Find upcoming events hosted by the Department of Anthropology and affiliated departments and programs, including Program of African Studies, Gender Studies, Chicago Field Studies, Latino and Latina Studies, Asian American Studies, and Middle East & North Africa Studies.
See our Past Events page to review ones that have occurred.
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This event takes place at the Evanston Public Library. Evanston Public Library and Northwestern University’s Middle East and North African Studies...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA welcomes Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Princeton. She will lecture on her book The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran. Lunch will...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Roundtable on the role of dance and theater in struggles for racial and social justice and against racism. With María del...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join LACS in celebrating the launch of the recent Routledge series on the history of Colombia. Co-editors Lina Britto...
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come have lunch with Dr. Keva X. Bui! Food provided with RSVP. Keva X. Bui is a scholar of Asian American...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
TALK BY Dr. Keva X. Bui: America’s Ethnic Weapon: The Racial Scientific Imaginary of Napalm This talk traces the racial history...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Jill Jarvis, Department of French, Yale University The talk will primarily focus on a recent sculpture/video piece of artwork that recreates...
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come have lunch with Dr. Najwa Mayer! Food provided with RSVP. Najwa Mayer is an interdisciplinary scholar and teacher of Asian...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Muslim cultural production in the United States predates the nation’s settler formation, yet the mass circulation and canonization of “Muslim...
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Join us for the Fulbright Week Keynote featuring Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles, a renowned historian, academic leader, and advocate...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Chelsea Fisher of the University of South Carolina Title TBA
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Feyza Burak-Adli is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. She will give a presentation on...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Karen Strier of the University of Wisconsin - Madison Title TBA
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Barbra Meek of the Universirty of Michigan Title TBA
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Join us for a book talk with Beth Hurd, author of Heaven Has a Wall. Through an analysis of the many ways...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by School of Education and Social Policy
Please join us on Thursday, May 22 at 12:30 pm CST for a book talk on Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics,...
