Events: Department of Anthropology - Northwestern University

Events

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.

Oct

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...

Oct

2025

To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

Please save the date for our first New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies event of the year: Karam...

Oct

2025

Anthropology Colloquium - Uzma Rizvi, Pratt Institute

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events

Data Visualization as Storytelling: Making data from MohenjoDaro accessible In this talk we will explore data visualization as a form of...

Oct

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...

Oct

2025

Anthropology Colloquium - Gina Perez, Oberlin College

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events

Sanctuary and Accompaniment in Moments of Crisis The idea and practice of sanctuary have a long and vexed presence in U.S....

Oct

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...

Oct

2025

Filipino American History Month: The Fight to Save the International Hotel

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program

October is Filipino American History Month! Come hear Emil De Guzman discuss his new book, Red Sky: Recollections of the International Hotel,...

Oct

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...

Oct

2025

Swahili Language Table

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Practice your Swahili speaking skills at Swahili Table!

Oct

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...

Nov

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

10:00 AM - 11:00 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...

Nov

2025

THE APOLOGY Film Screening & Discussion

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program

KAN-WIN presents The Apology, a film following 3 former "comfort women" survivors who were among the hundreds of thousands of girls...

Nov

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...

Nov

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom [copy]

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...

Nov

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...

Nov

2025

Field of Dreams: Collecting Indigenous Inner Thoughts in the Midcentury Peruvian Andes

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies

At the start of the Cold War, a group of anthropologists and psychotherapists related to the Cornell-Peru Project at Vicos...

Nov

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

10:00 AM - 11:00 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...

Nov

2025

Ayşe Çağlar: Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at the Roberta Buffett Institute

Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement Featuring Ayşe Çağlar, Vienna University Kresge Hall, Rm 1515 or...

Nov

2025