Past Co-Sponsorships
2006-2007 | 2007-2008 | 2008-2009 | 2009-2010 | 2010-2011 | 2011-2012
2011-2012
Conferences, Symposia, and Colloquia
American Cultures Colloquium
Arts of the Frontier during the Sino-Japanese War
Backward Glances
Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora
Early Modern Colloquium
Medieval 1960s
Modern Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature
Power, Rhetoric, and Public Culture
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Religion and the Trans...
Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics conference
Vibrant Materiality
Workshops, Speaker Series, and Reading Groups
Oral History Training workshop
Post 9/11 Brown
Program for African Studies graduate reading group
Lectures
John Carlos and Dave Zirin
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Tara McPherson, and Katherine Rowe
Martin Hagglund
Abdelhamid Largueche
Bernhard Siegert
2010-2011
Conferences, Symposia, and Colloquia
Aesthetics of West African Music and Poetry
After the End: Psychoanalysis in the Ashes of History
American Cultures Colloquium at Northwestern
California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race
Marilena Chaui Symposium
Chicana por mi Raza
Contemporary Chinese Painting
Early Modern Colloquium
Global America
Jews, Urban Space, and Early Modernity
Living Wage Conference
Long 19th Century Colloquium
Midwest Greek Historians
Moral Conscience: The History of an Idea
The Poem's the Thing
Poetry and Poetics
Political Theory Colloquium
Jacques Ranciere Workshop and Conference
Science/Film
Society for Ethical Theory and Philosophy
Workshops, Speaker Series, and Reading Groups
Conceptual Praxis Reading Group
Jesuit Roundtable
Making Good: Ethical, Religious, and Social Implications of Synthetic Biology
Paul of Tarsus Working Group
Poetry and Poetics
Understanding Post-Revolutionary Egypt
Lectures
Taylor Carman
B.B. Diop and the Literary Landscape of Senegal
Sue Golding
Amos Guiora
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Peter Krapp
Paolo Marrati
Cherrie Moraga
Museum Studies Lecture Series
Gary Okihiro
Barry Olivier
Rowlandson Lectures and Keshavarz Visit
Exhibitions, Performances, and other Events
Art Theory and Practice MFA Publication (2010)
HASTAC Scholar (2010-2011)
2009-2010
Conferences, Symposia, and Colloquia
American Cultures Colloquium at Northwestern (2009-2010)
Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora
The Fall of the Wall Reconsidered (October 23rd-24th, 2010)
Five Muslim American Poets (October 26, 2009)
Media Encounters (October 23, 2009)
Who Owns DNA? (March 10th, 2010)
Avant-garde and Totalitiarianism Revisited: Soviet Visual Culture, 1920’-1940s (March 4th-5th ,2010)
Cultural Bankruptcy: Bail Out or Bonus? Rethinking Culture in the 21st Century (April 8th-April 10th 2010)
1st Annual Northwestern-Notre Dame Graduate Epistemology Conference
(April 16th-17th, 2010)
Slavery, Citizenship, and Equality in the 19th-Century United States (April 22nd-23rd, 2010)
The Middle East in the 1950’s- Historical Perspectives: Israel, the Arab World and the Great Powers (April 25th-27th, 2010)
Pedagogy and Africa Forum (May 21st-22nd, 2010)
Medium to Medium (May 1th-15th, 2010)
Figures of Fading - Fading of Figures (May 13th-15th, 2010)
Cult Value/Artistic Value (May 14th, 2010)
Society for Ethical Theory & Political Philosophy: Fourth Annual Conference
(May 20th-May 22nd, 2010)
Workshops, Speaker Series, and Reading Groups:
Meaning and Methodology (October 17th, 2009 panel discussion)
Sound Theory Reading Group (2009-2010)
“Afro-Modernism at Mid-Century” and “The Horizons of Black Cultural Studies” (January 21st, 2010)
Relationships in Religion (March 3rd-5th, 2010)
Radical Performance, Human Rights, and the Pedagogy of Public Dissent in the Global North/South Divide (April 9th, 2010)
Oral History and Performance as Social Action in Africa Planning Group (February 2010 -June 2010)
Ancient Philosophy Workshop (2009-2010)
Agamben and Aesthetics Reading Group (March 29th-June5th, 2010)
Lectures
Kongo Warriors and Christian Knights (November 4th, 2009)
Lecture and Graduate colloquium by Prof. Andrew Parker
A Lecture by Dominique Kalifa (October 21, 2009)
Bio-neuro-politics of Hurrican Katrina (February 26th, 2010)
Exhibitions, Performances, and other Events:
Riot Acts Film Screening (January 7, 2010)
30 Years of Creative Writing at Northwestern: A Festival (April 13th-16th, 2010)
Spring 2010 African Artists at Northwestern (April 14th-15th and late May 2010)
What I choose to Remember: History, Memory, and Queer Performance (May 11th and 18th, 2010)
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)
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)
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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Upcoming Institute Events
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May 29, 2013 • 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
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Important Institute Deadlines
Winter 2013 Co-Sponsorship Application Deadline: Friday, January 11th, 2013.
2013-2014 Faculty Fellowship Appliation Deadline: Friday, January 18th, 2013.
2013-2014 Research Workshops Application Deadline: Friday, May 3rd, 2013.

