2013-2017 Events
Fall 2013
Lunch lectures from 12:15 to 1:50 p.m. (a catered lunch is served)
Richard White (Stanford University)--"The Spatial Turn" (Oct. 2)
Susan Pedersen (Columbia University)--"The League of Nations and the End of Empire" (Nov. 6)
Work-in-Progress History faculty workshops (12:30 to 1:50 p.m. with light catered lunch)
Melissa MACAULEY--"Entangled
Ji-Yeon YUH--"Contesting Nationalisms" (Dec. 4, 2013)
Winter 2014
NU faculty panel discussion (with catered lunch):
"Sex, Race, and Religion in the Classroom: Teaching Controversial Histories" with Martha
Thursday, January 16 at 12:30 p.m.
Lunch lecture from 12:15 to 1:50 p.m. (a catered lunch is served)
Fred Donner (University of Chicago)--"The Debate over Islam's Origins and an Enigmatic Papyrus Find" (Feb 11)
Lecture on the History of the Book (organized jointly with the University Library )
Sven BIRKERTS (Bennington College)--"From Tablet to
Book launch reception for History Department, prospective graduate students, and invited guests: Friday, March 7 at 4 p.m.
Fall 2014
Public lecture in collaboration with the Classical Receptions Workshop / Kaplan Institute of the Humanities
Walter SCHEIDEL (Stanford University)
“The Long Reach of Antiquity: China, Rome, and Modernity”
Thursday, Oct. 9,
Lunch lectures from 12:15 to 1:50 p.m. (a catered lunch is served):
J.R. McNeill (Georgetown University)
Thursday, October 16, 2014)
“Mosquitoes and Revolutions: The Greater Caribbean, 1776 to 1898”
Francesca TRIVELLATO (Yale University)
Thursday, November 6
“Commerce and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe
"45 Years as a Holocaust Historian"
Work-in-Progress History faculty workshops (with light catered lunch) convened by Daniel Immerwahr:
Amy Stanley--"Maidservants' Tales: Space, Work and Agency in Early Modern Eurasia" (October 8, 2014)
Dylan Penningroth--"Jim Crow Civil Rights" (November 24, 2014)
Winter 2015
Lunch lecture from 12:15 to 1:50 p.m. (a catered lunch is served):
Frederick HOXIE (U of Illinois)--Thursday, January 15, 2015
"Where Do Indians Fit? Academic Debate and Indigenous Peoples"
Nicholas Chabraja speaking at the January dinner hosted by University President Morton Schapiro to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Center's naming and the new gift to the university from Nicholas and Eleanor Chabraja of $5.6 million, part of which will support new Center initiatives
Lecture organized jointly with the History Department:
Colin
“Writing the History of a Day That Mattered: 9 Thermidor Year II”
Thursday, February 5,
History of the Book lecture organized jointly with the University Library:
Mary KELLEY (University of Michigan)
"'Talents Committed to Your Care:' Reading and Writing Antislavery in Antebellum America"
Monday, February 23,
Spring 2015
CCHS/CAAH Distinguished lecture on African American History
Vincent
"Designing Histories of Slavery for the Database Age"
Thursday, April 2 at 4:30 p.m. (reception to follow)
Note venue: Guild Lounge, Scott Hall, 601 University Pl.
Lunch lecture from 12:15 to 1:50 p.m. (a catered lunch is served):
Carol
“After the Shipwreck: New Horizons in History-Writing
Work-in-Progress History faculty workshops (with light catered lunch) convened by Daniel Immerwahr:
John Bushnell--"The Outer Limits of Female Marriage Aversion" (April 20)
Peter Hayes--"Escalation: Why Murder?" from the forthcoming book, Holocaust Questions and Answers (May 18, 2015)
Lunch lecture from 12:15 to 1:50 p.m. (a catered lunch is served):
Andrew CAYTON (Miami University in Ohio)--"Family and Empire in the Early Modern Atlantic" (May 7)
Conference convened by Keith Rathbone on “Parks and Recreation: Histories of Leisure” on Friday, May 8 from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. in the Leopold Room, 108 Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston (small reception 4:45 to 5:30 p.m. in the Center, Harris Hall lower level L27)
For more information, please see CONFERENCES.
Fall 2015
CCHS Lunch Lecture Series from 12:15 to 1:50 p.m. (with catered lunch):
Walter
Jointly with the Holocaust Educational Foundation (HEF):
Jonathan PETROPOULOS (Claremont McKenna College), "Culture, Barbarism, and Justice: Recent Developments Concerning Nazi Art Looting and Postwar Restitution" (Tuesday, Oct. 27)
Geoffrey
History faculty work-in-progress workshops convened by Keith Woodhouse (lunch at 12 noon, session at 12:30 p.m. in Harris 108)
Joel MOKYR, “A Culture of Growth: Origins of the Modern Economy” (Oct. 14, 2015)
Davis SCHOENBRUN, “Conceiving Ancient Groups: Pythons, Canoes, and Shifting the Politics of a Great Lake’s Littoral Past, Northern Lake Victoria, ca. 800 to 1200 CE (Nov. 20, 2015)
Winter 2016
CCHS Lunch Lecture Series from 12:15 to 1:50 p.m. (with catered lunch):
Kenneth POMERANZ (U of Chicago), “How Did China Get so Big? Redefining the Realm and its
CCHS/ University Library lecture on the History of the Book
Janice RADWAY (NU), “Girl Zines, the 1990s, and the Challenge of Historical Narration--Thursday, March 3 at 4:30 p.m. (reception to follow) in the McCormick Tribune Center Forum, 1870 Campus Drive, Evanston--note venue!
CCHS/CAAH Distinguished lecture on African American History
Donna MURCH (Rutgers University), "Crack in Los Angeles: Policing the Crisis and the War on Drugs"--Thursday, March 10 at 4:30 p.m. (reception to follow)
Spring 2016
Joint CCHS/History lecture (with lunch)
Alexandra WALSHAM (Cambridge University), "'The Fanatique Rage of the Late Times': Iconoclasm, Reputation
Civil Wars"--Thursday, March 31 from 12 noon to 2 p.m.
2015-2016 CONFERENCES
Conference convened by Nathaniel MATHEWS on “The Power of the Past
Friday, April 1,
Conference convened by Alexandra LINDGREN-GIBSON on “Intimate Histories: Intersections between the Global and the Personal”
Friday, April 15, 2016 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with keynote speaker Mary Lou ROBERTS (University of Wisconsin), author of D-Day through French Eyes: Memoirs of Normandy 1944, (Chicago, 2014), What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American G.I. in World War Two France, 1944-1946, (Chicago, 2013), Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin de Siècle France, (Chicago, 2002), and Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927 (Chicago, 1994).
KEYNOTE lecture at CONFERENCE organized by T. H. Breen Graduate Fellow Nathaniel Mathews on “Tradition, Myth
Friday, April 1, from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. with
CCHS Lunch Lecture Series from 12:15 to 1:50 p.m. (with catered lunch):
Barbara WEINSTEIN (New York University), topic TBA--Thursday, April 14
KEYNOTE lecture at CONFERENCE organized by T. H. Breen Graduate Fellow Alexandtra Lindgren-Gibson on “Intimate Histories: Intersections between the Global and the Personal"--keynote by Mary Lou Roberts (University of Wisconsin), author of D-Day through French Eyes: Memoirs of Normandy 1944, (Chicago, 2014), What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American G.I. in World War Two France, 1944-1946, (Chicago, 2013), Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin de Siècle France, (Chicago, 2002), and Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927 (Chicago, 1994)
Friday, April 15, from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. with
CCHS Lunch Lecture Series from 12:15 to 1:50 p.m. (with catered lunch):
Michael COOK (Princeton University)--"Was the Rise of Islam a Black Swan Event?"--Tuesday, May 10
FALL 2016
In collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEF)
Paul JASKOT (DePaul University), author of The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right (2012)
Tuesday, September 27--lunch lecture (12:15 to 1:50 p.m.)
“A Plan, A Testimony, and a Digital Map: Architecture and the Spaces of the Holocaust
History Faculty work-in-progress workshops convened by Daniel Immerwahr
Kate MASUR work-in-progress WORKSHOP—"Free Black Sailors, Personal Liberty, and the Antebellum Constitutional Order"
Monday, October 10 (catered light lunch at 12 noon, discussion of pre-circulated text at 12:30 p.m.)
Tara ZAHRA (U of Chicago), author of The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II (2011)
Tuesday, October 18–lunch lecture (12:15 to 1:50 p.m.)
“The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
Louis HYMAN (Cornell University), author of Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (2011)
Thursday, October 20--lunch lecture (12:15 to 1:50 p.m.)
"From Personal Credit to Market Debt: How Loans Became Commodities
Thursday, November 3–lunch lecture (12:15 to 1:50 p.m.)
“ISIL and the Global Past: A Deep History of the Caliphate”
WINTER 2017
"The Republic of Letters and the Empire of Pictures: John Singleton Copley and the Problem of Provincialism"
Thursday, January 12–lunch lecture (12:15 to 1:50 p.m.)--rescheduled for November 9.
Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished lecture on African American History
David
"Writing the Life of Frederick Douglass--Why and Why Now? The Post Civil War Years"
Thursday, February 16 at 4:30 p.m. (lecture with
Joint CCHS/University Library Lecture on the History of the Book:
ERIC SLAUTER (U of Chicago), author of The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution (2009)
"Walden's Carbon Footprint: People, Plants, Animals, and Machines in the Making of an American Classic"
Tuesday, February 21 at 4:30 p.m. (lecture with
SPRING 2017
Anand YANG (University of Washington), author of Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State Bihar, 1765-1947 (1998)—Tuesday, April 4—lunch lecture (12:15 to 1:50 p.m.)
“Empire of Convicts: Indian Bandwars in Indian Ocean Penal Colonies in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"
For History faculty and graduate students—faculty work-in-progress workshop
Laura HEIN—“Post-Fascist Political Culture in Japan”
Monday, April 10 (catered light lunch at noon, discussion of pre-circulated text at 12:30 p.m.)
Graduate CONFERENCE: “THE POPULAR AND/IN HISTORY”
Friday, April 14 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (convened by Breen Fellow Mariah Hepworth)
Keynote speaker: T.J. Jackson Lears (Rutgers U), author of Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (2009)
Keynote lecture: "The Wild Card: Animal Spirits and the Calculating Self"
- Global Graduate Exchange: graduate students from Queen Mary University London and from Hong Kong University take part in this conference as part of the CCHS global
graduate exchanges .
The GRAY BOYCE Memorial lecture:
Brian CATLOS (University of Colorado), author of The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300 (2004)—Wednesday, April 26 at 4:30 p.m.
“Foreigners in their Own Lands: The Muslims of Medieval Europe”
Cynthia RADDING (UNC), author of Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic (2005)—Thursday, May 11—lunch lecture (12:15 to 1:50 p.m.)—note change of date!
“Indigenous Landscapes and Contested Boundaries: Reading Nature into Colonial Archives”
- Global Graduate Exchange (for History graduate students): Hong Kong University History Department Spring Symposium, May 11
For History faculty
Michael ALLEN—“The Arrogance of Power”
Monday, May 15 (catered light lunch at noon, discussion of pre-circulated text at 12:30 p.m.)
Graduate CONFERENCE: “PUNISHMENT AND ITS DISCONTENTS”
Friday, May 19 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (convened by Breen Fellow Matthew June)
Keynote speaker: Heather Ann Thompson, author of Speaking Out: Activism and Protest in the 1960s and 1970s (2010)
Keynote lecture: "Blood in the Water: Attica and Prisoner Rights Past and Present."