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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Afrisem is the Africa Seminar for graduate students. AfriSem is pleased to announce that on Tuesday, February 9, at 11...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Please join Northwestern's Center for International and Area Studies and the Evanston Public Library for this roundtable discussion examining the...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
This event is free and open to everyone, but registration is required: bit.ly/race-middle-east-studies Participants Mandana Limbert is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens...
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
The Northwestern University in Qatar Faculty Working Group on Race Invites you to this event in the year-long series Decentering...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Clementine Nkweta-Salami (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) regional director for East, Horn and Great Lakes Region) will discuss...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A viritual event where authors Wole Soyinka and Chris Abani will have a discussion. Friday, October 2, 2020, 12pm (CST), 6pm...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The PAS community – including all affiliated faculty, graduate students, and anyone else with an interest in African Studies –...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Will Reno, Political Science, Northwestern University
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...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Adia Benton, Anthropology, Northwestern University
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...
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...
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...
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.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The PAS community – including all affiliated faculty, graduate students, and anyone else with an interest in African Studies –...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
"Exploring the logic of tactic selection: Refugee political claims-making in Uganda" Christa KuntzelmanPh.D. Candidate, Northwestern University
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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),...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
All day
Graduate CONFERENCE on “Walls and Bridges: Migration and Its Histories” (convened by Breen Fellow Aram SARKISIAN)Friday, April 12—all day, starting...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Joris Mueller (Northwestern University): "State Planning and Development: Evidence from Villagization in Tanzania"
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...
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...
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:...
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
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,...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
"Islam and the African World" Dr Wendell Marsh, Buffet Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, History.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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....
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
"Delving into the Diasporic Ballroom" Julian Glover, PhD Candidate, African American Studies.
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...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Professor Rachel Beatty Riedl presents: From Pews to Politics in Africa and Beyond
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Anne Karing (University of California, Berkeley): "Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone"
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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:...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
On Eurocentric Epistemology and the West African Ebola Outbreak: Questioning the Dominant Narrative on the Epidemic Origin.
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:...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Global Cafe Event: 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.
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:...
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...
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);...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Professor Green will present: “The Origins of the Black Death: A Consilient Approach from Phylogenetics and History”
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join PAS for refreshments as we wrap up the end of the 2017-2018 academic year!
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...
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,...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Talk and reception with James W. Fernandez, anthropology, University of Chicago.
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...
All day
The Latina and Latino Studies Program at Northwestern University presents its annual symposium for 2018, titled Afro-Latinidades: Blackness, Identity, and...
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Fulbright Research & Teaching Assistantships:Fulbright • DAAD • Carnegie • Erasmus Mundus • CBYX • Critical Language Grant Six Northwestern alums...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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GLOBAL ISLAM IN AFRICA: AFRICAN MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD, MUSLIM WORLDS IN AFRICA is a one-and-a-half day conference sponsored by...
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...
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...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Frank Schilbach (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Technology Diffusion and Appropriate Use: Evidence from Western Kenya"
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...