Co-sponsored Events
2025-2026
We start the Fall with a major co-sponsored conference, convened by Prof. Helen Tilley:
- “African Histories of Science and Material Culture,” Sept. 5-7, 2025: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nrDTFCBRWFKflIhS-7bdsYGKJSc7I5r8seFTScKwvPY/edit?usp=sharing
2024-2025
CCHS co-sponsorships included the following events and activities.
FALL 2024
- History Graduate Teaching Committee initiatives (all year)
- Northwestern Graduate Student Political Theory Conference
- Visit by Dylan Penningroth
- Korean book talk by Park Jeong-Mi
- John Bardes book talk
- NPEP speakers (Ben Frommer class).
WINTER 2025
- James Welker book talk (Japan: EARF)
SPRING 2025
- Economic History March conference on James Robinson’s book MS on the historical political economy of Africa
- OAH conference in Chicago (April 2025)
- Zachary Leader, April 9 talk on his book Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker, Harvard, 2025 (with English Department)
- Boyce Lecture April 24 (History)
- Shorefront symposium (May 2025)
- Gil Engelstein talk (April)
- African History conference convened by Prof. Helen Tilley (Sept. 2025)
2023-2024
In this year the Center co-sponsored a variety of events, including the following:
- The Global Eighteenth-Century Colloquium: year-long activities
- History Graduate Teaching Committee: year-long activities
- East Asia Research Forum: 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: Algeria, France, and the 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)
- "China and the West: Maps or Chaps?"—a conversation with Ken Pomeranz (U of Chicago) and Joel Mokyr (Northwestern), November 6, 2023 (with History)
- Louis Fishman (Brooklyn College) on "Israel, Palestine, and Turkey in the Post-Oct. 7th Reality: A Historical Look Towards 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)
- Graduate panel on CCHS summer fellowships and other opportunities for work in public history and public service, Feb. 14 (with the Center for Civic Engagement CCE at NU and History)
- The 23rd Annual International Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, March 21-23, 2024 (with English)
- "Nowruz: Celebrating New Year in Central Asia" on March 29, 2024 (with Slavic, REES, and the Kirgiz Community Center)
- "African History at Northwestern" conference, Spring 2024 (with History 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 Holocaust 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.
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: TThursday, 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.”