Events Calendar
Attend one of the college's upcoming events, listed below. You can also review the Academic Calendars or find information about major college events, such as Convocation.
multi-day
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Ease into the weekend feeling productive! Join us in the Kaplan Seminar Room (Kresge 2350) on Friday mornings from 9am-12pm,...
multi-day
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Fridays 1pm-2pm April 11 through May 23, 2025. Kresge 4438. Practice Korean in a supportive and fun environment. All levels...
multi-day
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
This Spring quarter, join the Russian Club for Russian Conversation Tables from 5-7pm every Monday in the Slavic lounge (next...
multi-day
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Tuesdays 2:30-4:00 April 15 through June 3, 2025. Kresge 4438. Are you learning Hindi-Urdu and want to practice your language...
multi-day
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
Polish Conversation Tables are held every Tuesday at 5pm in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department lobby, adjacent to Kresge...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by School of Education and Social Policy
Please join us on Thursday, May 22 at 12:30 pm CST for a book talk on Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics,...
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Teaching Workshop for our final event of the year, What I Wish I Knew Before I Started...
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
Current Slavic graduate student workshop
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Analysis Seminar
This is the final lecture of Simon Becker's minicourse on continuous Schrödinger operators.
Title: Stability of the Ten-Martini problem
Abstract: We discuss...
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Brady Scholars gather weekly for refreshments and discussion about recent events and their implications for our society, ongoing moral difficulties...
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Given by Prof. Martina Kerlova and Prof. Peter Fenves.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Geometry/Physics Seminar
Title: Homological mirror symmetry for triangle singularities
Abstract: This is a report on work in progress by UMass graduate student Ethan...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Probability Seminar
Title: Delocalization of two-dimensional random band matrices
Abstract: The delocalization-localization transition for random operators has been a central question in probability...
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Exploring water as both a sublime and immersive geography and as a troubled and contaminated resource, this program presents a...
8:15 AM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Ancient Economies
May 23, 2025
Sponsored by:
Northwestern Center for Economic History
Joel Mokyr, Joe Ferrie, and Walker Hanlon, co-directors
Organizers: Walker Hanlon and Taco...
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Labor and African Cultural Production on the World Stage
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Afrobeats: Lower Frequencies of Contemporary African Sounds
This convergence probes the often-invisible labor that underwrites the circulation of contemporary African electronic dance-music on the world stage. Public...
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Graduate Student Seminar
Title: What if Gromov did not invent J-holomorphic curves
Abstract: J-holomorphic curve has been one of the most important tools in...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Sponsored by Gary Fine (Lunch Provided)
Bruno Frere, Professor of Sociology, University of Liege
Location to be determined
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
Towards deciphering the brain’s internal signals using large-scale electrophysiological recordings.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Spring Faculty Meeting
May 27, 2025
Meeting from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Guild Lounge, Scott Hall (601 University...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Pop-up Faculty Club
May 27, 2025
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Guild Lounge, Scott Hall (601 University Pl.)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Gary Fine, James E. Johnson Professor of Sociology and organizer of the Ethnography Workshop at NU for many years.
11:45 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. CT | Guild Lounge in Scott Hall
For more information, please email weinberg_assistdeanfacultyadvancement@northwestern.edu.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Ellen Matson, University of Rochester will speak. Event is hosted by Omar Farha
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Colloquium
Title: Topological models for measurable systems
Abstract: Given a measure preserving action of a countable group G it is not difficult...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Please join Northwestern’s Asian American Studies Program 5:00PM Wednesday, May 28 (Harris 108) for a poetry reading, Q&A, and book...
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
6:30 PM in Kresge 1-515
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Brady Scholars gather weekly for refreshments and discussion about recent events and their implications for our society, ongoing moral difficulties...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Geometry/Physics Seminar
Title: Localization for relative obstruction theories and logarithmic stable maps ...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
Karen Underhill, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies at UIC visits NU to discuss her...
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
"Is Reality Overrated?" An Evening with Acclaimed, Prize-Winning Author Etgar Keret"
Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a...
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM, sponsored by Chicago Field Studies
Find out more about the Chicago Field Studies Program and get all your questions answered by one of the CFS...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Comparative Politics Workshop as they host Scott Gehlbach, Elise and Jack Lipsey Professor of Political Science at...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Marlous van Waijenburg: Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
The ‘Black Question Time’ Panelists are:
Julian M. Hill, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University College of Law
Tim Rhoze, Producing Artistic Director...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Analysis Seminar
Title: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Topology Seminar
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop presents:
Evie Lopoo (NU): Understanding Creative Labor in the Indie MusicScene: Competition and...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker
Clare Kim - History and Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
Title
"Datafied Subjects: Race, Computation, and Japanese American Incarceration"
Abstract
Following the...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Hosted by the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS) and made possible through bequests from the late Erwin...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
12:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Leopold Room, Harris Hall / Lake Room, Norris Center
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Details to follow
For more information contact Kelly Levander - kelly.levander@nortwestern.edu
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Department of German Final Kaffeestunde and Year-End Celebration
2:00 PM in front of Kresge 3-305
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration, details tbd
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Hosted by the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS) and made possible through bequests from the late Erwin...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Join us for an afternoon of lunch, presentations, and awards. Open to all members of the Classics Community.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: General Interest
Title: Generalized t-SNE and Beyond: Probabilistic Methods for Dimensionality Reduction, Combinatorial Optimization, and Machine Learning
Abstract: Probability theory and probabilistic algorithms...
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Graduate Student Seminar
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Note: The talk will start at 4:10 pm
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Topology Seminar
Title: TBD
Abstract: TBD
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Reception for Department of Chemistry undergraduate and graduate candidates
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Saturday, June 14, 2025
3:00-5:30pm
Welsh-Ryan Arena
Information on ticketing, regalia, and other key details can be found on our Convocation webpage. Additional...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
The James A. Ibers Summer Lectures July 9-10 presented by Professor Jill Millstone.
Hosted by Professor Thomas J. Meade
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Day 2
The James A. Ibers Summer Lectures July 9-10 presented by Professor Jill Millstone.
Hosted by Professor Thomas J. Meade
Location TBD
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