CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

CHS co-sponsors conferences on appropriate topics. Anyone interested in presenting a proposal should contact the director. In 2007-2008 CHS co-sponsored two conferences:

"1968/2008: The Aesthetics of Engagement" (June 6, 2008) and

"From Villas Miseria to Colonias Populares: Latin America's Informal Cities in Comparative Perspective" (June 13, 2008).

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In 2008-2009 CHS is inaugurating a new program of

INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOPS

with one in Ireland in the Fall and one in Germany in the Spring.

A small group of History graduate students from NU will meet their peers in other parts of the world, network, compare notes on the state of the profession, and engage in discussions of their research.

Attention History Graduate Students--CALL FOR PAPERS

First CHS International Workshop
Galway, Ireland
Sponsored jointly with the Moore Institute,
National University of Ireland Galway,
Ireland
http://www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute
http://www.textscontextscultures.ie
Monday, November 10, 2008
 
"Surprises in the Archives: The Discovery and Interpretation of Unanticipated Sources of Evidence"
 
The Center for Historical Studies solicits papers of 10-12 pages on this topic for its first international graduate student workshop. The papers will be posted online for all participants to read about 2 weeks before the workshop, while the oral presentations in Galway will be short abstracts of the paper (10 minutes long). A subcomittee of the CHS Advisory Committee will choose the successful applicants. We envision three graduate students (including CHS Graduate Fellow, Marygrace Tyrell) and CHS Director T.H. Breen taking part in the Galway workshop. There will be Irish graduate students from Galway, Cork, and possibly Dublin participating in the workshop, a total of eight students in all.
 
This workshop will allow NU students to meet and network with Irish academics, exploring vital issues of the profession in their two countries, while discussing the challenges and rewards of archival research. Travel to and from Galway, as well as food and lodgings, will be organized and covered by the CHS.
 
The proposed schedule:
Friday, Oct. 17, 2008--papers submitted
Wednesday, Oct. 22--papers posted online at Moore Institute
Saturday, Nov. 8--arrival from U.S. via Shannon;
Sunday, Nov. 9--opening lunch & afternoon historical tour of Galway;
Monday, Nov. 10
--morning workshop with student presentations
(8 students total at 15 minutes per presentation: 10 min talk, 5 min group feedback in two groups of four)
--afternoon lecture by Prof. Eunan O'Halpin, Trinity College, Dublin
http://tcdlocalportal.tcd.ie/pls/public/staff.detail?p_unit=histories_humanities&p_name=ohalpine
--group dinner for workshop participants
Tuesday, Nov. 11--return to U.S. via Shannon.

E-mail applications, consisting of a one-page paper proposal and a CV, should be sent to efp@northwestern.edu.
Deadline for applications: Monday, September 15, 2008.

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Past Conferences

 

The annual CHS Graduate Fellows organize one-day faculty/graduate student mini-conferences or workshops that are FREE and OPEN to the public.   

                                 

Second 2007-2008 workshop

RECONSTRUCTING SOCIAL HISTORY              

IN A POST-STRUCTURAL WORLD

Saturday, May 17

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)

1:00-2:30 Lunch (a light lunch will be served)

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 2007-2008 workshop

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

Saturday, April 5

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)

12:00 p.m. Lunch (a light lunch will be provided)

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