Sep
5
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Weinberg College Events
ConvocationConvocation is the formal graduation ceremony for Weinberg College, celebrating the culmination of students’ coursework. Each graduate is individually recognized as they cross the stage and their name is read aloud. |
Leopold LectureThe Leopold Lecture series has brought a variety of distinguished speakers to the Northwestern campus, focusing on diplomacy and international affairs. The Richard W. Leopold Lectureship was established in 1990 to honor the late eminent diplomatic historian and dedicated educator. |
James LectureThe Jeremiah S. and Helen James Lectureship on Assyrian Civilization and Culture was established in 1999 by the late Helen James Schwarten, a prominent and active member of the Assyrian community. The Lectureship was conceived to promote understanding and scholarship of both ancient and modern Assyrian culture. |
Upcoming events in Weinberg College, its departments, programs and affiliated centers are listed below.
Sep
8
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Sep
11
2025
Academic Directions Fair - Philosophy
2:00 PM Evanston
Learn about the Department of Philosophy!
Meet current students!
Meet faculty!
Find out about our student groups!
Ask qu...
Sep
11
2025
Weinberg College Academic Directions Fair - Religious Studies
2:00 PM Evanston
Welcome Class of 2029! Join us at the Fair, meet with religious studies faculty, and learn more about our program, cours...
Sep
12
2025
Department of Chemistry - Oktoberfest
3:30 PM Evanston
Silverman Courtyard 3:30-5:30 p.m.
RSVP to: kelly.levander@northwestern.edu
Sep
16
2025
Virtual Book Launch: The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau
10:00 AM Online
Tuesday, September 16
10 AM CT/11 AM ET/4 PM BT
Join Handbook co-editors Sarah Cushman, Joanne Pettitt, and Dominic Will...
Sep
16
2025
Geometry/Physics Seminar | Daping Weng (NC State)
3:00 PM Evanston
Title: Weighted Cycles on Weaves
Abstract: Weaves were first introduced by Casals and Zaslow as a graphical tool to d...
Sep
17
2025
Myron L. & Muriel S. Bender Distinguished Summer Lectures in Organic Chemistry: Phil Baran, Scripps
3:00 PM Evanston
Bender Lectures hosted by Christian Malapit
Location: Tech LR3 (TBD)
Sep
18
2025
Myron L. & Muriel S. Bender Distinguished Summer Lectures in Organic Chemistry: Phil Baran, Scripps
10:00 AM Evanston
Bender Lectures hosted by Christian Malapit
Location: Ryan 4003 (TBD)
Sep
18
2025
Third Thursdays at Kaplan Institute - Hello, Fall Quarter!
5:00 PM Evanston
Welcome back for fall quarter and fun times at Kaplan! Drop in for a drink and a bite and tell us what you did last summ...
Sep
19
2025
17th Annual Northwestern Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
All day Chicago
The Northwestern Center on Law, Business, and Economics at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the Center for the St...
Sep
19
2025
Sep
20
2025
17th Annual Northwestern Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
All day Chicago
The Northwestern Center on Law, Business, and Economics at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the Center for the St...
Sep
20
2025
Sep
22
2025
Sep
22
2025
Analysis Seminar | Yanyan Li (Rutgers University)
4:00 PM Evanston
Title: Symmetry of hypersurfaces and the Hopf Lemma
In 1945, S.S. Chern provided the following characterization of spher...
Sep
23
2025
Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop (QCoM): Kathy Copas
2:00 PM Evanston
The Department of Sociology's Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop:
Kathy Copas, Northwestern University: What ...
Sep
24
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Sarah King, University of Chicago
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Seminar
Hosted by Franz Geiger
Sep
25
2025
Ice Cream Lecture on Early Modern European History
12:00 PM Evanston
Annual ICE CREAM LECTURE with Scott SOWERBY, author of Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution (201...
Sep
25
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Ye Zhu, National University of Singapore [copy]
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Seminar
Hosted by Karl Scheidt and Christian Malapit
Sep
25
2025
Chemistry Department Seminar: Ye Zhu, National University of Singapore
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Seminar
Hosted by Karl Scheidt and Christian Malapit
Sep
25
2025
Sep
25
2025
"Translation: Or Is It Cultural Appropriation?" - Souleymane Bachir Diagne
4:00 PM Evanston
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor Emeritus of French and Philosophy at Columbia, will discuss his new book, From Langu...
Sep
25
2025
Temperance Aghamohammadi Book Launch with Kai Ihns
5:00 PM Evanston
Please join the English department in celebrating PhD student Temperance Aghamohammadi upon the release of her new book ...
Sep
29
2025
Undergraduate and Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM Evanston
Undergrads! Have lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty at 12:30PM - 1:30PM on Monday, September 29, 2025...
Sep
30
2025
Chemistry Department Special Seminar: Adam Jaffee, University of Notre Dame
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Seminar
Hosted by Dayne Swearer
For more information, please contact Ruth Barrera at swearer-ofc.no...
Sep
30
2025
Sep
30
2025
Fall 2025 Religious Studies Department Welcome Reception
5:30 PM Off-Campus
Join us at the Yasotorn Thai Cuisine in Evanston to celebrate the start of the year and meet our new faculty and student...
Oct
1
2025
Graduate and Faculty Lunch
12:00 PM Evanston
Grads! Join your fellow grads and faculty for lunch on Wednesday, October 1, 2025 in Harris Hall, Room 108.
Oct
1
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: WeiWei Xie, Michigan State
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Seminar
Hosted by Mercouri Kanatzidis
For information, please contact Ruth Barrera at mk-ofc@northw...
Oct
2
2025
Oct
7
2025
Color-blind Secularisms in Contemporary France and Québec
12:30 PM Evanston
Guest Lecture with Prof. Jennifer Selby, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Description: Drawing on thinking from Secul...
Oct
7
2025
Dynamical Systems Seminar | Ekaterina Shchetka (University of Michigan)
3:00 PM Evanston
Title: Double exponential mixing in analytic dynamics
Abstract: TBD
Oct
7
2025
Oct
8
2025
Oct
9
2025
CCHS lecture on "Historians, Avians, and Bird's-Eye Views" by Jared Farmer
12:00 PM Evanston
Jared FARMER (University of Pennsylvania), author of Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees (2022)—Thursday, Octo...
Oct
9
2025
Physics and Astronomy Fall Welcome
6:00 PM Evanston
Join us as we kick off the new school year! Meet faculty, connect with current students, and learn more about opportunit...
Oct
13
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Emiliano Cortés, University of Munich
2:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Seminar
Hosted by Dayne Swearer
Oct
13
2025
Oct
14
2025
Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop (QCoM): Philipp Brandt
2:00 PM Evanston
The Department of Sociology's Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop:
Philipp Brandt, Sciences Po: From Data Scie...
Oct
15
2025
Colombian Writers Symposium: Julián Delgado Lopera, Gloria Susana Esquivel, Jaime Manríque
3:30 PM Evanston
Please join the English Department in welcoming three renowned Colombian writers for an evening of readings and discussi...
Oct
16
2025
Lecture on the Holocaust by Erin McGlothlin (CCHS/HEFNU)
4:30 PM Evanston
Chabraja Center for Historical Studies (CCHS) in collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern...
Oct
16
2025
Holocaust Studies Public Lecture: "Representing the Operation Reinhard Killing Centers in Contemporary Holocaust Fiction," Featuring Erin McGlothlin (Washington University in St. Louis)
5:00 PM Evanston
"Representing the Operation Reinhard Killing Centers in Contemporary Holocaust Fiction"
Annual HEFNU/CCHS Lecture in Ho...
Oct
16
2025
Third Thursdays at Kaplan Institute
5:00 PM Evanston
Sips, snacks, and conversation—the Kaplan Humanities Institute invites faculty to join us for informal get-togethers on ...
Oct
20
2025
Oct
21
2025
L. Carroll King Lectures 2025: Brent Stockwell, Columbia University
3:00 PM Evanston
L. Caroll King Lectures: October 21-22, presented by Brent Stockwell, Columbia University
Hosted by Xiaoyu Zhang
Detail...
Oct
21
2025
The Moyal bracket and quantization of the spinning particle in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism | Ezra Getzler
4:00 PM Chicago
The spinning particle is a one-dimensional toy model for the Neveu-Ramon-Schwartz superstring: it is obtained by couplin...
Oct
21
2025
Richard W. Leopold Lecture | Nina Totenberg
5:00 PM Evanston
The 36th Annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture will be delivered by Nina Totenberg, NPR’s Award-Winning Legal Affairs Corres...
Oct
22
2025
L. Carroll King Lectures 2025: Brent Stockwell, Columbia University
3:00 PM Evanston
L. Caroll King Lectures: October 21-22, presented by Brent Stockwell, Columbia University
Hosted by Xiaoyu Zhang
Details...
Oct
22
2025
Chicagoland Friends of Economic History Dinner Fall 2025
6:30 PM Evanston
Guest of Honor: Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University)
Oct
23
2025
Oct
27
2025
Anthropology Colloquium - Gina Perez, Oberlin College
3:00 PM Evanston
Sanctuary and Accompaniment in Moments of Crisis
The idea and practice of sanctuary have a long and vexed presence in U....
Oct
28
2025
Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop (QCoM): Yingzhe Zhu
2:00 PM Evanston
The Department of Sociology's Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop:
Yingzhe Zhu, Northwestern University: No Ne...
Oct
29
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Jim Mayer, Yale
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Hosted by Bryan Hunter
Oct
29
2025
Oct
29
2025
Warnock Lecture Series: Adriana Zavala (Tufts University)
5:00 PM Evanston
Fall 2025 Warnock Lecture, presented by the Department of Art History. Co-sponsored by the Department of Latina and Lati...
Oct
30
2025
Pinsky Lecture Series | Alex Lubotzky (Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University)
11:00 AM Evanston
Lecture 2
Oct
30
2025
Pinsky Lecture Series | Alex Lubotzky (Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University)
3:00 PM Evanston
Lecture 2
Oct
30
2025