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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.

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¡Té Con Té!

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Practice speaking Spanish! ALL LEVELS WELCOME! Every Monday from 5:00-6:00, Oct. 2-Nov. 20. Refreshments provided.

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Tuesdays Coffee & Tea with Dr. T.

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department

Have questions about Religious Studies, majoring, minoring, honor projects, or just want to learn more about our Department? Stop by...

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NASA Space Apps Challenge Chicago

All day, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings

We are excited to announce that CIERA is partnering with Local Leads Margaret Creagh, Don Crowley, Rob Grum, and Alex...

Oct
2
2023

CogSci Kickoff!

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Cognitive Science Program

Come reconnect with the CogSci community as we start off a new academic year! Five and Dime rooftop, 1026 Davis St. Monday...

Oct
4
2023

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...

Oct
4
2023

Swahili Table

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...

Oct
5
2023

Weinberg College Staff Coffee Hour

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Stop by Harris Hall 108 on Thursday, October 5 from 9:30-10:30am for coffee/tea, pastries, and a chance to connect with...

Oct
5
2023

How to Give a Job Talk

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science

Please join the Political Science Department and The Graduate Commune & Placement Director for a presentation by Assistant Professor of...

Oct
5
2023

MBS Seminar: Reza Vafabakhsh

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences

Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series

Oct
5
2023

Brady Tea

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life

The Sophomores will participate in their weekly Seminar and Tea. 

Oct
5
2023

Creative Writing Spectacular & Faculty Reading

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by English Department

Please join us for an amazing evening of storytelling, poetry, and refreshments! This event showcases FOUR members of our creative...

Oct
5
2023

Gender & Sexuality Studies Fall Reception

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

A reception in the Kresge Courytard to welcome GSS students, faculty and friends back to campus. Refreshments will be served! 

Oct
5
2023

French Ciné-Club: LE GOÛT DES AUTRES

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian

Join us Thursday, October 5 at 6:00pm in the Library Forum Room for a screening of Agnès Jaoui's Le goût des autres!

Oct
6
2023

Frank Safford Symposium

9:00 AM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Author of some of the most influential scholarship on nineteenth-century Colombia and Latin America, Professor Frank Safford passed on June...

Oct
6
2023

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

1:00 PM - 1:45 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...

Oct
9
2023

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

3:00 PM - 3:45 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...

Oct
11
2023

Faculty & Undergraduate Pizza Party

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science

Please join us for our Faculty & Undergraduate Pizza Party on Wednesday, October 11th, 2023 from 12:30 - 2 pm....

Oct
11
2023

Swahili Table

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...

Oct
12
2023

Lecture by Judith BYFIELD (CCHS)

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies

Judith BYFIELD (Cornell University), author of The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria (2022)—Tuesday, October 12 LUNCH LECTURE...

Oct
12
2023

Program of African Studies (PAS) Open House

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Stop by and enjoy a snack at the Program of African Studies our open house. Meet the faculty,  graduates and...

Oct
12
2023

Brady Tea

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life

The Sophomores will participate in their weekly Seminar and Tea. 

Oct
13
2023

Nemmers Prize in Economics: Conference

9:00 AM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: General

Nemmers Conference.  This is associated with the awarding of the Nemmers Prize in Economics to Ariel Pakes.  Includes Professor Pakes'...

Oct
13
2023

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

10:00 AM - 10:45 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...

Oct
14
2023

Nemmers Prize in Economics: Conference

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: General

Nemmers Conference.  This is associated with the awarding of the Nemmers Prize in Economics to Ariel Pakes.  Day 2 of...

Oct
16
2023

Anthropology Colloquium: Maurice Magaña, University of Arizona

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events

Multimodal Archives and Multi-sited Prescence: Cultural Production, Intergenerational Activism, and Belonging in Diasporic Communities This paper considers the kinds of grassroots...

Oct
17
2023

Tolmar - Recruiting Presentation

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry

Tolmar Scientifc Leadership Development Program Tuesday, 17 October @ 10 a.m. in Tech K140

Oct
17
2023

Futures Beyond the State - SOVEREIGNTIES Dialogue Fall keynote

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

(Please note new time and location!) Fall Keynote of the Kaplan Humanities Institute's SOVEREIGNTIES Dialogue: Futures Beyond the State  An interdisciplinary dialogue on...

Oct
17
2023

Tolmar - SME Presentation

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry

Tolmar Scientifc Leadership Development Program Tuesday, 17 October @ 4:00 p.m. in Tech K140

Oct
18
2023

CFS Info Session Live on Zoom

10:00 AM - 10:45 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...

Oct
18
2023

Prof. Silyane Larcher Meet and Greet

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

Come meet Silyane Larcher, who will be joining the Northwestern faculty in January 2024, as Associate Professor of Gender Studies...

Oct
18
2023

Swahili Table

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...

Oct
18
2023

Lecture on the Holocaust by Valerie HEBERT (CCHS/HEFNU)

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies

Chabraja Center for Historical Studies (CCHS) in collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEFNU) Valerie HEBERT (Lakehead University), author...

Oct
19
2023

Brady Tea

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life

The Sophomores will participate in their weekly Seminar and Tea. 

Oct
19
2023

Kimiko Hahn Poetry Reading

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department

Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of poems, including: Foreign Bodies (W. W. Norton, 2020); Brain Fever (WWN,...

Oct
20
2023

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...

Oct
20
2023

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...

Oct
24
2023

Sebastián H. Páramo Reading

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by English Department

Sebastián H. Páramo is the author of the forthcoming collection Portrait of Us Burning (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books, 2023). His...

Oct
26
2023

MBS Seminar: Sadie Wignall

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences

Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series

Oct
26
2023

Study Abroad Fair 2023

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Northwestern Buffett Global Learning Office

The Study Abroad Fair is an opportunity to learn more about the different credit-bearing study abroad programs offered at Northwestern. Chat...

Oct
26
2023

Brady Tea

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life

The Sophomores will participate in their weekly Seminar and Tea. 

Oct
30
2023

IPR Colloquium: Silvia Vannutelli (IPR/Economics)

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: General

"Title: TBA" by Silvia Vannutelli, Assistant Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow This event is part of the Fay Lomax Cook Fall...

Nov
1
2023

Swahili Table

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies

Please join us at PAS for snacks, tea, and Swahili - whether you want to practice your Swahili or learn...

Nov
2
2023

Lecture by Ruth ROGASKI (CCHS)

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies

Ruth ROGASKI (Vanderbilt University), author of Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland (2022)—Thursday, November...

Nov
2
2023

Brady Tea

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life

The Sophomores will participate in their weekly Seminar and Tea. 

Nov
9
2023

Brady Tea

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life

The Sophomores will participate in their weekly Seminar and Tea. 

Nov
9
2023

Global 18C Colloquium: Rebekah Mitsein Talk

5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by English Department

Please join the GECC for a talk by Dr. Rebekah Mitsein (Boston College) on her new book African Impressions: How...

Nov
10
2023

“How I Wrote" Hybrid Sovereignty

12:15 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science

Please join the "How I Wrote" [Title Here], and the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Professor Swati Srivastava...

Nov
15
2023

Weber Lecture Fall 2024: Jessica Hopper

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science

Jessica Hopper is a director, producer and author based in Chicago. In a career spanning more than twenty years, Hopper...

Nov
16
2023

Brady Tea

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life

The Sophomores will participate in their weekly Seminar and Tea. 

Nov
16
2023

Evie Shockley Poetry Reading

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department

Poet & literary scholar Evie Shockley thinks, creates, and writes with her eye on a Black feminist horizon. Her books...

Nov
17
2023

International Speaker Series: Zoltán Búzás

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science

Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Professor Zoltán Búzás, Associate Professor of Global Affairss in the...

Nov
28
2023

Earl Miller, Virtual CogSci Speaker Series

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Cognitive Science Program

Information on the title and abstract of this talk will be posted as soon as possible. Zoom details TBA About Earl Miller

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