multi-day
Ashley Leinweber: Congo's Islamic Borderland
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Cosponsored by the Institute for the Study of Islamic...
Past Events (Calendar)
multi-day
IN MOTION: Performance and Unsettling Borders
All day, sponsored by Department of Performance Studies
How do borders echo and reverberate as cultural geographies, unsettling space and forcing bodies to move, to organize, and to...
multi-day
Serbest Kurdish Studies Conference
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Buffett Institute for Global Studies is hosting its inaugural Kurdish Studies Conference. The Kurdish Studies Conference Series aims to support...
multi-day
PAS L+L: South Africa and its Discontents: Contemporary Politics and Social Mobilization
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.
multi-day
Swahili Language 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...
multi-day
Thinking Andean Studies Conference
All day, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The Thinking Andean Studies conference continues its mission to strengthen the interdisciplinary network of scholars working in the growing field...
multi-day
Serbest Kurdish Studies Conference
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
The conference convenes annually to discuss the experiences and struggles of Kurds, and the historical and comparative study of Kurdish...
multi-day
James Cone: Black Theology & Black Power Conference
All day, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Black Theology & Black PowerA Conference exploring the legacy of James Cone https://jameshcone.northwestern.edu/about/ The conference is supported by Department of Religious Studies,...
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...
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....
Apr
16
2018
Political Spectacles and Emotional Mobilization in Turkey — Senem Aslan
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This paper explores the symbolic foundations of power-making in Turkey over the last decade. Particularly after the Gezi Protests, as the...
Apr
18
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
Apr
18
2018
Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement - Reading and Performance at the Poetry Foundation
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
This performance is part of a spring residency of the Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement, a South African company that...
Apr
19
2018
Kate Ramsey: Powers of Imagination and Afro-Caribbean Healing in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
Afro-Caribbean spiritual practices became an object of law in many British Caribbean colonies at a time of intense transatlantic medical...
Apr
19
2018
Seminar in Applied Microeconomics
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: Seminar in Applied Microeconomics
Frank Schilbach (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Technology Diffusion and Appropriate Use: Evidence from Western Kenya"
Apr
19
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
Apr
20
2018
Footnotes and Fragments: Rabih Mroué on War and Its Images
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Please join us for a screening of Footnotes, a recent video by the celebrated Lebanese artist, actor, and playwright, Rabih...
Apr
20
2018
Umzila ka Moya (Spirit's Path) - Performance by Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
This performance is part of a spring residency of the Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement, a South African company that...
Apr
21
2018
Umzila ka Moya (Spirit's Path) - Performance by Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
This performance is part of a spring residency of the Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement, a South African company that...
Apr
23
2018
ISITA Conference: Global Islam in Africa: African Muslims and the World, Muslim Worlds in Africa
All day, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
GLOBAL ISLAM IN AFRICA: AFRICAN MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD, MUSLIM WORLDS IN AFRICA is a one-and-a-half day conference sponsored by...
Apr
23
2018
Back to the Future? Tunisia's Democratic Constitutional Order Under Threat — Nadia Marzouki
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The adoption of Tunisia's 2014 constitution has been widely celebrated as a major achievement of the North African country's 2011 revolution....
Apr
23
2018
Global Health Spring Seminar: Dr. Maxwell Akanbi
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for Global Health
Title: Smoking cessation in sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and Challenges Presenter: Maxwell Akanbi, MBBS, MSCI PhD Candidate, Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program...
Apr
23
2018
Kristina Douglass, Penn State University: Humanizing the Anthropocene of Madagascar
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Anthropolgoy Colloquium. Madagascar figures prominently in debates over contemporary and past human exploitation of island biomes. This large and biogeographically diverse...
Apr
23
2018
Islamic Authority in Global Africa: Keynote Address by Emir Muhammad Sanusi II
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
His Highness Muhammad Sanusi II, Emir of Kano (Nigeria) will deliver a keynote address for ISITA's conference on "Islam in...
Apr
23
2018
When Law is Not Enough: Controversies over Muslim Rights in the US — Nadia Marzouki (MENA Monday Night at the Evanston Public Library)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Disputes over the scope of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution have played a central role in contemporary debates about...
Apr
24
2018
ISITA Conference: Global Islam in Africa: African Muslims and the World, Muslim Worlds in Africa
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
GLOBAL ISLAM IN AFRICA: AFRICAN MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD, MUSLIM WORLDS IN AFRICA is a one-and-a-half day conference sponsored by...
Apr
24
2018
Lynn THOMAS lecture on African History (CCHS)
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Lecture by Lynn THOMAS (University of Washington), author of Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya...
Apr
24
2018
The Treasury of Tradition - Rifka Cook
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Rifka Cook was born and raised in a Sephardi family in Caracas, Venezuela. Since 2001, she has taught first and...
Apr
24
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
Apr
24
2018
Kafein Tuesday - With Professors Douglas Ishii and Hi'ilei Hobart
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Vent, brain, dream strategize! Come hang out with Asian American Studies faculty at Kafein Coffee Shop and talk about the...
Apr
25
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
Apr
25
2018
How Youth Can Solve Grand Challenges in the 21st Century - Fred Swaniker
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Ghanaian entrepreneur Fred Swaniker has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the Buffett Award for Emerging Global Leaders. As a...
Apr
26
2018
The Passion of Hak-Shing William Tam
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
A talk by Asian American Studies faculty, Justin Tse on Hak-Shing William Tam and the Chinese Christians at the center...
Apr
27
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
Apr
29
2018
Ai Weiwei: Human Flow, film screening and livestream Q&A
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Arts Circle
"Human Flow” is a sprawling and heartbreaking exploration of the global refugee crisis. Captured over the course of a year...
Apr
30
2018
Counter-Revolutionary Aesthetics in Egypt — Jessica Winegar
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Fresh back from Egypt, Jessica Winegar will present preliminary material from her book-in-progress that examines how aesthetic forms, judgments, and practices...
Apr
30
2018
Anthropology Colloquium: Sarah Hillewaert, University of Toronto; MORALITY AT THE MARGINS. YOUTH, LANGUAGE, AND ISLAM IN COASTAL KENYA
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
In this talk, I consider the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on the island of Lamu (Kenya) who live simultaneously...
Apr
30
2018
Care, Compassion, and Memory in the Ebola Museum
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
What can practices to commemorate official epidemic responses tell us about the logics of response itself? Specifically, what do they...
May
2
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
May
3
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
May
3
2018
INPut Lecture series: "The Authoritarian Transmission: How France Engineered a Sixty-Year Successor Government in Cameroon"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Governance and Development Study Group
Professor Richard Joseph of Northwestern's political science department will give a lecture detailing his experiences in Cameroon and how to...
May
3
2018
Jennifer Brier: "I'm Still Surviving: Towards a Women's History of Living with HIV/AIDS"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Using feminist oral history methods for both the collection and interpretation of oral history narratives, this talk, and the public...
May
4
2018
Pacific Island Studies Now Symposium
8:30 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Featuring: Vicente Diaz (Univ of Minnesota), Christina DeLisle (Univ. of Minnesota), and Hokulani Aikau (Univ. of Utah). Northwestern scholars include:...
May
7
2018
Reinventing the Wheel: Constitutions as Iterative Documents — Nathan Brown
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Constitutions are often seen — and present themselves — as moments of creation. But in fact, most states writing constitutions...
May
7
2018
Religious Freedom in Arab States: Who Is Free and What Are They Free to Do? A Talk by Nathan Brown (MENA Monday Night at the Evanston Public Library)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Most Arab states have an official religion and make some provisions for religious law in some areas. But they also...
May
9
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
May
9
2018
BOOK LAUNCH - With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents a book launch for With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims,...
May
10
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
May
10
2018
“Helper” or “Savior”? The Debate Over Short-Term Global Health Activities
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Community-Engaged Scholarship Working Group (Buffett Institute)
As universities around the world tout the growing number of students seeking international experiences, they are also faced by the...
May
10
2018
"Nazım Hikmet and the Prose of Communism" (Nergis Ertürk, Penn State University)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies Program Speaker Series. Professor Ertürk will discuss current book project on early twentieth-century Turkish and Soviet literary encounters. Please note,...
May
10
2018
Afrofuturism: Re-Imagining the Future of Africa with Nnedi Okorafor
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM, sponsored by Kellogg Africa Business Club
The Black Panther movie brought the conversation of Afrofuturism to the global stage. The Kellogg Africa Business Club (ABC) is...
May
10
2018
Voices of Experience: An Alumni Panel Discussion
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Fulbright Research & Teaching Assistantships:Fulbright • DAAD • Carnegie • Erasmus Mundus • CBYX • Critical Language Grant Six Northwestern alums...
May
14
2018
The Quotidian Politics of Agrarian Rurality in Morocco — Karen Rignall
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This talk will explore what the experience of commoning in a Moroccan oasis might tell us about land, politics, and...
May
15
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
May
15
2018
End the Silence: Gender Norms and Dating Violence in APIDA Communities
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
An event in recognition of Asian Pacific Island Heritage Month. Sponsored by: Asian American Studies and the Multicultural Student Affairs
May
16
2018
Dance as a Public Good in Cuba - Elizabeth Schwall
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This presentation discusses how dance became a public good in Cuba in the late 1960s and 1970s. Dance leaders spearheaded...
May
17
2018
Jessica Mathiason: "New Eugenic Media: Gender, Sexuality, and Bioethics in the 21st Century"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Jessica Lee Mathiason received her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota in 2017....
May
18
2018
Afro-Latinidades: Blackness, Identity, and Space
All day, sponsored by The Latina and Latino Studies Program
The Latina and Latino Studies Program at Northwestern University presents its annual symposium for 2018, titled Afro-Latinidades: Blackness, Identity, and...
May
18
2018
Art History Symposium: "Entangled Urbanisms: History, Place, and the Shaping of Cities"
9:00 AM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Entangled Urbanisms: History, Place, and the Shaping of Cities The Department of Art History at Northwestern University, in conjunction with the...
May
18
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
May
21
2018
The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt — Omnia El Shakry (New Directions Lecture)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn ‘Arabi — al-la-shu‘ur —...
May
21
2018
Revolutionary Mothers and Nation-Builders: Korean women in China and Japan, 1930s to 1970s
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
This talk will be presented by professor Ji-Yeon Yuh. It is part of a monthly series of talks by faculty...
May
22
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
May
23
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
May
23
2018
Life on the Border: The Cinema of Bahman Ghobadi — A Time for Drunken Horses
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this series of screenings and conversations with the critically-acclaimed Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, who has been called...
May
24
2018
Life on the Border: The Cinema of Bahman Ghobadi — Turtles Can Fly
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this series of screenings and conversations with the critically-acclaimed Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, who has been called...
May
25
2018
CANCELLED: Talk and Reception with James W. Fernandez
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Talk and reception with James W. Fernandez, anthropology, University of Chicago.
May
25
2018
Life on the Border: The Cinema of Bahman Ghobadi — No One Knows About Persian Cats
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this series of screenings and conversations with the critically-acclaimed Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, who has been called...
May
29
2018
Solving the Mystery of Grace Jones: It’s the Holy Ghost
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Lecture by Dr. Judith Casselberry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Bowdoin College Response by Dr. Francesca Royster, Associate Professor of English,...
May
29
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
May
30
2018
Professionalization: How to Get Published
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program is excited to host Gianna F. Mosser, Editor-in-Chief of Northwestern University Press, for...
May
31
2018
Gender & Sexuality Studies Year-End Awards Ceremony & Celebration
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
All members of the Gender & Sexuality Studies community are invited to come honor our graduating seniors, and acknowledge recent...
Jun
1
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
Jun
4
2018
Why is Sectarian Conflict on the Rise in the Middle East? A Talk by Danny Postel
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
As the Middle East descends further and further into a maelstrom of violence and state breakdown, the new conventional wisdom in Western...
Jun
5
2018
Asian American Studies Undergraduate Symposium
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come listen to our graduating seniors present their research: Karen Adjei, Henry Chen, Preston Choi, Alicia Zheng
Jun
5
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
Jun
6
2018
Killing is the Law - Dr. Joy James & Dr. Sora Han
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents our final event of the year – “Killing is the Law” a...
Jun
7
2018
Symposium: Rethinking the 'Muslim World': Concepts, History, Law, Politics
All day, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
Symposium: Rethinking the 'Muslim World': Concepts, History, Law, Politics.” The event will feature the recent work of Iza Hussin (The Politics...
Jun
7
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
Jun
7
2018
AASP 2018 End of Year Reception
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join us in celebration of the accomplishments of our program's graduating majors, minors and award winners!
Jun
8
2018
PAS Annual Picnic
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join PAS for refreshments as we wrap up the end of the 2017-2018 academic year!
Jun
12
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Information sessions provide you with more in depth information about our courses, what to expect if accepted to the program,...
Jun
21
2018
Global Health Spring Seminar: Brian Citro
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for Global Health
Title: Developing a Human Rights-Based Approach to Tuberculosis: Lessons from Research and Global Advocacy Presenter: Brian Citro, JD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law,...
Aug
2
2018
Special Summer IPHAM Seminar: Using Mathematical Models to Inform Malaria Control and Elimination Strategies
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM)
This is a special summer IPHAM Seminar. Title: Using Mathematical Models to Inform Malaria Control and Elimination Strategies Presenter: Jaline Gerardin, PhDSenior Research ManagerInstitute for...
Aug
3
2018
NICO SUMMER SEMINAR: Jaline Gerardin, Institute for Disease Modeling "Using mathematical models to inform malaria control and elimination strategies"
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Title: Using mathematical models to inform malaria control and elimination strategies Speaker: Jaline Gerardin, Malaria Team Lead, Institute for Disease Modeling Talk Abstract: Malaria transmission...
Aug
10
2018
Northwestern's Arabic Manuscripts of Islamic Africa: Law, Theology, Mysticism, and Healing
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
A talk by Zachary V. WrightAssociate Professor, History and Religious StudiesNorthwestern University in Qatar Presented by the Herskovits Library of African...
Sep
25
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
3:00 PM - 4:00 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.
Sep
28
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1813 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 2:00 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.
Oct
2
2018
Gender & Sexuality Studies Fall Reception
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Join the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program for our annual Fall Reception!
Oct
3
2018
PAS L+L: Monica Green - Putting Africa on the Black Death Map
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Putting Africa on the Black Death Map: Narratives from...
Oct
3
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1813 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Oct
3
2018
"South Asian Masculinities Through Ethnographic Film”
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Harjant S. Gill will show his 30 min film, Mardistan (Macholand) followed by a Q&A. Mardistan (Macholand) explores Indian manhood articulated through the...
Oct
4
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Oct
4
2018
Medieval Colloquim Speaker - Monica Green (History, Arizona State University)
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Professor Green will present: “The Origins of the Black Death: A Consilient Approach from Phylogenetics and History”
Oct
5
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1813 Hinman - No registration needed
2:00 PM - 3:00 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.
Oct
8
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1813 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Oct
8
2018
Timothy Mitchell - "On Capitalization"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University Title On Capitalization Abstract We have recently come to understand “the economy” not as a feature of all societies,...
Oct
8
2018
Global Health Fall Seminar: MHM in 10 - Menstruation Hygiene Management in Kenya Primary Schools
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for Global Health
Lecture Title: MHM in 10 - Menstruation Hygiene Management in Kenya Primary Schools Presenter: Leah Neubauer, EdD, Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine in...
Oct
9
2018
Information Session: Global Health Fogarty Fellowships
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for Global Health
The HBNU Fogarty Global Health Training Program offers opportunities in global health clinical research training for pre- and post-doctoral candidates...
Oct
9
2018
African History lecture by Sandra Greene (CCHS)
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Sandra GREENE (Cornell U), author of Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition (2017) Lecture: “Uncommon...
Oct
10
2018
PAS L+L: Johnnetta Betsch Cole
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Johnnetta Betsch Cole is a prominenet Northwestern and Program of African Studies alum. She earned her MA (1959) and PhD (1967) degrees here...
Oct
11
2018
PAS Fall Open House
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
The Program of African Studies invites both new and returning students, faculty, staff, and community members to our Fall Open...
Oct
12
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1813 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 1:00 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.
Oct
15
2018
Sex, Drugs, and Global Health
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Institute for Global Health
What is the relationship between sex, drugs and global health? What role do human rights and the law play in...
Oct
15
2018
Keyword: Consent
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
A panel of scholars, educators, and activists will discuss the multiple, contested meanings of the keyword “consent” from the vantages...
Oct
16
2018
PAS L+L: Anand Grover - Health and Human Rights in Africa
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Renowned International Health and Human Rights Lawyer visit to Northwestern Anand Grover, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2008-14);...
Oct
16
2018
Richard W. Leopold Lecture: Vicente Fox
5:00 PM - 6:45 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
29th Annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture Perspectives and Challenges in US-Mexico Relationships Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, will be joining us...
Oct
17
2018
Hubert Haddad: Conversations with the Author
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Sponsored by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Dialogues: French and the Global Humanities working group. HUBERT HADDAD is a...
Oct
17
2018
Gender & Sexuality Studies Undergraduate Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Join us for our first installment of quarterly lunches for students. Meet current GSS students, staff, and faculty.
Oct
17
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1813 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Oct
17
2018
Forum Language Tables:,, English (ESL), German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Forum for Languages and Cultures (Buffett Institute)
Join us for Languages Tables at Shephard Engagement Center from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. (626 University Place: B25) Tuesday Language Tables:...
Oct
17
2018
Biodiversity Conservation in Tanzania: A People Problem. Featuring a conversation with Jessica Pouchet.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by International Studies
The Global Cafe Event: Biodiversity Conservation in Tanzania: A People Problem. Featuring a conversation with Jessica Pouchet.
Oct
17
2018
Biodiversity Conservation in Tanzania: A People Problem. Featuring a conversation with Jessica Pouchet.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by International Studies
The Global Cafe Event: Biodiversity Conservation in Tanzania: A People Problem. Featuring a conversation with Jessica Pouchet.
Oct
18
2018
Hubert Haddad: “Corps désirable et les avatars du transhumanisme”
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Sponsored by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Dialogues: French and the Global Humanities working group. HUBERT HADDAD is a...
Oct
19
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1813 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 1:00 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.
Oct
23
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1813 Hinman - No registration needed
4:30 PM - 5:30 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.
Oct
24
2018
Global Health & Community Outreach Clinics - An SPS Lunchtime Table Talk
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by SPS: Special Events
Global Health & Community Outreach Clinics: Innovative Approaches to Bring Services Closer to the People Join Northwestern University School of Professional...
Oct
24
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1813 Hinman - No registration needed
5:00 PM - 6:00 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.
Oct
25
2018
A Jurisprudence of Generosity: A Celebration of The Alchemy of Race and Rights
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
This day long event will bring together nationally recognized scholars across the humanities and social sciences to consider the extended...
Oct
25
2018
Global Health Fall Seminar: Dr. Geoffrey Anguyo, KIHEFO Uganda
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for Global Health
Lecture Title: TBD Presenter: Geoffrey Anguyo, PhD, Director & Founder KIHEFO Kabale, Uganda, East Africa Part of the Global Health Seminar Series for...
Oct
26
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1813 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 2:00 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.
Oct
29
2018
Anthropology Colloquium: Amal Hassan Fadlalla, University of Michigan
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Saviors, Survivors, and Role Models: Humanity, Ethnicity, and Violence against Women There is no doubt that the Islamists’ rise to power...
Oct
29
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1813 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Oct
30
2018
One Book keynote with author Margaret Atwood - Evanston campus
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by One Book One Northwestern
Author Margaret Atwood in conversation with English Professor and One Book faculty Chair Helen Thompson. Please note: this event is...
Oct
30
2018
Undergraduate Lecture Series: Dean Karlan and Chris Udry
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Global Poverty Research Lab
At the first in our new undergraduate lecture series, professors Dean Karlan and Chris Udry, co-directors of the Global Poverty...
Oct
31
2018
Kimberly Wortmann: Endowments, Wills, and Charitable Societies: Old and New Expressions of Ibadhi Mosque Patronage in Zanzibar
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Endowments, Wills, and Charitable Societies: Old and New Expressions of Ibadhi Mosque Patronage in Zanzibar A talk by Kimberly Wortmann, Religion,...
Oct
31
2018
Forum Language Tables: English (ESL), German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Forum for Languages and Cultures (Buffett Institute)
Join us for Languages Tables at Shephard Engagement Center from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. (626 University Place: B25) Tuesday Language Tables:...
Oct
31
2018
On Eurocentric Epistemology and the West African Ebola Outbreak: Questioning the Dominant Narrative on the Epidemic Origin.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by International Studies
On Eurocentric Epistemology and the West African Ebola Outbreak: Questioning the Dominant Narrative on the Epidemic Origin.
Nov
1
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
5:00 PM - 6:00 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.
Nov
1
2018
Gayatri Gopinath & Marlon Bailey - Unruly Visions
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents "Unruly Visions" - a book talk by Gayatri Gopinath (New York University) moderated by...
Nov
1
2018
UNRULY VISIONS - Featuring Gayatri Gopinath
5:15 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
This is a Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora guest speaker lecture, featuring Gayatri Gopinath, from NYU. This is event is co-sponsored...
Nov
2
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1813 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 1:00 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.
Nov
5
2018
Signs of Satan in Iran: Hollywood, Cosmopolitanism, Paranoia — Alireza Doostdar
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Hollywood productions live complex social lives in Iran. They are consumed as objects of entertainment, contemplated as vehicles of spiritual...
Nov
6
2018
GESI Info Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI)
Come to a GESI info session! Are you going to study abroad? The Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI) is a study...
Nov
6
2018
LACS Faculty and Graduate Colloquium series
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Over the past three decades, the widespread revival of colonial musics from Latin America has enriched the early music scene...
Nov
6
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:30 PM - 5:30 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.
Nov
7
2018
PAS Avant-Garde Africa Research Cluster Discussion
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
This year, the Program of African Studies has formed three interdisciplinary research clusters: Avant-Garde Africa, Health & Healing, and Security...
Nov
7
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Nov
7
2018
From Louisville and Pittsburgh to Brazil and Nigeria: An Open Forum on Violence, Xenophobia, and Fear at Home and Abroad
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
We invite you to participate in a broad but thoughtful dialogue about race, religion, the foreign, the other, refugees, physical...
Nov
9
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 1:00 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.
Nov
12
2018
Irfan Ahmad: Beyond the “Secular/Enlightenment” Frame: Critique as an Everyday Practice among Muslims
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic culture, focusing...
Nov
12
2018
MENA Study Abroad Information Session
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Come learn from the Undergraduate Learning Abroad Office about study abroad options in the MENA region including Israel, Jordan, Morocco,...
Nov
13
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Nov
14
2018
Development Economics Lunch Seminar
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: Development Economics Lunch Seminar
Ashley Wong & Francesca Truffa (Northwestern University) "Effect of Beliefs and Gender Roles on Girls’ Math Education" Abstract:In Ghana, a large gender...
Nov
14
2018
The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State: A Discussion with Co-author Abdulbasit Kassim
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join ISITA for a discussion with Abdulbasit Kassim about his new publication, co-edited with Michael Nwankpa, The Boko Haram Reader:...
Nov
14
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Nov
14
2018
Forum Language Tables: English (ESL), German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Forum for Languages and Cultures (Buffett Institute)
Join us for Languages Tables at Shephard Engagement Center from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. (626 University Place: B25) Tuesday Language Tables:...
Nov
15
2018
Asian American Activism in Chicago
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
A round table featuring: Patricia Nguyen - Asian American Studies faculty; Axis Lab, a community arts organization in the Southeast Asian...
Nov
15
2018
Hortense Spillers: "To the Bone: Some Speculations on the Problem of Touch"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
This project takes up the question of the ambivalence of touch and what the latter might reveal about the uses...
Nov
16
2018
Scott Straus: "Political Authority After Civil War: The Peacebuilder's Dilemma"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by War & Society Working Group (Buffett Institute)
The War & Society Working Group of the Buffett Institute co-hosts Prof. Scott Straus (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science) with...
Nov
16
2018
American Cultures Colloquium Speaker - Marianne Noble
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
“'All the vivacities lie in differences’: Sympathy in Stowe’s Dred and The Minister’s Wooing” Drawing from her second book, Rethinking Sympathy...
Nov
19
2018
GESI Info Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI)
Are you going to study abroad? The Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI) is a study abroad program for undergraduates run...
Nov
26
2018
Educating Muslim Youth in Asia and Africa: An ISITA Perspectives Symposium
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) for a dialogue between the authors of two...
Nov
26
2018
Screening of "Duniya Juyi Juyi" (How Life Goes)
11:30 AM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Duniya Juyi Juyi (which means "How Life Goes" in Hausa) is a 69-minute docudrama written, filmed, directed, and acted in...
Nov
27
2018
Russell Kapumha “Recent Archaeological Research in Southeast Zimbabwe”
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Department of Anthropology for a lunch lecture by historian Russell Kapumha from the University of Zimbabwe. Lunch provided....
Nov
27
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Nov
27
2018
Ethiopia: A Turn to Democracy?
6:00 PM - 8:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
In 2018, there have been notable democratic advances and setbacks in Africa. The Working Group on Governance & Development has...
Nov
28
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Nov
28
2018
Forum Language Tables: English (ESL), German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Forum for Languages and Cultures (Buffett Institute)
Join us for Languages Tables at Shephard Engagement Center from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. (626 University Place: B25) Tuesday Language Tables:...
Nov
28
2018
Ismail Besikci and Wendy Pearlman: Kurds’ Right to Self-Determination and the International Political Order
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Ismail Beşikçi is a renowned sociologist, Kurdologist, PEN Honorary Member, and former Nobel Peace Prize candidate who caught the attention...
Nov
28
2018
"The Feeling of Being Watched" - Documentary film / Q&A with director Assia Boundaoui
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
A filmmaker digs into tales of surveillance inside her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago’s south suburbs and discovers that her hometown...
Nov
29
2018
Textual and Visual Landscapes of Decolonization across (Portuguese) India and Southern Africa
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
Drawing on her forthcoming book (Bloomsbury 2018), Pamila Gupta offers a conceptual frame for rethinking decolonization processes across Portuguese India...
Nov
30
2018
EES Seminar: Francis L. de los Reyes III
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
Linking the Microbiome to Reactor Performance: Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Grease Interceptor Waste as a Model System AbstractThe ‘omics revolution has generated...
Nov
30
2018
New Docs: Call Her Ganda (2018)
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
New Docs: Call Her Ganda PJ Raval, 2018, USA/Philippines, DCP, 98 min This documentary examines the 2014 murder of Jennifer Laude, a...
Dec
1
2018
Minorities in Philosophy Screening and Panel Discussion
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory Research Workshop
UHURU PHALAFALA (STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY) & PREMESH LALU (UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE) HOST & CHAIR: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S MAP (MINORITIES AND PHILOSOPHY)...
Dec
1
2018
Minorities in Philosophy Screening and Panel Discussion
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM, sponsored by Philosophy Department Lectures, etc.
UHURU PHALAFALA (STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY) & PREMESH LALU (UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE) HOST & CHAIR: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S MAP (MINORITIES AND PHILOSOPHY)...
Dec
1
2018
Minorities in Philosophy Screening and Panel Discussion
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
UHURU PHALAFALA (STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY) & PREMESH LALU (UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE) HOST & CHAIR: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S MAP (MINORITIES AND PHILOSOPHY)...
Dec
3
2018
Fanon, Aesthetics and the Decolonial Turn
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, sponsored by Critical Theory
DISCUSSION OF:- Alia Al-Saji, “Glued to the Image: Fanon and Muslim Racialization through Works of Art”- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, “On Metaphysical...
Dec
4
2018
LACS Faculty and Graduate Colloquium - Arturo Chang: Reframing Preservation: Civic Religion and Justified Rebellion in the Republican Discourse of 18th Century Mexico
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
One of the most recognizable features of Republican Political Thought is illustrated by the notion of collective preservation through social...
Dec
5
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Dec
5
2018
Distinguished Weinberg Visiting Fellow Lecture, Marlon Bailey: "It was like something I had never seen before": Black Gay Sexual Spaces and 'Situations' in the Age of AIDS.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
In this presentation, Bailey explores what sexual health means for some black gay men and what it looks like from...
Dec
6
2018
GESI Info Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI)
Come to a GESI info session! Are you going to study abroad? The Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI) is a study...
Dec
7
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
2:00 PM - 3:00 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.
Dec
10
2018
GESI Info Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI)
Come to a GESI info session! Are you going to study abroad? The Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI) is a study...
Dec
11
2018
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 2:00 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.
Jan
8
2019
LACS Colloquium - Ed Gibson
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In contemporary scholarship on democratic regimes the U.S. tends to be held up as a model of institutionalized democracy and...
Jan
10
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Jan
15
2019
Economics Junior Recruiting Seminar
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: Junior Recruiting Seminar
Anne Karing (University of California, Berkeley): "Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone"
Jan
16
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Jan
17
2019
Robert Launay: Savages, Romans, and Despots
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Robert Launay presents work from his new book "Savages, Romans, and Despots," a tour of early modern and modern history...
Jan
17
2019
Performances Medioambientales en el Perú Contemporáneo
5:15 PM - 6:45 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
La conferencia comentará distintas intervenciones que vienen representando la destrucción del mundo natural. En todas ellas, vale decir, en la...
Jan
22
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Jan
22
2019
Asian American Studies Career Round Table
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come hear from Asian American Studies Alumni! See what they're doing after graduation and where they're headed! Featuring: AJ Aguado, Senior...
Jan
23
2019
Gender & Sexuality Studies Undergraduate Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Join us for the winter installment of quarterly lunches for students. Meet current GSS students, staff, and faculty.
Jan
24
2019
Can Candan: The current state of academic freedoms in Turkey
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
In January 2016, 1128 academics in Turkey signed a petition as "Academics for Peace" protesting the Turkish government's attack on...
Jan
24
2019
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Discussion with Black Lives Matter Co-founder Patrisse Cullors
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
UPDATE 1/24: This event is SOLD OUT. We will do our best to accommodate standby guests if seats become available....
Jan
25
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 1:00 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.
Jan
25
2019
Comparative Politics Workshop with David Peyton
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
"Securing Property in Insecure Environments: Wealth Defense, Institutional Selection, and Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo" David PeytonPh.D. Candidate, Northwestern...
Jan
28
2019
Why Alliances Fail: Islamist and Leftist Coalitions in North Africa
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The Middle East and North African Studies Program (MENA) is pleased to present this program in partnership with the Institute for the...
Jan
28
2019
Anthropology Colloquium: Lisa J. Lucero, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
A Cosmology of Conservation in the Ancient Maya World In this paper I will present a cosmology quite different from our...
Jan
28
2019
Feminist Periodicals in the Year of The Handmaid’s Tale: Women’s Solidarity and the Backlash in 1985 and Engaging Archives: Feminist and Queer Encounters from Northwestern University Libraries’ Special Collections
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by One Book One Northwestern
OPENING RECEPTION in One South, Main LibraryMonday, January 285 – 6 PMremarks from faculty and students at 5:30 PM “Feminist Periodicals...
Jan
28
2019
Playing in the Gray
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents: “Playing in the Gray” a lecture by Kimberly Kay Hoang (University of...
Jan
28
2019
Why Alliances Fail: Islamist and Leftist Coalitions in North Africa — Evanston Public Library
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) and the Middle East and North African Studies Program...
Jan
31
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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
1
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 1:00 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
2
2019
Film screening: Jane: An Abortion Service
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Reproductive Systems: Gender, Power and SocietyBlock Cinema continues its year-long series of programs inspired by One Book One Northwestern’s 2018-2019...
Feb
4
2019
IPR Colloquium: J. Behrman (IPR/Sociology) - Global Family Change: Persistent Diversity with Development
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute For Policy Research
"Global Family Change: Persistent Diversity with Development" by Julia Behrman, Assistant Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow This is part of the...
Feb
5
2019
Genomic Landscape of Breast Cancer in Diverse Populations - Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, FACP, OON
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Genetic Medicine
The Center for Genetic Medicine of Northwestern University welcomes you to attend the Richard A. Scott, MD Lecture on Tuesday,...
Feb
5
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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
5
2019
Keyword: Reproduction
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
A panel of five feminist doctors, scholars, educators and activists discuss the politics of human biological reproduction as well as...
Feb
6
2019
Film screening: An Opera of the World with Manthia Diawara, in person
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
An Opera of the World(Manthia Diawara, 2017, Portugal/USA/Mali, digital, 70 min.)A world-renowned scholar, filmmaker, and theorist of cultural hybridity, Manthia...
Feb
7
2019
Japanese American Internment Narratives After 9/11
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Professor Michelle Huang will examine two novels about Japanese American internment written after 9/11 to consider what these "neo-internment narratives"...
Feb
7
2019
Sociology Colloquium: Rachel Beatty Riedl, Northwestern University
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Rachel Beatty Riedl presents: From Pews to Politics in Africa and Beyond
Feb
8
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 1:00 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
2019
Hannah Appel - "Oil and the Licit Life of Capitalism in Equatorial Guinea"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Hannah Appel, Anthropology, UCLA Title Oil and the Licit Life of Capitalism in Equatorial Guinea Abstract Critical approaches to capitalism often argue that profit-oriented...
Feb
12
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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
13
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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
13
2019
"Delving into the Diasporic Ballroom" Julian Glover, PhD Candidate, African American Studies.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by International Studies
"Delving into the Diasporic Ballroom" Julian Glover, PhD Candidate, African American Studies.
Feb
13
2019
Artist Talk: Counter-Histories with Michael Rakowitz
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Internationally acclaimed artist and Art, Theory, and Practice faculty member Michael Rakowitz explores culture as it is embodied in artifacts....
Feb
14
2019
Fulbright-Hays Workshop
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
Learn about program priorities and application strategies at this Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Award informational workshop. Stephen Hill will describe the program,...
Feb
18
2019
Anne Balay: "It gets you off your high horse, really”: Queer truckers and rolling sexualities
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
The trucking industry has changed significantly since 1970, and this talk puts that history into the context of social and...
Feb
18
2019
The Saudi-Iranian Struggle for Supremacy — A Talk by Simon Mabon
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
For two consecutive years now, the International Crisis Group has put the Saudi-Iranian rivalry on its annual list of the...
Feb
19
2019
Revival from Below, The Deoband Movement and Global Islam
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Revival From Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam Faculty Book Colloquium presented by Professor Brannon Ingram, featuring panelists Professor Michelle...
Feb
19
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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
20
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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
20
2019
MENA Movie Night: Amreeka
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for the 1st screening of the new MENA Film Series! We will see Amreeka, by the Palestinian-American director...
Feb
21
2019
Fulbright-Hays Workshop
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
Learn about program priorities and application strategies at this Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Award informational workshop. Stephen Hill will describe the program,...
Feb
23
2019
Film Screening — Mouth Harp in Minor Key: Hamid Naficy on/in Exile
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Mouth Harp in Minor Key: Hamid Naficy on/in Exile(Maryam Sepehri, 2017, Iran/USA, digital, 62 min.) Please join us for this FREE...
Feb
25
2019
Rethinking the Sufi-Reformist Divide: Gender, Dress, and Authority (An ISITA Perspectives Symposium)
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) for a dialogue between the authors of two...
Feb
25
2019
Elisha Renne – Nigerian Marriage Advice Booklets, 1962-2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Bio: Elisha Renne is professor of anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan). Renne's research focuses on...
Feb
25
2019
Sovereignty as Self-Elimination: The Israeli Case — A Lecture by Joyce Dalsheim
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Joyce Dalsheim is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is...
Feb
27
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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
27
2019
Reproductive Justice Projects: a panel discussion
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
A panel discussion featuring five activists and alumni working on issues of reproductive justice in Chicago who will share their...
Feb
28
2019
Nations of Migrants: Panel and Conversation
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
As explored in the Block Museum exhibitions Caravans of Gold and The Leopard (Western Union: Small Boats), nations around the world...
Mar
1
2019
A cross-culturally equivalent measure of household water security: experiences in scale development and implementation from 30 sites worldwide
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
The 2019 World Economic Forum report estimates that 9 of the 10 worst global risks are linked to water, but...
Mar
1
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 1:00 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
2019
Sireen: An Oral History of Palestinian Dispossession and Resistance
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This talk is based on an oral history of a Palestinian family, tracing its experience from 1967 to the present....
Mar
4
2019
War Is Coming: Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed...
Mar
6
2019
Space for Historians: Preliminary Reflections on a Monograph Précis — A Talk by Cyrus Schayegh
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Cyrus Schayegh is Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Before joining the...
Mar
6
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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
6
2019
"Islam and the African World" Dr Wendell Marsh, Buffet Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, History.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by International Studies
"Islam and the African World" Dr Wendell Marsh, Buffet Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, History.
Mar
6
2019
Research at the Crossroads: Inside the Exhibition Caravans of Gold
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Experience The Block Museum of Art exhibition Caravans of Gold through the perspectives of Art History PhD candidate Sarah Estrella,...
Mar
8
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 2:00 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
11
2019
Anthropology Colloquium: Brinkley Messick, Columbia University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
The Anthropologist as Reader My recent book, Sharīʿa Scripts: A Historical Anthropology (Columbia. 2018), offers an interdisciplinary account of a locally...
Mar
12
2019
International Relations Working Group Presents Ayodeji Perrin
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Judicialization of the Business and Human Rights Regime for Africa's Extractive Industries Ayodeji Perrin PhD Candidate Northwestern University
Mar
12
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 2:00 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
18
2019
Anthropology Colloquium: Amy Non, University of California - San Diego
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Stress embodiment and resilience among Hispanic immigrant mothers and their children Hispanic immigrants represent the largest and fastest growing ethnic minority...
Mar
20
2019
Poetry Workshop: Migration, Fragmentation, and Translation
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop in conversation with two Block Museum of Art exhibitions:...
Apr
2
2019
LACS Faculty and Graduate Colloquium: Mei-Ling Hopgood
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Associate Prof. Mei-Ling Hopgood will talk about her work at Medill on identity, language and bilingual journalism techniques, and a...
Apr
3
2019
PAS L+L: Abdourahmane Seck - Producing Senegal: Social Processes and the Study of Islam
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Abdourahmane Seck, ISITA visiting scholar Producing Senegal: Social Processes and the Study of Islam Abstract A rigid colonial equation has profoundly marked and...
Apr
3
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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
4
2019
Afrisem Graduate Student Conference
All day, sponsored by Program of African Studies
African Studies Now: Decolonizing the Field More Info
Apr
4
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
5:00 PM - 6:00 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
5
2019
Afrisem Graduate Student Conference
All day, sponsored by Program of African Studies
African Studies Now: Decolonizing the Field More Info
Apr
8
2019
Voices of Jordan — A Talk by Jordanian Journalist Rana Sweis
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program, the Medill School of Journalism, abd the Evanston Public Library for this discussion with Jordanian...
Apr
9
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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
10
2019
Fulbright Study/Research Awards Information Session
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
Interested in Fulbright Study/Research awards? Attend an information meeting to investigate options and discover Northwestern’s Fulbright application process. Learn about deadlines, campus...
Apr
10
2019
Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: Graduate Student Seminar
Joris Mueller (Northwestern University): "State Planning and Development: Evidence from Villagization in Tanzania"
Apr
10
2019
ExCHANGE the World: Study Abroad
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Northwestern Buffett Global Learning Office
Come learn about our various exchange programs!First 25 students receive free 6 oz. Andy's Frozen custard :) In an exchange program,...
Apr
10
2019
Fulbright ETA Information Session
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
Fulbright (English Teaching Assistant) might be in your future! Attend this info session to hear about the program basics, including eligibility...
Apr
10
2019
Herman Bennett Book Talk: African Kings and Black Slaves Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for African American History (CAAH)
As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying...
Apr
11
2019
Residual Governance, or How African Anthropocenes Foretell Planetary Futures - Gabrielle Hecht
5:00 PM - 6:45 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
"Residual Governance, or How African Anthropocenes Foretell Planetary Futures" Gabrielle Hecht, Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security, Stanford University. All are...
Apr
11
2019
Saharan Futures Conference Keynote
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Keynote Address by Ann McDougall, University of AlbertaShifting Desert Sands: Mobility, Migration and Memory in Saharan Time and SpaceReception to...
Apr
12
2019
Conference on migration
All day, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Graduate CONFERENCE on “Walls and Bridges: Migration and Its Histories” (convened by Breen Fellow Aram SARKISIAN)Friday, April 12—all day, starting...
Apr
12
2019
Apr
12
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 2:00 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
15
2019
IPR Colloquium: Rachel Beatty Riedl (IPR/Political Science) - Political Behavior in Kenya
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute For Policy Research
"Shifting Allegiances? Urban-Rural Linkages, Ethnic Identification, and Political Behavior in Kenya" by Rachel Beatty Riedl, Associate Professor of Political Science and...
Apr
15
2019
The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In the 17th and 18th centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding...
Apr
15
2019
CANCELLED Anthropology Colloquium: Orkideh Behrouzan, SOAS, University of London
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Co-sponsored by MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
Apr
16
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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
16
2019
Fred Wilson: Afro Kismet
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Throughout his career, acclaimed artist Fred Wilson has challenged assumptions of history, culture, race, and museum display by reframing objects...
Apr
17
2019
PAS L+L: Andrew Dillon - Making Markets: Experiments from rural Mali
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Andrew Dillon, Clinical Associate Professor within Kellogg’s Public-Private Interface Initiative (KPPI); Research Associate Professor in the Global Poverty Research Lab, Northwestern...
Apr
17
2019
Gender & Sexuality Studies Undergraduate Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Join us for the spring installment of quarterly lunches for students. Meet current GSS students, staff, and faculty. This lunch will...
Apr
17
2019
Film screening: Auto-Erotic: Female Sexuality in the First Person
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Auto-Erotic: Female Sexuality in the First Person(1967-2006, 16mm/digital, 120 min.) Curated by Northwestern professors Amy Partridge and Helen Thompson, this program...
Apr
18
2019
Constructing a Timeline of Reproductive Politics in the U.S., 1960-2019: a collective research project
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by One Book One Northwestern
The inspiration for this One Book One Northwestern sponsored exhibition, which examines the changing contours of reproductive politics in the...
Apr
18
2019
Eradicating Gender-Based Violence in APIDA Communities
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join KAN-WIN, MSA, AASP, and APAC in a conversation about healthy relationships, gender roles, and violence within APIDA communities! Dinner...
Apr
19
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 2:00 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
22
2019
Resilient Rhythms: A Roundtable Exposition on Capoeira da Angola y Bomba—Black Diasporic formations
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for African American History (CAAH)
Melanie Maldonado - PROPA and Bomba Research Conference Kojo Xavier Johnson, MAA,ACC, PhD(c) - Faculty, George Washington University, Founder, Ritmo Resiliente Cinezio...
Apr
22
2019
Alden Young - "Transforming Sudan: The Economizing Logic of Decolonization"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Alden Young, Dexel University Title Transforming Sudan: The Economizing Logic of Decolonization Abstract At the heart of Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development and State...
Apr
22
2019
Yanilda Gonzales: "From Victims to Resilient Citizens: The Policy Feedback Effects of State Violence"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This project examines mobilization by the mothers of victims of state violence in Latin America. It develops the concept of...
Apr
23
2019
The Aftermath of ISIS in Iraq: A Talk by Nussaibah Younis
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The Iraqi government, with support of coalition forces, has mounted an effective military defeat of ISIS in Iraq. But the...
Apr
23
2019
Collapsing Time & Imagining Refugee Futures
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
A talk by Professor Patricia Nguyen. Please join us for a talk on conceptualizations of land and water and the...
Apr
23
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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
23
2019
Department of Sociology Ethnography Workshop: Noelle Sullivan, Northwestern University
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Noelle Sullivan Presents: Unpacking the White Savior Industrial Complex: Insights from the For-Profit Medical Voluntourism Industry in Tanzania
Apr
24
2019
International Archaeologists in Conversation
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
This is an informal event to preceed the larger presentation this evening: View Event. The Block Museum presents a special opportunity to...
Apr
24
2019
Access to Health Symposium
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Medical Education: Student Activities
Access to Health in Lagos:An Interdisciplinary Partnership with the Community Wednesday, April 24th 4-8pmHughes Auditorium, Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center This...
Apr
24
2019
From the Field: International Archaeologists in Conversation
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
The Block Museum presents a special opportunity to hear from six international archaeologists whose excavations in Mali, Morocco, and Nigeria...
Apr
25
2019
Reporting Islam: Media, Policy, Politics
All day, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
This international symposium will bring scholars of Islam, international and public affairs, education, race, and law together with practicing journalists...
Apr
25
2019
Catharine MacKinnon: Butterfly Politics
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Professor MacKinnon will address the politics and law of sexual harassment, focusing on its violation of equality rights, considering the...
Apr
25
2019
Film screening: Spell Reel (2017)
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Spell Reel (Filipa César, 2017, France/Portugal, DCP, 96 min.) Freedom fighter Amìlcar Cabral commissioned a group of young filmmakers to document...
Apr
26
2019
Trans-Saharan Exchange and the Global Medieval Symposium
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Myers Symposium, April 26, 2019Organized by Christina Normore and Kathleen Bickford Berzock Trans-Saharan Exchange and the Global MedievalVisual and Cultural Studies...
Apr
29
2019
Dilemmas of an Israeli Journalist Covering Palestine: Amira Hass
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Amira Hass has been a correspondent for Haaretz, Israel’s oldest newspaper, for 30 years. She joined the paper in 1989...
Apr
29
2019
Gentrification of the Sea:
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
How Global Racial Capitalism Continues to Extract Profit from Scenes of Environmental Degredation. A Talk by Aimee Bahng, Assistant Professor...
Apr
29
2019
Dilemmas of an Israeli Journalist Covering Palestine: Amira Hass
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Amira Hass has been a correspondent for Haaretz, Israel’s oldest newspaper, for 30 years. She joined the paper in 1989...
Apr
30
2019
CANCELLED- Luz Marina Giraldo: "Gender, Reconciliation, & Reintegration After Civil War"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Luz Marina Giraldo Mora's work on issues of gender, reconciliation, and reincorporation has been recognized by the UN Verification Mission...
May
1
2019
PAS L+L: S. Athuman Chembea - Interpreting Muslim-Christian Relations in the Light of Awqaf in Kenya since 1900
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Interpreting Muslim-Christian Relations in the Light of Awqaf in Kenya since 1900 S. Athuman Chembea, Religion, Bomet University College, Kenya Abstract This talk...
May
1
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
May
2
2019
Todd Shepard lecture (CCHS)
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Todd SHEPARD (Johns Hopkins U), author of The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France (2006),...
May
2
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
May
6
2019
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Presentations by MENA doctoral students Open only to Northwestern graduate students and faculty Özge Karagöz (Department of Art History) Turkish Post-Revolutionary Figuration in the...
May
7
2019
Global Health Spring Seminar: Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in sub-Saharan Africa - The Experience in Nigeria
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for Global Health
Title: Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in sub-Saharan Africa: The Experience in Nigeria Presenter: Francis Magaji, MBBS,...
May
7
2019
University of Ghana Partnership Faculty Lunch Conversation
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
The Buffett Institute is inviting faculty to join a conversation about a potential multi-faceted partnership with the University of Ghana....
May
7
2019
LACS Faculty and Graduate Colloquium: Carlos Gustavo Halaburda
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Talk title: Lunfardos: Dramaturgy and the Futures of Procreationin Conservative Argentina, 1880-1930 Argentine dramaturgy functioned at the dawn of the twentieth century...
May
8
2019
PAS L+L: Kwame Onoma - Xenophobia’s Contours During an Ebola Epidemic
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Ato Kwamena Onoma, Senior Program Officer, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Xenophobia’s contours during an...
May
8
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
May
10
2019
Comparative Politics Workshop Presents Christa Kuntzelman
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
"Exploring the logic of tactic selection: Refugee political claims-making in Uganda" Christa KuntzelmanPh.D. Candidate, Northwestern University
May
10
2019
Genealogies of an African Islamic Modernity
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Both discourse and a historical condition defined by the reconciliation of African identities, Islamic forms of life, and global political...
May
10
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 2:00 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.
May
13
2019
Maimonides the Mālikī — A Lecture by Marc Herman
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) penned perhaps the most comprehensive medieval account of rabbinic tradition. But his ideas were at odds with...
May
13
2019
Anthropology Colloquium: Krysal Smalls, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
WHITE NOISE: THE SEMIOTICS OF INTENTIONAL WHITENESS & EPISTEMIC RESISTANCE IN DIGITAL SPACE A growing number of scholars and activists insist...
May
13
2019
Kedi: A Documentary Film about the Stray Cats of Istanbul
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA Movie Night! A profile of an ancient city and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious...
May
13
2019
Refugees and Asylum Seekers —Telling their Stories, Understanding their Journeys
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for this discussion about how to tell the stories of refugees and asylum-seekers — in Chicago and...
May
14
2019
Keyword: Pleasure
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
A panel of Northwestern scholars, educators and activists will discuss the charged and contested meanings of “pleasure” in the academy...
May
15
2019
Academic Freedom in the Age of Trump
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
with Hans-Joerg Tiede
May
15
2019
PAS L+L: Erin Pettigrew - To Invoke the Invisible: Islam, Spiritual Mediation and Social Change in the Sahara
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
To Invoke the Invisible: Islam, Spiritual Mediation and Social Change in the Sahara Erin Pettigrew, History and Arab Crossroads Studies, NYU Abu...
May
15
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
May
16
2019
Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow: Screening of the Lebanese Science-Fiction Short & Discussion with the Director
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Block Museum of Art for this FREE screening of Last Days of the Man...
May
16
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
May
16
2019
"Carceral Aesthetics" - Nicole R. Fleetwood & Jennifer C. Nash
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents: "Carceral Aesthetics" a lecture by Nicole R. Fleetwood (Rutgers) moderated by Jennifer C....
May
17
2019
Israeli-African Exchanges: Architecture, Development and Decolonization in the long 1960s
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Ayala Levin is an assistant professor of art history and will present her book project on the work of Israeli architects...
May
18
2019
Film Screening + Discussion: Naila and the Uprising
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for this FREE screening of the documentary film Naila and the Uprising, followed by an in-depth discussion with...
May
20
2019
Rethinking Politics from Below in Contemporary Turkey — A Talk by Elise Massicard
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Political science schlarship on Turkey has long been dominated by top-down and macro approaches. In recent decades, other disciplines have challenged the institutional...
May
21
2019
Nakanyike Musisi - Biography in the 21st Century: Writing and Re-writing Buganda's Notorious Queen-mother (1897-1956) in the “Radical Openness of History”
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Biography in the 21st Century: Writing and Re-writing Buganda's Notorious Queen-mother (1897-1956) in the “Radical Openness of History” Nakanyike Musisi, History,...
May
21
2019
Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires — A Lecture by Faiz Ahmed
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
August 19, 2019 will mark the 100th anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence from Britain. Commemorating the roots and legacies of that...
May
22
2019
PAS L+L: Oludamini Ogunnaike - Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Oludamini Ogunnaike, Religious Studies, College of William & Mary Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual...
May
22
2019
William Vernon Jackson Lecture with Verónica Gago
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Extractivism is a concept that has enjoyed a wide diffusion in Latin America over recent years in order to renew...
May
23
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
May
24
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 2:00 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.
May
29
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
May
29
2019
Cuba is Changing, but in Which Direction? Revolution, Social Change and the New Constitution of 2019
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Julio César Guanche Zaldívar, a renowned legal and political historian of modern Cuba, joins the Northwestern community in spring 2019...
May
30
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
May
30
2019
The Music Scene in Iran: A Screening of the Documentary Film Bazm-e Razm
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Vahid Hosseini’s 120-minute documentary Bazm-e Razm (Feast of War) tells the tumultuous story of the Iranian music scene between 1979...
Jun
3
2019
The Border President: The "Muslim Ban,” National Security, and the Politics of Religion — A Talk by Beth Hurd
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Within one week of becoming president in January 2017, Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Protecting the Nation From...
Jun
3
2019
MENA Movie Night: The Matchmaker (Israel)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
From the New York Times: In the summer of 1968 in Haifa, Israel, a teenager named Arik (Tuval Shafir) finds his...
Jun
3
2019
How Can This be Legal? Religion and the “Muslim Ban” — Beth Hurd
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Within one week of becoming president in January 2017, Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Protecting the Nation From...
Jun
4
2019
Gender & Sexuality Studies Year-End Awards Ceremony & Celebration
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
All members of the Gender & Sexuality Studies community are invited to come honor our graduating seniors, and acknowledge recent...
Jun
5
2019
PAS L+L: Richard Banégas - ID Wars: Struggling for Citizenship in Côte d'Ivoire
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Richard Banégas, Political Science, Sciences Po, Paris, France ID Wars: Struggling for Citizenship in Côte d'Ivoire Bio Richard Banégas is professor of Political Science...
Jun
5
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 5:00 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.
Jun
6
2019
Asian American Studies End of Year Reception
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join us in celebration of the accomplishments of our program's graduating majors, minors, and award winners! Entertainment, Food & Good Vibes!
Jun
6
2019
Anthropology Four-Book Party
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Celebrate the release of four new books by anthropologists: Robert Launay: Savages, Romans, and other Despots: Thinging about Others from Montaigne...
Jun
11
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
2:00 PM - 3:00 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.
Jun
17
2019
Third Coast CFAR Seminar Series—JENNIFER JAO, MD, MPH
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Third Coast Center for AIDS Research
Third Coast CFAR Seminar Jennifer Jao, MD, MPHAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious DiseasesDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious DiseasesNorthwestern University...
Sep
17
2019
Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish Placement Exams/Oral Interviews
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
If you still need to take the Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish or Persian placement exam, would like to discuss placement results,...
Sep
18
2019
Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the Academic Directions Fair!
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Interested in studying the politics, arts, culture, religion, and history of Latin America and the Caribbean? Curious about study abroad...
Sep
18
2019
MENA Languages at the Academic Directions Fair
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Want to find out about studying Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, and Persian, study abroad and other options for your course of study?...
Sep
18
2019
MENA Studies Program at the Academic Directions Fair!
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Want to find out about studying the cultures, history, politics, and arts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)?...
Sep
23
2019
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.
Sep
26
2019
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.
Sep
27
2019
Félicité - with Director Alain Gomis in Person
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Special EventFriday, September 27, 6:30 PMFREE Félicité(Alain Gomis, 2017, France/Belgium/Senegal/Germany/Lebanon, DCP, 123 min) The award-winning drama Félicité stars Congolese musician Véro Tshanda...
Sep
30
2019
Documenting Syria: Film-Making, Video Activism & Revolution (Joshka Wessels)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Syria is one of the most important countries in the world for the documentary film industry. Since the 1970s, Syrian...
Oct
1
2019
Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty (Pablo Boczkowski)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In this talk, Professor Pablo Boczkowski will present findings from his current book project, "Abundance: On the experience of living...
Oct
1
2019
Gender & Sexuality Studies Fall Reception
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Join the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program for our annual Fall Reception!
Oct
2
2019
PAS Town Hall
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
The PAS community – including all affiliated faculty, graduate students, and anyone else with an interest in African Studies –...
Oct
2
2019
PAS Fall Open House
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join PAS staff, affiliated faculty, students, and community members for snacks and refreshments to kick off the academic year.
Oct
2
2019
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.
Oct
3
2019
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.
Oct
4
2019
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.
Oct
7
2019
Becoming Shinqiti: Saharan Islamic Scholars and Global Religious Authority (Zekeria Ahmed Salem)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Zekeria Ahmed Salem is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Director of the Institute for the Study...
Oct
7
2019
Joshua Simon presents José Martí's Immanent Critique of American Imperialism
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Come hear lecturer Joshua Simon from Columbia and discussant Arturo Chang in an event sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop...
Oct
7
2019
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.
Oct
9
2019
Avant-Garde Africa Research Cluster Meeting
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
The Avant-Garde Africa cluster session is the first of the Wednesday lunch seminars that will introduce the current research clusters...
Oct
9
2019
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...
Oct
10
2019
LACS Graduate Workshop | Maricas Folklóricas: La Familia Galán’s Drag and Activism in the Bolivian Fiesta (Enzo Vasquez Toral)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The patron-saint fiesta is an iconic cultural expression that encompasses what we traditionally understand as folklore in the Andes. Bringing...
Oct
10
2019
Fake Comedy: Memory, Futurity, and Hope in Nagasaki - Seirai Yuichi (Memorializing Dialogue)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Fake Comedy: Memory, Futurity, and Hope in Nagasaki In novels such as Holy Water and Ground Zero, Nagasaki Seirai Yuichi, the...
Oct
10
2019
Finn Enke: "Starting Where We Are: A Graphic Exploration of Transfeminist Histories and Contemporary Practice"
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Historical analysis invites the voices of past visionaries but also presents profound challenges to contemporary communities yearning for justice in...
Oct
15
2019
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.
Oct
16
2019
PAS L+L: Adia Benton
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Adia Benton, Anthropology, Northwestern University
Oct
16
2019
Gender & Sexuality Studies Undergraduate Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Join us for our first installment of quarterly lunches for students. Meet current GSS students, staff, and faculty.
Oct
16
2019
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.
Oct
17
2019
Afrisem: Graduate Student Africa Seminar
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Title: Collect, organize, cite, and share research Zotero & Endnote The Herskovists Africana Library will be hosting AFRISEM next Thursday, 17 October...
Oct
18
2019
AASP: Filipinix Postcolonialisms - Graduate Workshop
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
This graduate workshop accompanies the Filipinix Postcolonialisms discussion featuring Dr. Angie Reyes and Dr. Jan Padios. (Please refer to the...
Oct
18
2019
AASP: Filipinix Postcolonialisms - Jan Padios and Angie Reyes
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Please join the Asian American Studies Program (and generous co-sponsors) 12:00PM Friday, October 18 (Harris 108) for a discussion on Filipinix Postcolonialisms Featuring a...
Oct
23
2019
PAS L+L: Will Reno
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Will Reno, Political Science, Northwestern University
Oct
23
2019
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...
Oct
23
2019
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.
Oct
23
2019
A Conversation with New Yorker Writer Dexter Filkins & Kickoff Reception for the Weinberg College Center for International & Area Studies
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by International Studies
Please join the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern for this special event featuring New Yorker...
Oct
23
2019
Documentary Screening: The Silence
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Asian American Studies invites you to an on-campus screening of The Silence, an award-winning documentary by Soo Nam Park. The Silence In...
Oct
24
2019
Indians, Estancieros and Missionaries in Tierra del Fuego, 1884-1922 Carlos Gamerro
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
In 1884 the first sheep farm or estancia was established in Tierra del Fuego; over the following decade they multiplied...
Oct
24
2019
Archaeology and Its Avatars: Andean Cultures and Histories Symposium (Day One)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
What meanings has archaeology assumed in cultural and critical theory? What has been its role as a metaphor and also...
Oct
25
2019
Archaeology and Its Avatars: Andean Cultures and Histories Symposium (Day Two)
9:00 AM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
What meanings has archaeology assumed in cultural and critical theory? What has been its role as a metaphor and also...
Oct
25
2019
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.
Oct
28
2019
The Powers of the Matriarch: Capital, Culture and Kindred in an Arab-Asian Diaspora (Michael Gilsenan)
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 lecture by Professor Michael Gilsenan of New York...
Oct
28
2019
Anthropology Colloquium, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Assoicate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“Returning Home?: Mobility, Black Privilege, and Diaspora-Homeland Tensions among Returnees in Liberia.” The Liberian diaspora is often referred to as the...
Oct
29
2019
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.
Oct
29
2019
On the Basis of Cultural Identity: Migration, Cinema, and Neoliberalism in the Andes (Lorena Cuya Gavilano)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Migration cannot be understood, reimagined, or visualized without affects, but affects change according to economic policies. In the Andes, neoliberal...
Oct
30
2019
PAS L+L: Health and Healing Research Cluster
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. During the first half of the lunch seminar, which...
Oct
30
2019
Survey: Contemplation. Control. Creativity. (CED Kickoff Event; Northwestern Scholars Panel Discussion)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by 2019-2021 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
Join us for the 2019-2020 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora’s kickoff event. This year, the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)...
Oct
31
2019
Afrisem: Graduate Student Africa Seminar
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Graduate students are invited to gather for presentation, discussion and dinner. Presenter: Scott Newman, Comparative Literary Studies Writing Cameroonian Rumor: The Sound...
Nov
1
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
3:00 PM - 3:45 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.
Nov
4
2019
The Rise of Populist Majoritarianism in Turkey and Greece (Ioannis Grigoriadis)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for this lecture by Keyman Visiting Scholar Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, who...
Nov
5
2019
LACS Faculty Colloquium: State Power and Sacramental Logic: Thinking about Colonialism with the Material Remains of Expelled Jesuits (J. Michelle Molina)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
J. Michelle Molina is the John and Rosemary Croghan Chair, Associate Professor in Catholic Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies...
Nov
6
2019
PAS L+L: Kwasi Konadu
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Communographies: New Histories of Culture, Community, Nationalism, and Decolonization...
Nov
6
2019
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...
Nov
6
2019
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.
Nov
7
2019
Study Abroad Fair
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Northwestern Buffett Global Learning Office
Come to the 2019 Study Abroad Fair to learn more about all undergraduate study abroad opportunities at Northwestern! Speak directly...
Nov
7
2019
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.
Nov
11
2019
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Devi Mays)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Devi Mays is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, where she is...
Nov
13
2019
Iconic Archive: Timbuktu and its Manuscripts in Public Discourse (Susana Molins Lliteras)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) and the Program of African Studies as we...
Nov
13
2019
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.
Nov
14
2019
Afrisem: Graduate Student Africa Seminar
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Graduate students are invited to gather for presentation, discussion and dinner. Presenter: Mariam Taher, Anthropology Talk: Gendered Mobilities and the State in...
Nov
15
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 1:45 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.
Nov
18
2019
Defeated Revolutionaries, Lasting Legacies: The Afterlife of Revolution in Dhufar, Oman (Alice Wilson)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Post-conflict authoritarian states often rely on patronage and repression as strategies to quell dissent and to win hearts and minds....
Nov
19
2019
Honoring Dr. Sekile Nzinga, Y Women Leadership Award Recipient
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center
Celebrate Feminist Leader, Sekile Nzinga: 2019 YWomen Leadership Award Honoree Dr. Sekile Nzinga is the Director of the Women's Center at...
Nov
19
2019
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.
Nov
20
2019
PAS L+L: Shannon Galvin/Dan Yi-Ze Liu - Access to Health
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Shannon Galvin and Dan Yi-Ze Liu, Center for Global...
Nov
20
2019
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.
Nov
20
2019
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...
Nov
25
2019
Fog in Seven Movements: Connecting Anti-Atlas Communities to Fog-Harvested Water (Jamila Bargach)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This presentation will take as its initial moment the situation of some 15 villages living with no water-access, as it...
Dec
2
2019
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Presentations by MENA doctoral students Open only to Northwestern graduate students and faculty Hazal Ozdemir (Department of History) “They Migrate by Renouncing Their...
Dec
2
2019
Putting Women Back Into Inca Places (Stella Nair)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for the second lecture in the 2019-2020 Latin America Imagined series. In this talk, Stella Nair of UCLA...
Dec
3
2019
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.
Dec
5
2019
Reflections on Jesuit Slaveholding and Colegios in Colonial Spanish America: Quito and the Chota-Mira Complex 1687-1767 (Sherwin Bryant)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Sherwin Bryant is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at Northwestern. As an historian of colonial Afro-Latin America...
Dec
6
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 1:45 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.
Dec
11
2019
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.
Jan
6
2020
Opening up a Few Corpses: Islam, Dissection and Modernity (Khaled Fahmy)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In this lecture, historian Khaled Fahmy will describe the process by which modern medicine was introduced in early 19th-century Egypt....
Jan
7
2020
The Promises and Perils of Conducting Academic Research in Egypt: A Lecture by Khaled Fahmy
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In light of the severe crackdown in Egypt on press freedom, academic inquiry and research in general, this talk will...
Jan
9
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.
Jan
10
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.
Jan
13
2020
The Kurdish Question and Academic Expertise: Borders, Territories, and Statelessness
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The Kurds, a nation that most Americans had not heard of until 2014, have been in the headlines since Kurdish...
Jan
13
2020
Anthropology Colloquium, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., University of Oklahoma
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Ancestral States of Human Microbiomes
Jan
13
2020
Hamza Yusuf Hanson: "College Caravans: The Mauritanian Scholastic Tradition" (talk and Q&A)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Please join us for an evening with one of the Western world's most influential Muslim scholars: Hamza Yusuf Hanson, president...
Jan
14
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.
Jan
14
2020
Is Catholic Feminism an Oxymoron? Some Answers from Mexican History. (Margaret Chowning)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for the third lecture in the 2019-2020 Latin America Imagined series. In the colonial period the gender ideologies...
Jan
15
2020
PAS Winter Quarter Town Hall Meeting
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
The PAS community – including all affiliated faculty, graduate students, and anyone else with an interest in African Studies –...
Jan
15
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.
Jan
15
2020
Afrisem: Graduate Student Africa Seminar
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Presenter: Raja Ben Hammed Dorval Department/Program: French Title of Presentation: Immigration and Nationalism: The Algerian Example of the North African Star Abstract: How...
Jan
21
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.
Jan
22
2020
PAS L+L: Avant-Garde Research Cluster Meeting
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
The Avant-Garde Africa research cluster will share what they are doing and plans for the quarter and beyond. Although the lunch...
Jan
22
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...
Jan
24
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.
Jan
27
2020
Anthropology Colloquium, Matt Sakakeeny, Associate Professor, Tulane University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“Listening Against the Vernacular: Music and Language Socialization in New Orleans.” New Orleans is celebrated as an extraordinary site of race-...
Jan
29
2020
What's in the Manuscripts of Timbuktu? (Charles Stewart)
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...
Jan
30
2020
Premilla Nadasen: "History, Memory, & Household Worker Organizing"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
In the 1960s and 1970s, African American household workers established the first-ever national organization to represent them. They demanded "pay,...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 to Explain Colorism: An Anthropological Approach By the 1990s, Mexican migration grew exponentially, given the stagnated...
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 the Noria network for this conversation with historians Paul Gillingham...
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
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
Solidarity When: A MENA Conversation
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for this MENA Conversation on solidarity with Reem Abou-El-Fadl, Fuad Musallam, and Maha Nassar, moderated by Wendy...
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 - 6:00 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
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
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
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...