive Construction of Identity in Flint, Michigan
Nov
9
2021
Volver al territorio: una conversación con Velia Vidal (en español)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Velia Vidal es escritora y gestora cultural. Vidal es la fundadora y directora de la Corporación educativa y cultural Motete,...
Nov
9
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
10
2021
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at 1819 Hinman, Room 303; no need to register, just arrive on time!
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
10
2021
Department Lecture: Aaron Hyman (Johns Hopkins University), "On Feathers and Facades, or Seeing Script in Sixteenth-Century New Spain"
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Spain’s transoceanic empire ran on paperwork. There were mountains of bureaucratic record keeping to be sure; but musical scores, missives,...
Nov
11
2021
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Héctor Beltrán (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Nov
12
2021
Critical African Heritages Workshop
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Students, faculty and staff: you are invited to participate in a visioning session for Critical African Heritages, a new Kaplan...
Nov
15
2021
MENA Studies Core Faculty Meeting
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Quarterly meeting of the MENA Studies Program core faculty
Nov
15
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
16
2021
Anti-Feminist Political Threads in Latin America: Neoconservatism, Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Beyond — Ailynn Torres Santana
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/ailynn-torres Please join us for this talk by Ailynn Torres Santana, a postdoctoral fellow at the International...
Nov
17
2021
The Translator: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
3:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
The in-person event is sold out! Virtual Access still available. Join us for a screening of award-winning filmmaker Rana Kazkaz's new...
Nov
18
2021
"7 Sins, 10 Fallacies, 4 Indicators, and What I Learned from Them About Decolonizing Academia" with Murat Ergin (Koç University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Presents "7 Sins, 10 Fallacies, 4 Indicators, and What I Learned from Them About Decolonizing Academia" with...
Nov
18
2021
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Celeste González de Bustamante (University of Arizona)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Nov
18
2021
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at 1819 Hinman, Room 303; no need to register, just arrive on time!
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
22
2021
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at 1819 Hinman, Room 303; no need to register, just arrive on time!
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
23
2021
The July 11 Protests in Cuba: Homeland, People, and Sovereignty—An Overview (Julio César Guanche)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/cuba-guanche Please join Northwestern University's Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program for this talk by Julio César...
Nov
23
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
29
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Dec
1
2021
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at 1819 Hinman, Room 303; no need to register, just arrive on time!
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Dec
2
2021
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Amy Gonzales (University of California, Santa Barbara)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Dec
7
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Dec
8
2021
Histories of the Iranian Left—A Conversation
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
A conversation with Naghmeh Sohrabi (Brandeis), Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (Goldsmiths), and Manijeh Moradian (Barnard). Moderated by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (Princeton). Recent scholarship has...
Dec
10
2021
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at 1819 Hinman, Room 303; no need to register, just arrive on time!
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Dec
14
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Dec
16
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Dec
21
2021
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jan
5
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jan
6
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Catalina M. de Onís (University of Colorado Denver)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Jan
7
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jan
10
2022
Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico — A Conversation with Leila Gómez (Illuminations Series)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/Illuminations-gomez Please join us for this conversation with Leila Gómez, Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of...
Jan
10
2022
MENA Faculty Colloquium—Anoush Tamar Suni | Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Afterlives of Genocide in Anatolia
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/mena-anoush-suni Before the 1915 Genocide of Ottoman Armenians, the region of Van—in contemporary southeastern Turkey—held hundreds of...
Jan
10
2022
Anthropology Talk: Alexandra Peck, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Indigenous Influence & Patterns of Multivocality: Documenting Unexpected Cultural Changes in the S’Klallam World at Discovery Bay, Washington This presentation employs...
Jan
11
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jan
13
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Amanda R. Martinez (Davidson College)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Jan
13
2022
Partying with Anger: Interview with Afro-Andean Musician Yanna
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
This conversation will feature the music and activism of Yanna. Their songs combine Afro-diasporic genres like hip-hop, dancehall, trap, reggaetón,...
Jan
13
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jan
14
2022
Representation, Resilience, Indigeneity: Cynthia Robin & Jorge Coronado in Dialogue
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/resilience-indigeneity Cynthia Robin is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern. She is an archaeologist and project director who...
Jan
19
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jan
20
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Dolores Inés Casillas (University of California, Santa Barbara)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Jan
21
2022
Climates of Resilience and the Affective Economy in the Early Colonial Caribbean — Alice Samson & Jago Cooper
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/climates-of-resilience Alice Samson is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Leicester. She co-directs a field...
Jan
21
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at 1819 Hinman, Room 303; no need to register; just attend.
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jan
24
2022
Using a MENA PhD Outside the Academy — A Talk by Rob Blecher of the International Crisis Group
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/rob-blecher Robert Blecher is an old hand at the International Crisis Group. Currently he directs the organization’s...
Jan
24
2022
Anthorpology Colloquium: Dr. LaShandra Sullivan, Reed College
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Black LGBT+ Feminism and the Politics of Revelry in Rio de Janeiro In Rio de Janeiro Black Brazilians are currently navigating...
Jan
24
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at 1819 Hinman, Room 303; no need to register; just attend.
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jan
27
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. J. Nathan Matias (Cornell University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Jan
27
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jan
28
2022
A Forum on Mary Weismantel's Book Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/moche-sex-pots Please join us for this forum on Mary Weismantel's recently-published book Playing with Things: Engaging the...
Jan
28
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jan
31
2022
New Directions | Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure — Hatim El-Hibri
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/visions-of-beirut Please join us for the Winter 2022 event in the New Directions in Middle East and...
Jan
31
2022
Anthropology Talk: Megan Baker, UCLA
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Fairly Building the State: Choctaw Economic Development and the Origins of Oklahoma
Feb
1
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Feb
3
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Feb
3
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Lisa A Flores (University of Colorado)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Feb
3
2022
Remaking Home: Domestic Spaces in Argentine and Chilean Film — A Conversation with Paul Merchant (Illuminations Series)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register to receive the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/illuminations-merchant Please join us for this conversation with Paul Merchant, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Film...
Feb
4
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Feb
7
2022
All Politics Are God’s Politics: Moroccan Islamism and the Sacralization of Democracy — A Talk by Ahmed Khanani
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/ahmed-khanani Please join us for this talk by Ahmed Khanani, Plowshares Assistant Professor of Politics and co-director...
Feb
7
2022
Anthopology Talk: Teresa Montoya, University of Chicago
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Permeable Jurisdictions: Sovereignty and Toxic Exposure in the Indigenous Southwest Thirteen years after Diné leaders signed the Treaty of 1868...
Feb
7
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Feb
9
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Feb
9
2022
AASP Townhall
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join the Asian American Studies Progam for a townhall to discuss the effects of 3 years of COVID and online...
Feb
10
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Reynaldo A Morales (Northwestern University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Feb
10
2022
AASP Course Planning
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Calling all sophomores, juniors, and those interesting in majoring or minoring in Asian American Studies! Join us on Feb 10th...
Feb
11
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Feb
11
2022
AASP Student Panel
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Interested in majoring or minoring in ASIAN AM? Want to know if today is the day to take that ASIAN...
Feb
14
2022
Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring — A Talk by Asef Bayat
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/asef-bayat Please join us for this talk by Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology and Catherine and Bruce...
Feb
14
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Feb
15
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Feb
16
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Feb
16
2022
Atipanakuy: competencia y confrontación musical, dancística y religiosa en Yawar fiesta de José María Arguedas (en español)
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Mauro Mamani Macedo (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos) es Doctor en Literatura peruana y Latinoamericana y Profesor de pre...
Feb
16
2022
Charlene Carruthers: Black Feminist Ethics and Relationality
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Charlene A. Carruthers is a writer, filmmaker, and PhD student in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University....
Feb
17
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Fernanda R. Rosa (Virginia Tech)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Feb
18
2022
Curating the Caribbean Diaspora — Carla Acevedo-Yates (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/caribbean-diaspora Carla Acevedo-Yates was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico and has worked as a...
Feb
21
2022
The Uprisings Since the Uprisings: Algeria, Lebanon, Sudan — A MENA Conversation
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/mena-uprisings This event in our quarterly MENA Conversations series will bring together scholars working on popular protest...
Feb
21
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Feb
23
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Feb
24
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. María Elena Cepeda (Williams College)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Feb
24
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Feb
24
2022
Queer Book Club
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Are you interested in talking about LGBTQIA+ books and issues? Join the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and Multcultural Student...
Feb
25
2022
Inventories of Ruin: The Demise of the Mexican Jesuits, in Three Acts — Michelle Molina & Matt O'Hara
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/inventories-of-ruin J. Michelle Molina is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and History at Northwestern. She is the...
Feb
28
2022
Roundtable on Publishing in MENA Studies Journals
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join Rebecca Johnson (Associate Editor, Journal of Arabic Literature), Roberto Mazza (Executive Editor, Jerusalem Quarterly), and Jessica Winegar (Co-Editor, Political...
Feb
28
2022
Gabriela Soto Laveaga - Hydraulic Erasures: Rivers, Irrigation and Experiment Stations in Northern Mexico and India
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Gabriela Soto Laveaga Title Hydraulic Erasures: Rivers, Irrigation and Experiment Stations in Northern Mexico and India Abstract In the mid 1960s seeds from an...
Mar
2
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Mar
3
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Profs. Jamil Marques (Universidade Federal do Paraná) and Edna Miola (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Mar
3
2022
Queer Exposures: Sexuality & Photography in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction & Poetry — A Conversation with Ryan Long (Illuminations Series)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register to receive the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/illuminations-long Please join us for this conversation with Ryan Long, Associate Professor of Spanish and comparative...
Mar
4
2022
Book Discussion with Jenny White, Ergün Gündüz, and Özge Samancı
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Book Discussion with Jenny White (author of graphic novel Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence), Ergün Gündüz...
Mar
4
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Mar
4
2022
Who Dared to Question the Word of a Priest? Free Black Women and Social Capital in 17th-Century Mexico — Danielle Terrazas Williams
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/who-dared Danielle Terrazas Williams is Lecturer in the History of the Global South at the University of...
Mar
7
2022
“Let Yourself Rest”: A Lunchtime Conversation with Shirien Damra & Lux Eterna on Art as a Practice of Resistance
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This is a hybrid event Register to attend in-person Register to participate via Zoom Please join the MENA Studies Program, the Center for...
Mar
7
2022
Indigenous Struggles to Preserve Their Land in Brazil
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/indigenous-struggles-brazil Simultaneous translation between Portuguese and English will be available. Please join us for a virtual roundtable featuring...
Mar
8
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Mar
10
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Arturo Arriagada (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Mar
10
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Mar
10
2022
Guest Artist: Katie Chung Bookbinding
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
[This is a majors and minors only event.] Guest artist Katie Chung will guide students through a tutorial to create a...
Mar
11
2022
Open Veins of Latin America: The Cuban Revolution, Cultural Politics, and the Making of a Classic
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America, originally published in 1971, is one of the most widely read books in...
Mar
24
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. César Jiménez‑Martínez (Cardiff University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Mar
24
2022
International Relations Speaker Series: Prof. Ayşe Zarakol, "Before the West"
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Dr. Ayşe Zarakol, Professor of International Relations at the University...
Mar
29
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Mar
31
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Florencia Enghel (Jönköping University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Mar
31
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
1
2022
2022 Nao Lecture | A Parallax View: The Racialization of Religion and the Religionization of Race in Caribbean Hosay — Aisha Khan
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please note that this event, though originally scheduled to take place in-person, will take place on Zoom. Register for the Zoom...
Apr
4
2022
State Control in Turkey: Resistant Encounters in War and Peace | Umut Yıldırım (UCLA), Dilan Okçuoğlu (American University), Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
State Control in Turkey: Resistant Encounters in War and Peace | Umut Yıldırım (UCLA), Dilan Okçuoğlu (American University), Wendy Pearlman...
Apr
4
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
6
2022
GSS TA Info Session
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
An Info Session will convene Wednesday, 4/6 at 12:15 PM, over Zoom, for about thirty minutes. If you are interested...
Apr
7
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Pablo Porten-Cheé (Heidelberg University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Apr
7
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
7
2022
The Open Invitation: Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect — A Conversation with Freya Schiwy (Illuminations Series)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register to receive the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/illuminations-open-invitation Please join us for this conversation with Freya Schiwy, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies...
Apr
8
2022
Violent Margins: Concepts, People and Places — A Conversation between Ana Arjona & Paul Gillingham
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/violent-margins Please join us (on Zoom) for a conversation between LACS Program Faculty Affiliates Ana Arjona (Department...
Apr
11
2022
Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific | A conversation with Yesenia Barragan (Rutgers University)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Yesenia Barragan is a historian of race, slavery, emancipation, and social movements in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and the African Diaspora...
Apr
11
2022
Anthopology Colloquium: Sonya Atalay, U Mass, Amherst
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
An Archaeology Led by Strawberries: Reclaiming, Storywork, & Indigenous Wellbeing
Apr
11
2022
Mariola Espinosa - Caribbean Connections: Towards a Global Vision in the History of Medicine
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Mariola Espinosa, University of Iowa Title Caribbean Connections: Towards a Global Vision in the History of Medicine Abstract This talk discusses how the history...
Apr
12
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
15
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
15
2022
The Red Internationale of Seamen and Harborworkers! A Poetics of Strikes from the Kiel Mutiny to the West Coast Waterfront
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for this talk by LACS Program faculty affiliate Harris Feinsod, based on a chapter from his book-in-progress...
Apr
18
2022
Exploring Middle East & North Africa Resources at Northwestern University Libraries — A Tour with Curator Esmeralda Kalé
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this tour of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, led by Esmeralda Kalé, the George...
Apr
18
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
19
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
20
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
20
2022
CoGIS, "To See What Is Coming: Life, Death and their Ever-shifting Threshold In Contemporary Iran," A Talk by Dr. Shahla Talebi
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Colloquium for Global Iran Studies
Northwestern's Colloquium for Global Iran Studies (CoGIS) presents a Talk by Dr. Shahla Talebi: "To See What Is Coming: Life, Death...
Apr
20
2022
Conversation with Banu Gökarıksel (UNC Chapel Hill) on her book project, The Neighbor Who Might Kill You: Encounter and Difference in Urban Turkey, with commenter Kabir Tambar (Stanford University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Banu Gökarıksel (UNC Chapel Hill) joins us for an online conversation on her book project, The Neighbor Who Might Kill...
Apr
21
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Carlos Scolari (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Apr
22
2022
Displacement and Indigeneity in the Eastern Caribbean (Melanie J. Newton, University of Toronto)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register to receive the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/displacement-indigeneity Please join us for this talk by Melanie J. Newton, Associate Professor in the Department...
Apr
25
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
25
2022
Luminous Shadows: Performance and Praxis in SWANA
12:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Luminous Shadows: Performance and Praxis in SWANA Performances: 12:30 - 1:50 pm faggy faafi Cairo boy: a staged reading by Mariam Bazeed a...
Apr
25
2022
Anthropology Colloquium: Ben Orlove, Columbia University
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
The End in Sight: Facing Glacier Retreat in Mountain Communities The residents of three mountain communities—Copa in the Cordillera Blanca in...
Apr
26
2022
Ato Quayson - "The Ambiguities of Colonial Modernity: Tragedy, History, and African Literature"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Abstract: Historians have told us how unevenly infrastructural development was distributed during phase of colonial modernity, with much of it being...
Apr
28
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Andrea Medrado (University of Westminster)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Apr
28
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
29
2022
GSS Graduate Student Lunch & Learn
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
As the current GSS Graduate Coordinator, I am hosting a virtual “Lunch and Learn” on Friday, April 29 from 12-1...
May
2
2022
Oil and Arabic Literature in the Cold War — A Talk by Elizabeth Holt
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This is a hybrid event Register to participate via Zoom When British Petroleum was looking to have their film The Third River...
May
2
2022
Hugh Cagle - "Before the Fact: Science and Social Order at the Edge of the Amazon ca. 1600"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Hugh Cagle, University of Utah Title "Before the Fact: Science and Social Order at the Edge of the Amazon ca. 1600." Abstract For Old...
May
4
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
4
2022
GSS Senior Thesis Info Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Hosted by Professor Tessie Liu. Learn more about what a senior thesis in Gender & Sexuality Studies is all about...
May
5
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Patria Roman-Velazquez (King's College London)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
May
5
2022
Defiant Geographies: Race & Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro — A Conversation with Lorraine Leu (Illuminations Series)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/illuminations-leu Please join us for this conversation with Lorraine Leu, Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at...
May
5
2022
Ann Russo: Feminism, Abolition, and Transformative Justice: A Praxis of Care and Accountability
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
What would it take to respond to harm without punishment, incarceration, abandonment? What are the possibilities for building a collective...
May
6
2022
The Colonial Construction of Puerto Rican Precolonial History: A Critical Approximation (Reniel Rodríguez Ramos)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/rodriguez-ramos Please join us (on Zoom) for this lecture by Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, Professor in the Social...
May
6
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
9
2022
Archives without Documents — A MENA Conversation
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/archives-without This conversation will bring together scholars working on questions of archives and documents, or their absence,...
May
9
2022
Anthopology Colloquium: Claudia Valeggia
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Lives in Transition: A Situated Biology View of Health and Disease Among the Qom of Argentina
May
10
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
11
2022
New Multilateral Development Banks in Turkey and Brazil: Green Lending vs. Business as Usual | Ali Rıza Güngen (York University), Stephen Nelson (Northwestern), Şeyma Kabaoğlu (Northwestern)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
New Multilateral Development Banks in Turkey and Brazil: Green Lending vs. Business as Usual | Ali Rıza Güngen (York University),...
May
12
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Ana Cristina Suzina (Loughborough University London)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
May
12
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
13
2022
Decolonizing research paradigms of archaeological collections in foreign museums: learned experiences from Puerto Rico (Paola Schiappacasse)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for this event: https://bit.ly/lacs-may-13 Please join us for this lecture by Paola Schiappacasse of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. The...
May
13
2022
Sami Schalk: The Black Disability Politics of the National Black Women’s Health Project
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Dr. Sami Schalk (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Schalk’s interdisciplinary research...
May
13
2022
Guest Speaker Seminar: Dr. Rocio Quispe-Agnoli
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Supay and its Narrators: Ambiguous Sacrednessand Elusive Evil in Early Colonial Peru In this presentation, I address examples of early modernEuropean...
May
14
2022
Workshop: Global and Local Strategies of Twenty-First Century African Artists
9:00 AM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Saturday, May 14, 2022, 9am -11pm CT (breakfast served) is a workshop dedicated to talking through big ideas, asking questions,...
May
16
2022
New Directions Lecture | Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt — Andrew Simon in Dialogue
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This is a hybrid event Register to participate via Zoom Please join us for the Spring 2022 event in our New Directions...
May
16
2022
Anthopology Colloquium: Lynnette Arnold
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Communicating Care
May
18
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
19
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Eddy Borges-Rey (Northwestern University in Qatar)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
May
20
2022
GLOBAL LUNCHBOX | A conversation with Claudio Benzecry about his book The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Register for the event: https://bit.ly/global-shoe-industry Please join us for the Global Lunchbox, a weekly forum convened by the Weinberg College Center for...
May
20
2022
Rewriting Plant-based Culinary Histories of the Caribbean — A Lecture by Jaime R. Pagán-Jiménez
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/culinary-legacies Please join us for this lecture by palaeoethnobotanist and archaeologist Jaime R. Pagán-Jiménez. A lot has been...
May
20
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
21
2022
Queer Baby Art Fair
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA)
We invite you to attend, Queer Baby Art, an art fair co-organized by Multicultural Student Affairs and the Brown Baby...
May
23
2022
MENA Faculty Colloquium | Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 1966-1979
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This is a hybrid event Register for Zoom option: https://bit.ly/mena-may-23 Presenters Sepehr Vakil is an assistant professor of Learning Sciences in the School of...
May
23
2022
Anthopology Colloquium: Aimee Meredith Cox
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
When the End of the World Comes, I Want to Be in Cincinnati'...Narrating Space, Time, and Freedom in a River...
May
23
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
23
2022
Daniela Bleichmar - "Indigenous Knowledge and the Limits of Translation: Mexican Native Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California Title "Indigenous Knowledge and the Limits of Translation: Mexican Native Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe" Abstract This talk...
May
23
2022
Celebration Reception for Jan Radway & Mary Dietz
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Please join Gender & Sexuality Studies (in collaboration with Political Science, Communication Studies, and American Studies) to celebrate Jan Radway...
May
25
2022
Your Skin Shall Bear Witness Against You — On Memory, Materiality, and the Body of the Witness (Vartan Avakian)
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Your Skin Shall Bear Witness Against You — On Memory, Materiality, and the Body of the Witness “This is the story...
May
26
2022
Returning to Luqmān: Wisdom, Subjectivity, and Islamic Tradition (Dahlia E.M. Gubara)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
This is a hybrid event. No registration is needed to attend in person. Location: Forum Room (2nd Floor), University Library, Evanston...
Jun
1
2022
Gender & Sexuality Studies Year-End Celebration and Awards Ceremony
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
The Gender & Sexuality Studies community is invited to join us in a celebration of our graduating seniors, undergraduate award...
Jun
2
2022
Like Water Through Stone: Celebrating Hamid Naficy’s Contributions to Iranian Film and Diaspora Studies (Opening Night)
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Opening night of our tribute to the extraordinary career and intellectual legacies of Hamid Naficy (Thursday June 2) This event is...
Jun
3
2022
Like Water Through Stone: Celebrating Hamid Naficy’s Contributions to Iranian Film and Diaspora Studies (Day Two)
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Day two of our tribute to the extraordinary career and intellectual legacies of Hamid Naficy (Friday June 3) Zoom option (available...
Jun
3
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jun
6
2022
MENA Studies Spring 2022 Graduate Student Colloquium
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This is a hybrid event Participate via Zoom (must have a Northwestern NetID) Xena Amro, Comparative Literary Studies | Foreigners in Paris:...
Jun
9
2022
Open Studio / Screening - Vartan Avakian, artist in residence of Kaplan and MENA
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Open Studio / Screening With Vartan Avakian, spring 2022 artist in residence of the Kaplan Humanities Institute and the Middle East...
Sep
6
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
8
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
13
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
14
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
15
2022
Special Edition Info Session for FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
16
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
21
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
23
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Kresge 2-331
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
23
2022
LGBTQ-focused Monkeypox Conversation
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Do you have all the info you need? PROF. STEVEN THRASHER (Journalism/ISGMH) & PROF. CHAD HORNE (Philosophy) will lead an...
Sep
26
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Kresge 2-331
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
27
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
3
2022
MENA Mondays: The Political Afterlives of Migration
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunchboxes will be available at noon if attendees would like to eat...
Oct
4
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
6
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Bruno Takahashi (Michigan State University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Oct
6
2022
Multilingual Concert with Musician and Activist Ezé Wendtoin
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Ezé will give a multilingual concert for the Northwestern community and the public on Thursday, October 6, from 6 pm...
Oct
7
2022
Gender & Sexuality Studies Welcome Back Reception
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
An informal meet-and-greet for new and returning students, faculty, postdocs, and staff.
Oct
7
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Kresge 3-410
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
10
2022
Anthropology Colloquium: Adrienne Lo, University of Waterloo
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Ontologies of the sign: Positioning signs, speakers, and ideologies in research on language and race The question of how to grapple...
Oct
10
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
12
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Oct
13
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Kresge 2-319
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
14
2022
The ROE Reversal in Historical Context
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
To best understand or act in response to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, we need to know the legal, social,...
Oct
17
2022
MENA Mondays: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunchboxes will be available at noon if attendees would like to eat...
Oct
18
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Locy 110
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
18
2022
Fall Book Forum: Jesús Escobar
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for the first meeting of the 2022-2023 academic year for a forum on LACS faculty affiliate Jesús...
Oct
19
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Oct
20
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
20
2022
Comfort Food Poetry Workshop
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Comfort Food Poetry Workshop What does the food we eat say about us? Our histories, our identities, our existence. When we prepare...
Oct
24
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
24
2022
Jori Lewis - "Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Jori Lewis Title "Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation and a Crop That Changed History" Discussion Author Jori Lewis discusses her book,...
Oct
25
2022
Faculty Roundtable: Family and Identity
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Héctor Carrillo and Gerry Cadava in dialogue Please join us for our first interdisciplinary faculty dialogue of the year. Héctor Carillo...
Oct
26
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Kresge 2-339
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
26
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Oct
26
2022
An Evening with Cristina Garcia, Distinguished Writer in Residence
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Cristina García is the author of eight novels including Dreaming in Cuban, The Agüero Sisters, Monkey Hunting, A Handbook to...
Oct
28
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
31
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Annenberg G30
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Oct
31
2022
MENA Mondays: Faculty Colloquium with Fahri Oz
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunchboxes will be available at noon if attendees would like to eat...
Nov
1
2022
Justin Dunnavant (University of California, Los Angeles)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Have Confidence in the Sea: Archaeologies of Marronageco-sponsored by African-American Studies and Anthropology Dunnavant will discuss how archaeology has contributed to...
Nov
1
2022
An evening with author Doreen Baingana - Reading and conversation with Wana Udobang
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Join us for an evening with author Doreen Baingana, visiting artist of the Kaplan Humanities Institute. Baingana will read from her...
Nov
2
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
2
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Nov
7
2022
MENA Mondays: New Directions in MENA Studies
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event held via Zoom. Register for the event. Speaker: Can Açiksöz, Anthropology, UCLA Salih Can...
Nov
8
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
9
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Nov
9
2022
The World that "African Studies" Made and Possibilities for Transformation: A Cross-Generational Conversation
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join professor Jean Allman (Washington University) and Northwestern University PhD candidate in history, Bright Gyamfi, for the event "The World...
Nov
11
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Kresge Hall 2-343
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
14
2022
Colombia Truth Commission Dialogues Series | Conversation with Mothers of Victims of State Violence in Colombia
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Truth Commission Dialogues Series | Colombia: Truth, Justice and Reparation ¿Quién dio la orden? / Who gave the order? A Conversation with...
Nov
14
2022
MENA Mondays: Graduate Student Colloquium
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunchboxes will be available at noon if attendees would like to eat...
Nov
14
2022
Anthropology Colloquium: Tsim Schneider, UC Santa Cruz
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
From Hinterland to Homeland: The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse in Colonial California This talk presents my ongoing archaeological, historical, and...
Nov
14
2022
Colombia Truth Commission Dialogues Series | Develaciones Screening and Conversation with Directors
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Truth Commission Dialogues Series | Colombia: Truth, Justice and Reparation Develaciones: un canto coral de esperanza y resistencia / Develaciones: a...
Nov
16
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Come practice your Swahili skills at the Swahili language table!
Nov
17
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
17
2022
Afrisem
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Please join AfriSem Nov. 17, 4-6 pm for our event: WANA UDOBANG & CHRIS ABANI IN CONVERSATION: Explorations of Creative...
Nov
18
2022
K. Marshall Green: Who can hear the queen when she speaks?
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
In this talk, I examine texts that open us up to Black gay men’s erotic lives that are inundated with...
Nov
21
2022
MENA Mondays: Everyday Policing in the MENA Region
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday *virtual* event. Speakers: Rema Hammami, Birzeit University; Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College; Omar Sirri, Human...
Nov
21
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
22
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
28
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
29
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Nov
30
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Dec
1
2022
Silyane Larcher: “L’heure de nous-mêmes a sonné!": A transdisciplinary journey across race, gender and politics in the French Atlantic context
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
In this talk, a Martinican political philosopher and historical sociologist challenges the dominant narratives of French republicanism and of women’s...
Dec
5
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Dec
5
2022
Shoniqua Roach: The Black Bedroom
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
While both Black and Queer studies have frequently theorized the domestic and its interiors (e.g., the closet) as paradigmatic spaces...
Dec
6
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Jan
9
2023
MENA Mondays: The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunch provided. This event is co-sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program. Zoom...
Jan
11
2023
Conversatorio: WHAT'S GOING ON IN PERU?
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us online for a discussion about the political upheaval in Peru, particularly in light of President Castillo's self-coup...
Jan
11
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Jan
17
2023
Conversatorio: What's going on in Peru? - 1:10pm
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This virtual talk will begin at 1:10pm CT. Zoom registration: bit.ly/3IEA2za WHAT’S GOING ON IN PERU? is part of our Conversatorio series,...
Jan
18
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Jan
18
2023
Off White: The Imperial Life of Iranian Racial Formation in the United States
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join Asian American Studies in welcoming back one of our Visiting Assistant Professors back to give a guest lecture entitled...
Jan
23
2023
MENA Mondays: NEW DIRECTIONS IN MENA STUDIES | A Landscape of War
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunch will be served. This event will be in person, but a...
Jan
23
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Zoe Crossland, Columbia University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Political affects and histories of craft practice in precolonial highland Madagascar How might we access the affective work of politics in...
Jan
25
2023
Student Lunch with Dr. Simeon Man
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Simeon Man (PhD, American Studies, Yale University) is Associate Professor of History and affiliate faculty of Ethnic Studies and Critical...
Jan
25
2023
Pacific Internationalism: Movements for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific | AASP Winter Speaker Series
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
TALK BY SIMEON MAN: Pacific Internationalism: Movements for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific The buildup of Japan’s nuclear industry in...
Jan
26
2023
Whose voice is this? Challenges and lessons of editing testimonies.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Colombia's Truth Commission Dialogues Series Present: Harold Muñoz, editor of the Colombia's Truth Commission's report chapter on testimony in conversation with...
Jan
30
2023
MENA Mondays: ROUNDTABLE | Dilemmas and Strategies of Research in the Contemporary MENA Region
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for MENA Monday. Lunch will be provided. The event is in person, a Zoom option is available...
Jan
30
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Robin Nelson, Arizona State University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Common Problems: (re)Considering biocultural theory and methods in the study created relations and everyday human crises Kinship has been a central...
Jan
31
2023
Disinformation as/in Polarization: Media Politics in Contemporary Latin America- A Conversation with Silvio Waisbord
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for this conversation with Silvio Waisbord, director and professor at the School of Media and Public Affairs...
Jan
31
2023
Student Lunch with Dr. Natalia Duong
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Natalia Duong is a researcher, teacher, and multidisciplinary performance maker. Her current book, Chemical Diasporas: Performing Toxicity through Ecological Kinship...
Jan
31
2023
Chemical Diasporas: The Kinships and Afterlives of Agent Orange | AASP Winter Speaker Series
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
TALK BY NATALIA DUONG: Chemical Diasporas: The Kinships and Afterlives of Agent Orange Agent Orange is commonly known as the main...
Jan
31
2023
Movie Night at the Program of African Studies
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
All winter quarter, the Program of African Studies is hosting movie night. Please join us for pizza, snacks, and good...
Feb
1
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Feb
2
2023
Leslie Reagan: Abortion is an American Tradition
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
"Abortion is an American Tradition: The Supreme Court, Fake History, and the Dobbs Decision" Professor Reagan will discuss the history, practice,...
Feb
6
2023
MENA Mondays: FACULTY COLLOQUIUM | Childhood in Transformation
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunch will be available. Attending by Zoom is available upon request. Speaker: Maayan...
Feb
7
2023
Student Lunch with Dr. Keva X. Bui
12:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Keva X. Bui is a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Pennsylvania...
Feb
7
2023
More-than-Human Terrain: U.S. Militarism and the Racial Logics of Cold War Science in Southeast Asia | AASP Winter Speaker Series
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
TALK BY KEVA X. BUI: More-than-Human Terrain: U.S. Militarism and the Racial Logics of Cold War Science in Southeast Asia Drawing...
Feb
8
2023
Swahli Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Feb
15
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Feb
20
2023
MENA Mondays: MENA CONVERSATION | Landscapes of Toxicity
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. This event is virtual. Register for the Zoom here: https://bit.ly/MENAFeb20 . Title: MENA CONVERSATION...
Feb
23
2023
African Seminar group meeting
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
The Africa Seminar (AfriSem) provides an interdisciplinary and area-defined setting for graduate students studying Africa to develop, present, and draw...
Feb
27
2023
MENA Mondays: FACULTY COLLOQUIUM | Sufi Ethics, Neoliberal Aesthetics, and Gendered Religious Authority in Turkey
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunch will be served. This event will be in person, but a...
Feb
27
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Sherina Feliciano-Santos, University of Michigan
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
To come
Feb
28
2023
The Afterlives of Coral or The Persistence of Colonial Violence. A Talk by Ayana Flewellen.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for this talk by Ayana Flewellen of Stanford University. Lunch provided. Mined coral lays at the foundation of...
Mar
6
2023
MENA Monday: Unearthing the Substrata of Images: Specters of Oil and Counter-Archives of Extraction in Iran
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for MENA Monday. Lunch will be provided. The event will be held in person, a Zoom option...
Mar
7
2023
Faculty Workshop: “Enlightenment and Devastation, 1767-1845”, History of Mexico Paul Gillingham (Northwestern) with Margaret Chowning (Berkeley), respondent
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for this faculty workshop with Paul Gillingham and respondent Margaret Chowning. Lunch provided. "Enlightenment and Devastation, 1767-1845” is...
Apr
17
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Lara Deeb, Scripps College
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“What Will People Say? Love Across Difference in Lebanon” Intersectarian and interreligious marriages often provoke strong opposition from Lebanese of all...
May
8
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Cara Ocobock, University of Notre Dame
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway”: How Reindeer Herders of Sub-Arctic Finland Bioculturally Cope with the Cold With mean annual...
May
22
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Jafari Allen, University of Miami
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“The Anthropology of ‘What is Utterly Precious’: Black Feminist Habits of Mind, and the Object (and Ends) of Ethnography.” The larger...