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Previous Co-sponsorships

Co-Sponsorships provided in 2008-2009

Conferences, Symposia, and Colloquia:
Remembering Tiananmen: A Symposium on the 20th Anniversary (June 1, 2009)
Religion and Identity Conference (April 24-25, 2009)
Queertopia! An Academic Festival (May 1-2, 2009)
Italy Adrift: Contemporary Migrations, Colonial Memories, Civil Rights (May 14-15, 2009)
Possibility and Paradox: On Rhetoric and Political Theory (April 2-5, 2009)
Conference on the Epistemic Significance of Disagreement (June 26-27, 2009)
Society for Ethical & Political Theory Conference-grad portion (April 23-25, 2009)
Claiming Space: Moral Economy and Religious Protest in Latino Chicago (April 14, 2009)
Choral Mediations: Pragmatics and Perspectives in Greek Drama (October 30-31, 2009)
Communicability and Iterability in Benjamin and Derrida (May, 2009)
Latin American Modernities: Comparative Approaches - Colloqium Series (2008-09)
Long Nineteenth Century Colloquium (2008-09)
Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) (2008-09)
Early Modern Doctoral Colloquium (2008-09)
American Cultures Colloquium at Northwestern (2008-09)
Sprawl/Banlieue: Energy, Economics, Population Movement and the New Crisis of the City Edge (Date TBD)
Towards a History of Design in the Global Economy Conference (December 5-6, 2008)
The Aesthetics of Catastrophe (June 5,2009)

Workshops, Speaker Series, and Reading Groups:
Holderlin Reading Group Presents Two Speakers: Dastur & Krell (May 22 & 29, 2009)
Reading World Literature, (Winter and Spring 2009)
The Role of Photography in Shaping China’s Image,1860-1937 - Workshop (April 24-25, 2009)
Paul of Tarsus Reading Group (2008-09)

Exhibitions, Performances, and other Events:
Marco Baliani: “Body of State: The Moro Killing, a Nation Torn Apart” (May 4, 2009)
Susan Messing Workshop/ Improv at NU (April 1)
Three American Photographers: In-Depth (2008-09)
NCDC Arts Fest (April 26, 2009)

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Co-Sponsorships provided in 2007-2008

Conferences, Symposia, and Colloquia:
Ethnicity and Diaspora Colloquium (Fall 2007)
Long Nineteenth Century Colloquium (2007-2008)
Early Modern (Renaissance) Doctoral Colloquium
John Locke, Natural Law, and New World Slavery, American Cultures Colloquium (November 6, 2007)
Archives of Cinema/Memories of War Symposium (February 9th & March 1st, 2008)
The Global Luther: Reconsidering the Contributions of Martin Luther, Conference (February 21-24, 2008)
Plato’s Moral Psychology Conference (March 14, 2008)
Violence, Political and Sacred Conference (April 2-3, 2008)
Race, Sex, Power: New Directions in Black and Latina/o Sexualities Conference (April 11-12, 2008)
Getting a Feeling for Shakespeare’s Theater Conference (Spring 2009)
Department of Philosophy Graduate Symposium (May 15-17, 2008)
Design in the Age of Darwin Symposium (May 17, 2008)
Decolonizing the Nation, (Re) Imagining the City Conference (May 8-9, 2008)
Refreshment of Scholars, a Symposium in Honor of Robert E. Lerner (May 30-31, 2008)
Discovering, Constructing, and Imagining the ‘Other’ in the Space Between: 1914-1945 Conference (June 13-14, 2008)
Theatre Outside Athens Conference (November 6-8, 2008)

Workshops, Speaker Series, and Reading Groups:
Queer Pride Quarterly Salon (February 14 & March 3, 2008)
"Men, Masculinity, and the Macho Paradox" (April 15, 2008)
HIPHOPISTAN (April 17-19, 2008) workshop
Paul of Tarsus Reading Group (2008)
9th Annual Czech Cultural Workshop (April 25-26, 2008)
The Politics of Culture: 1968/2008 Lecture Series (May 2008)
“The Death of Politics? Human Rights, New Public Spheres, and the Jihad”, Thomas Keenan Workshop, Program in Comparative Literary Studies and Cluster in Critical Theory (May 2, 2008)
E/racing Difference, En/gendering Collaboration: Colloquium on Asian and Latino Studies (May 2008)
From Villas Miseria to Colonias Populares (June 13-14, 2008)

Lectures:
Leo Bersani: The Will to Know: Foucault, Psychoanalysis, Proust, and Godard (October 11, 2007)
University Press Publishing in the Humanities Today (November 7, 2007)
Visit of Homai Vyarawalla and Sabeena Gahioke (May 10-14, 2008)
Modernism and the Black Metropolis (May 22, 2008)

Exhibitions, Performances, and other Events:
Black Arts Movement in the Broader Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, Taping (October 16, 2007)
NCDC Arts Fest (April 12, 2008)
One Voice kNOw Trafficking Campaign Concert (May 17, 2008)

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Co-sponsorships provided in 2006-2007

Conferences, Symposia, and Colloquia:
Urban Representations Conference
New Directions in African-American Literature, Theory, & Cultural Studies
Larry Lipking symposium (PDF)
Second Nature: Rethinking the Natural Through Politics
Diasporic Counterpoint Conference
Khatibi's Oeuvre: Materiality and Writing Colloquium
Sociology colloquium with Abigail Saguy
Philosophy Graduate Annual Symposium/Conference
The Long 19th Century Colloquium
Block Museum Hitchcock Symposium (Fall 2007)
Digital Humanities and Computer Science Colloquium (Oct. 21-22, 2007)
Locus Theatrum: Crossroads of the Humanities Conference (April 10-12, 2008)

Workshops, Speaker Series, and Reading Groups:
Aeschylus' Persians: 5th Century Meanings and Contemporary Resonances (PDF)
Urban Representations workshop series
Unseen Cultures music series
Debating Diaspora speaker series
Comparative Literary Studies speaker series
The German Interdisciplinary Group
The Atlantic Reading Group
United States Post-1945 Reading Group
21st Century American Studies Reading Group
Central and East European Jewish History and Culture Reading Group

Lectures:
Tariq Ali "Imperial Blues: Wars in the Middle-East / Axis of Hope in South America"
Sue Coe: "The World Upside Down"
Vardan Hovhanissyan: "A Story of People in War and Peace" (documentary)

Exhibitions, Performances, and other Events:
One Book, One Northwestern 2006: The Othello Project
Classical Indian Dance Concert: Live Bharatnatyam Performance (March 29-30, 2007)
Incognito (April 6, 2007)
Roni Stoneman (May 21, 2007)

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