Mar
25
2025
Gender and Global Higher Education Leadership in the Digital Age
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
What are the latest trends and research on gender and leadership in international higher education? This event brings to...
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Explore upcoming events hosted by the Buffett Institute as well as our offices and affiliated programs, centers and initiatives.Apr
3
2025
Buffett Student Tea with Peace Negotiators
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, Evanston
A prelude to the upcoming Buffett Symposium on Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World, the Buffett Institute invites No...
Apr
3
2025
Buffett Symposium | Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World: Lessons Learned
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
The Buffett Institute's international diplomacy series will culminate in our spring quarter symposium on peace-making or...
Apr
4
2025
Buffett Symposium | Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World: Lessons Learned
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
The Buffett Institute's international diplomacy series will culminate in our spring quarter symposium on peace-making or...
Apr
7
2025
Fulbright Week
All day, No Location
Join us for Fulbright Week to learn more about all the awards offered. More information to come.
Apr
8
2025
Fulbright Week
All day, No Location
Join us for Fulbright Week to learn more about all the awards offered. More information to come.
Apr
8
2025
21st Century Reparatory Justice: From Episodic Moments to the Global Movement
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, a renowned historian, academic leader, and advocate for social justice will address the No...
Apr
9
2025
Fulbright Week
All day, No Location
Join us for Fulbright Week to learn more about all the awards offered. More information to come.
Apr
10
2025
Fulbright Week
All day, No Location
Join us for Fulbright Week to learn more about all the awards offered. More information to come.
Apr
11
2025
Fulbright Week
All day, No Location
Join us for Fulbright Week to learn more about all the awards offered. More information to come.
Apr
11
2025
Buffett First Friday Lunch: Darker Demons of Our Nature
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty memb...
Apr
14
2025
EDGS Talk: We Will (Not) Be Hungry: Farmer Welfare and Indonesia's Food Security Ambition
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
As Indonesia aims to achieve food self-sufficiency and become the world's food barn by 2045, a critical question remains...
Apr
15
2025
Brief Tender Light Screening
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM, Evanston
Join the Buffett Institute and Northwestern's Office of International Student & Scholar Services (OISS) for a special ev...
Apr
16
2025
Coffee Hour with 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
16
2025
An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Join KMTS, MENA, SHC and speaker Dr. Chris Gratien, University of Virginia, for a talk titled "An Environmental History ...
Apr
16
2025
Buffett Conversation: Dean Karlan on USAID Now & Ideas for the Future
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Join us for a lunchtime conversation with Dean Karlan, who recently resigned from his position as Chief Economist of the...
Apr
17
2025
Buffett Conversation with Liane Huttner
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Join us for a conversation with Liane Huttner, a legal scholar with research interests in data protection law, digital l...
Apr
21
2025
Buffett Conversation with the Co-directors of the CSIS Bipartisan Commission on Hostage Taking & Wrongful Detention
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Moderated by Professor Danielle Gilbert. A reception will follow the event from 5:00–6:00 p.m. Additional details are fo...
Apr
25
2025
The Government Against the University: Lessons from the World
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, Online
Details to come.
May
1
2025
Elliott Speaker Series: Vijayendra Rao
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Information to come. About the Elliott Speaker Series As part of the Elliott Scholars Program, the Buffett Institute in...
May
2
2025
Buffett First Friday Lunch: Computationally Accessible Law: On Bringing the French & U.S. Tax Systems Out of the Past & Into the Future
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Join the Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty memb...
May
9
2025
Peace Conference Simulation
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs has launched a yearlong initiative focused on international diplomacy in turbul...
May
13
2025
Ron Deibert Visiting Scholar Talk
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
More information to come. Please note that 720 University Place is not an ADA-accessible space. Increasing physical acce...
May
21
2025
Buffett Book Talk: Heaven Has a Wall
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Evanston
Join us for a book talk with Beth Hurd, author of Heaven Has a Wall. Through an analysis of the many ways the United Sta...
May
22
2025
America’s Soft Power & Reputational Security in Crisis? Nicholas J. Cull in Conversation with Erik C. Nisbet
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
Join us for a lunchtime conversation with esteemed historian and academic Nicholas J. Cull from the University of Southe...
May
28
2025
Coffee Hour with 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...
Jun
8
2025
Conversation with Jacinda Ardern, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM, Chicago
In partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Buffett Institute will welcome Jacinda Ardern, former Prime Min...