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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.

 

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...

Nov
30
2022

AFAM @ 50 End of Fall Celebration

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...

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...

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...