multi-day
Table Francaise
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Join us for lunch at the Table française, while also practicing your French language skills, meeting other French speakers, and...
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
Department of Chemistry - Hurd Lectures (Virtual) - Rebecca Ruck, Merck & Co. Pharmaceuticals
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Hosted by Professors Danna Freedman and Julia Kalow For more information, contact: Amy Masters at amy.masters@northwestern.edu
Oct
26
2020
Anthropology Career Diversity Series: Alaka Wali, Curator of North American Anthropology, The Field Museum
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Please join us for an event in our “Diversity in Anthropological Careers” series. Dr. Alaka Wali will be having an...
Oct
26
2020
Department of Sociology Crime, Law, and Society Workshop: Ron Levi, Ioana Sendroiu and John Hagan, University of Toronto & Northwestern University
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Via Zoom https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/95106142188 3:30-4:50PM
Oct
26
2020
Study Abroad in Japan Virtual Info Session
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Northwestern Buffett Global Learning Office
Live and learn in Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, or Hokkaido! Join us to learn about program options, ask questions, and speak with...
Oct
27
2020
Department of Sociology Social Movement Workshop
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Via Zoom (a link will be emailed for each meeting) Are you interested in political mobilization, corporate-social responsibility, activism, and/or social...
Oct
27
2020
In Mexico There Are No Mexicans: Lucas Alamán, Decolonization, and Modernization, 1792-1853 (Eric Van Young)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us on Zoom for this lecture by historian Eric Van Young. The Mexican statesman, entrepreneur, public intellectual, and historian...
Oct
28
2020
Co-Presencia y Cultura, con Pilar Almansa
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
"Co-presencia y Cultura en tiempos Covid" es una serie de conversaciones en que tratamos de responder a la siguente pregunta:...
Oct
28
2020
COVID and Forced Migration in Africa: Caring for Refugees in a Pandemic
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Clementine Nkweta-Salami (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) regional director for East, Horn and Great Lakes Region) will discuss...
Oct
28
2020
“Modernismo puertas adentro: Género, escritura y experiencia urbana en Mi vida con Enrique Gómez Carrillo de Aurora Cáceres” (Vanesa Miseres)
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Vanesa Miseres, Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Notre Dame on “Modernismo puertas adentro: Género, escritura y experiencia urbana...
Oct
28
2020
Study Abroad Info Session: German Language Countries
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Northwestern Buffett Global Learning Office
Study Abroad Information Session: Germany, Austria & Switzerland Join the German Department and the Global Learning Office (GLO) to hear about...
Oct
29
2020
Liberating History - Present Futures: Sci-Fi and Social Ecology (Habibi Collective Shorts I)
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
PRESENT FUTURES: SCI-FI AND SOCIAL ECOLOGY is a program of short films from Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and their diaspora, guest...
Oct
29
2020
2020 International Institute for Nanotechnology Virtual Symposium
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by International Institute for Nanotechnology
Hosted by Chad A. Mirkin, this virtual event includes four renowed speakers who will explore the frontiers of science, from...
Oct
29
2020
SLP Talks: "Rising from the Ashes: The Brave Tale of the Crypto-Jews"
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
If interested, please, contact prof. Elena Lanza.
Oct
29
2020
MBS Seminar: Wei Yang, National Institutes of Health. Title: “Structural assembly and reaction chemistry of DNA replisomes”
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department: Molecular Biosciences Title: “Structural assembly and reaction chemistry of DNA replisomes” Speaker: Wei Yang, National Institutes of Health
Oct
29
2020
DAAD RISE Information Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
Information session on summer research opportunities in Germany through DAAD RISE. RISE offers undergraduates from North American universities the opportunity to...
Oct
29
2020
"Pandemics Past and Present" roundtable
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by History Department
A Historians @ Home roundtable on "Pandemics Past and Present" with historians Joel Mokyr, Edward Muir and Helen Tilley. Open to...
Oct
29
2020
Lubrizol Information Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Lubrizol Information Session about the company and hiring opportunities For more information, contact Sophie Tidd at sophie.tidd@northwestern.edu.
Oct
29
2020
Department of Sociology Culture and Society Workshop: Emily Handsman, NU Sociology
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Emily Handsman presents: Equity as Access: Analyzing Suburban School Districts’ Policy Responses to Inequality Zoom Meeting
Oct
30
2020
Liberating History - Inherited Memory: Blood Runs Thicker Than Water (Habibi Collective Shorts II)
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
INHERITED MEMORY: BLOOD RUNS THICKER THAN WATER is a program of short films from Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, and their diaspora,...
Oct
30
2020
Virtual Workshop: Exploring Graduate School
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Environmental Policy and Culture
On October 30 at 10:00 AM, the EPC program with Interim Director, Melissa Rosenzweig will host a virtual workshop led...
Oct
30
2020
"The Limits of Plato’s Test" (Katy Meadows, Indiana University, Bloomington)
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM, sponsored by Ancient Philosophy Workshop
The Northwestern Ancient Philosophy Workshop will be hosting Dr. Katy Meadows, of Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Meadows will speak on...
Oct
30
2020
American Politics Workshop: Eleanor Neff Powell
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
The American Politics Workshop hosts Eleanor Neff Powell for a presentation (details forthcoming). Her book, Where Money Matters in Congress:...
Oct
30
2020
Global Lunchbox: New Directions in Japanese Studies (Laura Hein)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Please join us for the Global Lunchbox series, a weekly conversational forum hosted by the Weinberg College Center for International...
Oct
30
2020
Classics Online Lecture: Amy Richlin (UCLA), "Subalternity in the Roman Metropole"
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
"Subalternity in the Roman Metropole" Please join the Department of Classics for an online lecture with Amy Richlin, UCLA, on October...
Nov
2
2020
JET Program 2021 Info Session @ Northwestern University
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
This is a special information session for Northwestern students, and it is co-hosted by the Japanese Language Program, Department of...
Nov
2
2020
Study Abroad in China Virtual Info Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Northwestern Buffett Global Learning Office
Learn about study abroad opportunities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. Hear student experiences & ask questions. Registration with NU...
Nov
2
2020
Tacita de café
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
If interested, please contact prof. Maria Teresa Villanueva.
Nov
2
2020
DAAD RISE Information Panel with RISE Alumni
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
RISE offers undergraduates from North American universities the opportunity to complete a summer research internship at top German universities and...
Nov
3
2020
LACS Faculty Colloquium: Notes from a Chingona’s Archive: Grassroots Emergence of Latina Reproductive Justice (Mónica Russel y Rodríguez)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In this talk, Mónica Russel y Rodríguez will provide a detailed view of the emergence of Latina reproductive health policy...
Nov
3
2020
Department of Sociology Ethnography Workshop: Perdana Roswaldy, Northwestern
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Perdana Roswaldy Presents: The Backbone of this Valley: Gender Order, Labor, and Social Ecology in a Post-Conflict Environment All meetings this quarter...
Nov
4
2020
Department of Chemistry Colloquium - Chenfeng Ke, Dartmouth College
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Hosted by Professor Fraser Stoddart For further information, please contact Peggy Schott at m-schott@northwestern.edu
Nov
4
2020
Global Café: Sarah Brown from the Women's Center
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by International Studies
Global Café is a great resource and opportunity for students to connect with graduate student mentors to acquire the tools...
Nov
4
2020
Department of Sociology Race and Society Workshop: Fourth Session
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Race and Society Workshop, an interdisciplinary workshop located within the Department of Sociology, focuses on race as a subject...
Nov
5
2020
Iconoclasia y Memoria
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
La guerra de España (1936-1939) no fue sólo un campo de experimentación en la destrucción de la guerra total, sino...
Nov
5
2020
MBS Seminar: Rui Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis. Title: "Cryo-EM structures of natively decorated doublet microtubule and associated complexes”
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department: Molecular Biosciences Title: "Cryo-EM structures of natively decorated doublet microtubule and associated complexes” Speaker: Rui Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis
Nov
5
2020
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Ijlal Naqvi, Singapore Management University
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Ijlal Naqvi presents: Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan Zoom Meeting Co-sponsored with Comparative-Historical Social Science
Nov
5
2020
Department of Sociology Comparative-Historical Workshop: Ijlal Naqvi jointly w/ CHSS
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
FROM 1:00-2:30 PM Email Andres at arod@u.northwestern.edu to receive email updates + zoom link
Nov
5
2020
Department of Sociology Culture and Society Workshop: Erik Lovell, NU Sociology
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Erik Lovell presents: The Structure of Unstructured Lives: The Daily Rounds of Homeless Young Adults Zoom Meeting
Nov
5
2020
DAAD RISE Information Session
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
Information session on summer research opportunities in Germany through DAAD RISE. RISE offers undergraduates from North American universities the opportunity to...
Nov
5
2020
Study Abroad in Korea Virtual Info Session
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Northwestern Buffett Global Learning Office
Learn about study abroad opportunities in South Korea during the academic year and over the summer. Hear student experiences &...
Nov
5
2020
BIPOC Communities and the 2020 Election
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Wondering how the 2020 Elections are affecting Asian American, Black, and Latinx voters? Come listen to expert Northwestern Professors Cadava,...
Nov
5
2020
IT Film Screening, Mini Film Series 2 of 2
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Join us for screenings of Italian language films, followed by discussion.
Nov
6
2020
German Department Double Book Launch
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of German
The Medieval Luther, edited by Christine Helmer; The Reformation of Philosophy, edited by Marius Timmann Mjaaland. Both books were published in 2020...
Nov
6
2020
Comparative Politics Workshop: Jennifer Cyr
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
The Comparative Politics Workshop hosts Jennifer Cyr for a discussion on “Focus Groups: When and Why to Use Them, and...
Nov
6
2020
Department of Sociology Comparative-Historical Workshop: Jens Beckert
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
FROM 12:00-1:30 PM Email Andres at arod@u.northwestern.edu to receive email updates + zoom link
Nov
6
2020
Steve Hill Grant Writing Workshop
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Zoom workshop
Nov
9
2020
IPR 2020 Post-Election Panel
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Institute For Policy Research
IPR 2020 Post-Election Panel Panelists: Martin Eichenbaum, Charles Moskos Professor Professor of Economics Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow Erik...
Nov
9
2020
On Monuments and Condoms by prof. Miguel Caballero
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
This talk is an introduction to my two, very different (or maybe not so much), research projects: on monumental protectionism...
Nov
9
2020
Department of Sociology Crime, Law, and Society Workshop: Forrest Stuart, Stanford University
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Via Zoom https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/95106142188 3:30-4:50PM
Nov
9
2020
Department of Sociology Applied Quantitative Methods Workshop: Sarah Bouchat, Northwestern - Political Sociology
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Sarah Bouchat presents: Incorporation: Assessing Corpus Selection for Social Science Applications. If you would like to be added to our regular e-mail...
Nov
10
2020
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
Nov
10
2020
DAAD RISE Information Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
Information session on summer research opportunities in Germany through DAAD RISE. RISE offers undergraduates from North American universities the opportunity to...
Nov
10
2020
"Global Perspectives on Policing and Justice" roundtable
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by History Department
A Historians @ Home roundtable on "Global Perspectives on Policing and Justice" with Lina Britto, Peter Carroll and Sean Hanretta. Open...
Nov
10
2020
Department of Sociology Urban/Community workshop: Reading Group
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Current debates in Urban/Community Sociology All meetings will be held virtually via Zoom. Email urbancommunityworkshop@gmail.com to receive the zoom link
Nov
10
2020
Putin and the Struggle for Free Expression in Russia
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (REEES) Research Program
Vladimir Kara-Murza is a Russian democracy activist, politician, author, and filmmaker. He was a longtime colleague of Russian opposition leader...
Nov
10
2020
Department of Sociology Social Movement Workshop
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Via Zoom (a link will be emailed for each meeting) Are you interested in political mobilization, corporate-social responsibility, activism, and/or social...
Nov
11
2020
Preview of Winter 2021 Trans-Focused Courses in Gender & Sexuality Studies
All day, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
More info coming soon. Start time TBD.
Nov
11
2020
Department of Chemistry Colloquium - Eric Bloch, University of Delaware
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Hosted by Professor Omar Farha For more information, please contact Nick Huryk at farha-ofc@northwestern.edu
Nov
11
2020
Global Café: Sara McGuinn from the Global Learning Office
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by International Studies
Global Café is a great resource and opportunity for students to connect with graduate student mentors to acquire the tools...
Nov
12
2020
AntigoneNOW at the Wirtz Center, opening on November 12
All day, sponsored by Department of Classics
AntigoneNOW Available On-Demand NOV 12–19 In the midst of a bombed-out city still feeling the aftershocks of war, the rebellious and intense...
Nov
12
2020
MBS Seminar: Mike Henne, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Title: "Physiological roles for lipid droplet spatial organization"
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department: Molecular Biosciences Title: "Physiological roles for lipid droplet spatial organization" Speaker: Mike Henne, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Nov
12
2020
Panel Discussion with Prof. John Kieschnick and Prof. Kevin Buckelew
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Panel Discussion with John Kieschnick, The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies (Stanford University) and Kevin Buckelew,...
Nov
12
2020
Department of Sociology Culture and Society Workshop: Miri Eliyahu, NU Sociology
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Miri Eliyahu presents: Creating a Lifestyle: How Social Movements Create Consumers Zoom Meeting
Nov
13
2020
Department of Sociology Problem-Solving workshop
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
This workshop uses sociological theories to solve real-world problems, and attempts to solve real-world problems as a way to advance...
Nov
13
2020
Religious Studies Undergraduate Virtual Event
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies Undergraduate Virtual Event detals tbd.
Nov
14
2020
kaçak: forms of informality and commodity in modern turkey -- a virtual symposium of ethnography
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Please register for this event: https://bit.ly/2GA5qAO Electricity and petroleum stolen from state laid grids of distribution. Livestock, tea and tobacco traded...
Nov
16
2020
Anthropology Career Diversity Series: Mary L. Gray, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, Microsoft Research: "Far Afield: Anthropology as Industrial Punk Intervention
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Foundational mathematics, economics, and physics, inform most of what we recognize as Big Tech’s toolkits: computer science, data science, and...
Nov
16
2020
Anthropology Career Diversity Series: Mary L. Gray, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, Microsoft Research: "Far Afield: Anthropology as Industrial Punk Intervention
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Foundational mathematics, economics, and physics, inform most of what we recognize as Big Tech’s toolkits: computer science, data science, and...
Nov
16
2020
Department of Sociology Applied Quantitative Methods Workshop: Andrés Rodríguez-Cáceres, Northwestern - Sociology
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Andrés Rodríguez-Cáceres presents: Demarcation and Difference: Language and Racial Self-Identity in Latin America. If you would like to be added to our...
Nov
17
2020
Conversations with Germany: Migration and Integration in Germany: Is it working? Zoom at 12 p.m.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
In September 2015, thousands of refugees arrived in Munich. An alliance of multiple organizations and political parties stood together to...
Nov
17
2020
Talk with Brazilian Indigenous poet and author Marcia Kambebe
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
More details will follow.
Nov
17
2020
Department of Sociology Ethnography Workshop: TBD
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
TBD Presents: All meetings this quarter are to be held on Zoom
Nov
18
2020
Department of Chemistry Colloquium - Julian West, Rice University
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Hosted by Undergraduate Chemistry Council For more information, please contact Abby Rosensweig at chemhelp@northwestern.edu.
Nov
18
2020
Classics Online Lecture: Loubna El Amine
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Please join the Department of Classics for an online lecture with Loubna El Amine on Wednesday, November 18 at 3:30...
Nov
18
2020
Summer in Berlin - - Global City in the Center of Europe - - Summer 2021
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Study Abroad Information Session: Summer in Berlin - Global City in the Center of Europe & other programs Join us to...
Nov
18
2020
Summer in Berlin Info Session
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Northwestern Buffett Global Learning Office
Join the German Department and the Global Learning Office (GLO) to learn about the Northwestern summer program "Berlin: Global City...
Nov
19
2020
"Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes: The Ethics of Perpetrator Representation” (CCHS/HEFNU event with Erin McGlothlin)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
In collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEFNU) Erin McGLOTHLIN (Washington University, St. Louis), author of Second-Generation Holocaust Literature:...
Nov
19
2020
Tavola Italiana 3 of 3: Gesti [gestures]
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Informal conversation in Italian
Nov
20
2020
American Politics Workshop: Nathan Kalmoe
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
The American Politics Workshop hosts Nathan Kalmoe for a presentation (details forthcoming). Nathan Kalmoe is an associate professor of political communication...
Nov
20
2020
Comparative Politics Workshop: Michael Weintraub
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
How can the state re-establish control after decades of civil war? Which public policies best reduce violence in the world's...
Nov
20
2020
Racial Equity and Justice Reading Group II :
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Race, Diversity, and inclusion in France Today
Dec
1
2020
Department of Sociology Urban/Community workshop: Rose Werth &Tina Law Northwestern Sociology
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
All meetings will be held virtually via Zoom. Email urbancommunityworkshop@gmail.comto receive the zoom link.
Dec
1
2020
DAAD RISE Information Session
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
Information session on summer research opportunities in Germany through DAAD RISE. RISE offers undergraduates from North American universities the opportunity to...
Dec
4
2020
Comparative Politics Workshop: Daniel Encinas
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
The Comparative Politics Workshop hosts Daniel Encinas for a presentation on “Experiments as Case Studies: A Qualitative Approach to External...
Dec
8
2020
Wearing the Niqab (Islamic face veil) in the UK and the US: Women's negotiations of intersecting Islamophobia, racism, and sexism.
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Dr. Anna Piela, a Visiting Scholar of Gender and Islam, on her new book, "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim...
Dec
16
2020
ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship Information Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Fellowships Information Sessions
ThinkSwiss encourages collaboration between Swiss and US students and academics in a variety of fields. The scholarship is open to...