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...
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.
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
Faculty Book Colloquium for Professor Kevin Buckelew’s new book, Discerning Buddhas: Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism. Panelists: Professor Stephanie Balkwill Department...
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...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Hosted by Omar Farha
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...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Vien Ngyuen, PhD Candidate in Leaning Sciences at Northwestern University
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Undergraduate Chemistry Council, Andrea Carlini, UCSB Contact Chelsea Watson - chelsea.philyaw@northwestern.edu
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Planning your class registration for Fall 2025? Make sure you're on track to finish your major! Come chat with AASP...
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
4:30 PM in front of the German office (Kresge 3-305)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
All are welcome to join the Spanish Club for an evening of snacks and yarn bracelet making!
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...
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...
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Community storytelling is difficult work. Storytellers must contend with myriad definitions of community, engage with community members that hold differing...
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...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: General
Michael Best (Columbia): "Greener on the Other Side: Inequity and Tax Compliance"
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come listen to Dr. Laureen Hom's talk about her latest book, The Power of Chinatown! The book includes over 4 years...
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
In the context of the NU FESTIVAL OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES 2025 (Monday, May 5 - Thursday, May 8) alongside...
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: General
Conference by invitation only. Sponsored by the Center for Econometrics and NBER
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...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Gabriel Winant: Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Hosted by the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS) and made possible through bequests from the late Erwin...
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Kamakakēhau Fernandez is an award winning ‘ukulele player and Hawaiian falsetto singer. Coming all the way from Hawai'i, he's excited...
8:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: General
Conference by invitation only. Sponsored by the Center for Econometrics and NBER
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...
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...
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...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Philosophy Colloquium Series
TBD
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: General
David McKenzie (World Bank): Long-term and lasting impacts of personal initiative training on entrepreneurial success
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...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
Molecular and Neural Evolution of Sexual Behaviors in Drosophila
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Please join the Weinberg College Center for International & Area Studies and Buffett Institute for Global Affairs as we host...
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Professors Archana Kamal and Jens Koch will present their research “Physics of Modern Quantum Processors” in a talk aimed at...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Holocaust Educational Foundation
HEFNU Emerging Scholars Program: "Alternatives to Academia (“Alt-Ac”) in Holocaust Studies," featuring Dr. Susan Perlman (USHMM) and Dr. Ian Rich (Wiener...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by History Department
In this talk, Jonathan Brent, CEO and Executive Director of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (now celebrating the 100th...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join us for a workshop on Teaching and the Job Market! Come hear from Lauren Baker, Maya Novak-Herzog, Diana...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Dr. Robert Collins Presents:
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
Faces of Science: Mona Minkara, Northwestern (Hosted by NUBonD) Contact NUBonD: nubond@gmail.com
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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
Faces of Science: Mona Minkara, Northwestern (Hosted by NUBonD) Seminar followed by a reception outside the seminar room Contact NUBonD: nubond@gmail.com
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...
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
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
New Faculty Books celebration (Kaplan Third Thursday event) Come celebrate the books, edited volumes, and translations that Northwestern humanities faculty have...
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...
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...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Own Your Story: Building Research and Teaching Statements May 2 & 16th, 2025 | 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. | RSVP required...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Visiting Lecture by Glenn Most Starting from Alfred Hitchcock's classic distinction between suspense and surprise, I ask how much of each...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Political Science Department as they host a new major meet-up! Have you declared your major as Political Science?...
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...
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...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop presents: Michelle Lee (NU): Politics of Climate Mobility @ COP29: How Global Climate Governance...
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...
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
HEFNU Series: Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues "What is Nazism? What is Fascism?" Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 12 PM (Noon Eastern Time) Please...
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
Molecules and Cells for Touch, Temperature and Pain
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...
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...
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...
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
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, “Heaven has a wall,” activists shout...
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
4:30 PM in front of the German office (Kresge 3-305)
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,...
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Teaching Workshop for our final event of the year, What I Wish I Knew Before I Started...
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...
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Given by Prof. Martina Kerlova and Prof. Peter Fenves.
8:15 AM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Ancient Economies May 23, 2025 Sponsored by: Northwestern Center for Economic History Joel Mokyr, Joe Ferrie, and Walker Hanlon, co-directors Organizers: Walker Hanlon and Taco...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
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.
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.
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
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...
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
6:30 PM in Kresge 1-515
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
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...
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...
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
"Is Reality Overrated?" An Evening with Etgar Keret" Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in...
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...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Marlous van Waijenburg: Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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...
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...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Hosted by the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS) and made possible through bequests from the late Erwin...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
12:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Leopold Room, Harris Hall / Lake Room, Norris Center
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Details to follow For more information contact Kelly Levander - kelly.levander@nortwestern.edu
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Department of German Final Kaffeestunde and Year-End Celebration 2:00 PM in front of Kresge 3-305
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration, details tbd
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Hosted by the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS) and made possible through bequests from the late Erwin...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Reception for Department of Chemistry undergraduate and graduate candidates
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...