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Nowruz Film Series
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
This Spring, the Northwestern University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is hosting its third annual Nowruz event series, Celebrating...
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Nowruz Film Series
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
This Spring, the Northwestern University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is hosting its third annual Nowruz event series, Celebrating...
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Nowruz Film Series
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
This Spring, the Northwestern University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is hosting its third annual Nowruz event series, Celebrating...
multi-day
Nowruz Film Series
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
This Spring, the Northwestern University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is hosting its third annual Nowruz event series, Celebrating...
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LLSP Winter Quarter Study Break
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by The Latina and Latino Studies Program
Come start Reading Period week with us! Break bread with fellow students and get ready to finish Winter Quarter on a...
Apr
29
2026
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Come practice your Swahili speaking skills at Swahili Table!
Apr
29
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:30 AM - 10:30 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
27
2026
Social Media, Religious Authority, and The Arab Gulf Crisis
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Book talk with Ibrahim N. Abusharif (Northwestern University - Qatar). Lunch Provided! This talk examines how digital media reconfigured religious authority during...
Apr
27
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Apr
24
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Apr
23
2026
Writing Brown Crafts: A Creative Praxis for Our Present | A talk by Dr. Christopher Patterson
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
This talk reflects on acts of writing in times of grief, disillusionment, and emerging fascism. Christopher B. Patterson will discuss...
Apr
23
2026
Workshop in Latin American Indigenous Studies
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Join the Colonial Latin American Studies Working Group for a Workshop in Latin American Indigenous Studies on April 23rd from...
Apr
22
2026
Unruly Labor: A History of Oil and Migration in the Arabian Sea
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Abstract Today, workers on the Arabian Peninsula are barred from striking or forming unions, and most labor at oil projects are...
Apr
22
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:30 AM - 10:30 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
21
2026
Anatomy of a Rural Honduran Cocaine Hub
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Join us for a presentation by Professor Laura Blume sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies! Lunch Provided! Building on over...
Apr
20
2026
Moroccan Aspirations for Change: Revolt, Nostalgia, and the Souffles Generation
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine (1941–1995), Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938–2009), and Abdellatif Laâbi (1942–) are three of the most important francophone Moroccan writers to...
Apr
20
2026
Anthropology Colloquium - Delaney Glass, University of Toronto
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Early-Life Adversity and Women’s Reproductive Outcomes: Evidence from Armed Conflict in Vietnam
Apr
17
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Apr
16
2026
Clean Living: Lessons from a Chemical War: A talk by Dr. Thuy Tu
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
For decades, the multi-billion dollar health and wellness industry has touted the virtues of clean living. This lecture asks: What...
Apr
15
2026
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Come practice your Swahili speaking skills at Swahili Table!
Apr
14
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:30 AM - 10:30 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
13
2026
Anthropology Colloquium - Haeden Stewart, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Exposed: The Archaeology of Industrial Landscapes and Slow Violence We are living through an era defined by the environmental impact of...
Apr
13
2026
Nowruz event series: Live multicultural performance
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
This Spring, the Northwestern University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is hosting its third annual Nowruz event series, Celebrating...
Apr
10
2026
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...
Apr
8
2026
Artist Talk with YSDT (Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by SOC - Department of Performance Studies
Artist Talk with YSDT Followed by a roundtable with Nora Alami, Camila Simonin, and Shayna Silverstein.
Apr
7
2026
Wallace Bacon Artist Residency With Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by SOC - Department of Performance Studies
The 2026 Wallace Bacon Lecture in Performance Studies features an artist talk and workshop in Dabke dance by Yaa Samar! Dance...
Apr
3
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
30
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
27
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
20
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
19
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
18
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
17
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
13
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
11
2026
Operation Epic Fury & Its Aftermath: What’s Next for Iran, the Middle East, & US Foreign Policy
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
In the wake of coordinated US and Israeli strikes inside Iran that killed the nation’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
Mar
9
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
6
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
5
2026
From Lagos to Bamako: Biennales and Global Conversations in African Photography (Online)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
This webinar will examine the Rencontres de Bamako (Bamako Encounters), Africa’s premier photography biennale, as a critical site for global...
Mar
4
2026
Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Postponed! Stay tuned for the new Spring Quarter date. Guest Speaker: Esmat Elhalaby (University of Toronto),
Feb
24
2026
Venezuela and the Crisis of Democracy in the Americas
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Join us for a conversation between Latin Americanist scholars Verónica Zubillaga (UIC) and Lina Britto (Northwestern) on the US intervention...
Feb
23
2026
MENA Monday: Civilizing Contention by Rana Khoury
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In Civilizing Contention, Rana B. Khoury traces the afterlife of a social movement in the depths of a brutal war....
Feb
23
2026
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...
Feb
18
2026
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice your Swahili skills at Swahili Language Table!
Feb
18
2026
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...
Feb
16
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Feb
13
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Feb
11
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Feb
10
2026
New Directions in MENA: Featuring Yasmin Moll
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program as we welcome Yasmin Moll (University of Michigan) to talk about her new book: The Revolution...
Feb
9
2026
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...
Feb
6
2026
Donut Miss It: Spring Course Preview!
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
On Friday, Feb 6th at 3pm join the Anthropology Faculty in introducing the spring course catalogue! EAT Bennison's Donuts in the...
Feb
4
2026
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice your Swahili skills at Swahili Language Table!
Feb
4
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
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...
Feb
3
2026
Road Work: Trailing Indigenous Infrastructures of the Maya Social War
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The last half of the 19th century was for Yucatan, like much of the Atlantic World, a time of extreme...
Feb
2
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Jan
30
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Jan
28
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Jan
26
2026
Anthropology Colloquium - Ryan Cecil Jobson, University of Chicago
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Radiation and the Question of Power: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for Chaguaramas In the late colonial British West Indies, movements...
Jan
26
2026
The Nightingale’s Cage: Visual Poetry in Modern Iranian Art
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium Speaker: Bita Takrimi, PhD candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Jan
26
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Jan
26
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Jan
23
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Jan
22
2026
Iran Protests Contextualized: A Primer with Northwestern Faculty
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
A conversation with Emrah Yildiz (MENA/Anthropology), Elham Hoominfar (Global Health Studies) moderated by Shirin Vossoughi (SESP) focusing on the ongoing...
Jan
21
2026
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice your Swahili skills at Swahili Language Table!
Jan
21
2026
SummerFest
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Office of the Provost
SummerFest introduces undergraduate students to Northwestern resources that can help them meet their summer goals through programs, jobs, internships, courses,...
Jan
21
2026
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...
Jan
16
2026
Absolute Resolve & Its Aftermath: Assessing US Action in Venezuela & What’s Next
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
“Operation Absolute Resolve”—the recent US military operation in Venezuela resulting in the capture of its president Nicolás Maduro and his...
Jan
16
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:30 AM - 11:30 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
13
2026
Te he seguido: Jack Arias in Conversation with Jorge Coronado
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Jack Martínez Arias (Hamilton College) presents his most recent novel, Te he seguido, in conversation with Jorge Coronado. The novel...
Jan
8
2026
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...
Jan
6
2026
Trauma Responses as a Means of Survival in Jamaica with Visiting Scholar Georgia Rose
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Join us for a talk by Buffett Visiting Scholar Georgia Rose, as she explores the psychology behind the Jamaican people...
Jan
5
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Dec
23
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Dec
16
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Dec
12
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Dec
2
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
24
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
21
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
19
2025
Yan Long - Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
A book talk by Yan Long, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California Berkeley. Challenging conventional wisdom crediting domestic factors...
Nov
19
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
17
2025
Dr. Juan Castillo Cocom - Iknal: Companionship and the Politics of Forgetting
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Join us for a discussion of Indigenous Yucatec Maya epistemologies and world-building structures through an exploration of iknal, a Yucatec...
Nov
17
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:30 AM - 10:30 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
14
2025
Gates Foundation Presentation: Matthew Steele
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
E2HD and the Program in Global Health Studies are pleased to invite you to a special presentation by a Senior...
Nov
14
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
13
2025
Sophie Chao, University of Sydney: Eating and being eaten: The meanings of hunger among Marind, West Papua
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Eating and being eaten: The meanings of hunger among Marind, West Papua In this talk, Dr Chao will draw on her...
Nov
12
2025
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice your Swahili speaking skills at Swahili Table!
Nov
12
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
12
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
11
2025
Weinberg College Named Chair Investiture Ceremony
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Jesús Escobar Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities Department of Art History Rachel Zuckert Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the...
Nov
11
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
10
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
7
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom [copy]
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
5
2025
"Sudan and South Sudan in Context," a lecture by Kim Searcy
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Northwestern University's Blackboard Magazine: presents "Sudan and South Sudan in Context," a lecture by Kim Searcy, professor of history at...
Nov
5
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
4
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
3
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Oct
31
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Oct
30
2025
Afrisem
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Afrisem session will take place on Thursday, October 30th, from 5–7 PM at 620 Library Place. The speaker will be...
Oct
29
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
29
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Oct
28
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
27
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
27
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Oct
24
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Oct
20
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
20
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
17
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Oct
16
2025
Afrisem presents
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Afrisem presents a viewing of The Waste Commons with director Rosiland Fredericks. Enclosing open-air dumps and outlawing waste picking are...
Oct
15
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
10
2025
Keynote talk by Jamal J. Elias "Dreams of Khurasan: The Lives of Persian in the Ottoman World"
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The Great Lakes Adiban Society is holding their 9th annual workshop October 10-12 in Harris Hall room 108. The keynote...
Oct
9
2025
Program of African Studies Open House
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Come visit the Program of African Studies for the annual open house. Meet faculty, staff, students, visiting scholars, and other...
Oct
9
2025
Welcome Reception for MENA, LACS, KMTS
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College Center for Global Studies
The Middle East and North African Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Keyman Modern Turkish Studies programs invite you...
Oct
9
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Oct
9
2025
AASP x LLSP Fall Welcome Reception!
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join the Latina and Latino Studies Program and the Asian American Studies Program for our welcome reception! Enjoy food and...
Oct
2
2025
Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In the half-century running between 1910 and 1970, Latin American literature acquired, more than at any moment before or since,...
Oct
1
2025
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice your Swahili!
Oct
1
2025
Utku Balaban: Industrial Islamism
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at the Roberta Buffett Institute
"Industrial Islamism" Part of the Speaker Series Histories and Trajectories of Capital in Turkey Featuring Professor Utku Balaban, Xavier University with Commentator...
Sep
26
2025
PAS Open House
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Come to the Program of African Studies at 620 Library Place, Thursday, October 9 from 4-6pm, to welcome in the...
Sep
24
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
22
2025
Afrisem
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Afrisem presents the film The Waste Commons with director Rosiland Fredericks.
Sep
22
2025
Anthropology Colloquium - Karl Swinehart, University of Louisville
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
A Difficult Language: Aymara Media, Linguistic Labor, and Urban Indigeneity in Bolivia The cultivation of the Aymara language affords forms of...
Sep
19
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Sep
18
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...
Sep
17
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
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...
Sep
15
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...
Sep
12
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...
Sep
11
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...
Sep
8
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...
Sep
5
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...
Sep
2
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...
Aug
29
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...
Aug
27
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...
Jun
12
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...
Jun
4
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...
May
30
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
28
2025
Franny Choi Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Please join Northwestern’s Asian American Studies Program 5:00PM Wednesday, May 28 (Harris 108) for a poetry reading, Q&A, and book...
May
27
2025
PUEBLO, CULTURE AND NATION: False cognates and tense encounters between ECUADORIAN INDIGENISMO and COLD WAR ANTHROPOLOGY
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program and the Andean Cultures & Histories working group as we welcome...
May
22
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
22
2025
Learning Sciences Book Talk: Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology
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,...
May
21
2025
Buffett Book Talk: Heaven Has a Wall
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, “Heaven has a wall,” activists shout...
May
15
2025
Forging Repertoires: Cathedral Music in New Spain and its Performance by Professor Drew Davies
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Colonial Latin American Studies Working Group will have a book presentation on Forging Repertoires: Cathedral Music in New Spain and its...
May
14
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...
May
13
2025
Fair Housing in Asian America
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Where we live affects us – and there are a complex set of factors that determine our relationship to the...
May
13
2025
The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join LACS as we welcome Ryan Jobson, Anthropology (University of Chicago) The Petro-State Masquerade considers how postcolonial political futures in...
May
12
2025
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice your Swahili skills at Swahili Table. Come for snacks and conversation at the Program of African Studies.
May
12
2025
Anthropology Colloquium - Barbra Meek, University of Michigan
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Relanguaging: From semiotic marginalization to decolonization What does it mean to “re-language”? I offer this term as a proposal for extending...
May
12
2025
MENA Monday: Image & Text in the Pre-Modern Islamicate World - Jonathan Brack & Usman Hamid
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Image & Text in the Pre-Modern Islamicate World Speakers: Jonathan Brack (History, Northwestern University) and Usman Hamid (Religious Studies, Northwestern University) Lunch...
May
9
2025
Kamakakēhau Fernandez - 'Ukulele Performance
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Kamakakēhau Fernandez is an award winning ‘ukulele player and Hawaiian falsetto singer. Coming all the way from Hawai'i, he's excited...
May
8
2025
The Power of Chinatown: A talk by Dr. Laureen Hom
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come listen to Dr. Laureen Hom's talk about her latest book, The Power of Chinatown! The book includes over 4 years...
May
8
2025
Whose Story Is It? Navigating Community Storytelling
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Community storytelling is difficult work. Storytellers must contend with myriad definitions of community, engage with community members that hold differing...
May
7
2025
Asian American Studies DUS Office Hours!
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Planning your class registration for Fall 2025? Make sure you're on track to finish your major! Come chat with AASP...
May
5
2025
Natalie Belisle: The art of Inhospitality: Caribbean Aesthetics and the Uninhabitable
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Natalie Lauren Belisle is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Latin American and Iberian...
May
5
2025
MENA Monday: Palestinian Diplomacy: Past and Present - Mkhaimar Abusada
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Palestinian Diplomacy: Past and Present Speaker: Mkhaimar Abusada (Political Science & MENA, Northwestern University) Lunch will be served at this event.