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WINTER 2013

Event For History Dept. and invited guests:

from 12:10 to 1:50 p.m. with catered lunch  

John CONNELLY (U of California Berkeley)

with Garry WILLS (NU)

“How the Catholic Church Overcame its own Theology and Discovered that God Loves the Jews”
Thursday, January 17, 2013

 

John Connelly speaking and Garry Wills commenting on the lecture by Connelly

John Connelly chatting with graduate students at

the Center.


NU panel discussion (with catered lunch):

“History: (How) Is It Different in Other Disciplines?”

with Bruce Carruthers (Sociology), Holly Clayson (Art History), Mary Dietz (Political Science) and Barbara Newman (English/Religion/Classics)

Monday, February 25 from 12:15 to 1:50 p.m.


 

For History Dept. and invited guests:

Book launch reception

Friday, March 8 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Guild Lounge of Scott Hall--note change of day and venue!

 


 

Lecture on the History of the Book (organized jointly with the University Library)

Christopher REED (Ohio State University)

"'Dukes & Nobles Above, Scholars Below': Remembering Beijing's Old Booksellers District, 1769-1941"

Monday, March 11, 2013 at 4 p.m.

Reception to follow.

 


FALL 2012

FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC:

William CRONON

(University of Wisconsin at Madison) lecture

"The Portage: How to Read a Landscape"

Thursday, October 18, 2012 from 4 to 6 p.m.

in Harris Hall 108 (Leopold Room), 1881 Sheridan Rd.,

Evanston campus

—reception to follow

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FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC:

Panel discussion on

 “History, Journalism, and the Public Sphere”

with Sewell CHAN (deputy Op-Ed editor at The New York Times),

Lawrence Stuelpnagel (NU Medill), Deborah Cohen (NU History),

and Geraldo Cadava (NU History)

as moderator

Monday, October 29 from 12 to 2 p.m.

 (a light catered lunch will be served)

Sewell Chan (right) and fellow panelists:

This event was co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost,

Medill School of Journalism, the History Department, and

the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University.

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FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC

Lunch lectures irom 12:15 to 1:50 p.m. (a light catered lunch is served):

Jonathon GLASSMAN (NU)

"Race, Violence, & the Heart of Darkness: Some Lessons from African History"

Wednesday, November 14

 

 Caroline BYNUM (Institute for Advanced Study)

Is Anthropomorphism the Basis of Religion? 

Some Observations Suggested by

Late Medieval Devotional Objects”

Wednesday, November 28

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SPRING 2012

Lunch lectures for the NU History Dept. and invited guests in the Leopold Room (Harris 108)

--if not otherwise specified--from 12:15 to 2 p.m. (catered lunch served)

Ann STOLER (New School for Social Research, NYC)—Thursday, April 5

"Colony and Camp: Retracing Their Political Genealogies"

John DOWER (MIT)—Thursday, April 12

"Rethinking the Cultures of War"

 

Gail HERSHATTER (UC Santa Cruz)—Thursday, April 26 in the Guild Lounge of Scott Hall

"The Girl Who Burned the Banknotes: Gender, Memory, and Rural China's Collective Past"


Edhem ELDEM (Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey)—Tuesday, May 15Note change of date!

"An Ottoman History of Archaeology in the Long Nineteenth Century"


CCHS International Doctoral Workshop

in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome

and under the auspices of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Distinguished Achievement Award on “Agency, Allegiance, and Resistance 

in Rome, Italy (week of May 1-5) with Professors Edward Muir and T.H. Breen

For more informations, see Conferences.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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Conference convened by CCHS Fellow Teri Chettiar on “Histories of the Family”

Friday, June 1 

from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Leopold Room (Harris Hall 108)

1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston campus

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WINTER 2012

SPECIAL EVENT: FREE & OPEN to the PUBLIC

Nicholas CANNY (Director of the Moore Institute for Research

in the Humanities and Social Studies at National University of Ireland, Galway

and President of the Royal Irish Academy)

 “Catholic or Protestant Atlantic? How Confessional Divisions Influenced Writing

on the Natural History of the Atlantic World”             

Monday, January 30 from 4 to 5 :30 p.m.

in the Leopold Room (Harris 108)

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FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC:

Panel discussion by NU faculty on the topic:

"Is history fiction by another

name?"

with Dyan ELLIOTT (History), Carl SMITH (English and History)

and Robert WALLACE (Classics)

Thursday, February 2

4 to 5:30 p.m. .

 Leopold Room (Harris 108)

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Lunch lecture for History Dept. and invited guests:

Thomas C. HOLT (University of Chicago)

"Reflections on Du Bois' 'Politics' of Culture"

Thursday, February 9  from 12:15 to 2 p.m.

in the Leopold Room (Haris 108)

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FREE & OPEN to the PUBLIC

LECTURE on the History of the Book (organized jointly with the University Library)

Anthony GRAFTON (Princeton University)

"Humanists with Dirty Fingers: Renaissance Correctors

and the Origins of Editing"

Monday, March 5 at 4 p.m. in the Leopold Room (108) of Harris Hall,

1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston

WEBCAST at

http://video.at.northwestern.edu/2012/03-14_grafton/03-14-2012_GraftonLecture_030612-hi.mov

 

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FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC

Conference convened by CCHS Fellow Peter Thilly on

“Crime and the Modern World”

Friday, March 9, 2012  

from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

in the Leopold Room (108) of Harris Hall,

1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston

For program, click HERE

 

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CCHS International Doctoral

Workshop in conjunction with

Charles University

on "The Politics of Memory" in Prague,

the Czech Republic

(September 12-14, 2011)

with Prof. Benjamin FROMMER

 

 

 

 

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CCHS International Doctoral Workshop in collaboration with

Trinity College Dublin on

"Violence and Social Change" in Dublin, Ireland

(week of Oct. 24-29, 2011) with Professors T.H. Breen and Scott Sowerby

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Conferences—FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC

convened by CCHS Graduate Fellows—in the Leopold Room

(Harris 108), 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston:

1. "Religious Identity and Political Conflict"

with keynote speaker Seth JACOBS (Boston College)

—convener: Theresa KEELEY

Friday, April 1, 2011

2. "The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Microhistory"

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

—convener: Andrew WEHRMAN

Friday, May 13, 2011

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CCHS International Doctoral Workshop

to be held at Fundacao Getulio Vargas Center for Research and Documentation (CPDOC),
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil  (June 13-17, 2011) on 

"Old Debates and New Challenges in Oral History"

with Profesors Brodwyn FISCHER and Kate MASUR

 

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FALL 2011

Overflow crowd at Snyder lecture:

Lunch lecture for the NU History Dept. and invited guests

in the Leopold Room (Harris 108) from 12:15 to 2 p.m.

(catered lunch served)  

Timothy SNYDER (Yale University)

Tuesday, September 27

"Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin"

Timothy Snyder meeting with graduate students at the Center.

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Events FREE & OPEN to the PUBLIC:

Quentin SKINNER (Queen Mary Collge, University of London)

Monday, Nov. 7 at 5 pm: Lecture on "A Genealogy of Freedom”

in Harris Hall 107 (1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston)

Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 4 pm: seminar (Q & A session)

on the lecture about freedom in the Leopold Room (Harris Hall 108),

 

Wednesday, Nov.  9 at  5 pm: Lecture on “A Genealogy of the State”

in Harris Hall 107

Thursday, Nov. 10 at  4 pm: seminar (Q & A session)

on the lecture about the state in the Leopold Room (Harris Hall 108)

For Quentin SKINNER lecture  WEBCASTS--click here

     

Fall 2011 lectures on "A Genealogy of Freedom”

                   and  “A Genealogy of the State”

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SPRING 2011

Free and OPEN to the PUBLIC:

  • Discussion on

"The German Foreign Office and its Past, 1933-2010:

A New Report"

Peter HAYES (Northwestern) and Norbert FREI (University of Jena)

with German Consul General Onno Hückmann as moderator

Thursday, April 28 at 5 p.m.

Leopold Room (Harris 108), 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston

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Special event:
H.W. BRANDS (U of Texas, Austin)
"Reaching a Broader Constituency: Historians and the INTERNET"
Monday, May 9, 2011
2 to 4 p.m. in Room L40 in Harris Hall (lower level), 1881 Sheridan Rd, Evanston

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Lunch lectures for the NU History Dept. and invited guests in the Leopold

Room (Harris Hall 108) from 12:15 to 2 p.m.

Rebecca J. SCOTT (University of Michigan)
"Under Color of Law: Illegal Enslavement and the Diaspora

of Saint-Domingue, 1794-1818"

Thursday, April 7

 
Laura HEIN (NU)

“The Art of Bourgeois Culture in Kamakura”

Thursday, May 5
 
Susan FERBER (Oxford University Press)

"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Academic Publishing

(But Were Afraid to Ask)"
Thursday, May 12
 
Peter C. PERDUE (Yale University)

“Transnational Environmental History: Fur, Tea, and Fish in Modern China”

Thursday, May 19

 

Perdue lecture WEBCAST:

 

WINTER 2011

WINTER EVENTS  that are FREE and OPEN to the public

  • NU faculty panel discussion on the question:

"What do historians have to offer politicians?"

              Deborah COHEN (History), Joel MOKYR (History)

and Hendrik SPRUYT (Political Science) with Peter HAYES (History) as moderator

              Thursday, February 24 from 12:15 to 2 p.m.

               Leopold Room (Harris Hall 108), 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston

Image for "Be Patriotic" poster by Paul Stahr, ca. 1917-1918

 

To watch the WEBCAST of this panel, click here:

                 

 

  • Joint CCHS/University Library public lecture series on the History of the Book
    Adrian JOHNS (University of Chicago)

"The Invention of Intellectual Property"

               Thursday, March 3 at 4 p.m.---note change of date!

               Leopold Room (Harris Hall 108), 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston

               —reception to follow  

To view a webcast of this lecture, pleases click here:

 

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Event for the History Department and invited guests

Housewarming reception and Open House

Wednesday, February 16 from 4:30 to 6 p.m.,

Leopold Room (Harris 108) and CHS (Harris Hall suite L27)

Book launch reception to honor History Department authors of books

published in 2010-2011

Monday, February 28 from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Leopold Room (Harris 108)

 

FALL 2010 *****************************************

Lunch lectures for the NU History Dept. and invited guests

from 12:15 to 2 p.m. (a catered lunch is served)

  • Adam TOOZE (Yale University)

"From Brest-Litovsk to Versailles, 1917-1919: Making a Modern Peace"

             Tuesday, October 12 in the Northwestern Room (Rm. 202),

             Norris University Center, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston

  • James SWEET (University of Wisconsin—Madison)

"'Today He Cures; Tomorrow He Kills': Domingos Alvares and

the Ambiguities of Power in the Atlantic World, 1710-1750" 

              Thursday, November 4 in the GUILD LOUNGE of Scott Hall

              (601 University Place, Evanston)--note change of venue!  

  

  • Luca CODIGNOLA-BO (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italia,
    Istituto di Storia dell'Europa Mediterranea, Genoa, Italy)

"Merchant and Personal Networks: The Italian Peninsula and the

Early United States in Revolutionary Times, 1776-1815" 

              Tuesday, November 16 in rm. 430, suite 404 (4th floor),

               1800 Sherman Ave., Evanston    

SPRING 2010 graduate conferences: FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Conference on “The Promise and Perils of BIOGRAPHY”

with keynote speaker Alice Kessler-Harris (Columbia University),

Friday, April 30

from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1800 Sherman Ave., suite 404, room 430

Convener: Fernando CARBAJAL (CCHS Fellow)

 

Conference on “EMOTIONS as History”

with keynote speaker Kenda Mutongi (Williams College),

Friday, May 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

at 1800 Sherman Ave., suite 404, room 430

Convener: Andreana PRICHARD

(CCHS Fellow)

 

PAST CHS EVENTS

CCHS International Doctoral workshop on

Trans-National History

—in collaboration with the University of Genoa

in Sestri Levante, Italy,

April 14-15, 2010

 

CCHS International Doctoral workshop on

Violence and Empire

in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin

at NU, May 4-7, 2010

For the PROGRAMS of both CONFERENCES, please click here.

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SPRING 2010 LUNCH LECTURES FOR THE NU HISTORY DEPT.

AND INVITED GUESTS

--from 12:15 to 2 p.m. (a catered lunch will be served)

  • Jane OHLMEYER (Trinity College Dublin)

"Empire and Violence: Ireland in 1641"

        Thursday, May 6

--in conjunction with the CCHS International Doctoral Workshop

on Empire and Violence--at Hardin Hall in Rebecca Crown Center,

633 Clark St.

  • Brodwyn FISCHER (NU)

"The Politics of Racial Silence in Urban Brazil"

           Thursday, May 27 in the Northwestern Room (202) of Norris

           University Center, 1999 Campus Dr.

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WINTER 2010lunch lectures for the NU History Dept. and

invited guests—from 12:15 to 2 p.m. in the Northwestern Room (202)

of Norris University Center unless otherwise stated (a catered lunch will be served)

  • Olivia MAHONEY (Chief Curator, Chicago History Museum)

"History Museums:  Career Opportunities and Challenges" 

          Thursday, January 28

  • Deborah COHEN (Brown University)

"Family Secrets in Britain: Children Who Disappeared, 1870-1960"      

          Thursday, February 4

  • William SEWELL (emeritus, University of Chicago)

 "Capitalism and Social Hierarchy in Eighteenth-Century France"      

           Thursday, March 4

 *** Book launch reception

to celebrate  books published in

2009-2010 by History Department faculty

---for the History Dept. and invited guests---

Monday, March 8 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the

Guild Lounge of Scott Hall

For details of the ten BOOKS, click here

 

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FALL 2009 SPEAKERS  & EVENTS

Public lecture--rescheduled from March 2

CHS/University Library lecture on the History of the Book

  • Robert DARNTON (Harvard University)

          "Old Books and E-Books"         

Tuesday, October 6 at 4:30 p.m. in Hardin Hall

(Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark St., Evanston)      

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

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Lectures for the NU History Dept. and invited guests

from 12:15 to 2 p.m. in Norris University Center (a catered lunch will be served)

Annette GORDON-REED (New York Law School)

"The Hemingses of Monticello: Writing the Life of an Enslaved Family"

           Thursday, October 1 in the Wildcat Room (Norris 101)

Peter BROWN (Princeton University)

"Work, Alms and the Holy Poor between Syria and Egypt:

A Parting of the Ways in Early Christian Monasticism"
          Thursday, November 5 in the Northwestern Room (Norris 202)

John A. LYNN (NU)

“Surrender in European Warfare: Honor, Defeat, and Acquiescence"

          Thursday, November 19 in the Big Ten Room (Norris 104)

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SPRING 2009 speakers
--for the NU History Dept. and invited guests in the Lake Room of the

Norris Center (Rm. 203)--unless otherwise stated-- from 12:15 to 2 p.m.

(a catered lunch is served)

John MORRILL (Cambridge University)
CHS Distinguished Resident Scholar

          “Living with Revolution: Rethinking 17th-Century Britain

           and Ireland”

Lecture 1: What is wrong with what we think we know about

                 seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland?

Lecture 2: A very British revolution.

Lecture 3: Some consequences.

Kären WIGEN (Stanford University)

           "Modern State, Ancient Map: Toward a Geo-History of

           Japan's Meiji  Restoration"

Jorge FLORES (Brown University)

           "Empires and Cultural Brokers: The Social World of Native

            Interpreters in Imperial Goa"

Sarah MAZA (NU)

          "Reading Scandal Historically: The Violette Nozière Case,

            Paris 1933"

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WINTER 2009 events

Roundtable discussion with participants of the

First CHS International Doctoral Workshop (Galway, Ireland, Nov. 2008)

Walter WOODWARD (State Historian, University of Connnecticut)        

          "Shaping the People's History of America:

          Opportunities and Needs in the Field of Public History

Panel discussion on "What is the Future of History?"

          with Rajeev KINRA, Kate MASUR, and Amy STANLEY

of the  NU History Department--free and open to the public

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FALL 2008 speakers

Glenda GILMORE (Yale University)

           "The Nazis and Dixie: An Exercise

in International Comparative History"

David Levering LEWIS (NYU)

           "On Triangulating Seneca Falls, the Niagara Movement,

and Reverend Wright: America in the Obama Era"

  Patricia LIMERICK (University of Colorado)

          "A Ditch in Time: The City, the West, and Water”     

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SPRING 2008 speakers
--for the NU History Dept. and invited guests in Harris 108

from 12:15 to 2 p.m.

Dylan PENNINGROTH (NU)
"The Preacher's Wife: Law, Divorce, and Respectability

among African Americans, 1865-1930"--Thursday, April 10, 2008

Christof MAUCH (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
"A Tocquevillian Perspective: Teaching American History in German

Universities"--Tuesday, April 22

Christopher BAYLY (Cambridge University)
"Between Repression and Reform: The British Empire c. 1800-1960"

--Thursday, May 1

                     

Laura de Mello e SOUZA (University of São Paulo)
"Rethinking the Portuguese Seaborne Empire

From the Perspective of Colonial Brazil"--Thursday, May 8

Edward AYERS (University of Richmond)

    "Deep Contingency"--Thursday, May 22


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WINTER 2008 events

Reception and book-signing of the new Leopold biography,

Steven J. Harper's Straddling Two Worlds: The Jewish-American Journey

of Professor Richard W. Leopold
Friday, January 25 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Harris 108
--FREE and OPEN to the public--

Panel discussion with NU historians Laura HEIN, Josef BARTON,

and Peter HAYES
"What responsibilities do historians have as scholars to address

the pressing concerns of contemporary society?"
Thursday, February 28 from 12:15 to 2 p.m. in Harris 108
--for the NU History Dept. and invited guests--

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FALL 2007 speakers:

Emilio H. Kourí
(Director of the Katz Center for Mexican Studies and Professor

of Latin American History, University of Chicago)

"Imagining the Indigenous Community in Mexico"

Gyan Prakash
(Director of the Davis Center for Historical Studies and Professor

of History, Princeton University)

"The Ruins of the Modern City: The Historical Representations of Bombay/Mumbai"

Roy Ritchie
(W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research and Education, The Huntington Library)

"Making It in the Fellowship World"

Megan Vaughan
(Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, Cambridge)

"The History of Romantic Love in Africa"

Stephen Pitti
(History and American Studies, Yale University)

"The Passions of Cesar Chavez"

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2006-2007 speakers

Natalie Zemon Davis (University of Toronto and Professor Emerita, Princeton)

"Liberty and License: Three Women of Colonial Suriname" (9/29/06)

Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Chicago)

"Revisionist Controversies in Soviet History and in the Discipline" (10/27/06)

David Blackbourn (Harvard)

"The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape,

and the Making of Modern Germany" (11/10/06)

Susan Ferber ( History Editor, Oxford University Press)

"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Academic Publishing...

But Were Afraid to Ask" (11/07/06)

Dorothy Ko (Barnard College)

"The Body of the Artisan: The Case of Gu Erniang (ca. 1662 - ca. 1774),

a Female Inkstone Carver" (4/19/07)

Zachary Lockman (NYU)

"Shifting Paradigms, Contentious Politics:

Trends in the Historiography of the Modern Middle East"  (5/8/07)

Christopher Grasso (editor of The William and Mary Quartery)

"The 'Gauntlet' of Academic Publishing" (5/8/07)

Nancy MacLean (NU)

"Neo-Confederacy vs. the New Deal: The Regional Romance

of the Modern American Right" (5/17/07)

 

 

 

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