multi-day
Table Francaise
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Join us for lunch at the Table française, while also practicing your French language skills, meeting other French speakers, and...
Literary Events Across Northwestern
Sep
21
2020
Círculo de Lectores
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Please join us for our first Círculo de Lectores gathering of the quarter! Virtual light snacks and refreshment will be provided...
Sep
22
2020
Tavola Italiana 1 of 3 : Per conoscersi [getting to know each other]
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Informal conversation in Italian
Sep
25
2020
Native American and Indigenous Welcome Reception
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Diversity and Inclusion
Meet new faculty, staff, and students and hear about upcoming initiatives. Drop in at any time between 12-1:30pm via Zoom!...
Sep
25
2020
Classics Welcome Event
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Please join the Classics faculty, students, and friends to celebrate the launch of the 2020-2021 academic year at the Classics...
Sep
27
2020
Sophomore Retreat
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
The Retreat is an afternoon discussion of and reflection on summer reading assigned by Brady Teaching Faculty. Brady Scholars representing the...
Sep
27
2020
Senior Dinner
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Social gathering for Seniors who are reunited after their year abroad.
Sep
28
2020
Support the 41: Iranian Student Activism in Northern California, 1970-1971 (Ida Yalzadeh)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the Middle East and North African Studies Program, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Chabraja Center for...
Sep
28
2020
Critical Theory Cluster Information Meeting (virtual event)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
Join us for the 2020-21 Critical Theory Cluster Informational Meeting September 28th, 3pm – 4pm CST via Zoom. The purpose of the...
Oct
1
2020
“History in a Digital Age: Why Our Ethical and Evidentiary Paradigms Need to be Rebuilt, Fast” (Lara Putnam)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Lara PUTNAM (U of Pittsburgh), author of Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age...
Oct
1
2020
Study Abroad Information Session
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
A representative from the NU Study Abroad Office meets with sophomores in class early in the Fall Quarter to explain the...
Oct
1
2020
Brady Tea
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
First Tea of the academic year. Topic to be announced.
Oct
2
2020
“From the Women’s March to Black Lives Matter: Citizen Activism and the 2020 Campaign” (Lara Putnam)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Lara PUTNAM (U of Pittsburgh), author of Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age...
Oct
6
2020
LACS Faculty Colloquium: History in a Time of Epidemic: Some Lessons from Latin America (Paul Ramírez)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In light of the current COVID crisis, this presentation offers a historian’s reflections on the impact and significance of past...
Oct
7
2020
IT Film Screening, Mini Film Series 1 of 2
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Join us for screenings of Italian language films, followed by discussion.
Oct
9
2020
Career Options in the Humanities : Publishing
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
featuring Christopher Bush and Trevor Perri, moderated by Nasrin Qader
Oct
16
2020
Racial Equity and Justice Reading Group I :
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Anti-Blackness and its Critique in U.S. History and the Contemporary Context
Oct
19
2020
A Reading by Jenny Boully, Spring Writers Festival 2020
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by English Department
TBA
Oct
19
2020
A Reading by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Spring Writers Festival 2020
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by English Department
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the author of Sabrina & Corina, Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction. Sabrina & Corina...
Oct
19
2020
A Reading with Ilya Kaminsky, Spring Writers Festival 2020
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM, sponsored by English Department
Ilya Kaminsky is the author of the widely acclaimed Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019), which Kevin Young, writing in The New...
Oct
20
2020
Nadia Meflah causerie :
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
“Les Visages de la France” [Faces of France] through contemporary French cinema
Oct
20
2020
"China as Polylith: a new paradigm for Chinese history (and why we shouldn't say Mulan is Chinese)"--James Millward
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
James MILLWARD (Georgetown University), author of The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (2013) Roundtable with Northwestern historians Melissa MACAULEY and...
Oct
21
2020
"On the Crisis in Xinjiang" (James Millward)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
James MILLWARD (Georgetown University), author of The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (2013) A conversation with Northwestern historian Peter CARROLL...
Oct
22
2020
Tavola Italiana 2 of 3 : Apericena [dinner and drinks]
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Informal conversation in Italian
Oct
27
2020
In Mexico There Are No Mexicans: Lucas Alamán, Decolonization, and Modernization, 1792-1853 (Eric Van Young)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us on Zoom for this lecture by historian Eric Van Young. The Mexican statesman, entrepreneur, public intellectual, and historian...
Oct
30
2020
Classics Online Lecture: Amy Richlin (UCLA), "Subalternity in the Roman Metropole"
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Please join the Department of Classics for an online lecture with Amy Richlin, UCLA, on October 30 at 4 pm...
Nov
3
2020
LACS Faculty Colloquium: Notes from a Chingona’s Archive: Grassroots Emergence of Latina Reproductive Justice (Mónica Russel y Rodríguez)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In this talk, Mónica Russel y Rodríguez will provide a detailed view of the emergence of Latina reproductive health policy...
Nov
5
2020
IT Film Screening, Mini Film Series 2 of 2
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Join us for screenings of Italian language films, followed by discussion.
Nov
6
2020
Steve Hill Grant Writing Workshop
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Zoom workshop
Nov
19
2020
Tavola Italiana 3 of 3: Gesti [gestures]
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Informal conversation in Italian
Nov
19
2020
"Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes: The Ethics of Perpetrator Representation” (Erin McGlothlin--CCHS/HEFNU event)
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
In collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEFNU) Erin McGLOTHLIN (Washington University, St. Louis), author of Second-Generation Holocaust Literature:...