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CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS: co-sponsored conferences, CCHS conferences, and CCHS International Doctoral Workshops

• Co-sponsored conferences  

CCHS supports conferences at Northwestern University on appropriate topics. Anyone interested in presenting a proposal should contact the director.

CCHS has co-sponsored numerous conferences and workshops, including a major international conference on "The Middle East in the 1950s: Historical Perspectives--Israel, the Arab World, and the Great Powers (April 2010), the conference "Culture, Politics and the Dilemmas of African American Citizenship in the Antebellum U.S." (April 2010), the interdisciplinary conference on “Jews, Urban Space and Early Modernity” (November 2010), as well as "Working Sessions on Ancient Greek History and Political Theory" (April/May 2011); “A Beautiful Struggle: Transformative Black Studies in Shifting Political Landscapes—A Summit of Doctoral Programs” (2012); and the first annual graduate student conference of the Graduate Cluster in British Studies (2012).

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• CCHS Graduate CONFERENCES

The CCHS Graduate Fellows organize one or two one-day conferences 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

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Conferences convened by the CCHS Fellows

 

SPRING 2013 conference

Conference convened by Neal T. Dugre

“Oceans of History: Connecting Spaces of Contest and Exchange”

with keynote speaker David HANCOCK (University of Michigan), author of Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 and Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste

Friday, MAY 10 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

in the Leopold Room (108) of Harris Hall,

1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston

For full program, click here.

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WINTER 2013 conference

  Conference convened by Michael Martoccio

  “Cultures of Borrowing: Debt in History”

  Friday, MARCH 1 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

  in the Leopold Room (108) of Harris Hall,

  1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston

   CFP--click here

 

 

PROGRAM

10am-10:30: Breakfast for conference participants (including attendees)

10:30am: Welcome by CCHS Director, Professor Sarah MAZA

10:45-12:45: Morning Panel

Donald F. Johnson (NU)—Losing the Credit of Empire: Debt and Disruption in British-Occupied America, 1776-1782

Alexander Gourse (NU)—Starving the Beast: How Conservatives Learned to Love Deficits

Rebecca Marchiel (NU)—“Let’s Make the Market Work for Us”: How Community Activists Used Loans to Combat the Urban Crisis, 1975-1989

Chair and Commentator: Amy STANLEY (NU), author of Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan

1pm-2pm: Lunch (catered)

2pm-4pm: Afternoon Panel

Michael Martoccio (NU)—Buying Power: The Market for States in Early Modern Europe

José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez (NU)—Institutional Change and Institutional Inertia: Auctions and Quotas and the Illiquidity of Water

Marlous van Waijenburg (NU)—Exogenous or Endogenous Colonial Institutions? Lessons from a comparison of tax systems in British and French Africa, 1880-1940

Chair and Commentator: Jeremy BASKES (Ohio Wesleyan University), author of Indians, Merchants and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish Indian Economic Relations in Late Colonial Oaxaca, Mexico 1750-1821

4:15-5:30 pm David STASAVAGE (New York University), author of States of Credit: Size, Power and the Development of European Polities

Keynote Address: "The Role of Debt in Europe's Rise" 

Reception to follow.

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• CCHS INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL WORKSHOPS

In 2008-2009 CHS inaugurated a new program of international workshops. Competitively selected NU graduate students of the HISTORY Department meet with their peers in or from 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. Our workshops were in Galway, Ireland (Fall 2008), Munich, Germany (Spring 2009) and Cambridge, UK (Fall 2009). Futuire workshops are planned for Italy, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Turkey, and India. We also schedule international workshops in Evanston with our international partners.

For more on PAST INTERNATIONAL WOKSHOPS, click here.

Participants  are encouraged to draw on their own research and to relate that work to the general theme.  Short papers by American and international participants are circulated in advance.  Each paper is assigned a specific commentator who will frame the conversation for the entire group during workshop discussion.
Each participant is also a commentator of another person's paper. These workshops are on topics of general interest to historians and open to scholars working in all subfields of history.

CCHS International Doctoral Workshops

  2012-2013

  Istanbul, Turkey

  in collaboration with Bogazici University, Istanbul

  on

  "Modernization and Social Change"

  April 16-17, 2013

  CFP--click here

Graduate Participants:

• Juri BOTTURA—Revisiting Brazil’s “Conservative Modernization:”  Reformist Ruralism and the Fate of the Brazilian Countryside
• Mneesha GELLMAN (Political Science)—The Politics of Multiculturalism in Turkey: An Evolution of Rights
• Alex HOBSON—Confronting the Failures of “Modernization:” Two International Conferences and the Invention of Reagan’s War Against Terrorism, 1979-1986
• Jamie HOLEMAN—Photography on Trial: Modern Technology and Social Change in 1850s-60s France
• Sam KLING—Making a Modern City to Order: The Failure of Physical Planning and the Rise of Welfare Capitalism in Gary, 1906-1919
• Nicholas SMITH—The modern history of the Somali pirates: piracy and colonialism in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

Faculty participants:  Sarah Maza, Joel Mokyr, Ken Alder, and Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch.

 

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2013-2014

Warsaw, Poland

in collaboration with the University of Warsaw

on "Borderlands"

in June 2014.

 

Past CHS events