11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Evanston
Join the Latina and Latino Studies Program and the Asian American Studies Program for our welcome reception! Enjoy food and drinks, meet faculty and students, and learn more about our programs. We look forward to seeing you there! Date: Wednesday, October 21st Location: Crowe Hall 1-132 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Film screening of The Auntie Sewing Squad Resistance Playbook followed by Q&A with filmmaker Valerie Soe. THE AUNTIE SEWING SQUAD RESISTANCE PLAYBOOK looks at a collective of mostly Asian American and BIPOC women sewists who saved the world during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. In March 2020, due to the Trump administration’s botched response to the pandemic, healthcare workers were scrambling for PPE. From this chaos the Auntie Sewing Squad emerged. For the Aunties, sewing and donating masks was not just about public health, it was a way to address feminism, anti-racism, allyship, and destroying white supremacy. As Sun Tze wrote, “On desperate ground, fight.” During the pandemic we were desperate ground in the battle against COVID-19, and the Aunties continued to fight, to save lives. Valerie Soe is a filmmaker, writer, and artist whose work has won awards and exhibited at venues worldwide. Her documentary, LOVE BOAT: TAIWAN (2019) won the Audience Award at the Urban Nomad Film Festival in Taipei and played to sold-out festival audiences across North America and in Taiwan. Her most recent documentary, THE AUNTIE SEWING SQUAD RESISTANCE PLAYBOOK (2026) premiered in May 2026. She is a Professor in the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University.
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM, Evanston
The ANUW Programming Committee is pleased to announce our annual ANUW Fall Breakfast on Tuesday, October 27th, from 8:30 to 10:00 AM (CT) at Norris, Second Floor, Louis Room 2-232, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208. This year's featured keynote speaker will be Janka Pieper, MA, Senior Director of Communications at the Havey Institute for Global Health at Feinberg School of Medicine. Breakfast options will be available, including food and beverages. Please register to join us in-person for the breakfast event. A virtual attendance option is also available. The Programming team will email confirmation details to you after submitting the registration form. Questions? Please email ANUW-programming@northwestern.edu. We look forward to being with you! While ANUW membership isn't required to attend this event, it's strongly encouraged. Please note that the ANUW membership annual cost is $15. To check your membership status, please email ANUWMembership@northestern.edu.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Chicago
Lunch, books, and good conversation! Join the Office of Community Enrichment (OCE) and Northwestern University Staff Advisory Council (NUSAC) for a discussion of George Saunders’s Vigil, this year’s Campus Reading Program selection. Lunch provided!
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, Online
What might honeybees teach us about living, working, and creating together during complex and uncertain times? Drawing on The Wisdom of the Hive, authors Michelle C. Johnson and Amy Burtaine explore the hive as a living model of interdependence, collective care, and belonging. Throughout the session, they will weave together lessons from beekeeping, nature-based, and contemplative practices. This conversation offers an opportunity to reflect on how the wisdom of the hive might inform the ways we teach, lead, build community, and tend to our shared world.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Chicago
Lunch, books, and good conversation! Join the Office of Community Enrichment (OCE) and Northwestern University Staff Advisory Council (NUSAC) for a discussion of George Saunders’s Vigil, this year’s Campus Reading Program selection. Lunch provided!