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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · Feb 21

Hello Bluesky! 👋 The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs is here to share our work in advancing research and teaching about the world beyond the borders of the U.S. through cutting-edge international scholarship and global engagement 🌎 Learn more about our work: buffett.northwestern.edu

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 17h

🎥 Watch our panel discussion Global Expansions in Abortion Access: buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2024/ab...

🎧 Or listen on...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6hsJ...
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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 17h

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.

Center for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org · 10d

We are proud to share that Catalina Martínez Coral, the Center for Reproductive Rights's Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, has been named to the #TIME100Next 2025 list!

Catalina Martínez Coral Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next

Find out why Catalina Martínez Coral is on this year’s list

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 1d

📅 Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 5:00 p.m.
📍 720 University Pl.
🍷🧀 Join us for light bites & refreshments
🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/roberta-bu...

Oct 14 at 5pm
Open House for Graduate Students

Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 1d

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.

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · 1d

Attention translators and friends and lovers of translators! The 2026 Humanities in Translation (Hit!) Prize Competition is now open. Deadline Jan. 16.

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The Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize | Northwestern University Press

Funded by the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and Northwestern University Press The

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 2d

🌎 Northwestern faculty, apply for a Buffett Global Collaboration Grant and/or support to host a Buffett Visiting Scholar by Wednesday, Oct. 15: buffett.northwestern.edu/programs/fac...
📝 Read a recap of the JR3 workshop: knightlab.northwestern.edu/2025/07/21/j...

Whiteboard that says "The Purpose of Journalism Is..."

Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 2d

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.”

Mattia Peretti and Jeremy Gilbert at the opening of the JR3 workshop.

Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 3d

“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.

Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 4d

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-...

Colombian Writers Symposium

Eventbrite - Colombian Writers Symposium - Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at University Hall, Evanston, IL. Find event and ticket information.

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Havey Institute for Global Health @fsmglobalhealth.bsky.social · Sep 10

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

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Lumati Leads Research on the Impact of Financial Catastrophe and Cancer Care

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 14d

Read more about Michelle's experiences at this annual UN climate conference that convenes world leaders, policymakers, and researchers from across the globe in our Q&A with members of Northwestern's COP29 delegation supported by the Roberta Buffett Institute: buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2025/bu...

Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 14d

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.

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 15d

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...

Buffett Lecture

Global Security Challenges: A View From Down Under

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Northwestern Medill School @medillschool.bsky.social · 15d

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.

Brent Huffman standing with people in Yemen.

Brent Huffman holding video camera in front of a man in Yemen.

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 28d

Group members include V.S. Subrahmanian, @danlinna.bsky.social, @jeremygilbert.bsky.social, Valerio La Gatta, Marco Postiglione, and more. Learn more about SMART: buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2025/em...

Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 28d

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.

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 29d

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

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · Sep 5

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...

Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · Aug 28

The event was co-hosted by The University of Tokyo and Ochanomizu University.

Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · Aug 28

A panelist shared: "I wasn’t sure if I could contribute well as a panelist in the discussion on women and leadership. But through the event's conversations, I thought more deeply about leadership and also about myself." Learn more about the group's work: buffett.northwestern.edu/research/glo...

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · Aug 28

@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.

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · Aug 21

Karlan also recently shared in-depth advice on how to fix foreign aid with Statecraft. Listen or read: www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix...

How to Fix Foreign Aid

USAID's former Chief Economist reflects on DOGE

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · Aug 21

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...

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Advice for the New US Aid Team

Former USAID Chief Economist offers advice for new foreign assistance officials, as they express the aspiration to spend “more efficiently, more tailored, more targeted, in a way that is not creating ...

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · Aug 18

Explore more insights from speakers: buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ne... | Speakers included Barney Afako, @ravireports.bsky.social, Betty Bigombe, Kate Fearon, Claire Hajaj, Christopher R. Hill, Sergio Jaramillo, Pavlo Klimkin, Carlos Prieto, Shoaib Rahim, William Taylor, and Tor Wennesland.