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Past Symposia & Recordings
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Sep 23 2021 Northwestern Buffett Faculty Open House #112:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Are you working on a research problem of global consequence? Are you curious to consider new ways your research might affect our greatest global challenges? Are you interested in interdisciplinary global research? If so, we hope you will jo... | |
Sep 28 2021 Northwestern Buffett Faculty Open House #212:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Are you working on a research problem of global consequence? Are you curious to consider new ways your research might affect our greatest global challenges? Are you interested in interdisciplinary global research? If so, we hope you will jo... | |
Sep 30 2021 [New Frontiers in Global Research Series] The Aesthetics of the US Global Carceral Archipelago: Methodology and Analysis12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online This event is part of the Northwestern Buffett Institute's New Frontiers in Global Research Initiative, through which we invite scholars, artists, and other cultural producers to discuss global challenges that necessitate international coop... | |
Oct 1 2021 Northwestern Buffett’s Idea Incubation Process: A Conversation with Participants9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, Online For those who are interested in learning about the Idea Incubation process directly from faculty who participated, please join some of our Global Working Group leaders for a casual conversation about their experiences on October 1, from 9:0... | |
Nov 17 2021 The Translator: Film Screening and Panel Discussion3:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston The in-person event is sold out! Virtual Access still available. Join us for a screening of award-winning filmmaker Rana Kazkaz's new feature-length film, The Translator — the story of a political refugee illegally returning to Syria and ri... | |
Dec 2 2021 Northwestern Buffett Fireside Chat with Senator Tammy Duckworth1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, Online As secretariat of the U7+ Alliance of World Universities, Northwestern University has been especially focused on climate change and intergenerational justice most recently joining 29 universities from 12 countries in committing to lower emi... | |
Dec 6 2021 Northwestern Buffett Fireside Chat with Christian Madsbjerg11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Evanston Christian Madsbjerg is a professor of applied humanities at The New School for Social Research and co-founder of ReD Associates, a consultancy dedicated to humanizing business strategy through the social sciences. Based on his work with so... | |
Feb 28 2022 Northwestern Buffett Panel Discussion on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Online Please join us on Monday, February 28th from 4:00-5:00 p.m. CST for a virtual panel discussion on the unfolding Russian invasion of Ukraine. We will hear perspectives from faculty experts including Tymofii Brik (Head of Sociological Researc... | |
Mar 1 2022 Reflections on Global Research at COP2612:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston This event convenes a panel of Northwestern faculty and graduate students who attended the United Nations’ 26th Climate Change Conference (COP26). The speakers will share reflections on the research they conducted at the conference and open... | |
Mar 2 2022 The Latest on Putin's Invasion: Voices from Kyiv12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for a panel discussion with three scholars from Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine and moderated by three REEE... | |
Mar 10 2022 Russia's War on Ukraine: The Ukrainian Resistance3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, No Location Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for a panel discussion and Q&A session with experts on the Ukrainian and Russian militaries. Panelists: Domin... | |
Mar 15 2022 Russia's War on Ukraine: Russian Public Opinion, Media, and Censorship12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES), the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, and the Center for Communications & Public Policy for a panel discussion about how the Russian public views the... | |
Mar 25 2022 Panel Discussion on Russia's War on Ukraine12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online This Friday will mark one month since Russia invaded Ukraine. Join us then to hear scholars on the ground in Ukraine, regional experts, and leaders in international law, humanitarian medicine, media studies, diplomacy and military strategy ... | |
Apr 11 2022 Russia's War on Ukraine: Assessing the Risks of Nuclear Confrontation or Accidents12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) and the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for a virtual panel discussion and Q&A session on the risks of nuclear confrontation or ... | |
Apr 12 2022 Right that Dares to Speak its Name: The Challenging Life of Sexual Minorities in Society10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Online A Zoom talk by Akkai Padmashali in conversation with Gayatri Reddy Akkai Padmashali is a transgender activist based in Bangalore, India, and the founder of Ondede, an organization working toward gender justice across social movements in Ind... | |
Apr 12 2022 TikTok Global Security Chief to Speak on Campus4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Please join us for a Fireside Chat on new and emerging security challenges for social media companies with Roland Cloutier, Global Chief Security Officer at TikTok, and V.S. Subrahmanian, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science at th... | |
Apr 15 2022 Screening of LEVIATHAN (2012) with filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel7:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston LEVIATHAN (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, 2012, 87 min, DCP digital) LEVIATHAN plunges viewers into the sights and sounds of a New England fishing vessel, using mobile cameras, audacious framing, and heavily treated audio to expl... | |
Apr 22 2022 Screening of MAKE A DISTINCTION (2021) and FIELD RESISTANCE (2019) with filmmakers conversation7:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston MAKE A DISTINCTION and FIELD RESISTANCE This program brings together two recent hybrid documentaries that prove that the botanical is political. In FIELD RESISTANCE, director Emily Drummer explores zones of contact between human and plant l... | |
Apr 28 2022 New Frontiers in Global Research Series: Education, Science, and Technology for a More Sustainable World12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston New Frontiers in Global Research series Education, Science, and Technology for a More Sustainable World Our next conversation sits at the intersection of education, science, and technology. Romain Murenzi (Director of The World Academy of S... | |
Apr 28 2022 Misalliance: Race, Caste, and the Rhetoric of Afro-Asian Comparison4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Online Tanya Agathocleous is Professor of English at Hunter College, at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research interests include Victorian literature and culture, modernist studies and twentieth-century literature, postcolonial liter... | |
May 2 2022 Optimizing Donations: Improving International Aid to Ukraine12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for this webinar to learn more about what Ukraine needs and what you can do to help. The Panelists include Ty... | |
May 5 2022 Is Caste a Useful Category of Global Analysis?4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston Ania Loomba is the Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary India... | |
May 6 2022 Virtual Fireside Chat with International Economics Expert Daleep Singh2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Online Please join us for a fireside chat with Daleep Singh, Deputy National Security Advisor for international economics and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. In this capacity, Mr. Singh coordinates the Administration’s policymaki... | |
May 16 2022 Fireside Chat with Foreign Policy Expert Fiona Hill4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Please note that the venue has been changed to: Lutkin Hall, 700 University Pl, Evanston, IL 60208 Please join us for a fireside chat with Fiona Hill, senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program... | |
May 18 2022 "A Struggle for Home: The Crimean Tatars" A documentary screening and Q&A with the filmmaker and journalism professor Christina Paschyn (NU-Qatar)6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Online Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program, the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for this virtual event. About the film: ... | |
May 25 2022 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Information Session2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston The 2023-24 Fulbright U.S. Scholar competition is now open, with over 400 different types of awards available. Please join us on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. CDT for a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program information session wi... | |
May 31 2022 Fireside Chat with International Legal Expert Najia Mahmodi12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston Please join us for a fireside chat with Northwestern Buffett Visiting Scholar and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Clinical Fellow Najia Mahmodi on Tuesday, May 31, 2022 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. CDT (GMT-5). Najia is a renowned lawyer foc... | |
Jun 1 2022 2022 Northwestern Buffett Idea Incubation Showcase4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston Over the last year, the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs has engaged more than 70 researchers from 27 Northwestern University departments and 9 Northwestern schools in its Idea Incubation Process. The process offers... | |
Jun 6 2022 Letters2Maybe Film Screening3:45 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston Join the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for a screening of Letters2Maybe, a new film from writer, filmmaker and poet Yehuda Sharim on Monday, June 6 from 3:45–5:30 at Hardin Hall (633 Clark Street Evanston, IL 60208). L... | |
Jun 7 2022 Crisis and Solidarity: A Conversation with Yehuda Sharim and Vilna Bashi Treitler12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston This event is part of the Northwestern Buffett Institute's New Frontiers in Global Research Initiative, through which we invite scholars, artists, and other cultural producers to discuss global challenges that necessitate international coop... | |
Aug 24 2022 Russia's War on Ukraine: Assessing the State of the Conflict Six Months On12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online RSVP to attend virtually via Zoom on Wednesday, August 24, 2022. Wednesday, August 24 will mark six months since Russia invaded Ukraine and Ukraine's Independence Day. Join the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and ... | |
Oct 11 2022 Turkish Jews and Their Diasporas: Entanglements and Separations12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Join the Northwestern Buffett Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and University of Copenhagen on October 11th at 12 p.m. CT (GMT-5) for the online launch of former Keyman Visiting Professor Kerem Oktem's new book, "Turkish-Jewish Entangl... | |
Oct 12 2022 Fireside Chat with with former U.S. ambassador Steven McGann12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston Please join the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for a fireside chat with former U.S. ambassador Steven McGann on Wednesday, October 12 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. CDT (GMT-5). Steven McGann, a retired Senior Foreign Service Of... | |
Oct 12 2022 Critical Caste and Gender Studies: Anecdotes from Teaching and Research4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston Both caste and gender oppression historically are unfinished stories of the present. Intersections between the two alter habits of historical narration that can transform our perspective on how to teach the past. Giving way to a different s... | |
Oct 20 2022 Conference on AI & National Security8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Evanston On October 20, the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and McCormick School of Engineering will host a Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) & National Security to mark the launch of the new Northwestern Security ... | |
Oct 28 2022 Gender and Artificial Intelligence: Striving for social justice and protection of rights in the age of AI4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston On October 28, the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs will host a global and interdisciplinary panel on Gender and Artificial Intelligence. Faculty from The University of Tokyo and Northwestern University will discus... | |
Oct 28 2022 Screening: Jai Bim Comrade (2011)6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston Directed by Anand Patwardhan , this acclaimed documentary film explores the role of the police in the Ramabai killings in 1997. And the lives of the Dalits in Mumbai. A conversation with Anand Patwardhan will take place after the scree... | |
Nov 2 2022 Understanding the Nationwide Demonstrations in Iran: A Northwestern Buffett Virtual Dialogue with Elham Hoominfar12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Last month, demonstrations erupted across Iran in response to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested and beaten by the Iranian “Morality Police” for improper veiling. Since Amini’s death, Iranian security forces have i... | |
Nov 2 2022 "A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps" Film Screening3:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Join the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for a screening of the film A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps on Wednesday, November 2 at 3:00 p.m. CDT in the Norris University Center's McCormick Auditorium. ... | |
Nov 11 2022 Race, Caste, and Failures of Comparison4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston Professor Goyal specializes in modern and contemporary literature and the study of race and postcolonialism, with a particular emphasis on African American and African literature. | |
Nov 15 2022 Women, Life, Freedom: A Roundtable on Iran11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Online Recently in Iran, a 22 year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa Jina Amini was arrested by the morality police for wearing an "inappropriate" hijab. She died three days later in a hospital on 16 September 2022, apparently from blows to her head. ... | |
Nov 15 2022 Creating Space for Gender Equity and Inclusivity in our Pedagogical Practices3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston From what we teach to how we teach, there are numerous opportunities in our pedagogical approaches to either include or exclude individuals and perspectives, and to either expose and examine bias or else to perpetuate it (knowingly or unkno... | |
Nov 16 2022 COP27: Partnerships for Indigenous and Marginalized Voices within Academia1:30 AM - 2:00 AM, Online On Wednesday, November 16 the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs will host a panel discussion on Partnerships for Indigenous and Marginalized Voices within Academia from 1:30-2:00 a.m. CST (UTC-6) / 9:30-10:00 a.m. EET (UTC+2) on ... | |
Dec 1 2022 Women Paving the Way in Diplomacy4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Please join the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for a panel discussion on women paving the way in diplomacy on December 1 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. CST (GMT-5), followed by a reception. This event is part of the Women... | |
Jan 9 2023 GLObal Co-Lab Vernissage5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston Led by the Northwestern Global Learning Office (GLO), the GLObal Co-Lab is a new peer-to-peer, collaborative learning opportunity for students studying abroad. During the pilot program this fall, 20 participating students collaborated to cr... | |
Jan 25 2023 Meridian 180 Forum: Local Knowledge and Community Participation in Disaster Response7:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Online Disasters affect us more frequently and severely than ever before. To save lives and mitigate the adverse impacts of disasters, local knowledge is an indispensable resource and a capacity that should be utilized in any disaster response, an... | |
Jan 26 2023 Infusing Care and Gender Equity Into Language Teaching12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online This session will explore the Equity/Care matrix and its gender implications for language teaching. We will discuss the praxis of Intentionally Equitable Hospitality and how it can be applied to enhance gender equity in the language classro... | |
Feb 21 2023 BHM Global Week "What's Poppin: Advice & Resources for Black Students"3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Evanston What's Poppin? is a bimonthly programming series highlighting Black Northwestern staff, faculty, and graduate/professional students' journey(s) and understanding of their role at the university. Through storytelling and casual dialogue, thi... | |
Feb 21 2023 One Year into Russia's Invasion: Will Justice Be Served? with Oona Hathaway4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston The week of the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, please join the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law for a Fireside Chat on delivering justice with Oona A. Hatha... | |
Feb 22 2023 Black History Month Global Week Keynote Speaker: Andrew Gordon6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston Andrew Gordon is an award-winning social impact entrepreneur and CEO & Founder of Includifi, an inclusion management software that helps organizations achieve their belonging and success goals. Prior to Includifi he was CEO of Diversity Abr... | |
Feb 23 2023 Black History Month Global Week: Traveling While Black Panel6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston Our panel of black travelers will discuss how identity and travel have intersected during their experiences exploring the world. The panel will discuss travel accessibility, cultural norms abroad, the increase of black travelers, obstacles,... | |
Feb 27 2023 Russia's War on Ukraine: Assessing the State of the Conflict One Year after Invasion (Online webinar event)12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, Online In recognition of the one year mark of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, join the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences' Russian, Eurasian, and East European Stu... | |
Mar 1 2023 Seminar on Imagining the Futures of Collaboration in Research1:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston The age-old mores of the academy can seem to conspire against our collaboration. The image of a single researcher, working individually to produce the next epoch-making idea, persists to a remarkable degree in how students are trained and s... | |
Mar 7 2023 Women's History Month with Sarah B. Rodriguez: From Population Control to Reproductive Rights4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston Sarah B. Rodriguez is an associate professor of instruction in Global Health Studies in the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, a lecturer in Medical Education in the Feinberg School of Medicine, and a faculty member of the Medical Humanit... | |
Mar 16 2023 Global Careers Speaker Series: A Conversation with Sam Kling9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, Online The Northwestern Buffett Institute's Global Career Speaker Series connects Northwestern PhD students with alumni and leaders across sectors for conversations on a wide range of exciting career paths in international affairs, policy and deve... | |
Apr 10 2023 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Lecture: Large-Scale Social Engineering in Egypt8:30 AM - 10:00 AM, Evanston As part of Northwestern University’s Fulbright Week, the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs will host a lecture from Dr. Amal Abdrabo, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University and Assistant Professor at Alexand... | |
Apr 10 2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Information Session12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Online Northwestern’s Fulbright Week (April 10–14, 2023) offers faculty, students and staff opportunities to learn about Fulbright grants, make new connections and increase their chances of a successful application. The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Prog... | |
Apr 11 2023 Info Session w/ CURRENT FELLOWS - Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Online Northwestern's Fulbright Week (April 10-14) offers faculty, students, and staff opportunities to learn about Fulbright grants available for travel abroad to conduct research, carry out professional projects, study or teach, and how to maxim... | |
Apr 11 2023 Info Session w/ CURRENT FELLOWS - Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Northwestern's Fulbright Week (April 10-14) offers faculty, students, and staff opportunities to learn about Fulbright grants available for travel abroad to conduct research, carry out professional projects, study or teach, and how to maxim... | |
Apr 11 2023 Northwestern Fulbright Week: Opening Reception and Keynote4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston Northwestern students, faculty, staff, visitors and alumni who are past, present and prospective Fulbright grantees are invited to a reception celebrating our Fulbright community and the power of cultural exchange. This event kicks off Nort... | |
Apr 12 2023 Fulbright Student Alumni Panel -- Study/Research Awardees12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Northwestern’s Fulbright Week (April 10–14) offers faculty, students and staff opportunities to learn about Fulbright grants available for travel abroad to conduct research, carry out professional projects, study or teach, and how to maximi... | |
Apr 13 2023 Fulbright Specialist Program Information Session with Northwestern Faculty Alum10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Online Interested in using your expertise to serve as an expert consultant and strengthen collaborations with overseas institutions? Faculty and senior administrators at Northwestern University are invited to join us for an in-depth look at the Fu... | |
Apr 13 2023 Fulbright vs. Peace Corps - what's right for you?12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston Northwestern's Fulbright Week (April 10-14) offers faculty, students, and staff opportunities to learn about Fulbright grants available for travel abroad to conduct research, carry out professional projects, study or teach, and how to maxim... | |
Apr 13 2023 Fulbright Study/Research Application Workshop4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Online Northwestern’s Fulbright Week (April 10–14) offers faculty, students and staff opportunities to learn about Fulbright grants available for travel abroad to conduct research, carry out professional projects, study or teach, and how to maximi... | |
Apr 14 2023 Symposium on Environmental Advocacy and Visual Culture9:30 AM - 4:30 PM, Evanston PRESENTERS 9:30 Phaedra Pezzullo, University of Colorado 11:00 Debra Hawhee, Penn State University 1:30 Finis Dunaway, Trent University 3:00 Ashley Cordes, University of Oregon | |
Apr 17 2023 "The Power of Language" Book Talk with Dr. Viorica Marian4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Online The Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs invites you to join us for a book talk on Monday, April 17 at 4 p.m. CDT (GMT-5) with Dr. Viorica Marian, the author of The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak and Li... | |
Apr 21 2023 Is The Coolie Woman A Banker?4:00 PM - 5:45 PM, Evanston “Is the Coolie Woman A Banker?” revisits the figure of the “coolie woman” during Indian indenture in the British West Indies. Histories of indentured Indian women have focused on the experience of recruitment, labor exploitation, and especi... | |
Apr 24 2023 The Arrest of Evan Gershkovich: Covering Russia at War, With New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief Anton Troianovski5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Please join the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications for a conversation with Anton Troianovski, Moscow Bureau Chief for The New... | |
May 1 2023 2023 Northwestern Buffett Idea Incubation Showcase4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston The Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs' annual Idea Incubation Process offers Northwestern faculty unique opportunities to explore global problems and workshop solutions alongside scholars from across disciplines as w... | |
May 5 2023 Screening and Discussion with The Otolith Group: "INFINITY minus infinity" (2019)7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston In their 2019 film, INFINITY minus infinity, the celebrated multi-disciplinary artist collective the Otolith Group contests the toxic sociopolitical histories that inform Black life in contemporary England. The film interrogates the “hostil... | |
May 22 2023 Learning to Unlearn: Education for Gender Transformative Futures12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston A lunch and lecture with Ashlee Burnett | Please register by May 18 The lecture will explore the coloniality of gender and its role in shaping masculinities that enable a culture of violence in the Caribbean. It will discuss the ongoing int... | |
May 22 2023 Fireside Chat with Beatrice Fihn, Former Director of the Nobel Peace Prize-Winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Please join the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for a fireside chat with Beatrice Fihn, former executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning ... | |
May 23 2023 Fireside Chat with Tymofii Brik, Rector at the Kyiv School of Economics in Ukraine and Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Please join the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for a fireside chat with Tymofii Brik, the Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies in the Northwestern Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences' Depart... | |
May 24 2023 Information Session: Apply to join the Northwestern delegation to COP282:45 PM - 3:30 PM, Online Northwestern University has observer status as an accredited nongovernmental organization with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and has sent delegations composed of faculty and graduate students to attend c... | |
May 25 2023 Media and Mental Health Symposium: Exploring Contemporary Representations of Madness, Melancholy and Trauma in Film and TelevisionAll day, Evanston Join us for this three-day symposium hosted by the Remaking Media and Mental Health Across Cultures Northwestern Buffett Global Catalyst Grant Group—which includes Rebecca Seligman, Peter Locke, Dave Tolchinsky and Kate Erskine—and the Nort... | |
May 26 2023 Media and Mental Health Symposium: Exploring Contemporary Representations of Madness, Melancholy and Trauma in Film and TelevisionAll day, Chicago Join us for this three-day symposium hosted by the Remaking Media and Mental Health Across Cultures Northwestern Buffett Global Catalyst Grant Group—which includes Rebecca Seligman, Peter Locke, Dave Tolchinsky and Kate Erskine—and the Nort... | |
May 27 2023 Media and Mental Health Symposium: Exploring Contemporary Representations of Madness, Melancholy and Trauma in Film and TelevisionAll day, Chicago Join us for this three-day symposium hosted by the Remaking Media and Mental Health Across Cultures Northwestern Buffett Global Catalyst Grant Group—which includes Rebecca Seligman, Peter Locke, Dave Tolchinsky and Kate Erskine—and the Nort... | |
Jun 14 2023 The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract8:00 AM - 9:00 AM, Online The contemporary Ethiopian state is, without question, facing enormous challenges, including the militarization of state and non-state actors, high population density accompanied by youth unemployment, food insecurity, inequality and discri... | |
Sep 11 2023 Fireside Chat with Professor Kohei Itoh, President of Keio University4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston The Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs invites you to join us for a Fireside Chat on Monday, September 11 at 4:00 p.m. CDT featuring Professor Kohei Itoh, President of Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, in conversation ... | |
Sep 22 2023 "The Global Rules of Art" Book Talk with Larissa Buchholz2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston The Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and the Northwestern School of Communication invite you to join us for a book talk on Friday, September 22 at 2:00 p.m. CDT with Larissa Buchholz, the author of the new book The ... | |
Sep 28 2023 Northwestern Buffett Lecture Featuring François Hollande4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Chicago Please join the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Villa Albertine for a lecture from François Hollande, the 24th President of France who served from 2012 to 2017. During the lecture, former President Hollande wil... | |
Oct 2 2023 Roadmapping the Clean Energy Transition1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston The Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy invite you to join us for a series of keynote presentations from leading faculty at Northwestern Univer... | |
Oct 3 2023 Roadmapping the Clean Energy Transition8:30 AM - 10:30 AM, Evanston The Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy invite you to join us for a series of keynote presentations from leading faculty at Northwestern Univer... | |
Oct 12 2023 Conference on AI & National Security8:15 AM - 6:00 PM, Evanston On October 12, the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and the Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering's Northwestern Security & AI Lab (NSAIL) will host its annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Nat... | |
Oct 25 2023 Afghanistan: What's Next for Women and Girls4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Nearly two years ago, the world watched in shock as the Taliban quickly and unexpectedly retook control of Afghanistan. The country’s rapid fall prompted a hasty evacuation and U.S. troop withdrawal following 20 years of war. Since then, th... | |
Nov 13 2023 The Way Home? Perspectives and Challenges of Ukrainian Refugees Living Abroad12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for the next virtual event of the series “East Meets West” where a panel of global and local experts on the U... | |
Dec 9 2023 Decarbonization Ecosystems: The Impact of University Partnerships8:30 AM - 10:00 AM, Online Kimberly Marion Suiseeya, Northwestern Buffett Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Political Science, will participate in this official side event at the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on... | |
Dec 11 2023 COP28 Event: If climate change is a shark, water is its teeth: How water insecurity data can mobilize action6:00 AM - 7:15 AM, Online Sera Young, Associate Professor of Anthropology, will lead a conversation during in this official side event at the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This side event wi... | |
Jan 22 2024 MENA Monday | NEW DIRECTIONS | Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston MENA welcomes Dr. Atef Said (University of Illinois Chicago), who will speak on his book, Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt. Lunch will be served at the event. In Revolution Squared Said ex... | |
Jan 24 2024 Global Futures of Education4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Education systems play a significant role in shaping our world. How might they be reimagined as the world's sociological, ecological and technological trajectories shift at an unprecedented rate? What role can education systems play in adva... | |
Jan 25 2024 100 Years Back, 100 Years Forward: Sovereignty, Community and Indigenous Futures8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) in partnership with the Pritzker School of Law at Northwestern University is excited to present a 2-day convening entitled “100 Years Back, 100 Years Forward: Sovereignty, Community... | |
Jan 29 2024 MENA Monday | Eklektik Berlinistan: Queer Pathways through Berlin's Middle Easts12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston MENA is excited to welcome DJ Ipek Ipekcioglu, in conversation with Emrah Yildiz, Northwestern University. Lunch will be served at the event. Home to one of the largest Middle East and North African diasporas in Europe, Berlin is also reno... | |
Jan 29 2024 Buffett Institute Faculty Open House5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for an open house to kick off the new year. All faculty are invited to come enjoy refreshments, small bites and conversation. We hope to see you there! | |
Jan 31 2024 Protest Music and Culture of Critique in Contemporary Turkey12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston What does protest music look and sound like in contemporary Turkey? How do understand this contemporary conjuncture within the broader history of music, dissent and critique in the cultural history of protest music? Internationally renowned... | |
Jan 31 2024 Protest Music and Culture of Critique in Contemporary Turkey Reception4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program, DJ and queer activist Ipek Ipekcioglu, and Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow Kenan Sharpe for a reception following "Protest Music and Culture of Critique in Contemporary Turkey" from 4:30-6:30 PM CS... | |
Feb 2 2024 Buffett Faculty Lunch: China12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston In the next few months, the Buffett Institute will be hosting thematic lunches for Northwestern faculty members. Please join us on Friday, February 2 if you'd like to meet colleagues with a shared interest in China. | |
Feb 5 2024 MENA | Virtual Roundtable | Uneven and Sedimented Disasters in Libya and Morocco12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online MENA is pleased to present a roundtable discussion on Zoom, featuring Brahim El Guabli (Williams College), Hamza Hamouchene (Transnational Institute), and Lydia Barnett (Northwestern University). The discussion will be moderated by Ekin Ku... | |
Feb 8 2024 Buffett Institute Open House for Undergraduates4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs offers students a variety of opportunities to deepen their understanding of people and places around the world. You can get involved in a faculty member’s international research project, go abroad, w... | |
Feb 8 2024 PALESTINE 101 | Music Making in the West Bank from 1973 to Oslo: Identity, Agency, and Innovation5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston MENA welcomes musician Issa Boulos for this lecture in the Palestine in Context series. The period from 1973 to 1993 was significant for the music scene in the West Bank. Palestinian musical output changed significantly after 1967 when Isra... | |
Feb 12 2024 PALESTINE 101 | Building Coalitions for Justice in Gaza & Beyond--An Intergenerational Conversation6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston The impressive local activism we have recently witnessed calling for an end to violence and a just peace in Israel and Palestine did not spring out of thin air. Rather, it built on relationships that evolved over a long period in Chicago an... | |
Feb 16 2024 Buffett Faculty Lunch: International Migrations12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston In the next few months, the Buffett Institute will be hosting thematic lunches for Northwestern faculty members. Please join us on Friday, February 16 if you'd like to meet colleagues with a shared interest in international migrations. | |
Feb 16 2024 "Electrifying Indonesia" Book Talk with Anto Mohsin4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston The Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs invites you to join us for a book talk on Friday, February 16 at 4:00 p.m. with Anto Mohsin, author of the new book Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in Natio... | |
Feb 20 2024 Beyond the Headlines: Contextualizing United Nations Climate Negotiations12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston Ever wondered what the world is truly doing about climate change? Why Dubai hosted a climate conference, and whether the United Nations can make genuine progress on climate change? Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP by February 12 to en... | |
Feb 20 2024 Buffett Institute Open House for Graduate Students5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs is an intellectual community for graduate students who work on international and global topics. At our events, you can meet colleagues with shared interests beyond your department and learn about cut... | |
Feb 22 2024 "Resisting the Russian Invasion: What Comes Next?: A Conversation with Tymofiy Mylovanov" (Hybrid Event)12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program and The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs as they host Tymofiy Mylovanov, President of the Kyiv School of Economics and former Minister of Economic Developmen... | |
Feb 29 2024 Buffett Lecture Featuring Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Chicago Please join the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Pritzker School of Law for a lecture from Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, Distinguished International Jurist at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law and Special Advisor to the Pre... | |
Mar 1 2024 Buffett Faculty Lunch: Africa12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston In the next few months, the Buffett Institute will be hosting thematic lunches for Northwestern faculty members. Please join us on Friday, March 1 if you'd like to meet colleagues with a shared interest in Africa. | |
Mar 4 2024 Buffett Faculty Lunch: Democratic Institutions12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston In the next few months, the Buffett Institute will be hosting thematic lunches for Northwestern faculty members. Please join us on Friday, March 4 if you'd like to meet colleagues with a shared interest in democratic institutions. | |
Mar 4 2024 International Women’s Day Poster Exhibition: Portraits of Remarkable Women from Different Languages and Cultures5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston Join the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences' Council on Language Instruction (CLI) and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs' Language Curricula and Gender Equity Working Group for the inaugural reception of their International Women’... | |
Mar 8 2024 International Women's Day Celebration12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, No Location On March 8th of every year, people around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. This year’s theme is “inspire inclusion.” The goal is to raise awareness about discrimination; and to motivate people everywhere to push for the buildi... | |
Mar 9 2024 LIVE SET PERFORMANCE / DANCE PARTY - DJ İpek İpekçioğlu9:30 PM - 11:30 PM, Evanston Dance to the tunes of internationally renowned music producer, DJ, and queer activist İpek İpekçioğlu in a live-set performance! Ipek will play a mix of Middle Eastern, Kurdish, North African, psychedelic Turkish funk, Anatolian folk and ot... | |
Mar 26 2024 Faithful to the Salt: Mayalee Dancing Girl vs. the East India Company: A talk by Katherine Schofield (King's College, London)4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston Please join the South Asia Research Forum for a talk given by Katherine Schofield, Department of Music (King's College, London). This event is co-sponsored by The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Abstract: In 1818, the East In... | |
Mar 29 2024 Animal Welfare and Climate Change: Intersections and Parallels Symposium8:30 AM - 5:30 PM, Chicago Northwestern Pritzker Law, the Program on Food and Animal Law and Sustainability and the Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center present a Symposium on "Animal Welfare and Climate Change: Intersections and Parallels." We are grateful to... | |
Apr 3 2024 "Free to Judge" Book Talk with Michael S. Kang & Joanna M. Shepherd4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs invites you to join us for a book talk on Wednesday, April 3 at 4:00 p.m. with Michael S. Kang and Joanna M. Shepherd, co-authors of the new book Free to Judge: The Power of Campaign Money in Judicia... | |
Apr 4 2024 Late Ottoman Palestine | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves with basic questions about actors, geography, contested narratives and even the words used to describe what is ha... | |
Apr 5 2024 Inside Putin's Russia4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston What do Russians think about the war in Ukraine? How are they reacting to sanctions? In a recent cover story for Harper's Magazine, journalist Marzio Mian and photographer Alessandro Cosmelli tell the surprising story of what they discovere... | |
Apr 8 2024 Myers Symposium Keynote: Tim Barringer (Yale University), "Art/Music/Empire/War: London and India 1910-14"5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Myers Symposium, "Objects, Histories, Archives: The Late Mughal Empire and Britain’s Company-Raj 1707-1911.” Public presentation and Q&A: 5-6:30 pm Reception: 6:30-7 pm | |
Apr 9 2024 Fulbright ETA Info Session - Susanna Kemp and Maayan Abouzaglo (Spain)12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Are you interested in teaching English abroad on a Fulbright? Meet Susanna Kemp and Maayan Abouzaglo, current Fulbrighters in Spain. Also meet Amy Kehoe, NU's campus contact for Fulbright teaching awards. Get your questions answered! | |
Apr 9 2024 Northwestern Fulbright Week Opening Reception & Keynote Address4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for a reception celebrating Northwestern's Fulbright community and the transformative power of cultural exchange, marking the beginning of Northwestern's Fulbright Week. We are delighted to have... | |
Apr 9 2024 Zionisms: Variations on a Theme | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves with basic questions about actors, geography, contested narratives and even the words used to describe what is ha... | |
Apr 10 2024 Fulbright ETA Info Session - Anor Chen, Cindy Mei, Sonia Peters (Taiwan)9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, Online Are you interested in teaching English abroad on a Fulbright? Meet Nuo (Anor) Chen, current Fulbrighter in Taiwan. Also meet Amy Kehoe, NU's campus contact for Fulbright teaching awards. Get your questions answered! | |
Apr 10 2024 Fulbright Study/Research & Arts Information Meeting9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, Evanston Interested in Fulbright Study/Research & Arts Awards? Attend this meeting to learn how Fulbright can transform your life and pursuits. You will hear about the history of the Fulbright program, understand the core values that animate the F... | |
Apr 10 2024 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Lecture: Teacher & Child Agency in the Irish Elementary School Curriculum12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston School curricula are centrally important in framing children’s learning experiences and outcomes. But given how centralized and prescriptive school curricula have been historically, how can we now place greater emphasis on both child and te... | |
Apr 10 2024 Staff Engagement Opportunities with Fulbright3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Evanston As part of Northwestern's Fulbright Week activities, this panel presentation focuses on different ways and opportunities for Northwestern staff members to get involved with the US Fulbright program. Previous awardees of the International Ed... | |
Apr 10 2024 Fulbright ETA Info Session - Ella Bartt (Mexico)5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Online Are you interested in teaching English abroad on a Fulbright? Meet Ella Bartt, current Fulbrighter in Mexico. Also meet Amy Kehoe, NU's campus contact for Fulbright teaching awards. Get your questions answered! | |
Apr 11 2024 Fulbright ETA Info Session - Sophi Pennex (Vietnam)10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Online Are you interested in teaching English abroad on a Fulbright? Meet Sophi Pennex, current Fulbrighter in Vietnam. Also meet Amy Kehoe, NU's campus contact for Fulbright teaching awards. Get your questions answered! | |
Apr 11 2024 Fulbright US Student Program GPS Session1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online Fulbright U.S. Student Group Presentation Sessions (GPS) feature Fulbright Staff and Alumni Ambassadors who present general information about the Program’s history, eligibility, award types, award benefits, and application components. They... | |
Apr 11 2024 Fulbright Research/Study/Arts Application Workshop4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Interested in pursuing research, study, or the arts abroad? Attend an application workshop to learn about the Fulbright application process at Northwestern. We will discuss application components and successful application strategies. You d... | |
Apr 15 2024 Buffett Faculty Lunch: War and Peace12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston In the next few months, the Buffett Institute will be hosting thematic lunches for Northwestern faculty members. Please join us on Monday, April 15 if you'd like to meet colleagues with a shared interest in war and peace. | |
Apr 15 2024 World War I & European Intervention: Origins of the Palestine Mandate | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves with basic questions about actors, geography, contested narratives and even the words used to describe what is ha... | |
Apr 16 2024 Information Session: Student Research Opportunity at COP291:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston Are you a Northwestern student interested in climate change or global environmental governance? Would you like to attend the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change? Join us for an... | |
Apr 17 2024 "Chronicle of the Cassava Flour," a Hausa Ajami Poem by Shaykh Abubakar Atiƙu: Humorous Play, Historical Chronicle, or Sufi Allusion? - Andrea Brigaglia12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston A talk by Andrea Brigaglia, University of Naples, "L'Orientale." You may join the talk in person (lunch will be served) or by Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/3cey9k2a Advance registration is required for Zoom participation. Abstract: In discuss... | |
Apr 17 2024 Buffett Institute Open House for Undergraduates4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs offers undergraduates a variety of opportunities to engage with the world. You can study abroad through our Global Learning Office, learn about and contribute to international development through our... | |
Apr 19 2024 Buffett Faculty Lunch: Translation and the Global Library12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston In the next few months, the Buffett Institute will be hosting thematic lunches for Northwestern faculty members. Please join us on Friday, April 19 if you'd like to meet colleagues with a shared interest in translation and the global librar... | |
Apr 24 2024 I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America - Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston A talk by Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst about their recent book, I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). You may join the talk in person (lunch will be served) or b... | |
Apr 25 2024 Foundations of Palestinian Nationalism | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Online Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves with basic questions about actors, geography, contested narratives and even the words used to describe what is ha... | |
Apr 29 2024 Screening & Discussion of "The Fly Back: Restoring Territorial Rights in the Ucayali Basin" with Reynaldo Morales3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Join us for a film screening of Dr. Reynaldo Antonio Morales’ latest documentary film, The Fly Back: Restoring Territorial Rights in the Ucayali Basin. Dr. Morales is a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University's Roberta Buffett Institute f... | |
May 2 2024 "Evil Eyes Sea" Book Talk with Özge Samancı4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs invites you to join us for a book talk on Thursday, May 2 at 4:00 p.m. with Özge Samancı, author of the new graphic novel Evil Eyes Sea. The program will feature a discussion with playwright and visu... | |
May 3 2024 Buffett Faculty Lunch: Global Infrastructures: Digital & Physical12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston In the next few months, the Buffett Institute will be hosting thematic lunches for Northwestern faculty members. Please join us on Friday, May 3 if you'd like to meet colleagues with a shared interest in global infrastructures, both physica... | |
May 3 2024 THE HILLS (2023) with Ines Sommer7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston THE HILLS (Ines Sommer, 2023, 43 min, digital) At the edge of Chicago, where the steel mills once operated, sits an abandoned toxic slag hill that's been harming people, wildlife, and waterways for decades. Set against a backdrop of urban w... | |
May 6 2024 The 1948 War | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Please note the location for this lecture in the series has changed. It will now take place in the Lake Room (#2-180) in the Norris University Center at 1999 Campus Drive. Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestin... | |
May 7 2024 Science & Storytelling with Dr. Jessica Wade4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Diverse science teams do better research that is more highly cited, more impactful, more reflective of the societies it serves. However, the representation of women scientists in America – and around the world – is still extraordinarily low... | |
May 8 2024 In Search of "Tunga": Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town - André Chappatte12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston A talk by André Chappatte (Global Studies, University of Geneva) about his recent book, In Search of Tunga: Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town (University of Michigan Press, 2022). You may join the tal... | |
May 8 2024 Lecture & Demonstration: Dhrupad Music with Visiting Scholar & Artist-in-Residence S. Anand4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston Hosted by the Buffett Institute’s Race, Caste and Colorism Global Working Group, visiting scholar and artist-in-residence S. Anand is an Indian author, publisher and journalist. He co-founded Navayana Publishing, anindependent anti-caste pu... | |
May 8 2024 The Twilight of Democracy: Buffett Lecture with Anne Applebaum5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Please join Northwestern University's Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and the Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America representing the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine for a lecture by Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize... | |
May 9 2024 Concert | The Sa of Equality: Dhammapada in Dhrupad7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Off-Campus Hosted by the Buffett Institute’s Race, Caste and Colorism Global Working Group, visiting scholar and artist-in-residence S. Anand is an Indian author, publisher and journalist. He co-founded Navayana Publishing, an independent anti-caste ... | |
May 10 2024 Come Eat With Me: Performance by Sri Vamsi Matta5:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston Join us for this event co-hosted by the Buffett Institute’s Race, Caste and Colorism Global Working Group. Come Eat With Me is a performance piece by Sri Vamsi Matta that explores the relationship between caste and food while sharing a meal... | |
May 11 2024 Staged Reading & Conversation: "Star in the Sky" with Sri Vamsi Matta12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Off-Campus At this event co-hosted by the Buffett Institute’s Race, Caste and Colorism Global Working Group, performance artist Sri Vamsi Matta will join Translators’ Adda— a workshop series for discussion of translated texts from South Asia establish... | |
May 13 2024 Buffett Faculty Lunch: Global Poverty & Development12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston In the next few months, the Buffett Institute will be hosting thematic lunches for Northwestern faculty members. Please join us on Friday, February 16 if you'd like to meet colleagues with a shared interest in global poverty and development... | |
May 15 2024 Competing for Hearts and Minds in Central Asia: Great Power Competition Between China, Russia and the United States.10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Online The "East Meets West" scholar series of Northwestern University's Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES), the Center for Communication and Public Policy (CCPP) at the School of Communication, the Buffett Insti... | |
May 15 2024 Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria - Rabiat Akande12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston A talk by Rabiat Akande (law, York University) about her recent book, Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria (Cambridge University Press, 2023). You may attend the talk in person (lunch will be served) or join by Zo... | |
May 15 2024 35 Years of Journalism in Cameroon: Buffett Book Talk with Haman Mana4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Join us for a Buffett Book Talk featuring Cameroonian journalist and author Haman Mana in conversation with Louise Kiernan, Professor and Director of Strategic Initiatives at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Media, Int... | |
May 15 2024 Counterinsurgent: Art Historian T.J. Demos on Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston he Block Museum and the Climate Crisis + Media Arts Working group welcome art historian and author T.J. Demos for a lecture entitled "Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform." If, as Olúfẹ́mi O. Tá... | |
May 16 2024 Epistemic Reparations and Carceral Injustice7:00 AM - 7:00 PM, Off-Campus View the full conference schedule >> We live in a world riddled with carceral injustice, from coerced false confessions and wrongful convictions to decades in solitary confinement and unsafe living conditions in prisons. This workshop exami... | |
May 16 2024 Chinese Diaspora in Spain: Introducing Qingtianese Heritage12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston Artist, graphic novelist, and podcaster, Quan Zhou, will address stereotypes and discuss the diversity and identity within the Chinese diaspora. Lunch will be provided. | |
May 16 2024 Poetry Reading & Dialogue on Anti-caste Publishing with a/nil4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston Hosted by the Buffett Institute’s Race, Caste and Colorism Global Working Group, visiting scholar and artist-in-residence a/nil is a professor and poet from Kerala, and the author of poetry collection The Absent Color, the first book to be ... | |
May 17 2024 Epistemic Reparations and Carceral Injustice7:00 AM - 7:00 PM, Off-Campus View the full conference schedule >> We live in a world riddled with carceral injustice, from coerced false confessions and wrongful convictions to decades in solitary confinement and unsafe living conditions in prisons. This workshop exami... | |
May 17 2024 Buffett Faculty Lunch: Global Inequality, Human Rights & Social Justice12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston In the next few months, the Buffett Institute will be hosting thematic lunches for Northwestern faculty members. Please join us on Friday, May 17 if you'd like to meet colleagues with shared interest in global inequality, human rights and s... | |
May 17 2024 "Out of the Darkness: The Germans from 1942 to the Present" Buffett Book Talk with Frank Trentmann4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston Germany today is undergoing a crisis of identity. The Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022 prompted Chancellor Olaf Scholz to announce a “Zeitenwende,” an era of change, but Germany’s place in the world remains unclear. Once lauded as... | |
May 18 2024 Epistemic Reparations and Carceral Injustice7:00 AM - 7:00 PM, Off-Campus View the full conference schedule >> We live in a world riddled with carceral injustice, from coerced false confessions and wrongful convictions to decades in solitary confinement and unsafe living conditions in prisons. This workshop exami... | |
May 20 2024 Thousands Protesting Their Governments in Armenia and Georgia: What's Going On? (Virtual Event)12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Please join the Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies research program and the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies program in an online panel discussion to discuss the dramatic developments in Georgia and Armenia. In the volatile South Cauc... | |
May 21 2024 Post-1948 Transformations I: The Nakba & Palestinian Identity | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves with basic questions about actors, geography, contested narratives and even the words used to describe what is ha... | |
May 21 2024 Advancing Gender Equity through Language Curricula4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston Gender bias in educational contexts remains a pressing and pernicious issue worldwide. A United Nations global monitoring report issued in 2020 identified removing stereotypes and gender bias from teaching and learning materials as one of t... | |
May 22 2024 F-1 & J-1 Visa Webinar & Q&A11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Online Webinar for newly admitted Northwestern Students with former U.S. Visa Officer and Immigration Attorney, Mandy Feuerbacher, Esq. Join us in a special 1-hour webinar and Q&A for Northwestern University’s newly admitted undergraduate and grad... | |
May 29 2024 Post-1948 Transformations II: Arab-Jews before & after Israeli Statehood | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Please note that the location for this lecture in the series has changed. This event will take place in the Wildcat Room (#1-163) in Norris, at the same time and date (May 29 at 5:00 p.m.). Since this fall, intense attention has turned to I... | |
May 31 2024 Keyman 2024 Annual Conference: Looking Turk-ish: A Modern Identity Reframed DAY 19:00 AM - 8:00 PM, Evanston Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program convenes a conference around a chosen theme. This year's conference will be dedicated to the role of visual objects and technologies in the making of modern Turkish identity, and it will ... | |
Jun 1 2024 Keyman 2024 Annual Conference: Looking Turk-ish: A Modern Identity Reframed DAY 29:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Evanston Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program convenes a conference around a chosen theme. This year's conference will be dedicated to the role of visual objects and technologies in the making of modern Turkish identity, and it will ... | |
Oct 1 2024 Buffett Institute Faculty Open House4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston Faculty are invited to an open house reception at 720 University Place, the Buffett Institute’s new home base on campus before we move to the Jacobs Center in a few years. Please join us to hear more about Buffett’s new faculty opportunitie... | |
Oct 2 2024 Buffett Faculty Lunch: Multilingualism12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts thematic lunches for Northwestern faculty members. Please join us on Wednesday, October 2 if you'd like to meet colleagues with a shared interest in multilingualism. Co-hosted with the Language... | |
Oct 2 2024 Șarık Tara Memorial Lecture: "The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina"4:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Off-Campus Join KMTS and Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Rutgers University, Newark, for the Șarık Tara Memorial Lecture on October 2, 2024 at 4:30PM CST in the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Room 3029. A reception will follow from 6:00PM- 8:00PM CST. | |
Oct 3 2024 "Resisting the Russian Invasion: What Comes Next?: A Conversation with Tymofiy Mylovanov"4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program and The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs as they host Tymofiy Mylovanov, President of the Kyiv School of Economics and former Minister of Economic Developmen... | |
Oct 4 2024 Buffett First Friday Lunch: Karen Alter, "How Academics Can Work in Government & Contribute to US Export Control Understandings”12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute is launching a new faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members will give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, facult... | |
Oct 4 2024 The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms Buffett Book Talk with Paul Gowder4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a book talk on Friday, October 4 at 4:00 p.m. with Paul Gowder, author of "The Networked Leviathan" (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Governments and consumers expect internet platform companies to regulate ... | |
Oct 7 2024 Screening & Discussion: Waves Across the Pacific (1967)3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston In 1963, Dr. Walter Munk and colleagues at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego conducted an experiment tracing the course of waves and wave energy from their origins in Antarctica to the shores... | |
Oct 8 2024 Lunch Seminar with Readings from "A Book of Waves" Featuring Author Stefan Helmreich12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston In A Book of Waves, Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherla... | |
Oct 8 2024 International Law in Turbulent Times: What Makes a Difference? Buffett Conversation with Anne-Marie Slaughter4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Evanston You're invited to join us for a Buffett Conversation with Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of the think and action tank New America and former Director of Policy Planning in the U.S. State Department. In a wide-ranging discussion moderated by Kare... | |
Oct 8 2024 "Waves Dangerous, Domesticated & Diagnostic" with Anthropologist & Ocean Studies Scholar Stefan Helmreich (MIT)5:00 PM - 6:15 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute's Shifting Shorelines Global Working Group for a public talk by anthropologist and ocean studies scholar Stefan Helmreich (MIT). Ocean waves of relentless approach have long been objects of apprehension and fear. ... | |
Oct 9 2024 Coffee Hour with Buffett International Spouse and Family Program10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us for a Coffee Hour, hosted by the Buffett Institute. This event provides a warm, inclusive space for connection and cultur... | |
Oct 10 2024 Buffett Afternoon Tea: Global Abortion Rights Champions3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute invites Northwestern students to an afternoon tea for discussion with leading strategists, researchers and activists championing abortion rights around the world. Join us to learn about their career paths and experienc... | |
Oct 11 2024 Abortion Access Today: Global Insights & ComparisonsAll day, Evanston While dozens of countries have liberalized laws governing access to abortion over the past quarter-century, a handful of nations have reversed course, including the U.S. Today, two in five women of reproductive age live in countries with re... | |
Oct 17 2024 Conference on AI & National SecurityAll day, Evanston Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly integral to national and global security strategies. How are researchers leveraging AI to help predict terrorist attacks, reshape terror group behavior and combat misinformation? How cou... | |
Oct 21 2024 Buffett Faculty Lunch: Community-Engaged Research in a Global Context12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts thematic lunches for Northwestern faculty members. Please join us on Monday, October 21 if you'd like to meet colleagues with a shared interest in community-engaged research in a global context... | |
Oct 22 2024 Richard W. Leopold Lecture | 68th Secretary of State John Kerry5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston The 35th Annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture will be delivered by 68th U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who will discuss Geopolitics and Global Business: Navigating the Future, on October 22, 2024, at 5 pm CT at Cahn Auditorium. A moderat... | |
Oct 23 2024 Coffee Hour with Buffett International Spouse and Family Program10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us for a Coffee Hour, hosted by the Buffett Institute. This event provides a warm, inclusive space for connection and cultur... | |
Oct 24 2024 Women Life Freedom: A Transnational Feminist Dialogue on Social Movements and Solidarities2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston This dialogue brings together feminist scholars and social activists from Iran and the United States to think together about progressive social movements and solidarities across global contexts. The impetus for this event emerged following ... | |
Oct 26 2024 In Conversation with the Former President of Costa Rica: Carlos Alvarado Quesada (Chicago Humanities Festival)11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston This event is presented in partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival. From May 2018 to May 2022, Carlos Alvarado Quesada served as the 48th President of the Republic of Costa Rica. Under his leadership, Costa Rica contributed to glob... | |
Oct 26 2024 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey in Conversation (Chicago Humanities Festival)11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston This event is presented by the Chicago Humanities Festival. Chicago Humanities Festival's Northwestern Day is presented in partnership with the Buffett Institute. Natasha Trethewey is a tour de force of poetry. She is also a Pulitzer Prize ... | |
Oct 26 2024 Dr. Maayan Hilel on Cultural Entwinement and Transformation (Chicago Humanities Festival)1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Evanston This event is presented in partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival. Dr. Maayan Hilel, Assistant Director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish & Israel Studies and Assistant Professor of Instruction in Jewish & Israel Studies, join... | |
Oct 26 2024 Barry Sonnenfeld: Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time—True Stories From a Career in Hollywood (Chicago Humanities Festival)2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston This event is presented by the Chicago Humanities Festival. Chicago Humanities Festival's Northwestern Day is presented in partnership with the Buffett Institute. The legendary director of Men in Black, Get Shorty, and The Addams Family dis... | |
Oct 26 2024 John Green and Rebecca Makkai in Conversation (Chicago Humanities Festival)2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston This event is presented by the Chicago Humanities Festival. Chicago Humanities Festival's Northwestern Day is presented in partnership with the Buffett Institute. John Green (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed) and Rebecca Ma... | |
Oct 26 2024 Michelangelo Sabatino: The Edith Farnsworth House (Chicago Humanities Festival)2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston This event is presented by the Chicago Humanities Festival. Chicago Humanities Festival's Northwestern Day is presented in partnership with the Buffett Institute. The Edith Farnsworth House, one of the most famous residences in modern archi... | |
Oct 26 2024 Wendy Pearlman on the New Syrian Diaspora (Chicago Humanities Festival)3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Evanston This event is presented in partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival. Since the 2011 uprising evolved into a brutal war, millions of Syrians have been forced to flee their homes. Northwestern Professor of Political Science Wendy Pear... | |
Oct 26 2024 Kaveh Akbar: Seeking Meaning in Faith, Art, and Others (Chicago Humanities Festival)4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston This event is presented by the Chicago Humanities Festival. Chicago Humanities Festival's Northwestern Day is presented in partnership with the Buffett Institute. "Nothing short of miraculous.” That’s how The New York Times describes Kaveh ... | |
Oct 26 2024 Writing on Eggshells: Political Comedy Cracked Up (Chicago Humanities Festival)4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston This event is presented by the Chicago Humanities Festival. Chicago Humanities Festival's Northwestern Day is presented in partnership with the Buffett Institute. What’s it like to write for the most popular late-night comedy shows in Ameri... | |
Oct 29 2024 It’s Getting Hotter: Let’s Beat the Heat Together! Community Meeting9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Off-Campus It’s Getting Hotter: Let’s Beat the Heat Together! Share your knowledge of how rising temperatures impact you, your family and community through small group discussions. Contribute to the creation of a Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) to iden... | |
Oct 29 2024 Buffett Institute Undergraduate Open House4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston We've moved! Come join us for an open house to see the Buffett Institute's new space. We'll have cuisines from around the world and tell you more about our opportunities for students to engage globally. You can contribute to international d... | |
Oct 30 2024 Book Launch Event: Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders by Emrah Yildiz (Anthropology & MENA Studies)3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston Please join us for the book launch event for Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders. Emrah Yıldız (Anthropology & MENA Studies) will read from Zainab's Traffic, followed by a three-way conversation with Alireza D... | |
Oct 31 2024 Graduate Student Political Theory Workshop: "Contesting Narratives: Myth, Memory, and Histories" Conference8:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Evanston The Northwestern Graduate Student Political Theory Conference is a biennial conference that invites graduate students and a keynote speaker to convene with the Northwestern political theory community around a given theme. Building on poli... | |
Nov 1 2024 Graduate Student Political Theory Workshop: "Contesting Narratives: Myth, Memory, and Histories" Conference8:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Evanston The Northwestern Graduate Student Political Theory Conference is a biennial conference that invites graduate students and a keynote speaker to convene with the Northwestern political theory community around a given theme. Building on politi... | |
Nov 1 2024 Buffett First Friday Lunch: Fabián E. Bustamante, "Government Hosting and the Challenge of Digital Sovereignty in Today’s Internet"12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute is launching a new faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members will give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, facult... | |
Nov 1 2024 Auditing Google Search Results for Human Rights2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, No Location Please join the International Relations Speaker Series for a presentation by Prof. Rochelle Terman, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago. Research on international norms emphasizes the role of informat... | |
Nov 1 2024 Remittance as Belonging Buffett Book Talk with Hasan Mahmud4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a book talk on Friday, November 1 at 4:00 p.m. with Hasan Mahmud, author of Remittance as Belonging: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home (Rutgers University Press, 2024). Remittance as ... | |
Nov 6 2024 Coffee Hour with Buffett International Spouse and Family Program10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us for a Coffee Hour, hosted by the Buffett Institute. This event provides a warm, inclusive space for connection and cultur... | |
Nov 11 2024 What Next? The Global Implications of the New U.S. Administration12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston In the aftermath of the election, students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Buffett Institute for a lunchtime discussion on the sorts of foreign policy and international plans we're likely to see from the newly elected presidentia... | |
Nov 11 2024 The Future of Diplomacy: Preparing the Next Generation of Diplomats4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Evanston Join us for a Buffett Conversation with acclaimed author and journalist Nicholas Kralev, Executive Director of the Washington International Diplomatic Academy. Over his 20 years of experience covering international affairs, Kralev witnessed... | |
Nov 13 2024 Buffett Institute Open House for Graduate Students4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, No Location Join us for an open house to see the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs' new space and learn about our opportunities and programming for graduate students. We offer funding through international research and conference awards as well as l... | |
Nov 15 2024 The Next Generation of Global Citizens: Buffett Institute’s Role in International Education9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, Evanston Presented in Partnership with Northwestern Leadership Symposium Deborah Cohen is executive director of the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and the Richard W. Leopold Professor, Department of History. Join us as she... | |
Nov 15 2024 Survival of the Fit: Coloniality, Playful Resistance, and Transnational Gym Life in El Salvador12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Prof. Noelle Brigden, Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. Body Geopolitics looks through the lens of fitness to tell the story of El Salvador ... | |
Nov 18 2024 Ukraine Policy in a Second Trump Administration: Prospects and Challenges : A panel discussion (Hybrid Event)4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Evanston Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) for this panel discussion. Description: President-elect Trump has criticized the Biden administration for giving Ukraine a “blank check” in military aid, ... | |
Nov 19 2024 Global Attitudes in an Era of Democratic Anxiety with Richard Wike4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Evanston Almost half of the world’s population will vote in national elections in 2024, yet numerous studies in recent years have documented the declining health of democracy in nations. At the same time, cross-national surveys have highlighted grow... | |
Nov 19 2024 Warnock Lecture Series: Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths, University of London)5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Fall 2024 Warnock Lecture, presented by the Department of Art History. Lecture: 5:00—6:30 pm Reception: 6:30—7:30 pm Please note that this event will take place on a Tuesday, rather than the usual Wednesday time slot. | |
Nov 20 2024 Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Dinara Urazova10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Off-Campus The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research to globally engaged faculty and fellow students. In our first colloquium of the year, Political Science PhD candidate Dinara Ur... | |
Nov 20 2024 Coffee Hour with Buffett International Spouse and Family Program10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us for a Coffee Hour, hosted by the Buffett Institute. This event provides a warm, inclusive space for connection and cultur... | |
Nov 22 2024 Buffett Faculty Lunch: Islam & Muslim Societies12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston We invite faculty from all humanities and social sciences disciplines with research interests in Islam and Muslim societies (all time periods and geographies, including global Islam and Muslim diaspora) to join us for a Buffett Faculty Lunc... | |
Nov 27 2024 Buffett Graduate Student Workshop: Research Communication10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts workshops for graduate students seeking to sharpen their academic and professional skills. The first workshop of the year will focus on effective research communication. Leading this session ar... | |
Dec 4 2024 Coffee Hour with Buffett International Spouse and Family Program10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us for a Coffee Hour, hosted by the Buffett Institute. This event provides a warm, inclusive space for connection and cultur... | |
Dec 5 2024 Lunch, Learn, Engage- Building a Heat Vulnerability Index with Community12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, No Location In this fifth of a series of meetings (3 online, one in-person), we will report back on what the research team has heard from community, review how that information is being incorporated into building the HVI, and hold an open discussion ab... | |
Dec 6 2024 Buffett First Friday Lunch: Sara Huston, “Harnessing the Power of DNA for Family Reunification”12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, No Location Join the Buffett Institute for a new faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members will give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty a... | |
Jan 10 2025 Buffett First Friday Lunch: Jeff Eden, “How Persian Slaves Freed Themselves in 19th-Century Central Asia: Two Case-Studies of Emancipation”12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk on the first Friday of the winter quarter. Faculty members will give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty and s... | |
Jan 13 2025 Conflict Resolution in Turbulent Times4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs has launched a yearlong initiative focused on international diplomacy in turbulent times. The series will include a conflict resolution workshop led by Professor Nour Kteily, Co-Director of the Cente... | |
Jan 16 2025 Buffett Symposium on AI & GeopoliticsAll day, Evanston AI may soon become a key driver of geopolitical competition, with countries vying for technological supremacy and economic dominance. The potential of AI technologies to revolutionize industries, enhance military capabilities and shape soci... | |
Jan 21 2025 The Politics of Enumeration in Global Health & Development with Cal Biruk4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Join us for this mini-lecture followed by a discussion with Cal Biruk (Anthropology, McMaster University), moderated by Diego Arispe-Bazán (Anthropology, Northwestern University). Drawing on long term research in Malawi, this talk will draw... | |
Jan 22 2025 Coffee Hour with Buffett International Spouse and Family Program10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us for a Coffee Hour, hosted by the Buffett Institute. This event provides a warm, inclusive space for connection and cultur... | |
Jan 22 2025 The Colombian Paradox: Histories of War and Peace | Buffett Lecture12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs has launched a yearlong initiative focused on international diplomacy in turbulent times. The series will explore key moments in recent diplomacy through lunchtime lectures throughout the winter quar... | |
Jan 22 2025 Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Alex Baines4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts colloquia for graduate students to present their research to globally engaged faculty and fellow students. In our first colloquium of the new year, Theatre and Drama PhD candidate Alex Baines w... | |
Jan 23 2025 Understanding the Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas with Dr. Mkhaimar Abusada12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Understanding the Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas: A conversation with Dr. Mkhaimar Abusada, Associate Professor of Politics, Al-Azhar University in Gaza Lunch will be served. Mkhaimar Abusada is a U.S.-educated expert on Palestinian pol... | |
Jan 24 2025 Reflections on COP29: Research Poster Presentation Session12:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Evanston Twelve Northwestern students attended the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties, or COP29. Northwestern delegates to COP29 conducted original research through the course Research in Global Climate Change: Science, Rights ... | |
Jan 29 2025 Buffett Faculty & Student Lunch: Global Arts12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston We invite faculty and students to join us for an engaging discussion on global arts. Esteemed artists and researchers from diverse fields will share their insights on the role of art in expressing and mediating human experience in a global ... | |
Jan 29 2025 Buffett Book Talk | Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the distribution of beach trash in Chennai, chronicling disruptions in seasonal winds and curre... | |
Jan 31 2025 Scholars at Risk Potential Host Lunch12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Housed at the Buffett Institute, the Scholars at Risk program hosts threatened or displaced scholars and journalists. We invite department chairs, faculty and administrators from all disciplines who are interested in hosting scholars at ris... | |
Feb 5 2025 Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Aisha Valiulla4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts colloquia for graduate students to present their research to globally engaged faculty and fellow students. This talk features History PhD candidate Aisha Valiulla presenting her dissertation ch... | |
Feb 6 2025 What a Trump Administration Means for US Foreign Policy in the Middle East12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston Please join MENA, the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, and the Department of Political Science in welcoming Nancy Okail of the Center for International Policy and Shibley Telhami of the the University of Maryland and the Brookings Inst... | |
Feb 7 2025 Buffett First Friday Lunch: Pablo Boczkowski, "A Fractured Society and an Expansive Everyday Life: Modalities of Treatment, Inequality and Culture in Mental Health Work in Argentina"12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for our faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty and staff... | |
Feb 7 2025 EDGS Talk: Alyssa Paredes on Living Downstream of Yourself on the Rio Grande de Mindanao3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston Water is a part of plantation life regularly overlooked by land-centered approaches. In the Southern Philippine region of Mindanao, waterways are also underappreciated as sites of inter-ethnic conflict in a region where land is the lightnin... | |
Feb 12 2025 “The Lion and the Nightingale: The Turkish Government Against Turkey’s Artistic Communities” with Kaya Genç12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2025. PLEASE CHECK OUR WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS FOR UPDATES! Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for a talk and Q&... | |
Feb 12 2025 “The Lion and the Nightingale” Reception with Kaya Genç4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2025. PLEASE CHECK OUR WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS FOR UPDATES! Join KMTS, MENA, the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and sp... | |
Feb 14 2025 Buffett Faculty Lunch: Global Capitalism & Law Research Group12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute invites faculty from all humanities and social sciences disciplines as well as other units at Northwestern University with an interest in the legal, normative and political infrastructures of global capitalism to join ... | |
Feb 17 2025 Post-Assad Syria: Prospects and Challenges for State and Society After Authoritarianism12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston Please join MENA in welcoming Samer Aboud of Villanova University and Nour Halabi of University of Aberdeen for a virtual discussion of post-Assad Syria, moderated by Northwestern's Shayna Silverstein. This event will be hybrid, and lunch ... | |
Feb 18 2025 The Oslo Accords: Road to Peace or False Hope? | Buffett Lecture12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs has launched a yearlong initiative focused on international diplomacy in turbulent times. The series will explore key moments in recent diplomacy through lunchtime lectures throughout the winter quar... | |
Feb 19 2025 Coffee Hour with Buffett International Spouse and Family Program10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us for a Coffee Hour, hosted by the Buffett Institute. This event provides a warm, inclusive space for connection and cultur... | |
Feb 19 2025 EDGS Talk: Cannabis to Methamphetamine - The Drug Landscape in Indonesia4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute and its Equality Development & Globalization Studies (EDGS) program for a public talk with Buffett Visiting Scholar Asmin Fransiska. Global drug policy has been shifting from a criminal justice approach to prior... | |
Feb 21 2025 Storytelling & Trauma Workshop9:00 AM - 2:15 PM, Evanston How can storytelling and narrative tools help us better understand how people process and recover from trauma? This one-day exploratory workshop at the Buffett Institute will examine intersections between narrative theories and the ways peo... | |
Feb 25 2025 WE ARE U Film Screening5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute and the Northwestern University Ukrainian Club for a screening of the documentary WE ARE U. WE ARE U is a documentary sharing the stories of five young people from different corners of Ukraine throughout the ongoi... | |
Feb 26 2025 Europe’s Waiting Room: Post-War Bosnia & the Simulation of Perpetual Peace | Buffett Lecture12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs has launched a yearlong initiative focused on international diplomacy in turbulent times. The series will explore key moments in recent diplomacy through lunchtime lectures throughout the winter quar... | |
Feb 26 2025 Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Sihan Wang3:00 PM - 4:15 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts colloquia for graduate students to present their research to globally engaged peers. This talk features Comparative Literary Studies PhD candidate Sihan Wang presenting "Walking Against Time: C... | |
Feb 27 2025 Elliott Speaker Series: Skilled Migration & New Dynamics of Development with Raúl Delgado Wise4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute's Elliott Scholars Program invites the Northwestern University community to a talk and discussion with Raúl Delgado Wise, Professor of Development Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, on the architecture ... | |
Mar 3 2025 EDGS Book Talk: “Indulging Kleptocracy” with John Heathershaw4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Join the EDGS program for a book talk with co-authors John Heathershaw and Tena Prelec. The Buffett Institute’s Equality Development & Globalization Studies (EDGS) program, Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies and the ... | |
Mar 5 2025 Professor Mary McCain on the Good Friday Agreement | Buffett Lecture12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs has launched a yearlong initiative focused on international diplomacy in turbulent times. The series will explore key moments in recent diplomacy through lunchtime lectures throughout the winter quar... | |
Mar 5 2025 Buffett Graduate Student Film Screening: Ignited with Sofyan Ansori4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts a variety of opportunities for graduate students to present their research to globally engaged faculty and peers. Join us in March for a screening and discussion of the film "Ignited," executiv... | |
Mar 6 2025 Buffett Graduate Student Lunch: Global Capitalism & Law Research Group12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute invites graduate students from all humanities and social sciences disciplines as well as other units at Northwestern University with an interest in the legal, normative and political infrastructures of global capitalis... | |
Mar 7 2025 International Women's Day Celebration12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Come celebrate International Women's Day with the Women's Center as we welcome Maya Odim as our special guest! Maya (she/they) is a poet working at the intersections of recitation, writing, dance, and movement. Maya currently serves as a Po... | |
Mar 7 2025 Buffett First Friday Lunch: Kennetta Perry, The Prayers of David Oluwale12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty and staff, ... | |
Mar 7 2025 EDGS Talk: "What Strange Woman is Here?": Laura Benedict's Fieldwork among the Bagobos of the Southern Philippines, 1906-19083:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston "What Strange Woman is Here?": Laura Benedict's Fieldwork among the Bagobos of the Southern Philippines, 1906-1908 For fourteen months between 1906 and 1908, the American anthropologist Laura Benedict conducted participant observation field... | |
Mar 10 2025 The influence of the Russian-Ukrainian war on the global world order12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for this discussion. About the speaker: Dr. Maksym Andrushchenko is in residence as a visiting scholar in the... | |
Mar 19 2025 Coffee Hour with Buffett International Spouse and Family Program10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us for a Coffee Hour, hosted by the Buffett Institute. This event provides a warm, inclusive space for connection and cultur... | |
Mar 25 2025 Gender and Global Higher Education Leadership in the Digital Age4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Chicago What are the latest trends and research on gender and leadership in international higher education? This event brings together researchers from both the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) and the Higher Education Special... | |
Apr 3 2025 Buffett Student Tea with Peace Negotiators3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, Evanston A prelude to the upcoming Buffett Symposium on Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World, the Buffett Institute invites Northwestern students to an afternoon tea with three of the peace negotiators speaking at the symposium. Join us for an in... | |
Apr 3 2025 Buffett Symposium | Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World: Lessons Learned5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute's international diplomacy series will culminate in our spring quarter symposium on peace-making organized with Fundación Acordemos. This two-day event will bring together diplomats, negotiators and academics to discuss... | |
Apr 4 2025 Buffett Symposium | Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World: Lessons Learned8:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute's international diplomacy series will culminate in our spring quarter symposium on peace-making organized with Fundación Acordemos. This two-day event will bring together diplomats, negotiators and academics to discuss... | |
Apr 7 2025 Fulbright WeekAll day, No Location Join us for Fulbright Week to learn more about all the awards offered. More information to come. | |
Apr 8 2025 Fulbright WeekAll day, No Location Join us for Fulbright Week to learn more about all the awards offered. More information to come. | |
Apr 8 2025 21st Century Reparatory Justice: From Episodic Moments to the Global Movement4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, a renowned historian, academic leader, and advocate for social justice will address the Northwestern community on the topic of reparatory justice. Talk: The 21st century will witness reparatory justice for th... | |
Apr 9 2025 Fulbright WeekAll day, No Location Join us for Fulbright Week to learn more about all the awards offered. More information to come. | |
Apr 10 2025 Fulbright WeekAll day, No Location Join us for Fulbright Week to learn more about all the awards offered. More information to come. | |
Apr 10 2025 “What is Happening in Turkey?”12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online Join KMTS and Karabekir Akkoyunlu, SOAS University of London and Șebnem Gümüşcü, Middlebury College on April 10, 2025 from 12:00PM- 1:30PM CST via Zoom for “What is Happening in Turkey?” | |
Apr 11 2025 Fulbright WeekAll day, No Location Join us for Fulbright Week to learn more about all the awards offered. More information to come. | |
Apr 11 2025 Buffett First Friday Lunch: Darker Demons of Our Nature12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty and staff, ... | |
Apr 14 2025 EDGS Talk: We Will (Not) Be Hungry: Farmer Welfare and Indonesia's Food Security Ambition4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston As part of Indonesia's Vision for 2045, which marks the nation's 100th anniversary of independence, the government aims to achieve high-income status, reduce poverty to almost zero, attain food self-sufficiency, and position the country as ... | |
Apr 15 2025 Info Session: Student Research Opportunity at COP30 in Belém, Brazil12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Are you a Northwestern student interested in climate change or global environmental governance? Would you like to attend the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change? Join us for an inform... | |
Apr 15 2025 Brief Tender Light Screening5:00 PM - 6:15 PM, Evanston Northwestern University's Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Office of International Student & Scholar Services (OISS) invite you to a special event focused on the diverse experiences of international students. Join us for a panel dis... | |
Apr 16 2025 Coffee Hour with Buffett International Spouse and Family Program10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us for a Coffee Hour, hosted by the Buffett Institute. This event provides a warm, inclusive space for connection and cultur... | |
Apr 16 2025 "An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier"12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston Join KMTS, MENA, SHC and speaker Dr. Chris Gratien, University of Virginia, for a talk titled "An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier" on April 16, 2025 from 12:30- 2:00PM in Harris Hall, Room 108. Lunch will be served! Chr... | |
Apr 16 2025 Buffett Conversation: Dean Karlan on USAID Now & Ideas for the Future12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join us for a lunchtime conversation with Dean Karlan, who recently resigned from his position as Chief Economist of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In conversation with Valerie Friedman, Northwestern Univers... | |
Apr 16 2025 Graduate Student Colloquium with Angad Singh3:00 PM - 4:15 PM, Evanston PhD Candidate Angad Singh (English) will present his research on “Obliterated Desires: Interfaith Relationships around India's 1947 Partition” and engage in an audience Q&A. Learn about his work: In the decades since feminists Kamla Bhasin,... | |
Apr 17 2025 Buffett Conversation: AI, Law & Society with Liane Huttner12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for an discussion on the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), law and society with Liane Huttner, Assistant Professor of Digital Law at Université Paris-Saclay. Moderated by Joanna Grisinger, Associate Pr... | |
Apr 21 2025 Buffett Conversation: Responding to Hostage Taking & Wrongful Detention4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Join us for an in-depth discussion on U.S. hostage recovery policy with Jon Alterman and Jason Rezaian, the co-directors of the Bipartisan Commission on Hostage Taking & Wrongful Detention. In 2023, the Center for Strategic & International ... | |
Apr 24 2025 Graduate Student Seminar with Diego Arispe-Bazán12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs invites graduate students to a seminar with Diego Aripse-Bazán (Anthropology). Professor Bazán is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist, whose research centers on the product... | |
Apr 25 2025 The Government Against the University: Reports from Colombia, Hungary, Poland & Turkey12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online What happens when governments view universities as adversaries? How have universities successfully defended academic freedom? How much autonomy over internal decision-making should universities concede in the face of what seem like existent... | |
Apr 30 2025 “How to Write a Democratic History of the Ottoman Empire?”12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston Join KMTS and Ali Yaycioglu on April 30 from 12:30- 2:00PM in the Buffett Reading Room (720 University Place, 2nd Floor, Evanston, IL 60208) for “How to Write a Democratic History of the Ottoman Empire?” Lunch will be served! | |
Apr 30 2025 An Information Session About Recent Developments in US Immigration Law4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston Join us for a panel discussion featuring immigration law experts from the Chicagoland area. Panelists will provide an overview of recent developments in US immigration law and discuss how these changes are impacting various communities. Top... | |
May 1 2025 Graduate Student Seminar with Heather Jaber12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs invites graduate students to a seminar with Heather Jaber (Communication and Liberal Arts, NU-Q). Professor Jaber’s research and teaching examines digital and popular culture, a... | |
May 1 2025 Elliott Speaker Series | The Challenge of Reflexivism: Giving Primacy to Process and People in Policy with Vijayendra Rao4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston How does the World Bank understand and diagnose issues in addressing inequalities, promoting sustainable growth and reducing poverty? Join us for a conversation with Vijayendra (Biju) Rao, a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group ... | |
May 2 2025 Buffett First Friday Lunch: Computationally Accessible Law: On Bringing the French & U.S. Tax Systems Out of the Past & Into the Future12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty and staff, ... | |
May 8 2025 Graduate Student Colloquium with Gautam Bisht4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Evanston PhD Candidate Gautam Bisht (Learning Sciences) will present his research on "Decolonizing Research: Insights from a Methods Workshop in a Rural Himalayan College in India." Abstract included below: How can we teach research not just as a se... | |
May 9 2025 Peace Conference Simulation2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs has launched a yearlong initiative focused on international diplomacy in turbulent times. The series will include an interactive peace conference simulation designed by Professor Danielle Gilbert. Th... | |
May 13 2025 Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion and the Global Fight for Democracy5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston Please join the Weinberg College Center for International & Area Studies and Buffett Institute for Global Affairs as we host Ron Deibert (University of Toronto). For well over a decade, the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab has lifted the... | |
May 15 2025 Graduate Student Colloquium with Ely Orrego-Torres10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, Online PhD Candidate Ely Orrego-Torres (Political Science) will present her research on “In the Name of Religious Freedom: Transnational Religious Mobilization in the Organization of American States (OAS)." Religious freedom is crucial in the cons... | |
May 20 2025 Graduate Student Colloquium with Austin Bryan3:00 PM - 4:15 PM, Evanston PhD Candidate Austin Bryan (Anthropology) will present his dissertation research on what he describes as a "Global Medical Apartheid." Bryan notes that although the late 1980s brought to the market lifesaving anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) fo... | |
May 21 2025 Buffett Book Talk: Heaven Has a Wall4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Evanston Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, “Heaven has a wall,” activists shout back, “Jesus was a refugee.” For Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, the standoff makes explicit a longst... | |
May 22 2025 America’s Soft Power & Reputational Security in Crisis? Nicholas J. Cull in Conversation with Erik C. Nisbet12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join us for a lunchtime conversation with esteemed historian and academic Nicholas J. Cull from the University of Southern California as we explore his concept of "reputational security"—the idea that a nation's safety and security are stre... | |
May 23 2025 Biya's Regime: Chronicles of the Shipwreck of the Cameroonian Nation with Haman Mana12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join Northwestern University's Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications for a conversation with Cameroonian journalist and author Haman Mana, Visiting Scholar at the Bu... | |
May 24 2025 Bookman's Alley Mural Opening2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Off-Campus Join Northwestern Rotaract on May 24, 2025 from 2-4 p.m. at Bookman's Alley for a special event celebrating the unveiling of our new mural. Come and admire the work of local artist Juan A. Cano while enjoying live music from Northwestern st... | |
May 28 2025 Coffee Hour with Buffett International Spouse and Family Program10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us for a Coffee Hour, hosted by the Buffett Institute. This event provides a warm, inclusive space for connection and cultur... | |
Jun 8 2025 Conversation with Jacinda Ardern, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand1:00 PM - 2:15 PM, Chicago In partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Buffett Institute will welcome Jacinda Ardern, former Prime Minister of New Zealand. More details are forthcoming. | |
Oct 3 2025 Buffett First Friday Lunch with Bruce Carruthers12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty and staff, ... | |
Oct 14 2025 Buffett Institute Open House for Graduate Students5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Join us for an open house to learn about our opportunities and programming for graduate students. We offer funding through international research and conference awards as well as language acquisition grants. We also support cohorts of Resea... | |
Oct 22 2025 Buffett Institute Open House for Undergraduate Students5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Join us for an open house to learn about our opportunities and programming for undergraduate students. We'll have cuisines from around the world and tell you more about our opportunities for students to engage globally. You can contribute t... | |
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Oct 29 2025 Michael Grunwald on “We Are Eating the Earth”4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, No Location Join the Center for Synthetic Biology for a talk with Michael Grunwald from 4:00–5:00 p.m. followed by a reception from 5:00–6:00 p.m. | |
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Nov 12 2025 Buffett Book Talk | "Selective Solidarity: Children and Middle-Class Moralities in Transnational Senegal" with Chelsie Yount12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston More information to come. This event is co-sponsored by the Program of African Studies, part of the Office for Research at Northwestern University. | |
Nov 14 2025 Buffett First Friday Lunch with Roberson Alphonse and Nathalie Cardichon12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty and staff, ... | |
Dec 5 2025 Buffett First Friday Lunch with Hatim Rahman12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty and staff, ... | |
Jan 9 2026 Buffett First Friday Lunch | Syria After Assad with Wendy Pearlman12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty and staff, ... | |
Jan 15 2026 Buffett Symposium: Global Disinformation in a Post-Moderation World5:15 PM - 6:45 PM, Chicago The global information environment is undergoing a significant transformation, as major social media platforms and government institutions retreat from their active roles in combating disinformation. Platforms such as Meta, X (formerly Twit... | |
Jan 16 2026 Buffett Symposium: Global Disinformation in a Post-Moderation World8:30 AM - 6:00 PM, Evanston The global information environment is undergoing a significant transformation, as major social media platforms and government institutions retreat from their active roles in combating disinformation. Platforms such as Meta, X (formerly Twit... | |
Feb 4 2026 Buffett Book Talk | "America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region" with Marc Lynch12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston More information to come. | |
Feb 6 2026 Buffett First Friday Lunch with Iza Ding12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty and staff, ... | |
Mar 6 2026 Buffett First Friday Lunch | The Global Urban Underground: A Mine of Heat with Alessandro F. Rotta Loria12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty and staff, ... | |
Apr 3 2026 Buffett First Friday Lunch with Lisa Hirschhorn12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty and staff, ... | |
May 1 2026 Buffett First Friday Lunch | Yuthika Sharma on Indian Painting at the End of Empire12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty and staff, ... |