Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Restrictions on abortion are not just a matter of domestic politics. Abortion access has also proven to be a key international policy issue, producing wide ranging impacts. What are the barriers to ensuring safe and legal abortion access globally, and what are the successful strategies being mounted against them? The Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs convened leading strategists, researchers, medical practitioners and human rights advocates from Colombia, Ireland, Kenya, Poland and the U.S. to shed light on their challenges and successes at our fall quarter Buffett Symposium. Foreign Policy magazine's research and advisory division FP Analytics produced a synthesis report on key takeaways from the convening. Read: https://lnkd.in/gRtaKBxJ

Northwestern faculty, students and staff are invited to join us for our Buffett First Friday Lunch this week to hear from Sara Huston, co-lead of the Buffett Institute’s Global FamDNA Working Group and Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Huston will discuss her research on utilizing scientific DNA testing technologies to reconnect separated families. 🗓 Friday, December 6 at 12:30 p.m. 🥙 Lunch begins at 12:15 p.m. 🔗 Register to attend in person: http://spr.ly/6048t4XJK

Among the reparations that may be owed to victims and survivors of human rights violations are epistemic reparations—the opportunity for them to testify and document their own stories to a wider public. Professor Brent E. Huffman was inspired by the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs' Epistemic Reparations Global Working Group to create the Documenting Carceral Injustice Program at the Northwestern University Medill School to help facilitate these opportunities for those incarcerated in nearby prisons. 🎬 Attend this quarter's culminating documentary screening this Monday, December 9 at 6:30 p.m. in Evanston at the McCormick Foundation Center Forum. 🎥 Learn more about the program, which is a part of the Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP) and Buffett's Epistemic Reparations Global Working Group: https://lnkd.in/dvw78K8j 🌎 Learn more about the Epistemic Reparations Global Working Group: https://lnkd.in/g6uhZ-xQ

Listen to the season 7 premiere of the Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HER♀)—a podcast from Foreign Policy with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and the Atlantic Council—featuring Christine Lagarde and Malado Kaba on their efforts to advance women and girls economically. https://lnkd.in/gn-UT3tk

If you're a Northwestern University graduate student, consider applying for a Buffett Institute International Conference Travel Grant. These grants fund Northwestern doctoral students and terminal master’s students who are traveling to present their research at a professional academic conference in a location outside of the United States. 🗓 Learn more and apply by January 15, 2025: http://spr.ly/6044tpeRC

Northwestern University faculty: Interested in funding to address a significant global or international problem in an interdisciplinary, collaborative context? Explore Buffett Institute's Global Working Group grants and apply by February 14, 2025: http://spr.ly/6040tpdQM

Northwestern University students, faculty and staff: Join the Buffett Institute for our December First Friday Lunch featuring Sara Huston, co-lead of the Buffett Institute’s Global FamDNA Working Group and Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Huston will discuss her research on utilizing scientific DNA testing technologies to reconnect separated families. 🗓 Friday, December 6 at 12:30 p.m. CT 🔗 Register to attend in person: http://spr.ly/6048tpjpG

The Buffett Institute welcomed a series of feminist scholars and social activists to Women Life Freedom, a bilingual panel hosted by the Colloquium for Global Iran Studies at Northwestern University's Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. The event brought together panelists from around the world to speak about women’s rights in Iran, with a dialogue focused on the progression of women’s rights since the advent of "Women Life Freedom," a movement calling for Kurdish women’s rights following the 2022 Iranian uprisings. Learn more in The Daily Northwestern's article: http://spr.ly/6049tO3et

"When I tell people that I want to see a closing plenary, they nearly always say something along the lines of 'Why? They’re so boring.' But they are also unique moments in time," shares Diana K. Elhard, part of the Northwestern University delegation supported by the Buffett Institute at the United Nations's #COP29. Elhard is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science. Read her final reflection: http://spr.ly/6048tOy58 Northwestern University - Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy

"When you slow down to see and feel the little details is when you get a real sense for the people here, the decisions to be made, and the stakes riding on them," shares Cate Osborne, who attended the United Nations' #COP29 through the support of Northwestern University's Buffett Institute. Osborne is a fourth year undergraduate student majoring in history and environmental policy & culture. Read her Day 11 reflection: http://spr.ly/6047tMhkx Northwestern University - Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy