Sep
17
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...
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.
Sep
17
2025
Myron L. & Muriel S. Bender Distinguished Summer Lectures in Organic Chemistry: Phil Baran, Scripps
3:00 PM Evanston
Bender Lectures hosted by Christian Malapit
Location: Tech LR3 (TBD)
Sep
18
2025
Myron L. & Muriel S. Bender Distinguished Summer Lectures in Organic Chemistry: Phil Baran, Scripps
9:00 AM Evanston
Bender Lectures hosted by Christian Malapit
Location: Ryan 4003 (TBD)
Sep
18
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
4:00 PM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Sep
18
2025
Third Thursdays at Kaplan Institute - Hello, Fall Quarter!
5:00 PM Evanston
Welcome back for fall quarter and fun times at Kaplan! Drop in for a drink and a bite and tell us what you did last summ...
Sep
19
2025
17th Annual Northwestern Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
All day Chicago
The Northwestern Center on Law, Business, and Economics at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the Center for the St...
Sep
19
2025
Microeconometrics Class of 2025 Conference
8:00 AM Evanston
The conference showcasing 19 presentations by 2025 PhD graduates is on Friday, September 19th and Saturday morning Septe...
Sep
19
2025
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...
Sep
20
2025
17th Annual Northwestern Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
All day Chicago
The Northwestern Center on Law, Business, and Economics at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the Center for the St...
Sep
20
2025
Microeconometrics Class of 2025 Conference
8:00 AM Evanston
The conference showcasing 19 presentations by 2025 PhD graduates is on Friday, September 19th and Saturday morning Septe...
Sep
22
2025
Anthropology Colloquium - Karl Swinehart, University of Louisville
3:00 PM Evanston
A Difficult Language: Aymara Media, Linguistic Labor, and Urban Indigeneity in Bolivia
The cultivation of the Aymara lan...
Sep
22
2025
Analysis Seminar | Yanyan Li (Rutgers University)
4:00 PM Evanston
Title: Symmetry of hypersurfaces and the Hopf Lemma
In 1945, S.S. Chern provided the following characterization of spher...
Sep
23
2025
Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop (QCoM): Kathy Copas
2:00 PM Evanston
The Department of Sociology's Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop:
Kathy Copas, Northwestern University: What ...
Sep
23
2025
Department of Chemistry Special Seminar, Presenter Jordi Arbiol, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience
3:00 PM Evanston
Professor Jordi Arbiol, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), ICREA, will be speaking on the Autom...
Sep
24
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Sep
24
2025
The Block Collects 2025
12:00 PM Evanston
This year’s The Block Collects installation features two projects featuring works selected by students:
2025 Student Acq...
Sep
24
2025
Sep
24
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Sarah King, University of Chicago
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Seminar
Hosted by Franz Geiger
Sep
24
2025
Sep
25
2025
Ice Cream Lecture on Early Modern European History
12:00 PM Evanston
Annual ICE CREAM LECTURE with Scott SOWERBY, author of Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution (201...
Sep
25
2025
Curator Talk - Frankenthaler’s World: Collaboration and Printmaking in Postwar America
12:30 PM Evanston
Join us in the gallery for a talk with Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Pape...
Sep
25
2025
Chemistry Department Seminar: Ye Zhu, National University of Singapore
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Seminar
Hosted by Karl Scheidt and Christian Malapit
Sep
25
2025
Probability Seminar | Daniel de la Riva Massaad (University of British Columbia)
4:00 PM Chicago
Title: Sharpness and existence of the Phase Transition for the Frog Model.
Abstract: We consider a small modification of...
Sep
25
2025
"Translation: Or Is It Cultural Appropriation?" - Souleymane Bachir Diagne
4:00 PM Evanston
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor Emeritus of French and Philosophy at Columbia, will discuss his new book, From Langu...
Sep
25
2025
Temperance Aghamohammadi Book Launch with Kai Ihns: Poetry & Poetics
5:00 PM Evanston
Please join the English department & the Poetry & Poetics cluster, as part of the UNSETTLING SOUND event series, in cele...
Sep
26
2025
Friday Morning Faculty Writing Sessions - Kaplan Humanities Institute
9:00 AM Evanston
Ease into the weekend feeling productive! Drop in to the Kaplan Seminar Room on Friday mornings starting September 26, ...
Sep
26
2025
Comparative Politics Workshop: Ana Arjona and Andrew Saab (Northwestern)
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Ana Arjona, Associate Professor of Political Science, and And...
Sep
26
2025
Governance and Economic Development in Africa: A Conversation with Peter Obi
3:00 PM No Location
Peter Obi is a globally recognized Nigerian statesman, business leader, and advocate for good governance. A two-term Gov...
Sep
26
2025
Open House Social
3:00 PM Evanston
The Political Science Department invites you to our 2025-26 Open House! Join us for an open house social, and meet facul...
Sep
29
2025
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, September 29, 2025...
Sep
29
2025
An American pastime. A wrongful conviction. An unlikely friendship. A life redeemed.
4:30 PM Evanston
In Double Play on the Red Line, debut novelist Rajesh C. Oza delivers a powerful, emotionally resonant story of injustic...
Sep
30
2025
Chemistry Department Seminar: Adam Jaffe, Notre Dame
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Seminar
Hosted by Dayne Swearer
For information, please contact Ruth Barrera at swearer-ofc@northwe...
Sep
30
2025
Dynamical Systems Seminar | Miri Son (Rice University)
4:00 PM Evanston
Title: Classification of SL(n,R)-actions on closed manifolds
Abstract: Recently, Fisher and Melnick classified SL(n,R)-a...
Sep
30
2025
Sep
30
2025
Sep
30
2025
Fall 2025 Religious Studies Department Welcome Reception
5:30 PM Off-Campus
Join us at the Yasotorn Thai Cuisine in Evanston to celebrate the start of the year and meet our new faculty and student...
Oct
1
2025
Graduate and Faculty Lunch
12:00 PM Evanston
Grads! Join your fellow grads and faculty for lunch on Wednesday, October 1, 2025 in Harris Hall, Room 108.
Oct
1
2025
Oct
2
2025
Oct
2
2025
Ananda Lima: Moore Lecture Series
5:00 PM Evanston
Join us for a reading by Ananda Lima, followed by a conversation with faculty member Juan Martinez.
Ananda Lima is the a...
Oct
7
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Mark Aparece
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Oct
7
2025
American Politics Workshop: Brendan Nyhan (Dartmouth)
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the American Politics workshop as they host Brendan Nyhan, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor and Prof...
Oct
7
2025
Color-blind Secularisms in Contemporary France and Québec
12:30 PM Evanston
Guest Lecture with Prof. Jennifer Selby, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Description: Drawing on thinking from Secul...
Oct
7
2025
Oct
7
2025
Dynamical Systems Seminar | Ekaterina Shchetka (University of Michigan)
3:00 PM Evanston
Title: Double exponential mixing in analytic dynamics
Abstract: TBD
Oct
7
2025
Oct
8
2025
Oct
9
2025
CCHS lecture on "Historians, Avians, and Bird's-Eye Views" by Jared Farmer
12:00 PM Evanston
Jared FARMER (University of Pennsylvania), author of Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees (2022)—Thursday, Octo...
Oct
9
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Oct
9
2025
MBS Seminar Series - Daniel Dickinson
12:30 PM Evanston
Dr. Daniel Dickinson - University of Texas Austin
https://utdickinsonlab.org/
Oct
9
2025
Trans Poetry Night with Samuel Ace & Michael M. Weinstein
5:00 PM Evanston
Join the Workshop in Trans Studies on the evening of October 9th at 5:00pm for a poetry reading featuring Samuel Ace and...
Oct
9
2025
Physics and Astronomy Fall Welcome
6:00 PM Evanston
Join us as we kick off the new school year! Meet faculty, connect with current students, and learn more about opportunit...
Oct
10
2025
Dr. Daniel Pine : Psychology Colloquium Series, "Advancing psychiatric care through research in clinical neuroscience"
3:15 PM Evanston
Title: Advancing psychiatric care through research in clinical neuroscience:
This presentation will review the ways in w...
Oct
13
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Emiliano Cortés, University of Munich
2:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Seminar
Hosted by Dayne Swearer
Oct
13
2025
Oct
14
2025
Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop (QCoM): Philipp Brandt
2:00 PM Evanston
The Department of Sociology's Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop:
Philipp Brandt, Sciences Po: From Data Scie...
Oct
14
2025
Oct
15
2025
Oct
15
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Myles Smith, UT Southwestern
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Seminar
Hosted by Regan Thomson
Oct
15
2025
Colombian Writers Symposium: Julián Delgado Lopera, Gloria Susana Esquivel, Jaime Manríque
3:30 PM Evanston
Please join the English Department in welcoming three renowned Colombian writers for an evening of readings and discussi...
Oct
16
2025
MBS Seminar Series - Alexander Hoffmann
12:30 PM Evanston
Dr. Alexander Hoffmann - UCLA
https://www.signalingsystems.ucla.edu/
Oct
16
2025
Lecture on the Holocaust by Erin McGlothlin (CCHS/HEFNU)
4:30 PM Evanston
Chabraja Center for Historical Studies (CCHS) in collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern...
Oct
16
2025
Holocaust Studies Public Lecture: "Representing the Operation Reinhard Killing Centers in Contemporary Holocaust Fiction," Featuring Erin McGlothlin (Washington University in St. Louis)
5:00 PM Evanston
"Representing the Operation Reinhard Killing Centers in Contemporary Holocaust Fiction"
Annual HEFNU/CCHS Lecture in Ho...
Oct
16
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 ...
Oct
17
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...
Oct
17
2025
Psychology Colloquium Series : Faculty Panel
3:15 PM Evanston
Panelists:
Dr. Katie Insel
Dr. Sandra Waxman
Dr. Alissa Levy-Chung
Oct
20
2025
Oct
20
2025
Oct
20
2025
Oct
21
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter George Schatz
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Oct
21
2025
American Politics Workshop: Yuki Atsusaka (Houston)
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the American Politics workshop as they host Yuki Atsusaka, Assistant Professor at the Hobby School of Public...
Oct
21
2025
L. Carroll King Lectures 2025: Brent Stockwell, Columbia University
3:00 PM Evanston
L. Caroll King Lectures: October 21-22, presented by Brent Stockwell, Columbia University
Hosted by Xiaoyu Zhang
Detail...
Oct
21
2025
Dr. Marisa Casillas : Cognitive Science Speaker Series
4:00 PM Evanston
Research
Broadly speaking,her interest is in exploring how cognitive and social processes shape the ways in which we lea...
Oct
21
2025
The Moyal bracket and quantization of the spinning particle in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism | Ezra Getzler
4:00 PM Chicago
The spinning particle is a one-dimensional toy model for the Neveu-Ramon-Schwartz superstring: it is obtained by couplin...
Oct
21
2025
Richard W. Leopold Lecture | Nina Totenberg
5:00 PM Evanston
The 36th Annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture will be delivered by Nina Totenberg, NPR’s Award-Winning Legal Affairs Corres...
Oct
22
2025
Oct
22
2025
L. Carroll King Lectures 2025: Brent Stockwell, Columbia University
3:00 PM Evanston
L. Caroll King Lectures: October 21-22, presented by Brent Stockwell, Columbia University
Hosted by Xiaoyu Zhang
Details...
Oct
22
2025
Chicagoland Friends of Economic History Dinner Fall 2025
6:30 PM Evanston
Guest of Honor: Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University)
Oct
23
2025
MBS Seminar Series - Edward Twomey
12:30 PM Evanston
Dr. Edward Twomey - Johns Hopkins Medicine
https://twomey.med.jhmi.edu/
Oct
23
2025
Oct
24
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
12:00 PM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Oct
24
2025
Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop: Giovanni Castro Irizarry (UCLA)
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop as they host Giovanni Castro Irizarry, a PhD Candidate at the Uni...
Oct
24
2025
Oct
27
2025
Anthropology Colloquium - Gina Perez, Oberlin College
3:00 PM Evanston
Sanctuary and Accompaniment in Moments of Crisis
The idea and practice of sanctuary have a long and vexed presence in U....
Oct
27
2025
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...
Oct
28
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Nathan Gianneschi
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Oct
28
2025
Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop (QCoM): Yingzhe Zhu
2:00 PM Evanston
The Department of Sociology's Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop:
Yingzhe Zhu, Northwestern University: No Ne...
Oct
28
2025
Filipino American History Month: The Fight to Save the International Hotel
5:00 PM Evanston
October is Filipino American History Month!
Come hear Emil De Guzman discuss his new book, Red Sky: Recollections of th...
Oct
29
2025
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...
Oct
29
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Jim Mayer, Yale
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Hosted by Bryan Hunter
Oct
29
2025
Pinsky Lecture Series | Alex Lubotzky (Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University)
4:00 PM Evanston
Title: Locally tested good error correcting codes
Abstract: An error-correcting code is locally testable (LTC) if there ...
Oct
29
2025
Warnock Lecture Series: Adriana Zavala (Tufts University)
5:00 PM Evanston
Fall 2025 Warnock Lecture, presented by the Department of Art History.
Reckoning and Rerouting: AfroDiasporic Returns i...
Oct
30
2025
MBS Seminar Series - Ken Zaret
12:30 PM Evanston
Dr. Ken Zaret - University of Pennsylvania
https://zaretlab.med.upenn.edu/
Oct
30
2025
Pinsky Lecture Series | Alex Lubotzky (Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University)
1:00 PM Evanston
Title: Group stability and approximation
Abstract: In this talk, we will show how group stability (the question of whe...
Oct
30
2025
Pinsky Lecture Series | Alex Lubotzky (Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University)
4:00 PM Evanston
Title: Topological expanders
Abstract: Gromov's overlapping problems led to the notions of geometric and topological e...
Oct
30
2025
Oct
31
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
1:00 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
3
2025
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...
Nov
3
2025
Allison Davis Lecture
4:00 PM Evanston
Allison Davis Lecture. To be given by Lorgia García Peña, Professor in the Department of African American Studies & Ef...
Nov
3
2025
Nov
4
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Julia Kalow
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Nov
4
2025
American Politics Workshop: Professor Cindy D. Kam (Vanderbilt)
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the American Politics Workshop as they host Professor Cindy D. Kam, William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair Director and...
Nov
4
2025
Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop (QCoM): Daniel Tadmon
2:00 PM Evanston
The Department of Sociology's Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop:
Daniel Tadmon, University of Notre Dame: Tr...
Nov
4
2025
Nov
4
2025
The Susan Bies Lecture on Economics and Public Policy: Michael Kremer
4:00 PM Evanston
Michael Kremer (University of Chicago)
Title: TBA
Nov
5
2025
Undergraduate and Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM Evanston
Undergrads! Have lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty at 12:30PM - 1:30PM on Wednesday, November 5, 202...
Nov
5
2025
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...
Nov
5
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Frank Glorius, Universität Münster
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Hosted by Nathan Gianneschi
Nov
5
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: T. Don Tilley, UC Berkeley
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Hosted by Bryan Hunter
Nov
5
2025
Nov
5
2025
Chitra Ganesh at The Block Museum
6:00 PM Evanston
The Kaplan Humanities Institute is delighted to co-sponsor a talk by visual artist Chitra Ganesh at the Block Museum of ...
Nov
5
2025
Chitra Ganesh in Conversation: Students Shape the Collection
6:00 PM Evanston
Join us to celebrate the 2024–25 Student Acquisition: two works from She the Question, a series of prints by artist Chit...
Nov
6
2025
Nov
6
2025
ATP Visiting Artist Talk: Jesse Chun
5:00 PM Evanston
The Department of Art, Theory, and Practice welcomes artist Jesse Chun for a public talk.
Chun's moving images, concret...
Nov
7
2025
Nemmers Prize in Economics: Conference
9:00 AM Evanston
Nemmers Conference. This is associated with the awarding of the Nemmers Prize in Economics to Michael Woodford. Includ...
Nov
7
2025
Comparative Politics Workshop: Jordan Gans-Morse (Northwestern)
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Prof. Jordan Gans-Morse, Associate Professor of Political Sci...
Nov
7
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom [copy]
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
7
2025
Northwestern University's Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series presents Vanderbilt University's Matthew Congdon
3:00 PM Evanston
Title: Two Myths about Emotion
Abstract. An old myth once held that emotion and reason are fundamentally opposed. In t...
Nov
7
2025
Fred Basolo Medal, 2025 Recipient: Ric Kaner, UCLA
4:30 PM Evanston
Hosted by Omar Farha
6:30 Reception at the Hilton Orrington by Invitation Only
Nov
8
2025
Nemmers Prize in Economics: Conference
9:00 AM Evanston
Nemmers Conference. This is associated with the awarding of the Nemmers Prize in Economics to Michael Woodford. Day 2 ...
Nov
10
2025
Save the Date - Conversation with Susan Stryker
All day No Location
Join us for a conversation with renowned gender theorist Susan Stryker.
Stryker’s historical research, theoretical writi...
Nov
10
2025
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...
Nov
10
2025
Short Course
3:30 PM Evanston
Michael Woodford (Columbia University and Nemmers Prize Holder):
"Cognitive Imprecision and Economic Behavior"
Lecture 1...
Nov
10
2025
Nov
11
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Christian Malapit
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Nov
11
2025
COGSCI FACULTY FLASH TALKS : Cognitive Science Speaker Series
4:00 PM Evanston
Faculty Speakers:
Monita Chatterjee , Communication Sciences and Disorders
Manling Li, Computer Science
Jiayi Lu, Depart...
Nov
11
2025
Nov
12
2025
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...
Nov
12
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Kyoung-Shin Choi, University of Wisconsin
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Hosted by Bryan Hunter
Nov
12
2025
Short Course
3:30 PM Evanston
Michael Woodford (Columbia University and Nemmers Prize Holder):
"Cognitive Imprecision and Economic Behavior"
Lecture 2...
Nov
12
2025
Cakes and Classes
4:00 PM Evanston
Cakes and Classes is a delicious opportunity to network with History professors, learn about the incoming quarter course...
Nov
13
2025
Nov
14
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom [copy]
1:00 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
14
2025
Dr. Yair Bar-Haim: Psychology Colloquium Series
3:15 PM Evanston
Yair Bar-Haim is professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Board Certified Clinical Psychologist, School of Psychologica...