What if you could reach through the glass to pick up a museum artifact using VR? That's where Craig Stevens' Augmented Curiosities exhibition comes in.

How are global climate negotiations important for US cities like Chicago? Join speakers from the Carbon League, @germanwatch.bsky.social, and Industrial Policy Lab Indonesia as they share insights from the June 2026 UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies meetings in Bonn and explore what they mean for Chicago.

Congratulations to the Roberta Buffett Institute's director Deborah A. Cohen, Richard W. Leopold Professor of History at Northwestern University, on her election to @britishacademy.bsky.social, a recognition of her outstanding contributions to her field: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/92-new-...

“[In Sudan], Children are being caught in a relentless cycle of violence, displacement and deprivation,” says Sheldon Yett, @unicef.org Representative to Sudan, in an @ipsnews.net article. Read the article: www.ipsnews.net/2026/07/un-r...

How does cooperation unfold during global climate negotiations? @polisciatnu.bsky.social PhD student Kevin Wagner shares insights from COP30 in Brazil, where he conducted research with Buffett Institute support. Read the Q&A: buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2026/co...

At The Peace We Make symposium, students created the conversation. Hosted by @buffett.northwestern.edu and led by its Youth & Peacebuilding Working Group, the event brought together activists, politicians, NGO leaders, & negotiators to explore how young people are shaping the future of peace.

Buffett Dissertation Fellow Craig Stevens brings VR into anthropology, using immersive technology to help communities connect with their cultural heritage and interpret artifacts. Watch the 15-minute documentary: buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2026/bu...

Before being dismissed for being part of the academic resistance movement, he documented and shared the daily silent protests of Boğaziçi University employees speaking out against the university's government-appointed rector.

This fall, the Roberta Buffett Institute will welcome @cncndn.bsky.social as a 2026–27 Buffett Distinguished Artist in Residence. Since 2021, he has been dismissed from Boğaziçi University three times after nearly 20 years of teaching documentary and film production.

"Can Candan is an outspoken critic of the restrictions on academic freedom, democratic rights, and human rights violations in Turkey, both as an academic and through his documentary films," a recent article in Khrono, a Norwegian newspaper for higher education and research, states.

Congratulations to Gayle Woloschak, Buffett faculty affiliate & @feinberg.northwestern.edu professor, for her appointment to Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF)'s Scientific Advisory Committee! RERF studies radiation health effects in the atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Last year, Trihadmojo traveled to the 30th Conference of Parties (COP30) as a Northwestern delegate supported by @buffett.northwestern.edu. After COP30, he attended SB64 to further engage with international climate governance. Learn more: buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2026/fr...

"Progress here is rarely a single victory. It is the steady refusal to let cooperation break," reflected Northwestern University PhD student Bambang Trihadmojo after attending SB64, the 64th sessions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) subsidiary bodies.

How does it feel to be a global citizen in a language that isn't English? Buffett Faculty Fellow Daniel Majchrowicz, Associate Professor of South Asian Literature & Culture at @weinbergcollege.bsky.social, studies Hindi as a global language.

Our new cohort of Buffett Faculty Fellows is embarking on projects spanning Colombia, France, Jeju, Okinawa, Hawaiʻi, & beyond, researching issues ranging from the hidden costs of civil war to the sacred grounds of Pacific islands, & from the logic of kidnapping to the philosophy of the unthinkable.

How do digital media technologies reshape the ways we experience the world? Explore this question & more at the Transnational Technocultures Research Group's Physics of Technocultural Location workshop. 🗓️Tuesday, June 9 at 11:00 a.m. CDT

Academic freedom isn't only about faculty research and teaching. In a new practitioner brief, our Senior Director Samantha Nissen, PhD, explores how international higher ed staff can help create conditions for global collaboration and student/faculty mobility. 📖: scholarship.shu.edu/cisr/vol6/is...

Tune in to a voice collage recapping their first workshop, and learn more about the initiative: buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2026/qu...

Join us for a workshop discussing how AI threatens global security in an era defined by chemical, biological, and nuclear risks. 🗓️ May 21 from 9:30–11:15 a.m.   📍 Chambers Hall & online 👥 Attend in person: www.eventbrite.com/e/understand...    💻 Attend online: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join us for a discussion on threats to journalism at home & abroad with Thomas O. Melia. 📅 May 11 at 12:30 PM  📍720 University Pl. & online 👥 Attend in-person: www.eventbrite.com/e/buffett-co... 💻 Attend online: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join the China-America Reel Ecology Project (CARE) for the inaugural screening of seven short films, co-directed by Northwestern and Tongji University students, exploring China’s diverse ecologies across time and memory! 📅 April 30 from 5 PM - 9.30 PM 📍 The Block Cinema at the Block Museum of Art

In recognition of this year’s World Intellectual Property Day, we highlight the Fake Online Repository Generation Engine (FORGE), a project developed by the Northwestern Security & AI Lab and led by V.S. Subrahmanian, a Buffett Faculty Fellow and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science.

Sera Young (@profserayoung.bsky.social), Professor of Anthropology and Global Health Studies at Northwestern who co-leads the @buffett.northwestern.edu's Making Water Insecurity Visible Global Working Group, was awarded the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship in Geography and Environmental Studies.

The Block Museum, co-sponsored by @buffett.northwestern.edu's Shifting Shorelines Global Working Group, will be screening Franco Zeffirelli's documentary FLORENCE: DAYS OF DESTRUCTION (1966) on the deadly 1966 flood in Florence. 📅 April 24 at 7 PM 📍 The Block Museum of Art

What can the shorelines of Lake Michigan reveal about Chicago's history? Join @buffett.northwestern.edu's Shifting Shorelines Global Working Group for a discussion of Michael McColly's book Walking Chicago's Coast. 📅 April 24, 3:00-4:30 PM 📍Hagstrum Room, University Hall

Join us for Brave New Futures tomorrow, April 9 at the Louis Theatre for a live musical performance and Friday, April 10 at the Roberta Buffett Institute for a day of discussions, lunchtime networking, and a reception. RSVP to attend in person or online: buffett.northwestern.edu/events/brave...

A game studio founder reimagining our understanding of fundamental truths through play. A research scientist rethinking the human-machine experience. An Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, and a renowned climate activist. Meet these visionary international thinkers & more at our spring symposium.

We are all too familiar with the crises of our time: global warming, uncontrolled technological change, disrupted labor markets, eroding social norms, and new geopolitical conflicts, for starters. But what comes next? And how might we innovate for a better future?

This show will kick off our symposium Brave New Futures. The full-day program on Fri. April 10 will convene international thinkers to explore how human relationships, information ecosystems, labor, & the planet itself are being reshaped. In person & online. buffett.northwestern.edu/events/brave...

The styles of NYC and LA hip-hop will meet centuries-old storytelling traditions from Damascus at Neo-Hakawati Nights on Thursday, April 9 at 7:30 PM in the Louis Theater. Rapper and poet Omar Offendum will join multi-instrumentalist Zafer Tawil. RSVP required: www.eventbrite.com/e/neo-hakawa...