Ika Hügel-Marshall, author of Invisible Woman: Growing up Black in Germany

Reading and discussion in English and German. Reception to follow.

Ika Hügel-Marshall was the child of an African-American serviceman and a white German woman. Born and raised in post-Hitler Germany, she tells about her experience of anti-Black racism and how she came to terms with her identity as an Afro-German.She first met other Afro-Germans at the age of 39 and was involved in setting up the "Initiative of Black Germans" (ISD). In 1993, she found her father in Chicago and met him and his family.
(www.ika-huegel-marshall.de)

Co-sponsored by the Northwestern Departments of African American Studies, of English, of German, and of History; the Comparative Literary, the American, and the Latino and Latina Studies Programs; the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, theGraduate School, Poetry and Poetics Colloquium, School of Communication, and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.Support provided by the Goethe-Institut, Chicago.

Triquarterly invites you to meet Lamb author Bonnie Nadzam for a discussion/workshop on:
Creativity, Intuition and Not Knowing"

To learn more about Bonnie Nadzam, her full bio is at: http://triquarterly.org/bios/bonnie-nadzam

To sign up email CarrieMuehle2013@northwestern.edu

Space is limited but students and alums get first seating, so make your reservation soon.

This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

THIS PROGRAM IS PART OF THE "ONE BOOK ONE NORTHWESTERN" PROGRAMMING. FOR MORE EVENTS GO TO:http://www.northwestern.edu/onebook/

The Interrupters is a 2011 documentary film, produced by Kartemquin Films, that tells the story of three violence interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed.

Directed by Steve James and coproduced by Alex Kotlowitz

Sponsors: Program in Public Health, The NUFSM Dean of Education's Office, and the NUFSM Office of Diversity, and OBON.

LOCATION: The Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center of Northwestern University, Hughes Auditorium 303 E. Superior   
Chicago, IL 60611 map it

ONE BOOK KEYNOTE-ALEX KOTLOWITZ

This event is FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC

Alex Kotlowitz is the author of Never a City So Real, The Other Side of the River and the national bestseller There Are No Children Here which The New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. He will talk about his latest book, Never a City so Real. There will be a book signing to follow.

THIS PROGRAM IS PART OF THE "ONE BOOK ONE NORTHWESTERN" PROGRAMMING. FOR MORE EVENTS GO TO:http://www.northwestern.edu/onebook/

"Long-Form Journalism: The Challenge of Sources" with Chris Jones

Chris Jones is a contributor to Esquire Magazine and author of "The Things That Carried Him", winner of the 2008 Natiional Magazine Award for Feature Writing.

This program is part of the Literary Journalism Seminar andits Literature of Fact Series of lectures sponsored by Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, The Center for the Writing Arts, Communications Residential College, and the Alumnae of NU.

"Reporting on the American Legal System" with Jeffrey Toobin

Legal correspondent to the New Yorker, senior analyst at CNN Worldwide and author of The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court.

Recently Toobin was the featured guest on the COLBERT REPORT discussing his book.

This program is part of the Literary Journalism Seminar andits Literature of Fact Series of lectures sponsored by Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, The Center for the Writing Arts, Communications Residential College, and the Alumnae of NU.