Digital Lecture Gallery

Virtual Presentations

Enjoy recordings and virtual presentations of some of the NAA’s past educational lectures and events.

In Pursuit of a Grand Cause

Katie Lattal, Special Collections Librarian, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center

East Meets West in Western Classical Music

Sylvia Wang, Associate Professor, Music Performance

Science and Stories: A Magnificent Combination

Theanne Griffith ’15 PhD

Experience Northwestern: Virtual Baking Demonstration

Alex Willis '17 MS, Star Baker

Northwestern Opening Doors: Mini Melanie

Melanie Moss ’08

The Covid Recession and its Aftermath

Martin Eichenbaum (’08, ’15 P)

The Great Purple Bread Bake-Off

Alex Willis '17 MS, Star Baker

Socializing & Vacation Planning in the Time of COVID-19

Chad Achenbach, M.D., M.P.H. Associate Professor, Feinberg

The Making of Orfeo Remote, an Opera Online

Joachim Schamberger and Stephen Alltop ’96 DMus

Memories and Mementos: Family and Cultural Traditions, and the Stories We Tell

Professor E. Patrick Johnson, Newly appointed Dean of the School of Communication

False Confessions and Testimonial Injustice

Jennifer Lackey

Sleeping Well and Staying in Rhythm for Brain and Metabolic Health

Phyllis C. Zee, MD, PhD

A Century of Student Life at Northwestern

Charla Wilson, Archivist for the Black Experience

10 Things You Need to Know About Aging in 2020

Douglas Vaughan, MD

Lights, Camera, Wildcats! Northwestern’s Hollywood History

Dana Lamparello, Head of Public Services and Assistant University Archivist

Twisted Alchemy’s NU “Purple Power”Cocktail Hour

Kim Oster-Holstein ’90 MS

Northwestern Faculty Live: Caregiving During a Pandemic

Melissa Simon ’06 GMEF

2019

The All-Or-Nothing Marriage

Eli J. Finkel ’97

The Purpose Path: Connecting Your Soul with Your Role

Nicholas Pearce ’10 MS, ’12 PhD

The Antidote to Conventional Wisdom

Brian S. Wesbury ’89 MBA

Exploring our Cosmic Future with the Hubble Space Telescope

David M. Meyer

2018

Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon

Jonathan Eig ’86

Feeling Small in a Big Cosmos

Shane Larson

The Pendulum Swings

Brian S. Wesbury ’89 MBA

Jim Crow Wisdom

Jonathan Holloway

Triple Your Creativity

Karen Page ’83

2017

 
Hamilton’s America

Songs by Heart: How Music Improves the Lives of People with Memory Loss

Under New Management

Pardon the Interruption

2016

The Model of Wealth Creation

The Panama Canal: What Is Its Future?