multi-day
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
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African Seminar group meeting
4:00 PM - 6:00 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...
multi-day
Title IX at 50: Day 3 Program
8:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Title IX at 50
8:00 a.m. Walking tour of Walter Athletics Center and Ryan Fieldhouse Visitors to Saturday’s sessions are invited to a walking tour of...
Jun
3
2023
New Directions in Asian American Studies
8:00 AM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Dear Asian American Studies Program community members and supporters of Asian American Studies in the Chicago area, Please join us for...
Jun
1
2023
Gender & Sexuality Studies Year-End Celebration and Awards Ceremony
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
The Gender & Sexuality Studies community is invited to join us in a celebration of our graduating seniors, undergraduate award...
May
25
2023
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...
May
23
2023
LACS | Archaeology & Heritage Series | Unsettling Landscapes of the Cold War: The Cuban Missile Crisis in the intersection of Archaeology, Heritage, and Homelessness, Odlanyer Hernández de Lara
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This presentation is part of the virtual lecture series Archaeology & Heritage, co-sponsored by the Evanston Public Library. With Odlanyer Hernández...
May
23
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...
May
22
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Jafari Allen, University of Miami
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“The Anthropology of ‘What is Utterly Precious’: Black Feminist Habits of Mind, and the Object (and Ends) of Ethnography.” The larger...
May
22
2023
MENA Mondays: Book Talk: Sentient Flesh
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In Sentient Flesh R. A. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham’s 1937 remark “we should have our liberty 'cause ....
May
18
2023
AUGMENTED CURIOSITIES: VIRTUAL PLAY IN AFRICAN PASTS AND FUTURES
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
On May 18, at 5pm, join us for the second part of the series "Digital Curation in an Analog world:...
May
18
2023
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...
May
16
2023
LACS | Archaeology & Heritage | Anti-Racist Archaeology with Afro-Ecuadorian Maroon Women
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This presentation is part of the virtual lecture series Archaeology & Heritage from Northwestern University's Latin American & Caribbean Studies...
May
16
2023
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...
May
15
2023
MENA Mondays: FACULTY COLLOQUIUM , Thadeus Dowad | Ottoman Portraiture between Revolution and Empire: Kapıdağlı Paints Selim III
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This faculty colloquium will be a manuscript workshop for an upcoming article adapted from a chapter of Thadeus Dowad's dissertation,...
May
11
2023
LACS | The Jackson Lecture | The National-Popular in Ecuador: Popular Republicanism, Indigenismo, and the Left in the Quest for Hegemony (1896-1950)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The Jackson Lecture will be given by Valeria Coronel. Lunch will be served at the event. Description: Unlike most Latin American...
May
11
2023
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
10
2023
"Absolute Apology, Absolute Forgiveness”: A Talk with David L. Eng
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
“Absolute Apology, Absolute Forgiveness” comes from the final chapter of Eng’s forthcoming book, “Reparations and the Human,” which examines how...
May
9
2023
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...
May
9
2023
LACS | Archaeology & Heritage series | Archaeology to Deepen the Multi-Layered Landscapes of Haiti
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This presentation is part of the virtual lecture series Archaeology & Heritage, co-sponsored by the Evanston Public Library. With Joseph Sony...
May
8
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
May
8
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Cara Ocobock, University of Notre Dame
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway”: How Reindeer Herders of Sub-Arctic Finland Bioculturally Cope with the Cold With mean annual...
May
8
2023
MENA Mondays: New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies: States of Subsistence
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The Spring Quarter 2023 New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies talk will be given by José Ciro...
May
5
2023
THE AFRICA SEMINAR GRADUATE STUDIES CONFERENCE: BUILT ENVIRONMENT
8:30 AM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
May 5, please join us for the Africa Seminar (Afrisem) at Northwestern University's Program of African Studies 7ᵗʰ Annual Graduate...
May
4
2023
Critical African Heritages Presents: The Timeless Way of Building an African Futuristic Rural City
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
"An embodiment of a rural futurist vision, Okere City is the first sustainable rural city in Uganda. A village boy...
May
4
2023
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
May
4
2023
MENA | SESP | Education and the Cultural Cold War in the Middle East
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This book talk is co-presented by MENA and SESP. Lunch will be served at the event. The event is hybrid,...
May
3
2023
Bringing Transnationalism Back In in the Comparative Politics of Africa and the Middle East: Labor Migration, Remittance Flows and the Politics of Trust - A Book Discussion with Khalid Medani
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
This is a hybrid event. No registration is needed to attend in person. Register here to attend by Zoom. Lunch will be...
May
2
2023
Small by Small: A conversation with author Ike Anya
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join us at this special pre publication event, Ike’s first public reading in North America from his first book Small By...
May
2
2023
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...
May
1
2023
MENA Mondays: Bringing Turkish Literature in English: Translating Murathan Mungan's Valor
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Winner of the 2021 Global Humanities Translation Prize Among Murathan Mungan’s signature works, Cenk Hikâyeleri (Valor: Stories) has long been considered...
Apr
25
2023
LACS | Archaeology & Heritage series | Dwelling in the Hurricane's Path. Still Standing: The Ti Kais of Dominica.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This presentation is part of the virtual lecture series Archaeology & Heritage, co-sponsored by the Evanston Public Library. Adom Philogene Heron,...
Apr
24
2023
MENA Mondays: Book Talk: Iran in Motion
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Drawing on newspapers, industry publications, travelogues,...
Apr
21
2023
"Crossings": International Feminist Peace Activism in Korea
2:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join us for a film screening and panels on Deann Borshay Liem’s “Crossings” (2021), which documents the peace activism of...
Apr
20
2023
African Seminar Presents: Strange things happen when the lights are low: Exploring the possibilities for a history of the night in South Africa through Drum'.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
About Speaker: Zachary Fleishman is from Cape Town, South Africa and is a PhD student in the History Faculty at...
Apr
19
2023
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...
Apr
18
2023
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:30 PM - 5:15 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
17
2023
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
17
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Lara Deeb, Scripps College
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“What Will People Say? Love Across Difference in Lebanon” Intersectarian and interreligious marriages often provoke strong opposition from Lebanese of all...
Apr
17
2023
MENA Mondays: ROUNDTABLE | Trauma and Its Afterlives in the MENA Region
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Zoom: register at bit.ly/MENA_4_17 Orkideh Behrouzan, SOAS University of London; Nora Parr, University of Birmingham; Lara Sheehi, George Washington University; moderated...
Apr
14
2023
SPAN Postdoc Talk: Annie Wilkinson
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)
Annie Wilkinson will present her research in the talk, "Gender as Conspiracy: Mistrust & Misinformation in Anti-Gender Organizing in Mexico." Annie...
Apr
13
2023
A Conversation with Phil Yu
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join us for an interactive discussion on Asian American pop culture with Phil Yu, an award-winning author, blogger, podcaster, and...
Apr
13
2023
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...
Apr
12
2023
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
11
2023
Zeina Hashem Beck: Reading and Conversation
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join MENA and Creative Writing for an evening with acclaimed poet Zeina Hashem Beck! Reception followed by poetry reading. Zeina Hashem Beck...
Apr
11
2023
LACS, NAO Lecture | The Chee Kung Tong: A Chinese Sworn Brotherhood in Latin America and the Caribbean
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In this talk, Dr. Fredy González will give the history of the Chinese sworn brotherhood, the Chee Kung Tong, one...
Apr
10
2023
Populism, the conservative wave and religion in Brazil
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
Abstract: The last decade represented a marked shift in the profile of public religion in Brazil. After three decades of sustained...
Apr
10
2023
MENA Mondays: Multilingual Poetics: A Reading and Conversation with Zeina Hashem Beck
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Zeina Hashem Beck joins NU poets Fadia Antabli and George Abraham in conversation on the poetic process across English and...
Apr
10
2023
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Lecture: Large-Scale Social Engineering in Egypt
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
As part of Northwestern University’s Fulbright Week, the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs will host a lecture from Dr....
Apr
8
2023
Pan-African Student Union brings you the "Africa Outside Africa": Speaker Series.
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Welcome back! We hope your Spring Quarter is off to a great start. We are so thrilled to announce that...
Apr
7
2023
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...
Apr
7
2023
There is Future if There is Truth, Cultural Legacies of the Colombian Truth Commission
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Please join us on the first event of the Spring quarter of the Colombian Truth Commission Dialogues Series. Our guest,...
Apr
6
2023
African Seminar group meeting
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the AfriSem group at the Program for African Studies for a screening of "Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess." The...
Apr
6
2023
Film Screening "The Genízaro Experience: Shadows in Light"
5:00 PM - 6:45 PM, sponsored by The Latina and Latino Studies Program
Join the Latina and Latino Studies Program for a special advanced screening of the critically acclaimed film and a discussion...
Apr
6
2023
"Queering the Holocaust." Film Screening and Q&A with historian Anna Hájková: The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Holocaust Educational Foundation
Queering the Holocaust: The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman Film Screening and Q&A with historian Anna Hájková (Warwick University) Sponsored by the...
Apr
4
2023
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
4
2023
LACS | The End of the Salted Earth? The Reinvention of Chile in the Global Chemical Age
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Lunch will be served at this free presentation by Joshua Frens-String, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of...
Mar
31
2023
Queer in Color: PUCE MOMENT (1949) and DESERT FURY (1947)
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
RSVP Pioneering gay filmmaker Derek Jarman once asserted that “colour seems to have a Queer bent”; the two films in this...
Mar
30
2023
African Seminar group meeting
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join the AfriSem student group for this Thursday 5-7 pm for a Fellowship/Grant Writing Workshop! Bring anything you are working...
Mar
30
2023
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...
Mar
30
2023
A Conversation with Faculty from the Program in Andean Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) Virtual event
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Please join the Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group for a panel discussion. Four faculty members will discuss the Master’s and...
Mar
27
2023
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...
Mar
24
2023
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 PM - 1:45 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
22
2023
LACS | The National-Popular in Ecuador: Popular Republicanism, Indigenismo, and the Left in the Quest for Hegemony (1896-1950)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Unlike most Latin American countries at the end of the 19th century, Ecuador lacked an "oligarchic bloc" (pact between elites)...
Mar
9
2023
BEING BEBE (2021) with BeBe Zahara Benet & filmmaker Emily Branham
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
BEING BEBE (Emily Branham, 2021, 93 min, digital) IN PERSON: EMILY BRANHAM AND MARSHALL NGWA AKA BEBE ZAHARA BENET WITH E. PATRICK...
Mar
9
2023
Afrisem: African Seminar Peer Presentations
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
This weeks African Seminar group meeting with feature presetiantions by graduate students Rebecca Rwakabukoza, Sreddy Yen, and Craig Stevens. They...
Mar
8
2023
AASP x LLSP Winter Quarter Study Break
12:00 PM - 2:00 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
2023
Faculty Workshop: “Enlightenment and Devastation, 1767-1845”, History of Mexico Paul Gillingham (Northwestern) with Margaret Chowning (Berkeley), respondent
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for this faculty workshop with Paul Gillingham and respondent Margaret Chowning. Lunch provided. "Enlightenment and Devastation, 1767-1845” is...
Mar
6
2023
MENA Monday: Unearthing the Substrata of Images: Specters of Oil and Counter-Archives of Extraction in Iran
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for MENA Monday. Lunch will be provided. The event will be held in person, a Zoom option...
Feb
28
2023
The Afterlives of Coral or The Persistence of Colonial Violence. A Talk by Ayana Flewellen.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for this talk by Ayana Flewellen of Stanford University. Lunch provided. Mined coral lays at the foundation of...
Feb
27
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Sherina Feliciano-Santos, University of Michigan
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Regimenting Perceptions: The sensory sign and its racialized trajectories Regimes of racialized perception and uptake rooted and emergent in and through...
Feb
27
2023
MENA Mondays: FACULTY COLLOQUIUM | Sufi Ethics, Neoliberal Aesthetics, and Gendered Religious Authority in Turkey-CANCELLED
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunch will be served. This event will be in person, but a...
Feb
23
2023
Afrisem Presents: 'Silencing the Guns' in Africa: Underlying Dynamics and Policy Responses
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
On February 23rd at 4pm, join Graduate Student group African Seminar for a conversation on "'Silencing the Guns' in Africa:...
Feb
21
2023
"The One from which we ought to learn: What South Asian Poets Imagined Latin American Literature Could Do": Roanne Kantor (Stanford) Virtual on Zoom
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Please join the South Asia Research Forum and the Workshop in Transnational Culture History (WITCH) as they host a talk...
Feb
20
2023
Pluralities of Power: Biopolitics, Pregnancy and Abortion in the Americas LECTURE
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
Pluralities of Power: Biopolitics, Pregnancy and Abortion in the Americas Work-in-Progress Workshop with Lunchtime Discussion and Public Lecture 10:00am-1:30pm WORK-IN-PROGRESS WORKSHOP Discipline Not...
Feb
20
2023
MENA Mondays: MENA CONVERSATION | Landscapes of Toxicity
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. This event is virtual. Register for the Zoom here: https://bit.ly/MENAFeb20 . Title: MENA CONVERSATION...
Feb
20
2023
Pluralities of Power: Biopolitics, Pregnancy and Abortion in the Americas WORKSHOP
10:00 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
Pluralities of Power: Biopolitics, Pregnancy and Abortion in the Americas Work-in-Progress Workshop with Lunchtime Discussion and Public Lecture 10:00am-1:30pm WORK-IN-PROGRESS WORKSHOP Discipline Not...
Feb
19
2023
A Mirror is Not a Window: Roe Versus Wade
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
A reading of a new play by award-winning novelist, non-fiction writer and playwright Sarah Schulman, directed by Obie-winner Lisa Peterson....
Feb
15
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Feb
13
2023
A Discussion with Sunaina Arya and the Subcontinent Project (RCCP)
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, sponsored by RCCP
Sunaina Arya, the editor of Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader (2019), joins the Subcontinent Project and RCCP for a discussion session...
Feb
8
2023
Swahli Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Feb
8
2023
Trans & Queer Resistance to Policing Workshop with Benji Hart
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center
We're excited to be bringing Benji Hart to NU in collaboration with the Department of African American Studies, Gender &...
Feb
8
2023
Colombian Truth Commission Series
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
LACS and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese will be hosting the fourth dialogue of the series Colombia's Truth Commission...
Feb
7
2023
More-than-Human Terrain: U.S. Militarism and the Racial Logics of Cold War Science in Southeast Asia | AASP Winter Speaker Series
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
TALK BY KEVA X. BUI: More-than-Human Terrain: U.S. Militarism and the Racial Logics of Cold War Science in Southeast Asia Drawing...
Feb
7
2023
Student Lunch with Dr. Keva X. Bui
12:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Keva X. Bui is a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Pennsylvania...
Feb
6
2023
MENA Mondays: FACULTY COLLOQUIUM | Childhood in Transformation
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunch will be available. Attending by Zoom is available upon request. Speaker: Maayan...
Feb
2
2023
Leslie Reagan: Abortion is an American Tradition
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
"Abortion is an American Tradition: The Supreme Court, Fake History, and the Dobbs Decision" Professor Reagan will discuss the history, practice,...
Feb
1
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Jan
31
2023
Chemical Diasporas: The Kinships and Afterlives of Agent Orange | AASP Winter Speaker Series
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
TALK BY NATALIA DUONG: Chemical Diasporas: The Kinships and Afterlives of Agent Orange Agent Orange is commonly known as the main...
Jan
31
2023
Movie Night at the Program of African Studies
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
All winter quarter, the Program of African Studies is hosting movie night. Please join us for pizza, snacks, and good...
Jan
31
2023
Disinformation as/in Polarization: Media Politics in Contemporary Latin America- A Conversation with Silvio Waisbord
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for this conversation with Silvio Waisbord, director and professor at the School of Media and Public Affairs...
Jan
31
2023
Student Lunch with Dr. Natalia Duong
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Natalia Duong is a researcher, teacher, and multidisciplinary performance maker. Her current book, Chemical Diasporas: Performing Toxicity through Ecological Kinship...
Jan
30
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Robin Nelson, Arizona State University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Common Problems: (re)Considering biocultural theory and methods in the study created relations and everyday human crises Kinship has been a central...
Jan
30
2023
MENA Mondays: ROUNDTABLE | Dilemmas and Strategies of Research in the Contemporary MENA Region
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for MENA Monday. Lunch will be provided. The event is in person, a Zoom option is available...
Jan
26
2023
Whose voice is this? Challenges and lessons of editing testimonies.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Colombia's Truth Commission Dialogues Series Present: Harold Muñoz, editor of the Colombia's Truth Commission's report chapter on testimony in conversation with...
Jan
25
2023
Pacific Internationalism: Movements for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific | AASP Winter Speaker Series
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
TALK BY SIMEON MAN: Pacific Internationalism: Movements for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific The buildup of Japan’s nuclear industry in...
Jan
25
2023
Student Lunch with Dr. Simeon Man
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Simeon Man (PhD, American Studies, Yale University) is Associate Professor of History and affiliate faculty of Ethnic Studies and Critical...
Jan
23
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Zoe Crossland, Columbia University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Political affects and histories of craft practice in precolonial highland Madagascar How might we access the affective work of politics in...
Jan
23
2023
MENA Mondays: NEW DIRECTIONS IN MENA STUDIES | A Landscape of War
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunch will be served. This event will be in person, but a...
Jan
18
2023
Off White: The Imperial Life of Iranian Racial Formation in the United States
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join Asian American Studies in welcoming back one of our Visiting Assistant Professors back to give a guest lecture entitled...
Jan
18
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Jan
17
2023
Conversatorio: What's going on in Peru? - 1:10pm
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This virtual talk will begin at 1:10pm CT. Zoom registration: bit.ly/3IEA2za WHAT’S GOING ON IN PERU? is part of our Conversatorio series,...
Jan
11
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Jan
11
2023
Conversatorio: WHAT'S GOING ON IN PERU?
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us online for a discussion about the political upheaval in Peru, particularly in light of President Castillo's self-coup...
Jan
9
2023
MENA Mondays: The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunch provided. This event is co-sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program. Zoom...
Dec
6
2022
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...
Dec
5
2022
Shoniqua Roach: The Black Bedroom
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
While both Black and Queer studies have frequently theorized the domestic and its interiors (e.g., the closet) as paradigmatic spaces...
Dec
5
2022
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...
Dec
1
2022
Silyane Larcher: “L’heure de nous-mêmes a sonné!": A transdisciplinary journey across race, gender and politics in the French Atlantic context
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
In this talk, a Martinican political philosopher and historical sociologist challenges the dominant narratives of French republicanism and of women’s...
Nov
30
2022
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
29
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 PM - 1:45 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
28
2022
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
22
2022
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
21
2022
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
21
2022
MENA Mondays: Everyday Policing in the MENA Region
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday *virtual* event. Speakers: Rema Hammami, Birzeit University; Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College; Omar Sirri, Human...
Nov
18
2022
K. Marshall Green: Who can hear the queen when she speaks?
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
In this talk, I examine texts that open us up to Black gay men’s erotic lives that are inundated with...
Nov
17
2022
Afrisem
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Please join AfriSem Nov. 17, 4-6 pm for our event: WANA UDOBANG & CHRIS ABANI IN CONVERSATION: Explorations of Creative...
Nov
17
2022
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
16
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Come practice your Swahili skills at the Swahili language table!
Nov
14
2022
Colombia Truth Commission Dialogues Series | Develaciones Screening and Conversation with Directors
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Truth Commission Dialogues Series | Colombia: Truth, Justice and Reparation Develaciones: un canto coral de esperanza y resistencia / Develaciones: a...
Nov
14
2022
Anthropology Colloquium: Tsim Schneider, UC Santa Cruz
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
From Hinterland to Homeland: The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse in Colonial California This talk presents my ongoing archaeological, historical, and...
Nov
14
2022
MENA Mondays: Graduate Student Colloquium
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunchboxes will be available at noon if attendees would like to eat...
Nov
14
2022
Colombia Truth Commission Dialogues Series | Conversation with Mothers of Victims of State Violence in Colombia
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Truth Commission Dialogues Series | Colombia: Truth, Justice and Reparation ¿Quién dio la orden? / Who gave the order? A Conversation with...
Nov
11
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Kresge Hall 2-343
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...
Nov
9
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Nov
9
2022
The World that "African Studies" Made and Possibilities for Transformation: A Cross-Generational Conversation
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join professor Jean Allman (Washington University) and Northwestern University PhD candidate in history, Bright Gyamfi, for the event "The World...
Nov
8
2022
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
7
2022
MENA Mondays: New Directions in MENA Studies
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event held via Zoom. Register for the event. Speaker: Can Açiksöz, Anthropology, UCLA Salih Can...
Nov
2
2022
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
2
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Nov
1
2022
An evening with author Doreen Baingana - Reading and conversation with Wana Udobang
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Join us for an evening with author Doreen Baingana, visiting artist of the Kaplan Humanities Institute. Baingana will read from her...
Nov
1
2022
Justin Dunnavant (University of California, Los Angeles)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Have Confidence in the Sea: Archaeologies of Marronageco-sponsored by African-American Studies and Anthropology Dunnavant will discuss how archaeology has contributed to...
Oct
31
2022
MENA Mondays: Faculty Colloquium with Fahri Oz
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunchboxes will be available at noon if attendees would like to eat...
Oct
31
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Annenberg G30
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...
Oct
28
2022
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...
Oct
26
2022
An Evening with Cristina Garcia, Distinguished Writer in Residence
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Cristina García is the author of eight novels including Dreaming in Cuban, The Agüero Sisters, Monkey Hunting, A Handbook to...
Oct
26
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Kresge 2-339
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...
Oct
26
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Oct
25
2022
Faculty Roundtable: Family and Identity
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Héctor Carrillo and Gerry Cadava in dialogue Please join us for our first interdisciplinary faculty dialogue of the year. Héctor Carillo...
Oct
24
2022
Jori Lewis - "Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Jori Lewis Title "Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation and a Crop That Changed History" Discussion Author Jori Lewis discusses her book,...
Oct
24
2022
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...
Oct
20
2022
Comfort Food Poetry Workshop
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Comfort Food Poetry Workshop What does the food we eat say about us? Our histories, our identities, our existence. When we prepare...
Oct
20
2022
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...
Oct
19
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Oct
18
2022
Fall Book Forum: Jesús Escobar
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for the first meeting of the 2022-2023 academic year for a forum on LACS faculty affiliate Jesús...
Oct
18
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Locy 110
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...
Oct
17
2022
MENA Mondays: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunchboxes will be available at noon if attendees would like to eat...
Oct
14
2022
The ROE Reversal in Historical Context
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
To best understand or act in response to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, we need to know the legal, social,...
Oct
13
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Kresge 2-319
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...
Oct
12
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Oct
10
2022
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...
Oct
10
2022
Anthropology Colloquium: Adrienne Lo, University of Waterloo
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Ontologies of the sign: Positioning signs, speakers, and ideologies in research on language and race The question of how to grapple...
Oct
7
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Kresge 3-410
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
7
2022
Gender & Sexuality Studies Welcome Back Reception
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
An informal meet-and-greet for new and returning students, faculty, postdocs, and staff.
Oct
6
2022
Multilingual Concert with Musician and Activist Ezé Wendtoin
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Ezé will give a multilingual concert for the Northwestern community and the public on Thursday, October 6, from 6 pm...
Oct
6
2022
Center for Latinx Digital Media Virtual Seminar Series - Prof. Bruno Takahashi (Michigan State University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Latinx Digital Media
Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over...
Oct
4
2022
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...
Oct
3
2022
MENA Mondays: The Political Afterlives of Migration
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunchboxes will be available at noon if attendees would like to eat...
Sep
27
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
26
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Kresge 2-331
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
23
2022
LGBTQ-focused Monkeypox Conversation
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Do you have all the info you need? PROF. STEVEN THRASHER (Journalism/ISGMH) & PROF. CHAD HORNE (Philosophy) will lead an...
Sep
23
2022
CFS Info Session IN-PERSON at Kresge 2-331
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
21
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
16
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
15
2022
Special Edition Info Session for FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
14
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
13
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
8
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Sep
6
2022
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...
Jun
9
2022
Open Studio / Screening - Vartan Avakian, artist in residence of Kaplan and MENA
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Open Studio / Screening With Vartan Avakian, spring 2022 artist in residence of the Kaplan Humanities Institute and the Middle East...
Jun
6
2022
MENA Studies Spring 2022 Graduate Student Colloquium
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This is a hybrid event Participate via Zoom (must have a Northwestern NetID) Xena Amro, Comparative Literary Studies | Foreigners in Paris:...