NICHOLAS D. CHABRAJA CENTER FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES

Global Exchanges

International Doctoral Workshops and Exchanges

CHS organizes international workshops and exchanges. Competitively selected NU graduate students across subfields of the History Department meet with their peers in or from other parts of  the world, network, compare notes on the state of the profession, and engage in discussions of their research during an intensive workshop, symposium or conference. The Center has organized workshops at peer institutions in Galway, Ireland; Munich, Germany; Cambridge, UK; Sestri Levante, Italy; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Prague, the Czech Republic; Trinity College Dublin; the American Academy in Rome; Warsaw, Poland, and Istanbul, Turkey. A group from Trinity College Dublin came to Evanston for a workshop in 2010. In 2013 an agreement with the Institute of Historical Research in London resulted in an exchange between paired doctoral students from NU and British universities, with a trip for 7 NU students to London during Spring break, and a weeklong stay of their British counterparts in Evanston taking part in Center activities. Between 2015 and 2019 CCHS had ongoing global exchanges with the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), suspended in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic. The exchange with QMUL was resumed in 2022-23.

2024-25

We are organizing a trip to London for Spring Break, with a group of graduate students and faculty participating in the usual exchange, while two students will take part in a new QMUL program, titled "Widening Histories." 

2023-24

CCHS hosted a group of graduate students and faculty from QMUL in Evanston in late April/early May 2024.

2022-23 Global Graduate Exchange with QMUL

In 2022-23 we resumed our global graduate exchange with the School of History at QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY of LONDON (QMUL). A group of six History grads (with Professor Jonathon Glassman and Asst. Direcor Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch) took part in a workshop at QMUL during Spring break in March 2023.

2018-19 Global Graduate Exchanges with QMUL and HKU

• In Spring 2019 a group from QMUL and one from Hong Kong UNiversity came to Northwestern to take part in the April 12 conference on “Walls and Bridges: Migration and Its Histories” and other Center events.

2017-18

• In 2018 a group of three graduate students and Professor John Carroll traveled from the University of Hong Kong to Evanston to engage in CCHS activities and participate in our April 20 graduate conference on "Resistance in History."
• A group of NU History grads and faculty went to London the week of March 11-18 (Winter quarter Reading Week) met with QMUL peers and take part in the March 15 graduate conference on "Separation and Separatism." Yuri Doolan, Brian Forman, Andrea Rosengarten, and Guangshuo Yang presented papers at the conference, while Michelle Bezark and Andrea Christmas chaired panels at the conference and conducted research in London archives. Professor Sarah Maza, who accompanied the group, gave a talk at QMUL on historians' use of childhood in their work.
• A group traveled to Hong Kong for the annual HKU History Spring Symposium on Modern Asian History in early May: Yuri Doolan, Lois Hao, Norman Joshua, and Melody Tse Yin Shum, with Prof. Haydon Cherry.