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Indigenous artist Chris Pappan’s exhibit “Drawing on Tradition” at the Field Museum. As a panelist of Friday’s symposium, Pappan utilized the exhibit to challenge viewers to acknowledge and confront contemporary Indigenous presence in museums.

NU, Field Museum and Newberry Library co-host symposium exploring “Indigenous Interventions” in museums and archives

November 16, 2020

Northwestern’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, the Field Museum and the Newberry Library co-hosted a virtual symposium Friday that challenged the historiography of “colonial institutions”...

Young Natasha Trethewey with her mother and father. In her new memoir “Memorial Drive,” she writes about her childhood and the tragic loss of her mother.

Memorial for a Mother

October 14, 2020

The Monthly One of the most devastating passages of Natasha Trethewey’s “Memorial Drive” arrives halfway through the memoir, in the chapter “You Know.” After 80 pages describing Trethewey’s...

Away from campus, students connect to each other through virtual book clubs

Away from campus, students connect to each other through virtual book clubs

May 7, 2020

A&E After the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Sherlina Chauhan (Weinberg ‘19) was looking to find ways to bond with her friends remotely. Thinking about starting a book club, she sent out a tweet asking...

“Divergent” author Veronica Roth. Roth’s new book, “Chosen Ones,” is set to be released on April 7.

NU alum and ‘Divergent’ author Veronica Roth premieres first novel for adults

March 5, 2020

The Monthly It’s a story that has now become infamous among Northwestern writers: Veronica Roth (Weinberg ’10) wrote her breakout novel “Divergent” over her senior year winter break, signed...

The cast of “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” rehearse. The show opened Wednesday, and will close April 4.

Northwestern professor brings young adult novel to the stage at Steppenwolf

February 26, 2020

A&E When Communication prof. Sandra Marquez was in grad school, she went to see Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros in a public reading of her short story collection “Woman Hollering Creek.”...

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