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The March 5 LECTURE on the History of the Book (organized jointly with the University Library)

by Anthony GRAFTON (Princeton University)

"Humanists with Dirty Fingers: Renaissance Correctors and the Origins of Editing" was filmed and the webcast can be viewed here:

http://video.at.northwestern.edu/2012/03-14_grafton/03-14-2012_GraftonLecture_030612-hi.mov

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 "Colony and Camp: Retracing Their Political Genealogies"

John DOWER (MIT)—Thursday, April 12"Rethinking the Cultures of War"

Gail HERSHATTER (UC Santa Cruz)—Thursday, April 26 in the Guild Lounge of Scott Hall "The Girl Who Burned the Banknotes: Gender, Memory, and Rural China's Collective Past"

Edhem ELDEM (Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey)—Tuesday, May 15—Note change of date!

"An Ottoman History of Archaeology in the Long Nineteenth Century"

CCHS International Doctoral Workshop

in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome

and under the auspices of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award on “Agency, Allegiance, and Resistance” in Rome, Italy (week of May 1-5) with Professors Edward Muir and T.H. Breen

For more informations, see Conferences.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Conference convened by CCHS Fellow Teri Chettiar on “Histories of the Family”

Friday, June 1 

from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Leopold Room (Harris Hall 108)

1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston campus

FALL 2012

FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC

William CRONON (University of Wisconsin at Madison) lecture

"The Portage: How to Read a Landscape"

Thursday, October 18, 2012 from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

—reception to follow

Lunch lecture for the NU History Dept. and invited guests in Harris 108 from 12:15 to 2 p.m.(a catered lunch is served):

Caroline BYNUM (Institute for Advanced Study)—lunch lecture

Topic tbd

Wed., Nov. 28, 2012

WINTER 2013 events

FREE & OPEN to the PUBLIC

Panel discussion by NU faculty—topic tbd

Date and time tbd

FREE & OPEN to the PUBLIC

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

Christopher REED (Ohio State University)

Topic tbd          

Monday, March 11, 2013 at 4 p.m. in the Leopold Room (108) of Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston

Book launch reception for History Dept. and invited guests—date tbd

from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Harris 108 

SPRING 2013

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

Beth MORETON (University of Georgia)—lunch lecture

Topic tbd

Monday, April 8, 2013

Elliott WEST (University of Arkansas)—lunch lecture

Topic tbd

Monday, May 20, 2013

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

PAST WINTER 2012 EVENTS:

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.

in the 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)

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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.

in the Leopold Room (Haris 108)

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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 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

in the Leopold Room (108) of Harris Hall,

1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston

For program, click HERE

  For Quentin SKINNER lecture       WEBCASTS--click here

      Fall 2011 lectures on

"A Genealogy of Freedom”

                   and

  “A Genealogy of the State”

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