The Buffett Institute publishes working papers to support and promote discussion of current research on international and comparative issues. Papers are written by center affiliates or presented at our conferences or working groups.
Day by day it becomes increasingly clear that COVID-19 will have wrought lasting changes in our common sense understandings of “how the world works” and “our place in it.” All attempts to project how society, politics, and economic life might evolve must begin with our efforts, as singularities, embedded in...
Video recordings from the Graduate Student Virtual Conference of the annual Africa Seminar (AfriSem), an interdisciplinary and area-defined setting for graduate students studying Africa to develop, present, and draw advice on papers and research proposals. Sponsored by Northwestern University's Program of African Studies.
The research papers posted on this site showcase the wide-ranging archival work undertaken by a group of Northwestern University junior and senior English majors during winter quarter 2018. Their mission: recover a work of poetry published in the nineteenth-century United States from the library's open stacks or from Special Collections,...
Publications from Northwestern University's Infrastructure Technology Institute. "The Theme Of The Infrastructure Technology Institute Is To Develop Strategies And Tools To Protect And Improve The Condition, Capacity, And Performance Of The Nation’s Highway, Railroad, And Mass Transit Infrastructure Systems." The Infrastructure Technology Institute (ITI) developed advanced methods for monitoring infrastructure...