Beginnings: 2006-2010
2006-2007 Speakers
- Natalie Zemon Davis (University of Toronto and Professor Emerita, Princeton)--"Liberty and License: Three Women of Colonial Suriname" (9/29/06)
- Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Chicago)--"Revisionist Controversies in Soviet History and in the Discipline" (10/27/06)
- David Blackbourn (Harvard)--"The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany" (11/10/06)
- Susan Ferber ( History Editor, Oxford University Press)-- "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Academic Publishing... But Were Afraid to Ask" (11/07/06)
- Dorothy Ko (Barnard College)--"The Body of the Artisan: The Case of Gu Erniang (ca. 1662 - ca. 1774), a Female Inkstone Carver" (4/19/07)
- Zachary Lockman (NYU)--"Shifting Paradigms, Contentious Politics: Trends in the Historiography of the Modern Middle East" (5/8/07)
- Christopher Grasso (editor of The William and Mary Quartery) --"The 'Gauntlet' of Academic Publishing" (5/8/07)
- Nancy MacLean (NU)--"Neo-Confederacy vs. the New Deal: The Regional Romance of the Modern American Right" (5/17/07)
Fall 2007 Speakers
- Emilio H. Kourí (Director of the Katz Center for Mexican Studies and Professor of Latin American History, University of Chicago), "Imagining the Indigenous Community in Mexico" (September 27, 2007)
- Gyan Prakash (Director of the Davis Center for Historical Studies and Professor of History, Princeton University, "The Ruins of the Modern City: The Historical Representations of Bombay/Mumbai" (Oct. 16)
- Roy Ritchie (W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research and Education, The Huntington Library), "Making It in the Fellowship World"(October 23)
- Megan Vaughan (Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, Cambridge), "The History of Romantic Love in Africa" (November 1)
- Stephen Pitti (History and American Studies, Yale University),"The Passions of Cesar Chavez" (Nov. 15)
Winter 2008
- Celebration and book-signing of the new Leopold biography, Steven J. Harper's Straddling
Two Worlds: The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold (January 25, 2008) - Panel discussion with Laura Hein, Josef Barton, and Peter Hayes "What responsibilities do historians have as scholars to address the pressing concerns of contemporary society?" (Feb. 28)
Spring 2008
- Dylan PENNINGROTH (NU), "The Preacher's Wife: Law, Divorce, and Respectability among African Americans,
1865-1930" (April 10) - Christof MAUCH (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich), "A Tocquevillian Perspective: Teaching American History in German Universities" (April 22)
- Christopher BAYLY (Cambridge University), "Between Repression and Reform: The British Empire c. 1800-1960" (May 1)
- Laura de Mello e SOUZA (University of São Paulo), "Rethinking the Portuguese Seaborne Empire From the Perspective of Colonial Brazil"
(May 8) - Edward AYERS (University of Richmond), “Deep Contingency” (May 22, 2008)
Fall 2008
- Lunchlectures for the NU History Dept. and invited guests in the Lake Room, Norris Center (Rm. 203)—unless otherwise stated—from 12:15 to 2 p.m.( catered lunch served)
- Glenda GILMORE (Yale University), "The Nazis and Dixie: An Exercise in International Comparative History" (Oct. 2, 2008)
- David Levering LEWIS (NYU), "On Triangulating Seneca Falls, the Niagara Movement, and Reverend Wright: America in the Obama Era" (Oct. 30)
- Patricia LIMERICK (University of Colorado), “A Ditch in Time: The City, the West, and Water” (Nov. 6)
Winter 2009
- Roundtable discussion by participants in the First CHS International Doctoral Workshop (Galway, Ireland, Nov. 2008) at 1800 Sherman Ave., suite 404, Rm. 430—for for the NU History Dept. and invited guests—light refreshments served
- Walter WOODWARD (State Historian of Connnecticut / University of Connecticut), "Shaping the People's History of America: Opportunities and Needs in the Field of Public History" (Feb. 12)
- "What is the Future of History?Panel discussion with Rajeev Kinra, Kate Masur, and Amy Stanley of the NU History Department (Feb. 26) in Hardin Hall--open to the public
Spring 2009
- CHS Distinguished Resident ScholarJohn MORRILL (Cambridge University), “Living with Revolution: Rethinking 17th-Century Britain and Ireland”
- Part 1—What is wrong with what we think we know about seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland?—Thursday, April 16 (Lake Room, Norris Center)
- Part 2—A very British revolution—Tuesday, April 21 (note location—Guild Lounge)
- Part 3—Some consequences—Thursday, April 23 (Lake Room, Norris Center)
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SPRING 2009 faculty/graduate student conference on "Manifesting Madness" with Erik MIDELFORT (U. of Virginia)—convener: Anne Koenig (FRIDAY, April 24—FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC
- Karen WIGEN (Stanford University), "Modern State, Ancient Map: Toward a Geo-History of Japan's Meiji Restoration" (April 3)
- Jorge FLORES (Brown University),“Empires and Cultural Brokers: The Social World of Native Interpreters in Imperial Goa” (May 7)
- Sarah MAZA (NU), “Reading Scandal Historically: The Violette Nozière Case, Paris 1933” (May 21)
Fall 2009
CHS/University Library PUBLIC LECTURE
Robert DARNTON (Harvard University) on “Old Books and E- Books” (October 6 at 4:30 p.m. in Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark St.)
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FALL CHS lunch lectures for the NU History Dept. and invited guests in Norris University Center, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston—from 12:15 to 2 p.m. (a catered lunch is served)
Annette GORDON-REED (New York Law School)--"The Hemingses of Monticello: Writing the Life of an Enslaved Family" (Oct. 1, 2009)
{ International Doctoral Workshop on global history—in collaboration with Cambridge University—at Cambridge, England, Oct. 23 and 24, 2009}
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Peter BROWN (Princeton University)--"Work, Alms and the Holy Poor between Syria and Egypt: A Parting of the Ways in Early Christian Monasticism" (Nov. 5, 2009)
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John A. LYNN (NU)--"Surrender in European Warfare: Honor, Defeat, and Acquiescence" (Nov. 19)
Winter 2010
Lunch lectures for the NU History Dept. and invited guests in Norris University Center, Northwestern Room (Norris 202) unless otherwise stated—from 12:15 to 2 p.m.(catered lunch served)
OLIVIA MAHONEY (Chicago History Museum)--“History Museums: Career Opportunities and Challenges” (January 28, 2010)
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Deborah COHEN (Brown University)--"Other People's Bastards: Adoption and Illegitimacy in Britain, 1900-1960" (February 4)
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Susan FERBER (Oxford University Press)--"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Academic Publishing (But Were Afraid to Ask)" (Feb. 11 in Rm. 430, suite 404, 1800 Sherman Ave.)
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William SEWELL (emeritus, U of Chicago)--"Capitalism and Social Hierarchy in Eighteenth-Century France" (March 4)
Spring 2010
{CHS International Doctoral Workshop on trans-national history—in collaboration with the University of Genoa—at Sestri Levante, Italy, April 14-15}
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)
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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)
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SPRING lunch lectures for the NU History Dept. and invited guests in Norris University Center, Northwestern Room (Norris 202)—from 12:15 to 2 p.m.(catered lunch served)
Jane OHLMEYER (Trinity College Dublin)--"Empire and Violence: Ireland in 1641" (May 6)--in conjunction with the CCHS International Doctoral Workshop on Empire and Violence--in Hardin Hall at Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark St.
{CHS International Doctoral Workshop on empire and violence—in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin—at NU, May 4-7}
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Brodwyn FISCHER (NU)--"The Politics of Racial Silence in Urban Brazil" (June 3)