Polish Conversation Table
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...
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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...
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Thursdays 11:30am-12:30pm through Feb 27, 2025. Kresge 4438. Are you learning Hindi-Urdu and want to practice your language skills? Would...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Media and Design Studio
The Media and Design Studio and Language Resource Center are pleased to offer a hands-on workshop on the use of...
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...
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,...
All day, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Visit the Block Cinema page for full film listings (days and start times vary): https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/cinema/cinema-series/trans-portraiture.html In March 2025, Block Cinema presents...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Mary South is a graduate of Northwestern University and the MFA program in fiction at Columbia University, where she was...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join us for a workshop on Writing the Teaching Statement! First, Kate Flom Derrick from the Searle Center along...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA welcomes Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Princeton. She will lecture on her book The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran. Lunch will...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Join the R workshop and PhD candidate Michelle Bueno Vásquez for an intensive hands-on workshop exploring advanced R techniques for...
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop: Carson Phillips, Northwestern University: The Eyes that Divide: Investigating Individual Exposure to...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Roundtable on the role of dance and theater in struggles for racial and social justice and against racism. With María del...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join LACS in celebrating the launch of the recent Routledge series on the history of Colombia. Co-editors Lina Britto...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Screening: “Hearing Silences: 50 Years of Black Women Faculty at Northwestern” Little has been known about the Black faculty experience at...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the American Politics Workshop as they host Jae Yeon Kim, assistant research scientist at the SNF Agora Institute...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
“Vernacular Encyclopedism in the Mediterranean: The Case of Meir Aldabi’s Sh’vile Emunah”, with Uri Zvi Shachar, Ben-Gurion University of the...
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by History Department
Graduates - Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty. If this will be your first time all...
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...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Department Colloquium Hosted by Omar Farha For more information, contact greg.mandell@northwestern.edu
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (REEES) Research Program
Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Program and the Department of Art History as they co-sponsor a...
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
4:30pm in front of the German office (Kresge 3-305)
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese welcomes all heritage students with a cultural connection to Spanish to join us for...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Paul DiMaggio, New York University, presents: "Americans' Understanding of the Relationship between Science and Religion: An Institutional Perspective" Hybrid Please contact the...
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by East Asia Research Forum
In the early 1970s, Japan saw the emergence of three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Advances in facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and other technologies provoke urgent ethical questions about facial expressivity and how we interpret...
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come have lunch with Dr. Keva X. Bui! Food provided with RSVP. Keva X. Bui is a scholar of Asian American...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Miguel Chavez, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University "The Making of a Masculine Body: Networks...
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Robin D. G. KELLEY (UCLA), author of Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012) (reception to follow)
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
Neuronal long non-coding RNAs: Insights from the fly olfactory system
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
TALK BY Dr. Keva X. Bui: America’s Ethnic Weapon: The Racial Scientific Imaginary of Napalm This talk traces the racial history...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by English Department
While climate fiction has become privileged in the Global North, many Global South environmental texts focus not on climate change...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Please join GUAB and McCormick Global Initiatives for a Fasching (the German "Mardi Gras") celebration! Enjoy Krapfen, decorate masks, create...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
The Russian Club welcomes anyone with an interest in modern and/or Soviet Russian history, culture, or language! The Russian Club Conversation...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
"The Body is the Book: Jewish Artists' Books and Rare Judaic Materials" Thursday, February 27, 5:00 pm Northwestern University Library, Ver...
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Please join us for Physics Horizons 🍕: a departmental special seminar in Tech F160, Thursday, February 27, 6:00 pm. Prof. Jerry...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Sebastian Mazzuca, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Please join us on Friday, February 28 at 12:00pm in Kresge 4364 (Classics Seminar Room) for a lecture by Patrice...
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM, sponsored by English Department
Professor Balthaser’s talk will explore the century-long history of opposition to Zionism on the Jewish American left, recently witnessing major...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Explore the process of building community-engaged teaching and learning environments with experienced facilitators. Registration is required! See link below. Community engaged teaching...
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Africa Graduate Students Association
A Panel Discussion on Black Internationalism: A Closing Event for Black History Month "As long as we think that we should...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Comparative Historical Social Sciences (CHSS) Cluster and IR Speaker Series as they host a book talk about...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Luis Schenoni, Associate Professor of Political Science, University College London
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Philosophy Colloquium Series
Title: A Puzzle About Testimony Testimony communicates information. It can also suggest what “a way of thinking” about its subject matter....
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Join the Spanish Club for a fun evening of Zumba with guest instructor, Sabrina Schmitt!
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
"A Bright Future Ahead" We close this lecture series with a look towards the future: exciting experiments on the horizon and...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
Interested in Fulbright Study/Research & Arts Awards? Attend this meeting to learn how Fulbright can transform your life and pursuits....
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Jill Jarvis, Department of French, Yale University The talk will primarily focus on a recent sculpture/video piece of artwork that recreates...
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop: Felix Enterkin, Northwestern University: How Terrorism Shapes Public Perceptions of Police in...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Shireen Hamza - History, Northwestern University Title "Down by the Water: Medicine and Religion in Waterside Spaces" Abstract Medieval stepwells and bathhouses, stunning and...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
“Loss, Bereavement, and Otherness: The Poetics of Yehudit Hendel”, with Guy Ehrlich, Northwestern University Tuesday, March 4, 12:30 p.m. Black Studies Seminar...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Cognitive Science Program
Title: Seeing "How" Abstract: What is perception? The most intuitive and influential answer to this question has long been the one given...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Guest Speaker Lecture with Prof. Virginia Burrus, Syracuse University.
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Michelle Lee, Graduate Student of Sociology at Northwestern University "Impact Sourcing: Digital Labor Supply Chains in Fragile Contexts"
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Sachertorte (Sachercake) (2022) - Kresge Hall, 1-515 at 6 pm Romantic Comedy Director: Tine Rogoll Starring: Max Hubacher, Maeve Metelka, Michaela Saba Karl meets the...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Holocaust Educational Foundation
Christian Nationalism, Nation-Building, and the Making of the Holocaust in Slovakia Open to the Public | Lunch Provided by Pita Inn Lunch...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Seminar hosted by James Gaynor For information, please contact jenna.messing@northwestern.edu
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Christine Schwartz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, presents: "What's happening with divorce trends in the United States?" Hybrid Please contact the Department of Sociology for...
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come have lunch with Dr. Najwa Mayer! Food provided with RSVP. Najwa Mayer is an interdisciplinary scholar and teacher of Asian...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Vineet Gupta, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University “The Satellite’s Gaze: A Postcolonial Commentary on...
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Honorees: Thomas Charles Bozza Edgar C. Stuntz Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience Department of Neurobiology Lincoln G. Quillian Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision-Making Department of Sociology
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Art Theory & Practice
The Department of Art, Theory, and Practice in partnership with the Block Museum of Art welcome artist Laura Ortman for...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Muslim cultural production in the United States predates the nation’s settler formation, yet the mass circulation and canonization of “Muslim...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
The Weakling, the Genius, the Bomb, and the Globe: Andrei Bitov on Writing Amidst Nuclear Ecologies The talk will explore Andrei...
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Political Theory Colloquium as they host James Martel, Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University; Andrew...
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members...
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...
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Philosophy Colloquium Series
Title: Stability as an Epistemological Aim in Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics all centered their epistemologies...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop presents: Vineet Gupta: Toward a Global Sociology of Urban Planning Parkes Hall, Room 222...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Holocaust Educational Foundation
Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight Event: Gender and the Holocaust Tuesday, March 11, 12-1:30 PM EST Online Only | Registration required HEFNU’s Virtual Speakers...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Department Colloquium Hosted by Joe Hupp For further information, contact hupp-ofc@northwestern.edu
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
"Rare Hebrew Books and Where to Find Them" Wednesday, March 12th, 2025, 5:00 pm Northwestern University Library, Forum Room 1970 Campus Drive, Evanston...
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by History Department
Friday, March 14th 3:30-5pm, Harris Hall 101 Midwestern History Reading Group with Professor Doug Kiel Book selection—Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Meatpacking America: How Migration,...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Professor Robert Kawashima, Department of Religion and the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida Lunch will be provided
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Seminar, hosted by Omar Farha
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Joan-Emma Shea, UCSB will speak. Event is hosted by George Schatz
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
All day, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professors Jonathan BRACK, Sean HANRETTA, and Akinwumi OGUNDIRAN on “Caring for the Dead: Ancestor Veneration, Religious...
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Title and Abstract to be announced.
All day, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professors Jonathan BRACK, Sean HANRETTA, and Akinwumi OGUNDIRAN on “Caring for the Dead: Ancestor Veneration, Religious...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Dagmar Schäfer - History, Max Planck Institute Title Chinese Technology Abstract TBD Biography Honorary Professor in History of Technology at Technische Universität Berlin, and Associate Professor...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Cognitive Science Program
Title and abstract to be announced.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Olivia Castellini, MSI
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Join us for the Fulbright Week Keynote featuring Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles, a renowned historian, academic leader, and advocate...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Serhii PLOKHII (Harvard), author of The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (2015) and The Last Empire: The Final...
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
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...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Chelsea Fisher of the University of South Carolina Title TBA
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
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
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Honorees: Andrew V. Papachristos John G. Searle Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology William Revelle Board of Trustees Professor Department of Psychology
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...
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...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
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
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Spring 2025 Warnock Lecture, presented by the Department of Art History Lecture: 5:00–6:30pm Reception: 6:30–7:30pm
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
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...
5:00 PM - 6:30 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...