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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


 Irfana Majumdar made her directorial debut with "Shankar’s Fairies" in 2021.

Asian Pop-Up Cinema partners with The Block, features screening of ‘Shankar’s Fairies’

April 11, 2024

Shot over a 35-day span, “Shankar’s Fairies,” directed by Irfana Majumdar and written by her mother Nita Kumar, is a bittersweet, unembellished glimpse into Kumar’s childhood in 1960s Lucknow,...

A gray building located behind a pavilion with benches.

History Prof. and Organization of Women Faculty co-chairs win Provost Awards for Exemplary Faculty Service

February 7, 2023

History Prof. Laura Hein and Organization of Women Faculty co-Chairs Karen Alter and Leslie Harris won the Provost Awards for Exemplary Faculty Service, the University announced. The award, presented...

Photograph of a light-gray brick building with stairs to the entrance and a blue sky in the background.

Looking back and moving forward: Asian languages and cultures department plans 10-year anniversary

November 21, 2022

Asian languages and cultures department Chair Laura Brueck joined Northwestern as an associate professor of South Asian literature and culture in 2013. Now, she’s planning the department’s 10-year...

From left to right, top to bottom: Sticker designs with drawings of lotus flowers, pine tree, bamboo, plum blossoms and their corresponding Chinese characters

From classroom to community: NU students celebrate AAPI heritage through creative class projects

May 25, 2021

From selling self-designed stickers to performing an online concert, students in Asian languages and cultures Prof. Jingjing Ji’s Chinese 115: Chinese I Accelerated are working on projects beyond the...

New department looks to bring Northwestern up to speed in study of Asian languages, cultures

September 23, 2013

When visiting Prof. Peter Shen begins his Chinese literature class Tuesday afternoon, it will mark the end of a more than five-year process to bring Northwestern to the level of its peers in studying Asian...

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