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 ....
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.
May
19
2023
Department Renaming Symposium: From "African American Studies" to "Black Studies"
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
BLACK TO FRONT: From "African American Studies" to "Black Studies" • Keynote speaker: Professor Davarian Baldwin (author, ‘In the Shadow of the...
May
3
2023
Leon Forrest Lecture featuring Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
Farah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature at African American Studies at Columbia...
Mar
3
2023
Reflections on the Black Public Humanities
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
This panel features Northwestern PhD students and professors who are engaged in the Black public humanities as they reflect on...
Mar
2
2023
CANCELED: Distinguished Lecture on African American History by Tomiko Brown-Nagin (CCHS/CAAH event)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Due to unforseen circumstances, this event is CANCELED. We regret any inconvenience. Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished Lecture on African American History Tomiko BROWN-NAGIN...
Feb
28
2023
The Afterlives of Coral or The Persistence of Colonial Violence. A Talk by Ayana Flewellen.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for this talk by Ayana Flewellen of Stanford University. Lunch provided. Mined coral lays at the foundation of...
Feb
8
2023
Trans & Queer Resistance to Policing Workshop with Benji Hart
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center
We're excited to be bringing Benji Hart to NU in collaboration with the Department of African American Studies, Gender &...
Nov
30
2022
AFAM @ 50 End of Fall Celebration
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
Join us to conclude a year of 50th Anniversary events and to celebrate the end of Fall Quarter! Featured panelists...
Nov
15
2022
Earthseed Family Archive Project
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by One Book One Northwestern
This Earthseed Showcase is an offering from members of the Earthseed Black Family Archive Project, a national cohort of black...
Nov
10
2022
The Allison Davis Lecture: Joy James, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities, Williams College
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
"In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love"
Nov
1
2022
Have Confidence in the Sea: Archaeologies of Marronage
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by One Book One Northwestern
In this talk, I discuss how archaeology has contributed to our understanding of marronage in the Atlantic world. Drawing from...
Oct
25
2022
Academic Energies: A Conversation Beyond Coping - Tina Chen with Nitasha Tamar Sharma
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Academic Energies: A Conversation Beyond Coping Fall Keynote of the Kaplan Humanities Institute's 2022-2023 Dialogue, ENERGIES: A year-long conversation about energies—personal,...
Oct
18
2022
Author Clint Smith in conversation with History Professor Leslie Harris
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by One Book One Northwestern
Please join us on the Chicago and Evanston campuses for the One Book keynote with Clint Smith author of How...
Oct
9
2022
Beyoncé Mass
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by One Book One Northwestern
The “Beyoncé Mass,” a groundbreaking Christian worship service, features Beyonce’s music that celebrates the spirituality of Black women. Created and...
May
20
2022
Department of African American Studies 50th Anniversary Year
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
On October 18, 1971, in the minutes of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University, the Chancellor reported the “Establishment...
May
19
2022
[CED] - Becoming Mermaid: A Virtual Performance and Discussion with Lia García and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by 2021-2022 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora
Join the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) for its end-of-year event - a virtual performance and discussion with Lia...
May
13
2022
Sami Schalk: The Black Disability Politics of the National Black Women’s Health Project
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Dr. Sami Schalk (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Schalk’s interdisciplinary research...
May
4
2022
Go Back and Get It: Black Loss, Black Recovery, Black Resurrectionary Poetics
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Office of the Provost
Digital archives, like Black poetry that reaches back to the past, structure neighborhoods of meaning that bring home lost records...
May
2
2022
The Colored Conventions Project, Digital Humanities, and Black Interventions in the Past and Present
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Office of the Provost
Professor P. Gabrielle Foreman, Penn State University, will be in conversation with Professor Danielle Bainbridge, Northwestern, about the pathbreaking and...
Apr
13
2022
Race, Educational Neglect, and Policy at HBCUs: Remembering the Promises of Ayers
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
Theopolies J. Moton, III is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He earned a B.A and...
Apr
11
2022
Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific | A conversation with Yesenia Barragan (Rutgers University)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Yesenia Barragan is a historian of race, slavery, emancipation, and social movements in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and the African Diaspora...
Feb
28
2022
Martha Jones lecture on African Americans and the 19th Amendment (CAAH/CCHS)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished lecture on African American History FREE and open to the PUBLIC hybrid event--you can attend in person or...
Feb
1
2022
AFAM @ 50: DIgging in the Archives
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
In the Fall of 1971, the Northwestern Board of Trustees established “The Department of Afro-American Studies in the College of...
Jan
13
2022
Partying with Anger: Interview with Afro-Andean Musician Yanna
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
This conversation will feature the music and activism of Yanna. Their songs combine Afro-diasporic genres like hip-hop, dancehall, trap, reggaetón,...
Dec
1
2021
The Black Seminar: Black Marxism and Black Studies
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
Featuring Discussants: Minkah Makalani (Associate Professor & Director of the Center for Africana Studies, John Hopkins University) Shana Redmond (Professor of English...
Nov
16
2021
The Allison Davis Lecture Series: Imani Perry, "Black Feminist Jurisprudence: A Tradition and an Intervention"
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
Perry will discuss the mid- to late-twentieth century work of three Black women: Pauli Murray, Adrian Piper and Angela Davis....
May
11
2021
The Leon Forrest Lecture Series: Tayari Jones, "An American Marriage: A Love Story Torn Apart by Social Injustice"
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
Over the course of her award-winning career, Tayari Jones’ novels and essays have explored the vagaries of birth and fate,...
May
11
2021
Questioning the Racial Thermometer: Black Intellectual Vanguards and their Arguments for Equality in Colombia, 1885-1948 — A Lecture by Francisco Javier Flórez Bolivar (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This event will be in Spanish. Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of African American Studies,...
Apr
21
2021
Conversatorio: Afro-Latin American Studies and its Institutionalization (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of African American Studies, and the Andean Cultures and...
Apr
15
2021
"The Power of Black Music" In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Northwestern Community Ensemble
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by NCE 50th Anniversary Planning Committee
“The Power of Black Music” lecture by Dr. Alisha Lola Jones, Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, is...
Apr
14
2021
Richard Mizelle Talk: "Deamonte's Epidemic: Race, Medicine, and the Dangers of Oral Health"
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
The death of Deamonte Driver in 2007 from untreated gum disease revealed a smoldering epidemic of poor healthcare, medical neglect,...
Apr
13
2021
"We Don't Want to Live on the Margins of the Margins": Black Women Claiming Space in Unequal Brazilian Cities — A Lecture by Keisha-Khan Y. Perry (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of African American Studies, and the Andean Cultures and...
Apr
8
2021
Black Trans Feminism and Translatinx Citizenship
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
Join us for an event on “Black Trans Feminism and Translatinx Citizenship", April 8th – 5:30-7:30 pm via Zoom supported...
Mar
18
2021
Arrivance and the Anti-Poetics of Diaspora: Alonso de Sandoval as testimoniante for the Christian West—Jerome Branche (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This event, originally scheduled for Tuesday March 9 at 12:30 p.m. CT, has been rescheduled for Thursday March 18 at...
Jan
26
2021
Phases of Blackness: Afro-Argentines, Anti-Blackness, and Argentina's National Identity—Erika Edwards (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of African American Studies, and the Andean Cultures and...
Jan
15
2021
Facing the Music: Play, Social Death and Gendered Survival After Fela Kuti
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by SOC - Department of Performance Studies
Please join the Departments of Performance Studies and African American Studies on Friday, January 15th at 11am for Facing the...
Jan
13
2021
Conversatorio: Black Politics in Latin America Today (Afro-Latin America: Representation, Politics, History Series)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of African American Studies, and the Andean Cultures and...