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 ....
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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 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...
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...
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...
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 African American 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 African American 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 African American 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 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...
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 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...
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 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...
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....
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...