multi-day
CANCELED - 2020: New Directions in Asian American Aesthetics
All day, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
In honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1995 student hunger strike that led to the establishment of the Asian...
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James Cone: Black Theology & Black Power Conference
All day, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Black Theology & Black PowerA Conference exploring the legacy of James Cone https://jameshcone.northwestern.edu/about/ The conference is supported by Department of Religious Studies,...
Sep
25
2020
GSS Open Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an important figure (along with many others) in the struggle to extend civil...
Sep
16
2020
Chicago Field Studies Fall 2020 Orientation
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
At Orientation, CFS students will learn about making the most of their internship, identify learning goals for the quarter, get...
Sep
3
2020
African Studies Virtual Academic Direction Fair
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Northwestern undergraduates: join us for a Zoom chat September 3, at 1pm! Swahili professor Peter Mwangi will be there to...
Sep
2
2020
GSS Virtual Academic Directions Fair - Q&A
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
An informal chat and q&a about our program, course offerings, and what you can do with gender and sexuality studies...
Sep
2
2020
Meet the MENA Program (on Zoom) at the Academic Directions Fair!
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this Zoom session to learn about Northwestern's Middle East and North African Studies Program at the Academic...
Sep
2
2020
Meet the LACS Program (on Zoom) at the Academic Directions Fair!
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Join us for this Zoom session to learn about Northwestern's Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Program at the Academic...
Sep
1
2020
Academic Directions Fair: Roads to Business (Panel)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Roads to Business at Northwestern
Learn about life at Northwestern from current faculty, staff, and students. Northwestern graduates go on to lead successful careers in business...
Jul
30
2020
Afrisem Virtual Conference
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
AFRISEM Virtual Conference Africa's Place in a Globalizing World: Reimagining Governance, Science, Technology, Art, and Culture When: July 29 & 30, 2020,...
Jul
29
2020
Afrisem Virtual Conference
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
AFRISEM Virtual Conference Africa's Place in a Globalizing World: Reimagining Governance, Science, Technology, Art, and Culture When: July 29 & 30, 2020,...
Jun
18
2020
Asian American Studies Program Facebook Watch Party - Congratulations Class of 2020!
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Facebook Watch Party: www.facebook.com/AsianAmericanNorthwestern www.facebook.com/AsianAmericanNorthwestern
Jun
8
2020
Offshore Citizens: Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf — New Directions Lecture by Noora Lori (via Zoom)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us on Zoom for this discussion with Professor Noora Lori of Boston University, author of Offshore Citizens: Permanent...
Jun
5
2020
Gender & Sexuality Studies Year-End Celebration and Awards Ceremony
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
The Gender & Sexuality Studies community is invited to join us in a virtual celebration of our graduating seniors, undergraduate...
Jun
2
2020
LACS (Virtual) Faculty Colloquium: Corporations, Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Colombia (Molly M. Melin)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Colombia, having recently emerged from the longest ongoing civil war in the Western Hemisphere, offers evidence of the transformative effect...
May
29
2020
Gender & Sexuality Studies Senior Thesis Forum
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Celebrate the work of this year's GSS thesis writers! • Maya Glenn – "Black Queer Women’s Articulations of Masculinity and Femininity...
May
14
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
May
13
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
May
11
2020
Webinar: Watermelon Democracy: Egypt’s Turbulent Transition (Joshua Stacher)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Evanston Public Library for this FREE webinar with the political scientist Joshua Stacher,...
May
11
2020
Anthropology Colloquium: Sonya Atalay, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Co-sponsored by the CENTER FOR NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS RESEARCH (CNAIR) Co-sponsored by the Kaplan Institute for the Humanties
May
7
2020
CANCELLED: Ann Russo — Feminist Accountability
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Details TBA Ann Russo is an Associate Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at DePaul University who focuses on queer, antiracist,...
May
6
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
May
6
2020
LACS (Virtual) Faculty Colloquium: The Violent Bias in the Study of Civil War (Ana Arjona)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The study of civil war has focused, for obvious reasons, on violence. Yet, civil war is about much more than...
May
5
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
May
4
2020
Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria (Lisa Wedeen)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the Middle East and North African Studies Program for this discussion with Lisa Wedeen on her new book,...
May
1
2020
Conversatorio: What’s Going on in Brazil?
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the LACS Program and the Center for International and Area Studies — on Zoom — for the third...
Apr
30
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
29
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
27
2020
Anthropology Colloquium: Ben Orlove, Columbia University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Co-sponsored by Science in Human Culture Co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies Co-sponsored by the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Apr
22
2020
Gender & Sexuality Studies Undergraduate Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Join us for our spring installment of quarterly lunches for students. Meet current GSS students, staff, and faculty.
Apr
22
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
21
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
20
2020
Webinar: Public Diplomacy Mediawork—The Exercise of Soft Power Between Iran & the US (Hamid Naficy)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Evanston Public Library for this FREE webinar with Hamid Naficy, a pioneering scholar...
Apr
20
2020
Anthropology Colloquium: Susan F. Hirsch, George Mason University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“Rule of Law vs. Rule of Justice: Comparing Anthropologies of Muslim Law.” This presentation focuses on the challenge of anthropological comparison...
Apr
15
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
15
2020
Africanization: The Bridge to Edward Blyden's Final Intellectual Transformation (Harry Nii Koney Odamtten)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide...
Apr
15
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
14
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
14
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
13
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
13
2020
Anthropology Colloquium, Zoe Crossland, Columbia University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Rethinking biopower: nonhuman forms of life and sovereignty in precolonial Madagascar Precolonial history tends to be left outside of discussions of...
Apr
13
2020
Chicago Field Studies Information Session - LIVE via Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by a CFS advisor. It is...
Apr
8
2020
LACS (Virtual) Faculty Colloquium: Latin America’s Century of Citizenship (Paul Gillingham)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
We’re moving the LACS Faculty Colloquium online! Please join us — on Zoom — to hear Paul Gillingham, Associate Professor...
Mar
13
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Mar
11
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Mar
10
2020
GSS TA Info Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Gender & Sexuality Studies supports several Teaching Assistantships in conjunction with our 200-level courses. The Teaching Assistantships provide an opportunity...
Mar
9
2020
Keyman Visiting Professor talk, "Local elections in competitive authoritarian regimes: Turkey’s 2019 municipal elections as critical juncture"
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Kerem Öktem, 2019-2020 Keyman Visiting Professor presents his talk, "Local elections in competitive authoritarian regimes: Turkey’s 2019 municipal elections as...
Mar
9
2020
Anthropology Colloquium: Andrea Ballestero, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“A Future History of Water, or, How to Wonder with techno-legal devices? ” How do people commit to intervening in the future...
Mar
9
2020
Digital Lineages and Digital Labor - Mar Hicks
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Unfortunately, this event has been postponed. This talk looks at how digital systems and labor, historically and in our current moment,...
Mar
9
2020
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Presentations by MENA graduate students on their research Details to come...
Mar
5
2020
Block Cinema: A Moon for My Father (2019) with filmmaker Mania Akbari in person
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
A Moon For My Father (Mania Akbari, 2019, UK/Iran/Germany, DCP, 85 min) At age 30, Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari was diagnosed with...
Mar
5
2020
Cuban Animation from the 1960s to Today—Screening & Conversation with Cuban Animator Ivette Avila
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the Americas Media Initiative and Northwestern's Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Program for this screening and conversation...
Mar
5
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Mar
4
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Mar
4
2020
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Mar
4
2020
Intellectual Networks and Islamic Realization in 18th Century North Africa (Zachary Wright)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide...
Mar
3
2020
LACS Faculty Colloquium: Mapping Water: Archaeology, Colonial Landscapes and Water Insecurity (Mark Hauser)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Constructed as sought-after places, colonies, as imagined by multiple actors in metropolitan drawing rooms, were also lived by those forced...
Mar
2
2020
The Criminalization of Kindness: The Legality and Politics of Migrant Rescue across the Sahara and the Mediterranean
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Across the globe in migrant receiving states there has been an increase in state criminalization of civil assistance for refugees...
Feb
28
2020
Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality — A Talk by Ian Lustick
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program at the Evanston Public Library for this presentation by political scientist Ian Lustick of the...
Feb
27
2020
Conversatorio: What’s Going on in Chile?
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the LACS Program for the second event in our Conversatorio series, conversations about contemporary issues in Latin America...
Feb
26
2020
C. Riley Snorton and Toby Beauchamp, "Survey: Contemplation. Control. Creativity."
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by 2019-2020 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
Join us for the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora's second event of the year, and an evening of discussion exploring...
Feb
26
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Feb
26
2020
PAS L+L: Denielle Elliott - Scientific Collaborations and Legal Accountability in Kenya
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture. Denielle Elliott, Anthropology, York University Scientific Collaborations and Legal...
Feb
25
2020
Community Arts & Activism Student Panel
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
The Asian American Studies Program present a Community Arts & Activism Student Panel featuring four undergraduate students who will speak...
Feb
25
2020
Populating Latin Americanism: A Lecture by Fernando Degiovanni
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for the fourth lecture in the 2019-2020 Latin America Imagined series. Never achieved at a political level in...
Feb
25
2020
"The Importance of Being Wilde" with R. Zamora Linmark
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Asian American Studies is proud to present R. Zamora Linmark reading and speaking about his book, The Importance of Being...
Feb
20
2020
Film Screening & Discussion: The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for this FREE screening of the documentary film The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid (Ali...
Feb
19
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Feb
19
2020
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Feb
19
2020
PAS L+L: Lauren MacLean - Does Electricity Demobilize Citizens?: Access to the Grid and Reduced Political Participation in Africa
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture. Lauren MacLean, Political Science, Indiana University at Bloomington Does...
Feb
14
2020
The Aftermath of the Assassination of Qassem Soleimani
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
The assassination of Qassem Soleimani and the subsequent shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 shook the world. But...
Feb
14
2020
LOCAL COLOR: Shave Ice, Rainbow Aesthetics, and Hawai'i State Multiculturalism
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Speaker event feature Dr. Hi'ilei Hobart, Native Studies Assistant Professor of Anthropoloty, UT Austin
Feb
12
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Feb
12
2020
Suburban Islam: Religious and National Belonging in Chicago's Exurbs (Justine Howe)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide...
Feb
11
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Feb
6
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Feb
6
2020
What’s Going on in Colombia? Conversatorio with María Camila Palacio & Laura García Montoya
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the LACS Program for the launch of our Conversatorio series, conversations about contemporary issues in Latin America and...
Feb
5
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Feb
5
2020
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Feb
5
2020
PAS L+L: Ashley Wong & Francesca Truffa - Effect of Beliefs and Gender Roles on Girls' Math Education
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture. Ashley Wong & Francesca Truffa, Northwestern University Effect of...
Feb
4
2020
LACS Faculty Colloquium: Tracing Shared Histories of State-Sponsored Violence: João Pina’s La sombra del Condor (Lily Frusciante)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
From December 15, 2015, through the end of February 2016, the Sala PAyS at the Parque de la Memoria in...
Feb
3
2020
A Tale of Two Camps: Yemeni Refugees & Ethiopian Migrants in the Horn of Africa (Nathalie Peutz)
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Colloquium on Refugees, Migrants, and Statelessness at the Evanston Public Library for this...
Feb
3
2020
New Directions Lecture: Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Soqotra (Yemen) (Nathalie Peutz)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for the Winter 2020 lecture in our quarterly New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies...
Jan
31
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Jan
30
2020
Premilla Nadasen: "History, Memory, & Household Worker Organizing"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
In the 1960s and 1970s, African American household workers established the first-ever national organization to represent them. They demanded "pay,...
Jan
29
2020
What's in the Manuscripts of Timbuktu? (Charles Stewart)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide...
Jan
27
2020
Anthropology Colloquium, Matt Sakakeeny, Associate Professor, Tulane University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“Listening Against the Vernacular: Music and Language Socialization in New Orleans.” New Orleans is celebrated as an extraordinary site of race-...
Jan
24
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Jan
22
2020
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Jan
22
2020
PAS L+L: Avant-Garde Research Cluster Meeting
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
The Avant-Garde Africa research cluster will share what they are doing and plans for the quarter and beyond. Although the lunch...
Jan
21
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Jan
15
2020
Afrisem: Graduate Student Africa Seminar
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Presenter: Raja Ben Hammed Dorval Department/Program: French Title of Presentation: Immigration and Nationalism: The Algerian Example of the North African Star Abstract: How...
Jan
15
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Jan
15
2020
PAS Winter Quarter Town Hall Meeting
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
The PAS community – including all affiliated faculty, graduate students, and anyone else with an interest in African Studies –...
Jan
14
2020
Is Catholic Feminism an Oxymoron? Some Answers from Mexican History. (Margaret Chowning)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for the third lecture in the 2019-2020 Latin America Imagined series. In the colonial period the gender ideologies...
Jan
14
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Jan
13
2020
Hamza Yusuf Hanson: "College Caravans: The Mauritanian Scholastic Tradition" (talk and Q&A)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Please join us for an evening with one of the Western world's most influential Muslim scholars: Hamza Yusuf Hanson, president...
Jan
13
2020
Anthropology Colloquium, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., University of Oklahoma
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Ancestral States of Human Microbiomes
Jan
13
2020
The Kurdish Question and Academic Expertise: Borders, Territories, and Statelessness
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The Kurds, a nation that most Americans had not heard of until 2014, have been in the headlines since Kurdish...
Jan
10
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Jan
9
2020
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Jan
7
2020
The Promises and Perils of Conducting Academic Research in Egypt: A Lecture by Khaled Fahmy
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In light of the severe crackdown in Egypt on press freedom, academic inquiry and research in general, this talk will...
Jan
6
2020
Opening up a Few Corpses: Islam, Dissection and Modernity (Khaled Fahmy)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In this lecture, historian Khaled Fahmy will describe the process by which modern medicine was introduced in early 19th-century Egypt....
Dec
11
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Dec
6
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Dec
5
2019
Reflections on Jesuit Slaveholding and Colegios in Colonial Spanish America: Quito and the Chota-Mira Complex 1687-1767 (Sherwin Bryant)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Sherwin Bryant is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at Northwestern. As an historian of colonial Afro-Latin America...
Dec
3
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Dec
2
2019
Putting Women Back Into Inca Places (Stella Nair)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for the second lecture in the 2019-2020 Latin America Imagined series. In this talk, Stella Nair of UCLA...
Dec
2
2019
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Presentations by MENA doctoral students Open only to Northwestern graduate students and faculty Hazal Ozdemir (Department of History) “They Migrate by Renouncing Their...
Nov
25
2019
Fog in Seven Movements: Connecting Anti-Atlas Communities to Fog-Harvested Water (Jamila Bargach)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This presentation will take as its initial moment the situation of some 15 villages living with no water-access, as it...
Nov
20
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Nov
20
2019
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Nov
20
2019
PAS L+L: Shannon Galvin/Dan Yi-Ze Liu - Access to Health
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Shannon Galvin and Dan Yi-Ze Liu, Center for Global...
Nov
19
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Nov
19
2019
Honoring Dr. Sekile Nzinga, Y Women Leadership Award Recipient
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center
Celebrate Feminist Leader, Sekile Nzinga: 2019 YWomen Leadership Award Honoree Dr. Sekile Nzinga is the Director of the Women's Center at...
Nov
18
2019
Defeated Revolutionaries, Lasting Legacies: The Afterlife of Revolution in Dhufar, Oman (Alice Wilson)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Post-conflict authoritarian states often rely on patronage and repression as strategies to quell dissent and to win hearts and minds....
Nov
15
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Nov
14
2019
Afrisem: Graduate Student Africa Seminar
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Graduate students are invited to gather for presentation, discussion and dinner. Presenter: Mariam Taher, Anthropology Talk: Gendered Mobilities and the State in...
Nov
13
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Nov
13
2019
Iconic Archive: Timbuktu and its Manuscripts in Public Discourse (Susana Molins Lliteras)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) and the Program of African Studies as we...
Nov
11
2019
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Devi Mays)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Devi Mays is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, where she is...
Nov
7
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Nov
7
2019
Study Abroad Fair
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Northwestern Buffett Global Learning Office
Come to the 2019 Study Abroad Fair to learn more about all undergraduate study abroad opportunities at Northwestern! Speak directly...
Nov
6
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Nov
6
2019
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Nov
6
2019
PAS L+L: Kwasi Konadu
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Communographies: New Histories of Culture, Community, Nationalism, and Decolonization...
Nov
5
2019
LACS Faculty Colloquium: State Power and Sacramental Logic: Thinking about Colonialism with the Material Remains of Expelled Jesuits (J. Michelle Molina)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
J. Michelle Molina is the John and Rosemary Croghan Chair, Associate Professor in Catholic Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies...
Nov
4
2019
The Rise of Populist Majoritarianism in Turkey and Greece (Ioannis Grigoriadis)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for this lecture by Keyman Visiting Scholar Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, who...
Nov
1
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Oct
31
2019
Afrisem: Graduate Student Africa Seminar
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Graduate students are invited to gather for presentation, discussion and dinner. Presenter: Scott Newman, Comparative Literary Studies Writing Cameroonian Rumor: The Sound...
Oct
30
2019
Survey: Contemplation. Control. Creativity. (CED Kickoff Event; Northwestern Scholars Panel Discussion)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by 2019-2020 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
Join us for the 2019-2020 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora’s kickoff event. This year, the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)...
Oct
30
2019
PAS L+L: Health and Healing Research Cluster
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. During the first half of the lunch seminar, which...
Oct
29
2019
On the Basis of Cultural Identity: Migration, Cinema, and Neoliberalism in the Andes (Lorena Cuya Gavilano)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Migration cannot be understood, reimagined, or visualized without affects, but affects change according to economic policies. In the Andes, neoliberal...
Oct
29
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Oct
28
2019
Anthropology Colloquium, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Assoicate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“Returning Home?: Mobility, Black Privilege, and Diaspora-Homeland Tensions among Returnees in Liberia.” The Liberian diaspora is often referred to as the...
Oct
28
2019
The Powers of the Matriarch: Capital, Culture and Kindred in an Arab-Asian Diaspora (Michael Gilsenan)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the Middle East and North African Studies Program for this lecture by Professor Michael Gilsenan of New York...
Oct
25
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Oct
25
2019
Archaeology and Its Avatars: Andean Cultures and Histories Symposium (Day Two)
9:00 AM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
What meanings has archaeology assumed in cultural and critical theory? What has been its role as a metaphor and also...
Oct
24
2019
Archaeology and Its Avatars: Andean Cultures and Histories Symposium (Day One)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
What meanings has archaeology assumed in cultural and critical theory? What has been its role as a metaphor and also...
Oct
24
2019
Indians, Estancieros and Missionaries in Tierra del Fuego, 1884-1922 Carlos Gamerro
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
In 1884 the first sheep farm or estancia was established in Tierra del Fuego; over the following decade they multiplied...
Oct
23
2019
Documentary Screening: The Silence
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Asian American Studies invites you to an on-campus screening of The Silence, an award-winning documentary by Soo Nam Park. The Silence In...
Oct
23
2019
A Conversation with New Yorker Writer Dexter Filkins & Kickoff Reception for the Weinberg College Center for International & Area Studies
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by International Studies
Please join the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern for this special event featuring New Yorker...
Oct
23
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Oct
23
2019
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Oct
23
2019
PAS L+L: Will Reno
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Will Reno, Political Science, Northwestern University
Oct
18
2019
AASP: Filipinix Postcolonialisms - Jan Padios and Angie Reyes
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Please join the Asian American Studies Program (and generous co-sponsors) 12:00PM Friday, October 18 (Harris 108) for a discussion on Filipinix Postcolonialisms Featuring a...
Oct
18
2019
AASP: Filipinix Postcolonialisms - Graduate Workshop
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
This graduate workshop accompanies the Filipinix Postcolonialisms discussion featuring Dr. Angie Reyes and Dr. Jan Padios. (Please refer to the...
Oct
17
2019
Afrisem: Graduate Student Africa Seminar
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Title: Collect, organize, cite, and share research Zotero & Endnote The Herskovists Africana Library will be hosting AFRISEM next Thursday, 17 October...
Oct
16
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Oct
16
2019
Gender & Sexuality Studies Undergraduate Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Join us for our first installment of quarterly lunches for students. Meet current GSS students, staff, and faculty.
Oct
16
2019
PAS L+L: Adia Benton
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Adia Benton, Anthropology, Northwestern University
Oct
15
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Oct
10
2019
Finn Enke: "Starting Where We Are: A Graphic Exploration of Transfeminist Histories and Contemporary Practice"
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Historical analysis invites the voices of past visionaries but also presents profound challenges to contemporary communities yearning for justice in...
Oct
10
2019
Fake Comedy: Memory, Futurity, and Hope in Nagasaki - Seirai Yuichi (Memorializing Dialogue)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Fake Comedy: Memory, Futurity, and Hope in Nagasaki In novels such as Holy Water and Ground Zero, Nagasaki Seirai Yuichi, the...
Oct
10
2019
LACS Graduate Workshop | Maricas Folklóricas: La Familia Galán’s Drag and Activism in the Bolivian Fiesta (Enzo Vasquez Toral)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The patron-saint fiesta is an iconic cultural expression that encompasses what we traditionally understand as folklore in the Andes. Bringing...
Oct
9
2019
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Oct
9
2019
Avant-Garde Africa Research Cluster Meeting
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
The Avant-Garde Africa cluster session is the first of the Wednesday lunch seminars that will introduce the current research clusters...
Oct
7
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Oct
7
2019
Joshua Simon presents José Martí's Immanent Critique of American Imperialism
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Come hear lecturer Joshua Simon from Columbia and discussant Arturo Chang in an event sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop...
Oct
7
2019
Becoming Shinqiti: Saharan Islamic Scholars and Global Religious Authority (Zekeria Ahmed Salem)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Zekeria Ahmed Salem is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Director of the Institute for the Study...
Oct
4
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Oct
3
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Oct
2
2019
Chicago Field Studies In-person Info Session at 1819 Hinman - No registration needed
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Learn about the academic internship program, Chicago Field Studies. Hear from a CFS advisor and get all your questions answered.
Oct
2
2019
PAS Fall Open House
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join PAS staff, affiliated faculty, students, and community members for snacks and refreshments to kick off the academic year.
Oct
2
2019
PAS Town Hall
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
The PAS community – including all affiliated faculty, graduate students, and anyone else with an interest in African Studies –...
Oct
1
2019
Gender & Sexuality Studies Fall Reception
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Join the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program for our annual Fall Reception!
Oct
1
2019
Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty (Pablo Boczkowski)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In this talk, Professor Pablo Boczkowski will present findings from his current book project, "Abundance: On the experience of living...
Sep
30
2019
Documenting Syria: Film-Making, Video Activism & Revolution (Joshka Wessels)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Syria is one of the most important countries in the world for the documentary film industry. Since the 1970s, Syrian...