Events Calendar

Join us for an engaging conversation with renowned bakers Ellen King, co-owner and director of baking operations at Hewn Bakery, and Jürgen Krauss, a celebrated participant in the 2021 season of The Great British Bake Off who will be visiting from his home in the UK. The dynamic duo first met when K...

Although the U.S. poverty rate was cut in half between 1959 and 2022, it remains stubbornly high at more than 12%, leaving over 40 million Americans living below the poverty line. Research has shown those who live in the most impoverished neighborhoods in the U.S. are sicker and more stressed than t...

We live in an era of runaway design where the possibilities of new technologies—like generative AI and synthetic biology—are near limitless, but so are the perils. Even the most well-intentioned and transformative innovations can go haywire, jeopardizing our work and our world. In Assembling Tomorro...

ConnectEd is a conference dedicated to fostering collaboration, innovation, and professional growth among educators at Northwestern University. This annual event brings together prospective students, current students, faculty, and staff to share and discuss strategies for fostering belonging and com...

"Promoting Ethnic-Racial Identity Exploration in School-Based Settings: Opportunities, Challenges, and Initial Results from a Randomized Control Trial" by Emma Adam, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, and IPR Fellow.   This event is part of the Fay Lomax Cook Fall 2024...

Vishaan Chakrabarti, one of today’s most inspired architects and urban advocates, has written a new manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenges. In The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy, Chakrabarti describes a world facing unprec...

Please join us for the One Book keynote with author Louise Erdrich, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Night Watchman. One Book faculty Co-Chairs Dean Bryan Brayboy and Professor Megan Bang will join her in conversation. Books will be available for purchase following the keynote conversa...

Equitable access to high-quality instructional materials is essential for creating inclusive learning environments for all students. This brown bag will highlight how a collaborative approach to curriculum adoption, involving educators and community stakeholders, ensures that resources meet diverse ...

Join a FAN special session on harnessing the power of “futures thinking” and civic imagination with Lisa Kay Solomon, Futurist in Residence at Stanford University’s d.school. Drawing from her bestselling book Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversation that Accelerate Change, popular cla...

FAN is thrilled to host #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds in celebration of his first YA romance, Twenty-Four Seconds from Now … A LOVE Story. The book has received high praise in advance of publication for its “tender, sweet, wholesome” story that shows a “refreshingly different s...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of thirteen previous critically acclaimed works of fiction, including Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson delivers the first part of an epic new historical trilogy that illuminates the origins of the Atomic Age with Polostan: Volume One of Bo...

Please join us at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21 for a thought-provoking evening with sociologist and author Musa al-Gharbi as part of SESP’s Ray and Nancy Loeschner Lecture Series on Leadership. We will dive into themes from his latest book We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elit...

Experience two campuses, two cultures and earn two masters degrees! Join us to learn more about our pathbreaking dual-degree program—jointly designed by the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University and the Department of Economics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)....

Attend a livestreamed information session about the Master of Science in Education Program. Presentations will include information about degree concentrations, course curriculum, the master's project, field experiences for teachers, the application process and financial aid. Attendees will have the ...

This dialogue brings together feminist scholars and social activists from Iran and the United States to think together about progressive social movements and solidarities across global contexts. The impetus for this event emerged following the 2022 uprisings in Iran, which took shape under the Kurdi...

"Democratizing Water Security for All: Policy Lessons at the Intersection of Global Health and Synthetic Biology" by Sera Young, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Health and Morton O. Schapiro IPR Faculty Fellow.   This event is part of the Fay Lomax Cook Fall 2024 Colloquium Series, wh...

Attend a livestreamed information session about the Master of Science in Education Program. Presentations will include information about degree concentrations, course curriculum, the master's project, field experiences for teachers, the application process and financial aid. Attendees will have the ...

"Milestones as Merit: Selecting the Elite in Early Childhood Independent School Admissions" by Lauren Rivera, Peter G. Peterson Professor of Corporate Ethics, Professor of Management & Organizations and of Sociology (by courtesy), and IPR Associate. Abstract: Elite schools serve as sites of elite re...

Attend a livestreamed information session about the Master of Science in Education Program. Presentations will include information about degree concentrations, course curriculum, the master's project, field experiences for teachers, the application process and financial aid. Attendees will have the ...

IPR Panel: "Threats to Democracy"   Panelists: Eli Finkel, Professor of Psychology and of Management & Organizations and IPR Morton O. Shapiro Fellow. Chloe Thurston, Associate Professor of Political Science and IPR Fellow. Erik Nisbet, Owen L. Coon Endowed Professor of Policy Analysis and Communica...

Dr. Eugene Raikhel of the University of Chicago will be the first guest lecturer of the 2024-2025 lecture series. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, a language of crisis pervaded the world of college student mental health, with help-seeking, diagnoses, and other indicators increasing steadily for at...

Please join our SESP community on Friday, Nov. 15 at Noon in Annenberg G02 for our annual SESP Alumni Homecoming Networking Luncheon. We have a fantastic lineup of SESP alumni leaders joining us to share the stories of their professional journeys in education, policy, counseling, business, and non-p...

"Quantifying Racial Disparities in Media Representations of Gun Violence" By Rob Voigt, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science (by courtesy) and IPR Fellow.   This event is part of the Fay Lomax Cook Fall 2024 Colloquium Series, where our researchers from around the University sh...

Attend a livestreamed information session about the Master of Science in Education Program. Presentations will include information about degree concentrations, course curriculum, the master's project, field experiences for teachers, the application process and financial aid. Attendees will have the ...

Thanksgiving Vacation begins at 6:00 PM (No classes, University offices closed)

Fall Classes resume

Attend a livestreamed information session about the Master of Science in Education Program. Presentations will include information about degree concentrations, course curriculum, the master's project, field experiences for teachers, the application process and financial aid. Attendees will have the ...

Please join us for the Masters of Science in Social and Economic Policy Graduation Ceremony on Saturday, December 7th! Timing and location details to come. The ceremony is open to staff, students and faculty, and a dinner will be held afterwards (invite-only for MSSEP students and faculty). We can't...

Attend a livestreamed information session about the Master of Science in Education Program. Presentations will include information about degree concentrations, course curriculum, the master's project, field experiences for teachers, the application process and financial aid. Attendees will have the ...

Attend a livestreamed information session about the Master of Science in Education Program. Presentations will include information about degree concentrations, course curriculum, the master's project, field experiences for teachers, the application process and financial aid. Attendees will have the ...