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9/19-12/7
WANGECHI MUTU: A FANTASTIC JOURNEY
Block Museum of Art
Exhibition of works by the internationally renowned artist Wangechi Mutu - her first survey in the United States.
9/27
WANGECHI MUTU: OPENING DAY CELEBRATION
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Artist’s talk at 2:30PM in Josephine Louis Theater Wangechi Mutu will provide an overview of her work and participate in a conversation with Huey Copeland, Associate Professor of Art History.
OCTOBER
10/1
THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE FESTIVAL
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Swift Hall, Room 107
Rebecca Rugg, producer of The Great Chicago Fire Festival, will offer an overview of the spectacular event that will bring together tens of thousands of Chicagoans to consider the challenges facing and the promise of Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods.
10/1
FACES OF NORTHWESTERN PHOTO BOOTH
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Norris University Center
Capture Wildcat spirit! Take a moment to stop by Norris with your friends and snap a few shots… for free!
10/9
THE PARADOX OF THE JEWISH INDIANS: NATIVES, SEPHARDIM, AND AFRICANS ON THE COLONIAL CAMPUS
Allison Davis Lecture
5:15 PM
Harris Hall, Room 107
Lecture by Craig S. Wilder, professor and head of history at MIT.
10/10
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT, MY SIXTIES: REFLECTIONS ON COMING OF AGE IN THE “MIRACLE DECADE” & ENDURING LESSONS
12:00 PM
McCormick Tribune Center: Forum
Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault made history as one of the two first African American students to integrate the University of Georgia in 1961. She went on to a distinguished reporting career in America and South Africa. As part of Medill’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Hunter-Gault will reflect on her life as someone who both made history and reported it. Work done by Medill graduate students this summer to gauge the impact of the 1964 Act will also be featured.
10/12-1/25
RACE: ARE WE SO DIFFERENT?
Illinois Holocaust Museum
9603 Woods Drive, Skokie
Developed by the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota, RACE is the first national exhibition to tell the stories of race from the biological, cultural, and historical points of view. Combining these perspectives offers an unprecedented look at race and racism in the United States.
10/18
NU ALUMNI OBON BOOK DISCUSSION
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Norris University Center: Wildcat Room
Don’t miss this special opportunity for alumni to participate in the University’s community reading program. Join a lively discussion about an insider’s research on stereotypes and identity. Refreshments will be provided.
10/18
FACES OF NORTHWESTERN
PHOTO BOOTH
Homecoming Game
4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Ryan Field
10/23
FILM SCREENING: TITUS
6:00 PM
Block Museum of Art:Pick-Laudati Auditorium
Julie Taymor’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, starring alumnus Harry Lennix.
10/24-11/2
THE LARAMIE PROJECT
7:30 PM; 2:00 PM on Sundays
Ethel M. Barber Theater
A new generation of actors bring to life a living mosaic of one community’s response to a tragedy that became a catalyst of cultural and social change in America.
10/25
JAMAICA KINCAID
Chicago Humanities Festival
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Cahn Auditorium
Born in Antigua, Jamaica Kincaid arrived in the United States as a seventeen-year-old au pair. Working her way through college, she eventually became a staff writer at the New Yorker and one of our most renowned novelists. Her Caribbean birthplace continues to inspire her fiction, from Annie John and Lucy to Mr. Potter and See Now Then.Join her for a wide-ranging conversation with CHF Emeritus Artistic Director Lawrence Weschler.
10/25
HARRY LENNIX
Chicago Humanities Festival
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Cahn Auditorium
Harry Lennix (The Blacklist, Titus) and OBON’s Harvey Young discuss African American contributions to Chicago’s performing arts.
NOVEMBER
11/4
DITTMAR DINNER AND DISCUSSION
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Dittmar Gallery, Norris University Center
Reflections on Claude Steele’s Discussion of Stereotypes and Identity Threat. Facilitated by Visiting Scholar Badi Foster.
11/6
SCIENCE CONFRONTS RACE: A CONTESTED HISTORY
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Illinois Holocaust Museum
9603 Woods Drive, Skokie
Dr. Evelynn M. Hammonds, Harvard Professor Barbara Gutmann Rosencrantz and introduction by University of Chicago’s Dr. Cathy Cohen.
11/7-11/23
LITTLE WOMEN: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL
Josephine Louis Theater
7:30 PM; 2:00 PM on Sundays
A musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel.
11/12
DEPLOYING AND SHATTERING STEREOTYPES: PANEL DISCUSSION
6:30 PM
Block Museum of Art: Pick-Laudati Auditorium
Panel featuring Joy Bivins, Chicago History Museum curator; Maud Lavin, School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor; and Kathleen Bickford Berzock, the Block’s Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs.
11/14
CREATIVITY AND THE ARTS
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Wallis Theater
Ivonne Chand O’Neal, Director of Research and Evaluation for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will discuss broad themes including the economics of creativity, creativity research and interdisciplinary themes of arts education.
11/18
DITTMAR DINNER AND DISCUSSION
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Dittmar Gallery, Norris University Center
Join NU students in an open discussion on disability issues led by Professor Emeritus Paul Arntson.
11/19
INTERDISCIPLINARY GALLERY TALK
5:30 PM
Block Museum Galleries
Join Melika Bass, faculty member, Radio/Television/Film; Antawan Byrd, Northwestern PhD Candidate Art History; and Sakhile Matlhare, Northwestern PhD Candidate Sociology, as they bring their diverse perspectives to an in-gallery conversation about the exhibition, Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey
11/20
SURVIVING AND THRIVING: SUPPORTING WOMEN
AS THEY MOVE INTO ACADEMIC CAREERS IN
HUMANITIES
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Women’s Center
Panel of women professors will present their stories to help women graduate students to create a narrative for being successful in academic careers.
11/22
NU DAY AT RACE EXHIBIT
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Illinois Holocaust Museum
9603 Woods Drive, Skokie
NU Day at RACE Exhibit, featuring a talk by Noor A. Ali, Assistant Director of Multicultural Student Affairs.
DECEMBER
12/2
RACE AND HEALTH CARE: DEALING WITH THE DISPARITY
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
NorthShore University Health Systems/Evanston Hospital
Medical panel moderated by Dr. Daniel Vicencio, Medical Director, Mercy Family Health Center. Hosted at the North Shore University Health Systems/Evanston Hospital.
12/7
RACE AND THE LAW:CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND IMMIGRATION
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Illinois Holocaust Museum, 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie
St. Xavier University’s Dr. Patricia Battafora; Anti-Defamation League’s Lonnie Nasitar; Moran Center for Youth Advocacy’s Patrick Keenan-Devlin; Loyola University Law School’s Dr. Juan Perea.
JANUARY
1/10
NU DAY AT RACE EXHIBIT
12:30 PM
Illinois Holocaust Museum
9603 Woods Drive, Skokie
NU Day at RACE exhibit, featuring a talk by Medill Professor Larry Stuelpnagel.
1/14
FACES OF NORTHWESTERN PHOTO BOOTH
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Technological Institute: Lobby
Stop by Tech Lobby when you come back from winter break to take some pictures in our photo booths!
1/22
LATIN@ NETWORKING RECEPTION
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Scott Hall: Guild Lounge
1/22
MIKKI HEBL: ADRESSING UNCONSCIOUS BIAS
7 PM - 9 PM
McCormick Auditorium: Norris
Mikki Hebl, PhD, professor of psychology at Rice University will help us better understand how unconscious bias influences our daily interactions, relationships, academic success, service implementation, and leadership.
1/23
CULTURE CLASHES: WHY CULTURES COLLIDE AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
7:00 PM
McCormick Foundation Center
Dr. Hazel Rose Markus, Ph.D. is the coauthor of Clash! 8 Cultural Conflicts That Make Us Who We Are (2013) and the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, where she studies how culture, race, ethnicity, social class, and gender make and mirror the self, identity, cognition motivation, and emotion
1/26
MICHELLE ALEXANDER: MARTIN LUTHER KING,
JR. CELEBRATION
6:00 PM
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Acclaimed civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander talks about race and the criminal justice system.
1/30
HARAMBEE
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Norris University Center: Louis Room
1/30-2/8
FABULATION, OR THE REEDUCATION OF UNDINE
Josephine Louis Theater
7:30 PM; 2:00 PM on Sundays
A hilarious social satire where a successful Manhattan businesswoman must return to her childhood home in Brooklyn and cope with the crude new reality of transforming her recent setbacks into small victories, all while trying to reconnect to a family she has purposefully forgotten in pursuit of her own ambitious rise to glory.
FEBRUARY
2/3
CLAUDE STEELE @ NU MEDICAL SCHOOL
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hughes Auditorium (NU Chicago Campus)
Claude Steele delivers an address at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Box lunch provided for the audience. RSVP required. See OBON website for more information.
2/4
CLAUDE STEELE: ONE BOOK ONE NORTHWESTERN KEYNOTE
4:30 PM
Northwestern - Evanston Campus
Book signing to follow lecture. Please see OBON website for more information about this event.
1/30-2/8
FABULATION
Josephine Louis Theatre
A hilarious social satire where a successful Manhattan businesswoman must return to her childhood home in Brooklyn and cope with the crude new reality of transforming her recent setbacks into small victories, all while trying to reconnect to a family she has purposefully forgotten in pursuit of her own ambitious rise to glory.
2/10
FACES OF NORTHWESTERN PHOTO BOOTH:BIG 10 MEN’S BASKETBALL,
NORTHWESTERN VS. MICHIGAN STATE
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Welsh-Ryan Arena
Join us as the ‘Cats take on the Spartans. Bring your friends. Capture your NU spirit by visiting a OBON photo booth.
2/17
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE: WOMEN IN THE BUSINESS OF SPORTS
McCormick Foundation Center
5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Panelists discuss the increasing prominence of and opportunities for women in the business of sports. Visit the OBON website for additional details.
2/25
SURVIVING AND THRIVING:SUPPORTING WOMEN AS THEY MOVE INTO
ACADEMIC CAREERS IN STEM
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Technological Institute, Room TBA
Panel of women professors will present their stories to help women graduate students to create a narrative for being successful in academic careers.
2/26
DOCUMENTARY SCREENING: THE STUART HALL PROJECT
7 PM
The Block Theatre
Acclaimed British documentarian and film essayist John Akomfrah’s portrait of sociologist and cultural critic Stuart Hall (who died in 2014) is a remarkable look at one of the great contemporary intellectuals
2/27
GIRLHOOD
7 PM
The Block Theatre
Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the “boys’ law” in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never result in the freedom and independence she truly desires, she finally decides to take matters into her own hand
MARCH
3/30
AUGUST WILSON CELEBRATION: "HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED"
7 PM
Josephine Louis Theatre
In 2003, August Wilson wrote and performed this autobiographical one-man show, revealing intimate details from his life and how his plays reflect those events. This concert reading features Ruben Santiago-Hudson, a friend and colleague of Wilson’s, who thrilled New York audiences with the piece at Signature Theatre in 2013. A discussion about Wilson and his work will follow the presentation.
APRIL
4/6-4/19
WE ARE NORTHWESTERN PHOTO CONTEST EXHIBIT
Norris University Center: NU Galleria
An exhibition of photographs taken by We are Northwestern contestants. A reception will be held on April 17th at 5:00 PM in the Dittmar Gallery.
4/9
NATASHA TRETHEWEY:LEON FORREST LECTURE
4:30 PM
US Poet Laureate and professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, will reflect on her career and share excerpts from her writings. Visit OBON website for additional details.
4/24
STAND AGAINST RACISM
YWCA Evanston/Northshore
12:30 PM
Join the YWCA Evanston/Northshore for their annual Stand Against Racism.
4/24-5/3
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Ethel M. Barber Theater
7:30 PM; 2:00 PM on Sundays
Alumnus and Professor Emeritus Frank Galati’s adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Depression-era classic. A deeply moving testament to the strength of community and family.
MAY
5/6
JUBILASIAN 2015
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Norris University Center: Louis Room
Join us for the annual Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebration.
5/8
LIVING LIBRARY
Norris University Center: Louis Room
Join Northwestern students as they create a space for meaningful, candid, and safe dialogue while spreading awareness, attacking prejudice, and fostering a stronger NU community.
5/9-8/9
THE LAST SUPPER
Block Museum of Art
No matter one’s stance on the issue, artist Julie Green’s paintings of 500+ meals requested by death row inmates inspire deeper consideration of the capital punishment system.
5/15
BEYOND GRADUATE SCHOOL SUCCESS:UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIES IN STEM
12:00 PM
Norris University Center: McCormick Auditorium
Panel of NU alumni discuss achieving success in their respective STEM fields after graduate school and host breakout sessions.
5/27-6/6
SWEET TEA: E. PATRICK JOHNSON
7:00 PM
Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
Dynamic solo performer,author, and performance studies professor, E. Patrick Johnson, seamlessly portrays interviewees from his oral history book on black, gay southern life.