multi-day
Hindi-Urdu Language Table
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Are you learning Hindi-Urdu at Northwestern and want to practice your language skills? Would you like to meet other speakers/learners...
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
Imagine U: The Ballad of Mu Lan
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
Written and directed by Alvin Chan When Mu Lan dresses up as a boy to take her father’s place in the...
Jan
28
2022
GLOBAL LUNCHBOX | Wonks, Pundits & Orientalists: The Geopolitics of Middle East Expertise in Washington — A Conversation with Negar Razavi
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/wonks-pundits Join us for the Global Lunchbox, a weekly conversation convened by the Weinberg College Center for...
Jan
28
2022
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...
Jan
31
2022
Anthropology Talk: Megan Baker, UCLA
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Fairly Building the State: Choctaw Economic Development and the Origins of Oklahoma
Feb
1
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 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...
Feb
1
2022
AFAM @ 50: DIgging in the Archives
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by African American Studies Department
In the Fall of 1971, the Northwestern Board of Trustees established “The Department of Afro-American Studies in the College of...
Feb
3
2022
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...
Feb
3
2022
Department of Sociology Colloquium: LaTonya Trotter, University of Washington
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor LaTonya Trotter presents: When the Safety Net is a Nurse: Organizational Care Work in the Context of State Retrenchment **Virtual only** Please contact...
Feb
3
2022
Remaking Home: Domestic Spaces in Argentine and Chilean Film — A Conversation with Paul Merchant (Illuminations Series)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register to receive the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/illuminations-merchant Please join us for this conversation with Paul Merchant, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Film...
Feb
3
2022
Department of Sociology Culture and Society Workshop: Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley, Northwestern
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley presents: Memory as a Field Site: Making (Sense of) Empanadas and Doenjang-jjigae Zoom Meetings
Feb
3
2022
Long Nineteenth-Century Colloquium: Jennifer Morgan
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Join the Long Nineteenth-Century Colloquium for a talk by Jennifer Morgan (NYU).
Feb
4
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM - 12:45 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...
Feb
4
2022
Comparative Politics Workshop: Ulaş Erdoğdu, "Weapons of the Ordinary: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Voting Behavior"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Northwestern Political Science PhD student Ulaş Erdoğdu, presenting "Weapons of the...
Feb
4
2022
GLOBAL LUNCHBOX | Between Mao and Gandhi: The Social Roots of Civil Resistance — A Conversation with Ches Thurber
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Register for this event: https://bit.ly/mao-gandhi Please join us for the Global Lunchbox, a weekly conversation convened by the Weinberg College Center for...
Feb
4
2022
Medieval Colloquium: Karl Steel
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Join the Medieval Colloquim for a talk by Karl Steel (Department of English, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center), author...
Feb
7
2022
IPR Colloquium: J. Ferrie (Economics/IPR) - U.S. High School Student Outcomes (1960) and Universal Pre-K (1943–46)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute For Policy Research
"U.S. High School Student Outcomes in 1960 and Universal Pre-K, 1943–46" by Joseph Ferrie, Professor and Department Chair of Economics and...
Feb
7
2022
Red Skin, White Masks: A Conversation with Glen Coulthard (U of British Columbia)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Political Theory Colloquium
Please join the Political Theory Colloquium from noon-1:30pm CST, Feb 7 for Professor Glen Coulthard's presentation of his book, Red Skin,...
Feb
7
2022
Anthopology Talk: Teresa Montoya, University of Chicago
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Permeable Jurisdictions: Sovereignty and Toxic Exposure in the Indigenous Southwest Thirteen years after Diné leaders signed the Treaty of 1868...
Feb
7
2022
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...
Feb
7
2022
Círculo de lecotres
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The main objective of this extracurricular activity is to create a reading-friendly environment and to motivate students to continually develop...
Feb
7
2022
Department of Sociology Applied Quantitative Methods Workshop: Antonio Nanni, NU
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
TBA
Feb
8
2022
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Information Session
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
Are you interested in teaching English abroad on a Fulbright after graduation? Teaching positions are available in over seventy countries...
Feb
8
2022
Neurobiology Seminar Series | Walter Gonzalez, PhD | California Institute of Technology
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
TBA
Feb
8
2022
Department of Sociology Ethnography Workshop: Eva Rosen, Georgetown University
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Eva Rosen presents: The Stigma of a Voucher: Not in My Front Yard Joint session with Urban/Community Workshop
Feb
8
2022
Department of Sociology Urban/Community Workshop: Eva Rosen, Georgetown University
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Sessions will be held in a hybrid in-person and virtual format depending on NU Covid policies. Email updates will note...
Feb
9
2022
CED Speaker Series - In the Room: Women of Color Doulas in a State of Emergency by Dr. Jennifer Nash
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by 2021-2022 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora
Please join the Colloquium on Ethnicty and Diaspora (CED) for a virtual lecture featuring Dr. Jennifer C. Nash, the Jan...
Feb
9
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 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...
Feb
9
2022
American Studies Info Session!
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by American Studies Program
Study the forces, processes and histories that shape our current moment! Major in American Studies! Learn more about the program from...
Feb
10
2022
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Christopher Muller, University of California, Berkeley
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Christopher Muller presents: The Political Economy of Incarceration in the Cotton South, 1910-1925 **Hybrid** Please contact the Department of Sociology for any...
Feb
10
2022
Department of Sociology Culture and Society Workshop: Jeremy Kuperberg, Northwestern
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Jeremy Kuperberg presents: Disaster as Opportunity? Constructing Tourism after War and Pandemic Zoom Meetings
Feb
11
2022
Racial and Ethnic Politics Workshop: Prof. David Cortez (Notre Dame)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Racial and Ethnic Politics Workshop as they host Dr. David Cortez, assistant professor of political science and...
Feb
11
2022
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...
Feb
14
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 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...
Feb
14
2022
Spanish Conversation Table
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
This extracurricular activity will bring together 101,115,121,125 & 199 students for an informal social gathering to meet other students and...
Feb
15
2022
Professor Bonnie Honig (Brown), "Truth Queens: The Biblical Esther from Eve Sedgwick to Ivanka Trump"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Political Theory Colloquium
Please join the Political Theory Colloquium from noon-1:30pm CST, Feb 15 for Professor Bonnie Honig's presentation on her paper, "Truth...
Feb
15
2022
Department of Sociology Urban/Community Workshop: Yannick Coenders, Northwestern
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Sessions will be held in a hybrid in-person and virtual format depending on NU Covid policies. Email updates will note...
Feb
15
2022
Neurobiology Seminar Series | Brandon Weissbourd, PhD | California Institute of Technology
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
TBA
Feb
15
2022
Winter Quarter Faculty Meeting
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Winter Quarter Faculty Meeting
Feb
15
2022
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM - 4:45 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...
Feb
16
2022
New Books in Israel Studies
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past AUTHOR Liora Halperin, University of Washington MODERATOR Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern University
Feb
16
2022
GLC Faculty Seminar - Professor Shana Kelley
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Faculty Seminar hosted by GLC for more information, contact Rebecca Goncalves at rbg@u.northwestern.edu
Feb
16
2022
Charlene Carruthers – Black Feminist Ethics and Relationality
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Charlene A. Carruthers is a political strategist, cultural worker and PhD student in the Department of African American Studies at...
Feb
16
2022
Department of Sociology Race & Society Workshop: Gershwin Penn, Northwestern
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Zoom Meeting
Feb
17
2022
Department of Sociology Colloquium: John Robinson III, Princeton University
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
ProfessorJohn Robinson III presents: Municipal Trouble: Punitive Revenue, Pensions and the Politics of Black Suburbia **Hybrid** Please contact the Department of Sociology for...
Feb
17
2022
Department of Sociology Culture and Society Workshop: Sonia Planson, Northwestern
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Sonia Planson presents: Cultural transmission among immigrant families Zoom Meetings
Feb
18
2022
Comparative Politics Workshop: Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, "Theory and Credibility"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Sydney Stein Professor and Deputy Dean at...
Feb
18
2022
Demetra Kasimis: The Intimacy of Conspiracy: Democratic Erosion and the Problem of the Oikos
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Real and suspected plots to overthrow democracy periodically dominated life in classical Athens, but scholars have been slow to see...
Feb
21
2022
IPR Colloquium: M. Schnell (IPR/Economics) - The Lasting Impacts of School Shootings
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute For Policy Research
"The Lasting Impacts of School Shootings" by Molly Schnell, Assistant Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow This is a presentation of research...
Feb
21
2022
Professor Erin Pineda (Smith), “An Entire World in Motion: Civil Disobedience as Decolonizing Praxis”
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Political Theory Colloquium
Please join the Political Theory Colloquium from noon-1:30pm CST, Feb 21 for Professor Erin Pineda's presentation, “An Entire World in...
Feb
21
2022
Department of Sociology Applied Quantitative Methods Workshop: Amanda Cook, NU
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Amanda Cook, Human Development and Social Policy, presents: "Is there a Trade-Off Between Academic Match and Sense of Belonging? College Characteristics...
Feb
22
2022
Council of Chairs and Program Directors
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Council of Chairs and Program Directors
Feb
22
2022
Department of Sociology Urban/Community Workshop: Tina Law, Northwestern
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Sessions will be held in a hybrid in-person and virtual format depending on NU Covid policies. Email updates will note...
Feb
22
2022
Neurobiology Seminar Series | Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani, PhD | Max Planck Institute for Neuroscience
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
TBA
Feb
22
2022
Department of Sociology Ethnography Workshop: Allison Pugh, University of Virginia
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Allison Pugh presents: Resonance and Reflexivity in Ethnography: On Ambivalence and Contradiction in an Era of Transparency
Feb
23
2022
Department of Chemistry Colloquium - Frank Leibfarth, UNC
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Wednesday Colloquium hosted by Professor Julia Kalow For more information, contact Linda Hickey (linda.hickey@northwestern.edu)
Feb
24
2022
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Information Session
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
Are you interested in teaching English abroad on a Fulbright after graduation? Teaching positions are available in over seventy countries...
Feb
24
2022
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Thomas J. Billard, Northwestern
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Thomas J. Billard presents: Hybrid Social Movements: What Are They and Why is the US Transgender Movement One? **Hybrid** Please contact the...
Feb
24
2022
Department of Sociology Culture and Society Workshop: Emilio Lehoucq, Northwestern
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Emilio Lehoucq presents: Open Source Capitalism Zoom Meetings
Feb
24
2022
Medieval Colloquium: Carol Symes
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Join the Medieval Colloquim for a talk by Carol Symes (Department of History, Theatre, and Classics, University of Illinois at...
Feb
24
2022
Queer Book Club
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Are you interested in talking about LGBTQIA+ books and issues? Join the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and Multcultural Student...
Feb
25
2022
American Politics Workshop: Prof. Charlotte Cavaille
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the American Politics workshop as they host Charlotte Cavaillé, assistant professor of public policy at the University of...
Feb
25
2022
International Relations Speaker Series: Prof. Lucia Rafanelli
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Dr. Lucia Rafanelli Assistant Professor of Political Science & International...
Feb
28
2022
New Books in Israel Studies
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War AUTHOR Shay Hazkani, University of Maryland MODERATOR Scott Abramson, Northwestern University Virtual event with...
Feb
28
2022
Martha Jones lecture on African Americans and the 19th Amendment (CAAH/CCHS)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished lecture on African American History FREE and open to the PUBLIC hybrid event--you can attend in person or...
Mar
1
2022
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship - National Deadline
All day, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Deadlines
Funded by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship offers...
Mar
1
2022
Marcy NORTON lecture (CCHS)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Marcy NORTON (University of Pennsylvania), author of Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic...
Mar
1
2022
Department of Sociology Urban/Community Workshop: Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, The University of New Mexico
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Sessions will be held in a hybrid in-person and virtual format depending on NU Covid policies. Email updates will note...
Mar
1
2022
Neurobiology Seminar Series | Qian Lin, PhD | Rockefeller University
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
TBA
Mar
1
2022
Web exhibit launch and panel - We Will Plant Our Trees on American Soil: Creating Community & Fighting for Justice in Illinois
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Please join us (in person or online) to celebrate the release of We Will Plant Our Trees on American Soil:...
Mar
1
2022
Department of Sociology Ethnography Workshop: Sino Esthappan, Northwestern
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Sino Esthappan presents: A PTA for dog owners: Leading "teams" in a gentrifying neighborhood dog park
Mar
2
2022
Department of Sociology Race & Society Workshop: Erica Banks, Northwestern
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Zoom Meeting
Mar
3
2022
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Terence McDonnell, University of Notre Dame
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Terence McDonnell presents: Making Obama Iconic **Hybrid** Please contact the Department of Sociology for any questions at sociol@northwestern.edu.
Mar
3
2022
MBS Seminar: John Kuriyan, University of California, Berkeley
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
Mar
3
2022
Queer Exposures: Sexuality & Photography in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction & Poetry — A Conversation with Ryan Long (Illuminations Series)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register to receive the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/illuminations-long Please join us for this conversation with Ryan Long, Associate Professor of Spanish and comparative...
Mar
3
2022
Department of Sociology Culture and Society Workshop: Fiona Greenland, University of Virginia
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Fiona Greenland presents: Zoom Meetings
Mar
4
2022
American Politics Workshop: Prof. Chadley Stren
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the American Politics Workshop as they host Chadley Stren, Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign....
Mar
4
2022
Comparative Politics Workshop: Ora John Reuter, "The Demand for Elections"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Ora John Reuter, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University...
Mar
4
2022
GLOBAL LUNCHBOX | Race, Caste, and Colorism — A Conversation with Laura Brueck & Ivy Wilson
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/race-caste-colorism Please join us for the Global Lunchbox, a weekly conversation convened by the Weinberg College Center...
Mar
4
2022
Chemistry Special Seminar - Yaoqiu Zhu, UTEP
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Hosted by Professor Rick Silverman For more information, please contact Pam Beck at pamela-beck@northwestern.edu
Mar
7
2022
Department of Sociology Applied Quantitative Methods Workshop: Stephen Raudenbush, University of Chicago
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Stephen Raudenbush, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, presents: TBA zoom only
Mar
8
2022
Neurobiology Seminar Series | Gabriella Sterne, PhD | UC Berkeley
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
TBA
Mar
9
2022
Department of Chemistry Colloquium - Juan Del Valle, Notre Dame University
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Wednesday Colloquium hosted by Professor Karl Scheidt For more information, please contact Linda Hickey at scheidt-ofc@northwestern.edu
Mar
16
2022
Department of Chemistry Colloquium - Professor Hosea Nelson, Caltech
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Wednesday Colloquium hosted by Professor Regan Thomson. For more information, contact Tory Helgeson (tory.helgeson@northwestern.edu).
Mar
17
2022
MBS Seminar: Stephen Kowalczykowski, University of California, Davis
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
Mar
22
2022
Council of Chairs and Program Directors
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Council of Chairs and Program Directors
Mar
24
2022
International Relations Speaker Series: Prof. Ayşe Zarakol, "Before the West"
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Dr. Ayşe Zarakol, Professor of International Relations at the University...