Past Events
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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...
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Black Stories as Black History
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...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Perry will discuss the mid- to late-twentieth century work of three Black women: Pauli Murray, Adrian Piper and Angela Davis....