Past Events: Department of Anthropology

Past Events

Review past Department of Anthropology events.

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...

multi-day

Swahili Table

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

Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...

multi-day

Swahili Table

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

Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...

Dec

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2024

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

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Nov

2024

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

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

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Nov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Oct

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

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

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

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

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

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

2024

Women Life Freedom: A Transnational Feminist Dialogue on Social Movements and Solidarities

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by 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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Oct

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Oct

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

2024

MENA | Understanding Allied Struggles: Palestine, Turtle Island, United States

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

Please join MENA for a conversation among leading scholars of violence, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and militarism in Palestine, Turtle...

Oct

2024

LACS | Book Forum | Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean

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

Please join LACS at this book forum with author Emily Maguire, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, Northwestern University, in...

Oct

2024

Approaches to the History of Ancient Technology in Africa: Conversation with Dr. Babatunde Babalola

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

This discussion forum will engage Dr. Babatunde Babalola of the British Museum on his groundbreaking research on glass technology in...

Oct

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...

Oct

2024

WCCIAS Ice Cream Social

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

Welcome back to campus for the new academic year! We hope you will join us for an informal ice cream...

Oct

2024

WCCIAS Ice Cream Social

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Welcome back to campus for the new academic year! We hope you will join us for an informal ice cream...

Oct

2024

Șarık Tara Memorial Lecture: "The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina"

4:30 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)

Join KMTS and Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Rutgers University, Newark, for the Șarık Tara Memorial Lecture on October 2, 2024 at 4:30PM...

Sep

2024

Anthropology Colloquium - Rachel Carmody, Harvard University

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

Gut microbiome plasticity and human adaptability in changing environments The gut microbiome responds rapidly to dietary change and other ecological perturbation....

Sep

2024

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

9:30 AM - 10:15 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...

Sep

2024

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

1:30 PM - 2:15 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...

Sep

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...

Sep

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...

Sep

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...

Sep

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...

Sep

2024

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

11:30 AM - 12:15 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...

Sep

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...

Sep

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...

Sep

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...

Aug

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...

Aug

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...

Jun

2024

LACS End-of-Year Celebration

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Let’s celebrate our LACS community and scholarship over the past couple of years!

May

2024

Post-1948 Transformations II: Arab-Jews before & after Israeli Statehood | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

Please note that the location for this lecture in the series has changed. This event will take place in the...

May

2024

LACS | Climate Change and Transatlantic Slavery – and What It Can Teach Us About the Future

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

Lunch will be served at this event. Keron Niles (University of the West Indies, International Relations) will present. He will examine...

May

2024

MENA | Palestine in Context | Exile, Palestine, and the Limits of Dissent: Being Syrian in Germany after October 7th

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

In this conversation, Berlin-based Syrian exile playwright Mohammad Al Attar will explore the current climate for discussions of Israel/Palestine in...

May

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...

May

2024

MENA | Towards an Objective Legal Standard: Overcoming the Palestine Exception to Free Speech on Campus

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

The MENA Studies Program invites the university community to this scholarly event delving into some of the most pressing issues...

May

2024

LACS | Book talk | La historia en ruinas. El culto a los monumentos y a su destrucción

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

Lunch will be served at this book talk by Mauricio Tenorio (University of Chicago, History). Movements such as Black Lives Matter...

May

2024

Post-1948 Transformations I: The Nakba & Palestinian Identity | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves...

May

2024

MENA | Palestine in Context | Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

Join MENA, the Markaz Review, and City Lights Books for a book launch. Editor Jordan Elgrably and contributing author Sahar...

May

2024

MENA Monday | MENA Graduate Students Colloquium, Part 2

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

Lunch will be served at this event. MENA Program graduate students share their original work. Featuring Aseel Abulhab of Anthropology, Lauren...

May

2024

LACS Archaeology & Heritage | Reconstructing Ecological Networks in the early to mid Holocene Caribbean: Trinidad as a Template

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

This event is on Zoom, and is part of our Archaeology & Heritage online series. Chike Pilgrim (University of Cambridge, Archaeology)...

May

2024

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

2024

LACS | Coca Leaves/ Esx: Decolonizing the History of the Coca Plant through the Ancient Rites of the Nasa Indigenous People

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

Lunch will be served at this event. Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo worked with the Wasak Kwewesx Nasa Indigenous School in the Colombian Andes,...

May

2024

Consider the Future of Work: Chicago Field Studies Alumni Career Panel

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies

This event is sponsored by the Waldron Student-Alumni Connections Program. Register here! Join us for an engaging discussion with accomplished alumni...

May

2024

Anthropology Colloquium: Miki Makihara, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

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

Rapa Nui Voice, Stance, and Subjectivities Language has become a desired object of attention in many indigenous and other minority communities...

May

2024

MENA Monday | MENA Studies Graduate Student Colloquium, Part 1

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

Lunch will be served at this event. MENA Program Graduate Students will present their original work. Featuring Yousef Bouccetta of Spanish...

May

2024

Swahili Table

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

Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...

May

2024

In Search of "Tunga": Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town - André Chappatte

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)

A talk by André Chappatte (Global Studies, University of Geneva) about his recent book, In Search of Tunga: Prosperity, Almighty...

May

2024

The 1948 War | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

Please note the location for this lecture in the series has changed. It will now take place in the Lake...

May

2024

MENA Monday | Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria

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

Lunch will be served at this event. Dabke, one of Syria’s most beloved dance music traditions, is at the center of...

May

2024

LACS | Archaeology & Heritage | From Land to Sea: Human Colonization and the Dynamics of Precolonial Occupation of the West Indian Archipelago

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

This event will be online, and is part of our Archaeology & Heritage series. Benoît Bérard (University of the Antilles, Archaeology)...

May

2024

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

2024

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom [copy]

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

2024

Swahili Table

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

Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...

Apr

2024

MENA Monday | Understanding the Struggle for Sudan

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

This virtual panel discussion convenes leading experts to delve into the causes and dynamics of the current war and humanitarian...

Apr

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...

Apr

2024

LACS | Archaeology & Heritage | Tracing the Afrodescendant Archaeological Footprint in Colonial Santo Domingo

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

This event will be on Zoom, and is part of our Archaeology & Heritage series. Pauline Kulstad, independent research scholar affiliated...

Apr

2024

Foundations of Palestinian Nationalism | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves...

Apr

2024

Swahili Table

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

Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...

Apr

2024

I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America - Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)

A talk by Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst about their recent book, I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and...

Apr

2024

AfriSem Presents: Exhibiting Africa with Foreman Bandama

5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Join us for our final iteration of our 3D Humanities Speaker & Workshop Series. Guest speaker Foreman Bandama from the...

Apr

2024

Anthropology Colloquium: Ripan Mahli, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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

Changing the practice and practitioners of anthropological genomics Anthropological genomics has its roots in the field of physical anthropology which has...

Apr

2024

CANCELLED-MENA Monday | Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948

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

Lunch will be served at this event. Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of...

Apr

2024

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...

Apr

2024

LACS | Archaeology & Heritage | Remembering the Unimaginable: Anticolonial Archaeology of Black Amazonian Ancestral Territories

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

This event will take place on Zoom, as part of our Archaeology and Heritage series. We are delighted to welcome Gabby...

Apr

2024

Afrisem Presents: That Kind of Riff. Thinking Fred Moten in Azania.

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Tendayi Sithole is a Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of South Africa. He is also a...

Apr

2024

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...

Apr

2024

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

11:30 AM - 12:15 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

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...

Apr

2024

AfriSem Presents: XR: The Future of Narrative Storytelling with Falona Joy and Joy Media

5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Join us for our third iteration of our four part series, 3D Humanities Speaker & Workshop. Guest speaker Falona Joy...

Apr

2024

World War I & European Intervention: Origins of the Palestine Mandate | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves...

Apr

2024

Anthropology Colloquium: Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas, Emory University

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

“That’s not what you mean”: Intention, poetics and resonance in the therapeutic encounter In this presentation I focus on the concept...

Apr

2024

MENA Monday | Water on Fire: A Memoir of War

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

Lunch will be served at this event. Water on Fire tells a story of immigration that starts in a Beirut devastated...

Apr

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...

Apr

2024

Korean Adoption and Its Global Legacies: 70 Years and Beyond

All day, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program

Korean Adoption and Its Global Legacies: 70 Years and Beyond is a two-day conference that reflects on the origin and...

Apr

2024

Korean Adoption and Its Global Legacies: 70 Years and Beyond

All day, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program

Korean Adoption and Its Global Legacies: 70 Years and Beyond is a two-day conference that reflects on the origin and...

Apr

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...

Apr

2024

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

2024

AfriSem Presents: Material Archives and African History Futures with Akin Ogundiran

5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Join us for our second iteration of our 3D Humanities Speaker & Workshop Series on 3D Modeling. Guest speaker Akin...

Apr

2024

Zionisms: Variations on a Theme | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves...

Apr

2024

LACS | Milpa Ecologies: Transgenerational Foodways in Tlaxcala, Mexico

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

Lunch will be served at this event, which is co-sponsored by the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)...

Apr

2024

MENA Monday | The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East

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

Lunch will be served at this event. In The Digital Double Bind, Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil explore how the...

Apr

2024

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

11:00 AM - 11:45 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

2024

Afrisem Presents: A Fellowship & Grant Writing Workshop

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Join us this Thursday April 4th, for a fun and knowledge gaining workshop. During this time you will learn the...

Apr

2024

Late Ottoman Palestine | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History

Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves...

Apr

2024

LACS | Conservatives Against the Tide: The Rise of the Argentine PRO in Comparative Perspective

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Food will be served at this event. In this book event, Edward Gibson and James Mahoney will discuss Gabriel Vommaro's new...

Apr

2024

AfriSem Presents: Methods For Reparative Media with AJ Christian

5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Join us for our first iteration of our four part series, 3D Humanities Speaker & Workshop. Guest speaker AJ Christian...

Apr

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...

Apr

2024

MENA Monday | Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World

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

Lunch will be served at this event. How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite...

Mar

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...

Mar

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...

Mar

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...

Mar

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...

Mar

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...

Mar

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...

Mar

2024

LIVE SET PERFORMANCE / DANCE PARTY - DJ İpek İpekçioğlu

9:30 PM - 11:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

Dance to the tunes of internationally renowned music producer, DJ, and queer activist İpek İpekçioğlu in a live-set performance! Ipek...

Mar

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...

Mar

2024

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

2024

Liquor Store Dreams

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program

LIQUOR STORE DREAMS offers an intimate portrait of the lives of Korean American liquor store owners and their second-generation ‘liquor...

Feb

2024

LACS | A Nervous Archive: Popular Print Culture in Latin American / LatinX Art

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

LACS welcomes Sergio Delgado Moya (University of Chicago, Romance Languages & Literatures) for a lunch-time lecture. Food will be served...

Feb

2024

Anthropology Colloquium: Anna Agbe-Davis, Univeristy of North Carolina

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

Rights work made material: An archaeology of the Phyllis Wheatley Home for Girls, Chicago. The civil rights movement of the 20th...

Feb

2024

POSTPONED TO SPRING (DATE TBD): MENA Monday | Book Talk | My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

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

MENA welcomes Dr. Sami Hermez (Northwestern University in Qatar). He will discuss his book My Brother, My Land: A Story...

Feb

2024

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...

Feb

2024

Which Way Africa Lecture Series Part 3

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

PASU

Feb

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...

Feb

2024

Anthropology Colloquium: Kisha Supernant, University of Alberta

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

From Extraction to Restoration: Heart-centered Archaeology for Reclamation and Restorative Justice Archaeology in North America has long been associated with colonial,...

Feb

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...

Feb

2024

LACS | Book Forum | Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa

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

Join LACS for a Book Forum discussing Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and...

Feb

2024

Swahili Table

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

Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...

Feb

2024

Swahili Table

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

Swahili students, come practice your Swahili speaking skills with good conversation and snacks at Swahili Table! Meet at 4pm in...

Feb

2024

Between faith, activism, and academia: Latin American experiences of intersectionality

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group

Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program as they host...

Feb

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...

Feb

2024

CFS Info Session In Person

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...

Feb

2024

PALESTINE 101 | Building Coalitions for Justice in Gaza & Beyond--An Intergenerational Conversation

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

The impressive local activism we have recently witnessed calling for an end to violence and a just peace in Israel...

Feb

2024

MENA Monday | Book Talk | Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile

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

MENA welcomes Dr. Loren Lybarger, of Ohio University, who will discuss his book, Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile. Lunch will...

Feb

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...

Feb

2024

Which Way Africa Lecture Series Part 2

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

PASU

Feb

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...

Feb

2024

Afrisem Presents: Justice or Vengeance? What the Rhetoric of Adwa Memorial Center Can Tell Us About Ethiopia’s Political Culture

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Please join us from 5 pm to 7 pm for another series of Afrisem Presents, with our graduate student, Behailu...

Feb

2024

DR. ZAKIYA LUNA: Engaging Human Rights to Organize for Reproductive Justie

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

How did reproductive justice—defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent—become recognized as a...

Feb

2024

PALESTINE 101 | Music Making in the West Bank from 1973 to Oslo: Identity, Agency, and Innovation

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

MENA welcomes musician Issa Boulos for this lecture in the Palestine in Context series. The period from 1973 to 1993 was...

Feb

2024

CFS Info Session In Person

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...

Feb

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...

Feb

2024

MENA | Virtual Roundtable | Uneven and Sedimented Disasters in Libya and Morocco

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

MENA is pleased to present a roundtable discussion on Zoom, featuring Brahim El Guabli (Williams College), Hamza Hamouchene (Transnational Institute),...

Feb

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...

Jan

2024

Swahili Table

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

Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...

Jan

2024

Swahili Table

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

Swahili students, come practice your Swahili speaking skills with good conversation and snacks at Swahili Table! Meet at 4pm in...

Jan

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...

Jan

2024

MENA Monday | Eklektik Berlinistan: Queer Pathways through Berlin's Middle Easts

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

MENA is excited to welcome DJ Ipek Ipekcioglu, in conversation with Emrah Yildiz, Northwestern University. Lunch will be served at...

Jan

2024

Pan-African Students' Union (PASU) lecture series with Lwazi Lushaba

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Africa stands at a pivotal moment, having traversed three decades of neo-liberal economic experimentation with outcomes mirroring past autocratic policies...

Jan

2024

Which Way Africa Lecture Series Part 1

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

PASU

Jan

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...

Jan

2024

Afrisem

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Please join us today, Thursday, 25th of January, from 5 pm to 7 pm for another series of Afrisem with...

Jan

2024

The Politics of Religious Freedom in the Inter-American System

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group

Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program as they host...

Jan

2024

Anthropology Colloquium: Terry Deacon, UC Berkeley

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

Human Symbolic Nature

Jan

2024

MENA Monday | NEW DIRECTIONS | Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt

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

MENA welcomes Dr. Atef Said (University of Illinois Chicago), who will speak on his book, Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities,...

Jan

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...

Jan

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...

Jan

2024

Swahili Table

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

Swahili students, come practice your Swahili speaking skills with good conversation and snacks at Swahili Table! Meet at 4pm in...

Jan

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...

Jan

2024

LACS | The White Cube and the Handmade at the São Paulo Biennial: Presenting Peruvian Artes Populares as Contemporary Art

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

LACS welcomes Dr. Harper Montgomery of Hunter College, Art and Art History. Related to her current research on the ascent...

Jan

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...

Jan

2024

African Seminar group meeting

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

The Africa Seminar (AfriSem) provides an interdisciplinary and area-defined setting for graduate students studying Africa to develop, present, and draw...

Jan

2024

Swahili Table

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

Swahili students, come practice your Swahili speaking skills with good conversation and snacks at Swahili Table! Meet at 4pm in...

Jan

2024

Seminar: Conservation of the Mexican Caribbean in Light of Explosive Tourism Growth

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Environmental Sciences Program

Northwestern University's Programs in Environmental Science, Environmental Policy and Culture, and Latin American & Caribbean Studies - jointly invite you...

Jan

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...

Jan

2024

MENA Monday | Mapping as Decolonial Praxis: From Algeria to Palestine and Hawaii

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

MENA welcomes Dr. Nour Joudah (University of California, Los Angeles) as a speaker in the MENA Monday lecture series. Lunch...

Jan

2024

MENA | Palestine 101 | Palestine Lives: A Story of Survival

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

MENA welcomes Dr. Nour Joudah (University of California, Los Angeles) to speak in the Palestine 101 event series. In the last...

Jan

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...