multi-day
Hindi-Urdu Language Table
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Tuesdays 2:30-4:00 April 15 through June 3, 2025. Kresge 4438. Are you learning Hindi-Urdu and want to practice your language...
Events Calendar
Attend one of the college's upcoming events, listed below. You can also review the Academic Calendars or find information about major college events, such as Convocation.
multi-day
Polish Conversation Tables
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
Polish Conversation Tables are held every Tuesday at 5pm in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department lobby, adjacent to Kresge...
multi-day
SLIPPAGE: 2025 3D Humanities Series
5:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by SLIPPAGE: Performance | Culture | Technology
The Slippage: 3D Humanities Series aims to nurture the formation of an interdisciplinary learning community that critically engages the connections...
multi-day
Friday Morning Faculty Writing Sessions - Kaplan Humanities Institute
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Ease into the weekend feeling productive! Join us in the Kaplan Seminar Room (Kresge 2350) on Friday mornings from 9am-12pm,...
multi-day
Korean Language Table
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Fridays 1pm-2pm April 11 through May 23, 2025. Kresge 4438. Practice Korean in a supportive and fun environment. All levels...
multi-day
17th Annual Writers Fest, Day 1 Reading: Mary South
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Mary South is the author of the short story collection You Will Never Be Forgotten with FSG Originals. She is...
multi-day
Russian Conversation Tables
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
This Spring quarter, join the Russian Club for Russian Conversation Tables from 5-7pm every Monday in the Slavic lounge (next...
multi-day
SLIPPAGE: 2025 3D Humanities Series
5:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by SLIPPAGE: Performance | Culture | Technology
The Slippage: 3D Humanities Series aims to nurture the formation of an interdisciplinary learning community that critically engages the connections...
multi-day
The 12th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
All day, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (NSSHL) is an intellectual forum for the discussion and advancement on...
multi-day
SLIPPAGE: 2025 3D Humanities Series
5:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by SLIPPAGE: Performance | Culture | Technology
The Slippage: 3D Humanities Series aims to nurture the formation of an interdisciplinary learning community that critically engages the connections...
Apr
15
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter James Gaynor
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Apr
15
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
15
2025
Dr. Gil Engelstein (University of Michigan): ‘A Perverse Work Culture’: Deviant Economies and Trans Liberation in West Germany, 1955-1985
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Co-sponsored by the Department of German, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (GSS), and the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies.
Apr
15
2025
Orfeu M. Buxton, Ph.D. | Pennsylvania State University
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
Sleep Health Work and Cardiometabolic Health
Apr
15
2025
No Way Home: Foreclosure and Mourning in the Chinese New Year Film
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
The Chinese New Year film is a regionally significant cultural form that underwent considerable transformation in recent years. In this...
Apr
16
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
16
2025
"An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Join KMTS, MENA, SHC and speaker Dr. Chris Gratien, University of Virginia, for a talk titled "An Environmental History of...
Apr
16
2025
Writing in Black: A Workshop Series: Dr. GerShun Avilez, U of Maryland, College Park
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Dr. GerShun Avilez Presents:
Apr
16
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Abraham Nitzan, University of Pennsylvania
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Abraham Nitzan from University of Pennsylvania will speak. Event is hosted by Roel Tempelaar
Apr
16
2025
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice your Swahili skills at Swahili Table. Come for snacks and conversation at the Program of African Studies.
Apr
16
2025
“Love of Stone Houses”: Anxious Transformations, Collateralized Ancestral Spaces and Sacred Objects on Africa’s Gold Coast
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Guest lecture by Hermann von Hesse (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) in the Hagstrum Room, University Library Organized by the Art History...
Apr
17
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
Apr
17
2025
Online Roundtable "The Dynamics of Nazi Propaganda: Mass Media, Gender, and Individual Content Creation"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Holocaust Educational Foundation
New Series: Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues The Dynamics of Nazi Propaganda: Mass Media, Gender, and Individual Content Creation Thursday, April 17,...
Apr
17
2025
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Alexandre White, Johns Hopkins University
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Alexandre White, Johns Hopkins University, presents: "In the Service of the Market: Insurance, The Royal Navy and the maintenance of the...
Apr
17
2025
MBS Seminar: DRiLS Lecture, Markita Landry, University of California Berkeley
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
Apr
17
2025
The Frances Aparicio Lecture in Latina/o/x Studies with Dr. Emma Pérez
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by The Latina and Latino Studies Program
Dr. Emma Perez is a Research Social Scientist at University of Arizona's Southwest Center as well as a Professor in...
Apr
17
2025
Brady Tea
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Brady Scholars gather weekly for refreshments and discussion about recent events and their implications for our society, ongoing moral difficulties...
Apr
17
2025
Weinberg College Named Chair Investiture Ceremony
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Honorees: Andrew V. Papachristos John G. Searle Professor Department of Sociology William Revelle Board of Visitors Professorship Department of Psychology
Apr
17
2025
The Moore Lecture Series presents John Keene
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
The Moore Lecture Series is proud to present acclaimed author and poet John Keene. His 2022 poetry collection, Punks: New and...
Apr
17
2025
2025 Public Humanities Symposium (April 17-18, 2025)
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Join the Kaplan Humanities Institute on Thursday, April 17 and Friday, April 18 for our annual two-day celebration of publicly...
Apr
17
2025
Nicole Fleetwood - Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Two events of the Kaplan Institute's 2025 Public Humanities Symposium: Public Humanities Keynote 5:30 - 7:00 pm Nicole Fleetwood (James Weldon Johnson Professor...
Apr
17
2025
Nicole Fleetwood - Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Dr. Nicole Fleetwood Presents: Nicole Fleetwood (James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU) in conversation with Marquis Bey...
Apr
18
2025
2025 Public Humanities Symposium (April 17-18, 2025)
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Join the Kaplan Humanities Institute on Thursday, April 17 and Friday, April 18 for our annual two-day celebration of publicly...
Apr
18
2025
Beyond the Law's Reach? Powerful Criminals, Foreign Entanglement, and Justice in the Shadow of Violence
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Our very own Shmulik Nili will be giving a talk on his new book that is of great interest to...
Apr
18
2025
Sarah Derbew (Stanford University): “Horizontal Reading Practices in Greek and Ethiopian Satire”
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Please join us on Friday, April 18 at noon in the Classics Seminar Room (Kresge 4364) for a lecture by...
Apr
21
2025
Department of Chemistry Special Seminar: Xiang Sun, New York University Shanghai, China
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Special Seminar Hosted by George Schatz
Apr
21
2025
MENA Monday: I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze - Michael Rakowitz
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze Speaker: Michael Rakowitz (Art History, Northwestern University) Lunch will...
Apr
21
2025
Urban & Community Workshop: Dr. Amin Ghaziani, University of British Columbia
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop presents: Dr. Amin Ghaziani (UBC): Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of...
Apr
21
2025
Novel Ecologies: Allison Carruth in Conversation with Sarah Dimick
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Allison Carruth is Professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton...
Apr
22
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Rick Silverman
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Apr
22
2025
Ethnography Workshop: Xi Wang, Northwestern University
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Xi Wang, PhD Candidate in Sociology at Northwestern University: “The "Acting Out" of Transference: Managing the Epistemic Authority of the Psychoanalytic...
Apr
22
2025
Film Screening – Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland (2011)
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
"What am I really – German or Turkish?" Six-year-old Cenk Yilmaz asks himself this question when his soccer buddies vote him...
Apr
23
2025
(Online) Warnock Lecture Series: Anne Lafont (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris), "The paper fetish, or art history without objects"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The lecture will focus on the moment in the long 18th century when knowledge of African religions and material culture...
Apr
23
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Tania Lupolio, NYU
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Tania Lupoli, NYU will speak. Event is hosted by Regan Thomson
Apr
23
2025
Kaffeestunde
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
4:30 PM in front of the German office (Kresge 3-305)
Apr
23
2025
Third Getting to Know Black Studies
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
A quick introduction plus food.
Apr
24
2025
Faculty & Graduate Student Colloquium: "Trouble in Utopia: The end of Socialism in an Israeli Kibbutz (1975-2020)”, with Omri Senderowicz
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
"Trouble in Utopia: The end of Socialism in an Israeli Kibbutz (1975-2020)”, with Omri Senderowicz Omri Senderowicz is a Visiting Assistant...
Apr
24
2025
MBS Seminar: Sue Biggins, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
Apr
24
2025
Brady Tea
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Brady Scholars gather weekly for refreshments and discussion about recent events and their implications for our society, ongoing moral difficulties...
Apr
24
2025
Medieval history Lecture
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Gray Boyce Memorial Lecture in Medieval History (CCHS/History) Jamie KREINER (UCLA), author of The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us...
Apr
25
2025
WITH THEIR BACKS TO THE SKY - Screening and Virtual Discussion with Filmmaker Erik Nuding
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Art, Community, and Environment Research Workshop
With Their Backs to the Sky is a feature documentary in progress that immerses viewers in the tightly entangled lives...
Apr
25
2025
Private Capital and Multilateral Climate Governance: How The De-Risking Agenda is Changing the Work of International Organizations.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Erin Graham, Associate Professor of Global Affairs; Director, Governance and...
Apr
25
2025
Department of Sociology Comparative-Historical Workshop: Methods Workshop
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Methods Workshop: Primary Sources & Working in the Archives Facilitators from Northwestern University: katrina quisumbing king, Assistant Professor of Sociology Anthony Chen, Associate...
Apr
25
2025
From PhD to Practice: A Psychology Department Industry Panel
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Please join the department of psychology in a discussion of research careers in industry post PhD. The discussion, moderated by...
Apr
26
2025
German College Immersion Day
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Spend a day immersed in German with fellow college students! The day includes language & culture workshops on different aspects...
Apr
28
2025
Between Orientalism and commercial alliances: Argentine and Chilean elites and the Empire of Japan
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Pedro Iacobelli (Universidad de los Andes) This presentation explores Latin American views of the growing Japanese presence in the region in...
Apr
28
2025
MENA Monday: The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey - Feyza Burak-Adli
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Feyza Burak-Adli is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. She will give a presentation on...
Apr
28
2025
Anthropology Colloquium - Karen Strier, University of Wisconsin - Madison
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
The Limits of Resilience: A 40-year perspective on the future of the world’s most peaceful primate Field data on the behavioral...
Apr
28
2025
Urban & Community Workshop: Rae Leader & Salma Mostafa, Northwestern University
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop presents: Rae Leader (NU): Black Queer Networks: Navigating Identity and Belonging Across Urban...
Apr
29
2025
R Workshop: Spatial Data in R
9:30 AM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
This workshop will introduce different types of spatial data and cover the basics of reading in, manipulating, and plotting spatial...
Apr
29
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Rich Schaller
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Apr
29
2025
Dayu Lin, Ph.D. | New York University Langone Medical Center
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
The neural plasticity supporting the motherhood
Apr
29
2025
Leon Forrest Lecture: Dr. Tina Campt
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences established the Leon Forrest Lectureship in 1999 in tribute to Professor Leon Forrest’s...
Apr
30
2025
Graduate-Faculty Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by History Department
Graduates - Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty. If this will be your first time all...
Apr
30
2025
Town Hall Meeting for Third Year Economics Graduate Students
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: General
DGS Federico Bugni and Associate Chair Ian Savage will cover important deadlines, degree requirements, and good-progress milestones. They will also...
Apr
30
2025
Fall 2025 Pre-Registration Preview
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Join the Political Science Department as we take a preview of the winter 2025 quarter courses. Faculty will present on...
Apr
30
2025
“How to Write a Democratic History of the Ottoman Empire?”
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Join KMTS and Ali Yaycioglu on April 30 from 12:30- 2:00PM in the Buffett Reading Room (720 University Place, 2nd...
Apr
30
2025
Town Hall Meeting for Second Year Economics Graduate Students
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: General
DGS Federico Bugni and Associate Chair Ian Savage will cover important deadlines, degree requirements, and good-progress milestones. They will also...
Apr
30
2025
Excellence in Graduate Research: 2021 Award Winner Xiatong LI, NCSU
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Excellence in Graduate Research: 2021 Award Winner Xiatong LI, NCSU - Kanatzidis Group Alumni Contact Ruth Barrerra - ruth.barrera@northwestern.edu
Apr
30
2025
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice your Swahili skills at Swahili Table. Come for snacks and conversation at the Program of African Studies.
Apr
30
2025
A Lake of Fire: Apocalyptic Futures and an Anthropology of Grace
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Edmund Perry Lecture 2025 Presented by Tulasi Srinivas, Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Transnational Studies at The Marlboro Institute for Interdisciplinary...
Apr
30
2025
PHILFEST - Philosophy Honors NIght
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Philosophy Undergraduate Events
PHILFest is an opportunity for us to celebrate our philosophy honors students. Each candidate will present their research, followed by...
May
1
2025
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Megan Whitaker, Northwestern University
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Megan Whitaker, Northwestern University, presents: TBA Hybrid Please contact the Department of Sociology for zoom link and for any questions at sociol@northwestern.edu.
May
1
2025
MBS Seminar: Julia Zeitlinger, Stowers Institute
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
May
1
2025
Brady Tea
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Brady Scholars gather weekly for refreshments and discussion about recent events and their implications for our society, ongoing moral difficulties...
May
1
2025
Book Talk : "SomeWhere We Are Human: Exploring the Humanity & Politics of Immigration"
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by The Latina and Latino Studies Program
Join us for an intimate and thought-provoking conversation with Professor Daisy Hernandez and Sonia Guiñansaca, one of the editors of...
May
1
2025
Environmental Economics Lecture
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: General
Join us for an engaging lecture on environmental economics, featuring short presentations by leading scholars in the field. Professor Diego...
May
2
2025
CCHS conference on documentation, identity, and citizenship in the USA: Day 1
All day, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professor Susan PEARSON on “Paper People: Documentation, Identity, and Citizenship in U.S. History”—Friday and Saturday, May...
May
2
2025
Michael Hallquist : Psychology Colloquium Series
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Title: Psychopathology Through the Lens of Transdiagnostic Decision Neuroscience Abstract: Each day, we make countless decisions, from the mundane choice of how...
May
2
2025
Give me a Light: Militarism and Japan’s Art Historical Present
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Phyllis Lyons Annual Lecture in Japanese Studies Lecture by Namiko Kunimoto Associate Professor, History of Art Department Director, Center for Ethnic Studies The Ohio...
May
2
2025
BRADY LECTURE SERIES: Kieran Setiya - "Meaning and the Afterlife"
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Keynote Speaker, Kieran Setyia Kieran Setiya is Peter de Florez Professor of Philosophy at MIT, where he works on ethics and...
May
3
2025
CCHS conference on documentation, identity, and citizenship in the USA: Day 2
All day, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professor Susan PEARSON on “Paper People: Documentation, Identity, and Citizenship in U.S. History”—Friday and Saturday, May...
May
3
2025
BRADY NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ETHICS AND CIVIC LIFE
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Current and Former Brady Scholars, Grad Fellows and Faculty Saturday, May 3, 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
May
5
2025
MENA Monday: Palestinian Diplomacy: Past and Present - Mkhaimar Abusada
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Palestinian Diplomacy: Past and Present Speaker: Mkhaimar Abusada (Political Science & MENA, Northwestern University) Lunch will be served at this event.
May
6
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Dayne Swearer
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
May
6
2025
American Politics Workshop: Alan M. Jacobs (University of British Columbia), Title Forthcoming
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the American Politics Workshop as they host Alan M. Jacobs, Professor and Department Head in the Department of...
May
6
2025
Faculty Book Colloquium with Kevin Buckelew
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Faculty Book Colloquium for Professor Kevin Buckelew’s new book, Discerning Buddhas. Panelist: Professor Stephanie Balkwill, The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures,...
May
6
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Jihye Park, University of Colorado, Boulder
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Hosted by Omar Farha
May
6
2025
Annual Theodore “Zev” Weiss Lecture in Holocaust Studies: "Unlikely Allies: Jewish Middle Aged Photographers and the Trans Camera"
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Holocaust Educational Foundation
Unlikely Allies: Jewish Middle Aged Photographers and the Trans Camera Annual Spring Theodore “Zev” Weiss Lecture in Holocaust Studies featuring Jennifer...
May
6
2025
Ethnography Workshop: Vien Ngyuen, Northwestern University
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Vien Ngyuen, PhD Candidate in Leaning Sciences at Northwestern University
May
7
2025
UCC Colloquium: Andrea Carlini, UCSB
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Undergraduate Chemistry Council, Andrea Carlini, UCSB Contact Chelsea Watson - chelsea.philyaw@northwestern.edu
May
7
2025
Kaffeestunde
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
4:30 PM in front of the German office (Kresge 3-305)
May
7
2025
Sandra Cisneros: Reading, Discussion, and Performance from the Opera "The House on Mango Street"
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by English Department
The Litowitz MFA+MA Program and the Bienen School of Music are proud to present Sandra Cisneros, in conversation with Derek...
May
8
2025
CCHS lecture on late imperial China by M. Sommer
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Matthew SOMMER (Stanford University), author of The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China...
May
8
2025
MBS Seminar: Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
May
8
2025
Brady Tea
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Brady Scholars gather weekly for refreshments and discussion about recent events and their implications for our society, ongoing moral difficulties...
May
9
2025
ABOLITIONIST TEA PARTY - Workshop with artist jackie sumell
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Art, Community, and Environment Research Workshop
How does the natural world endorse abolition as a strategy for liberation?” In this workshop led by artist jackie sumell, participants...
May
9
2025
Department of Sociology Comparative-Historical Workshop: Gabriel Winant
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Gabriel Winant: Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
May
10
2025
The Ancient Art of Pysanky Workshop
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
What is Matriarchal, Pagan and Christian? The Ancient Art of Ukrainian Pysanky! Learn the history and how to make Pysanky in...
May
12
2025
MENA Monday: Image & Text in the Pre-Modern Islamicate World - Jonathan Brack & Usman Hamid
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Image & Text in the Pre-Modern Islamicate World Speakers: Jonathan Brack (History, Northwestern University) and Usman Hamid (Religious Studies, Northwestern University) Lunch...
May
12
2025
Anthropology Colloquium - Barbra Meek, University of Michigan
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Relanguaging: From semiotic marginalization to decolonization What does it mean to “re-language”? I offer this term as a proposal for extending...
May
12
2025
The Department of Philosophy presents Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile's Professor Sasha Mudd
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Philosophy Colloquium Series
TBD
May
12
2025
Urban & Community Workshop: Michelle Lee, Northwestern University
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop presents: Michelle Lee (NU): Breaking Borders: Displaced Workers in the Digital Economy Parkes Hall,...
May
12
2025
Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization with Jonathan Gribetz, Princeton University
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Annual Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization: "Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy" Jonathan...
May
13
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Bryan Hunter
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
May
13
2025
Yun Ding, Ph.D. | University of Pennsylvania
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
Molecular and Neural Evolution of Sexual Behaviors in Drosophila
May
14
2025
Writing in Black: A Workshop Series: Dr. Robert Collins
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Dr. Robert Collins Presents:
May
14
2025
Faces of Science: Mona Minkara, Northwestern (Hosted by NUBonD)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Faces of Science: Mona Minkara, Northwestern (Hosted by NUBonD) Contact NUBonD: nubond@gmail.com
May
14
2025
Shooting for Change: Korean Photography after the War
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
In Shooting for Change: Korean Photography after the War (Duke University Press, 2024), Jung Joon Lee examines photographic practices under...
May
14
2025
Swahili Language Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Practice your Swahili skills at Swahili Table. Come for snacks and conversation at the Program of African Studies.
May
14
2025
History of the Book lecture by C. Zeltsman (CCHS/NUL)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
History of the Book Lecture (CCHS/University Libraries) Corinna ZELTSMAN (Princeton), author of Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico...
May
15
2025
Northwestern Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics (NUSTEP)
All day, sponsored by Philosophy Conferences
The Northwestern Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics (NUSTEP) hosts an annual spring conference in moral and political...
May
15
2025
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Randol Contreras, UC Riverside
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Randol Contreras, UC Riverside, presents: "The Maravillas: Gangs, Aging, and Mattering in East LA." Hybrid Please contact the Department of Sociology for zoom...
May
15
2025
MBS Seminar: Widom Lecture, Lu Bai, Pennsylvania State University
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
May
15
2025
Faces of Science: Mona Minkara, Northwestern
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Faces of Science: Mona Minkara, Northwestern (Hosted by NUBonD) Seminar followed by a reception outside the seminar room Contact NUBonD: nubond@gmail.com
May
15
2025
Brady Tea
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Brady Scholars gather weekly for refreshments and discussion about recent events and their implications for our society, ongoing moral difficulties...
May
15
2025
Weinberg College Named Chair Investiture Ceremony
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Kate Masur John D. MacArthur Chair Department of History Amy Stanley Orrington Lunt Professorship Department of History Ben Weinkove Madan Lal Puri Professor of Mathematics Department of Mathematics
May
16
2025
Northwestern Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics (NUSTEP)
All day, sponsored by Philosophy Conferences
The Northwestern Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics (NUSTEP) hosts an annual spring conference in moral and political...
May
16
2025
Hot Off the Press - with Editors from Northwestern University Press
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Hot Off the Press 2025 All faculty and graduate students are welcome! Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here: https://forms.office.com/r/k33ybnmVKC As part of...
May
16
2025
Power in the Anthropocene: The Implications of Climate Change for Influence in the International System
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Dr. Virginia Page Fortna, Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign...
May
16
2025
Classics Visiting Lecture: Glenn Most
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Classics Visiting Lecture: Glenn Most
May
17
2025
Northwestern Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics (NUSTEP)
All day, sponsored by Philosophy Conferences
The Northwestern Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics (NUSTEP) hosts an annual spring conference in moral and political...
May
19
2025
Undergraduate-Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by History Department
Undergrads! Join lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty at 12:30PM - 2:00PM. If this will be your first...
May
19
2025
Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies with Ethan Katz, UC Berkeley
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Annual Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies: "Unsettling Histories: Colonialism, Zionism, and Anti-Zionism" Ethan Katz, Associate Professor of History and Jewish...
May
20
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Christian Malapit
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
May
20
2025
Ethnography Workshop: Facundo Suenzo, Northwestern University
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Facundo, Suenzo, PhD Candidate in Media, Technology, and Society at Northwestern University: "The Rise of the Internet and Chat Rooms: A...
May
21
2025
Graduate-Faculty Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by History Department
Graduates - Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty. If this will be your first time all...
May
21
2025
More Than Two Things I Want to Say: Khatibi, Translation, and "Being" a "Translator" - Matt Reeck
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Presented by Kaplan Humanities Institute and Comparative Literary Studies Program. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to complit@northwestern.edu. The Translation in Theory...
May
21
2025
Excellence in Graduate Research: 2023 Award Winner Kaitlin Landry (Mirkin), U of Chicago
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Excellence in Graduate Research: 2023 Award Winner Kaitlin Landry (Mirkin), U of Chicago Contact Kelly Levander - kelly.levander@gmail.com
May
21
2025
Buffett Book Talk: Heaven Has a Wall
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Join us for a book talk with Beth Hurd, author of Heaven Has a Wall. Through an analysis of the many ways...
May
21
2025
Kaffeestunde
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
4:30 PM in front of the German office (Kresge 3-305)
May
22
2025
Learning Sciences Book Talk: Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by School of Education and Social Policy
Please join us on Thursday, May 22 at 12:30 pm CST for a book talk on Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics,...
May
22
2025
MBS Seminar: Needhi Bhalla, University of California Santa Cruz
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
May
22
2025
Brady Tea
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Brady Scholars gather weekly for refreshments and discussion about recent events and their implications for our society, ongoing moral difficulties...
May
27
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Xiaoyu Zhang
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
May
27
2025
May
27
2025
Ethnography Workshop: Special Session: Gary Fine
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Gary Fine, James E. Johnson Professor of Sociology and organizer of the Ethnography Workshop at NU for many years.
May
28
2025
Weinberg College Teaching Awards Ceremony and Luncheon
11:45 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. CT | Guild Lounge in Scott Hall For more information, please email weinberg_assistdeanfacultyadvancement@northwestern.edu.
May
28
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Ellen Matson, University of Rochester
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Ellen Matson, University of Rochester will speak. Event is hosted by Omar Farha
May
28
2025
Franny Choi Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Please join Northwestern’s Asian American Studies Program 5:00PM Wednesday, May 28 (Harris 108) for a poetry reading, Q&A, and book...
May
28
2025
101/102 Evening O’Skits + Pizza night!
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
6:30 PM in Kresge 1-515
May
29
2025
MBS Seminar: Tobias Meyer, Weill Cornell Medicine
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
May
29
2025
Brady Tea
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Brady Scholars gather weekly for refreshments and discussion about recent events and their implications for our society, ongoing moral difficulties...
May
29
2025
Special Guest Lecture: Karen Underhill
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
Karen Underhill, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies at UIC visits NU to discuss her...
May
29
2025
"Is Reality Overrated?" An Evening with Etgar Keret
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
More information coming soon.
May
30
2025
Comparative Politics Workshop: Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Scott Gehlbach, Elise and Jack Lipsey Professor of Political Science at...
May
30
2025
Department of Sociology Comparative-Historical Workshop: Marlous van Waijenburg
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Marlous van Waijenburg: Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Jun
2
2025
Urban & Community Workshop: Evie Lopoo (Northwestern) & Sophia Costa (University of Chicago)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop presents: Evie Lopoo (NU): Understanding Creative Labor in the Indie MusicScene: Competition and...
Jun
2
2025
Clare Kim - "Datafied Subjects: Race, Computation, and Japanese American Incarceration"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Clare Kim - History and Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago Title "Datafied Subjects: Race, Computation, and Japanese American Incarceration" Abstract Following the...
Jun
3
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Omar Farha
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Jun
4
2025
2025 Mark Ratner Series of Scholars: Dr. Rolanda Wilkerson, P & G Beauty
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Details to come For more information contact Kelly Levander - kelly.levander@nortwestern.edu
Jun
5
2025
MBS Seminar: Yifan Cheng, University of California San Francisco
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
Jun
5
2025
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration, details tbd
Jun
14
2025
Weinberg College Convocation
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Saturday, June 14, 2025 3:00-5:30pm Welsh-Ryan Arena Information on ticketing, regalia, and other key details can be found on our Convocation webpage. Additional...