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Looking forward to speaking with Ambassador Julie Smith on Tuesday.
From US threats over Greenland and Arctic tensions to instability in Venezuela and the Western Hemisphere, America's alliances are facing new pressures. On 1/13, Julianne Smith joins @leslievinjamuri.bsky.social to discuss how these actions are testing US alliances. brnw.ch/21wYU7l
January 8, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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.
January 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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.
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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
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
Global Disinformation in a Post-Moderation World: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs - Northwestern University
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Center for Communication & Public Policy invite you to Global Disinformation in a Post-Moderation World.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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
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.
January 7, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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...
🔗 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.
January 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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.
January 4, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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.
January 2, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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.
December 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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
December 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“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
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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
“It’s [Citizen Lab] one of the few institutions that investigate cyberthreats exclusively in the public interest, and in doing so, it has exposed some of the most egregious digital abuses of the past two decades.”
Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone
Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades. Now, he warns, this kind of work is under threat.
www.technologyreview.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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.
December 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"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
December 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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...
About the conference: mailchi.mp/northwestern...
December 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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...
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
December 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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
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🇲🇷 ➡️ 🇸🇦 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
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🇲🇷 ➡️ 🇸🇦 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
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December 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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🇲🇷 ➡️ 🇸🇦 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...
🇲🇷 ➡️ 🇸🇦 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...
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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
December 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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
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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.
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.
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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.
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 🧵
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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.
December 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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... 🧵
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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-...
Read & listen: www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
J. B. Pritzker Sounds the Alarm
The governor of Illinois discusses what ICE is doing in Chicago, how the Trump Administration has created a “secret police,” and what to do when the federal government is breaking the law.
www.newyorker.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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-...
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...
Alumna Roberta Buffett Elliott makes $11.8 million gift for undergraduate global education at Northwestern
Gift will expand learning experiences and career pathways through the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and the International Studies Program
news.northwestern.edu
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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.
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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.