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.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 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 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 (Northwestern Buffett)
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
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
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
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
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
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
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
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
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 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
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
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...
Oct
9
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Oct
8
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
8
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
8
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
4
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Oct
4
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
4
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
2
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
30
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
25
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Sep
24
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Sep
23
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Sep
20
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Sep
18
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Sep
16
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Sep
12
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Sep
9
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Sep
6
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Sep
3
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Aug
30
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Aug
26
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Jun
6
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
29
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
28
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
24
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
24
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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May
22
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
21
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
21
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
20
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
20
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
17
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
17
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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May
14
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
13
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
13
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
13
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
8
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
8
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
6
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
6
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
3
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
3
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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May
3
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom [copy]
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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May
1
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
29
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
26
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Apr
26
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
25
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
24
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
24
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
23
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
22
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
22
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
22
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Apr
19
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
18
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
18
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Apr
17
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Apr
16
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Apr
15
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
15
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
15
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
15
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
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...