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Literary Events Across Northwestern

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The 40th Chicago Film Festival at Northwestern

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Join Northwestern for two wonderful evenings of the 40th Chicago Latino Film Festival! Tuesday, April 16th @5:30, Lutkin Hall Water for Life Documentary...

Apr
5
2024

Edith Hall (Durham University)

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics

Topic: Forthcoming (feminist) edition of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon.

Apr
5
2024

Afro-Indigenous Rhythms with Jonathan Alarcón!

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Learn about the Afro-Indigenous Garifuna community in Hondouras and play Garifuna rhythms in this fun, bilingual, and hands-on activity with...

Apr
8
2024

Weinberg College Named Chair Investiture

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Honorees: Maksym Radziwill Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor in Mathematics Department of Mathematics   Sarah Schulman           Ralla Klepak Professor Department of English  

Apr
10
2024

Graduate/Faculty Lunch

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by History Department

Join lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty on Wednesday April 10, 2024 at 12:30PM - 1:45PM. If this...

Apr
10
2024

Guest Lecture - Yanay Israeli, University of Michigan

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Rethinking Centralization: Petitioning and Sovereignty in the Castilian Monarchy, c. 1475-1510 At the end of the fifteenth century, the Catholic Monarchs,...

Apr
15
2024

MENA Monday | Water on Fire: A Memoir of War

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

Lunch will be served at this event. Water on Fire tells a story of immigration that starts in a Beirut devastated...

Apr
17
2024

Suzanne Scanlon Reading

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department

Suzanne Scanlon is the author of Committed (Vintage / Anchor Books), a critical memoir about women, reading, and mental illness....

Apr
18
2024

CNAIR Fellows & TGS NAIS Cluster Book Club - Spring Quarter

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)

Spring Qtr Book Club Book: Cooling the Tropics, Hi'ilei Julia Hobart WHEN: Thursday, April 18, 530-7pm WHERE: Kaplan Conference Room [KRESGE 2-351]

Apr
29
2024

MENA Monday | Understanding Conflict in the Sudan

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies

This event convenes experts on the Sudan, who will delve into the current conflict, its root causes, and Sudan's political...

Apr
30
2024

Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department

Edmund Perry Lecture presented by Rima Vesely-Flad, Professor of Religious Studies at Warren Wilson College This lecture is drawn from Dr....

May
1
2024

Undergraduate/Faculty Lunch

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by History Department

Join lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty on Wednesday May 1, 2024 at 12:30PM - 1:45PM. If this...

May
4
2024

Chicago Region Workshop

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics

Contact Prof. Jennifer Weintritt for more information.

May
13
2024

Art History Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium

3:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History

Join us as our six senior honors thesis writers present their thesis projects. This event is open to members of...

May
16
2024

Honors in English Literature Colloquium

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by English Department

The Honors Colloquium provides students the opportunity to present their research and discuss their findings.