Mar
3
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
9:00 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.
Mar
3
2026
Northwestern Chemistry Faculty Seminar: Fred Northrup (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Mar
3
2026
American Politics Workshop: Molly Offer-Westort, Data-Driven Hypotheses and Experimental Designs for Theory Testing and Theory Building
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the American Politics Workshop as they host Assistant Professor Molly Offer-Westort, University of Chicago. ...
Mar
3
2026
Secular Sanction: Racializing Islam in American Standup Comedy
12:30 PM Evanston
Lunch presentation by Prof. Samah Choudhury, Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Scien...
Mar
3
2026
Brady Tea
3:30 PM Evanston
Brady Scholars gather weekly for refreshments and discussion about recent events and their implications for our society,...
Mar
3
2026
Dynamical Systems Seminar | Meg Doucette (U. Maryland)
4:00 PM Evanston
Title: Smooth Models of Fibered Partially Hyperbolic Systems
Abstract: We will discuss the existence and construction of...
Mar
3
2026
Brady Scholars Program Senior Project Showcase
6:00 PM No Location
The Brady Seniors will present their Senior Project to the Brady Community.
Mar
4
2026
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
10:30 AM Online
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS team members...
Mar
4
2026
LLSP Study Lounge
11:30 AM Evanston
Are you looking for a space to study? Want to build community?
Join us every Wednesday in our seminar room, and meet mem...
Mar
4
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...
Mar
4
2026
Online Roundtable: "Representing the Holocaust: A Comparative Approach"
12:00 PM Online
HEFNU Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight Event:
"Representing the Holocaust: A Comparative Approach"
Wednesday, March 4, ...
Mar
4
2026
Publishing Research Papers and Attending Conferences
12:30 PM Evanston
Join us to discuss the practical and strategic dimensions of academic publishing and conference participation. The sessi...
Mar
4
2026
Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization
Cancelled Evanston
Postponed! Stay tuned for the new Spring Quarter date.
Guest Speaker: Esmat Elhalaby (University of Toronto),
Mar
4
2026
EPC Jobs Workshop
4:00 PM Evanston
Please join Northwestern's Program in Environmental Policy and Culture for a workshop about environmental jobs and progr...
Mar
4
2026
Weinberg College Named Chair Investiture Ceremony
4:00 PM Evanston
Wendy Pearlman
Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences
Department of Political Science
Jared Wunsch
James E. Johnson P...
Mar
4
2026
Mar
5
2026
From Lagos to Bamako: Biennales and Global Conversations in African Photography (Online)
12:00 PM Online
This webinar will examine the Rencontres de Bamako (Bamako Encounters), Africa’s premier photography biennale, as a crit...
Mar
5
2026
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Atinuke Adediran, Fordham University
12:30 PM Evanston
Atinuke Adediran, Fordham University, presents:
TBA
Hybrid
Please contact the Department of Sociology for zoom link and ...
Mar
5
2026
MBS Seminar Series - Claudiu Gradinaru
12:30 PM Evanston
Dr. Claudiu Gradinaru - University of Toronto Mississauga
https://sites.utm.utoronto.ca/gradinarulab/
Mar
5
2026
Winter Coffee and Tea with Dr. T!
12:30 PM Evanston
Have questions about Religious Studies, majoring, minoring, honor projects, or just want to learn more about our Departm...
Mar
5
2026
Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop (QCoM): Felix Enterkin (Northwestern University)
2:00 PM Evanston
The Department of Sociology's Quantitative & Computational Methods Workshop:
PhD Candidate Felix Enterkin, Northwestern ...
Mar
5
2026
Probability Seminar | Rong Ma (Harvard)
4:00 PM Evanston
Title: Modern Nonlinear Embedding Methods Unpacked
Abstract: Learning and representing low-dimensional structures from ...
Mar
6
2026
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 q...
Mar
6
2026
DEEPS Seminar Series - Dr. Selva Marroquin
10:00 AM Evanston
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Weekly Seminar Series - Dr. Selva Marroquin.
These seminars are made possibl...
Mar
6
2026
The Monument of Tomorrow: Creative Conservation and the Spanish Civil War
12:00 PM Evanston
Miguel Caballero (Spanish & Portuguese, Northwestern University) presents his recent book The Monument of Tomorrow (PSUP...
Mar
6
2026
Info Session & Lunch: NEW Graduate Public Humanities Cluster
12:30 PM Evanston
RSVP by Feb. 27 - Open to graduate students, faculty, and staff:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16kNgYiqFgryo97767n7bsS...
Mar
6
2026
Turkish Language Table
3:00 PM Evanston
Turkish learners of all levels are welcome to attend. Turkish snacks will be served.
Mar
6
2026
Graduate Student Seminar | Guin Bixler (Northwestern University)
4:00 PM Evanston
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Note: The talk will start at 4:10 pm
Mar
7
2026
Tour: Ukrainian Culture in the Chicago Diaspora
10:00 AM No Location
We’ll visit The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, the Ukrainian National Museum and Tryzub Ukrainian Kitchen.
Tour led ...
Mar
10
2026
Northwestern Chemistry Faculty Seminar: Chad Mirkin (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Mar
10
2026
American Politics Workshop: Matt Grossmann, Policymaking for Realists: A Playbook for Policy Progress Despite Political Decay
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the American Politics Workshop as they host Matt Grossmann, Professor of Political Science at Michigan State...
Mar
10
2026
Mar
11
2026
LLSP Study Lounge
11:30 AM Evanston
Are you looking for a space to study? Want to build community?
Join us every Wednesday in our seminar room, and meet mem...
Mar
11
2026
Algebraic Geometry Seminar | Jason Kountouridis (Université Paris-Saclay)
3:00 PM Evanston
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Mar
11
2026
Northwestern Chemistry Colloquium: Koon Mook Kang (Silverman Group)
3:00 PM Evanston
Northwestern Chemistry welcomes Koon Mook Kang from the Silverman Group, hosted by the Graduate Liaison Committee.
Selec...
Mar
12
2026
Winter Coffee and Tea with Dr. T!
12:30 PM Evanston
Have questions about Religious Studies, majoring, minoring, honor projects, or just want to learn more about our Departm...
Mar
12
2026
Northwestern Chemistry Special Seminar: Raul Sanchez (Rice University)
3:00 PM Evanston
Northwestern Chemistry welcomes Raul Hernandez Sanchez from Rice University, hosted by Bryan Hunter.
Macrocyclic templa...
Mar
12
2026
Poetry & Poetics: A Reading by Urayoán Noel
5:00 PM Evanston
Please join the English department & the Poetry & Poetics cluster, as part of the UNSETTLING SOUND event series, for a r...
Mar
13
2026
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 q...
Mar
13
2026
Cognitive Science Fridays | Mind & Machine Collaboration : Zhe-Chen Guo
12:30 PM Evanston
Zhe-Chen Guo, Linguisitics, Communicaiton Sciences & Disorders
"Consistency of Phoneme-Related Potentials to Naturalisti...
Mar
13
2026
Mar
13
2026
Brent Seales (University of Kentucky): "On Perseverance: Virtually Unwrapping the Herculaneum Scrolls"
3:30 PM Online
This talk tells the story of virtual unwrapping, conceived during the rise of digital libraries and large-scale computin...
Mar
17
2026
Northwestern Chemistry Faculty Seminar: Navdeep Chandel (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Mar
17
2026
Algebraic Geometry Seminar | Ruijie Yang (University of Kansas)
2:00 PM Evanston
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Mar
18
2026
LLSP Study Lounge
11:30 AM Evanston
Are you looking for a space to study? Want to build community?
Join us every Wednesday in our seminar room, and meet mem...
Mar
19
2026
Third Thursday at Kaplan Institute - March
4:00 PM Evanston
Sips, snacks, and conversation—the Kaplan Humanities Institute invites faculty to join us for informal get-togethers on ...
Mar
20
2026
International Relations Speaker Series: Henri Otsing, “Cheers to Perpetual Peace!”: Kant and the Politics of Translation
2:00 PM Evanston
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Henri Otsing, PhD student at the University of Tartu...
Mar
25
2026
LLSP Study Lounge
11:30 AM Evanston
Are you looking for a space to study? Want to build community?
Join us every Wednesday in our seminar room, and meet mem...
Mar
31
2026
Northwestern Chemistry Faculty Seminar: Dayne Swearer (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Apr
1
2026
Fulbright Study/Research/Arts Awards Information meeting
9:00 AM Evanston
Interested in Fulbright Study/Research & Arts Awards? Attend this meeting to learn how Fulbright can transform your lif...
Apr
1
2026
LLSP Study Lounge
11:30 AM Evanston
Are you looking for a space to study? Want to build community?
Join us every Wednesday in our seminar room, and meet mem...
Apr
1
2026
EDGS Book Talk: "Bad Lieutenants" with Andrew Mertha
12:30 PM Evanston
Join the Roberta Buffett Institute and its Equality Development & Globalization Studies (EDGS) program for a public talk...
Apr
1
2026
2026 Mark A. Ratner Series of Scholars: Janice Lawandi
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemist & Baker, Janice Lawandi joins us for the Ratner Series of Scholars
Apr
2
2026
MBS Seminar Series - Jun Liu
12:30 PM Evanston
Dr. Jun Liu - Yale Medicine
https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/jun-liu/
Apr
2
2026
Apr
3
2026
Comparative Politics Workshop: Martin Laryš (IIR Prague)
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Martin Laryš, senior researcher at the Institute of Internati...
Apr
6
2026
Apr
7
2026
Northwestern Chemistry Faculty Seminar: Tobin Marks (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Apr
7
2026
Bellow Academic Memorial
1:00 PM Off-Campus
The Bellow Academic Memorial is a special event featuring three talks and a reception to celebrate the impact of the sch...
Apr
7
2026
Dynamical Systems Seminar (Bellow Academic Memorial) | Florian Richter (EPFL)
1:00 PM Evanston
Title: On the structure of infinite sumsets in the integers
Abstract: A long-standing problem in combinatorial number t...
Apr
7
2026
Dynamical Systems Seminar (Bellow Academic Memorial) | Mariusz Mirek (Rutgers)
2:30 PM Evanston
Title: On a Multiparameter Bellow-Furstenberg Problem.
Abstract: In the early 1980s, Alexandra Bellow, motivated by some...
Apr
7
2026
Dynamical Systems Seminar (Bellow Academic Memorial) | Vitaly Bergelson (Ohio State University)
4:00 PM Evanston
Title: Some problems and results that Alexandra Bellow liked and popularized
Apr
8
2026
LLSP Study Lounge
11:30 AM Evanston
Are you looking for a space to study? Want to build community?
Join us every Wednesday in our seminar room, and meet mem...
Apr
8
2026
Northwestern Chemistry Colloquium: Christopher Newton (University of Georgia)
3:00 PM Evanston
Northwestern Chemistry welcomes Christopher Newton from the University of Georgia, hosted by Regan Thomson.
Apr
8
2026
Apr
9
2026
CCHS lecture by Sunil Amrith
12:00 PM Evanston
Sunil AMRITH (Yale), author of The Burning Earth: A History (2024)—Thursday, April 9—LUNCH LECTURE
This lecture is part ...
Apr
9
2026
MBS Seminar Series - Brooke Gardner
12:30 PM Evanston
Dr. Brooke Gardner - UC Santa Barbara
https://gardnerlab.mcdb.ucsb.edu/
Apr
9
2026
Apr
10
2026
Cognitive Science Fridays | Mind & Machine Collaboration : Yi Chun Hung
12:30 PM Evanston
Yi Chun Hung, Computer Science
"When Color Becomes Threat: Mapping High-Dimensional Signals with Behavioral Manifolds in...
Apr
10
2026
International Relations Speaker Series: V. Page Fortna (Columbia University)
2:00 PM Evanston
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host V. Page Fortna, Harold Brown Professor of US Foreign...
Apr
10
2026
War, the End of Empire, and the Expansion of Women’s Political Citizenship
3:00 PM Evanston
Aili Mari Tripp is Vilas Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research ha...
Apr
10
2026
Apr
13
2026
Anthropology Colloquium - Haeden Stewart, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
3:00 PM Evanston
Exposed: The Archaeology of Industrial Landscapes and Slow Violence
We are living through an era defined by the environm...
Apr
14
2026
Northwestern Chemistry Faculty Seminar: Joe Hupp (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Apr
14
2026
Apr
14
2026
Apr
15
2026
LLSP Study Lounge
11:30 AM Evanston
Are you looking for a space to study? Want to build community?
Join us every Wednesday in our seminar room, and meet mem...
Apr
15
2026
Undergraduate & Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM Evanston
Undergrads! Have lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty 12:30PM - 1:30PM on Wednesday, April 15th.
Apr
15
2026
Faces of Science Seminar: Katherine Lee (Pfizer)
3:00 PM Evanston
Faces of Science Seminar
Katherine Lee (Pfizer)
Hosted by NUBonD
Apr
16
2026
Conference on Gender and Household Economics
8:00 AM Evanston
Conference on Gender and Household Economics
Apr
16
2026
MBS Seminar Series - Laura Dassama
12:30 PM Evanston
Dr. Laura Dassama - Stanford
https://www.dassamalab.org/
Apr
16
2026
Faces of Science Seminar: Katherine Lee (Pfizer)
3:00 PM Evanston
Northwestern Chemistry welcomes Katherine Lee from Pfizer, hosted by NUBonD.
Apr
16
2026
Apr
16
2026
Third Thursday at Kaplan Institute - April
4:00 PM Evanston
Sips, snacks, and conversation—the Kaplan Humanities Institute invites faculty to join us for informal get-togethers on ...
Apr
17
2026
Conference on Gender and Household Economics
8:00 AM Evanston
Conference on Gender and Household Economics
Apr
17
2026
Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop: Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford)
12:30 PM Evanston
Please join the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop as they host Hakeem Jefferson, Assistant Professor of Political S...
Apr
17
2026
International Relations Speaker Series: Andrés Schelp (Northwestern)
2:00 PM Evanston
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Ph.D Candidate Andrés Schelp, Northwestern Universit...
Apr
17
2026
Apr
20
2026
Apr
21
2026
CCHS lecture by Erika Pani
12:00 PM Evanston
Erika PANI (College of Mexico), author of Torn Asunder: Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico...
Apr
21
2026
Northwestern Chemistry Faculty Seminar: Neil Kelleher (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Apr
21
2026
Apr
21
2026
Apr
22
2026
Fulbright Study/Research/Arts Awards Information meeting
9:00 AM Evanston
Interested in Fulbright Study/Research & Arts Awards? Attend this meeting to learn how Fulbright can transform your lif...
Apr
22
2026
LLSP Study Lounge
11:30 AM Evanston
Are you looking for a space to study? Want to build community?
Join us every Wednesday in our seminar room, and meet mem...
Apr
22
2026
Northwestern Chemistry Colloquium: Christopher Cummins (MIT)
3:00 PM Evanston
Northwestern Chemistry welcomes Christopher Cummins from MIT, hosted by Bryan Hunter.
Apr
23
2026
MBS Seminar Series - Michael Baym
12:30 PM Evanston
Dr. Michael Baym - Harvard
https://baymlab.hms.harvard.edu/
Apr
23
2026
Apr
23
2026
Apr
23
2026
Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium: “The Long History of Iranian Jews in the 20th and 21st Centuries," with Lior Sternfeld
5:00 PM Evanston
Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium:
“The Long History of Iranian Jews in the 20th and 21st Centuries," with Lior Sternf...
Apr
24
2026
Conference on “Religious Pluralism and Rulership in Early Modern Eurasia”
All day Evanston
First day of faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professors Scott SOWERBY, Jonathan BRACK, and Rajeev KINRA on “Religious Plu...
Apr
24
2026
Apr
24
2026
International Relations Speaker Series: Polina Beliakova (American University)
2:00 PM Evanston
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Polina Beliakova, Assistant Professor of Foreign Pol...
Apr
25
2026
Conference on “Religious Pluralism and Rulership in Early Modern Eurasia”
All day Evanston
Second day of faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professors Scott SOWERBY, Jonathan BRACK, and Rajeev KINRA on “Religious Pl...
Apr
27
2026
Joy Connolly (ACLS) - Kaplan Critical Conversations in the Humanities
4:00 PM Evanston
SAVE THE DATE!
The Kaplan Humanities Institute is delighted to welcome Joy Connolly, president of the American Council o...
Apr
28
2026
Northwestern Chemistry Faculty Seminar: Ken Poeppelmeier (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Apr
28
2026
Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium: "Settler Ruralization and the Production of Agricultural Violence in the West Bank," with Oren Shlomo
12:30 PM Evanston
Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium:
"Settler Ruralization and the Production of Agricultural Violence in the West Bank...
Apr
28
2026
Apr
28
2026
Poetry & Poetics: Performance-In-Conversation with Noa Fields and JJJJJerome Ellis
5:00 PM Evanston
Please join the English department & the Poetry & Poetics cluster, as part of the UNSETTLING SOUND event series, for a P...
Apr
29
2026
LLSP Study Lounge
11:30 AM Evanston
Are you looking for a space to study? Want to build community?
Join us every Wednesday in our seminar room, and meet mem...
Apr
29
2026
Northwestern Chemistry Colloquim: Kendall Houk (UCLA)
3:00 PM Evanston
Northwestern Chemistry welcomes Kendall Houk from UCLA, hosted by the Undergraduate Chemistry Council.
Apr
29
2026
SAVE THE DATE Leon Forrest Lecture
4:00 PM No Location
Leon Forrest Lecture. To be given by Vernon Reid, guitarist, songwriter, composer, and founder of the Grammy Award-winni...
Apr
30
2026
MBS Seminar Series - Natalie Niemi
12:30 PM Evanston
Dr. Natalie Niemi - WashU Medicine
https://www.niemilab.com/
Apr
30
2026
May
1
2026
Buffett First Friday Lunch | Indian Painting at the End of Empire with Yuthika Sharma
12:30 PM Evanston
Indian Painting at the End of Empire
Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on ...
May
1
2026
May
1
2026
Dr. Mahzarin Banaji : Psychology Colloquium Series
3:15 PM Evanston
Professor Banaji (Harvard University) studies thinking and feeling as they unfold in social context, with a focus on men...