Multimedia
Welcome to our Multimedia site! Here you can watch recordings of ZOOM EVENTS taking place during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020-21—both CCHS events and the new History/CCHS series of roundtables for the History Department and invited guests, titled HISTORIANS @ HOME.
I. ZOOM CCHS Events
Lara PUTNAM (U of Pittsburgh), author of Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age (2013)
- Thursday, October 1 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.—Roundtable with NU historians Lina BRITTO, Paul GILLINGHAM, and Lauren STOKES, as well as special guest Bernard REILLY (former President of the Center for Research Libraries): “History in a Digital Age: Why Our Ethical and Evidentiary Paradigms Need to be Rebuilt, Fast” Watch at: https://youtu.be/HVaR-Lxgui4
Reading: Lara Putnam, “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast” https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/121/2/377/2581842
- Friday, October 2 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.—A conversation with Peter SLEVIN (Medill School of Journalism): “From the Women’s March to Black Lives Matter: Citizen Activism and the 2020 Campaign
Co-sponsored by the Medill School of Journalism. Watch at: https://youtu.be/K4YZBKnrFtQ
James MILLWARD (Georgetown University), author of The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (2013)- Thursday, October 22 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.—roundtable with Northwestern historians Melissa MACAULEY and Haydon CHERRY on "China as Polylith: It's Time for a New Paradigm in Chinese History": https://youtu.be/C7YjSM37CoM
- Friday, Oct. 23 from 1 p.m.to 2:30 p.m.—a conversation with Peter CARROLL (History) and William HURST (Political Science) on "The Crisis in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region": https://youtu.be/Qh-vBUUklB
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Thursday, November 19 from 1 to 2:30 p.m.—joint CCHS/HEFNU lecture on "Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes: The Ethics of Perpetrator Representation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivBXmJ2zdt
II. Historians @ Home
- "Zoom Teaching Tips" with top graduate teachers from the Spring—Caitlin MONROE, Mikala STOKES, and Robin POKORSKI (Sept. 10, 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzm6ZRJgFvU
- Thursday, October 29 from 1 to 2 p.m.—Roundtable on “Pandemics Past and Present” with historians Joel MOKYR, Edward MUIR, and Helen TILLEY: https://youtu.be/YWxwY-b94I
- Tuesday, November 10 from 1 to 2 p.m.—Roundtable on "Global Perspectives on Policing and Justice" with Lina BRITTO, Peter CARROLL, anmd Sean HANRETTA: https://youtu.be/NC-g3z7GvE4
You may also watch CCHS interviews with some of our guest speakers on why they study history and how they do their work. And you can listen to a CCHS podcast to learn what makes historians tick. The podcast series aims to demystify the profession for young scholars. Back to top