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Postcolonial Method Symposium – March 11

How has contemporary scholarship made sense of the postcolonial as an evolving analytic? After three decades of debating the term, can we generate a singular postcolonial method? Featuring nine scholars from across the country alongside Northwestern faculty, this symposium showcases new directions in thinking with the postcolonial and its limits today.

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Joy Connolly - April 27

Joy Connolly, President of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), will be the spring keynote speaker of the Kaplan Critical Conversations in the Humanities dialogue. Connolly will be joined in conversation by Marwan Kraidy, Dean of Northwestern University in Qatar and Professor of Communication Studies.

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Highlights and Events

 

Kaplan Fellows for 2025-2026

 

Meet the 2025-2026 Kaplan Humanities Institute cohorts of Faculty Fellows, Franke Graduate and Undergraduate Fellows, and Library Fellow and Affiliate!

 

Friday Morning Faculty Writing Sessions

 

Ease into the weekend feeling productive! Join us in the Kaplan Seminar Room (Kresge 2351) on Friday mornings (9am-12pm) to work quietly, but in community, on your own writing project. You make it a habit, and we’ll make the coffee!

Events

 
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Third Thursday at Kaplan Institute - March

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston

Sips, snacks, and conversation—the Kaplan Humanities Institute invites faculty to join us for informal get-togethers on the third Thurs...

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