Bates Center Seminar Series During the academic year, the Bates Center hosts prominent scholars from around the globe to present new historical scholarship in its seminar series. Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm. DR. JAIPREET VIRDI An award-winning historian whose…

For Women's History Month, the Center for Africana Studies is hosting a conversation between Professor Sarah Jackson and Black Panther/Mother of Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., Akua Njeri. This event will take place virtually on March 13th.

Join us for a lunchtime conversation with author and journalist Rebecca Traister , hosted by Dick Polman. Traister is writer-at-large at New York Magazine , where she covers politics, media, and culture from a feminist perspective. She is also the author of the bestselling…

Please join us for this three-day symposium celebrating the past and present achievements of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program (GSWS) and the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies (FQT).

OSTEM’s pop-up art installation demonstrates love in all forms, especially queer love. Share your unique experiences in a note on the Love sculpture for a chance to win a fancy dinner for yourself and three loved ones.

On February 27th at 5:15pm, Northwestern professor Erica Weitzman will be joining FIGS for an event surrounding German Realism and Obscenification of Matter. Please join us at Cherpack Lounge at 543 Williams Hall!

Time and Revolution Symposium What is the relationship between revolution—as the tipping point of a project that ushers a new order—and our lived experience of time? How does the unique temporality of revolution, as a disruption followed by a taking of accounts, compel…

Our Third Thursday event for February explores BE HOLDING, an original performance created by poet Ross Gay, composer Tyshawn Sorey, new music ensemble Yarn/Wire, and director Brooke O’Harra. Inspired by Philadelphia 76ers basketball legend “Dr. J” and his iconic baseline scoop…

Our rescheduled "Meet the Fellows" event will take place on Friday, February 23rd, bringing together artist Ernesto Pujol and filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz in conversation with interim CEE Director and scholar Dr. Kristina Lyons about their courses and their plan for the…

Sim Gill (she/her) "Finding Sarah Everard: A Critical Discourse Analysis Exploring the First Two Weeks of News Media Coverage Following Her Disappearance and Murder" Abstract: On March 3, 2021, Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, was last seen walking around Clapham…