Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Meet the final two panelists for our fall quarter Buffett Symposium, Abortion Access Today. ?? The daylong event will convene leading strategists, researchers, medical practitioners and human rights advocates from Colombia, Ireland, Kenya, Poland and the U.S. to discuss abortion access around the world. ?? Katherine Mayall is a human rights lawyer and the Director of Strategic Initiatives in the Legal Strategies, Innovation & Research unit at the Center for Reproductive Rights. Her work focuses on comparative abortion laws, adolescents’ rights and maternal health. ?? Evelyne Opondo is the Africa Director at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and has 23 years of expertise in reproductive and gender justice advocacy, human rights and international development leadership. ?? This Friday, October 11 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. CT (GMT-5) ?? A reception will follow the in-person program. ?? Register to attend in person or online: https://lnkd.in/gcc-gnPS This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Reproductive Rights, Foundation for Women and Family Planning (FEDERA), International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) Africa and Maynooth University of Ireland.

On October 11, the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs is convening leading strategists, researchers, medical practitioners and human rights advocates from Colombia, Ireland, Kenya, Poland and the U.S. to discuss abortion access around the world, including ICRW Africa Director Evelyne Opondo. We're happy to co-sponsor the event with the Center for Reproductive Rights, Foundation for Women and Family Planning (FEDERA) National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Tune into the livestream to explore what we can learn from the strategies making significant impacts in different global contexts, and the question of when and how abortion—a very private issue—has become a matter of foreign policy.? Register for the livestream: ?? ?? https://lnkd.in/epYCtEMM? #SRHR #AbortionAccess #GenderEquity #GlobalHealth #ReproductiveRights

Join the Buffett Institute's Shifting Shorelines Global Working Group for a public talk by MIT anthropologist and ocean studies scholar Stefan Helmreich. He will discuss how oceanographers and coastal engineers across the world represent waves as avatars of an oceanic nature at once periodic and irreversible, wild and pacific, ephemeral and eternal. The argument is that wave science, so bound up with prediction, is about time and orientations toward the future—coastal, environmental, national, political and planetary. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session moderated by Corey Byrnes, co-lead of Shifting Shorelines and Associate Professor of the Environmental Humanities and Chinese Culture. ?? Tuesday, October 8 at 5:00–6:15 p.m. ?? 720 University Place, Evanston ?? Register to attend: https://spr.ly/6041UKE5l

Learn how AI is reshaping opportunities for counterterrorism, combating misinformation, and predicting and mitigating cyber-attacks at the annual Conference on AI & National Security hosted by the Northwestern Security & AI Lab (NSAIL), jointly housed at Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and McCormick School of Engineering. Led by V.S. Subrahmanian, NSAIL conducts fundamental research in AI relevant to issues of cybersecurity and counterterrorism. ?? Thursday, October 17 from 8:45 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. CT (GMT-5) ?? The conference will feature a lunch with live demos of current projects. The program will be followed by a reception. ?? Register to attend online or in person: https://spr.ly/6043UEnob This event is co-sponsored by University College Cork and the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics.

Happy New Week fam! Access to safe and legal abortion remains a global public health issue, with Kenya serving as a critical case study in the ongoing struggle for reproductive rights. Although our constitution allows abortion when a woman's life or health is at risk, access remains severely restricted due to stigma, lack of awareness, and limited medical services. Unsafe abortion is a leading cause of maternal mortality in Kenya, with thousands of women resorting to dangerous procedures each year. The global community must continue to advocate for comprehensive reproductive health services that are safe, legal, and accessible to all women. Empowering women with knowledge, quality healthcare, and ability to exercise their bodily autonomy is key to addressing this issue. I will be speaking at the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs’ Symposium on Global Abortion Access to share our experience and the lessons we are learning even as we call for global solidarity on this important issue that is under attack. #Womenlivesmatter #ICRWAfrica #WomenReproductiveServices #WomenSolidarity

Northwestern University undergraduates are invited to apply for the Buffett Institute’s International Senior Thesis Research Grant (Academic Year), which offers awards of up to $3,000 for independent research for a senior thesis focused on an international or global issue and is designed to support travel and living expenses during the grant period. "Experiencing the culture on site gave me a deeper appreciation of the social and historical factors at play, which enriched my analysis and contributed to a more holistic interpretation of the research findings,” says Clara Oh, who traveled abroad this summer to conduct her own research with the support of a Buffett Institute International Senior Thesis Research Grant. Learn more and apply by October 15: https://spr.ly/6042o2vw6

Northwestern University faculty: This #WorldTranslationDay, register to attend the Multilingualism Buffett Faculty Lunch to meet colleagues with shared interests in multilingualism and language learning. This event is co-hosted with Northwestern University - Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences's Language Resource Center. ? October 2 at 12:30 p.m. ?? Buffett Institute, 720 University Place, Evanston, IL ?? Register: https://spr.ly/6041o2v73

Northwestern University faculty are invited to an open house reception tomorrow at 720 University Place, the Buffett Institute’s new home on campus. Join us to check out our new space, hear more about Buffett’s current opportunities for faculty and meet colleagues across the university. ?? Tuesday, October 1 from 4:30–6:00 p.m. ?? Register: https://spr.ly/6049o2vQb

Northwestern University faculty, postdocs and students are invited to join a lunch seminar on "A Book of Waves" hosted by the Buffett Institute's Shifting Shorelines Global Working Group. In the book, MIT's Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers across the world, Helmreich details how scientists apprehend and study waves. Interleaving ethnographic chapters with reflections on waves in mythology, surf culture, feminist theory, film, Indigenous Pacific activisms, Black Atlantic history, cosmology and more, Helmreich demonstrates how waves mark out the wakes and breaks of social histories and futures. ?? Tuesday, October 8 at 12:00–1:30 p.m. ?? 720 University Place, Evanston ?? Register by October 3 to attend: https://spr.ly/6042o2vgj

On #InternationalSafeAbortionDay, we'd like to introduce two panelists for our fall quarter Buffett Symposium, Abortion Access Today. ?? The daylong event will explore the dynamics behind increased liberalization and ongoing challenges to abortion access, offering insights on movements for and in opposition to safe and legal abortion. ?? Krystyna Kacpura is President of the Foundation for Women & Family Planning (FEDERA) and President of the Central & Eastern European Women’s Network for Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights (ASTRA Network). Through FEDERA, she has been active in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights as a women’s rights defender for over 30 years. ?? Catalina Marti?nez Coral Foto is a feminist from Cali, Colombia, and the Vice President of the Latin America & the Caribbean unit of the Center for Reproductive Rights. She is a member of the Causa Justa movement and one of the plaintiffs in the historic ruling that partially decriminalized abortion in Colombia. ?? Friday, October 11 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. CT (GMT-5) ?? A reception will follow the in-person program. ?? Register to attend in person or online: https://spr.ly/6044o2vBn This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Reproductive Rights, Foundation for Women and Family Planning (FEDERA), International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) Africa and Maynooth University of Ireland.