Past Events
Undergraduate Research Information Session
April 25, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
April 18, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
April 11, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ACC SPEAKER: JILL LANE
April 5, 2012 • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
AMST: Rebecca Traister
April 4, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
April 4, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
March 28, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
March 14, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ACC SPEAKER: RICK ALTMAN
March 8, 2012 • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
March 7, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
February 29, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
February 22, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Harvey Young, Jr., The Evanston Northwestern Humanities Lecture Series
February 16, 2012 • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
February 15, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ACC SPEAKER: ANGELA G. RAY
February 13, 2012 • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
February 8, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
February 1, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ACC SPEAKER: LINDA M.G. ZERILLI
January 25, 2012 • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
January 25, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
January 18, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
January 11, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
January 4, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
December 7, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
November 30, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Christ the Teacher Institute Seminar
November 17, 2011 • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
November 16, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ACC ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: LLOYD PRATT
November 15, 2011 • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
ACC SPEAKER: LLOYD PRATT
November 14, 2011 • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Children’s Rights as Workers
November 11, 2011 • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Friday Films: The Edge of Joy by Dawn Sinclair Shapiro
November 11, 2011 • 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
November 10, 2011 • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Christ the Teacher Institute Seminar
November 10, 2011 • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Miss Representation Film Screening
November 9, 2011 • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
El Barrio No Se Vende! Se Ama y Se Defiende!: Our Fight Against Global Displacement
November 9, 2011 • 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
November 9, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Lovers and Fighters: Literacy, Manhood and Urban Migration in Dar es Salaam's 1970s Pulp Fiction
November 9, 2011 • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Politics in the Middle East as a Disabled Woman
November 8, 2011 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Christ the Teacher Institute Seminar
November 3, 2011 • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Adrian Burgos Jr.
November 3, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
AMST: R. BLAKESLEE GILPIN
November 3, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
November 2, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Jedi Master, Karate Kids, and Kung Fu Pandas: Reimagining American Religions for a New Generation
November 2, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Allison Davis Lecture delivered by Professor Randall Kennedy
November 1, 2011 • 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Christ the Teacher Institute Seminar
October 27, 2011 • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
22nd Annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture
October 26, 2011 • 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
October 26, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
October 19, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Post-9/11 Brown: Hip Hop Show featuring MC Chee Malabar and DJ Ali
October 14, 2011 • 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
October 12, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
“Black Gods, Prophets, and Utopian Visions: Religion and Racial Identity in the Great Migration.”
October 10, 2011 • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Crain Lecture: Joanne Gordon
October 10, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Chat and Chew
October 7, 2011 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Colloquium - Veronica Terriquez, University of Southern California
October 6, 2011 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
October 5, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Julia Stern, The Evanston Northwestern Humanities Lecture Series
October 4, 2011 • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
IPR Colloquium: J. Guryan (IPR/SESP), "Motivation and Incentives in Education"
October 3, 2011 • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Program of African Studies Open House
September 29, 2011 • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Information Session
September 28, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Globalizing American Studies
May 20, 2011 •
Globalizing American Studies
May 19, 2011 •
The Allan Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
May 17, 2011 • 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Getting Better: Why Development is Succeeding and How We Can Improve the World Even More
May 17, 2011 • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Sr Research Symposium: American Studies Program
May 16, 2011 • 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Global Poverty as a Human Rights Violation? A Pragmatic Question
May 12, 2011 • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Professor of American Indian Studies: John Low
April 27, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel Laureate » The Golden Cage
April 25, 2011 • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
“I want to, I can”: Human Development Programs to Break the Poverty Cycle in a Sustainable Way
April 18, 2011 • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
PANELS: NU Living Wage Activist Conference
April 15, 2011 • 10:00 AM - 9:30 PM
NU Living Wage Activist Conference: KEYNOTE: Barbara Ehrenreich
April 14, 2011 • 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Undergrad Research Info Session
March 30, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergrad Research Info Session
March 23, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergrad Research Info Session
March 16, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Open House: American Studies Program
March 10, 2011 • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergrad Research Info Session
March 9, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergrad Research Info Session
March 2, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergrad Research Info Session
February 23, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergrad Research Info Session
February 16, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergrad Research Info Session
February 9, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Undergrad Research Info Session
February 2, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
AMST: Jim Collins
January 21, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
November 18, 2010 • 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Meet the real Cleve Jones, as seen in the movie "Milk"
November 15, 2010 • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
IPR Colloquium: Race, Poverty & "Choice" Policies (M. Pattillo/Sociology, AFAM & IPR)
November 15, 2010 • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
"Mark Twain in the 21st Century" - Jonathan Arac & Susan Gillman
November 10, 2010 • 7:30 PM - 12:00 AM
American Studies: Ned O'Gorman and Kevin Hamilton of UI Urbana
October 26, 2010 • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
ACC Speaker & Allison Davis Lecture: Melissa Harris-Lacewell
October 18, 2010 • 5:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Moustafa Bayoumi: How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America
September 30, 2010 • 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
American Studies Welcome Back Gathering
September 27, 2010 • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Over the years, the program has invited distinguished visitors and has organized conferences in connection with particular course offerings. Prizewinning authors Frances FitzGerald, Art Spiegelman, Taylor Branch, and Dave Eggers, among others, have visited the campus and have participated in seminars.
Course and conference topics have included High School in the United States: Pedagogies of National Citizenship, The History of Higher Education in America, and American Indians in Film. The program has helped organize a series of forums on Politics and Intelligentsia: The State of the University Today.
The thematic seminars, the senior project, the electives, visitors, conferences, and the careful advising system together create a rare and exciting intellectual community among students and faculty that goes beyond the classroom and is one of the distinguishing hallmarks of the program.
