Posted June 16, 2022
By Rebecca Shereikis, associate director of ISITA The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $59,571 planning grant to Northwestern’s Institute for...
Posted June 14, 2022
By Xena Amro A May 2022 workshop organized by ISITA and the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg...
Posted June 10, 2022
Global Perspectives on Changing Secondhand Economies, edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen and Jennifer Le Zotte (London:. Routledge, 2022) Providing interdisciplinary and global perspectives, this...
Posted May 30, 2022
By Esmeralda Kale Gifts come in all shapes and sizes, and this past year the Herskovits Library was fortunate to receive a gift of...
Posted May 17, 2022
By Florence Mugambi and Charla Wilson, We have embarked on an oral history project to document the Black student experience at Northwestern University in...
Posted May 12, 2022
ISITA welcomes Xena Amro as the Institute’s part-time graduate assistant for the 2022-2023 academic year. Xena is a second-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary...
Posted April 22, 2022
by Bengi Rwabuhemba, junior, Northwestern University The Pan-African Youth Conference (PAYC) is a student-led initiative that was conceived by students at the University of...
Posted April 2, 2022
In Afikpo Igbo, the morning greeting, nnaa, elicits the response, nahicha. As in many West African languages, words are often elisions of longer phrases...
Posted March 31, 2022
by Lamin Kieta, graduate student in political science, Northwestern University Gambian president Adama Barrow won a second term in the December 4, 2021, presidential...
Posted March 28, 2022
By Trevor Lwere The Pan African Youth Conference, jointly organized by the Pan African Students Union (PASU) at Northwestern University and the African Students...