PAST EVENTS
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
Two Saturday faculty/graduate student WORKSHOPS--the first on Environmental History (April 5) and the second on Social History (May 17)--are FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC.
See Conferences for more details.
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--
Panel discussion on Feb. 28
FALL 2007 speakers:
September 27, 2007
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"
October 16, 2007
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"
October 23, 2007
Roy Ritchie
(W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research and Education, The Huntington Library)
"Making It in the Fellowship World"
November 1, 2007
Megan Vaughan
(Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, Cambridge)
"The History of Romantic Love in Africa"
November 15, 2007
Stephen Pitti
(History and American Studies, Yale University)
"The Passions of Cesar Chavez"
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The 2006-2007 speakers were Natalie Zemon Davis(University of Toronto and Professor Emerita, Princeton), Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Chicago), Frederick Cooper (NYU), David Blackbourn (Harvard), and Susan Ferber ( History Editor, Oxford University Press).
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Steven Harper signs a copy of his biography of Professor Richard Leopold for WCAS Dean Aldon Morris (January 2007)
Book of Hours. Manuscript on vellum, northern France, 1450-1475. Courtesy of Special Collections Department, Northwestern University Library.
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