multi-day
Polish Conversation Table
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...
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
Friday Morning Faculty Writing Sessions - Kaplan Humanities Institute
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
17th Annual Writers Fest, Day 1 Reading: Mary South
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Mary South is the author of the short story collection You Will Never Be Forgotten with FSG Originals. She is...
Mar
10
2025
Global Café Winter Quarter Office Hours
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by International Studies
Join the Global Café for our Reading Week office hours on Monday March 10 from 10am-12pm at 2010 Sheridan Road....
Mar
10
2025
Urban & Community Workshop: Vineet Gupta
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop presents: Vineet Gupta: Toward a Global Sociology of Urban Planning Parkes Hall, Room 222...
Mar
11
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Julia Kalow
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Mar
11
2025
Online Roundtable Discussion: "Gender and the Holocaust"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Holocaust Educational Foundation
Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight Event: Gender and the Holocaust Tuesday, March 11, 12-1:30 PM (EST) Online Only | Registration required HEFNU’s Virtual Speakers...
Mar
12
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Karena Chapman, Stonybrook
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Department Colloquium Hosted by Joe Hupp For further information, contact hupp-ofc@northwestern.edu
Mar
12
2025
Mar
12
2025
Rare Hebrew Books and Where to Find Them
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
"Rare Hebrew Books and Where to Find Them" Wednesday, March 12th, 2025, 5:00 pm Northwestern University Library, Forum Room 1970 Campus Drive, Evanston...
Mar
13
2025
MBS Seminar: John Albeck, University of California Davis
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
Mar
13
2025
First Person Plural: New and Rediscovered Trans Documentary Shorts with filmmaker Connor O’Keefe
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
(Various filmmakers, 1967-2022, 81 min, digital and 16mm-to-digital) A voice in Connor O’Keefe’s 2021 documentary IMAGINE A BODY describes transition as...
Mar
14
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 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...
Mar
14
2025
Midwestern History Reading Group
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by History Department
Friday, March 14th 3:30-5pm, Harris Hall 101 Midwestern History Reading Group with Professor Doug Kiel Book selection—Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Meatpacking America: How Migration,...
Mar
14
2025
DESIRE LINES (2024) and BROS BEFORE (2022) with Jules Rosskam and Henry Hanson
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
The Trans Portraiture film series closes with two recent films that offer joyful explorations of transmasculine desire and identity through...
Mar
17
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 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...
Mar
18
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Lin Chen
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Mar
18
2025
The Emergence of the Devotional Self in Late Biblical Narrative
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Professor Robert Kawashima, Department of Religion and the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida Lunch will be provided
Mar
20
2025
MBS Seminar: Alessio Accardi, Cornell University
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
Mar
20
2025
Department of Chemistry Seminar: Professor Bilal R. Kaafarani, American University of Beirut
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Seminar, hosted by Omar Farha
Mar
21
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 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...
Mar
25
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
3:00 PM - 3:45 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...
Mar
28
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 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...
Mar
31
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
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...
Apr
1
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Neil Kelleher
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Apr
2
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Joan-Emma Shea UCSB
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Joan-Emma Shea, UCSB will speak. Event is hosted by George Schatz
Apr
3
2025
Online Roundtable Discussion: "Postmemorial Constellations in Socialist and Postsocialist Holocaust Literature"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Holocaust Educational Foundation
Postmemorial Constellations in Socialist and Postsocialist Holocaust Literature April 3rd, 12-1:30pm (EST) Featuring: McKenna Marko, Postdoctoral Researcher in Holocaust Literature at the University...
Apr
3
2025
MBS Seminar: Wallace Marshall, University of California San Francisco
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
Apr
3
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 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...
Apr
4
2025
CCHS conference on caring for the dead in Africa and the Mongolian Empire: Day 1
All day, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professors Jonathan BRACK, Sean HANRETTA, and Akinwumi OGUNDIRAN on “Caring for the Dead: Ancestor Veneration, Religious...
Apr
4
2025
Dr.Tiffany Yip: Psychology Colloquium Series
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Tiffany Yip, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Fordham University. She is a developmental and community psychologist Her research...
Apr
4
2025
Northwestern University's Department of Philosophy presents Professor Karen Stohr
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Philosophy Colloquium Series
TBD
Apr
5
2025
Conference on caring for the dead in Africa and the Mongolian Empire: Day 2
All day, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professors Jonathan BRACK, Sean HANRETTA, and Akinwumi OGUNDIRAN on “Caring for the Dead: Ancestor Veneration, Religious...
Apr
7
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
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...
Apr
7
2025
Dagmar Schäfer - "Chinese Technology"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Dagmar Schäfer - History, Max Planck Institute Title "Rich Times: Global history, Technology and Yuan Silks" Abstract In this lecture, Professor Schäfer explores the...
Apr
8
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Tobin Marks
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Apr
8
2025
Mermaids, Physicians, and Unruly Things: The Politics of Healing in Revival Zion Religion
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Guest Lecture by Professor Khytie Brown, Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Apr
8
2025
Dr. Tina Tallon: CogSci Speaker Series
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Cognitive Science Program
Title and abstract to be announced.
Apr
8
2025
Michael A. Long, Ph.D. | NYU Grossman School of Medicine
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
Neural Mechanisms of Interactive Communication
Apr
9
2025
Marple-Schweitzer Memorial Lecture: Dr. Olivia Castellini, Museum of Science and Industry
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Olivia Castellini, MSI
Apr
9
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
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...
Apr
9
2025
Fulbright Week Keynote with Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Join us for the Fulbright Week Keynote featuring Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles, a renowned historian, academic leader, and advocate...
Apr
10
2025
CCHS Serhii Plokhii lecture
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Serhii PLOKHII (Harvard), author of The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (2015) and The Last Empire: The Final...
Apr
10
2025
MBS Seminar: Julie Brill, University of Toronto
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
Apr
11
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 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...
Apr
11
2025
Northwestern University's Department of Philosophy presents Professor Liz Jackson
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Philosophy Colloquium Series
TBD
Apr
14
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 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...
Apr
14
2025
Undergraduate-Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by History Department
Undergrads! Join lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty at 12:30PM - 2:00PM. If this will be your first...
Apr
14
2025
Anthropology Colloquium - Chelsea Fisher, University of South Carolina
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Cows, cowboys, and legacies of colonial ranching in the Yucatec Maya landscape: Insights from archaeology at Hacienda Cetelac Cattle ranching occupies...
Apr
15
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter James Gaynor
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Apr
15
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
2:00 PM - 2:45 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...
Apr
15
2025
Joint Seminar | Neurobiology and Center for Sleep & Circadian Biology (CSCB)
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
TBA
Apr
16
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 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...
Apr
16
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Abraham Nitzan, University of Pennsylvania
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Abraham Nitzan from University of Pennsylvania will speak. Event is hosted by Roel Tempelaar
Apr
17
2025
CFS Info Session Live on Zoom
11:00 AM - 11:45 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...
Apr
17
2025
MBS Seminar: DRiLS Lecture, Markita Landry, University of California Berkeley
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
Apr
17
2025
Weinberg College Named Chair Investiture Ceremony
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Honorees: Andrew V. Papachristos John G. Searle Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology William Revelle Board of Trustees Professorship Department of Psychology
Apr
17
2025
The Moore Lecture Series presents John Keene
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
The Moore Lecture Series is proud to present acclaimed author and poet John Keene. His 2022 poetry collection, Punks: New and...
Apr
17
2025
Nicole Fleetwood - Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Evanston campus location to be announced. Nicole Fleetwood (James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU) in conversation with...
Apr
21
2025
MENA | The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey | Feyza Burak-Adli, Northwestern University
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Feyza Burak-Adli is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. She will give a presentation on...
Apr
22
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Rick Silverman
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Apr
22
2025
Ruben Portugues, Ph.D. | Technical University of Munich
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
TBA
Apr
23
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Tania Lupolio, NYU
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Tania Lupoli, NYU will speak. Event is hosted by Regan Thomson
Apr
23
2025
Warnock Lecture Series: Anne Lafont (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Spring 2025 Warnock Lecture, presented by the Department of Art History Lecture: 5:00–6:30pm Reception: 6:30–7:30pm
Apr
24
2025
MBS Seminar: Sue Biggins, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
Apr
24
2025
Medieval history Lecture
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Gray Boyce Memorial Lecture in Medieval History (CCHS/History) Jamie KREINER (UCLA), author of The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us...
Apr
24
2025
Allison Carruth Talk: "Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by English Department
Allison Carruth is Professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton...
Apr
28
2025
Anthropology Colloquium - Karen Strier, University of Wisconsin - Madison
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
The Limits of Resilience: A 40-year perspective on the future of the world’s most peaceful primate Field data on the behavioral...
Apr
29
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Rich Schaller
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
Apr
29
2025
Apr
29
2025
Leon Forrest Lecture: Dr. Tina Campt
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences established the Leon Forrest Lectureship in 1999 in tribute to Professor Leon Forrest’s...
Apr
30
2025
Graduate-Faculty Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by History Department
Graduates - Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty. If this will be your first time all...
Apr
30
2025
Town Hall Meeting for Third Year Economics Graduate Students
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: General
DGS Federico Bugni and Associate Chair Ian Savage will cover important deadlines, degree requirements, and good-progress milestones. They will also...
Apr
30
2025
Town Hall Meeting for Second Year Economics Graduate Students
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: General
DGS Federico Bugni and Associate Chair Ian Savage will cover important deadlines, degree requirements, and good-progress milestones. They will also...
Apr
30
2025
A Lake of Fire: Apocalyptic Futures and an Anthropology of Grace
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Edmund Perry Lecture 2025 Presented by Tulasi Srinivas, Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Transnational Studies at The Marlboro Institute for Interdisciplinary...
Apr
30
2025
PHILFEST - Philosophy Honors NIght
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Philosophy Undergraduate Events
PHILFest is an opportunity for us to celebrate our philosophy honors students. Each candidate will present their research, followed by...
May
1
2025
MBS Seminar: Julia Zeitlinger, Stowers Institute
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Molecular Biosciences
Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
May
2
2025
CCHS conference on documentation, identity, and citizenship in the USA: Day 1
All day, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professor Susan PEARSON on “Paper People: Documentation, Identity, and Citizenship in U.S. History”—Friday and Saturday, May...
May
2
2025
Michael Hallquist : Psychology Colloquium Series
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Title and abstract to be announced.
May
2
2025
BRADY LECTURE SERIES: Kieran Setiya - "Meaning and the Afterlife"
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Keynote Speaker, Kieran Setyia Kieran Setiya is Peter de Florez Professor of Philosophy at MIT, where he works on ethics and...
May
3
2025
CCHS conference on documentation, identity, and citizenship in the USA: Day 2
All day, sponsored by Center for Historical Studies
Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professor Susan PEARSON on “Paper People: Documentation, Identity, and Citizenship in U.S. History”—Friday and Saturday, May...
May
3
2025
BRADY NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ETHICS AND CIVIC LIFE
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Current and Former Brady Scholars, Grad Fellows and Faculty Saturday, May 3, 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
May
6
2025
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminar, Presenter Dayne Swearer
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
May
6
2025
Faculty Book Colloquium with Kevin Buckelew
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Faculty Book Colloquium for Professor Kevin Buckelew’s new book, Discerning Buddhas. Panelist: Professor Stephanie Balkwill, The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures,...
May
6
2025
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Jihye Park, University of Colorado, Boulder
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Hosted by Omar Farha
May
7
2025
Sandra Cisneros: Reading, Discussion, and Performance from the Opera "The House on Mango Street"
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by English Department
The Litowitz MFA+MA Program and the Bienen School of Music are proud to present Sandra Cisneros, in conversation with Derek...