Oct
4
2022
CCHS Birthday Celebration and Henry Binford Lecture
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
A belated birthday party to celebrate fifteen years of the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies! Henry Binford will also...
Events
The History Department collaborates closely with the Chabraja Center for Historical Study also located in Harris Hall. CCHS sponsors vibrant collective discussions about historical scholarship, practice, and pedagogy. These include a lunch-time lecture series by eminent visiting historians; research workshops where faculty and graduate students discuss one another's work; fellowships for graduate students and postdoctoral students; and a Leopold research fellowship for undergraduates. For more information turn to the Chabraja Center's site.
Oct
13
2022
Lecture on Industrial Agriculture and Media by Michael Stamm
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Prof. Michael Stamm, the author of the marvelously inventive book Dead Tree Media, will be on campus on Thursday, October...
Oct
18
2022
Author Clint Smith in conversation with History Professor Leslie Harris
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Please join us on the Chicago and Evanston campuses for the One Book keynote with Clint Smith author of How...
Oct
20
2022
Lecture on Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: CCHS/HEFNU annual lecture
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
CCHS in collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEFNU) Registration is required Avinoam J. PATT (University of Connecticut), author of...
Oct
28
2022
Workshop on Karl Marx in the USA with Andrew Hartman (co-sponsored with CCHS)
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Prof. Hartman will workshop "American Revolutionary: The U.S. Civil War,” the first chapter of his in-progress book entitled Karl Marx...
Nov
3
2022
Lecture on Aztecs by Camilla Townsend (CCHS lunch lecture)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Camilla TOWNSEND (Rutgers University), author of Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (2019)—Thursday, November 3 LUNCH LECTURE "Rethinking the...
Nov
4
2022
Cakes and Classes
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Come to Harris 108 to get a slice or two of our fabulously decorated cakes, served by our distinguished faculty....
Nov
9
2022
The World that African Studies' Made and Possibilities for Transformation: A Cross-Generational Conversation
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Join professor Jean Allman (Washington University) and Northwestern University PhD candidate in history, Bright Gyamfi, for the event "The World...
Feb
9
2023
Lecture on Japanese Empire by Louise Young (CCHS lunch lecture)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Louise YOUNG (University of Wisconsin—Madison), author of Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan (2013)—Thursday, February...
Mar
2
2023
Distinguished Lecture on African American History by Tomiko Brown-Nagin (CCHS/CAAH event)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished Lecture on African American History Tomiko BROWN-NAGIN (Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University), author...
Apr
11
2023
Lecture by Charles Postel (CCHS lunch lecture)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Charles POSTEL (San Francisco State University), author of the award-winning book The Populist Vision (2007)—Tuesday, April 11 LUNCH LECTURE Lecture TBA This...
Apr
20
2023
Boyce Lecture in Medieval History by Dyan Elliott (CCHS/History event)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Gray Boyce Memorial Lecture in Medieval History: Dyan ELLIOTT (Northwestern University), author of The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the...
Apr
25
2023
History of the Book lecture by Derrick Spires (CCH/Libraries event)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Joint CCHS/University Libraries Lecture on the History of the Book: Derrick R. SPIRES (Cornell University), author of The Practice of Citizenship:...
May
4
2023
Lecture by Emily Greble (CCHS lunch lecture)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Emily GREBLE (Vanderbilt University), author of Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe (2021)—Thursday, May 4 LUNCH LECTURE Lecture TBA This event...