For PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES--click here.

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CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

• CHS co-sponsors conferences on appropriate topics. Anyone interested in presenting a proposal should contact the director.
• CHS has co-sponsored the conferences "1968/2008: The Aesthetics of Engagement" and "From Villas Miseria to Colonias Populares: Latin America's Informal Cities in Comparative Perspective" (both in June 2008); "Remembering Tiananmen: 20th Anniversary Symposium" (June 2009).

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• The CHS Graduate Fellows organize one or two CHS Faculty/Graduate Conference WORKSHOPS, which bring together panels of graduate student papers with an eminent keynote speaker from outside NU and faculty commentators to discuss important topics in history. These workshops are FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC. To view previous conferences--click here.

 

Conference workshop on “THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF BIOGRAPHY” with keynote speaker

Alice Kessler-Harris (Columbia University),

Friday, April 30

from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1800 Sherman Ave., suite 404, room 430

Convener: Fernando CARBAJAL, CHS Fellow

FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC

Conference workshop on “EMOTIONS AS HISTORY” with keynote speaker

Kenda Mutongi (Williams College),

Friday, May 14 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

at 1800 Sherman Ave., suite 404, room 430

Convener: Andreana PRICHARD, CHS Fellow

FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC

 

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• In 2008-2009 CHS inaugurated a new program of INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL WORKSHOPS.

          Four to five competitively selected NU History graduate students meet with their peers in other parts of   the world, network, compare notes on the state of the profession, and engage in discussions of their research during an intensive two-day workshop. The first two workshops were in Galway, Ireland (Fall 2008) and Munich, Germany (Spring 2009)--to learn more, click here.

CHS International Doctoral Workshop on GLOBAL HISTORY--in collaboration with Cambridge

University--in Cambridge, England

October 23-24, 2009---"The Impact of Global History on the Profession"

Participants selected to go to Cambridge:

• Genevieve CARLTON--"A Fifteenth-Century Global History";
• William CAVERT--"Toward the Fossil-Fueled City: Coal, Smoke, and Society in London 1550-1750";
• Darcy HEURING--"Reconciling the Global and the Local: Modern Colonial Jamaica in Global Perspective";
• Meghan ROBERTS--Thinking Globally But Writing Locally: Studying the French Enlightenment in the Age of Global History";
• Strother ROBERTS--"The Transnational 'Eskimo': A Case Study in Globalizing the Study of Race."

Global history has generated a great deal of excitement over the last decade.  Many historians have taken up the challenge and have written about relationships among peoples of different cultures separated by thousands of miles. 

The goal of this workshop is not to issue another call to do global history.  Rather, we ask historians who do not ordinarily think of themselves as working in this field how the recent enthusiasm for global history has affected their own scholarship.  Has global history suggested new questions, encouraged an interpretation of commercial, political, and religious history from different, often competing perspectives, or invited broader comparative projects?

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International Doctoral Workshop on TRANS-NATIONAL HISTORY—in collaboration with the University of Genoa—at Sestri Levante, Italy

April 14-15, 2010

CHS International Doctoral workshop on EMPIRE AND VIOLENCE—in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin—at NU in Evanston

May 4-7, 2010

Past CHS events

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