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.

Jan

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

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

Jan

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

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

Jan

2025

Choreographing Empire: Prophesy, Folk Dance, and the Politics of Christian Zionism

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History

Artist Talk by Tali Keren Moderators: Evgeny Stolyarov (NU JVP) Ruslana Lichtzier (PhD Candidate, Art History & MENA)

Jan

2025

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...

Jan

2025

MENA | New Directions | Island & Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World

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

MENA welcomes the Winter Quarter 2025 New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies speaker, Uğur Zekeriya Peçe of...

Jan

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

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

Jan

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

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

Jan

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

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

Jan

2025

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...

Feb

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

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

Feb

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

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

Feb

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

2:30 PM - 3:15 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...

Feb

2025

“The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey’s Artistic Communities” with Kaya Genç

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)

Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for a talk and Q&A with Dr. Kaya Genç on Wednesday, Feburary 12,...

Feb

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

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

Feb

2025

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

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

Feb

2025

Anthropology Colloquium - Asli Zengin

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

Asli Zengin of Rutgers University Title TBA

Feb

2025

Valeria Coronel – A Conversation on Humanities in the Public/Cultural Sphere

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

This event is designed to share the ways in which a research professor brings her training and experience in the...

Feb

2025

Remembering to Forget: Histories and Legacies of Enslavement in Iran | Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Princeton

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...

Mar

2025

MENA | The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey | Feyza Burak-Adli, Northwestern University

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...

Apr

2025

Anthropology Colloquium - Chelsea Fisher

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

Chelsea Fisher of the University of South Carolina Title TBA

Apr

2025

Anthropology Colloquium - Karen Strier

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

Karen Strier of the University of Wisconsin - Madison Title TBA