multi-day
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
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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...
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
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Oct
28
2024
Emergency Teach-In: Understanding Israel's War from the Perspectives of Lebanon and Iran.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA and International Studies for a roundtable discussion of Lebanese and Iranian perspectives on the current conflict. The...
Oct
24
2024
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
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
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
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
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
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
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
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
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
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
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
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
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
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Apr
14
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
13
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
12
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Apr
10
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Apr
9
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
9
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
9
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
8
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
5
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Apr
4
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
4
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
3
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
2
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
1
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Apr
1
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
27
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
25
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
22
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
18
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
15
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
11
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
9
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
7
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Mar
4
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
29
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
27
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
26
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
26
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
26
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
23
2024
Which Way Africa Lecture Series Part 3
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
PASU
Feb
23
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
19
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
19
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Feb
16
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
14
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
14
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
14
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
14
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
13
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
12
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
12
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
12
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Feb
9
2024
Which Way Africa Lecture Series Part 2
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
PASU
Feb
9
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
8
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
8
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
8
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
7
2024
CFS Info Session In Person
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Feb
5
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Feb
5
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
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...
Jan
31
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
31
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
29
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Jan
29
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
26
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
26
2024
Which Way Africa Lecture Series Part 1
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
PASU
Jan
26
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
25
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
24
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
22
2024
Anthropology Colloquium: Terry Deacon, UC Berkeley
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Human Symbolic Nature
Jan
22
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
22
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
19
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
17
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
17
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Jan
16
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
12
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Jan
11
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
10
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
8
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
8
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Jan
8
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
5
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
5
2024
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Dec
18
2023
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
13
2023
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
8
2023
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
29
2023
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
28
2023
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...
Nov
27
2023
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
22
2023
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
20
2023
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
20
2023
MENA MONDAY | Digital Pyropoesis: The Flame and the Dish in Islamic State's Universe
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In this faculty colloquium, Marwan Kraidy, Dean and CEO of Northwestern University in Qatar, will share recent research. As dean and...
Nov
17
2023
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
16
2023
“We Are Waiting For You: Grief and Loss in the Korean Diaspora” by Dr. Jinah Kim (CSU, North Ridge)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Part of the One Book, One Northwestern event series surrounding Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart, this talk examines the...
Nov
15
2023
CFS Info Session In-Person!
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
15
2023
ANARQUISMOS Y MARXISMOS EN BOLIVIA, ECUADOR Y PERÚ
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
TEXTOS ESENCIALES Acompáñenos en una charla con los autores Jorge Coronado y Stephen McNabb. Esta selección de textos esenciales de los...
Nov
13
2023
Difficult Conversations on Israel and Palestine
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA Studies & Jewish and Israeli Studies for this conversation *What is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict all about? Why has...
Nov
13
2023
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
13
2023
MENA MONDAYS | Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Book talk by Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College. Kyle Craig, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, will be discussant. Lunch will be served...
Nov
11
2023
HANA Center Field Trip
10:30 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by One Book One Northwestern
Join One Book and the Asian American Studies program to visit HANA Center in Chicago. HANA Center is a Chicagoland...
Nov
10
2023
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
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Nov
9
2023
Afrisem Presents: "My Mother's Theatre School" A Presentation by Visiting Scholar Arthur Banshayeko
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Arthur Banshayeko, also known as Arthur Ban, is a Burundian actor-director. For him, art is the best and secure platform...
Nov
7
2023
Storytelling & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Nathan Thrall presents A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
A semitrailer hits a schoolbus. A father cannot reach his injured child because he holds the wrong ID. Interwoven with...
Nov
7
2023
Black Womanhood and Self-Identification in Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Literatures
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
What is to be a Latin American or Caribbean Black woman? This question launches my study of Black female’s self-identification...
Nov
6
2023
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...