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  Fall lecture on "A Genealogy of Freedom”

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  Fall lecture on “A Genealogy of the State”

 

 

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WINTER 2012

Special Event! FREE & OPEN to the PUBLIC

Nicholas CANNY (Director of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at National University of Ireland, Galway and President of the Royal Irish Academy)

 

“Catholic or Protestant Atlantic? How Confessional Divisions Influenced Writing on the Natural History of the Atlantic World”

              Monday, January 30 from 4 to 5 :30 p.m.

              Leopold Room (Harris 108)

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FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC:

 

Panel discussion by NU faculty on the topic:

"Is history fiction by another name?"

with Dyan ELLIOTT (History), Carl SMITH (English and History)

and Robert WALLACE (Classics)

Thursday, February 2

4 to 5:30 p.m. .

Leopold Room (Harris 108)

1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston

NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND TIME!        

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Lunch lecture for History Dept. and invited guests:

Thomas C. HOLT (University of Chicago)

"Reflections on Du Bois' 'Politics' of Culture"

Thursday, February 9  from 12:15 to 2 p.m.

Leopold Room (Haris 108)

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FREE & OPEN to the PUBLIC:

LECTURE on the History of the Book (organized jointly with the University Library)

Anthony GRAFTON (Princeton University)

"Humanists with Dirty Fingers: Renaissance Correctors and the Origins of Editing"

Monday, March 5 at 4 p.m. in the Leopold Room (108) of Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston

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SPRING 2012

Lunch lectures for the NU History Dept. and invited guests in the Leopold Room (Harris 108)--if not otherwise specified--from 12:15 to 2 p.m. (catered lunch served)

 

Ann STOLER (New School for Social Research, NYC)—Thursday, April 5

John DOWER (MIT)—Thursday, April 12

 

Gail HERSHATTER (UC Santa Cruz)—Thursday, April 26 in the Guild Lounge of Scott Hall

Edhem ELDEM (Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey)—Tuesday, May 15

                                                                                                 Note change of date!

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For details of the International Doctoral Workshops and CCHS conferences, please go to our CONFERENCES page.

CCHS International Doctoral Workshop in conjunction with Charles University on "The Politics of Memory" in Prague, the Czech Republic (September 12-14, 2011)

with Prof. Benjamin FROMMER

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CCHS International Doctoral Workshop in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin on "Violence and Social Change" in Dublin, Ireland

(week of Oct. 24-29) with Professors T.H. Breen and Scott Sowerby

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FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC

Conference convened by CCHS Fellow Peter Thilly on“Crime and the Modern World”

Friday, March 9  from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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CCHS International Doctoral Workshop in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome on " “Agency, Allegiance, and Resistance in Rome, Italy (week of May 1-5) with Professors Edward Muir and T.H. Breen

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Conference convened by CCHS Fellow Teri Chettiar on “Histories of the Family”—FREE and OPEN to the public—Friday, June 1 

from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 

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