multi-day
Exhibition: Regal Adornment, Artworks by Chelsea Bighorn
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dittmar Memorial Gallery
This body of work delves further into my exploration of adornment in relation to the body and Native American powwow...
Literary Events Across Northwestern
multi-day
Brady Tea
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Brady Scholars gather weekly for refreshments and discussion about recent events and their implications for our society, ongoing moral difficulties...
Jan
22
2025
Graduate/Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by History Department
Graduates - Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty. If this will be your first time all...
Jan
23
2025
NAIS Grad Cluster Book Club: Placental Politics, Christine Taitano DeLisle
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)
NAIS minor, NAIS Cluster students, and CNAIR Fellows are encouraged to come together this for a quarterly book club with...
Jan
24
2025
Tacos are modernity
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Visit and talk of Professor Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at...
Jan
24
2025
Spanish Club Game Night!
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Please join us for a fun afternoon of games and pizza. All levels of Spanish speakers are welcome!
Jan
24
2025
Samba 101: Brazilian Dance with Dill Costa
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Join the Portuguese Department to learn to dance samba with renowned Chicago-based dancer Dill Costa! Raised in Rio de Janeiro,...
Jan
27
2025
Sarah B. Rodriguez - “Skillful attendance during labor itself”: Maternal Mortality and the State, 1750-1990"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Sara Rodriguez - Global Health, Northwestern University Title “Skillful attendance during labor itself”: Maternal Mortality and the State, 1750-1990" Abstract In 1987, following the...
Jan
31
2025
Naomi Weiss (Harvard University): "Tragic excess: the poetics of proliferation in Euripides’ 'Orestes' and 'Ino'"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Already in his own lifetime, Euripides was known for pushing the boundaries of what a tragedy could be. While recent...
Feb
6
2025
What a Trump Administration Means for US Foreign Policy in the Middle East
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, in welcoming Nancy Okail of the Center for International Policy...
Feb
6
2025
Claudia Rankine Reading
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
The Litowitz MFA+MA Graduate Program in Creative Writing and English is proud to present a reading by Claudia Rankine. The...
Feb
7
2025
Prácticas inclusivas para un mejor aprendizaje del español, a talk by Bel Olid
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Bel Olid is an Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago, PhD candidate at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and visiting grad...
Feb
11
2025
LACS | Sonoran Desert Well: Land Art at the Border
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LACS is delighted to feature Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (Chair of Art, Theory, Practice at Northwestern University) in conversation with independent curator...
Feb
12
2025
“The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey’s Artistic Communities” with Kaya Genç
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for a talk and Q&A with Dr. Kaya Genç on Wednesday, Feburary 12,...
Feb
13
2025
"Biocosmism Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico" A Book Talk by Jorge Quintana
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Professor Jorge Quintana of Dartmouth College will present his new book, "Biocosmism Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico...
Feb
17
2025
Post-Assad Syria: Prospects and Challenges for State and Society After Authoritarianism
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA in welcoming Samer Aboud of Villanova University and Nour Halabi of University of Aberdeen for a virtual...
Feb
17
2025
Nick Winters - "Rival Arithmetics of Ancient Greece"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Nick Winters, Classics, Northwestern University Title "Rival Arithmetics of Ancient Greece" Abstract The origin of European theoretical mathematics is usually placed by historians in...
Feb
18
2025
The Oslo Accords: Road to Peace or False Hope? | Buffett Lecture
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs has launched a yearlong initiative focused on international diplomacy in turbulent times. The series...
Feb
18
2025
Cakes and Classes
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by History Department
Join us for historically-themed cake and chat with faculty members about their upcoming Winter courses! This is one of History's...
Feb
18
2025
Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert | A Book Talk by Barbara Sostaita (University of Illinois Chicago)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group as they host Barbara Sostaita (UIC) Barbara Andrea Sostaita is a formerly...
Feb
19
2025
Warnock Lecture Series: Tsitsi Jaji (Duke University)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Winter 2025 Warnock Lecture, presented by the Department of Art History Sangoma: On Miriam Makeba’s Healing Arts "In 1988, Miriam Makeba released...
Feb
20
2025
Valeria Coronel Valencia – A Conversation on Humanities in the Public/Cultural Sphere
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
This event is designed to share the ways in which a research professor brings her training and experience in the...
Feb
21
2025
Author Talk with R.F. Kuang
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join the Asian American Studies Program for an engaging conversation with award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Rebecca F....
Feb
22
2025
EPL & MENA | The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This event takes place at the Evanston Public Library. Evanston Public Library and Northwestern University’s Middle East and North African Studies...
Feb
24
2025
Remembering to Forget: Histories and Legacies of Enslavement in Iran | Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Princeton
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA welcomes Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Princeton. She will lecture on her book The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran. Lunch will...
Feb
25
2025
LACS | Book Series Launch | Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s & Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join LACS in celebrating the launch of the recent Routledge series on the history of Colombia. Co-editors Lina Britto...
Feb
26
2025
Graduate/Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by History Department
Graduates - Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty. If this will be your first time all...
Feb
27
2025
Rochelle Rives of CUNY will present her new book "The new Physiognomy. Face, Form, and Modern Expression
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Advances in facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and other technologies provoke urgent ethical questions about facial expressivity and how we interpret...
Mar
3
2025
MENA | The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey | Feyza Burak-Adli, Northwestern University
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Feyza Burak-Adli is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. She will give a presentation on...
Mar
3
2025
Shireen Hamza - "Down by the Water: Medicine and Religion in Waterside Spaces"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Shireen Hamza - History, Northwestern University Title "Down by the Water: Medicine and Religion in Waterside Spaces" Abstract Medieval stepwells and bathhouses, stunning and...
Mar
4
2025
Guest Speaker Lecture with Prof. Virginia Burrus
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Guest Speaker Lecture with Prof. Virginia Burrus, Syracuse University. More details to be announced at a later time.
Mar
18
2025
Guest Speaker Lecture with Professor Robert Kawashima
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Professor Robert Kawashima, Department of Religion and the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida Lunch will be provided