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.

Attention translators and friends and lovers of translators! The 2026 Humanities in Translation (Hit!) Prize Competition is now open. Deadline Jan. 16. nupress.northwestern.edu/humanities-i...

During his stay at Northwestern, Buffett Visiting Scholar Mattia Peretti and @medillschool.bsky.social's @jeremygilbert.bsky.social helped launch the JR3 Project. JR3 convened participants from across the journalism ecosystem to envision a renewal of the “public’s social contract with journalism.”

“Conflict is more than what we thought it was before. It’s not just sea, land, & air, not just space, not just cyber—it's cognitive as well," said Professor John Blaxland of Australian National University at last week during his Buffett Lecture on Global Security Challenges: A View From Down Under.

With the support of a Global Collaboration Grant from the Roberta Buffett Institute, Northwestern Prof. Daisy Hernandez is convening a symposium with authors from the Colombia & US to discuss the social forces shaping their creative impulses & impact. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/colombian-...

Over the past 10 years, Juliet Lumati, MD, MPH, has studied how health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are designed—or often not designed—to protect patients from the financial risks of surgical and cancer care. #globalhealth www.globalhealth.northwestern.edu/about/news/0...

Michelle Lee, who studies climate displacement, was part of Northwestern's delegation to COP29, supported by @buffett.northwestern.edu. She was inspired by youth delegates from displaced backgrounds advocating for greater refugee involvement in climate negotiations & governance.

Hear from John Blaxland—a historian and former Australian military intelligence officer—on why gaining an Australian perspective on global issues can benefit American students, scholars, and policymakers. 📅 Oct. 1 at 12:30 PM 📍 720 University Pl. 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/buffett-le...

Congrats to @brenthuffman.bsky.social who was awarded with a @buffett.northwestern.edu Faculty Fellowship to pursue his research. His documentary, “Yemen Mosaic,” is about Yemeni women working to save the cultural heritage of Yemen as they face threats including war and climate change.

How can journalists ethically track the fast-moving social movements shaping politics & culture? @buffett.northwestern.edu's AI & Social Movements Global Working Group is developing a Social Movement Analysis & Reasoning Tool (SMART), an AI system to help journalists track movements in real-time.

Meet our 2025–26 Buffett Faculty Fellows as they embark on international research, filmmaking, & more: buffett.northwestern.edu/programs/fac... Lina Britto @brenthuffman.bsky.social @deankarlan.bsky.social katrina quisumbing king KB Dennis Meade Sally Nuamah Kennetta Hammond Perry Sulafa Zidani

Buffett Faculty Fellow @deankarlan.bsky.social, USAID's former Chief Economist, is among the experts arguing that supporting national governments to leverage domestic financing to improve foundational learning should be a priority for assistance funds that remain. See why: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

@buffett.northwestern.edu's Empowering the Next Gen of Women Leaders Global Working Group, led by @jnfrltackett.bsky.social & Haoqi Zhang, convened women across Tokyo's universities to discuss experiences with leadership and reexamine leadership possibilities through diverse values and dialogue.

Last month, the Trump administration named Jeremy Lewin as the new Deputy Director of USAID. Buffett Faculty Fellow Dean Karlan, former Chief Economist of USAID, shares advice for its new leadership with @cgdev.org: www.cgdev.org/blog/great-p...

Our spring Buffett Symposium on peacemaking convened diplomats, negotiators, and academics to discuss the high-profile peace processes of recent decades and draw lessons for today's negotiations. Watch our short recap of the event.

A study led by @fsmglobalhealth.bsky.social's Egon Ozer identified a new fungal infection in Pakistan. The international collaboration was launched by a Buffett Global Working Group grant led by co-authors Profs. Mehreen Arshad & Erica Hartmann: spr.ly/63326fqGp2

“This project is a model of how community, academia, & city government can work together,” said @mayorofchicago.bsky.social at a @buffett.northwestern.edu Defusing Disasters Global Working Group event on extreme heat. Read more in The Chicago Tribune: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/16/c...

"Peacemaking is not an event so much as a process,” said Abiodun Williams at @buffett.northwestern.edu's ‬spring symposium, which brought together negotiators & academics to discuss peace processes of recent decades. Watch the recording: buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ne...

Kaylyn Ahn traveled to Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia to conduct research on command responsibility and war crimes via her Buffett Institute International Senior Thesis Research Grant. Read about her contribution to Northwestern's #ResearchMatters campaign: spr.ly/63324fKJ9C