Oct 3–11, 2026 My Plan
Portrait of Daniel Immerwahr

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Daniel Immerwahr

Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

Daniel Immerwahr is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, where he teaches both United States and global history. He is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, and has written two award-winning books, Thinking Small (Harvard, 2015) and the New York Times bestselling How to Hide an Empire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), which has been translated into nine languages. Immerwahr’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New Republic, The Guardian, the New York Review of Books, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and Slate. He lives in Rogers Park, Chicago.

Events · 2

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Artist Talks and Keynote Lecture

Memorial Hall

Lindsay Albert, Joshua Berg and 8 more

Opening Program · biennial program · performance

Details

Noon Light Bites

1pm Natural Fictions

Conversation with Artists Joshua Berg, Covington, KY; Heesoo Kwon, Los Angeles, CA; and Phillip Maisel, San Francisco, CA; moderated by Curator Lindsay Albert, Program Manager, KADIST, San Francisco, CA

2pm Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Compressed Tenses

Conversation with Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Artist, Los Angeles, CA, and Carmen Winant, Artist and Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

3pm Nancy Rexroth: Secrets of My Power

Conversation with Curator Nathaniel M. Stein, Curator of Photography at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, and Elizabeth Leitzell, Photographer and Short Filmmaker, Philadelphia, PA

4pm Trevor Paglen: the most merciful thing in the world

Performance-lecture by Trevor Paglen, Artist, New York, NY, and San Francisco, CA

5pm The Long View Keynote

Lecture by Daniel Immerwahr, Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs) and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) are provided

Artists: Nancy Rexroth

Also with Daniel Immerwahr (speaker), Heesoo Kwon (speaker), Elizabeth Leitzell (speaker), Phillip Maisel (speaker), Trevor Paglen (speaker), Paul Mpagi Sepuya (speaker), Nathaniel M. Stein (speaker), Carmen Winant (speaker)

Cost: Free to Biennial Pass Holders

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