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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...
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...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Dr. Natasha Trethewey Presents: "Why We Write: Reflections From The House of Being With Natasha Trethewey"
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...
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...
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,...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Building on a partnership between two cultural initiatives, this panel will discuss the tensions between distinction and community, collectivization and...
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...
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
The authors Kianny Antigua and Velia Vidal will dialogue about her works with Andrea Change and Mary Hawley. “enajenada, de Kianny...
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA for a conversation among leading scholars of violence, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and militarism in Palestine, Turtle...
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...
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...
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
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Should Black Studies Use the “N-Word”?
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Special session on writing group dynamics featuring Tracy Vaughn-Manley, PhD, Nicole Spigner, PhD, Justin Mann, PhD and Petal Samuels, PhD
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Do Black Women Have a Moral Duty to Marry Black Men?
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...
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...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Chicago Creative Music Ben LaMar Gay (cornet) and Junius Paul (bass)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Professors on the Road: Teaching while Touring Greg Ward (alto sax) and Marquis Hill (Trumpet)
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...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Gender and/in Jazz Brandee Younger (harp)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Is there any point to Black History Month?
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...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Jazz Production, Race, and Improvisation Jazz Workshop Series: Jeff Parker (guitar) and Makaya McCraven (drums)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Dr. Aubrey Korneta Presents: Professional and Career Development Resources and SMART Goal Setting
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...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
What's Black Studies got to do with the Israel-Palestine Colonial War
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...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Dr. Michelle Boyd Presents: "Tongue Tied: How to Get Unstuck & Love Your Writing Again" Many scholars worry that they are uniquely...
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,...
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,...
4:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Kelly Lytle Hernández is a professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA where she holds The...
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 ....
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
BLACK TO FRONT: From "African American Studies" to "Black Studies" • Keynote speaker: Professor Davarian Baldwin (author, ‘In the Shadow of the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Farah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature at African American Studies at Columbia...
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...
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...
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...
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 &...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Join us to conclude a year of 50th Anniversary events and to celebrate the end of Fall Quarter! Featured panelists...
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...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
"In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love"
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...
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,...
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...
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...
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
On October 18, 1971, in the minutes of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University, the Chancellor reported the “Establishment...
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...
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...
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...
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...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Theopolies J. Moton, III is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He earned a B.A and...
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...
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...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
In the Fall of 1971, the Northwestern Board of Trustees established “The Department of Afro-American Studies in the College of...
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,...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Featuring Discussants: Minkah Makalani (Associate Professor & Director of the Center for Africana Studies, John Hopkins University) Shana Redmond (Professor of English...
