Nov
19
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Weinberg College Events
ConvocationConvocation is the formal graduation ceremony for Weinberg College, celebrating the culmination of students’ coursework. Each graduate is individually recognized as they cross the stage and their name is read aloud. |
Leopold LectureThe Leopold Lecture series has brought a variety of distinguished speakers to the Northwestern campus, focusing on diplomacy and international affairs. The Richard W. Leopold Lectureship was established in 1990 to honor the late eminent diplomatic historian and dedicated educator. |
James LectureThe Jeremiah S. and Helen James Lectureship on Assyrian Civilization and Culture was established in 1999 by the late Helen James Schwarten, a prominent and active member of the Assyrian community. The Lectureship was conceived to promote understanding and scholarship of both ancient and modern Assyrian culture. |
Upcoming events in Weinberg College, its departments, programs and affiliated centers are listed below.
Nov
19
2025
Graduate and Faculty Lunch
12:00 PM Evanston
History Grads! Join your fellow grads and faculty for lunch on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 in Harris Hall, Room 108.
Nov
19
2025
Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor Lecture | Wishful Thinking: How the West Got Moscow So Wrong, For So Long
12:30 PM Evanston
For too long, the West's policies toward Ukraine and other states in the former USSR took a back seat to a bigger priori...
Nov
19
2025
Yan Long - Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China
1:30 PM Evanston
A book talk by Yan Long, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California
Berkeley.
Challenging conventi...
Nov
19
2025
Algebraic Geometry Seminar | Daniel Mallory (Northwestern)
3:00 PM Evanston
Title: K-stability and K-moduli of Casagrande-Druel Varieties
Abstract: Arising in the construction of ramified double-c...
Nov
19
2025
Short Course
3:30 PM Evanston
Michael Woodford (Columbia University and Nemmers Prize Holder):
"Cognitive Imprecision and Economic Behavior"
Lecture 4...
Nov
19
2025
ATP Visiting Artist Talk: Tempestt Hazel
4:30 PM Evanston
ATP welcomes Tempestt Hazel for a public talk.
Hazel is a curator, writer, and co-founder of Sixty Inches From Center, ...
Nov
19
2025
Filmmaking as method for the history of science: A screening and presentation of "American Skies"
Cancelled Evanston
This event has been cancelled.
Please join us for a special screening of American Skies, a video-essay project developed...
Nov
19
2025
Nov
20
2025
Nov
20
2025
CCHS lecture by Madeline Hsu on citizenship and immigration in Singapore and Malaysia
12:00 PM Evanston
Madeline HSU (U of Maryland), author of The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (2015)—Thurs...
Nov
20
2025
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Swethaa Ballakrishnen
12:30 PM Evanston
Swethaa Ballakrishnen, University of California, Irvine
Nov
20
2025
MBS Seminar Series - Sunny Wong
12:30 PM Evanston
Dr. Sunny Wong - University of Michigan
https://skinlab1.com/research/
Nov
20
2025
Brady Tea
3:30 PM Evanston
Brady Scholars gather weekly for refreshments and discussion about recent events and their implications for our society,...
Nov
20
2025
Third Thursdays at Kaplan Institute
5:00 PM Evanston
Sips, snacks, and conversation—the Kaplan Humanities Institute invites faculty to join us for informal get-togethers on ...
Nov
21
2025
Friday Morning Faculty Writing Session - Kaplan Humanities Institute
9:00 AM Evanston
Ease into the weekend feeling productive! Drop in to the Kaplan Seminar Room on Friday mornings from 9am-12pm, to work ...
Nov
21
2025
DEEPS Seminar Series - Dr. Finley Hay-Chapman
10:00 AM Evanston
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Weekly Seminar Series - Dr. Finley Hay-Chapman discusses, Building a Communi...
Nov
21
2025
Lunch and Lecture: Family and the Global History of the Holocaust, featuring Jan Láníček
12:00 PM Evanston
Family and the Global History of the Holocaust
Open to the Public | Lunch Provided by Picnic
RSVP for lunch order: https...
Nov
21
2025
Shifting Ecosystems of South Asian Literature in Translation - Jason Grunebaum
12:00 PM Evanston
The Translation in Theory and Practice Series presents:
A workshop with Jason Grunebaum, Instructional Professor of Hind...
Nov
21
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Nov
21
2025
Northwestern University's Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series presents Massachusett's Institute of Technology's Sam Berstler
3:00 PM Evanston
Two-Tracked Conversations
We sometimes two-track our conversations. That is, we seem to have two conversations with e...
Nov
21
2025
Japanese Language Table
3:30 PM Evanston
This Language Table will be a great place for you to practice Japanese in a relaxed setting.
English is not spoken at th...
Nov
21
2025
Graduate Student Seminar | TBA (Northwestern University)
4:00 PM Evanston
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Note: The talk will start at 4:10 pm
Nov
21
2025
MFA Collaboration Series: Among the Dead
7:30 PM Evanston
By Hansol Jung
Directed by Eunbi Lee
Ana, a Korean American, travels to Seoul in 1975 to retrieve her recently deceased ...
Nov
23
2025
MFA Collaboration Series: Among the Dead
2:00 PM Evanston
By Hansol Jung
Directed by Eunbi Lee
Ana, a Korean American, travels to Seoul in 1975 to retrieve her recently deceased ...
Nov
23
2025
Northwestern Religious Studies Reception at the 2025 AAR Conference (Boston, MA)
7:00 PM Off-Campus
2025 AAR & SBL American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 22-25, Boston, MA
Northwestern University alumni, f...
Nov
24
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:30 AM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Nov
24
2025
Neurobiology Seminar Series | Rainer Friedrich, Ph.D. | University of Basel, Switzerland
4:00 PM Evanston
Experience-Dependent Semantic Maps of Odor Space in the Zebrafish Telencephalon
Nov
24
2025
Topology Seminar | Mark Walker (University of Nebraska)
4:00 PM Evanston
Title: Rank conjectures in algebra and topology
Abstract: This talk concerns a family of conjectures in algebra and to...
Nov
25
2025
Russian Club
5:00 PM Evanston
The Russian Club invites the NU community to join us for Russian film screenings and conversation!
Oct 7 - Film Screenin...
Nov
28
2025
Friday Morning Faculty Writing Session (No session on 11/28)- Kaplan Humanities Institute
9:00 AM Evanston
No session on Fri., November 28 (Thanksgiving weekend).
Ease into the weekend feeling productive! Drop in to the Kaplan...
Dec
1
2025
Dec
1
2025
Dec
2
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Milan Mrksich (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Dec
2
2025
Neurobiology Seminar Series | Francisco (Pancho) Bezanilla, Ph.D. | University of Chicago
12:30 PM Evanston
Action Potential: from Voltage-Dependent Conductances to their Molecular Bases
Dec
2
2025
Dec
2
2025
Russian Club
5:00 PM Evanston
The Russian Club invites the NU community to join us for Russian film screenings and conversation!
Oct 7 - Film Screenin...
Dec
3
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Fedor Jelezko, Ulm University
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Title: Diamond spin qubits for nanoscale quantum sensing
Abstract: Spin qubits in diamo...
Dec
3
2025
Dec
5
2025
Friday Morning Faculty Writing Session - Kaplan Humanities Institute (LAST ONE OF FQ!)
9:00 AM Evanston
Last writing session of Fall Quarter is Fri., December 5!
Ease into the weekend feeling productive! Drop in to the Kapl...
Dec
5
2025
Dec
5
2025
Graduate Student Seminar | TBA (Northwestern University)
4:00 PM Evanston
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Note: The talk will start at 4:10 pm
Dec
8
2025
Dec
9
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter James Gaynor (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Dec
16
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Rich Schaller (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Jan
9
2026
Dr. Sapna Cheryan : Psychology Colloquium Series
3:15 PM Evanston
Dr. Cheryan's research investigates how cultural stereotypes cause and perpetuate racial and gender disparities in U.S. ...
Jan
12
2026
Chemistry Department Special Seminar: Matthew Moschitto, Rutgers University
1:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Seminar, hosted by Professor Richard Silverman
Jan
13
2026
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Songi Han (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Jan
13
2026
Jan
14
2026
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Professor Matt Neurock, University of Minnesota
3:00 PM Evanston
The Chemistry Department welcomes Professor Matt Neurock, University of Minnesota, Department of Chemical Engineering an...
Jan
14
2026
Jan
15
2026
Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium: “Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe," with Robert Morrison
5:00 PM Evanston
Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium:
“Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissanc...