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8:00 AM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
A festival of emergent performances
A carnivalesque gathering
A playground for serious playfulness
Including a performance of Seahorse and Sister Sage, written and...
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Applied Quantitative Methods Workshop:
Michelle Bueno Vasquez, Political Science
"The Case for Nonparametric Methods in the Study of...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Political Science Department and Prof. Will Reno as we host Brigadier General Ajai Singh Dabas, Lieutenant Colonel...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Political Science Department and the International Studies Program as they host Jan Wouters, Adjunct Professor of International...
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Join us for our final iteration of our 3D Humanities Speaker & Workshop Series. Guest speaker Foreman Bandama from the...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
A talk by Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst about their recent book, I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join this joint Comparative/IR Graduate Workshop as they host Qin Huang, Northwestern Political Science Ph.D. candidate.
Abstract: This paper explores...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Benjamin Bradlow, Princeton University, presents:
"Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg"
Hybrid
Please contact the Department of Sociology...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Political Science Department's Undergraduate Affairs division as they preview political science course offerings for Fall 2024! Lunch...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop:
Interdepartmental Social Event
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Department of Sociology's Problem-Solving Workshop:
Evie Lopoo, Northwestern University
Pepe Roswaldy, Northwestern University
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Political Science Department's Spring 2024 Farrell Lecture as they host Eric Helleiner, political science professor at the...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop as they host Carolyn Barnes, PhD, Associate Professor in the Crown Family...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Ben Bradlow, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Princeton University
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join Comparative Historical Social Sciences as they host Ben Bradlow, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Christopher Bail, Duke University, presents:
"Leveraging AI for Democratic Discourse: Chat Interventions can Improve Political conversations at scale"
Hybrid
Please contact the...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop:
Valerie Gruest
"Instagram Usage Practices, Representation and Body Image: An Interview Study with Latinx...
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Sarah Moore, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science and an MS Candidate...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Student Presentations: Khoa Phan-Howard & Jack Votava
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Applied Quantitative Methods Workshop:
Vineet Gupta
"Tweeting Transgender: Discursive Networks and Categorical Change."
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Political Science Department as they host Jothie Rajah, Research Professor with the American Bar Foundation.
This is a...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop:
Marco Marzano, Professor of Sociology, The University of Bergamo
Hybrid
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the joint Comparative/IR Graduate Workshop for this event. More details forthcoming.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Spring Keynote of the Kaplan Humanities Institute's SOVEREIGNTIES Dialogue:
Dialogue on Food Sovereignties
Raj Patel, Research Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Rene Almeling, Yale University, presents:
"Conceptualizing Climate Privilege"
Hybrid
Please contact the Department of Sociology for zoom link and for any questions...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop:
Dima Younes
"Commoning for Hope: Care, Contention, and the Day-to-Day Opening of New Possibilities...
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
FREE! Public welcome; drop in any time!
This all-day symposium seeks to engage members of the Northwestern community and the broader...
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Nimah Mazaheri, associate professor of political science at Tufts University.
Nimah Mazaheri's...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Graduate Student Political Theory Workshop as they host Lawrence Svabek, a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Departments...
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Applied Quantitative Methods Workshop:
Andrew L. Owen, Feinberg School of Medicine (Northwestern Sociology Alumnus)
"The Impact of Health...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop:
Sharif El Shishtawy Hassan
"Ambivalent Texts: State Feminism and Official Religion in the UAE”
Hybrid
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Department of Sociology's Problem-Solving Workshop:
Ryan Fajardo, Northwestern University
Sino Esthappan, Northwestern University
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop as they host Kiela Crabtree, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Emory...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Student Presentations: Sharif Ibrahim El Shishtawy Hassan & Ana Vedovato
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Political Science Department's Undergraduate Affairs division as they host a New Major Meet-Up. Details forthcoming.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the American Politics Workshop as they host Sarah Anzia, Associate Professor of Public Policy & Political Science at...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop:
Io Brooks, Northwestern University
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop:
Mitchell Duneier, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, presents:
Slim's Table in Retrospect
In-Person Only
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop:
Brianne Dubois
“Short Contracts and Contracts Made Short: Examining Professional Stratification among French Contemporary...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the “How I Wrote [Title Here]” Event Series and the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Joanne...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop:
Nalani Saito & Vineet Gupta, Northwestern University
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop:
Xi Wang, PhD Student, Northwestern University, presents:
From Transnational Psychoanalytic Training to the Project of Social...