multi-day
17th Annual Writers Fest, Day 1 Reading: Mary South
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Mary South is the author of the short story collection You Will Never Be Forgotten with FSG Originals. She is...
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multi-day
The 12th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
All day, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (NSSHL) is an intellectual forum for the discussion and advancement on...
multi-day
Annual SPAN Workshop: Critical Fabulation as Queer Method
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)
Join us for SPAN's annual workshop with Keynote Speaker Joshua Whitehead. Keynote - May 15th 5-6:30 Panelists - May 16th 9:30-6
Apr
16
2025
"An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Join KMTS, MENA, SHC and speaker Dr. Chris Gratien, University of Virginia, for a talk titled "An Environmental History of...
Apr
16
2025
“Love of Stone Houses”: Anxious Transformations, Collateralized Ancestral Spaces and Sacred Objects on Africa’s Gold Coast
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Guest lecture by Hermann von Hesse (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) in the Hagstrum Room, University Library Organized by the Art History...
Apr
17
2025
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...
Apr
17
2025
The Moore Lecture Series presents John Keene
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
The Moore Lecture Series is proud to present acclaimed author and poet John Keene. His 2022 poetry collection, Punks: New and...
Apr
18
2025
Sarah Derbew (Stanford University): “Horizontal Reading Practices in Greek and Ethiopian Satire”
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Please join us on Friday, April 18 at noon in the Classics Seminar Room (Kresge 4364) for a lecture by...
Apr
21
2025
MENA Monday: I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze - Michael Rakowitz
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze Speaker: Michael Rakowitz (Art History, Northwestern University) Lunch will...
Apr
21
2025
Taylor Moore - "Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Egypt"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Taylor Moore - History, University of California Santa Barbara Title "Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Egypt" Abstract This talk traces the...
Apr
21
2025
Novel Ecologies: Allison Carruth in Conversation with Sarah Dimick
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Allison Carruth is Professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton...
Apr
22
2025
NAIS Grad Cluster Book Club: Indigenous Archival Activism by Rose Miron
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...
Apr
23
2025
(Online) Warnock Lecture Series: Anne Lafont (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris), "The paper fetish, or art history without objects"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The lecture will focus on the moment in the long 18th century when knowledge of African religions and material culture...
Apr
24
2025
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...
Apr
28
2025
Between Orientalism and commercial alliances: Argentine and Chilean elites and the Empire of Japan
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Pedro Iacobelli (Universidad de los Andes) This presentation explores Latin American views of the growing Japanese presence in the region in...
Apr
28
2025
MENA Monday: The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey - Feyza Burak-Adli
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...
Apr
30
2025
Graduate-Faculty Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by History Department
Graduates - Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty. If this will be your first time all...
Apr
30
2025
Pow Wow 101 Workshop with Dave Spencer (Mississippi Chahta/ Diné)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Community Enrichment
In preparation for NAISA's 4th Annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow, Native American & Indigenous Affairs is hosting a virtual session...
Apr
30
2025
“How to Write a Democratic History of the Ottoman Empire?”
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Join KMTS and Ali Yaycioglu on April 30 from 12:30- 2:00PM in the Buffett Reading Room (720 University Place, 2nd...
Apr
30
2025
A Lake of Fire: Apocalyptic Futures and an Anthropology of Grace
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Edmund Perry Lecture 2025 Presented by Tulasi Srinivas, Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Transnational Studies at The Marlboro Institute for Interdisciplinary...
May
1
2025
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...
May
2
2025
BRADY LECTURE SERIES: Kieran Setiya - "Meaning and the Afterlife"
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Keynote Speaker, Kieran Setyia Kieran Setiya is Peter de Florez Professor of Philosophy at MIT, where he works on ethics and...
May
3
2025
BRADY NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ETHICS AND CIVIC LIFE
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Current and Former Brady Scholars, Grad Fellows and Faculty Saturday, May 3, 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
May
3
2025
4th Annual NAISA Traditional Spring Pow Wow
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Community Enrichment
Northwestern's Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance is hosting its 4th annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow at the Welsh-Ryan Arena. A...
May
5
2025
MENA Monday: Palestinian Diplomacy: Past and Present - Mkhaimar Abusada
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Palestinian Diplomacy: Past and Present Speaker: Mkhaimar Abusada (Political Science & MENA, Northwestern University) Lunch will be served at this event.
May
5
2025
James E. Dobson - "Neural Network Computing Before GPUs"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker James E. Dobson - English, Dartmouth College Title "Neural Network Computing Before GPUs" Abstract High-speed, high-memory, multicore graphics processing units such as those sold...
May
6
2025
Faculty Book Colloquium with Kevin Buckelew
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Faculty Book Colloquium for Professor Kevin Buckelew’s new book, Discerning Buddhas. Panelist: Professor Stephanie Balkwill, The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures,...
May
7
2025
Sandra Cisneros: Reading, Discussion, and Performance from the Opera "The House on Mango Street"
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by English Department
The Litowitz MFA+MA Program and the Bienen School of Music are proud to present Sandra Cisneros, in conversation with Derek...
May
8
2025
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...
May
12
2025
MENA Monday: Image & Text in the Pre-Modern Islamicate World - Jonathan Brack & Usman Hamid
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Image & Text in the Pre-Modern Islamicate World Speakers: Jonathan Brack (History, Northwestern University) and Usman Hamid (Religious Studies, Northwestern University) Lunch...
May
15
2025
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...
May
15
2025
The Story of Pa I Sha
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)
The Story of Pa I Sha WHEN: May 15, 7:30 p.m. Description: The Bach & Beethoven Experience presents the musical narrative, The...
May
16
2025
Classics Visiting Lecture: Glenn Most
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Classics Visiting Lecture: Glenn Most
May
19
2025
Undergraduate-Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by History Department
Undergrads! Join lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty at 12:30PM - 2:00PM. If this will be your first...
May
21
2025
Graduate-Faculty Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by History Department
Graduates - Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty. If this will be your first time all...
May
21
2025
More Than Two Things I Want to Say: Khatibi, Translation, and "Being" a "Translator" - Matt Reeck
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Presented by Kaplan Humanities Institute and Comparative Literary Studies Program. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to complit@northwestern.edu. The Translation in Theory...
May
21
2025
Buffett Book Talk: Heaven Has a Wall
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Join us for a book talk with Beth Hurd, author of Heaven Has a Wall. Through an analysis of the many ways...
May
22
2025
Learning Sciences Book Talk: Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by School of Education and Social Policy
Please join us on Thursday, May 22 at 12:30 pm CST for a book talk on Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics,...
May
22
2025
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...
May
28
2025
Franny Choi Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Please join Northwestern’s Asian American Studies Program 5:00PM Wednesday, May 28 (Harris 108) for a poetry reading, Q&A, and book...
May
29
2025
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...
Jun
2
2025
Clare Kim - "Datafied Subjects: Race, Computation, and Japanese American Incarceration"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Clare Kim - History and Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago Title "Datafied Subjects: Race, Computation, and Japanese American Incarceration" Abstract Following the...
Jun
5
2025
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration, details tbd