Sep
29
2023
MENA Languages Student Mixer
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by MENA Languages Program
All students in MENA Languages are invited to a lunch mixer. Play games, eat great food, get to know each...
Events
Oct
2
2023
MENA MONDAYS | Virtual Roundtable | Pasts and Futures of MENA Gender Studies
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Beth Baron, City College CUNY; Maya Mikdashi, Rutgers University; Mejdulene Shomali, University of Maryland Baltimore County; moderated by Jessica Winegar,...
Oct
11
2023
Book Talk with Dr. Mostafa Minawi: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program, the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies and author of Losing Istanbul...
Oct
16
2023
MENA MONDAY | Torture as Power: Political Relations in "Assad's Syria"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Yassin al-Haj Saleh, intellectual & writer, with discussant Sara Kayyali, Northwestern University. In this talk, Yassin al-Haj Saleh considers how torture...
Oct
17
2023
MENA | Revolutionary Defeat & the Future of Struggle
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Syrian Writer and Former Political Prisoner Yassin al-Haj Saleh in Conversation with Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University) and Danny Postel (New...
Oct
18
2023
Book Talk with Dr. Elise Massicard: Street-Level Governing
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and author of Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey, Dr. Elise...
Oct
23
2023
MENA MONDAYS | NEW DIRECTIONS | Queer Palestine & the Empire of Critique
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Sa'ed Atshan of Swarthmore College with discuss his book Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique. Lunch will be served at...
Oct
25
2023
Arabic and Hebrew Language and Music: Resonances Across Traditions
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by MENA Languages Program
The Jerusalem Youth Chorus will use their songs as a language teaching tool for students of Arabic and Hebrew, and...
Oct
25
2023
Music and Social Change: Approaches from Jerusalem to Chicago
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by MENA Languages Program
The Jerusalem Youth Chorus and Uniting Voices Chicago will engage students in a discussion of modalities of musical change-making, specifically...
Oct
25
2023
Jerusalem Youth Chorus and Uniting Voices Chicago in Concert
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by MENA Languages Program
Join us for a free public concert experience about the far-reaching impact of music and sound and its power to...
Oct
26
2023
Study Abroad Fair 2023
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Northwestern Buffett Global Learning Office
The Study Abroad Fair is an opportunity to learn more about the different credit-bearing study abroad programs offered at Northwestern. Chat...
Nov
13
2023
MENA MONDAYS | Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Book talk by Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College. Lunch will be served at this event. Protest has been a key method of...
Nov
20
2023
MENA MONDAY | Digital Pyropoesis: The Flame and the Dish in Islamic State's Universe
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In this faculty colloquium, Marwan Kraidy, Dean and CEO of Northwestern University in Qatar, will share recent research. As dean and...
Nov
23
2023
Boren Awards Information Meeting
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
The Boren Scholarship funds undergraduate students who pursue language-intensive study abroad in countries out of the mainstream. At its core,...
Dec
1
2023
Boren Awards Information Meeting
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
The Boren Scholarship funds undergraduate students who pursue language-intensive study abroad in countries out of the mainstream. At its core,...
Jan
5
2024
Boren Awards Information Meeting
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
The Boren Scholarship funds undergraduate students who pursue language-intensive study abroad in countries out of the mainstream. At its core,...
Jan
9
2024
Boren Awards Information Meeting
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
The Boren Scholarship funds undergraduate students who pursue language-intensive study abroad in countries out of the mainstream. At its core,...