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Amitabh Pal
Amitabh Pal is managing editor of The Progressive. His talk on "Non-Violence and Islam" will elaborate on the recent people's movements resulting in regime change in Egypt and Tunisia and how those nonviolent protests fit into the historical context of this Islamic tradition.
U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios
Rosie Rios, treasurer of the United States, will visit NIU next month to deliver a public talk on the importance of Latinos taking on leadership roles in public service.  The lecture will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, in the Altgeld Hall Auditorium.  “It is vitally important that we continue to expose our...
As the dust starts to settle following the Egyptian Revolution, talk has quickly turned to which Middle Eastern autocracy will be the next to fall to the demands of domestic protests for more democratic government. Many have offered that Iran’s Green Movement of 2009 has been reawakened by events in Egypt, which have, ironically, been...
Movie poster for "The Other Side of Immigration"
NIU’s Center for Latino and Latin American Studies is hosting a film festival this week. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, call (815) 753-1531. Tuesday, Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m. Latino Center, 515 Garden Road Documentary screening and discussion, “Which Way Home”  (in Spanish with English subtitles) “Which Way Home” is a...
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Joseph S. Nye Jr. of Harvard University will present a public lecture at NIU on “The Future of American Power.” A University Distinguished Service Professor and former dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Nye will speak from 1 to 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23, in the auditorium of Altgeld Hall. A reception will follow. Nye’s lecture will...
International flags in front of Holmes Student Center
Shahran Spears, principal of Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary School in DeKalb Community Unit School District 428, is the featured speaker at this year’s International Women’s Day luncheon. The event takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, in the Chandelier Room of Adams Hall. Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m....
When Dean Romualdas Kasuba helped design the current home of the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology at NIU, the plans for the building (which opened in 1995) did not incorporate putting his name over the door of the building’s main auditorium. That detail was taken care of Tuesday, Feb. 8, as the current leadership...
Susan Russell
NIU’s Susan Russell, a cultural anthropologist and former director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, has a new title: member of the indigenous Manobo tribe of the Philippines. For the past eight years, Russell has directed a U.S. Department of State-funded initiative to bring peace to a conflict-torn region of the Philippines. Each year,...
World-renowned gospel singer Fred Hammond will help the NIU community celebrate Black Heritage Month when he performs at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13, with the NIU Black Choir. The event will take place at the NIU Convocation Center. Hammond, known as “Babyface of Gospel,” has been a legendary performer since he began entertaining audiences globally more...
A month full of activities the NIU community has planned in celebration of Black Heritage Month 2011 will begin Tuesday, Feb. 1.
The Memorandum
Tales of spies, paranoia and fear of government control commonly draw on the historical situations during which they were written. Václav Havel’s Czechoslovakian satire, “The Memorandum,” was written in 1965 under the Communist thumb of the Soviet Union. The Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance will perform “The Memorandum” from Thursday, Feb. 3,...
Opening ceremonies begin at 7 p.m. in Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes Student Center. The speaker will be Lasana Hotep, the lead consultant of Hotep Consultants and a student affairs staff member at Arizona State University in Tempe.
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