multi-day
Swahili Table
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...
Past Events
multi-day
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
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...
Jan
26
2024
Pan-African Students' Union (PASU) lecture series with Lwazi Lushaba
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Africa stands at a pivotal moment, having traversed three decades of neo-liberal economic experimentation with outcomes mirroring past autocratic policies...
Jan
25
2024
Afrisem
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Please join us today, Thursday, 25th of January, from 5 pm to 7 pm for another series of Afrisem with...
Nov
9
2023
Afrisem Presents: "My Mother's Theatre School" A Presentation by Visiting Scholar Arthur Banshayeko
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...
Nov
1
2023
Swahili Table
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...
Oct
25
2023
AfriSem Presents: Fellowship/Funding Applications: An Introduction
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....
Oct
25
2023
The Lansiné Kaba Symposium
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...
Oct
20
2023
Afrobeats: Lower Frequencies of Contemporary African Sounds
All day
Contemporary African music, indexed as Afrobeats, is having a global moment. A cadre of emerging and established artists as well...
Oct
19
2023
An Introduction to Arabic Calligraphy: A Hands-On Workshop
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...
Oct
18
2023
Swahili Table
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...
Oct
18
2023
Calligraphy and Manuscripts in "Bilad Shinqit" (Mauritania): From the origins to the late 20th century
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...
Oct
12
2023
Program of African Studies (PAS) Open House
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...
Oct
11
2023
Swahili Table
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...
Oct
4
2023
Swahili Table
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...
May
18
2023
AUGMENTED CURIOSITIES: VIRTUAL PLAY IN AFRICAN PASTS AND FUTURES
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:...
May
11
2023
PAS coffee hour
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!
May
8
2023
Swahili Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Practice speaking Swahili at the Swahili Language Table! All levels welcome.
May
5
2023
THE AFRICA SEMINAR GRADUATE STUDIES CONFERENCE: BUILT ENVIRONMENT
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...
May
4
2023
Critical African Heritages Presents: The Timeless Way of Building an African Futuristic Rural City
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...
May
3
2023
Bringing Transnationalism Back In in the Comparative Politics of Africa and the Middle East: Labor Migration, Remittance Flows and the Politics of Trust - A Book Discussion with Khalid Medani
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...
May
2
2023
Small by Small: A conversation with author Ike Anya
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...
Apr
20
2023
African Seminar Presents: Strange things happen when the lights are low: Exploring the possibilities for a history of the night in South Africa through Drum'.
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...
Apr
8
2023
Pan-African Student Union brings you the "Africa Outside Africa": Speaker Series.
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...
Apr
6
2023
African Seminar group meeting
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...
Mar
30
2023
African Seminar group meeting
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...
Mar
9
2023
Afrisem: African Seminar Peer Presentations
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...
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...