Conferences/Symposia
I. CCHS History faculty conferences
2023-2024
In 2023-24 the Center is organizing a faculty CONFERENCE on "The Stories in Our Histories: Historians Confront Themselves” (convened by Prof. Leslie HARRIS)—May 9-10.
- Thursday, May 9 at 4 p.m. Conference keynote conversation
- Friday, May 10—all-day conference
II. CCHS Graduate Conferences
The T.H. Breen Graduate Fellows of the Center have organized one or two one-day conferences bringing 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.
2022-2023
“Commercial Networks: Connections, Conflicts, Exchanges”
conference convened by Claire ARNOLD—Friday, June 2, 2023.
Keynote speaker: Professor Sarah PEARSALL (Johns Hopkins U), author of the award-winning Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century (2008) and Polygamy: An Early American History (2019). External commentator: Professor Peter THILLY (U of Mississippi), a historian of China and the opium trade.
2021-2022
- “Global Perspectives on the Prison and Systems of Punishment ” with Prof. Clare ANDERSON (U of Leicester, UK) as keynote speaker, convened by Chernoh BAH—Friday, April 8, 2022
- “When They Became Pests: Human and Nonhuman Species as Vermin in History” with Prof. Susan JONES (University of Minnesota) as keynote speaker, convened by Guangshuo YANG—Friday, April 29, 2022.
2020-2021 conferences (via Zoom) in Spring 2021
- "History of the Self"—Friday, April 16, convened by T.H. Breen Graduate Fellow Ruby DAILY
- "The End of the World as They Knew It: Crisis and Collapse in History"—Friday, May 14, convened by T.H. Breen Graduate Fellow Sian OLSON DOWIS
2019-2020 Conferences: cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic
- “The Politics of Progress: Growth in and throughout History”—convened by T.H. Breen Graduate Fellow Sean HARVEY—Friday, May 1, 2020 with keynote speaker Lily GEISMER (Claremont McKenna College)
- “All in a Day’s Work: Labor in History”—convened by T.H. Breen Graduate Fellow Laura McCOY—Friday, May 22, 2020 with keynote speaker April HAYNES (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
III. CCHS Global Graduate exchanges: conferences and symposia
See Global Graduate Exchanges.
IV. Co-sponsored Conferences
CCHS supports conferences at Northwestern University on appropriate topics. Anyone interested in presenting a proposal should contact the director. This year, for instance, the Center is co-sponsoring The Frank Safford Symposium on October 6, 2023.