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CIC Events

May
7
2025

Asian American Studies DUS Office Hours!

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston

Planning your class registration for Fall 2025? Make sure you're on track to finish your major! Come chat with AASP DUS, Ray San Diego about all things AASP, major and minor! Snacks provided. Note: Part of the new major requirements involves taking Asian American Studies 392: "Advanced Seminar for Majors and Minors." The next time this course is being offered is Fall 2025. It is only offered every other year, so rising junior and senior majors should plan on taking it. If you have concerns, please reach out to Ray or attend this event to chat about your plans.

May
8
2025

Whose Story Is It? Navigating Community Storytelling

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston

Community storytelling is difficult work. Storytellers must contend with myriad definitions of community, engage with community members that hold differing perspectives, and distill multiple narratives, timeframes, and places – local and diasporic – into a singular story. Academic-turned-storyteller Ada Cheng and Full Spectrum Features’ co-executive director Jason Matsumoto join us for a lively discussion on how they navigate telling stories with and for their communities.

May
8
2025

The Power of Chinatown: A talk by Dr. Laureen Hom

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Come listen to Dr. Laureen Hom's talk about her latest book, The Power of Chinatown! The book includes over 4 years of intensive fieldwork in the 2010s, including interviews with over 50 community leaders and activists across generations, participant-observations in the neighborhood, and archival research spanning over 80 years of Chinatown's history. Dr. Hom interrogates how community leaders are responding to urban pressures that shape neighborhood development and what that means for creating community, political belonging, and a just future for Chinatown and beyond. Dr. Hom is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator at the intersection of Urban Studies, Ethnic Studies, Public Administration, and Public Policy. Her research examines spatial politics, racialization, gentrification, (im)mobilities, and community formations in urban neighborhoods, with a particular emphasis in Asian Americans and immigrant communities in California.

May
9
2025

Kamakakēhau Fernandez - 'Ukulele Performance

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Kamakakēhau Fernandez is an award winning ‘ukulele player and Hawaiian falsetto singer. Coming all the way from Hawai'i, he's excited to perform for the Northwestern community! Join this 90 minute 'ukulele workshop and performance by RSVPing on eventbrite.

May
15
2025

ANUW Virtual Spring Leadership Development Coffee Chat: How Relatability Promotes Mental Health For Your Team + Building Psychological Safety &Trust at Work

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Join ANUW at our virtual coffee chat event on Thursday, May 15th, 2025 at 12-1 pm! Our event will focus on the pre-reading by Harry Kraemer: How Relatability Promotes Mental Health for Your Team and  What is Psychological Safety How Leaders Can Build Psychological Safety at Work *Register to receive the URL link to join the virtual coffee chat and come ready to discuss in small groups for a portion of the event* Open to all NU staff and feel free to eat your lunch during this virtual event!

May
18
2025

Native American & Indigenous Community Celebration

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston

Hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs and Native American & Indigenous Affairs, the Native American and Indigenous Community Celebration is an annual spring event to gather in community to share and recognize scholarship, research, and community accomplishments related to Native American and Indigenous knowledges, methodologies, and sovereignty. All are invited to this celebration.  Nominate someone to receive a Special Honoree Award HERE. Submissions close on May 9th at 9am.

May
21
2025

Seeding Change: Art as Germination

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Art provides a way to imagine what is possible. It serves to inspire and provoke in a way that some more traditional forms of scholarship cannot. Sit with us as we commune with artists creating work that imagines a new world that calls for us to be in community with one another, that shares insight from the natural world, and grounds us in the strength of our shared humanity. Join us on May 21st 5:30 pm -7:30 pm with artists Chi Nwosu, Kemi Alabi, and Marwa Tahboub, who are creating work that imagines a new world that calls for us to be in community with one another, shares insight from the natural world, and grounds us in the strength of our shared humanity. Food and drink will be provided. We have a capacity of 25 people. We'll be reaching to alert partipants when we've reached capacity. 

May
28
2025

ANUW | Pathways to Success: Positive Psychology with Judith Moskowitz

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

This virtual event is hosted by Association of Northwestern University Women and open to all. Learn how to harness positive emotion to combat stress, no matter how difficult the times.  Network with your peers after the presentation. Speaker: Judith Moskowitz is a Professor of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Director of the Behavioral, Social, and Implementation Sciences (BSIS) Core for the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (TC CFAR), and Director of Research at the Northwestern Osher Center for Integrative Health. Trained as a social psychologist, for the past 20 years she has conducted patient-oriented research regarding behavioral and psychosocial factors in the context of significant illness or other life stress. Her current research is focused on the unique adaptive role of positive emotion in the process of coping with various types of health-related and other life stress and, through randomized trials, her team tests whether a positive emotion regulation intervention can increase positive emotion, reduce stress and depression, and improve health behaviors.   

May
28
2025

Franny Choi Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston

Please join Northwestern’s Asian American Studies Program 5:00PM Wednesday, May 28 (Harris 108) for a poetry reading, Q&A, and book signing with Franny Choi! Franny Choi is a poet and essayist. Their books include The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco, 2022), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019), and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014). Franny’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Franny is the current Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA and the founder of Brew & Forge. She has two books forthcoming: a collection of essays about robots, and an anthology, We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word, co-edited with Terisa Siagatonu, No‘u Revilla, and Bao Phi. Franny is Faculty in Literature at Bennington College. Space is limited, so please RSVP here to reserve your ticket through EventBrite: https://bit.ly/nufrannychoi Following the Q&A, there will be a book signing line. Evanston's Bookends & Beginnings will provide copies of Franny's books for sale before and after the event.