1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Grab your laptop and spend the afternoon co-working in community with OCE. Enjoy good company, light conversation, and a change of scenery in our warmly lit space! Whether you’re tackling a big project, catching up on emails, or looking for a supportive environment to get things done, you’re welcome to join!
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Evanston
This event is open to ANUW members. ANUW membership is open to all Northwestern staff members. Celebrate fellow standout ANUW members for their contributions and dedication to the community! Light refreshments will be served.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
For decades, the multi-billion dollar health and wellness industry has touted the virtues of clean living. This lecture asks: What do we mean by clean? How did those ideas shift in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the U.S. military’s widespread use of chemical weapons? What lessons about living clean can we gather from those who have survived mass contamination? Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Professor of American Studies in the Department of Social and Analysis at NYU. She is the author or editor of five books, most recently, Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam (Duke UP, 2021), which was honored with multiple awards, including the R. R. Hawkins Award and a Victor Turner Prize. She was the former faculty director of the NYU Prison Education Program's Research Lab and recently the co-leader of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia."
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Office of Community Enrichment’s gardeners on Earth Day as we begin our garden and plant seeds! We will let them grow into seedlings in our office, and schedule some planting days when they are ready. No experience needed. We are also collecting supplies for the garden! What we are collecting: - soil - tools for container gardening - seed starting paper cups, egg cartons - seeds - herbs and flowers (we are not allowed to grow vegetables/fruit, but herbs and flowers are allowed!) - plant pot furniture - stands, sturdy little tables Where to drop off: Office of Community Enrichment - 1800 Sherman Ave. Suite 5-200 (on the 5th floor). Our office is open Monday through Thursday. Email community-enrichment@northwestern.edu for questions or to coordinate a different handoff.
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Evanston
This talk reflects on acts of writing in times of grief, disillusionment, and emerging fascism. Christopher B. Patterson will discuss their newly published book, Domesticating Brown: Movements of Racial Imagination, as an example of “brown craft” authorship that seeks solidarity through undisciplined critical methods, merging academic writing with fiction, poetry, and interactive video games. Patterson considers the unique stages of their own creative and academic work through themes of mixed brownness: neurodivergence, queerness, Filipinx American colonial history, and creative resistance. These means of forming “brown crafts” have the potential to refuse narratives of creative acts themselves as a resolution to imperial oppression, directing attention instead to the forms of solidarity, action, and radical imaginings that such works make possible. Christopher B. Patterson is Professor of The Social Justice Institute at The University of British Columbia. Their research focuses on literature, video games, and new media through the lens of transpacific empire studies, critical race theory, and queer theory. They are the award-winning author of seven books, which include the prose-poetry collection Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir (Duke University Press, 2023), the essay collection Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025), and the academic book Domesticating Brown: Movements of Racial Imagination (Duke University Press, 2026). They are the co-editor of two anthologies published in 2024: Transpacific, Undisciplined (University of Washington Press), and Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) About Us (Duke University Press), and the lead designer of the video game Stamped: an anti-travel game, an adaptation of their first novel. They write creative work under their matrilineal name Kawika Guillermo, and they have lived in Portland, Las Vegas, Seattle, Gimhae South Korea, Nanjing China, Hong Kong, and Vancouver Canada.
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston
Leon Forrest Lecture. To be given by Vernon Reid, guitarist, songwriter, composer, and founder of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Living Colour.
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Grab your laptop and spend the afternoon co-working in community with OCE. Enjoy good company, light conversation, and a change of scenery in our warmly lit space! Whether you’re tackling a big project, catching up on emails, or looking for a supportive environment to get things done, you’re welcome to join!
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Quarterly Coffee Chat on Leadership The Leadership Development Committee of the Association of Northwestern University Women (ANUW) warmly invites you to participate in our quarterly coffee chat, where colleagues gather to discuss important leadership topics. Event Format Each coffee chat begins with a brief presentation that introduces the designated leadership topic, setting the stage for discussion and reflection. Following the presentation, attendees will be divided into smaller groups, allowing for more focused and meaningful conversations. This structure is designed to enhance the overall experience and promote impactful exchanges among participants.