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...
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11
2025
Coffee Hour with Roberta Buffett International Spouse and Family Program
10:00 AM - 11:30 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 - 3:00 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 - 5:30 PM, Evanston
This will be a moderated discussion led by Maria Lipman (Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies in ...
Nov
12
2025
Ayşe Çağlar: Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement
12:30 PM - 2:00 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 - 1:45 PM, Evanston
How do children of migrant parents grapple with the multiple, and sometimes contradictory, moral expectations they encou...
Nov
14
2025
Buffett First Friday Lunch | Inside Haiti with Roberson Alphonse and Nathalie Cardichon
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Inside Haiti Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of ever...
Nov
17
2025
Buffett Faculty Lunch: Conflict and Health
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
We invite faculty from all disciplines with research interests in armed conflict and health to join us for a Buffett Fac...
Nov
19
2025
Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor Lecture | Wishful Thinking: How the West Got Moscow So Wrong, For So Long
12:30 PM - 1:45 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
20
2025
Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Maggie O'Connell
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...
Dec
5
2025
Buffett First Friday Lunch | AI and the Global Future of Work: Power, Resistance, and Adaptation with Hatim Rahman
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
AI and the Global Future of Work: Power, Resistance, and Adaptation Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty res...
Dec
9
2025
Coffee Hour with Roberta Buffett International Spouse and Family Program
10:00 AM - 11:30 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 - 4:00 PM, Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...
Dec
10
2025
Graduate Book Talk | "The Global Meme Project: From Ideation to Dissertation Publication" with Sulafa Zidani
12:00 PM - 1:15 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 ...
Jan
8
2026
Buffett Institute Faculty Open House
4:30 PM - 6:00 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 - 1:45 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
Coffee Hour with Roberta Buffett International Spouse and Family Program
10:00 AM - 11:30 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 - 4:00 PM, Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...
Jan
22
2026
Buffett Symposium: Global Disinformation in a Post-Moderation World
5:15 PM - 6:45 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 - 6:00 PM, Evanston
The global information environment is undergoing a significant transformation, as major social media platforms and gover...
Jan
28
2026
Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Sebastián Poblete Coddou
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...
Feb
3
2026
Reflections on COP30: Research Poster Presentation Session
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
A delegation of Northwestern University undergraduate and graduate students attended the 30th United Nations Climate Ch...
Feb
6
2026
Buffett First Friday Lunch | Dialectics of Tyranny with Iza Ding
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Dialectics of Tyranny Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Frid...
Feb
11
2026
Buffett Conversation | Maria Lipman and Benjamin Nathans on the Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor Maria Lipman (Northwestern University) and Alan Charles Kors Professor of History Ben...
Feb
17
2026
Coffee Hour with Roberta Buffett International Spouse and Family Program
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston
Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us f...
Feb
17
2026
Elliott Speaker Series | Thea Riofrancos on "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
What are the environmental and social costs of the global race to expand the growing industry of green technologies? Joi...
Feb
19
2026
Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Mariana Gutierrez-Lowe
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...
Feb
26
2026
Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Sofía Sanchez
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...
Mar
4
2026
Buffett Book Talk | "America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region" with Marc Lynch
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Marc Lynch, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the Project on Middle East Politica...
Mar
5
2026
EDGS Talk: Lisandro Claudio
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Join the Roberta Buffett Institute and its Equality Development & Globalization Studies (EDGS) program for a public talk...
Mar
6
2026
Buffett First Friday Lunch | The Global Urban Underground: A Mine of Heat with Alessandro F. Rotta Loria
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
The Global Urban Underground: A Mine of Heat Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk se...
Mar
17
2026
Coffee Hour with Roberta Buffett International Spouse and Family Program
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston
Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us f...
Apr
1
2026
EDGS Book Talk: "Bad Lieutenants" with Andrew Mertha
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Join the Roberta Buffett Institute and its Equality Development & Globalization Studies (EDGS) program for a public talk...
Apr
3
2026
Buffett First Friday Lunch | Why the Global Health Revolution Should Start with Primary Care with Lisa Hirschhorn
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Why the Global Health Revolution Should Start with Primary Care Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty researc...
Apr
7
2026
Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Connie Kang
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...
Apr
9
2026
Buffett Symposium: Brave New Futures
All day, No Location
Our spring Buffett Symposium will feature intergenerational discussions on millennial visions of the future. More detai...
Apr
9
2026
EDGS Talk: Rianne Subijanto
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Join the Roberta Buffett Institute and its Equality Development & Globalization Studies (EDGS) program for a public talk...
Apr
9
2026
EDGS Talk: Salvatore Simarmata
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Join the Roberta Buffett Institute and its Equality Development & Globalization Studies (EDGS) program for a public talk...
Apr
10
2026
Buffett Symposium: Brave New Futures
All day, No Location
Our spring Buffett Symposium will feature intergenerational discussions on millennial visions of the future. More detai...
Apr
21
2026
Coffee Hour with Roberta Buffett International Spouse and Family Program
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston
Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us f...
Apr
21
2026
Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with Anastasiya Novatorskaya
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...
May
1
2026
Buffett First Friday Lunch | Indian Painting at the End of Empire with Yuthika Sharma
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Indian Painting at the End of Empire Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on ...
May
5
2026
Buffett Graduate Student Colloquium with José Madrid
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research...
May
11
2026
Buffett Conversation with Practitioner in Residence Thomas O. Melia
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Thomas O. Melia currently serves as Washington director at PEN America. Previously, he served in the Obama Administratio...
May
13
2026
Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor Lecture by Maria Lipman
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
2026 Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies Maria Lipman will give a lunch lecture at the Roberta B...
May
18
2026
EDGS Book Talk: Beth Drexler
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM, Evanston
Join the Roberta Buffett Institute and its Equality Development & Globalization Studies (EDGS) program for a public talk...
May
19
2026
Coffee Hour with Roberta Buffett International Spouse and Family Program
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Evanston
Spouses and partners of international scholars, students, or faculty at Northwestern University are invited to join us f...
May
22
2026
Buffett Conversation with Laura K. Cooper, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Join us for a Buffett Conversation with Laura K. Cooper—Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine...