Russian Conversation Tables
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
All day, sponsored by Philosophy Conferences
The Northwestern Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics (NUSTEP) hosts an annual spring conference in moral and political...
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...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Analysis Seminar
This is the first lecture of Simon Becker's minicourse on continuous Schrödinger operators. Title: The tight-binding reduction. Abstract: We explore a general...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Topology Seminar
Title: Picard groups of quotient ring spectra Abstract: In classical algebra, the Picard group of a commutative ring R is invariant...
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: General Interest
Short talks by this year's senior thesis writers that will introduce their projects to the department.
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Special Lectures
Short talks by this year's senior thesis writers that will introduce their projects to the department.
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop presents: Michelle Lee (NU): Politics of Climate Mobility @ COP29: How Global Climate Governance...
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Annual Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies: "Unsettling Histories: Colonialism, Zionism, and Anti-Zionism", with Ethan Katz Ethan Katz, Associate Professor of...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty Seminars
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Holocaust Educational Foundation
HEFNU Series: Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues "What is Nazism? What is Fascism?" Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 12 PM (Noon Eastern Time) Please...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the American Politics Workshop as they host Sol Hart, Professor of Communications and Media at the University of...
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Neurobiology
Molecules and Cells for Touch, Temperature and Pain
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Dynamical Systems Seminar
Title: WKB estimates and Harper’s operator as a dynamical system. Abstract: We finish our discussion on the tight-binding reduction from Lecture...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Facundo, Suenzo, PhD Candidate in Media, Technology, and Society at Northwestern University: "The Rise of the Internet and Chat Rooms: A...
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...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Presented by Kaplan Humanities Institute and Comparative Literary Studies Program. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to complit@northwestern.edu. The Translation in Theory...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Title: Homological mirror symmetry for K3 surfaces Abstract: Joint work with Ailsa Keating (Cambridge). We prove the homological mirror symmetry conjecture...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Chemistry
Excellence in Graduate Research: 2023 Award Winner Kaitlin Landry (Mirkin), U of Chicago Contact Kelly Levander - kelly.levander@gmail.com
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, “Heaven has a wall,” activists shout...
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
4:30 PM in front of the German office (Kresge 3-305)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Join GUAB and McCormick Global Initiatives to celebrate the arrival of spring and new beginnings through the German holiday of...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Join The Spanish Club for our final event of the year 🧋Boba y Games 🎲 Wednesday, May 21st, 5:00-6:00 pm Kresge 3535 There will...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Mathematics: Special Lectures
Title: Applying physics to mathematics Abstract: Humans tend to be better at physics than at mathematics. When an apple falls from a...
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
Featuring: Black Studies Professors Dotun Ayobade, Martha Biondi, and Silyane Larcher in conversation with Barnor Hesse Black Studies Graduating Seniors Jadon Ampadu, Olivia Carter, and...
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...
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
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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: 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
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
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: Abstract:
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...
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:
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
5:30 PM - 7:30 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...
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
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