Last year, @buffett.northwestern.edu launched the Elliott Scholars Program to help students to bridge theory & practice in international development. Meet Mira, an inaugural Elliott Scholar who spent summer in Thailand with an Indigenous-led nonprofit—read: buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2025/re...

Some at our symposium on disinformation suggested the idea that fact-checking “doesn’t work” may be gaining traction. That alarmed Angie Holan of @factchecknet.bsky.social. She argues for being more precise about what’s failing & explains who benefits when we’re not: www.poynter.org/fact-checkin...

In November, ten Northwestern students attended COP30—the UN's climate change conference—in Brazil via a research seminar opportunity offered through @buffett.northwestern.edu. This week, they presented their research & reactions—read in @thedailynu.bsky.social: dailynorthwestern.com/2026/02/04/c...

Join NU Global Health Studies for a public lunch lecture to learn how the role of African intellectuals in early 20th century discussions among British colonialists & American progressives about Africans' health can offer lessons for global health today. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/suffering-...

Join us for a conversation with founder & CEO of the Karam Foundation Lina Sergie Attar on her work to move humanitarian aid for post-war Syria beyond emergency relief toward long-term resilience 🗓️ Mon. Feb. 9 at 12:30 💻 Attend online: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Interested in learning about accountability for social media companies? Don't miss our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social speaking at @buffett.northwestern.edu's Global Disinformation in a Post-Moderation World Symposium. 📆 January 23rd 📍Chicago, IL Register today ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4qNnOag

Join us for tomorrow's discussion of Operation Absolute Resolve, the recent US military operation in Venezuela. This panel discussion will examine the origins, legitimacy, and consequences of US actions; the future of US–Latin America relations; and how these actions impact international law.

Looking forward to speaking with Ambassador Julie Smith on Tuesday.

Vicky Wang & Elizabeth Lowry spent last year working as Buffett Undergraduate Research Fellows under art history Professor Yuthika Sharma. Wang focused on organizing archival materials & developing foundational research skills while Lowry traveled to London & Paris to work in archives.

Interested in learning about accountability for social media companies? Don't miss our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social speaking at @buffett.northwestern.edu's Global Disinformation in a Post-Moderation World Symposium. 📆 January 23rd 📍Chicago, IL Register today ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4qNnOag

As social media giants scale back content moderation and governments shutter counter-disinformation programs, some experts warn we are entering a “post-moderation era.” Join us for Global Disinformation in a Post-Moderation World, a two-day symposium on how these shifts are reshaping the globe.

Submit a new translation of important literary & scholarly works to the 2026–27 Humanities in Translation Prize by Friday,Jan. 16 📝 The winner will receive a cash prize and a commitment from @NorthwesternU Press to publish the finished work. 🔗 Learn more nupress.northwestern.edu/humanities-i...

Among our inaugural Buffett Undergraduate Research Fellows were Atarah & Luke, who spent a summer under the mentorship of Prof. KB Dennis Meade helping produce a documentary focused on a Revivalist religious community in Jamaica, synthesizing Kongo-derived spiritual traditions & colonial religions.

Our inaugural photo contest for undergraduates yielded some incredible shots of our Buffett Undergraduate Research Fellows, Elliott Scholars, and International Senior Thesis Grantees embarking on research and community-based internships in locations ranging from Argentina to Thailand to Germany.

The second panel of our spring symposium, Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World, brought together diplomats, negotiators, & academics to draw lessons from landmark peace negotiations for designing successful peace processes in a world confronting a crisis of multilateralism.

We spoke with one of our inaugural fellows, Cansada "Sadie" Barlow, about her experience as one of our inaugural Buffett Undergraduate Research Fellows. She collaborated with @polisciatnu.bsky.social Professor Ian Hurd to examine the concept of world order through a skeptical lens.

“We cannot secure the world from malign actors if we cannot foresee the threats they pose,” said McCormick School of Engineering's Professor V.S. Subrahmanian, Buffett Faculty Fellow and head of the Northwestern Security & AI Lab (NSAIL) at NSAIL's annual conference earlier this month. 🧵 1/2

Thanks to @technologyreview.com and Finian Hazen (who was a student in my special seminar @buffett.northwestern.edu) for this profile of our work @citizenlab.ca

For our graduate-level photo & video contest, graduate students submitted entries showcasing their research abroad supported by @buffett.northwestern.edu. Explore submissions from our winners, who traveled to China, Colombia, Liberia, India, and Thailand: spr.ly/63320CkG0o

"I felt the only way I could do the Iraqi people justice was to travel to Iraq and hear their thoughts and views directly," shared Hamza Haq, a recipient of @buffett.northwestern.edu's International Senior Thesis Research Award, who traveled to Iraq to study the security policies of holy cities.

Moments of public “shaming” can take on unexpected political meaning online. Our new Buffett Q&A features Northwestern Qatar professor Heather Jaber’s forthcoming book, Eating It: Digital Bahdala & the Politics of Humiliation, supported by a Buffett / Kaplan Institute fellowship... 🧵1/2

Today is the annual Conference on AI & National Security, hosted by the Northwestern Security & AI Lab (NSAIL) directed by Professor VS Subrahmanian and co-sponsored by Ireland's @ucc.ie and @insightcentre.bsky.social. 🧵1 About the conference: mailchi.mp/northwestern...

At our annual Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies Lecture last month, Ambassador (ret.) Ian Kelly shared insights into the West's wishful thinking that got Moscow so wrong for so long... 🧵 1/5

Check out our newsletter for... 🧵/3 🇲🇷 ➡️ 🇸🇦 A from 2024–25 Buffett Faculty Fellow Zekeria Ahmed Salem, who shares how his fellowship enabled him to retrace Hajj routes once traveled by the scholars at the center of his book project, Islamic Knowledge Unbound buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2025/my...

How can we sustain trust and counter disinformation in a changing digital world? Join Ellen McCarthy, Suzanne Nossel, James Warren, and @leslievinjamuri.bsky.social in a partner event with @buffett.northwestern.edu and the Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America on 1/22. brnw.ch/21wYdoS

For your #Oscar consideration for Best Short #Documentary - "Far from Home" is now viewable on the @theacademyusa.bsky.social Awards portal. When #Afghans are being demonized in the US, this award-winning short tells the humanizing story of one woman’s fight for a safe home for her family.

At our recent Buffett Book Talk with anthropologist Chelsie Yount, she shared insights from Selective Solidarity: Children & Middle-Class Moralities in Transnational Senegal, her ethnography of Senegalese households in Paris & Dakar that analyzes ways families negotiate transnational kinship 🧵

Submit a new translation of important literary & scholarly works to the 2026–27 Humanities in Translation Prize by Jan. 16 ✏️ This prize aims to bring international attention to works from around the world, particularly from less commonly translated languages.

Congrats to Matej Jungwirth, @polisciatnu.bsky.social PhD candidate & former Buffett Research Fellow, on his honorable mention for the Doris Graber Best Student Paper Competition at MAPOR. His paper shared insights from his survey experiment study of Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic... 🧵

What does political resistance look like in real time? IL Governor JB Pritzker talks with Northwestern's Professor Peter Selvin (also a @buffett.northwestern.edu advisor) about the rise of “modern tyranny" & why he’s willing to say: “Come & get me.” Read & listen: www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

Northwestern alumna Roberta Buffett Elliott has made a new $11.8 million gift to support global undergraduate initiatives at the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and the newly renamed Roberta Buffett International Studies Program. 🌏🎓✈️ Learn more: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

November's Buffett First Friday Lunch featured Buffett Visiting Scholar Roberson Alphonse, head of national news at Le Nouvelliste, Haiti's oldest and largest daily newspaper, and Nathalie Cardichon, journalist/communication specialist and former leader at several nonprofit agencies in Haiti.

🪖 How will AI-driven warfare shape global stability? ❓ What guardrails are essential for responsible AI governance? 📱 How can we counter AI-powered scams & malware? ⚖️ How can courts preserve trust in digital evidence as deepfakes enter the courtroom? Join us on Thursday, December 11... 🧵

Jeffrey Winters, @polisciatnu.bsky.social Professor & Director of @buffett.northwestern.edu's Equality Development & Globalization Studies (EDGS) Program, spoke with @abc7.bsky.social about the risk of a mass exodus of the rich from NYC following Mamdani's election. abcnews.go.com/Business/ric...

Join us at Global Health Day! 📆 Wed, Nov 19 📍 Lurie Medical Research Center, 303 E Superior St, Chicago www.globalhealth.northwestern.edu/events/globa... #globalhealthday #globalhealthday2025

For a 5th year, a Northwestern delegation supported by @buffett.northwestern.edu is attending the world’s largest annual international treaty negotiations & climate summit, the 30th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held this year in Belém, Brazil.

A decade after Northwestern University alumna Roberta Buffett Elliott gifted $101 million to establish the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, her mission to transform global studies at Northwestern continues to thrive—empowering students & faculty to tackle challenging global problems.

Danielle Ortiz, who studies environmental political theory, was part of Northwestern's delegation to COP29, supported by @buffett.northwestern.edu. While attending the conference, Danielle observed meetings between grassroots organizations and international policymakers.

Young people are leading global efforts to end conflict, defend human rights, & advocate for sustainable peace. Hosted by @buffett.northwestern.edu, this student-led symposium on Fri. Nov. 7 brings together activists, politicians, NGO leaders, & negotiators from across the world to... 🧵

“Americans are paying farmers to grow soybeans, turn them into inefficient fuels—and then paying again when trade wars make them unsellable," writes @mikegrunwald.bsky.social in his new op-ed published by @nytimes.com today: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...

This is so cool. I think I’ll only ever be comfortable w/ AI up to a point. But I feel like THIS👇is the sort of thing AI in journalism was intended to create.

Join Medill and @buffett.northwestern.edu for "Press Freedom Under Fire: Threats to Journalism and Democracy." The two-day session will feature discussions with newsroom leaders, experts and reporters about the challenges facing journalists. Register here: spr.ly/63324AgBow

At our Buffett First Friday Lunch in October, Professor Bruce Carruthers shared his current research on long-term decision-making. Today, "there is abundant short-termism," he explained, "which is not only psychologically embedded for individuals but also institutionalized..." (🧵 1/3)

What happened to microfinance, the anti-poverty program that was supposed to change the world? Join Northwestern's Global Health Studies Program on Friday, Oct. 24 for a lunch lecture from journalist and author Mara Kardas-Nelson to learn about the promises and perils of global microfinance. 🧵

Northwestern undergraduates! Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for an open house to learn more about the Institute's opportunities to contribute to international development, support international faculty research, conduct your own research abroad, and connect with faculty & fellow students.

With support from the Roberta Buffett Institute's Epistemic Reparations Global Working Group, @brenthuffman.bsky.social's students in his Documenting Incarceral Justice course collaborated with incarcerated students in the Northwestern Prison Education Program to create short docs on their lives.

As the Nobel Prize announcement week comes to a close, we are looking forward to welcoming 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad to the @BuffettInst on Fri. Nov. 7 for our student-led Buffett Symposium, The Peace We Make. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-peace-...

Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, on his Nobel Prize. The Roberta Buffett Institute is co-sponsoring a conference with the Department of Economics this spring on his work, which focuses on the economic history of Europe. Stay tuned for more details.

Congratulations to Catalina Martínez Coral on this recognition. Last year, she joined us for our fall Buffett Symposium to share insights into her decades of work fighting for reproductive rights in Colombia and the strategies that brought her and fellow activists such notable success.

Northwestern graduate students! Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for an open house to learn more about the Institute's opportunities: receive support for international research, meet colleagues & learn about cutting-edge scholarship at our events, and work & recharge in the Buffett Reading Room.