The annual CHS Graduate Fellows organize faculty/graduate

conference workshops that are FREE and OPEN to the public.   

 Spring 2012 conference on “Histories of the Family”

  —free and open to the public—

  Friday, June 1, 2012

  from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

  convened by CCHS Fellow Teri Chettiar

  CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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Winter 2012 conference on “Crime and the Modern World”

Friday, March 9, 2012 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

 convened by 2011-2012 CCHS Fellow Peter Thilly.

Participants: Andrew BAER (NU), Ashley JOHNSON (NU), Matthew R. JUNE (NU),

Ian SAXINE (NU), Andrey SHLYAKHTER (U of Chicago, presently at Harvard U.), Peter THILLY (NU).

                       CONFERENCE PROGRAM--click here

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Spring 2011

"Religious Identity and Political Conflict" with keynote speaker Seth JACOBS (Boston College)

convener: Theresa KEELEY

Friday, April 1, 2011--for program click here

"The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Microhistory" with keynote speaker Alan TAYLOR (University of California at Davis)

convener: Andrew WEHRMAN

Friday, May 13, 2011--for program click here

1. "Religious Identity and Political Conflict"

with keynote speaker Seth JACOBS (Boston College)

                                    Friday, April 1, 2011 Convener: Theresa KEELEY                                    

       For the full program, click here--April 1 Program

  2."The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Microhistory"

     with keynote speaker Alan TAYLOR (University of California at Davis)

     Friday, May 13, 2011

     Convener: Andrew WEHRMAN

     For the full program, click here--May 13 Program

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Conference on “EMOTIONS AS HISTORY”

Friday, MAY 14, 2010

Convener: Andreana PRICHARD (CCHS Fellow)

 9:30—9:35 Welcome by CCHS Director T. H. BREEN

9:45—10:30 Keynote lecture by Dr. Kenda MUTONGI (Williams College),

author of Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya (2007)—

 "Fear and Anger Aboard a Nairobi Matatu”

11:00—1:00 p.m. Session I:  Emotions as Sources:  Sadness, Love, Anger

Discussant: Dr. Barbara ROSENWEIN (Loyola University, Chicago)

• Erin-Marie LEGACEY (Northwestern University)--"A Day at the Cemetery:The Pursuit of Melancholy in Post-Revolutionary Paris"

• Andreana PRICHARD (Northwestern University)--"Love, Language, and National Belonging in Twentieth-Century Tanganyika"
•  Joshua GRACE (Michigan State University)--"Socialism on Wheels: Passenger Anger and Urban Citizenship in Dar es Salaam’s City Buses,

                                                                                                1960s and 1970s"  

2:00—4:00 Session II: The Discourse of Emotions

Discussant:  Dr. Dyan ELLIOTT (Northwestern University)

• Meghan ROBERTS (Northwestern University)—"Sentimentalism and Intellectual Authority in Eighteenth-century France"
• Noah BLAN (Northern Illinois University)—"The Material Culture of Emotions in the Carolingian Lay Mirrors"

• Kaitlin PONTER (Loyola University, Chicago)—"Conduct of Enemies: Passions and Tory Partisan Discourse in the War of Spanish Succession"

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“The Promise and Perils of Biography”

  Friday, APRIL 30, 2010

  from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in  room 430, suite 404,

  1800 Sherman Ave., Evanston

  Convener: Fernando CARBAJAL (CCHS Fellow)

  9:30—9:35 Welcome by CCHS Director T. H. BREEN

   9:45—10:30 Keynote lecture by Alice KESSLER-HARRIS (Columbia University),

  author of Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982), In Pursuit of Equity:

Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (2001) and  

Gendering Labor History (2007), as well as a forthcoming biography of American playwright  Lillian Hellman, will speak on

“The Ambivalent Biographer and her Subject”

11:00—1:00 p.m. Session I

Commentators: Rick PERLSTEIN (author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, 2008) and Louise W. KNIGHT (author of Citizen:Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy, 2006)

• Fernando CARBAJAL (NU)—“On the Road with Martin Dies: In Search of Mid-Twentieth Century Conservatism and Historical Memory with the ‘Outstanding Zany in Our Political History’”
• Meghan ROBERTS (NU)—“Avoiding the Exceptional: Towards a Collective Biography of Enlightenment Philosophies”

2:00—4:00 Session II: New Methodologies and the Future of Biography

Commentators: Rick PERLSTEIN (Independent Scholar) and Geraldo CADAVA (NU)

• Strother ROBERTS (NU)—“The Biography of a River? Considering the Value of Biography as a Tool for Environmental Studies”
• Marcia HOLMES (University of Chicago)—“’The Making of Subjects of Biographical
  Experience': Scientific Biography and the Lives of Scientists”
• Molly MACKEAN (NU)—“’It Would Make Me Grieve/To Have To Leave’: A Biography of New Deal Towns Under Attack.”

CCHS Director Timothy Breen welcomes participants of the Biography conference as keynote speaker Alice Kessler-Harris looks on, with photo of Lillian Helman in the background (left photo); one of the presenters (right photo).

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Third faculty/graduate student WORKSHOP

"MANIFESTING MADNESS: Historical Interpretations of the Exceptional, the Marginal,

and the 'Normal' " 

FRIDAY, April 24, 2009

Rm. 430 (suite 404), 4th floor, 1800 SHERMAN Ave., Evanston--Note change of location!

Convener: Anne Koenig

11:00 a.m Welcome and opening remarks by T.H. Breen (Director of CHS, Northwestern University)
11:15 a.m. Keynote Address by H.C. Erik Midelfort (University of Virginia), author of Witch Hunting
in Southwestern Germany, 15621684:The Social and Intellectual Foundations (1972), Mad
Princes of Renaissance Germany (1994), A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century
Germany (1999), and Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of 18th-Century
Germany (2005). Both works on German madness received the Roland Bainton Award for the best book of the year.

“Schwermuth and Unsinnigkeit: Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706-1751)
and the Difficulties of Vernacular Psychiatry”

1:30 p.m. First Panel
Presentations by
Anne Koenig (Northwestern University)--"Hildegard of Bingen: A Twelfth-Century Psychiatrist?"

Beth Condie-Pugh (Northwestern University)--"Finding Pazzia: Madness in Late-Renaissance Italy"

Megan McFadden (Northwestern University)--"'Alas sweet lady, what imports this song?':

Musical Performance of Feminine Madness on the Jacobean Stage"

      Comments by William Monter (Northwestern University), whose books include European
      Witchcraft (1969), Ritual, Myth and Magic in Early Modern Europe (1983), Frontiers of
      Heresy: the Spanish Inquisition from the Basque Lands to Sicily (1990), and Bewitched
      Duchy: Lorraine and its Dukes, 1477-1736 (2007).

3:00 p.m. Second Panel
Presentations by
Rachel Ponce (University of Chicago)--"'Unnatural Murder' in the Early American Republic: Madness, Morality, and Family"

Darcy Heuring (Northwestern University)--"The Kingston Lunatic Asylum and Responsibility in Colonial Jamaica"

      Comments by Anne Harrington (Harvard University), author of Medicine, Mind and the
      Double Brain (1987), Reenchanted Science (1997) and The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body
      Medicine (2007).
5:00 p.m. Closing comments and reception.

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Second workshop

RECONSTRUCTING SOCIAL HISTORY              

IN A POST-STRUCTURAL WORLD

Saturday, May 17, 2008

9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Hagstrum Room (University Hall 201)

Convener: Lonnie ROBBINS (CHS Fellow)

9:30-9:45 Introduction

9:45–11:15 Keynote address by

Keith WRIGHTSON (Yale University)--whose numerous

publications include Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525-1700 

(co-authored with David Levine 1979), English Society, 1580-1680 (1982) and

Earthly Necessities. Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain (2000)--on

“Mutualities and Obligations: Changing Social Relationships in Early Modern England”

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-1:00 Workshop 1

• Crystal SANDERS (NU) - "From the Field to the Classroom: The Child Development Group of Mississippi and Opposition to the War on Poverty, 1965-1967"
• Katie TURK (University of Chicago) – "‘A Fair Chance To Do My Part of Work': Black Women, War Work and Fairness at the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant, 1941-1945"

Commentator: Brodwyn FISCHER (NU), author of A Poverty of Rights: Ciizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro (2008)

2:30–5:00 Workshop 2

• Lonnie ROBBINS (NU) – "The Path of the Poor Scholar:  Poverty in Tudor and Stuart Oxbridge"
• Andy WEHRMAN (NU) – "‘A Sore Distemper is Crept in': Public Health in Revolutionary Marblehead, Massachusetts"

Commentator: Suzanne DESAN (University of Wisconsin, Madison), author of Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France (1990) and The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France (2004)

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First workshop

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Harris 108 (at 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston)

Convener: Strother ROBERTS (CHS Fellow)

10:45 a.m. Opening Comments by T.H. BREEN (Director of CHS)

11:00 a.m. Keynote Address by RICHARD WHITE (Stanford University), whose books include

The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (1995) and The Middle Ground: Indians,

Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991)

1:00 p.m. Panel
Introductions by DAVID SCHOENBRUN (NU), author of A Green Place, A Good Place: Agrarian Change

and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century (1998)

15-minute presentations:

• WILL CAVERT (Northwestern University)--"'No Smoke or Annoyance at All': Projects for Clean Air through Technology

in Seventeenth-Century London"

• ANGELA GUGLIOTTA (University of Chicago)--"Pittsburgh: 'Child of Nature and Necessity'"
• ALPHONSE OTIENO (Northwestern University)--"Alienating Landscapes: Forestry Policy in Western Kenya 1940-1963"
• STROTHER ROBERTS (Northwestern University)--"The New England Forest and the Origins of Conservation in Early America"
• MIKAEL WOLFE (University of Chicago)--"The Rational Folly of Rehabilitation: The Laguna's 'Second Agrarian Reform,' Mexico, 1950-1975"

Comments by JAMES McCANN (Boston University), author of Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000 (2005)

Questions from the audience

3:30 p.m. Closing Comments by T.H. Breen 

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Richard White giving his keynote address

James McCann and the panelists

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