multi-day
Elemental Forces, an international symposium
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Please join us on May 7 and 8 for Elemental Forces, an international symposium jointly sponsored by NU Art History's...
Literary Events Across Northwestern
multi-day
The Impasse of Blackness: Interrogating the Possibility of Resolution
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
“The Impasse of Blackness: Interrogating the Possibility of Resolution” is a program of experimental film from the UK, the third...
multi-day
Tutoring Service
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Tutoring service to address different types of language learning needs. For more information, please visit our Tutoring website.
multi-day
Tutoring Service
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Tutoring service to address different types of language learning needs. For more information, please visit our Tutoring website.
multi-day
2021 National LGBTQ Health Conference
All day, sponsored by Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH)
The 2021 National LGBT Health Conference will be held virtually on May 20 – 21, 2021. The conference’s keynote and symposia...
May
10
2021
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Presenter: Jesús C. Muñoz (PhD Student, Comparative Literary Studies/MENA Program) Title: “Poetics of Glowing Histories in Flesh and Art: Witnessing the...
May
10
2021
"Cannibalism and Sadness: The Cloning of Californian Oranges in São Paulo and the Writing of Global History of Science"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Tiago Saraiva Title "Cannibalism and Sadness: The Cloning of Californian Oranges in São Paulo and the Writing of Global History of Science" Abstact This...
May
11
2021
Questioning the Racial Thermometer: Black Intellectual Vanguards and their Arguments for Equality in Colombia, 1885-1948 — A Lecture by Francisco Javier Flórez Bolivar (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This event will be in Spanish. Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of African American Studies,...
May
12
2021
Department of Art History Department Meeting
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Department of Art History Department Meeting
May
12
2021
American Cultures Colloquium: Brigitte Fielder
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Brigitte Fielder, UW Madison, Author of Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke 2020)
May
12
2021
Jews and Muslims in Spain lecture by Rabbi Haim Casas
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Lecture by Haim Casas, Rabbi, La Sinagoga Abierta, Córdoba, Spain. Open to students in Spanish 397-0-2 only.
May
12
2021
Círculo de lectores/Reading & Discussion Group [copy]
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Reading & conversation group for all levels. For more information please contact the organizer: Rifka Cook rifka36@northwestern.edu
May
12
2021
Tacita de café
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Conversation group for heritage speakers of Spanish. For more information, please contact the organizers: María Teresa Villanueva m-villanueva@northwestern.edu Lauren Hetrovicz lauren.hetrovicz@northwestern.edu Sara Stefanich sara.stefanich@northwestern.edu
May
13
2021
LACS Graduate Workshop: "Musical Monstrosity in El hombre y el monstruo (1958)” — Emily Masincup
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LACS Graduate Workshop — Emily Masincup Title: "Musical Monstrosity in El hombre y el monstruo (1958)” Abstract For nearly a century, horror films...
May
13
2021
Law in Motion Lecture: "Fighting to Win: The Roles of Lawyering and Law Reform in Liberation Struggles" with Dean Spade
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Legal Studies
Join the Center for Legal Studies for our annual Law in Motion Lecture with guest speaker Dean Spade. May 13, 2021,...
May
14
2021
CNAIR Virtual Brownbag Discussion with Marlene Brito-Millan
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)
12-1 PM | CST with Marlene Brito-Millan: Coral Reef Societies, Campesino Milpa and Complexity: Interweaving Ecology and Indigenous Lifeways towards...
May
15
2021
A Practicum for Digging a Grave with Mel Keiser
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Location to be announced. This will be a live, in-person event. • Public welcome to attend and observe! • To participate as...
May
17
2021
MENA Languages Monday—Turkish Edition | Street Animals & their Place in Turkish Culture: A Conversation about the Film STRAY
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for this conversation on the place of street animals in Turkish history and culture, with special emphasis...
May
17
2021
"A Decided Inaptitude in his Constitution: Race, Slavery, and Disability in the Nineteenth Century British Empire"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Suman Seth Title "A Decided Inaptitude in his Constitution: Race, Slavery, and Disability in the Nineteenth Century British Empire" Abstract This talk explores the...
May
18
2021
Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and Authoritarianism in Unrevolutionary Mexico: A Book Talk with Paul Gillingham and Gema Kloppe-Santamaría
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join Northwestern's Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and Noria Research for this conversation with historians Paul Gillingham and...
May
18
2021
BAC Works-in-Progress Series: Reading by Malcolm Tariq
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Arts Consortium (BAC)
Poet, and playwright, Malcolm Tariq will read work from The Hole History of Sweet: Toward a Black Bottom Epistemology, his...
May
19
2021
"Transmedial Ekphrasis: César Aira’s “Cecil Taylor”" - Professor Erin Graff Zivin (Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature, USC-Dornsife)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Transmedial Ekphrasis: César Aira’s “Cecil Taylor” Erin Graff Zivin, University of Southern California Cecil Taylor, whose experimental atonal jazz piano repelled some...
May
19
2021
Warnock Lecture Series: Jennifer Trimble (Stanford University)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Interactions of Slavery and Visual Culture in Ancient Rome Northwestern University Department of Art History presents the Warnock Lecture Series This lecture...
May
20
2021
CNAIR Annual Research Symposium
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)
We’ll gather to hear from our 2020-21 undergraduate, graduate, and faculty fellows and to celebrate the research they completed this...
May
20
2021
The Colloquium for Global Iran Studies Presents: A Panel on Iranian Diaspora Studies
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for this event: http://bit.ly/iranian-diaspora-studies The Colloquium for Global Iran Studies Presents: A Panel on Iranian Diaspora Studies Panelists: Persis Karim, Neda Nobari Chair...
May
20
2021
The Medieval Colloquium presents Professor David Shyovitz (Dept. of History, Northwestern University)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Reigning Cats and Dogs: Angelic Animals in Jewish Culture Event details to follow.
May
23
2021
Performance and Conversation with Tair Haim, Acclaimed Sololist of the band A-WA
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND LANGUAGE - PAST AND PRESENT Performance and Conversation with Tair Haim, Acclaimed Soloist of the band A-WA Tair...
May
24
2021
Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in the Nineteenth Century
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Lecture by Jennifer French, Williams College Jennifer French is Professor of Latin American Literature at the Spanish Department at Williams...
May
24
2021
Solidarity When: A MENA Conversation
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for this event: http://bit.ly/solidarity-when Please join us for this MENA Conversation with Reem Abou-El-Fadl, Fuad Musallam, and Maha Nassar, moderated by...
May
25
2021
HOW WE COME TOGETHER: Book discussion of Alicia Garza's The Purpose of Power and invitation for planning future events
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Almost a year ago when many of us proclaimed our solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests, we pledged to renew...
May
26
2021
Department of Art History Colloquium with Hannah Feldman and Thadeus Dowad
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The Department Colloquium with Hannah Feldman and Thadeus Dowad is on Wednesday, May 26, 10:30-11:45 am CT on Zoom. Please RSVP...
May
27
2021
Jeremiah S. and Helen James Lecture in Assyrian Civilization and Culture - Professor Michael Rakowitz
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
The 2021 Jeremiah S. and Helen James Lecture in Assyrian Civilization and Culture will be delivered by Northwestern Professor and...
May
28
2021
Comparative Literary Studies Graduate Third Year Presentations
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Join us for third year presentations by Comparative Literary Studies PhD Program graduate students Mauricio Oportus Preller and Xinyi Wei. Mauricio...
May
28
2021
Graduate Student Town Hall with Chair and DGS
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Town Hall for Graduate Students on Friday from 2-4pm Please join the Town Hall with Rob and Hannah. Please email art-history@northwestern.edu...
May
28
2021
Antonio Montefusco lecture
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Description forthcoming
May
30
2021
Arab-Jewish Intersecting Identities: Gender, Protest and Politics
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND LANGUAGE: PAST AND PRESENT Arab-Jewish Intersecting Identities: Gender, Protest and Politics Guest Speakers: “The History of the Mizrahi Protest:...
Jun
1
2021
LACS Faculty Colloquium: Buenos Aires and the Worlds of Maritime Modernism (Harris Feinsod)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for the final meeting of the LACS Faculty Colloquium for the 2020-2021 academic year. Our speaker is Harris...
Jun
2
2021
Department of Art History Department Meeting
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Department of Art History Department Meeting
Jun
2
2021
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration
Jun
3
2021
Classics Expo and Awards Ceremony
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Classics Expo and Awards Ceremony on June 3 will showcase research by undergraduate students. Check back soon for more information about...
Jun
4
2021
2021 Keyman Conference: Queer Conditions | Kuir Haller I
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
2021 Conference: Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies...
Jun
7
2021
Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in the Nineteenth Century
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The Nineteenth Century Dialogue Series present: Prof. Jennifer French, Williams College Jennifer French is Professor of Latin American Literature at the Spanish...
Jun
11
2021
2021 Keyman Conference: Queer Conditions | Kuir Haller II
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
2021 Conference: Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies...
Jun
13
2021
Performance and Conversation with Ziv Yehezkel, Renowned Israeli Singer and Composer
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY AND LANGUAGE -PAST AND PRESENT Performance and Conversation with Ziv Yehezkel, Renowned Israeli Singer and Composer Ziv Yehezkel is...
Jun
13
2021
Undergraduate Graduation Reception
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Undergraduate Graduation Reception on Sunday, June 13, 2-3:30 pm More information to follow including in-person location and Zoom link for online...
Jun
18
2021
2021 Keyman Conference: Queer Conditions | Kuir Haller III & Roundtable
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
2021 Conference: Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies...