Dec
10
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Martina Havenith, Ruhr University Bochum
3:00 PM Evanston
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Title: Terahertz-calorimetry - a novel experimental tool to spotlight the role of water ...
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.
Dec
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...
Dec
16
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Rich Schaller (Faculty Only)
12:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Dec
16
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...
Dec
23
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...
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
16
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...
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
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
3:00 PM Evanston
Department of Chemistry Colloquium
Hosted by Kevin Hunter
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
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
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
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:
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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
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
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...