Oct
15
2025
Study Abroad 101
10:30 AM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Events Calendar
Find upcoming events hosted by the units that report to the Office of the Provost. For academic dates and deadlines, visit the Academic Calendar.
Oct
15
2025
Block Cinema: WOLFEN (1981) in 35mm
7:00 PM Evanston
With his sole narrative feature WOLFEN, director Michael Wadleigh (WOODSTOCK) delivered one of the most unlikely and int...
Oct
16
2025
Indigenous Knowledge and Ecological Conservation: A Student Conversation with Hector Ortiz
12:00 PM Evanston
Northwestern University undergraduate and graduate students are invited to join us for a lunchtime conversation with Hec...
Oct
16
2025
Study Abroad 101
4:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Oct
16
2025
Block Cinema: THE LEOPARD MAN (1943)
7:00 PM Evanston
A dead-end border town becomes a microcosm of social tension, mortal fear, and the bloody legacies of conquest in THE LE...
Oct
17
2025
Exhibition Keynote: Alexander Nemerov on Helen Frankenthaler’s Diversions
6:00 PM Evanston
What is the relationship between an artwork and its maker? Can we confidently link the two, or do they diverge in meanin...
Oct
19
2025
Art Talks! The Living Room
2:00 PM Evanston
Join the Block Museum Student Associates in The Living Room for a close look at Ken Fandell's The Sky Above My Home (10/...
Oct
20
2025
Study Abroad 101
2:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Oct
21
2025
Accountability in Action
2:00 PM Online
Accountability in Action is designed to unpack the complexities around accountability, particularly in organizational se...
Oct
21
2025
NAIS Book Club Fall Meeting
5:30 PM Evanston
Come gather with us for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Quarterly Book Club! At our Fall Quarter meeting, we ...
Oct
22
2025
Office of the Ombudsperson Tabling Event at Pritzker School of Law
9:30 AM Chicago
Join the Office of the Ombudsperson for an informal tabling event at the Pritzker School of Law on Wednesday, October 22...
Oct
22
2025
Study Abroad 101
10:30 AM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Oct
22
2025
Meet the Ombuds – Coffee & Conversation (Evanston)
11:00 AM Evanston
Stop by for a casual drop-in to say hello to the Ombuds and enjoy a coffee or your favorite caffeine fix!
When: Wednesda...
Oct
22
2025
Gallery Talk: Each Medium Affects the Other
3:30 PM Evanston
How did Helen Frankenthaler’s work in painting and printmaking inform one another? In this gallery talk, Cora Chalaby (U...
Oct
22
2025
Buffett Institute Open House for Undergraduate Students
5:00 PM Evanston
Join us for an open house to learn about our opportunities and programming for undergraduate students.
We'll have cuisin...
Oct
23
2025
Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Ely Orrego-Torres
3:00 PM Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...
Oct
23
2025
Study Abroad 101
4:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Oct
23
2025
Press Freedom Under Fire: Threats to Journalism and Democracy
5:30 PM Evanston
Please join Medill and the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for robust discussions with domestic and interna...
Oct
23
2025
Block Cinema: TOBACCO EMBERS and SOMETHING LIKE A WAR with guest Deepa Dhanraj
7:00 PM Evanston
The films of documentary filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj take shape within environments of collective struggle and shared testim...
Oct
24
2025
Press Freedom Under Fire: Threats to Journalism and Democracy-Day 2
8:30 AM Evanston
Please join Medill and the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for robust discussions with domestic and interna...
Oct
24
2025
Advancing Mentoring Excellence Session #1: Aligning Expectations and Effective Communication
11:30 AM Evanston
Advancing Mentoring Excellence at Northwestern is a series of five core sessions plus elective sessions, offered by the ...
Oct
24
2025
Block Cinema: INVOKING JUSTICE (2011) with filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj
7:15 PM Evanston
The films of documentary filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj take shape within environments of collective struggle and shared testim...
Oct
27
2025
Elders-in-Residence: Karen and Allen Washinawatok
All day No Location
Karen Washinawatok, also known as Omāēqnomenēw Metāēmoh. Karen was born and lived most of her life in the Menominee home...
Oct
27
2025
Faculty Leaders Series - Navigating Leadership during Disruption
12:00 PM Evanston
Navigating Leadership during Disruption: Faculty Leaders on How They Lead through Change and Uncertainty
A panel of lead...
Oct
27
2025
Study Abroad 101
2:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Oct
27
2025
Info Session: Study Abroad in Japan
5:00 PM Evanston
This is the annual Study Abroad in JAPAN Info Session hosted by the Japanese Language Program, Department of Asian Langu...
Oct
28
2025
Elders-in-Residence: Karen and Allen Washinawatok
All day No Location
Karen Washinawatok, also known as Omāēqnomenēw Metāēmoh. Karen was born and lived most of her life in the Menominee home...
Oct
28
2025
Navigating Grief and Loss in Academic Spaces: Supporting Ourselves and Each Other for Faculty
12:00 PM Online
Navigating Grief and Loss in Academic Spaces: Supporting Ourselves and Each Other
Grief and loss are universal experienc...
Oct
29
2025
Elders-in-Residence: Karen and Allen Washinawatok
All day No Location
Karen Washinawatok, also known as Omāēqnomenēw Metāēmoh. Karen was born and lived most of her life in the Menominee home...
Oct
29
2025
Study Abroad 101
10:30 AM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Oct
29
2025
Work in Progress: Archiving the Self
1:00 PM Evanston
Archives are acts of resistance — especially for those whose stories are often left out of the official record. In this ...
Oct
29
2025
CSB Seminar: Author Michael Grunwald, "We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate"
4:15 PM No Location
The Center for Synthetic Biology, in partnership with the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Paula M. Trienen...
Oct
29
2025
Info Session: Study Abroad in South Korea
5:00 PM Evanston
Join us to learn about study abroad options in South Korea during the academic year or summer. Representatives from the ...
Oct
30
2025
Elders-in-Residence: Karen and Allen Washinawatok
All day No Location
Karen Washinawatok, also known as Omāēqnomenēw Metāēmoh. Karen was born and lived most of her life in the Menominee home...
Oct
30
2025
Curator Talk: Frankenthaler’s Circle
3:00 PM Evanston
Join us in the gallery for a talk with exhibition co-curator Corinne Granof, Block Museum Academic Curator.
Presented ...
Oct
30
2025
Study Abroad 101
4:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Oct
30
2025
Block Cinema: THE FOOL KILLER (1965) in 16mm
7:00 PM Evanston
Appalachian folklore tells of an eight-foot-tall wanderer who stalks hills and hollers in search of fools to rid from th...
Oct
31
2025
Elders-in-Residence: Karen and Allen Washinawatok
All day No Location
Karen Washinawatok, also known as Omāēqnomenēw Metāēmoh. Karen was born and lived most of her life in the Menominee home...
Nov
1
2025
Art Talks! Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper
12:30 PM Evanston
Join the Block Museum Student Associates in our galleries for a close look at one or two works on view in Pouring, Spill...
Nov
3
2025
Study Abroad 101
2:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Nov
4
2025
Fall Quarter Brown Bag: Indigenous Feminisms and the Limits of Reconciliation
12:00 PM No Location
The proliferation of Native Studies in the 2010s made Indigenous politics visible and increasingly mainstream. This talk...
Nov
5
2025
Study Abroad 101
10:30 AM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Nov
5
2025
Şarık Tara Memorial Lecture Series: "Between States and Borders: Rebuilding Family Life in the post-1918 Balkans"
12:30 PM Evanston
Featuring Professor Theodora Dragostinova, Ohio State University.
This talk follows the trajectories of one Greek family...
Nov
5
2025
Communicating Your Research for Faculty III: The Science of Story-Telling
1:00 PM Evanston
Communicating Your Research III: The Science of Story-Telling
The science of storytelling demonstrates that telling a st...
Nov
5
2025
Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Micol Bez
3:00 PM Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...
Nov
5
2025
Chitra Ganesh in Conversation: Students Shape the Collection
6:00 PM Evanston
5:00 PM-6:00 PM: LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
6:00 PM-7:30 PM: PUBLIC PROGRAM
Join us to celebrate the 2024–25 Student Acquisition...
Nov
5
2025
Study Abroad Information Session - University of Oxford
7:00 PM Online
Interested in studying abroad at the University of Oxford? Attend this online information session to learn all about the...
Nov
6
2025
Study Abroad 101
4:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Nov
7
2025
The Peace We Make: A Youth-Led Buffett Symposium
All day Evanston
Young people are leading global efforts to end conflict, defend human rights, and advocate for sustainable peace. Hosted...
Nov
7
2025
Block Cinema: Threading Images – Films & Expanded Cinema Performance with Christina Nguyen
7:00 PM Evanston
Join us for a program of short films by Chicago-based educator, filmmaker, and expanded cinema artist Christina Nguyen. ...
Nov
8
2025
Block Cinema: 2025 Eyeworks Experimental Animation Screening Series
12:00 PM Evanston
The Eyeworks Experimental Animation Screening Series is an annual event focusing on experimental animation, with screeni...
Nov
10
2025
Global Learning Office Study Abroad Application Deadline: Spring
All day No Location
Study abroad with GLO! Application deadline for Spring programs.
Nov
10
2025
Study Abroad 101
2:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Nov
11
2025
Coffee Hour with Roberta Buffett International Spouse and Family Program
10:00 AM Evanston
Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us f...
Nov
11
2025
Study Abroad Fair 2025
12:00 PM Evanston
The Study Abroad Fair is an opportunity to learn more about the different credit-bearing study abroad programs offered a...
Nov
12
2025
Study Abroad 101
10:30 AM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Nov
12
2025
Ayşe Çağlar: Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement
12:30 PM Evanston
Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement
Featuring Ayşe Çağla...
Nov
12
2025
Buffett Book Talk | "Selective Solidarity: Children and Middle-Class Moralities in Transnational Senegal" with Chelsie Yount
12:30 PM Evanston
How do children of migrant parents grapple with the multiple, and sometimes contradictory, moral expectations they encou...
Nov
12
2025
Printmaking in Process: Anna Kunz, Soo Shin, and Lane Relyea
6:00 PM Evanston
Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper highlights artists who have challenge...
Nov
13
2025
Advancing Mentoring Excellence Session #2: Fostering Independence and Promoting Professional Development
3:00 PM Evanston
Advancing Mentoring Excellence at Northwestern is a series of five core sessions plus elective sessions, offered by the ...
Nov
13
2025
Study Abroad 101
4:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Nov
13
2025
Block Cinema: Richard Beymer’s THE INNERVIEW (1973) with film preservationist Ross Lipman
7:00 PM Evanston
It’s no exaggeration to state that the film preservationist, filmmaker, and author Ross Lipman has had a transformative ...
Nov
14
2025
Buffett First Friday Lunch | Inside Haiti with Roberson Alphonse and Nathalie Cardichon
12:30 PM Evanston
Inside Haiti
Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of ever...
Nov
14
2025
Block Cinema: PUTNEY SWOPE (1969) with cartoonist Nathan Gelgud
7:00 PM Evanston
In September 2024–a time of deep uncertainty for both American democracy and traditional cinema exhibition–cartoonist an...
Nov
15
2025
Pre-Health Professions Crash Course 2025
8:30 AM No Location
The Pre-Health Professions Crash Course is a half-day program designed for undergraduate students exploring careers in h...
Nov
15
2025
Art Talks! The Block Collects and the 2024-2025 Student Acquisition
12:30 PM Evanston
Join the Block Museum Student Associates in our galleries for a close look at one or two works on view in The Block Coll...
Nov
17
2025
Leading with Well-being for Yourself and Others - Faculty Leaders Series
12:00 PM Evanston
Faculty Wellness Program Director Jason Washburn will discuss best practices for leading with well-being for yourself as...
Nov
17
2025
Buffett Faculty Lunch: Conflict and Health
12:30 PM Evanston
We invite faculty from all disciplines with research interests in armed conflict and health to join us for a Buffett Fac...
Nov
17
2025
Study Abroad 101
2:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Nov
18
2025
Advancing Mentoring Excellence Session #2: Fostering Independence and Promoting Professional Development
3:00 PM Off-Campus
Advancing Mentoring Excellence at Northwestern is a series of five core sessions plus elective sessions, offered by the ...
Nov
18
2025
Prague Film School Information Session
4:00 PM Online
Interested in studying abroad at the Prague Film School? Attend this information session to learn all about the Prague F...
Nov
19
2025
Study Abroad 101
10:30 AM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Nov
19
2025
Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor Lecture | Wishful Thinking: How the West Got Moscow So Wrong, For So Long
12:30 PM Evanston
For too long, the West's policies toward Ukraine and other states in the former USSR took a back seat to a bigger priori...
Nov
19
2025
Dyani White Hawk and Caroline Kent in Conversation
6:00 PM Evanston
Join artists Dyani White Hawk and Caroline Kent for a conversation on abstraction, feminism, and their overlapping artis...
Nov
20
2025
Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Maggie O'Connell
3:00 PM Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...
Nov
20
2025
Study Abroad 101
4:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Nov
21
2025
Block Cinema: SOLO SUNNY (1980) in 35mm
7:00 PM Evanston
The last film of director Konrad Wolf’s three-decade career as East Germany’s preeminent filmmaker, SOLO SUNNY is a crow...
Nov
24
2025
Thanksgiving Vacation begins at for students 6:00 PM. A calendar anomaly permits a longer Thanksgiving Break this year only. This is not a permanent change to all Fall quarters.
All day No Location
Thanksgiving Vacation begins at for students 6:00 PM. A calendar anomaly permits a longer Thanksgiving Break this year o...
Nov
24
2025
Study Abroad 101
2:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Nov
26
2025
Study Abroad 101
10:30 AM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Nov
27
2025
Study Abroad 101
4:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Dec
1
2025
Study Abroad 101
2:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Dec
2
2025
EDGS Book Talk: "Bad Lieutenants" with Dr. Andrew Mertha
12:30 PM Evanston
Details are forthcoming.
Join the Roberta Buffett Institute and its Equality Development & Globalization Studies (EDGS)...
Dec
3
2025
Study Abroad 101
10:30 AM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Dec
4
2025
Study Abroad 101
4:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Dec
5
2025
Buffett First Friday Lunch | AI and the Global Future of Work: Power, Resistance, and Adaptation with Hatim Rahman
12:30 PM Evanston
AI and the Global Future of Work: Power, Resistance, and Adaptation
Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty res...
Dec
6
2025
Art Talks! Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper
12:30 PM Evanston
Join the Block Museum Student Associates in our galleries for a close look at one or two works on view in Pouring, Spill...
Dec
8
2025
Study Abroad 101
2:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Dec
9
2025
Coffee Hour with Roberta Buffett International Spouse and Family Program
10:00 AM Evanston
Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us f...
Dec
9
2025
Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Tim Seida
3:00 PM Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...
Dec
10
2025
Study Abroad 101
10:30 AM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Dec
10
2025
Graduate Book Talk | "The Global Meme Project: From Ideation to Dissertation Publication" with Sulafa Zidani
12:00 PM Evanston
Northwestern University graduate students are invited to join us for a lunchtime conversation with Sulafa Zidani, a scho...
Dec
11
2025
Conference on AI & National Security
All day No Location
Gain insights from leading experts in AI, cybersecurity and national security at the annual Conference on AI & National ...
Dec
11
2025
Study Abroad 101
4:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Dec
17
2025
Study Abroad 101
10:30 AM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Dec
18
2025
Study Abroad 101
4:30 PM Online
Starting to think about study abroad? Not sure where to start or have questions about the process? This 30 minute genera...
Dec
24
2025
Winter Recess Starts - University Closed Through January 1st, 2026
All day No Location
Winter Recess Starts - University Closed Through January 1st, 2026
Jan
5
2026
Jan
8
2026
Buffett Institute Faculty Open House
4:30 PM Evanston
Northwestern faculty are invited to an open house reception in the Buffett Reading Room on the second floor of 720 Unive...
Jan
9
2026
Buffett First Friday Lunch | Syria After Assad with Wendy Pearlman
12:30 PM Evanston
Syria After Assad
Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday o...
Jan
13
2026
Advancing Mentoring Excellence Session #3 Assessing, Understanding and Cultivating Ethical Behavior
9:00 AM Off-Campus
Advancing Mentoring Excellence at Northwestern is a series of five core sessions plus elective sessions, offered by the ...
Jan
13
2026
Coffee Hour with Roberta Buffett International Spouse and Family Program
10:00 AM Evanston
Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us f...
Jan
13
2026
Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Kai Chase
3:00 PM Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...