multi-day
Serbest Kurdish Studies Conference
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The conference convenes annually to discuss the experiences and struggles of Kurds, and the historical and comparative study of Kurdish...
Past Events
multi-day
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
multi-day
PAS L+L: Matt Rarey - Pouches, Archives, and the Art of Survival in the Black Atlantic
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture. Matthew Rarey, PAS Visiting Scholar; Art History, Oberlin College Title: Pouches,...
multi-day
Louisa Lombard - State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central...
multi-day
Amidu Sanni: New Muslim-Christian (Mis)expression of Piety and Secularism in Nigeria
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Speaker: Amidu Sanni, African & Middle Eastern Studies, Lagos State University,...
multi-day
Social Protection for the Ultra-Poor: Lessons from Economics, Psychology and Religion
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Dean Karlan will present both past and ongoing work that examines approaches to working with ultra-poor populations to build long-lasting...
multi-day
Black Arts International: Temporalities and Territories Conference
9:30 AM - 8:00 PM
Black Arts International: Temporalities and Territories is the third of the initial three conferences proposed by the Black Arts Initiative—the...
Sep
3
2020
African Studies Virtual Academic Direction Fair
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Northwestern undergraduates: join us for a Zoom chat September 3, at 1pm! Swahili professor Peter Mwangi will be there to...
Jul
30
2020
Afrisem Virtual Conference
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
AFRISEM Virtual Conference Africa's Place in a Globalizing World: Reimagining Governance, Science, Technology, Art, and Culture When: July 29 & 30, 2020,...
Jul
29
2020
Afrisem Virtual Conference
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
AFRISEM Virtual Conference Africa's Place in a Globalizing World: Reimagining Governance, Science, Technology, Art, and Culture When: July 29 & 30, 2020,...
Apr
20
2020
Anthropology Colloquium: Susan F. Hirsch, George Mason University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
“Rule of Law vs. Rule of Justice: Comparing Anthropologies of Muslim Law.” This presentation focuses on the challenge of anthropological comparison...
Apr
15
2020
Africanization: The Bridge to Edward Blyden's Final Intellectual Transformation (Harry Nii Koney Odamtten)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide...
Mar
4
2020
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Mar
4
2020
Intellectual Networks and Islamic Realization in 18th Century North Africa (Zachary Wright)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide...
Feb
26
2020
PAS L+L: Denielle Elliott - Scientific Collaborations and Legal Accountability in Kenya
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture. Denielle Elliott, Anthropology, York University Scientific Collaborations and Legal...
Feb
19
2020
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Feb
19
2020
PAS L+L: Lauren MacLean - Does Electricity Demobilize Citizens?: Access to the Grid and Reduced Political Participation in Africa
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture. Lauren MacLean, Political Science, Indiana University at Bloomington Does...
Feb
12
2020
Suburban Islam: Religious and National Belonging in Chicago's Exurbs (Justine Howe)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide...
Feb
5
2020
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Feb
5
2020
PAS L+L: Ashley Wong & Francesca Truffa - Effect of Beliefs and Gender Roles on Girls' Math Education
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture. Ashley Wong & Francesca Truffa, Northwestern University Effect of...
Jan
29
2020
What's in the Manuscripts of Timbuktu? (Charles Stewart)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide...
Jan
22
2020
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Jan
22
2020
PAS L+L: Avant-Garde Research Cluster Meeting
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Avant-Garde Africa research cluster will share what they are doing and plans for the quarter and beyond. Although the lunch...
Jan
15
2020
Afrisem: Graduate Student Africa Seminar
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Presenter: Raja Ben Hammed Dorval Department/Program: French Title of Presentation: Immigration and Nationalism: The Algerian Example of the North African Star Abstract: How...
Jan
15
2020
PAS Winter Quarter Town Hall Meeting
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The PAS community – including all affiliated faculty, graduate students, and anyone else with an interest in African Studies –...
Jan
13
2020
Hamza Yusuf Hanson: "College Caravans: The Mauritanian Scholastic Tradition" (talk and Q&A)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Please join us for an evening with one of the Western world's most influential Muslim scholars: Hamza Yusuf Hanson, president...
Nov
20
2019
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Nov
20
2019
PAS L+L: Shannon Galvin/Dan Yi-Ze Liu - Access to Health
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Shannon Galvin and Dan Yi-Ze Liu, Center for Global...
Nov
14
2019
Afrisem: Graduate Student Africa Seminar
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Graduate students are invited to gather for presentation, discussion and dinner. Presenter: Mariam Taher, Anthropology Talk: Gendered Mobilities and the State in...
Nov
13
2019
Iconic Archive: Timbuktu and its Manuscripts in Public Discourse (Susana Molins Lliteras)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) and the Program of African Studies as we...
Nov
6
2019
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Nov
6
2019
PAS L+L: Kwasi Konadu
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Communographies: New Histories of Culture, Community, Nationalism, and Decolonization...
Oct
31
2019
Afrisem: Graduate Student Africa Seminar
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Graduate students are invited to gather for presentation, discussion and dinner. Presenter: Scott Newman, Comparative Literary Studies Writing Cameroonian Rumor: The Sound...
Oct
30
2019
PAS L+L: Health and Healing Research Cluster
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. During the first half of the lunch seminar, which...
Oct
28
2019
Anthropology Colloquium, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Assoicate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
“Returning Home?: Mobility, Black Privilege, and Diaspora-Homeland Tensions among Returnees in Liberia.” The Liberian diaspora is often referred to as the...
Oct
23
2019
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Oct
23
2019
PAS L+L: Will Reno
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Will Reno, Political Science, Northwestern University
Oct
17
2019
Afrisem: Graduate Student Africa Seminar
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Title: Collect, organize, cite, and share research Zotero & Endnote The Herskovists Africana Library will be hosting AFRISEM next Thursday, 17 October...
Oct
16
2019
PAS L+L: Adia Benton
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Adia Benton, Anthropology, Northwestern University
Oct
9
2019
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Northwestern's Swahili instructor, Professor Peter Mwangi, for an hour of Swahili discussion both in small groups and as a...
Oct
9
2019
Avant-Garde Africa Research Cluster Meeting
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Avant-Garde Africa cluster session is the first of the Wednesday lunch seminars that will introduce the current research clusters...
Oct
7
2019
Becoming Shinqiti: Saharan Islamic Scholars and Global Religious Authority (Zekeria Ahmed Salem)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Zekeria Ahmed Salem is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Director of the Institute for the Study...
Oct
2
2019
PAS Fall Open House
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Join PAS staff, affiliated faculty, students, and community members for snacks and refreshments to kick off the academic year.
Oct
2
2019
PAS Town Hall
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The PAS community – including all affiliated faculty, graduate students, and anyone else with an interest in African Studies –...
Sep
27
2019
Félicité - with Director Alain Gomis in Person
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Special EventFriday, September 27, 6:30 PMFREE Félicité(Alain Gomis, 2017, France/Belgium/Senegal/Germany/Lebanon, DCP, 123 min) The award-winning drama Félicité stars Congolese musician Véro Tshanda...
Jun
17
2019
Third Coast CFAR Seminar Series—JENNIFER JAO, MD, MPH
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Third Coast CFAR Seminar Jennifer Jao, MD, MPHAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious DiseasesDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious DiseasesNorthwestern University...
Jun
5
2019
PAS L+L: Richard Banégas - ID Wars: Struggling for Citizenship in Côte d'Ivoire
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Richard Banégas, Political Science, Sciences Po, Paris, France ID Wars: Struggling for Citizenship in Côte d'Ivoire Bio Richard Banégas is professor of Political Science...
May
22
2019
PAS L+L: Oludamini Ogunnaike - Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Oludamini Ogunnaike, Religious Studies, College of William & Mary Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual...
May
21
2019
Nakanyike Musisi - Biography in the 21st Century: Writing and Re-writing Buganda's Notorious Queen-mother (1897-1956) in the “Radical Openness of History”
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Biography in the 21st Century: Writing and Re-writing Buganda's Notorious Queen-mother (1897-1956) in the “Radical Openness of History” Nakanyike Musisi, History,...
May
17
2019
Israeli-African Exchanges: Architecture, Development and Decolonization in the long 1960s
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Ayala Levin is an assistant professor of art history and will present her book project on the work of Israeli architects...
May
15
2019
PAS L+L: Erin Pettigrew - To Invoke the Invisible: Islam, Spiritual Mediation and Social Change in the Sahara
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
To Invoke the Invisible: Islam, Spiritual Mediation and Social Change in the Sahara Erin Pettigrew, History and Arab Crossroads Studies, NYU Abu...
May
10
2019
Comparative Politics Workshop Presents Christa Kuntzelman
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
"Exploring the logic of tactic selection: Refugee political claims-making in Uganda" Christa KuntzelmanPh.D. Candidate, Northwestern University
May
10
2019
Genealogies of an African Islamic Modernity
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Both discourse and a historical condition defined by the reconciliation of African identities, Islamic forms of life, and global political...
May
8
2019
PAS L+L: Kwame Onoma - Xenophobia’s Contours During an Ebola Epidemic
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Ato Kwamena Onoma, Senior Program Officer, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Xenophobia’s contours during an...
May
7
2019
Global Health Spring Seminar: Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in sub-Saharan Africa - The Experience in Nigeria
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Title: Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in sub-Saharan Africa: The Experience in Nigeria Presenter: Francis Magaji, MBBS,...
May
7
2019
University of Ghana Partnership Faculty Lunch Conversation
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The Buffett Institute is inviting faculty to join a conversation about a potential multi-faceted partnership with the University of Ghana....
May
2
2019
Todd Shepard lecture (CCHS)
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Todd SHEPARD (Johns Hopkins U), author of The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France (2006),...
May
1
2019
PAS L+L: S. Athuman Chembea - Interpreting Muslim-Christian Relations in the Light of Awqaf in Kenya since 1900
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Interpreting Muslim-Christian Relations in the Light of Awqaf in Kenya since 1900 S. Athuman Chembea, Religion, Bomet University College, Kenya Abstract This talk...
Apr
26
2019
Trans-Saharan Exchange and the Global Medieval Symposium
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Myers Symposium, April 26, 2019Organized by Christina Normore and Kathleen Bickford Berzock Trans-Saharan Exchange and the Global MedievalVisual and Cultural Studies...
Apr
25
2019
Film screening: Spell Reel (2017)
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Spell Reel (Filipa César, 2017, France/Portugal, DCP, 96 min.) Freedom fighter Amìlcar Cabral commissioned a group of young filmmakers to document...
Apr
24
2019
From the Field: International Archaeologists in Conversation
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
The Block Museum presents a special opportunity to hear from six international archaeologists whose excavations in Mali, Morocco, and Nigeria...
Apr
24
2019
Access to Health Symposium
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Access to Health in Lagos:An Interdisciplinary Partnership with the Community Wednesday, April 24th 4-8pmHughes Auditorium, Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center This...
Apr
24
2019
International Archaeologists in Conversation
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
This is an informal event to preceed the larger presentation this evening: View Event. The Block Museum presents a special opportunity to...
Apr
23
2019
Department of Sociology Ethnography Workshop: Noelle Sullivan, Northwestern University
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Professor Noelle Sullivan Presents: Unpacking the White Savior Industrial Complex: Insights from the For-Profit Medical Voluntourism Industry in Tanzania
Apr
22
2019
Alden Young - "Transforming Sudan: The Economizing Logic of Decolonization"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker Alden Young, Dexel University Title Transforming Sudan: The Economizing Logic of Decolonization Abstract At the heart of Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development and State...
Apr
22
2019
Resilient Rhythms: A Roundtable Exposition on Capoeira da Angola y Bomba—Black Diasporic formations
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Melanie Maldonado - PROPA and Bomba Research Conference Kojo Xavier Johnson, MAA,ACC, PhD(c) - Faculty, George Washington University, Founder, Ritmo Resiliente Cinezio...
Apr
17
2019
PAS L+L: Andrew Dillon - Making Markets: Experiments from rural Mali
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Andrew Dillon, Clinical Associate Professor within Kellogg’s Public-Private Interface Initiative (KPPI); Research Associate Professor in the Global Poverty Research Lab, Northwestern...
Apr
16
2019
Fred Wilson: Afro Kismet
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Throughout his career, acclaimed artist Fred Wilson has challenged assumptions of history, culture, race, and museum display by reframing objects...
Apr
15
2019
IPR Colloquium: Rachel Beatty Riedl (IPR/Political Science) - Political Behavior in Kenya
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
"Shifting Allegiances? Urban-Rural Linkages, Ethnic Identification, and Political Behavior in Kenya" by Rachel Beatty Riedl, Associate Professor of Political Science and...
Apr
12
2019
Apr
12
2019
Conference on migration
All day
Graduate CONFERENCE on “Walls and Bridges: Migration and Its Histories” (convened by Breen Fellow Aram SARKISIAN)Friday, April 12—all day, starting...
Apr
11
2019
Residual Governance, or How African Anthropocenes Foretell Planetary Futures - Gabrielle Hecht
5:00 PM - 6:45 PM
"Residual Governance, or How African Anthropocenes Foretell Planetary Futures" Gabrielle Hecht, Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security, Stanford University. All are...
Apr
11
2019
Saharan Futures Conference Keynote
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Keynote Address by Ann McDougall, University of AlbertaShifting Desert Sands: Mobility, Migration and Memory in Saharan Time and SpaceReception to...
Apr
10
2019
Herman Bennett Book Talk: African Kings and Black Slaves Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying...
Apr
10
2019
ExCHANGE the World: Study Abroad
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Come learn about our various exchange programs!First 25 students receive free 6 oz. Andy's Frozen custard :) In an exchange program,...
Apr
10
2019
Fulbright ETA Information Session
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Fulbright (English Teaching Assistant) might be in your future! Attend this info session to hear about the program basics, including eligibility...
Apr
10
2019
Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Joris Mueller (Northwestern University): "State Planning and Development: Evidence from Villagization in Tanzania"
Apr
10
2019
Fulbright Study/Research Awards Information Session
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Interested in Fulbright Study/Research awards? Attend an information meeting to investigate options and discover Northwestern’s Fulbright application process. Learn about deadlines, campus...
Apr
5
2019
Apr
4
2019
Apr
3
2019
PAS L+L: Abdourahmane Seck - Producing Senegal: Social Processes and the Study of Islam
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Abdourahmane Seck, ISITA visiting scholar Producing Senegal: Social Processes and the Study of Islam Abstract A rigid colonial equation has profoundly marked and...
Mar
20
2019
Poetry Workshop: Migration, Fragmentation, and Translation
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop in conversation with two Block Museum of Art exhibitions:...
Mar
12
2019
International Relations Working Group Presents Ayodeji Perrin
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Judicialization of the Business and Human Rights Regime for Africa's Extractive Industries Ayodeji Perrin PhD Candidate Northwestern University
Mar
6
2019
Research at the Crossroads: Inside the Exhibition Caravans of Gold
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Experience The Block Museum of Art exhibition Caravans of Gold through the perspectives of Art History PhD candidate Sarah Estrella,...
Mar
6
2019
"Islam and the African World" Dr Wendell Marsh, Buffet Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, History.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
"Islam and the African World" Dr Wendell Marsh, Buffet Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, History.
Mar
1
2019
A cross-culturally equivalent measure of household water security: experiences in scale development and implementation from 30 sites worldwide
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The 2019 World Economic Forum report estimates that 9 of the 10 worst global risks are linked to water, but...
Feb
28
2019
Nations of Migrants: Panel and Conversation
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
As explored in the Block Museum exhibitions Caravans of Gold and The Leopard (Western Union: Small Boats), nations around the world...
Feb
25
2019
Elisha Renne – Nigerian Marriage Advice Booklets, 1962-2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bio: Elisha Renne is professor of anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan). Renne's research focuses on...
Feb
25
2019
Rethinking the Sufi-Reformist Divide: Gender, Dress, and Authority (An ISITA Perspectives Symposium)
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) for a dialogue between the authors of two...
Feb
21
2019
Fulbright-Hays Workshop
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Learn about program priorities and application strategies at this Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Award informational workshop. Stephen Hill will describe the program,...
Feb
14
2019
Fulbright-Hays Workshop
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Learn about program priorities and application strategies at this Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Award informational workshop. Stephen Hill will describe the program,...
Feb
13
2019
Artist Talk: Counter-Histories with Michael Rakowitz
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Internationally acclaimed artist and Art, Theory, and Practice faculty member Michael Rakowitz explores culture as it is embodied in artifacts....
Feb
13
2019
"Delving into the Diasporic Ballroom" Julian Glover, PhD Candidate, African American Studies.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
"Delving into the Diasporic Ballroom" Julian Glover, PhD Candidate, African American Studies.
Feb
11
2019
Hannah Appel - "Oil and the Licit Life of Capitalism in Equatorial Guinea"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker Hannah Appel, Anthropology, UCLA Title Oil and the Licit Life of Capitalism in Equatorial Guinea Abstract Critical approaches to capitalism often argue that profit-oriented...
Feb
7
2019
Sociology Colloquium: Rachel Beatty Riedl, Northwestern University
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Professor Rachel Beatty Riedl presents: From Pews to Politics in Africa and Beyond
Feb
6
2019
Film screening: An Opera of the World with Manthia Diawara, in person
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
An Opera of the World(Manthia Diawara, 2017, Portugal/USA/Mali, digital, 70 min.)A world-renowned scholar, filmmaker, and theorist of cultural hybridity, Manthia...
Feb
5
2019
Genomic Landscape of Breast Cancer in Diverse Populations - Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, FACP, OON
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
The Center for Genetic Medicine of Northwestern University welcomes you to attend the Richard A. Scott, MD Lecture on Tuesday,...
Feb
4
2019
IPR Colloquium: J. Behrman (IPR/Sociology) - Global Family Change: Persistent Diversity with Development
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
"Global Family Change: Persistent Diversity with Development" by Julia Behrman, Assistant Professor of Sociology and IPR Fellow This is part of the...
Jan
28
2019
Why Alliances Fail: Islamist and Leftist Coalitions in North Africa — Evanston Public Library
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
The Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) and the Middle East and North African Studies Program...
Jan
28
2019
Why Alliances Fail: Islamist and Leftist Coalitions in North Africa
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The Middle East and North African Studies Program (MENA) is pleased to present this program in partnership with the Institute for the...
Jan
25
2019
Comparative Politics Workshop with David Peyton
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
"Securing Property in Insecure Environments: Wealth Defense, Institutional Selection, and Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo" David PeytonPh.D. Candidate, Northwestern...
Jan
17
2019
Robert Launay: Savages, Romans, and Despots
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Robert Launay presents work from his new book "Savages, Romans, and Despots," a tour of early modern and modern history...
Jan
15
2019
Economics Junior Recruiting Seminar
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Anne Karing (University of California, Berkeley): "Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone"
Dec
10
2018
GESI Info Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Come to a GESI info session! Are you going to study abroad? The Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI) is a study...
Dec
6
2018
GESI Info Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Come to a GESI info session! Are you going to study abroad? The Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI) is a study...
Dec
3
2018
Fanon, Aesthetics and the Decolonial Turn
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
DISCUSSION OF:- Alia Al-Saji, “Glued to the Image: Fanon and Muslim Racialization through Works of Art”- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, “On Metaphysical...
Dec
1
2018
Minorities in Philosophy Screening and Panel Discussion
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM
UHURU PHALAFALA (STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY) & PREMESH LALU (UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE) HOST & CHAIR: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S MAP (MINORITIES AND PHILOSOPHY)...
Dec
1
2018
Minorities in Philosophy Screening and Panel Discussion
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM
UHURU PHALAFALA (STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY) & PREMESH LALU (UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE) HOST & CHAIR: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S MAP (MINORITIES AND PHILOSOPHY)...
Dec
1
2018
Minorities in Philosophy Screening and Panel Discussion
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM
UHURU PHALAFALA (STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY) & PREMESH LALU (UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE) HOST & CHAIR: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S MAP (MINORITIES AND PHILOSOPHY)...
Nov
30
2018
EES Seminar: Francis L. de los Reyes III
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Linking the Microbiome to Reactor Performance: Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Grease Interceptor Waste as a Model System AbstractThe ‘omics revolution has generated...
Nov
29
2018
Textual and Visual Landscapes of Decolonization across (Portuguese) India and Southern Africa
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Drawing on her forthcoming book (Bloomsbury 2018), Pamila Gupta offers a conceptual frame for rethinking decolonization processes across Portuguese India...
Nov
28
2018
Forum Language Tables: English (ESL), German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us for Languages Tables at Shephard Engagement Center from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. (626 University Place: B25) Tuesday Language Tables:...
Nov
27
2018
Ethiopia: A Turn to Democracy?
6:00 PM - 8:15 PM
In 2018, there have been notable democratic advances and setbacks in Africa. The Working Group on Governance & Development has...
Nov
27
2018
Russell Kapumha “Recent Archaeological Research in Southeast Zimbabwe”
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Join the Department of Anthropology for a lunch lecture by historian Russell Kapumha from the University of Zimbabwe. Lunch provided....
Nov
26
2018
Screening of "Duniya Juyi Juyi" (How Life Goes)
11:30 AM - 1:15 PM
Duniya Juyi Juyi (which means "How Life Goes" in Hausa) is a 69-minute docudrama written, filmed, directed, and acted in...
Nov
26
2018
Educating Muslim Youth in Asia and Africa: An ISITA Perspectives Symposium
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) for a dialogue between the authors of two...
Nov
19
2018
GESI Info Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Are you going to study abroad? The Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI) is a study abroad program for undergraduates run...
Nov
16
2018
Scott Straus: "Political Authority After Civil War: The Peacebuilder's Dilemma"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The War & Society Working Group of the Buffett Institute co-hosts Prof. Scott Straus (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science) with...
Nov
14
2018
Forum Language Tables: English (ESL), German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us for Languages Tables at Shephard Engagement Center from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. (626 University Place: B25) Tuesday Language Tables:...
Nov
14
2018
Development Economics Lunch Seminar
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Ashley Wong & Francesca Truffa (Northwestern University) "Effect of Beliefs and Gender Roles on Girls’ Math Education" Abstract:In Ghana, a large gender...
Nov
14
2018
The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State: A Discussion with Co-author Abdulbasit Kassim
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Join ISITA for a discussion with Abdulbasit Kassim about his new publication, co-edited with Michael Nwankpa, The Boko Haram Reader:...
Nov
12
2018
MENA Study Abroad Information Session
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Come learn from the Undergraduate Learning Abroad Office about study abroad options in the MENA region including Israel, Jordan, Morocco,...
Nov
7
2018
From Louisville and Pittsburgh to Brazil and Nigeria: An Open Forum on Violence, Xenophobia, and Fear at Home and Abroad
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
We invite you to participate in a broad but thoughtful dialogue about race, religion, the foreign, the other, refugees, physical...
Nov
7
2018
PAS Avant-Garde Africa Research Cluster Discussion
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
This year, the Program of African Studies has formed three interdisciplinary research clusters: Avant-Garde Africa, Health & Healing, and Security...
Nov
6
2018
GESI Info Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Come to a GESI info session! Are you going to study abroad? The Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI) is a study...
Nov
1
2018
Gayatri Gopinath & Marlon Bailey - Unruly Visions
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents "Unruly Visions" - a book talk by Gayatri Gopinath (New York University) moderated by...
Nov
1
2018
UNRULY VISIONS - Featuring Gayatri Gopinath
5:15 PM - 7:30 PM
This is a Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora guest speaker lecture, featuring Gayatri Gopinath, from NYU. This is event is co-sponsored...
Oct
31
2018
On Eurocentric Epistemology and the West African Ebola Outbreak: Questioning the Dominant Narrative on the Epidemic Origin.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
On Eurocentric Epistemology and the West African Ebola Outbreak: Questioning the Dominant Narrative on the Epidemic Origin.
Oct
31
2018
Forum Language Tables: English (ESL), German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us for Languages Tables at Shephard Engagement Center from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. (626 University Place: B25) Tuesday Language Tables:...
Oct
31
2018
Kimberly Wortmann: Endowments, Wills, and Charitable Societies: Old and New Expressions of Ibadhi Mosque Patronage in Zanzibar
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Endowments, Wills, and Charitable Societies: Old and New Expressions of Ibadhi Mosque Patronage in Zanzibar A talk by Kimberly Wortmann, Religion,...
Oct
30
2018
Undergraduate Lecture Series: Dean Karlan and Chris Udry
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
At the first in our new undergraduate lecture series, professors Dean Karlan and Chris Udry, co-directors of the Global Poverty...
Oct
29
2018
Anthropology Colloquium: Amal Hassan Fadlalla, University of Michigan
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Saviors, Survivors, and Role Models: Humanity, Ethnicity, and Violence against Women There is no doubt that the Islamists’ rise to power...
Oct
25
2018
Global Health Fall Seminar: Dr. Geoffrey Anguyo, KIHEFO Uganda
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lecture Title: TBD Presenter: Geoffrey Anguyo, PhD, Director & Founder KIHEFO Kabale, Uganda, East Africa Part of the Global Health Seminar Series for...
Oct
24
2018
Global Health & Community Outreach Clinics - An SPS Lunchtime Table Talk
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Global Health & Community Outreach Clinics: Innovative Approaches to Bring Services Closer to the People Join Northwestern University School of Professional...
Oct
18
2018
Hubert Haddad: “Corps désirable et les avatars du transhumanisme”
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sponsored by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Dialogues: French and the Global Humanities working group. HUBERT HADDAD is a...
Oct
17
2018
Biodiversity Conservation in Tanzania: A People Problem. Featuring a conversation with Jessica Pouchet.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Global Cafe Event: Biodiversity Conservation in Tanzania: A People Problem. Featuring a conversation with Jessica Pouchet.
Oct
17
2018
Biodiversity Conservation in Tanzania: A People Problem. Featuring a conversation with Jessica Pouchet.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Global Cafe Event: Biodiversity Conservation in Tanzania: A People Problem. Featuring a conversation with Jessica Pouchet.
Oct
17
2018
Forum Language Tables:,, English (ESL), German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us for Languages Tables at Shephard Engagement Center from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. (626 University Place: B25) Tuesday Language Tables:...
Oct
17
2018
Hubert Haddad: Conversations with the Author
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sponsored by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Dialogues: French and the Global Humanities working group. HUBERT HADDAD is a...
Oct
16
2018
PAS L+L: Anand Grover - Health and Human Rights in Africa
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Renowned International Health and Human Rights Lawyer visit to Northwestern Anand Grover, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2008-14);...
Oct
15
2018
Sex, Drugs, and Global Health
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
What is the relationship between sex, drugs and global health? What role do human rights and the law play in...
Oct
11
2018
PAS Fall Open House
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Program of African Studies invites both new and returning students, faculty, staff, and community members to our Fall Open...
Oct
10
2018
PAS L+L: Johnnetta Betsch Cole
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Johnnetta Betsch Cole is a prominenet Northwestern and Program of African Studies alum. She earned her MA (1959) and PhD (1967) degrees here...
Oct
9
2018
African History lecture by Sandra Greene (CCHS)
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Sandra GREENE (Cornell U), author of Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition (2017) Lecture: “Uncommon...
Oct
9
2018
Information Session: Global Health Fogarty Fellowships
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The HBNU Fogarty Global Health Training Program offers opportunities in global health clinical research training for pre- and post-doctoral candidates...
Oct
8
2018
Global Health Fall Seminar: MHM in 10 - Menstruation Hygiene Management in Kenya Primary Schools
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Lecture Title: MHM in 10 - Menstruation Hygiene Management in Kenya Primary Schools Presenter: Leah Neubauer, EdD, Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine in...
Oct
8
2018
Timothy Mitchell - "On Capitalization"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University Title On Capitalization Abstract We have recently come to understand “the economy” not as a feature of all societies,...
Oct
4
2018
Medieval Colloquim Speaker - Monica Green (History, Arizona State University)
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Professor Green will present: “The Origins of the Black Death: A Consilient Approach from Phylogenetics and History”
Oct
3
2018
PAS L+L: Monica Green - Putting Africa on the Black Death Map
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Putting Africa on the Black Death Map: Narratives from...
Aug
10
2018
Northwestern's Arabic Manuscripts of Islamic Africa: Law, Theology, Mysticism, and Healing
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
A talk by Zachary V. WrightAssociate Professor, History and Religious StudiesNorthwestern University in Qatar Presented by the Herskovits Library of African...
Aug
3
2018
NICO SUMMER SEMINAR: Jaline Gerardin, Institute for Disease Modeling "Using mathematical models to inform malaria control and elimination strategies"
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Title: Using mathematical models to inform malaria control and elimination strategies Speaker: Jaline Gerardin, Malaria Team Lead, Institute for Disease Modeling Talk Abstract: Malaria transmission...
Aug
2
2018
Special Summer IPHAM Seminar: Using Mathematical Models to Inform Malaria Control and Elimination Strategies
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
This is a special summer IPHAM Seminar. Title: Using Mathematical Models to Inform Malaria Control and Elimination Strategies Presenter: Jaline Gerardin, PhDSenior Research ManagerInstitute for...
Jun
21
2018
Global Health Spring Seminar: Brian Citro
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Title: Developing a Human Rights-Based Approach to Tuberculosis: Lessons from Research and Global Advocacy Presenter: Brian Citro, JD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law,...
Jun
8
2018
PAS Annual Picnic
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join PAS for refreshments as we wrap up the end of the 2017-2018 academic year!
Jun
6
2018
Killing is the Law - Dr. Joy James & Dr. Sora Han
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents our final event of the year – “Killing is the Law” a...
May
29
2018
Solving the Mystery of Grace Jones: It’s the Holy Ghost
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Lecture by Dr. Judith Casselberry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Bowdoin College Response by Dr. Francesca Royster, Associate Professor of English,...
May
25
2018
CANCELLED: Talk and Reception with James W. Fernandez
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Talk and reception with James W. Fernandez, anthropology, University of Chicago.
May
18
2018
Art History Symposium: "Entangled Urbanisms: History, Place, and the Shaping of Cities"
9:00 AM - 5:15 PM
Entangled Urbanisms: History, Place, and the Shaping of Cities The Department of Art History at Northwestern University, in conjunction with the...
May
18
2018
Afro-Latinidades: Blackness, Identity, and Space
All day
The Latina and Latino Studies Program at Northwestern University presents its annual symposium for 2018, titled Afro-Latinidades: Blackness, Identity, and...
May
10
2018
Voices of Experience: An Alumni Panel Discussion
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Fulbright Research & Teaching Assistantships:Fulbright • DAAD • Carnegie • Erasmus Mundus • CBYX • Critical Language Grant Six Northwestern alums...
May
10
2018
Afrofuturism: Re-Imagining the Future of Africa with Nnedi Okorafor
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
The Black Panther movie brought the conversation of Afrofuturism to the global stage. The Kellogg Africa Business Club (ABC) is...
May
10
2018
“Helper” or “Savior”? The Debate Over Short-Term Global Health Activities
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
As universities around the world tout the growing number of students seeking international experiences, they are also faced by the...
May
3
2018
INPut Lecture series: "The Authoritarian Transmission: How France Engineered a Sixty-Year Successor Government in Cameroon"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Professor Richard Joseph of Northwestern's political science department will give a lecture detailing his experiences in Cameroon and how to...
Apr
30
2018
Care, Compassion, and Memory in the Ebola Museum
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
What can practices to commemorate official epidemic responses tell us about the logics of response itself? Specifically, what do they...
Apr
30
2018
Anthropology Colloquium: Sarah Hillewaert, University of Toronto; MORALITY AT THE MARGINS. YOUTH, LANGUAGE, AND ISLAM IN COASTAL KENYA
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
In this talk, I consider the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on the island of Lamu (Kenya) who live simultaneously...
Apr
30
2018
Counter-Revolutionary Aesthetics in Egypt — Jessica Winegar
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Fresh back from Egypt, Jessica Winegar will present preliminary material from her book-in-progress that examines how aesthetic forms, judgments, and practices...
Apr
29
2018
Ai Weiwei: Human Flow, film screening and livestream Q&A
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
"Human Flow” is a sprawling and heartbreaking exploration of the global refugee crisis. Captured over the course of a year...
Apr
25
2018
How Youth Can Solve Grand Challenges in the 21st Century - Fred Swaniker
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Ghanaian entrepreneur Fred Swaniker has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the Buffett Award for Emerging Global Leaders. As a...
Apr
24
2018
Lynn THOMAS lecture on African History (CCHS)
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture by Lynn THOMAS (University of Washington), author of Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya...
Apr
24
2018
ISITA Conference: Global Islam in Africa: African Muslims and the World, Muslim Worlds in Africa
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
GLOBAL ISLAM IN AFRICA: AFRICAN MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD, MUSLIM WORLDS IN AFRICA is a one-and-a-half day conference sponsored by...
Apr
23
2018
Islamic Authority in Global Africa: Keynote Address by Emir Muhammad Sanusi II
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
His Highness Muhammad Sanusi II, Emir of Kano (Nigeria) will deliver a keynote address for ISITA's conference on "Islam in...
Apr
23
2018
Kristina Douglass, Penn State University: Humanizing the Anthropocene of Madagascar
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Anthropolgoy Colloquium. Madagascar figures prominently in debates over contemporary and past human exploitation of island biomes. This large and biogeographically diverse...
Apr
23
2018
Global Health Spring Seminar: Dr. Maxwell Akanbi
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Title: Smoking cessation in sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and Challenges Presenter: Maxwell Akanbi, MBBS, MSCI PhD Candidate, Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program...
Apr
23
2018
ISITA Conference: Global Islam in Africa: African Muslims and the World, Muslim Worlds in Africa
All day
GLOBAL ISLAM IN AFRICA: AFRICAN MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD, MUSLIM WORLDS IN AFRICA is a one-and-a-half day conference sponsored by...
Apr
21
2018
Umzila ka Moya (Spirit's Path) - Performance by Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
This performance is part of a spring residency of the Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement, a South African company that...
Apr
20
2018
Umzila ka Moya (Spirit's Path) - Performance by Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
This performance is part of a spring residency of the Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement, a South African company that...
Apr
19
2018
Seminar in Applied Microeconomics
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Frank Schilbach (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Technology Diffusion and Appropriate Use: Evidence from Western Kenya"
Apr
19
2018
Kate Ramsey: Powers of Imagination and Afro-Caribbean Healing in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Afro-Caribbean spiritual practices became an object of law in many British Caribbean colonies at a time of intense transatlantic medical...
Apr
18
2018
Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement - Reading and Performance at the Poetry Foundation
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
This performance is part of a spring residency of the Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement, a South African company that...
Apr
13
2018
New Chains, New Mountains: Poetics of Self-Excavations of the Criminalized Body in the Cape — Javier Perez
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Performance and talk by Javier Perez. Reception to follow. This talk is part of a spring residency of the Lingua Franca...
Apr
12
2018
The many parts of ourselves we embed in our poetry—Indigeneity in Contemporary South African Poetry (Katleho Kano Shoro)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The many parts of ourselves we embed in our poetry: Towards an open-ended and subtle understanding of indigeneity in contemporary...
Apr
11
2018
Contemporary Afro-Cubana Feminisms: Rewriting the Past for a New Future - Devyn Spence Benson
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Dr. Devyn Spence Benson is an Assistant Professor of Africana and Latin American Studies at Davidson College. She is a historian of 19th-20th century...
Apr
11
2018
Global Health Spring Seminar: Dr. Leah Neubauer
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Title: MHM in 10: Menstruation Hygiene Management in Kenya Presenter: Leah Neubauer, EdD, Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine in the Division of Public...
Apr
11
2018
Re-inventing a Colonial Language to Tell an African Story - Lwanda Sindaphi
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Re-inventing a Colonial Language to Tell an African Story - Talk by Lwanda Sindaphi The current wave of discourses surrounding decolonisation...
Apr
11
2018
EECS Seminar Speaker: Prof. Jay Taneja, Assistant Professor of ECE at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Fancy That: Measuring Electricity Grid Voltage Using a Phone & a Fan"
10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
The EECS Department welcomes Prof. Jay Taneja, Assistant Professor of ECE at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Taneja will present a...
Apr
10
2018
The Long Nineteenth Century Colloquium: Raevin Jimenez, "Domination of Youths: Gender, Generation, and Political Economic Transformation in Second Millennium South Africa"
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Historian Raevin Jimenez will be giving a talk entitled, "Domination of Youths: Gender, Generation, and Political Economic Transformation in Second...
Apr
10
2018
A Subversive Ethnogenesis: Resistance, Racial Mobility, and Nama Intellectual History in Colonial Namibia, ca. 1820-1980s
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
EDGS Graduate Lecture Series Andrea Rosengarten, History Most current scholarship on segregation in Southern Africa accepts that the racial categories the apartheid...
Apr
10
2018
Health Equity Group
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Peter Locke will be giving a talk to medical students regarding health equity and how medical students can promote equity...
Apr
9
2018
Keisha-Khan Perry, Brown University: Anthropology for Liberation: Ethnography is Not a Luxury
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The lecture will focus on some preliminary ideas from my book in progress, Anthropology for Liberation: Research, Writing and Teaching...
Apr
9
2018
Third Coast CFAR Seminar— Jenny Trinitapoli, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Third Coast CFAR SeminarJenny Trinitapoli, PhD Dr. Trinitapoli’s training and background is in two areas: social demography & the sociology of...
Apr
4
2018
ISITA Perspectives Symposium Series. Jihad and Its Enemies: New Perspectives from West Africa - Lamin Sanneh and Alexander Thurston
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join us for a dialog between Lamin Sanneh (Yale University and Yale Divinity School), author of Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition...
Mar
27
2018
Hepatitis B Awareness
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
This is a lunch talk with Dr. Claudia Hawkins on Hepatitis B and its epidemiology, diagnosis, pathophysiology and treatment. Dr. Claudia...
Mar
26
2018
Third Coast Center for AIDS Research Seminar— Celeste Watkins-Hayes, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Third Coast CFAR Seminar:"The Safety Net that AIDS Activism Built: Lessons for Intersectional Personal and Political Transformation" Celeste Watkins-Hayes, PhDProfessor, Sociology...
Mar
15
2018
Worlds/Otherwise: Poetics from the Afro-Atlantic Periphery
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Yomaira Figueroa, Assistant Professor of Afro Diaspora Studies in the department of English and the African American & African Studies...
Mar
15
2018
Comparative Literary Studies Speaker Series: Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Johns Hopkins University
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
"J.E. Casely Hayford and the Case for Afro-Originating Comparison." Taking J.E. Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound (1911) as its central point of...
Mar
13
2018
Media Entrepreneurship in Africa - Chude Jideonwo (Forbes 30 most promising African entrepreneurs - 2017, Yale Greenberg World Fellow)
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Named by Forbes as one of Africa’s most promising entrepreneurs in 2017, Chude Jideonwo is the co-founder and managing partner...
Mar
13
2018
State Capture, Political Participation, and Popular Resistance: The Cameroon Experience
5:00 PM - 6:45 PM
Governance and Development Study Group Meeting 3: Cameroon Yonatan Morse (Univ. of Connecticut), Landry Signé (Stanford), Martha Wilfahrt (Northwestern), and Richard...
Mar
13
2018
African Politics in the Age of XI, Putin, and Trump: An Open Forum
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
As the 50th anniversary of his work on Africa nears, Richard Joseph (Northwestern) will introduce the topic and share reflections...
Mar
7
2018
Forum Language Tables: English (ESL), French, German, Portuguese, Spanish & Swahili
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us for Languages Tables at Allison Dining Hall from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Wednesday Language Tables March 7 English (ESL), French, German,...
Mar
7
2018
ISITA Perspectives Symposium Series. Sharia Politics in Contemporary Nigeria - Sarah Eltantawi and Brandon Kendhammer
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join us for a dialog between the authors of two important recent studies of Islamic law and politics in northern...
Mar
5
2018
Issues in the Political Theology of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt — Sarah Eltantawi
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna at a time of great transition in Egypt, as the...
Feb
28
2018
Dagmawi Woubshet: Love and Sexuality in James Baldwin
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Sponsored by the African Gender and Expressive Arts working group Outside the Temple: Love and Sexuality in James Baldwin’s The Fire...
Feb
23
2018
CHSS Workshop: Christian Davenport, "Intent, Intentionality and the (il)Legitimacy of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994"
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Co-sponsored with the War & Society workshop. Christian Davenport is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan as...
Feb
23
2018
"Intent, Intentionality and the (il)Legitimacy of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994," by Prof. Davenport [University of Michigan] (Co-sponsored with CHSS Working Group)
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Generally, I am interested in two broad areas. First, I am interested in political conflict and violence - particularly that...
Feb
22
2018
Voices of Experience: The Value of Foreign Languages in the Working World
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Voices of Experience: The Value of Foreign Languages in the Working World An Alumni Panel Discussion in Kresge 1515 from 6:00-8:00...
Feb
22
2018
Rosamond King: Considering Early Caribbean "Queerness"
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Sponsored by the African Gender and Expressive Arts working group Considering Early Caribbean "Queerness:" Constructions of Gender, Sexuality, and Family in...
Feb
21
2018
Forum Language Tables: English (ESL), French, German, Portuguese, Spanish & Swahili
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us for Languages Tables at Allison Dining Hall from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Wednesday Language Tables February 21 & March 7 English...
Feb
20
2018
Governance and Development Study Group: Prof. Michael Bratton, MSU, “Power Politics to Democratic Elections? Zimbabwe 2018”
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Topic: Zimbabwe Presenter: Professor Michael Bratton, Michigan State University *Food Will Be Served After my October 24 lecture on Peace, Democracy, and Open Access...
Feb
20
2018
Professor Michael Bratton, Michigan State University, “Power Politics in Zimbabwe: The Robert Mugabe Era”
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Lecture by Professor Michael Bratton, Michigan State University, “Power Politics in Zimbabwe: The Robert Mugabe Era”, sponsored by the Department...
Feb
12
2018
Modalities of Materiality: Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa - Laura Foster
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by Indigenous San peoples for a variety of uses, including for food, water,...
Feb
7
2018
Forum Language Tables: English (ESL), French, German, Portuguese, Spanish & Swahili
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us for Languages Tables at Allison Dining Hall from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Wednesday Language Tables February 7, February 21 &...
Feb
6
2018
Heino Falcke: Imaging Black Holes now and in the future
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Title: Imaging Black Holes now and in the future Speaker: Heino Falcke, Radboud University Nijmegen Host: Rocco Coppejans Abstract: One of the most fundamental predictions of general...
Feb
5
2018
EES Seminar Series: Jonathan Higgins
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Hydropower by Design: a system-scale analytical approach to assess social, environmental, and economic consequences of alternatives for multiple dam siting...
Jan
31
2018
ISITA Perspectives Symposium Series. Rethinking Timbuktu: Revisionist Approaches - Ousmane Kane and Charles Stewart
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speakers: Ousmane Oumar Kane, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School Charles Stewart, professor emeritus...
Jan
30
2018
Boundaries of History: Education, group identity, and women's historical knowledge in Western Uganda, 1800-1960s
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
EDGS Graduate Lecture Series Caitlin Monroe, History What counts as history and who gets to tell it? How have indigenous practices of...
Jan
26
2018
Harambee
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Multicultural Student Affairs hopes you can join us at Harambee. The term "Harambee" is Swahili for ‘pull together’, is most...
Jan
24
2018
Forum Language Tables: English (ESL), French, German, Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish & Swahili
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us for Languages Tables at Allison Dining Hall from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Wednesday Language Tables January 24, February 7, February...
Jan
23
2018
Governance and Development Study Group: Meeting 1
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Topic: KenyaPresenter: James T. GathiiWing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law and Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law The...
Jan
19
2018
CHSS Workshop: Nitsan Chorev, "Foreign aid in comparative-historical perspective: The case of local pharmaceutical production in East Africa"
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Nitsan Chorev is the Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Brown University. She will be giving a...
Jan
15
2018
Global Health Corps Deadline
All day
Global Health Corps recruits and selects highly qualified applicants with diverse skill sets to work with high-impact organizations in year-long...
Jan
10
2018
Boren Scholarship - Application Workshop
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Boren Scholarships provides up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the worls that are...
Jan
8
2018
Boren Scholarship - Application Workshop
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Boren Scholarships provides up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the worls that are...
Dec
6
2017
Boren Scholarship - Application Workshop
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Boren Scholarships provides up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the worls that are...
Nov
30
2017
BME Seminar Series: Tania Douglas, PhD
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Tania Douglas, PhDVisiting Scholar at Northwestern UniversityProfessor and South African Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering & InnovationUniversity of Cape TownHost:...
Nov
30
2017
Boren Scholarship - Application Workshop
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Boren Scholarships provides up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the worls that are...
Nov
29
2017
Development Economics Lunch Seminar
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Ameet Morjaria (Northwestern University): "TBA"
Nov
16
2017
IPHAM Seminar Series:"Establishing the Prevalence of Latent/Undiagnosed Prostate Cancer in Nigeria: a pilot project."
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Title: "Establishing the Prevalence of Latent/Undiagnosed Prostate Cancer in Nigeria: a pilot project." Presenter: Adam Murphy, MD, MSCI Assistant Professor, Department of Urology Oluwarotimi...
Nov
15
2017
Forum Language Tables: English (ESL), German, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish & Swahili
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Forum for Languages and Cultures in the Buffett Institute will be hosting a series of Language Tables during Fall...
Nov
15
2017
One Acre Fund Deadline!!!
All day
One Acre Fund is a growing social enterprise that supplies smallholder farmers with the financing and training they need to...
Nov
14
2017
Rumors and Echoes of the Civil Rights Movement in Africa: Buffett Visiting Professor Lecture
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Pap Ndiaye’s lecture will focus on the multiple ways in which African Americans' struggles for freedom, equality, and dignity were...
Nov
13
2017
Jada Benn Torres, Vanderbilt University: Genetic perspectives on origins, presence, and ancestry of African-descendant communities across the Caribbean
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The perspectives of African descendant peoples are largely excluded in chronicles describing the ramifications of European colonization of the Caribbean....
Nov
13
2017
Exploring Conflict, Gender, and Global Health in Uganda
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
"Exploring Conflict, Gender, and Global Health in Uganda" Charlotte Mafumbo, Director, SIT Uganda: Development Studies, Study Abroad Program Lunch provided. SIT study abroad...
Nov
13
2017
IPR Colloquium: R. B. Riedl (IPR/Poli. Sci.) - Pews to Politics: Religious Ideas and Political Engagement
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
"Pews to Politics: How Religious Ideas Can Influence Modes of Political Engagement in Africa and Beyond" by Rachel Beatty Riedl, Associate...
Nov
13
2017
"Teach-in" for Critical Theory in the Global South Project
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
As part of Northwestern’s participation in the new International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (I.C.C.T.P.) the Critical Theory Cluster will...
Nov
10
2017
Afro-Pessimist Aesthetics: A Roundtable
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Afro-Pessimist Aesthetics: A RoundtableSampada Aranke, School of the Art Institute of ChicagoHuey Copeland, Northwestern UniversityAthi Mongezeleli Jaja, University of the...
Nov
8
2017
Benjamin's Critique of Violence: A German and Latin American Critical Theory Cooperation Event
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty and graduate book discussion of Christoph Menke's Law and Violence. Christoph Menke in Dialogue with: María Del Rosario Acosta (DePaul University) Ronald...
Nov
7
2017
Red Lion Workshop
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
This will be an interactive workshop. Participants are expected to read the paper before the event and come ready to...
Nov
3
2017
Brain circulation?: How Should We Think about Models of International Co-operation in Global Health
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Join us for a lecture by Dr. Mwemezi Kaino, Director of the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Kilimanjaro...
Nov
2
2017
Seminar in Economic History
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University): "Education, Social Mobility and Risk Attitudes: Evidence from Benin"
Nov
2
2017
Seminar in Applied Microeconomics
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Lauren Falcao Bergquist: (University of Chicago) "Pass-through, Competition, and Entry in Agricultural Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya"
Nov
1
2017
One Acre Fund Fellowship info session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Buffett Institute's Post-Graduate Fellowship Program enables recent alums to contribute to change-making international organizations through paid professional field placements. Its current...
Nov
1
2017
Language Tables Cancelled: Attend Study Abroad Fair in Norris
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The annual Study Abroad Fair has representatives from most Northwestern and Affiliated programs. Check out summer, semester and year-long programs. Tuesdays...
Oct
30
2017
Shadow Geology: The Search for Subterranean Knowledge in West Africa - Robyn d'Avignon
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Since the late 1990s, rising gold prices and pro-market reforms to national mining codes have encouraged companies listed on the...
Oct
30
2017
IPR Colloquium: C. Udry (Econ./IPR) - A Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Poor
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
"Unpacking a Multi-Faceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Poor" by Christopher Udry, Professor of Economics, Buffett Fellow, and IPR...
Oct
29
2017
Princeton In Africa Deadline!!!
All day
Founded in 1999, Princeton in Africa develops young leaders committed to Africa’s advancement by offering yearlong fellowship opportunities with a...
Oct
28
2017
Politics and the Arabic Language — A Talk by Moustafa Bayoumi
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Map:https://maps.northwestern.edu/facility/211 Please join us for this keynote talk at the Chicago Arabic Teachers Council (CATC) Fall 2017 Symposium, which will focus...
Oct
27
2017
Nigeria in Self-Conversation: The Films of Femi Odugbemi - Gidi Blues
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Nigeria in Self-Conversation: The Films of Femi Odugbemi Lagosian filmmaker Femi Odugbemi is a leader of the Nollywood film industry....
Oct
27
2017
African Gender and Expressive Arts: Kwame E. Otu
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Amphibious Subjects: Sassoi and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana Kwame E. Otu, Institute of African-American and African...
Oct
26
2017
Nigeria in Self-Conversation: The Films of Femi Odugbemi - Documentary Shorts
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Nigeria in Self-Conversation: The Films of Femi Odugbemi Lagosian filmmaker Femi Odugbemi is a leader of the Nollywood film industry....
Oct
25
2017
Migration Film Series: Wallah je te jure.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Follow the stories of men and women attempting to migrate from rural villages, bus stations and the ghettos of West...
Oct
25
2017
“The Hexing of Donald Trump: Brujería as Collective Action”
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Lecture by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus,Associate Professor of African American Religions,Harvard Divinity School The election of Donald Trump to the US...
Oct
25
2017
WED@NICO SEMINAR: Shai Pilosof, University of Chicago "The dynamic and non-neutral population structure of the malaria parasite"
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Title: The dynamic and non-neutral population structure of the malaria parasite Speaker: Shai Pilosof - James S. McDonnell Foundation for Complex Systems Postdoctoral Scholar,...
Oct
24
2017
Richard Joseph: Building Peace and Democracy in Africa: Why Open Access to Knowledge is Vital
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
In conjunction with Open Access Week, an international event promoting the practice of making scholarship publicly available online, the University...
Oct
23
2017
IPR Colloquium
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Sera Young (Northwestern University): "Why Is Food Insecurity So Harmful in the First 1,000 Days of Life? Findings from East...
Oct
23
2017
IPR Colloquium: S. Young (IPR/Anthro.) - Food Insecurity and the First 1,000 Days of Life in East Africa
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
"Why Is Food Insecurity So Harmful in the First 1,000 Days of Life? Findings from East Africa" by Sera Young, Assistant...
Oct
23
2017
MENA Monday: Hamdi Attia in Conversation with Chris Abani
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Hamdi Attia is an Artist-In-Residence with the MENA Program and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. Born and raised...
Oct
18
2017
Forum Language Tables
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Forum for Languages and Cultures in the Buffett Institute will be hosting a series of Language Tables during Fall...
Oct
16
2017
Discussion with Germaine Acogny, "mother" of African contemporary dance
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join renowned Senegalese dancer-choreographer, Germaine Acogny, for a discussion. Also, students can participate in a master class in Germaine's own Germaine...
Oct
6
2017
CHSS Workshop: Erin McDonnell, "Patchwork Leviathans in Comparative Historical Perspective"
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Erin McDonnell (Ph.D. Sociology, Northwestern University) is a Kellogg Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, who...
Oct
6
2017
Applying Your Global Health Minor to a Career in Medicine Guest Speaker: Dr. Julia Polk
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Julia Polk, MD, is a faculty attending obstetrician and gynecologist at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai West. In...
Oct
4
2017
Forum Language Tables
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Forum for Languages and Cultures in the Buffett Institute will be hosting a series of Language Tables during Fall...
Sep
27
2017
PAS Open House
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Program of African Studies invites both new and returning students, faculty, staff, and community members to our Fall Open...
Sep
25
2017
Third Coast CFAR Seminar— Robert L. Murphy, MD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Third Coast CFAR Seminar Robert L. Murphy, MD Dr. Robert L. Murphy is the Director of the Center for Global Health...