Co-sponsored Events
2023-2024
This yesr the Center is co-sponsoring a variety of events, such as
- The Global Eighteenth-Century Colloquium year-long activities
- History Graduate Teaching Committee year-long activities
- U of London conference on Black British History, Sept. 2023
- The Frank Safford Sympoisum, Oct. 6, 2023 (with History)
- Megan Brown (Swarthmore College), talk on "THe Seventh Member State: Alf\geria, France, and thre European Community", Oct. 10, 2023 (with History)
- Mostafa Minawi (Cornell U), book talk on Losing Istanbul, October 11, 2023 (with Keyman Modern Turkish Studies
- Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) in conversation about her book Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism with historians Kathleen Belew, Deborah Cohen, Daniel Greene, and Lauren Stokes, October 19, 2023 (with History)
- Louis Fishman (Brooklyn College) on "Israel, Palestine, and Turkey in the Post-Oct. 7th Reality: A Historical Look Toeards the Future," November 8, 2023 (with Keyman Modern Turkish Studies)
- Michael Zakim (Tel Aviv U), lecture on "The Liberal Invention of Photography," November 9, 2023 (with History)
- AHA conference, January 4-7, 2024
- Tanisha Ford (CUNY), book talk on Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Galmour, Money and Power behind the Civil Rights Movement, January 31, 2024 (with Black Studies)
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Public screening of Kira Akerman's documentary Hollow Tree, Spring 2024
- "African History at Northwestern" conference, Spring 2024 (with Histrory and PAS)
2022-2023
CCHS co-sponsorships included the following:
- The Global Eighteenth-Century Colloquium (GEEC) events
- The British Studies Cluster events
- Fall workshop on "Karl Marx in America" by Andrew Hartman (October 28)
- Myers Symposium (Northwestern and Arizona State U)—"Never Not in Crisis" (Oct. 26-28)
- Talk by Ukrainian historian Oleksandr Mikhed (Nov. 2022)
- Winter lecture by David Ownby (U of Montreal) on China today
- Spring film screening of "Crossings" and panel (Asian Studies event)
- One Book One Northwestern events around the screening of the film "Descendant" (April 27-28, 2023)
2021-2022
The CCHS co-sponsored:
- The Global Eighteenth-Century Colloquium (GEEC)
- The Long Nineteenth-Century Colloquium (LNCC)
- Holocaust Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU) Oct. 29-30 Workshop for New Research in Holcaust Studies: Lessons and Legacies
- In-person screenings of “Raise the Umbrellas” and “We Have Boots”, documentaries by the award-winning HK/NY filmmaker and NU Screen Cultures Ph.D. (2014) Evans CHAN on grassroots political activism in Hong Kong, 2014-2020 (Feb.2022)
- In-person talk by Dr. Andrii Kohut (Director of the SBU Archive in Kiyiv, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stanford) on KGB Archives in Ukraine: Collections, Features, and Access—Wednesday, February 23, 2022 from 12:15 to 2 p.m., 555 Clark St., Evanston campus
- Kira Thurman (U of Michigan) talk on her recently published book, Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms—Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 4 p.m.
2020-2021
During the pandemic the CCHS co-sponsored History Department Zoom events for Northwestern historians and invited guests under the rubric Historians at Home or H@H. For other co-sponsorships, please scroll down.
I. HISTORIANS @ HOME
E-mail reminders will contain the Zoom link. If not, please e-mail chs@northwestern.edu for the link. These events are being RECORDED and you will be able to view them on our MULTIMEDIA page.
Winter 2021
- For the History Department: Thursday, January 14, 2020, 2-4 p.m.—Talk on “Values, Imagination, and Scholarship: Building the Expansive and Inclusive Humanities PhD” with Dr. Katina Rogers + workshop with NCA's Elysse Longiotti (organized by the HGSO)
- Thursday, January 21, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.—Roundtable on “The Politics of Holocaust Memory” with Sarah Cushman, Stefan Ionescu, and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
- For the History Department: Monday, January 25 from 12:30 to 2 p.m.—Roundtable on "Publishing Your Academic Book" with Caitlin Fitz, Priya Nelson, Senior Editor for History, Princeton University Press, Brandon Proia, Senior Editor, University of North Carolina Press, and Stephen Wesley, Editor, Columbia University Press
- For the History Department: Thursday, February 18 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. —Roundtable on “Public History: CCHS Work Opportunities” with Emiliano Aguilar, Anisha Bhat, Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch, Beth Healey, and Robin Pokorski
- Free and open to PUBLIC: Thursday, February 25 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. —CCHS webinar with guest speaker Samuel MOYN (Yale University) and Daniel Immerwahr on “The Coming of Humane War”
Fall 2020
- Thursday, September 10 at 1 p.m.—graduate panel on “Zoom Teaching Tips” with top graduate teachers from the Spring—Caitlin Monroe, Mikala Stokes, and Robin Pokorski.
- CANCELED: Thursday, October 15 from 1 p.m.to 2 p.m.—Roundtable on “How to Rig an Election: a Historian’s Guide” featuring Geraldo Cadava, Gideon Cohn-Postar and Paul Gillingham (Zoom meeting)
- Thursday, October 29 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.—Roundtable on "Pandemics Past and Present" with Joel Mokyr, Edward Muir and Helen Tilley (Zoom meeting)
- Tuesday, November 10 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. —Roundtable on "Global Perspectives on Policing and Justice" with Lina Britto, Peter Carroll and Sean Hanretta (Zoom meeting)
- For the History Department (Zoom meeting): Wednesday, Nov. 11 from 1 to 2 p.m.—“Government Jobs for Historians”: Info Session with Michael McCoyer (Ph.D., Northwestern, 2007), State Department Office of the Historian
- For the History Department (Zoom meeting): Tuesday, November 17 at 1 p.m. faculty work-in-progress WORKSHOP with Tessie LIU on “The Alchemy of Merit: Race-Thinking and Citizenship in the French and Haitian Revolutions.” Discussant: Kate Masur
- Thursday, November 19 at 1 p.m.—a CCHS/HEFNU event—Erin McGLOTHLIN (Washington University, St. Louis)—a talk on "Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes: The Ethics of Perpetrator Representation.”