multi-day
African Seminar group meeting
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Africa Seminar (AfriSem) provides an interdisciplinary and area-defined setting for graduate students studying Africa to develop, present, and draw...
Past Events
Feb
23
2023
Afrisem Presents: 'Silencing the Guns' in Africa: Underlying Dynamics and Policy Responses
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
On February 23rd at 4pm, join Graduate Student group African Seminar for a conversation on "'Silencing the Guns' in Africa:...
Feb
15
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Feb
8
2023
Swahli Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Feb
1
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Jan
31
2023
Movie Night at the Program of African Studies
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
All winter quarter, the Program of African Studies is hosting movie night. Please join us for pizza, snacks, and good...
Jan
18
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Jan
11
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
Nov
17
2022
Afrisem
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Please join AfriSem Nov. 17, 4-6 pm for our event: WANA UDOBANG & CHRIS ABANI IN CONVERSATION: Explorations of Creative...
Nov
16
2022
Nov
9
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Nov
9
2022
The World that "African Studies" Made and Possibilities for Transformation: A Cross-Generational Conversation
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Join professor Jean Allman (Washington University) and Northwestern University PhD candidate in history, Bright Gyamfi, for the event "The World...
Nov
2
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Nov
1
2022
An evening with author Doreen Baingana - Reading and conversation with Wana Udobang
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Join us for an evening with author Doreen Baingana, visiting artist of the Kaplan Humanities Institute. Baingana will read from her...
Oct
26
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Oct
24
2022
Jori Lewis - "Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker Jori Lewis Title "Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation and a Crop That Changed History" Discussion Author Jori Lewis discusses her book,...
Oct
20
2022
Comfort Food Poetry Workshop
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Comfort Food Poetry Workshop What does the food we eat say about us? Our histories, our identities, our existence. When we prepare...
Oct
19
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Oct
12
2022
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Swahili students, come practice your skills at the Swahili Language Table from 4-5pm at the Program of African Studies!
Oct
6
2022
Multilingual Concert with Musician and Activist Ezé Wendtoin
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Ezé will give a multilingual concert for the Northwestern community and the public on Thursday, October 6, from 6 pm...
May
14
2022
Workshop: Global and Local Strategies of Twenty-First Century African Artists
9:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Saturday, May 14, 2022, 9am -11pm CT (breakfast served) is a workshop dedicated to talking through big ideas, asking questions,...
Apr
26
2022
Ato Quayson - "The Ambiguities of Colonial Modernity: Tragedy, History, and African Literature"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Abstract: Historians have told us how unevenly infrastructural development was distributed during phase of colonial modernity, with much of it being...
Nov
12
2021
Critical African Heritages Workshop
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Students, faculty and staff: you are invited to participate in a visioning session for Critical African Heritages, a new Kaplan...
Jun
10
2021
Afrisem Conference:African Knowledge that Agitates
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Save the date: the Africa Seminar (Afrisem) graduate student conference "African Knowledge that Agitates" will take place virtually June 10-12,...
Jun
1
2021
Afrisem: Navigating the Global Job Market for Africanists
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Afrisem is hosting the panel "Navigating the Global Job Market for Africanists" on June 1 at 11am (CDT). Register in...
May
19
2021
Mosques, Culture Clubs, and Embodied Ritual Debates: Re-making Islam in a New African Diaspora (Michelle Johnson)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Mosques, Culture Clubs, and Embodied Ritual Debates: Re-making Islam in a New African Diaspora Join ISITA for a talk by Michelle...
May
5
2021
Ajami Archives of Muslim Africa: Their Significance in African Studies (Fallou Ngom)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Ajami Archives of Muslim Africa: Their Significance in African Studies Join ISITA for a talk by Fallou Ngom (anthropology, Boston University). Moderated...
Apr
21
2021
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups (Alexander Thurston)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups Join ISITA for talk by Alexander Thurston (political science,...
Apr
7
2021
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity (Iqbal Akhtar)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity Join ISITA for a talk by Iqbal Akhtar (religious studies/politics and...
Mar
10
2021
Black Literary Islam in the Caribbean (Aliyah Khan)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Black Literary Islam in the Caribbean: Autobiographical Writings of Enslaved Sufi West Africans in Colonial Jamaica, and Sufi Poetry in...
Feb
24
2021
Africanization: The Bridge to Edward Blyden's Final Intellectual Transformation (Harry Nii Koney Odamtten)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Africanization: The Bridge to Edward Blyden's Final Intellectual Transformation Join ISITA for a talk by Harry Nii Koney Odamtten (history, Santa...
Feb
9
2021
Afrisem: Navigating the U.S. Job Market for Africanists
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...
Jan
18
2021
A Roundtable on U.S. Foreign Policy under Biden: China, Africa, Latin America & the Middle East
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...
Nov
30
2020
Race and Blackness in Middle East Studies: A MENA Conversation
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...
Nov
17
2020
Slavery, Colonialism, and Race in the Muslim World
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...
Oct
28
2020
COVID and Forced Migration in Africa: Caring for Refugees in a Pandemic
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...
Oct
2
2020
Wole Soyinka and Chris Abani in Conversation
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...
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...
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...