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FALL 2009 SPEAKERS  & EVENTS

Public lecture--rescheduled from March 2

CHS/University Library lecture on the History of the Book

• Robert DARNTON (Harvard University)

          "Old Books and E-Books"         

Tuesday, October 6 at 4:30 p.m. in Hardin Hall (Rebecca Crown            Center, 633 Clark St., Evanston)      

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

The new world of information seems to have left the old world of rare books far behind.  But anyone who has ventured into rare book rooms knows better than to subscribe to the assumption of undergraduates that all information is online, and anyone who has worked in archives knows that most information hasn’t even made it into books.  At the same time, no one would deny the enormous advantages offered by the Internet.  How can the new and the old means of access to knowledge be combined?  An attempt to answer that question takes the form of a literary tour de France on the eve of the French Revolution.  The message at the finish line: far from being enemies, old books and e-books should be allies, and their alliance can point the way toward modes of scholarly communication that will make the most of the new information technology.

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Lectures for the NU History Dept. and invited guests from 12:15 to 2 p.m. in Norris University Center (a catered lunch will be served)

• Annette GORDON-REED (New York Law School)

"The Hemingses of Monticello: Writing the Life of an Enslaved Family"

           Thursday, October 1 in the Wildcat Room (Norris 101)

• Peter BROWN (Princeton University)

"Work, Alms and the Holy Poor between Syria and Egypt:

A Parting of the Ways in Early Christian Monasticism"
          Thursday, November 5 in the Northwestern Room (Norris 202)

• John A. LYNN (NU)

“Surrender in European Warfare: Honor, Defeat, and Acquiescence"

          Thursday, November 19 in the Big Ten Room (Norris 104)

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WINTER 2010—lunch lectures for the NU History Dept. and invited guests—from 12:15 to 2 p.m. in the Northwestern Room (202) of Norris University Center unless otherwise stated (a catered lunch will be served)

• Olivia MAHONEY (Chief Curator, Chicago History Museum)

"History Museums:  Career Opportunities and Challenges" 

          Thursday, January 28

• Deborah COHEN (Brown University)

 "Other People's Bastards:  Adoption and Illegitimacy in Britain,        

          1900-1960"

          Thursday, February 4

• Susan FERBER (Oxford University Press)

"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Academic Publishing (But Were Afraid to Ask)"

           Thursday, February 11 in Rm. 430, suite 404, 1800 Sherman Ave.

• William SEWELL (emeritus, University of Chicago)

 "Capitalism and Social Hierarchy in Eighteenth-Century France"      

           Thursday, March 4

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SPRING  QUARTER events open to the public

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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SPRING 2010—lunch lectures for the NU History Dept. and invited guests—

from 12:15 to 2 p.m. in the Northwestern Room (202) of Norris University Center

(a catered lunch will be served)

• Jane OHLMEYER (Trinity College Dublin)

  Thursday, May 6

• Brodwyn FISCHER (NU)

           Thursday, June 3

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FUTURE SPEAKERS

• Quentin SKINNER (University of London)--date tba FALL 2011
  
  

Robert Darnton, Director of the University Library at Harvard, with NU Librarian Sarah Pritchard (right) and Sarah Maza (History), who introduced him before his lecture,

attended by about 120 people (see below)

Annette Gordon-Reed speaks about her book on Oct. 1

CHS International Doctoral workshop

on Global History—in collaboration with Cambridge University—in Cambridge, UK

Oct. 23-24, 2009

CHS International Doctoral workshop

on Trans-National History

—in collaboration with the University of Genoa—in Sestri Levante, Italy

April 14-15, 2010

CHS International Doctoral workshop

on Empire and Violence—in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin—at NU,

May 4-7

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