9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
The Critical Theory in the Global South project, an initiative of Northwestern's Critical Theory Cluster and the International Consortium of...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
The Critical Theory Program Presents: Lecture and graduate student workshop with visiting scholar Branka Arsic"Entomological Persons: Insects and Ahab" Abstract:Reconstructing Melville’s interest...
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
The Critical Theory Program Presents a graduate workshop on Emily Dickinson and birds by Branka Arsic, Columbia University Birds and insects...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Sonali Thakkar (English, U Chicago), “The Racial Residuum: Blackness and Jewishness in Frantz Fanon” A winter talk series, “Thresholds of the...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Susan Manning (English and Theater and Performance, Northwestern), “German Modern Dance between Orientalism and Transnationalism" Winter talk series, “Thresholds of the...
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
Mark Lipovetsy discusses “Dmitri Prigov’s ‘Appeals to Citizens’ and the Meaning of New Sincerity.” Professor and Director of Russian Graduate...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Leah Feldman discusses her new book On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucuses On the Threshold of Eurasia...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
"Genealogies of Emergency" Theorists conventionally treat the global state of emergency in which we live as a political and juridical condition....
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, sponsored by Critical Theory
DISCUSSION OF:- Alia Al-Saji, “Glued to the Image: Fanon and Muslim Racialization through Works of Art”- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, “On Metaphysical...
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
UHURU PHALAFALA (STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY) & PREMESH LALU (UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE) HOST & CHAIR: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S MAP (MINORITIES AND PHILOSOPHY)...
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
EXILE, STATELESSNESS, MIGRATIONA Discussion with Seyla Benhabib Invited commentators: Craig Calhoun (Arizona State University), Mary Dietz (Northwestern), José Medina (Northwestern), and...
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents "Unruly Visions" - a book talk by Gayatri Gopinath (New York University) moderated by...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Professor Diego Fernández of the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago to speak. Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Professor Fabrizio Desideri of the University of Florence to speak. Co-sponsored by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Comparative Library...
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Weinberg College's 2018 Convocation will be held on Saturday, June 23 at 11:30 a.m at Ryan Field, 1501 Central Street,...
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Philosophy Department Lectures, etc.
Title: Notes for a Decolonial Critique of Debt This event is co-sponsored by the Kreeger-Wolf Endowment, the Department of Philosophy, the...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents our final event of the year – “Killing is the Law” a...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies Program Speaker Series. Professor Ertürk will discuss current book project on early twentieth-century Turkish and Soviet literary encounters. Please note,...
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
The Department of German, Department of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies Program and Comparative Literary Studies, presents: Christina von Braun, Max Kade Distinguished...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents a book launch for With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims,...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
The Department of German presents: Kata Gellen from Duke University, a talk on Visualized Voices in Kafka and Silent Film. Cosponsored...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
All are welcome. A light lunch will be served. Co-sponsors include: the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Program in Critical...
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Presented by the Department of German. Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History, Comparative Literary Studies Program, Alice Kaplan Institute...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents "God Particle: Sublimity, Matter, and Virtuality in Black Feminist Poetics" – a...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Join us to hear Ilit Ferber (Tel Aviv University) in our German speaker series. Please email keloni@northwestern.edu for a PDF of...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
"J.E. Casely Hayford and the Case for Afro-Originating Comparison." Taking J.E. Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound (1911) as its central point of...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents a talk by Dr. Mel Y. Chen (University of California, Berkeley). The event...
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
The Department of German and the Program in Critical Theory and Comparative Literature are hosting Costica Bradatan, of Texas Tech University,...
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
Turkey and Germany, just as with their imperial formations, share a long, often troubling history of cultural encounters and political...
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Annual Fall Conference Free and open to everyone. Guest Lecturers: KEVIN BELL Penn State University CHRISTOPHE BIDENT Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, KEYNOTE JOHN BRENKMAN...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
All of our Comparative Literary Studies majors and minors who are graduating this year are welcome, along with their families...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
The Department of German, the Graduate School, the Department of Art History, and the Comparative Literary Studies Program present Carol Jacobs,...
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
The Comparative Literary Studies Program Presents: Lecture by Shaden Tageldin, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and Director of the African...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
The Comparative Literary Studies Program Presents: Graduate Workshop by Shaden Tageldin, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and Director of...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Professor Deuber-Mankowski’s pre-circulated paper will include a discussion of the concept of Schuld (guilt-debt) in Friedrich Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies presents Gabriela Basterra Graduate Workshop12-1:30pmCrowe Hall 4-130Lunch will be served
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies presents Gabriela Basterra Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish & Portuguese, NYU Lecture: Reason EnjoinedMarch 10, 20164:00pm Swift Hall...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Fig & Comparative Literature present Isabelle Alfandary Freud's Early Case Studies: the Temptation of the Plot Wednesday, March 2, 20165-7pm Hagstrum Room201 University Hall Refreshments...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
“Unbelonging” Ranjana Khanna Friday, May 22, 2015Graduate Lunch 11:30-1:00pmRefreshments will be served at both events TGS Commons (Seabury building, 2122 Sheridan Rd.)For the...
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
“Unbelonging” Ranjana Khanna Friday, May 22, 2015Graduate Lunch 11:30-1:00pmLunch will be served refreshment will be served at both events TGS Commons (Seabury building, 2122...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies present, Joseph Slughter: May 4, 2015Public Talk4 - 6p.m. Harris Hall 108 May 5, 2015Graduate Student Workshop 12 - 2...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies present, Joseph Slughter: May 4, 2015Public Talk4 - 6p.m. Harris Hall 108 May 5, 2015Graduate Student Workshop 12 - 2...
9:15 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
An interdisciplinary faculty-graduate workshop Gender and Vulnerabilities April 16-17, 2015 Visiting Faculty speakers include; Veena Das, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins UniversitySharon P. Holland, American...
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
An interdisciplinary faculty-graduate workshop Gender and Vulnerabilities April 16-17, 2015 Visiting Faculty speakers include; Veena Das, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins UniversitySharon P. Holland, American...
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
2015 Critical Theory in Critical Times WORKSHOP Keynote Speaker: Hauke BrunkhorstFebruary 27 20153pm - 6pmHarris 108 Commentators: Prof. Mark Alznauer (NU, philosophy),...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
The Program In Comparative Literary Studies presents Rodolphe Gasché "Of Mammoth Smallness: Franz Kafka's 'The Village Schollmaster'" Wednesday, February 25, 20154-6pm211 Scott Hall,...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
What Happens to Literature if People are Artworks? Public Lecture4:00pm - 6:00pmHarris 108refreshments will be served How to Write, and Why: A...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
How to Write, and Why: A Workshop for Academic Writers Graduate Workshop 12:00pm - 2:00pm John Evans Center - 1800 Sheridan What...
