multi-day
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice your Swahili skills at Swahili Table! Swahili Table will meet on Wednesdays at 4pm at the Program of African...
Past Events
Review past Department of Anthropology events.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 WCCIAS
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
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
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
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
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.
Apr
30
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.
Apr
30
2025
“How to Write a Democratic History of the Ottoman Empire?”
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at the Roberta Buffett Institute
Join KMTS and Ali Yaycioglu on April 30 from 12:30- 2:00PM in the Buffett Reading Room (720 University Place, 2nd...
Apr
28
2025
Anthropology Colloquium - Karen Strier, University of Wisconsin - Madison
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
The Limits of Resilience: A 40-year perspective on the future of the world’s most peaceful primate Field data on the behavioral...
Apr
28
2025
Annual Nao Lecture: Between Orientalism and commercial alliances: Argentine and Chilean elites and the Empire of Japan
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Pedro Iacobelli (History, Universidad de los Andes) This presentation explores Latin American views of the growing Japanese presence in the region...
Apr
28
2025
MENA Monday: The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey - Feyza Burak-Adli
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
23
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...
Apr
21
2025
MENA Monday: I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze - Michael Rakowitz
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze Speaker: Michael Rakowitz (Department of Art Theory and...
Apr
17
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...
Apr
16
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.
Apr
16
2025
"An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at the Roberta Buffett Institute
Join KMTS, MENA, SHC and speaker Dr. Chris Gratien, University of Virginia, for a talk titled "An Environmental History of...
Apr
16
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...
Apr
15
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...
Apr
14
2025
Anthropology Colloquium - Chelsea Fisher, University of South Carolina
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Cows, cowboys, and legacies of colonial ranching in the Yucatec Maya landscape: Insights from archaeology at Hacienda Cetelac Cattle ranching occupies...
Apr
14
2025
MENA Monday: Sudan's Current Civil War Two Years On: Perspectives and Prospects
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Sudan's Current Civil War Two Years On: Perspectives and Prospects Speakers: Nisrin Elamin (University of Toronto), Bayan Abubakr (Yale University), Razan...
Apr
14
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...
Apr
11
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...
Apr
9
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
Apr
9
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...
Apr
8
2025
21st Century Reparatory Justice: From Episodic Moments to the Global Movement
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, a renowned historian, academic leader, and advocate for social justice will address the Northwestern community on...
Apr
7
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...
Apr
4
2025
THE DAWN IS TOO FAR (2024) with filmmaker Persis Karim
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
This 55-minute poetic documentary features stories about individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area Iranian-American community. It narrates a longer...
Apr
3
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...
Mar
31
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...
Mar
28
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...
Mar
21
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...
Mar
17
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...
Mar
14
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...
Mar
12
2025
AASP x LLSP Winter Quarter Study Break!
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join the Asian American Studies Program and the Latina & Latino Studies Program for our quarterly study break! We will...
Mar
7
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...
Mar
6
2025
Biopower, Genre, and the ‘Muslim American’ Form | AASP Winter Speaker Series
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...
Mar
6
2025
Student Lunch with Dr. Najwa Mayer
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...
Mar
3
2025
MENA | Ghost maps, Tassili expeditions: On the allure of emptied Saharan lands
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...
Feb
27
2025
Afrisem
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Graduate students will continue the peer presentation series this week with an episode that promises to be thrilling and invigorating....
Feb
27
2025
America’s Ethnic Weapon: The Racial Scientific Imaginary of Napalm | AASP Winter Speaker Series
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...
Feb
27
2025
Student Lunch with Dr. Keva X. Bui
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...
Feb
26
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
25
2025
LACS | Histories of Solitude and Perplexity: Colombia Revisited
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...
Feb
24
2025
"Choreographing 'Justice': Dance, Performance and Activism in Contemporary Colombia (Roundtable)
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...
Feb
24
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...
Feb
22
2025
EPL & MENA | The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran
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...
Feb
21
2025
Author Talk with R.F. Kuang
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join the Asian American Studies Program for an engaging conversation with award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Rebecca F....
Feb
21
2025
Collateral Damages: Tracing the Debts and Displacements of the Iraq War
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Global Health Studies
As we near the 22nd anniversary of the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, there has yet to be a...
Feb
21
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
20
2025
The Making of the American Calorie and Metabolic Metrics of Empire | AASP Winter Speaker Series
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
TALK BY Dr. Athia Choudhury: The Making of the American Calorie and Metabolic Metrics of Empire The calorie is everywhere. Its...
Feb
20
2025
Student Lunch with Dr. Athia Choudhury
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come have lunch with Dr. Athia Choudhury! Food provided with RSVP. Athia N. Choudhury is a writer, cultural theorist, and feminist...
Feb
20
2025
Valeria Coronel Valencia – 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
19
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
Feb
19
2025
LACS | Conversations Against the Dollar
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In this book event, Bruce Carruthers (Sociology) and Hiro Miyazaki (Anthropology) will discuss Ariel Wilkis's new volume, The Dollar: How...
Feb
18
2025
Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert | A Book Talk by Barbara Sostaita (University of Illinois Chicago)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group as they host Barbara Sostaita (UIC) Barbara Andrea Sostaita is a formerly...
Feb
18
2025
The Oslo Accords: Road to Peace or False Hope? | Buffett Lecture
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs has launched a yearlong initiative focused on international diplomacy in turbulent times. The series...
Feb
17
2025
Anthropology Colloquium - Asli Zengin, Rutgers University
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World In Violent Intimacies, Aslı Zengin traces how trans people...
Feb
17
2025
Post-Assad Syria: Prospects and Challenges for State and Society After Authoritarianism
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA in welcoming Samer Aboud of Villanova University and Nour Halabi of University of Aberdeen for a virtual...
Feb
17
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
13
2025
Afrisem
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
The peer presentation series will begin. The time is 5 pm, and the venue is 620 Library Place, Program of...
Feb
13
2025
The Boat of No Smiles: A Counterhistory of the Vietnamese Refugee Diaspora | AASP Winter Speaker Series
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
TALK BY Ann Ngoc Tran: The Boat of No Smiles: A Counterhistory of the Vietnamese Refugee Diaspora This talk interrogates the...
Feb
13
2025
"Biocosmism Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico" A Book Talk by Jorge Quintana
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Professor Jorge Quintana of Dartmouth College will present his new book, "Biocosmism Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico...
Feb
13
2025
Student Lunch with Ann Ngoc Tran
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come have lunch with Ann Ngoc Tran! Food provided with RSVP. Ann Ngoc Tran is a PhD Candidate in the Department...
Feb
13
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 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
12
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 Program at the Roberta Buffett Institute
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2025. PLEASE CHECK OUR...
Feb
11
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
11
2025
LACS | Sonoran Desert Well: Land Art at the Border
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LACS is delighted to feature Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (Chair of Art, Theory, Practice at Northwestern University) in conversation with independent curator...
Feb
10
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
6
2025
What a Trump Administration Means for US Foreign Policy in the Middle East
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA, the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, and the Department of Political Science in welcoming Nancy Okail of...
Feb
5
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
Feb
5
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
4
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
3
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
30
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
27
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...
Jan
24
2025
Tacos are modernity
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Visit and talk of Professor Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at...
Jan
24
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
23
2025
Understanding the Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas with Dr. Mkhaimar Abusada
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Understanding the Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas: A conversation with Dr. Mkhaimar Abusada, Associate Professor of Politics, Al-Azhar University in Gaza Lunch...
Jan
22
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.
Jan
21
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
15
2025
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice your Swahili skills at Swahili Table! Swahili Table will meet on Wednesdays at 4pm at the Program of African...
Jan
15
2025
ACH | Bartolina Sisa and Ch’ixi Knowledge Production in the Contemporary Andes | Tara Daly (Marquette University)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Please join ACH and LACS in welcoming Tara Daly of Marquette University. She will present her research on Bartolina Sisa....
Jan
13
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
10
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Jan
8
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) In this talk, Keren will discuss...
Jan
8
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
3
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...
Dec
20
2024
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...
Dec
11
2024
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...
Dec
6
2024
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...
Dec
5
2024
Afrisem Presents: Dr. Lwazi Lushaba
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Enlightenment-generated myths construct the African as an empirical anthropological type, a rude/primitive counterpoint of European civility. However, colonialism presents a particular...
Dec
3
2024
LACS | A Short History of Capitalist Modernity: Schoolteachers, Rurality, and Culture Production in Peru, 1939-1968
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join LACS for lunch and a lecture by Dr. Javier García Liendo. With the global expansion of capitalist social...
Dec
2
2024
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...
Nov
25
2024
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...
Nov
22
2024
A Conversation with Michael Watts: Nigeria, Political Ecology, and Global Capitalism
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Please join us on Friday November 22nd at 1pm for a conversation with Michael Watts. Michael Watts is a Professor...
Nov
22
2024
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...
Nov
21
2024
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...
Nov
20
2024
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...
Nov
19
2024
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...
Nov
18
2024
EPL & MENA Present | Sudan's Delayed Transition: How Did We Get Here?
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In 2019 the Sudanese people peacefully overthrew the military dictatorship that had ruled them for more than 30 years. This...
Nov
18
2024
MENA Monday | The Afrabians: The Rise of the Arab Gulf in the Horn of Africa | Alden Young
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA in welcoming Alden Young, Yale. He will give a lecture "The Afrabians: The Rise of the Arab...
Nov
15
2024
Urban Governance for Sustainable Development: Claudia Lopez
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program, the Center for International & Area Studies, and the Political Science...
Nov
15
2024
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...
Nov
13
2024
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...
Nov
11
2024
Anthropology Colloquium - Alice Yao, University of Chicago
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
The Whiteness of Milk: The High Stakes of Lactose (In)tolerance Until a few years ago, being lactose tolerant or intolerant seemed...
Nov
11
2024
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...
Nov
7
2024
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...
Nov
7
2024
Film Screening: Parviz by Majid Barzega
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by SOC - Department of Radio/TV/Film
We will watch and discuss Majid Barzegar’s film Parviz, which tells the story of a fifty-year-old man who has lived...
Nov
6
2024
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice your Swahili skills at Swahili Table! Swahili Table will meet on Wednesdays at 4pm at the Program of African...
Nov
6
2024
Colonial Andean Intellectuals and the Questions of Indigeneity and Racism: A Talk by Gonzalo Lamana
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Gonzalo Lamana's How "Indians" Think: Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Critical Race Theory offers an alternative interpretation of...
Nov
4
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
4
2024
MENA Monday | Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Aid in Palestine | Lisa Bhungalia
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA in welcoming Lisa Bhungalia, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will give a New Directions in Middle East and...
Nov
1
2024
LACS | Afro Peruvian Sonic Experiments: The Music of Ale Hop & Laura Robles
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Join Northwestern LACS, DePaul University, and Indiana University for an exhilarating evening of Afro Peruvian Sonic Experiments. The opening conversation at...
Nov
1
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Oct
30
2024
Book Launch Event: Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders by Emrah Yildiz (Anthropology & MENA Studies)
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Please join us for the book launch event for Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders. Emrah Yıldız...
Oct
29
2024
Film Screening: Writing on the City by Keywan Karimi
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by SOC - Department of Radio/TV/Film
We will watch and discuss Writing on the City by Keywan Karimi. This film explores the history of writings, chants,...
Oct
28
2024
Anthropology Colloquium - Miki Makihara, CUNY Graduate Center, Queens College
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Miki Makihara Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York Rapa Nui Voice, Stance, and Subjectivities Language has become a...
Oct
28
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Oct
28
2024
Emergency Teach-In: Understanding Israel's War from the Perspectives of Lebanon and Iran.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA and International Studies for a roundtable discussion of Lebanese and Iranian perspectives on the current conflict. The...
Oct
24
2024
Afrisem Presents: Research Funding and a Graduate Panel
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Are you planning on securing funding for your research? Do you ever wonder how scholars budget/plan/execute research trips to a...
Oct
24
2024
Women Life Freedom: A Transnational Feminist Dialogue on Social Movements and Solidarities
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
This dialogue brings together feminist scholars and social activists from Iran and the United States to think together about progressive...
Oct
23
2024
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...
Oct
22
2024
LACS | Small Presses of Latin America
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Recent years have seen an explosion in small press activity in Latin America, particularly—but not only—concentrated in its major cities....
Oct
21
2024
Anthropology Colloquium - Carolyn Rouse, Princeton University
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
A Type of Freedom: The Meaning of Low White Life Expectancies in the US Americans see longer life expectancies as an...
Oct
21
2024
LACS | Anarquismos y marxismos en Bolivia, Ecuador, y Perú
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join LACS for a conversation on anarchist and Marxist writing in Latin America with the contributors and authors of...
Oct
19
2024
Pre-screening of Juntando orillas
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Join us for a special pre-screening of the documentary Juntando Orillas, followed by an engaging conversation with the director, producers,...
Oct
18
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Oct
18
2024
“Juntando Orillas”: Bridging Afro-Diasporic Voices Through Literature
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Building on a partnership between two cultural initiatives, this panel will discuss the tensions between distinction and community, collectivization and...
Oct
17
2024
Crossing Waters: escrituras afrolatinoamericanas. Una conversación sobre enajenada and Tidal Waters
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The authors Kianny Antigua and Velia Vidal will dialogue about her works with Andrea Change and Mary Hawley. “enajenada, de Kianny...
Oct
14
2024
MENA Monday | My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine | Sami Hermez and Sireen Sawalha
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA in welcoming Sami Hermez, Northwestern University in Qatar, and his co-author, Sireen Sawalha. They will give a...
Oct
14
2024
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...
Oct
10
2024
GSS Fall Reception
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Please join the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program for food, community and welcoming words from GSS Director Nick Davis.
Oct
10
2024
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 at 620 Library Place from 4-6pm and meet your African studies community. Enjoy...