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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

May
6
2025

Faculty Book Colloquium with Professor 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: Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism. Panelists: Professor Stephanie Balkwill Department...

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

Asian American Studies DUS Office Hours!

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...

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

The Spanish Club Craft & Chat

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!

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

Whose Story Is It? Navigating Community Storytelling

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...

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
8
2025

Senior Recruitment Seminar

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: General

Michael Best (Columbia): "Greener on the Other Side: Inequity and Tax Compliance"

May
9
2025

Kamakakēhau Fernandez - 'Ukulele Performance

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...

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

Senior Recruitment Seminar

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

May
14
2025

Teaching Workshop: Teaching and the Job Market

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...

May
14
2025

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...

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

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

Suspense and Surprise in Greek Tragedy

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...

May
16
2025

Undergraduate End of the Year Party

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?...

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
20
2025

Online Roundtable "What is Nazism? What is Fascism?"

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...

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

Buffett Book Talk: Heaven Has a Wall

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...

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

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
23
2025

Ancient Economies Conference

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...

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

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
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

"Is Reality Overrated?" An Evening with Etgar Keret" Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in...

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...

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