Jan
5
2026
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.
Jan
6
2026
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Navdeep Chandel (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Jan
7
2026
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Nick Jackson, UIUC
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Title: AI-Driven Quantum Mechanical Design of Soft Materials
Abstract: While the propert...
Jan
8
2026
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Megan Doherty Bea, University of Wisconsin Madison
12:30 PM Evanston
Megan Doherty Bea, University of Wisconsin Madison, presents:
Navigating Debts: New Data to Understand Social Motivation...
Jan
8
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:30 PM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Jan
8
2026
Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Indian Ocean Family Histories Across the Digital Diaspora
4:00 PM Evanston
Please join the South Asia Resesarch Forum for this talk given by Julia Stephens, Associate Professor (Rutgers Universit...
Jan
9
2026
Friday Morning Faculty Writing Session - Kaplan Humanities Institute
9:00 AM Evanston
January 9 is the first writing retreat of winter 2026!
Ease into the weekend feeling productive! Drop in to the Kaplan ...
Jan
9
2026
DEEPS Seminar Series - Dr. Jingmai O'Connor
10:00 AM Evanston
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Weekly Seminar Series - Dr. Jingmai O'Connor discusses "Archaeopteryx: Icon ...
Jan
9
2026
Cognitive Science Fridays | Mind & Machine Collaboration : Erika Exton
12:30 PM Evanston
ERIKA EXTON, Linguistics, Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science
"Balancing Interpretebility, Objectivity, and Auto...
Jan
9
2026
Dr. Sapna Cheryan : Psychology Colloquium Series
3:15 PM Evanston
Title: Toward a New Understanding of Racial Position
Abstract: Racial and ethnic groups of color have been Othered in U....
Jan
10
2026
Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "From Molecules to Minds"
11:00 AM Evanston
"Life on Earth from it's Origin to Present Day"
Today, it's easy to take the sheer diversity of life on Earth for grante...
Jan
12
2026
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...
Jan
12
2026
Chemistry Department Special Seminar: Matthew Moschitto, Rutgers University
1:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Seminar, hosted by Professor Richard Silverman
Jan
12
2026
Undergraduate Research Mixer
5:15 PM Evanston
Are you wondering how you can join a physics or astronomy research lab? Here is your chance to find out! This event will...
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
Te he seguido: Jack Arias in Conversation with Jorge Coronado
12:30 PM Evanston
Jack Martínez Arias (Hamilton College) presents his most recent novel, Te he seguido, in conversation with Jorge Coronad...
Jan
13
2026
Jan
14
2026
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...
Jan
14
2026
Political Science Graduate Commune | Buffett Institute Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students
12:30 PM Evanston
Join us for an informal lunchtime conversation with Aaron Darrisaw from the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, along ...
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
Undergraduate Colloquium | Sarah Koch (University of Michigan)
5:30 PM Evanston
Title: Spotting the math in Spot It!
Abstract: Spot It! is a card game for people of all ages (in fact, kids tend to be...
Jan
15
2026
Info Session: Wanxiang Fellows Summer Study Abroad
12:00 PM Online
Join Professor Licheng Gu, the Global Learning Office (GLO), and past student participants to learn more about the Wanxi...
Jan
15
2026
Careers in Physics with Dr. Phalguni Shah
5:00 PM Evanston
People who earn (undergraduate and graduate) physics degrees acquire a broad skillset and can excel in a variety of care...
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...
Jan
16
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Jan
17
2026
Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "From Molecules to Minds"
11:00 AM Evanston
"What is Life After All and What Makes It Possible?"
Living organisms are built out of cells, which serve to segregate t...
Jan
19
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Jan
20
2026
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Lin Chen (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Jan
20
2026
Jan
20
2026
Statistical Computing Workshop | Artur Baranov (Northwestern), Hands-On Methods for Text-as-Data Research
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the Statistical Computing Workshop as they host Ph.D. candidate Artur Baranov for a presentation on "Hans-On...
Jan
20
2026
Jan
21
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Jan
21
2026
Undergraduate and Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM Evanston
Undergrads! Have lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty 12:30PM - 1:30PM on Wednesday, January 21st.
Jan
21
2026
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Jon-Marc Rodriguez, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
3:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Colloquium
Jan
22
2026
Department of Sociology Colloquium: George Steinmetz, University of Michigan
12:30 PM Evanston
George Steinmetz, University of Michigan, presents:
Rethinking Postcolonial Sociology: Canons, Decolonization, and Close...
Jan
22
2026
Reception in Honor of 2025 Nobel Prize Laureate Joel Mokyr
4:00 PM Evanston
Reception in Honor of Joel Mokyr
2025 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences
Thursday, January 22, 2026
4:00 - 6:00 p...
Jan
23
2026
DEEPS Seminar Series - Dr. Kathryn Schreiner
10:00 AM Evanston
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Weekly Seminar Series - Dr. Kathryn Schreiner discusses "Carbon and Nutrient...
Jan
23
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:30 AM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Jan
23
2026
International Relations Speaker Series: Adom Getachew (UChicago)
2:00 PM Evanston
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Professor Adom Getachew. Title and abstract forthcom...
Jan
24
2026
Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "From Molecules to Minds"
11:00 AM Evanston
"Living Systems Across Scales"
Organisms of different sizes face distinct energetic challenges and yet, they are related...
Jan
26
2026
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...
Jan
26
2026
Graduate and Faculty Lunch
12:00 PM Evanston
Professors and grads enjoy a time of food and fellowship! Be sure to mark your calendars for the Graduate and Faculty Lu...
Jan
26
2026
Anthropology Colloquium - Ryan Cecil Jobson, University of Chicago
3:00 PM Evanston
Radiation and the Question of Power: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for Chaguaramas
In the late colonial British West Ind...
Jan
26
2026
Jan
27
2026
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Mike Wasielewski (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Jan
27
2026
Jan
27
2026
Online Roundtable "New Research on Treblinka: Landscapes, Evidence, and Memory"
2:00 PM Online
HEFNU Series: Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues
New Research on Treblinka: Landscapes, Evidence, and Memory
Tues...
Jan
27
2026
Jan
28
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Jan
28
2026
Jan
28
2026
Warnock Lecture Series: Esra Akcan (Cornell University)
5:00 PM Evanston
Winter 2026 Warnock Lecture, presented by the Department of Art History
Esra Akcan (Cornell University): Architecture an...
Jan
29
2026
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Celene Reynolds, Indiana University-Bloomington
12:30 PM Evanston
Celene Reynolds, Indiana University-Bloomington, presents:
TBA
Hybrid
Please contact the Department of Sociology for zoo...
Jan
29
2026
Jan
30
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:00 AM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Jan
30
2026
Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop: Carolyn Barnes (UChicago)
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop as they host Carolyn Barnes, Associate Professor at the Universit...
Jan
30
2026
International Relations Speaker Series: Emma Davis (Northwestern)
2:00 PM Evanston
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Ph.D candidate Emma Davis, Northwestern University. ...
Jan
31
2026
Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "From Molecules to Minds"
11:00 AM Evanston
"The Physics of the Brain"
The brain is the most energy-efficient computational device yet encountered, requiring only a...
Feb
3
2026
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Will Dichtel (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Feb
3
2026
American Politics Workshop: Patrick J. Egan (New York University)
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the American Politics workshop as they host Patrick J. Egan, Professor of Politics and Public Policy at New ...
Feb
3
2026
Feb
4
2026
"Reading Nineteen Eighty-Four in Beijing"
12:00 PM Evanston
Reading Nineteen Eighty-Four in Beijing
This presentation will look at how the last and most influential book written b...
Feb
4
2026
Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium "Petro-Palestine: Technologies of Partition in a Mandated Land" with Shira Pinhas
12:30 PM Evanston
Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium:
"Petro-Palestine: Technologies of Partition in a Mandated Land" presented by Shira ...
Feb
4
2026
Pizza & Politics: Winter 2026 Edition
12:30 PM Evanston
Northwestern undergraduates are invited to join the Political Science department for Pizza and Politics! with Professor ...
Feb
6
2026
DEEPS Seminar Series- Dr. Mark Behn
10:00 AM Evanston
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Weekly Seminar Series - Dr. Mark Behn discusses "Characterizing the Seasonal...
Feb
6
2026
Buffett First Friday Lunch | Dialectics of Tyranny with Iza Ding
12:30 PM Evanston
Dialectics of Tyranny
Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Frid...
Feb
6
2026
Comparative Politics Workshop | Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Killian Clarke, Assistant Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh Sc...
Feb
6
2026
Feb
6
2026
International Relations Speaker Series: Judith Kelley (Duke University)
2:00 PM Evanston
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Judith Kelley, Terry Sanford Distinguished Professor...
Feb
6
2026
Feb
7
2026
Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "From Molecules to Minds"
11:00 AM Evanston
"Artificial Intelligence and Other Bio-Inspired Technologies"
Biologically inspired technologies are ubiquitous, includi...
Feb
9
2026
Northwestern University's Department of Philosophy hosts a workshop with Brian Soucek
3:00 PM No Location
TBA
Feb
10
2026
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Tom Meade (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Feb
10
2026
Feb
11
2026
Filmmaker Brett Story - Public Humanities Keynote
All day No Location
Time and location to be announced!
Brett Story is a filmmaker, writer, and geographer based out of Toronto. Story's keyn...
Feb
11
2026
Spring 2026 Pre-registration Preview
12:30 PM Evanston
Join the Political Science Department as we take a preview of the Spring 2026 quarter courses. Faculty will present on t...
Feb
11
2026
Feb
12
2026
Lecture on Black History (CCHS/Black Studies)
4:00 PM Evanston
CCHS/Black Studies Distinguished Lecture on Black History
Ula Yvette TAYLOR (Berkeley), author of The Promise of Patria...
Feb
12
2026
SAVE THE DATE CAAH/Chabraja lecture
4:00 PM Evanston
Chabraja/Center for African American History Distinguished Lecture in African American History. To be given by Ula Taylo...
Feb
12
2026
Natalie Diaz Reading and Conversation
5:00 PM Evanston
The Litowitz MFA+MA Program and the Northwestern English Department are proud to present a reading and conversation by p...
Feb
13
2026
DEEPS Seminar Series - Dr. Jennifer Dunn
10:00 AM Evanston
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Weekly Seminar Series - Dr. Jennifer Dunn discusses "Sustainability Analysis...
Feb
13
2026
Political Science Honors Program Info Session
12:15 PM Evanston
Are you thinking about applying to the Political Science Honors program? Join the Political Science Department for this ...
Feb
13
2026
Cognitive Science Fridays | Mind & Machine Collaboration : Di Hu
12:30 PM Evanston
Di Hu, Human Development and Social Policy
"Personalized Support for Adolescent Minds: A Memory-Enhanced AI Companion fo...
Feb
14
2026
Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "From Molecules to Minds"
11:00 AM Evanston
"Biophysical Fiction or Reality"
To what extent are the possibilities of brain-machine interfaces, thought-reading throu...
Feb
16
2026
Dynamical Systems Seminar | Mauro Di Nasso (Pisa)
3:00 PM Evanston
Title:
Arithmetic Ramsey Theory and nonstandard methods.
Abstract:
Arithmetic Ramsey theory is an area of combinatorics...
Feb
16
2026
Cakes & Classes
4:00 PM Evanston
Cakes and Classes is a delicious opportunity to network with History professors, learn about the incoming quarter course...
Feb
16
2026
Poetry & Poetics: Craig Dworkin on "Every Mark on Paper is an Acoustic Mark: Sounding Susan Howe"
5:00 PM No Location
Please join the English department & the Poetry & Poetics cluster, as part of the UNSETTLING SOUND event series, for a l...
Feb
17
2026
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Brian Hoffman (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Feb
17
2026
Dr. Mark Steyvers : Cognitive Science Speaker Series
4:00 PM Evanston
Research Interests
Higher order cognition (learning/ memory/ decision-making/ metacognition); Computational Modeling; Ag...
Feb
17
2026
Feb
18
2026
Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium: "On Revival: Hebrew Literature between Life and Death," with Roni Henig
12:30 PM Evanston
Faculty and Grad Student Colloquim:
"On Revival: Hebrew Literature between Life and Death," with Roni Henig, New York Un...
Feb
18
2026
Feb
20
2026
DEEPS Seminar Series - Dr. Heather Bedle
10:00 AM Evanston
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Weekly Seminar Series - Dr. Heather Bedle discusses "Characterizing Subsurfa...
Feb
20
2026
Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop: Rutger Ceballos (University of Oregon)
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop as they host Rutger Ceballos, Assistant Professor of Political Sc...
Feb
20
2026
Psychology Colloquium Series : Industry Panel
3:15 PM Evanston
Panelists
Jun Won Park (Expedia)
Brittany Torrez (Yelp)
Cassie Brandes (BetterUp)
Feb
21
2026
Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "From Molecules to Minds"
11:00 AM Evanston
"Getting Life Under Control"
Life has evolved sophisticated regulatory and control mechanisms, from cells regulating pro...
Feb
23
2026
Undergraduate and Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM Evanston
Undergrads! Have lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty at 12:30PM - 1:30PM on Monday, February 23rd.
Feb
24
2026
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Vinayak Dravid (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Feb
24
2026
Feb
24
2026
Statistical Computing Workshop | Yingdan Lu (Northwestern)
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the Statistical Computing Workshop as they host Yindgan Liu, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies in...
Feb
26
2026
Department of Sociology: MOSKOS Lecture - Florencia Torche, Princeton University
12:30 PM Evanston
Florencia Torche, Princeton University, presents:
Early-life exposures and social inequality"
Hybrid
Please contact the ...
Feb
27
2026
DEEPS Seminar Series - Dr. Ping Jing
10:00 AM No Location
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Weekly Seminar Series - Dr. Ping Jing discusses "Ozone, Smoke, and Public He...
Feb
27
2026
Comparative Politics Workshop: Jordan Gans-Morse (Northwestern), Compliance and Consent in Wartime Ukraine
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Prof. Jordan Gans-Morse, Associate Professor of Political Sci...
Feb
27
2026
International Relations Speaker Series: Michael Findley (UT Texas)
2:00 PM Evanston
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Michael Findley, the Erwin Centennial Professor of G...
Feb
27
2026
Northwestern University's Department of Philosophy's Colloquium Series presents Andrew Huddleston
3:00 PM Evanston
Andrew Huddleston will give a talk entitled, "Not at Home in One’s Own House’: Adorno on Dwelling".
Feb
28
2026
Sievert Prize Lectures: Thomas Wytock: "From Molecules to Minds"
11:00 AM Evanston
"Fine Wine and Sour Milk: Is Aging Inevitable?"
Age comes for us all, from the scale of our whole bodies to the subcellu...