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Past Events

The Allison Davis Lecture Series - Black Feminist Jurisprudence: A Tradition and an Intervention with Dr. Imani Perry

For a recording of the event, please use this link here.

 

Feb
12
2026

Black History Month

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Celebrate Black Love at the Black House

Feb
12
2026

CAAH/Chabraja lecture

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Chabraja/Center for African American History Distinguished Lecture in African American History. To be given by Ula Taylor, Professor and Department...

Feb
4
2026

Black History Month

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Doing Gen Z Black Studies

Jan
28
2026

“Dancing in the Rain” welcome luncheon

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Dancing in the Rain interrogates the fraught relationship between Black identity and Americanism. This body of work does not seek...

Nov
12
2025

Getting to Know Black Studies

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Getting to know Black Studies: an introduction in 90 minutes plus food

Nov
3
2025

Allison Davis Lecture

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Allison Davis Lecture. To be given by Lorgia García Peña, Professor in the Department of African American Studies & Effron...

May
30
2025

Black Question Time

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

The ‘Black Question Time’ Panelists are: Julian M. Hill, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University College of Law  Tim Rhoze, Producing Artistic Director...

May
23
2025

Before and Beyond Afrobeats

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Labor and African Cultural Production on the World Stage 

May
21
2025

Getting to Know Black Studies

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Featuring: Black Studies Professors Dotun Ayobade, Martha Biondi, and Silyane Larcher in conversation with  Barnor Hesse Black Studies Graduating Seniors Jadon Ampadu, Olivia Carter, and...

Apr
29
2025

Leon Forrest Lecture: Dr. Tina Campt

4:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences established the Leon Forrest Lectureship in 1999 in tribute to Professor Leon Forrest’s...

Feb
27
2025

CAAH/Chabraja lecture with Dr. Robin Kelley

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Robin D. G. KELLEY (UCLA), author of Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012)   (reception to follow)

Feb
20
2025

Stolen School Screening

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Dr. KIHANA MIRAYA ROSS & SHANNON PAIGE CLARK in partnership with SHOREFRONT LEGACY CENTER present an ENDANGERED PEACE PRODUCTION What desegregation...

Feb
13
2025

Black History Month

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Black Man State of Mind  “Ayo Black, it's time, word (word, it's time, man)  It's time, man (a'ight, man, begin)”  Nas (1994)...

Jan
8
2025

2nd Getting to Know Black Studies

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

2nd Getting to Know Black Studies : a quick introduction plus food Featuring: Black Studies Professors Marquis Bey, Mary Pattillo, and...

Dec
4
2024

Black Hot Topics

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Do Black People Police Blackness more than non-Black People? Speakers: Kineyshi Fils-Esperant & Noel Matthews

Nov
18
2024

Black Evanston: Leadership for Growth

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Evanston is making Black history. Although Black residents comprise only 16% of Evanston’s population, Black Evanstonians currently hold many crucial...

Nov
18
2024

"The Five Demands" at Northwestern

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss Presents: “Every single kid in America: Black, brown, Asian, gay, white...Shouldn’t we make sure there is...

Oct
30
2024

Getting to know Black Studies

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Getting to know Black Studies: a quick introduction plus food Featuring: Black Studies  Professors Barnor Hesse, Kennetta Perry, kihana ross, and Nicole Spigner Black Studies Ambassadors Miracle...

Oct
29
2024

Prominent Afro-Cuban filmmaker at NU!

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Gloria Rolanda will be in conversation with historian and Cuba expert, Dr. Lisa Brock, to discuss her groundbreaking documentary on...

Oct
19
2024

Pre-screening of Juntando orillas

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Join us for a special pre-screening of the documentary Juntando Orillas, followed by an engaging conversation with the director, producers,...

Oct
17
2024

WILL (Jessie Maple, 1981) – New 4k Restoration

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

WILL (Jessie Maple, 1981, 71 min, color, DCP) The original working title of WILL (1981), the first feature film directed by Jessie...

Oct
4
2024

Revisiting Films By Women/Chicago "74

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

ATTICA (1974) and I AM SOMEBODY (1970) (Multiple artists, 1970–1974, 16mm, approx 110 min) Showing together in a nod to their original...

May
29
2024

Black Question Time

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

The ‘Black Question Time’ Panelists are: Karen Attiah, Opinions columnist for the Washington Post https://www.karenattiah.com/ Peter Braithwaite, Director of Procurement, Diversity and Community...

May
15
2024

Black Studies Workshop

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Dr. Casidy Campbell Presents: Finding Sakia: Black Queer Blogging Culture in the Early 2000s  

May
1
2024

Black Hot Topics

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Should Black Studies Use the “N-Word”?  

Apr
10
2024

Black Hot Topics

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Do Black Women Have a Moral Duty to Marry Black Men?

Mar
4
2024

Leon Forrest Panel and Concert

4:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Panel and Concert: “New Black Music (Jazz) in Chicago.” Join us for a panel...

Feb
29
2024

Lecture on Black History by Kris MANJAPRA (CCHS/CAAH)

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished lecture on Black History Kris MANJAPRA (Northeastern University), author of Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of...

Feb
28
2024

Black Stories

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Black Stories as Black History 

Feb
14
2024

Black Studies Lunch Conversation

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

A Black Studies State of Mind?  What does it mean to study and practice Black Studies? What do we do? How...

Feb
7
2024

Black Hot Topics

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Is there any point to Black History Month?

Jan
31
2024

Writing in Black: A Workshop Series: Dr. Tanisha C. Ford

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Dr. Tanisha C. Ford Presents:  Sensual Prose: Creating Voice and Texture in Nonfiction Writing   Good nonfiction writing requires considerable research. That research...

Jan
10
2024

Black Studies "Grounding" on War in Gaza

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

The Black Studies Department is inviting you to a “grounding session” on the catastrophe in Gaza, alongside other ongoing situations...

Nov
29
2023

Black Hot Topics

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

What's Black Studies got to do with the Israel-Palestine Colonial War

Nov
8
2023

Writing in Black: A Workshop Series: Dr. Bernard Forjwuor

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Dr. Bernard Forjwuor Presents:  “Critique of Political Decolonization” Bernard Forjwuor is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at the...

Oct
21
2023

Afrobeats

10:00 AM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Afrobeats Lower Frequencies of Contemporary African Sounds (Hybrid) Convener: Dotun Ayobade, Assistant Professor, Performance Studies/Black Studies Co-Conveners: Olabanke Goriola, PhD Student, Performance Studies Nnaemeka Ekwelum, PhD Candidate,...

Oct
20
2023

Afrobeats

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

Afrobeats Lower Frequencies of Contemporary African Sounds (Hybrid) Convener: Dotun Ayobade, Assistant Professor, Performance Studies/Black Studies Co-Conveners: Olabanke Goriola, PhD Student, Performance Studies Nnaemeka Ekwelum, PhD Candidate,...

May
22
2023

MENA Mondays: Book Talk: Sentient Flesh

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

 In Sentient Flesh R. A. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham’s 1937 remark “we should have our liberty 'cause ....

Mar
3
2023

Reflections on the Black Public Humanities

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department

This panel features Northwestern PhD students and professors who are engaged in the Black public humanities as they reflect on...