PAST EVENTS

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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:

• 
  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)

• Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Chicago)

• Frederick Cooper (NYU)

• David Blackbourn (Harvard)

• Susan Ferber ( History Editor,

           Oxford University Press)

Book of Hours. Manuscript on vellum,northern France, 1450-1475. Courtesy of Special Collections Department, Northwestern University Library.

Professors Kinra, Masur, and

Stanley ponder the Future of History.

Professor John Morrill, CHS Director

T.H. Breen (standing) and President

Henry Bienen before the first lecture

in the series.

Prof. Wigen

Faculty/Grad Conference Workshop

"Manifesting Madness: Historical Interpretations of the Exceptional, the Marginal, and the 'Normal' " 

FRIDAY, April 24, 2009

For more, see Conferences of the Center for Historical Studies

Professor Sarah Maza responds to a question after her lecture.

French dessert (fruit-filled crepes)

to complement Maza's lecture on a Parisian crime scandal.

International Doctoral workshop

on "Contesting Narratives in a Transatlantic and American Context"

Munich, Germany

May 27-29, 2009

Two SPRING 2008 Saturday faculty/graduate student WORKSHOPS--the first on Environmental History (April 5) and the second on Social History (May 17)--FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC.

See Conferences for more details.

NU alumnus and lecturer Steven J.

Harper, speaking at a reception and 

book-signing of his Leopold biography, Straddling Two Worlds: The Jewish-American Journey of Professor  Richard W. Leopold  (January 25, 2008).

Prof. Leopold's portrait hangs in the background.

Map of Africa. "Africa. Nova Tabula. Auct. Hen. Hondius." Amsterdam, Jan Janssen, 1854. Courtesy of Map Collections,NU University Library.