Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
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...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Arthur Banshayeko, also known as Arthur Ban, is a Burundian actor-director. For him, art is the best and secure platform...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join Northwestern graduate student group Afriem( African Seminar) for an information night on availbale fellowships and funding resources through Northwestern....
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
This half-day symposium celebrates the life and work of historian and Northwestern alumnus Lansiné Kaba (PhD 1972), who passed in...
All day
Contemporary African music, indexed as Afrobeats, is having a global moment. A cadre of emerging and established artists as well...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Come try your hand at Arabic calligraphy in this special workshop led by master calligrapher Mohameden Ahmedou. To see an example...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa for a talk by Mohameden Ahmedou. Lunch will be served...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Stop by and enjoy a snack at the Program of African Studies our open house. Meet the faculty, graduates and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
On May 18, at 5pm, join us for the second part of the series "Digital Curation in an Analog world:...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Our final, all building meeting for the year! Let’s talk summer projects, research travel plans, and ideas for the fall!
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
May 5, please join us for the Africa Seminar (Afrisem) at Northwestern University's Program of African Studies 7ᵗʰ Annual Graduate...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
"An embodiment of a rural futurist vision, Okere City is the first sustainable rural city in Uganda. A village boy...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
This is a hybrid event. No registration is needed to attend in person. Register here to attend by Zoom. Lunch will be...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us at this special pre publication event, Ike’s first public reading in North America from his first book Small By...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
About Speaker: Zachary Fleishman is from Cape Town, South Africa and is a PhD student in the History Faculty at...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Welcome back! We hope your Spring Quarter is off to a great start. We are so thrilled to announce that...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join the AfriSem group at the Program for African Studies for a screening of "Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess." The...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join the AfriSem student group for this Thursday 5-7 pm for a Fellowship/Grant Writing Workshop! Bring anything you are working...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
This weeks African Seminar group meeting with feature presetiantions by graduate students Rebecca Rwakabukoza, Sreddy Yen, and Craig Stevens. They...
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:...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
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...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
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...
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!
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...
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!
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...
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!
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,...
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...
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!
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!
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...