Nov
4
2025
Fall Quarter Brown Bag: Indigenous Feminisms and the Limits of Reconciliation
12:00 PM Evanston
The proliferation of Native Studies in the 2010s made Indigenous politics visible and increasingly mainstream. This talk...
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.
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
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration: Film Screening & Discussion
3:30 PM Evanston
In the spirit of healing, the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA), Native American & Indigenous Affa...
Nov
5
2025
The Salon: Exploring Contemplative Practices Inside & Outside of the Classroom
4:00 PM Evanston
The Salon is a new initiative to foster thoughtful conversations and connections across the university about contemplati...
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
The Peace We Make: A Youth-Led Buffett Symposium
Young people are leading global efforts to end conflict, defend human r...
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
11
2025
A Conversation with Nicholas Berliner, Former National Security Council Senior Director for Russia and Central Asia, 2023-2025
4:00 PM Evanston
This will be a moderated discussion led by Maria Lipman (Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies in ...
Nov
11
2025
Navigating Your Path as a Neurodivergent-Identifying Student
5:00 PM Evanston
We hope that you will be able to join us for “Navigating Your Path as a Neurodivergent-Identifying Student”! This event ...
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
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration: Making Activity
5:30 PM Evanston
In the spirit of healing, the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA) and Native American & Indigenous A...
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
18
2025
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration: Procession & Fire
5:30 PM Evanston
In the spirit of healing, the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA), Native American & Indigenous Affa...
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
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
Athens: Ancient Culture and Modern City - Study Abroad Info Session
1:00 PM Online
Join us for a virtual session to learn more about the NU summer program, Athens: Ancient Culture and Modern City, Summer...
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
New and Early Career Faculty Institute
9:00 AM Evanston
Date: Dec. 5, 2025
Time: 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Lunch provided
Location: Louis Room, Norris Center, Evanston
Join us for the N...
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...
Jan
16
2026
Last day to request academic accommodations for religious observance in Winter Quarter
All day No Location
Last day to request academic accommodations for religious observance in Winter Quarter
Jan
19
2026
Jan
20
2026
Advancing Mentoring Excellence Session #3 Assessing, Understanding and Cultivating Ethical Behavior
12:00 PM Evanston
Advancing Mentoring Excellence at Northwestern is a series of five core sessions plus elective sessions, offered by the ...
Jan
20
2026
NAIS Book Club Winter Meeting
5:30 PM Evanston
Come join us for the Native American and Indigenous Studies book club! At our Winter Quarter meeting, we will be discuss...
Jan
22
2026
Buffett Symposium: Global Disinformation in a Post-Moderation World
5:15 PM Off-Campus
The global information environment is undergoing a significant transformation, as major social media platforms and gover...
Jan
23
2026
Buffett Symposium: Global Disinformation in a Post-Moderation World
8:30 AM Evanston
The global information environment is undergoing a significant transformation, as major social media platforms and gover...
Jan
26
2026
Building Trust and Community - Faculty Leaders Series
12:00 PM Evanston
Faculty Leaders Series
Building Trust and Community: How to build a positive culture in your department or unit, promoti...
Jan
28
2026
Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Sebastián Poblete Coddou
3:00 PM Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...