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Black Theology & Black PowerA Conference exploring the legacy of James Cone https://jameshcone.northwestern.edu/about/ The conference is supported by Department of Religious Studies,...
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The conference convenes annually to discuss the experiences and struggles of Kurds, and the historical and comparative study of Kurdish...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture. Aldair Rodrigues, PAS Visiting Scholar; History, University of...
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. The 1591 Moroccan Invasion of Songhay Lansiné Kaba, history, Carnegie...
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
A conversation between author and publisher Richard COHEN and Prof. Sarah MAZA on "Editing and Publishging Historians." There will be lunchboxes...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
A hybrid (in-person and livestream) symposium on the history of the Mamluk Sultanate in honor of Carl Petry, the Hamad...
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Joint CCHS/University Libraries Lecture on the History of the Book Stephanie NEWELL (Yale University), author of Histories of Dirt in West...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Angela ZIMMERMAN (George Washington University), formelry known as ANDREW ZIMMERMAN, author of Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German...
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“When They Became Pests: Human & Nonhuman Species As Vermin in History” a HYBRID one-day event convened by T.H. Breen Graduate...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Gray Boyce Memorial Lecture in Medieval History: Fiona GRIFFITHS (Stanford University), author of Nuns' Priests' Tales Men and Salvation in Medieval...
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“Global Perspectives on the Prison and Systems of Punishment ” HYBRID one-day graduate conference convened by T.H. Breen Graduate Fellow Chernoh...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Elizabeth HINTON (Yale University), author of the award-winning From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making...
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America, originally published in 1971, is one of the most widely read books in...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Marcy NORTON (University of Pennsylvania), author of Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished lecture on African American History FREE and open to the PUBLIC hybrid event--you can attend in person or...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The History Department and the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies are sponsoring a teach-in, 12:30-1:50, Harris Hall #108, on the...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The History Department and the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies are sponsoring a TEACH-IN tomorrow, 12:30-1:50, Harris Hall #108, on...
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Please join the East Asia Research Forum for a documentary screening with Evans Chan (NU, Screen Culture Ph.D., 2014). USA |...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
The KGB (State Security Committee) and its Soviet-era predecessors were among the key USSR institutions. As one of the major...
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Please join the East Asia Research Forum for a documentary screening with Evans Chan (NU, Screen Culture Ph.D., 2014). (USA/HD/color/117 min/2016; Cantonese/English/...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
David CHANG (University of Minnesota), author of The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Bianca PREMO (Florida International University), author of The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire (2017) Thursday,...
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
The Nicholas D. Chabrja Center for Historical Studies (CCHS) in collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEFNU) ~...
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Historians @ Home event—for the Northwestern community Thursday, May 20 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Roundtable on “How Do We Choose What We...
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Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies Graduate Conference on "The End of the World as They Knew It: Crisis and...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Nicholas D. Chabraja event—free and open to PUBLIC: Talk by Sophia ROSENFELD (University of Pennsylvania), author of Democracy and Truth: A...
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Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies Graduate Conference on "History of the Self" with Professor Judith COFFIN (UT-Austin, author of the...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
This event is postponed to the Spring Quarter. Roundtable on “The Challenges of Planning Your Research” with Haydon Cherry, Gideon Cohn-Postar,...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Samuel MOYN (Yale University), author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (2018)—in conversation with Daniel Immerwahr (History)...
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Africanization: The Bridge to Edward Blyden's Final Intellectual Transformation Join ISITA for a talk by Harry Nii Koney Odamtten (history, Santa...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Roundtable on “The Politics of Holocaust Memory” with Sarah Cushman, Stefan Ionescu, and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Part of the Historians @ Home...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
History Dept. Teach-in on the Jan. 6 insurrection Lina BRITTO—Autogolpe/Self-Coup: Lessons from Latin America Kate MASUR—Reconstruction and White Supremacy Lauren STOKES—The Transnational Attack...
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
In collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEFNU) Erin McGLOTHLIN (Washington University, St. Louis), author of Second-Generation Holocaust Literature:...
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
A Historians @ Home roundtable on "Global Perspectives on Policing and Justice" with Lina Britto, Peter Carroll and Sean Hanretta. Open...
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
A Historians @ Home roundtable on "Pandemics Past and Present" with historians Joel Mokyr, Edward Muir and Helen Tilley. Open to...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Please join us on Zoom for this lecture by historian Eric Van Young. The Mexican statesman, entrepreneur, public intellectual, and historian...
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
James MILLWARD (Georgetown University), author of The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (2013) conducts a conversation with Northwestern historian...
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
James MILLWARD (Georgetown University), author of The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (2013) leads a roundtable with Northwestern historians...
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CANCELED due to unforseen cirumstances. We regret any inconvenience. Roundtable on “How to Rig an Election: a Historian’s Guide” featuring historians...
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Lara PUTNAM (U of Pittsburgh), author of Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age...
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Lara PUTNAM (U of Pittsburgh), author of Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Please join the Middle East and North African Studies Program, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Chabraja Center for...
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Please join the Center for International and Area Studies, the Program of African Studies, the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies,...
8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
2019 Arryman Fellow, Amrina Rosyada presents her Arryman research paper: "Of Germs and God: Vaccine Refusal Among Indonesian Muslims and...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Please join the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies for our Global Lunchbox series, a weekly colloquium designed...
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“All in a Day’s Work: Labor in History”—convened by T.H. Breen Graduate Fellow Laura McCOY—Friday, May 22, 2020 with keynote...
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“The Politics of Progress: Growth in and throughout History”—convened by T.H. Breen Graduate Fellow Sean HARVEY—Friday, May 1, 2020 with...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
3/16/20 - We are so sorry, but this event has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We wish everyone...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Center for International and Area Studies is pleased to bring New Narratives on the Peopling of America to Northwestern,...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide...
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Joint CCHS/University Libraries annual Lecture on the History of the Book—with the collaboration of CNAIR (Center for Native American and...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Ibram KENDI (American University), author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2016) and...
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Abstract: One of 20th-century Colombia's literary geniuses, Manuel Zapata Olivella has usually been cast as a black writer, and his...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Please join the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies for our Global Lunchbox series, a weekly lunchtime colloquium...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
In her presentation Professor Stauter-Halsted will examine the ways mobility became criminalized after the First World War in the newly...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker - Rana Hogarth, University of Illinois, History, Abstract - Interracial sex between blacks and whites predated the formation of the...
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Gray Boyce Memorial Lecture in Medieval History: Tamar HERZIG (Tel Aviv University), author of A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
In the 1960s and 1970s, African American household workers established the first-ever national organization to represent them. They demanded "pay,...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Please join the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies for the second meeting of the Global Lunchbox, a...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Please join us for the third lecture in the 2019-2020 Latin America Imagined series. In the colonial period the gender ideologies...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker - Sarah Carson, Northwestern University, History, Abstract - What exactly is “tropical” about tropical meteorology? Until recently, accounts of atmospheric...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
In this lecture, historian Khaled Fahmy will describe the process by which modern medicine was introduced in early 19th-century Egypt....
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Fall keynote of the Kaplan Humanities Institute's Memorializing Dialogue: Monuments of Omission: Erasure in the Memory Work of Indigenous Cultures and Contemporary...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker - Sarah Richardson, Harvard University, History of Science, Abstract - Do HeLa cells have a sex? The past decade has...
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) and the Program of African Studies as we...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
"Israel Facing a New Middle East: Challenges and Responses" Itmar Rabinovich, Israel's former Ambassor to the United States Itamar Rabinovich is a...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
EDGS Research Talk Yan Slobodkin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago. Ensuring subsistence is universally accepted...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Ann FABIAN (Rutgers U), author of The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead (2010) and editor of Race...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Devi Mays is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, where she is...
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
“The Revival of the Jewish-Christian Debate in the 19th Century: Missionaries, Meshummadim, and Maskilim“ David Ruderman, Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Susan J. Pearson is an historian of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States at Northwestern University. She completed her...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Entangled Memories: Hiroshima, Jerusalem, and the Emergence of Global Memory Culture A Talk by Ran Zwigenberg Ran Zwigenberg is assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University....
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Black Poetics and Environmental Memory: A Reading and Conversation featuring Ed Roberson and Tiana Clark Modern environmentalism has often struggled to...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Join us for the 2019-2020 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora’s kickoff event. This year, the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker - Sunil Amrith, Harvard University, History, Abstract - Earlier this summer, the south Indian metropolis of Chennai came close to...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
“War and Peace of Iosif Trumpeldor: from Zionist Hagiography to Cultural History“ Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern Univeristy In this seminar, Prof. Petrovsky-Shtern will...
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
In collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEF) Dariusz STOLA (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences), Director...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker -Thomas Mullaney, Stanford University, History, Abstract - What is resolution? What is low resolution versus high resolution, and what...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
In collaboration with the Evanston Public Library and the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEF) Dariusz STOLA (Institute of Political Studies,...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
“Unmixing the Holy City: Coexistence and Segregation in Early 20th Century Jerusalem” Michelle Campos, Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern HIstory,...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Marisa FUENTES (Rutgers U), author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (2016) Lunch lecture (12:15 to 1:50 p.m.)...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker - Projit Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania, History and Sociology of Science, Abstract - India emerged as an independent nation-state...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Historical analysis invites the voices of past visionaries but also presents profound challenges to contemporary communities yearning for justice in...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Fake Comedy: Memory, Futurity, and Hope in Nagasaki In novels such as Holy Water and Ground Zero, Nagasaki Seirai Yuichi, the...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Provincializing Romanticism - A Yearlong Workshop and Talk Series at Northwestern Opening DiscussionFriday, October 4th | 12-1:30pmKresge 3535 | lunch provided Please...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Hot Off the Press: A panel discussion on academic book publishing with Kate Wahl, Publishing Director and Editor-in-Chief, Stanford University...
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
A lecture by Ted McCormick (History, Concordia University).
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Professor Chopra (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will be speaking on charitable institutions, urban landscape, and government in nineteenth-century Bombay at 5:15...
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Double Amnesia: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century Guest speaker: James Loeffler, Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History, University...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Biography in the 21st Century: Writing and Re-writing Buganda's Notorious Queen-mother (1897-1956) in the “Radical Openness of History” Nakanyike Musisi, History,...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch Talk by Jolyon Tomas, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania Abstract: Americans stationed in occupied Japan...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Audrey TRUSCHKE (Rutgers U) on "Courting Controversy: Toxic Masculinity, Social Media, and Mughal History" In her talk Dr. Truschke will discuss...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
To Invoke the Invisible: Islam, Spiritual Mediation and Social Change in the Sahara Erin Pettigrew, History and Arab Crossroads Studies, NYU Abu...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. Scholars have extensively documented the widespread sexual...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) penned perhaps the most comprehensive medieval account of rabbinic tradition. But his ideas were at odds with...
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Graduate CONFERENCE on “Back to the Future: Visions of Tomorrow in History” (convened by Breen Fellow Kevin BAKER)Friday, May 3—all...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Todd SHEPARD (Johns Hopkins U), author of The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France (2006),...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
“Long-Term Offenders,” or LTOs, is the state’s term for people it effectively condemns to death by incarceration. This book, which...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
With Andrew Britt, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities, and Kelsey Rydland, Geospatial Analyst, Mudd Library. The so-called "spatial turn in...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
H.G. Adler (1910 - 1988) lived at the center of his times and on their margin. A survivor of Theresienstadt,...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Presented by Wen-Qing Ngoei Major studies of American foreign relations treat U.S. failures in Vietnam as the end of both a...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Gray Boyce Memorial Lecture in Medieval History: Edward MUIR (NU), author of The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines,...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
In the 17th and 18th centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding...
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Graduate CONFERENCE on “Walls and Bridges: Migration and Its Histories” (convened by Breen Fellow Aram SARKISIAN)Friday, April 12—all day, starting...
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Professor Rubin will present: “Ecclesia and Synagoga: Sisters in Time”
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Legal Studies hosts a lecture with: Lucy E Salyer - History, University of New Hampshire “Under the Starry Flag How a Band...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Stephen KANTROWITZ (University of Wisconsin), author of More than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic (2013) on...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying...
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Theodore Zev Weiss Annual Lecture in Holocaust Studies ‘I pass on to you merely a small part of what took place...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
What was the role of Auschwitz in the Holocaust? And what was its relationship to other Nazi camps? The session...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker Stephanie Dick, University of Pennsylvania Title "Making Up Minds: Proof and Computing in the Postwar United States" Abstract Computers ought to produce in the...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Joint CCHS/University Libraries Lecture on the History of the Book: Matthew KIRSCHENBAUM (U of Maryland), author of Track Changes: A Literary...
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Panel discussion on Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells, to launch the new documentary website on their controversial exchange over...
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
This one day workshop aims to bring together scholars on Indonesia and Turkey to have a fruitful conversation regarding the...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
"Islam and the African World" Dr Wendell Marsh, Buffet Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, History.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Allan and Norma Harris Day of Jewish Study “What is Antisemitism? Historical, Political and Personal Perspectives” A panel discussion with faculty and...
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Brett Gadsden will focus on the African Americans who served on the 1960 campaign and helped Kennedy win the black...
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) for a dialogue between the authors of two...
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Northwestern University's MA in Writing and MFA in Prose and Poetry Programs Present: A Reading and Conversation with NU instructors...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Professor Kyle Harper, of University of Oklahoma, will present his talk "2000 Years of Public Health: From Ancients Plagues to...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished lecture on African American History: Daina Ramey BERRY (U of Texas at Austin), author of The Price for...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Revival From Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam Faculty Book Colloquium presented by Professor Brannon Ingram, featuring panelists Professor Michelle...
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Panel on Native Activism and Art in Chicago Native Chicago Art & Activism from Carlos Montezuma to Susan PowerA Discussion with...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
"Bad Queers: LGBT Individuals and the Carceral State, 1948-2003" featuring a conversation with Dr Scott Anthony De Orio, SPAN Postdoctoral...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Graduate Students Political Theory Workshop invites students and faculty to a discussion with Adom Getachew, Assistant Professor of Political...
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents: “Playing in the Gray” a lecture by Kimberly Kay Hoang (University of...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Upon the publication of their respective books, Northwestern professors Corey Byrnes and Keith Woodhouse will present a talk on writing...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Carla NAPPI (U of Pittsburgh), author of The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern...
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
A conversation with Jenny Davis (Illinois), J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Wesleyan), and Doug Kiel (Northwestern), moderated by Bonnie Etherington (Northwestern). Three Indigenous...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Jon Marshall and Leon Neyfakh will discuss the Slate podcast Slow Burn, about the impeachments of Richard Nixon (Season 1)...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Join us in welcoming Scott De Orio (History/ Gender & Sexuality Studies) and Tony Silva (Sociology/ Gender & Sexuality Studies).
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Mark Galeotti is a world-renowned expert on organized crime in Russia. He will be speaking on his new book The...
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) for a dialogue between the authors of two...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
A lecture by Miro Ito. Miro Ito is an artist, photographer, and independent film producer based in Tokyo. Her lecture explores...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Daniel Immerwahr (Ph.D., Berkeley, 2011) is an associate professor, specializing in twentieth-century U.S. history within a global context. His first...
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Professor Smoller will present: “Looking for the End in Late Medieval Germany: Wolfgang Aytinger’s Commentary on Pseudo-Methodius”
5:15 PM - 6:45 PM
A lecture by Erik Linstrum, Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Sponsored by the British Studies Cluster, with...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Daniel RODGERS (Princeton U), author of Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998) and Age of Fracture (2011) Lecture:...
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Presented by Professor Henry Binford Friday, November 9th 6pm Program 7pm Reception @ Congdon Schaffer Mansion (405 Church Street, Evanston) This...
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
In the period 1969-1974, there was a flood of decisions for coeducation at elite institutions of higher education. Why did...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Christine DeLucia is an assistant professor of History at Williams College and the author of, Memory Lands: King Philip’s War...
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Professor Sère will present: “Emotions and Historiographical Constructs: The Great Schism as Case Study”
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Come, eat cake, and talk with History professors about the courses they'll teach this coming winter!
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
In conversation with Deborah Cohen (Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Humanities and Professor of History), author Deborah Baker will discuss how she...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
“The Segrenomics of American Public Education: Why Segregated Education is Too Lucrative to End” This talk will explore the history and...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
“Between Jesus and Paul: From Apologetics to Jewish Theological Affirmations” Paul Mendes-Flohr Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought;...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker - Diana Kurkovsky West Title - "Looking for Patterns in Soviet Patents: The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) and...
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
This day long event will bring together nationally recognized scholars across the humanities and social sciences to consider the extended...
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
The Religious Studies Department of Northwestern University invites you to attend a graduate student conference on “Sovereignty and Strangeness,” to...
9:00 AM - 7:30 PM
The Religious Studies Department of Northwestern University invites you to attend a graduate student conference on “Sovereignty and Strangeness,” to...
3:30 PM - 7:30 PM
The Religious Studies Department of Northwestern University invites you to attend a graduate student conference on “Sovereignty and Strangeness,” to...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
In collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEF) Deborah DWORK (Clark U), co-author of Flight from the Reich: Refugee...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
A panel of scholars, educators, and activists will discuss the multiple, contested meanings of the keyword “consent” from the vantages...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Sandra GREENE (Cornell U), author of Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition (2017) Lecture: “Uncommon...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University Title On Capitalization Abstract We have recently come to understand “the economy” not as a feature of all societies,...
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Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6—conference on "WRITING HISTORY THROUGH CHILDREN" co-sponsored by The Dorothy and Clarence Ver Steeg...
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Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6—conference on "WRITING HISTORY THROUGH CHILDREN" co-sponsored by The Dorothy and Clarence Ver Steeg...
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Professor Green will present: “The Origins of the Black Death: A Consilient Approach from Phylogenetics and History”
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Join the Program of African Studies for our weekly lunch and lecture. Putting Africa on the Black Death Map: Narratives from...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The War and Society Working Group welcomes Prof. Daniel Immerwahr (Northwestern University, History) for the first presentation of the 2018-2019...
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Symposium: Rethinking the 'Muslim World': Concepts, History, Law, Politics.” The event will feature the recent work of Iza Hussin (The Politics...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents our final event of the year – “Killing is the Law” a...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
J P Leary is an associate professor of humanities, First Nations studies, and history at the University of Wisconsin– Green...
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
During his final visit of the year, Buffett Institute Distinguished Visitor Strobe Talbott will take part in a roundtable discussion about...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
A brown-bag talk by Brian McCammack of Lake Forest College, author of Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn ‘Arabi — al-la-shu‘ur —...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Professor Deborah Cohen and Professor Scott Sowerby from the Department of History for a conversation about the British monarchy,...
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Leslie Harris, Northwestern University Brodwyn Fischer, University of Chicago Sponsored by the History Department
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
This presentation discusses how dance became a public good in Cuba in the late 1960s and 1970s. Dance leaders spearheaded...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents 'The X of England': Race, Diaspora, and Violence — a talk by...
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CCHS conference on “Generations in History: Youth, Age, and Metrics of Cultural Change” (convened by Breen Fellow Emily Curtis WALTERS)--Friday,...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents a book launch for With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims,...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Using feminist oral history methods for both the collection and interpretation of oral history narratives, this talk, and the public...
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Did Gender Matter during the Holocaust? Marion Kaplan is Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University and author...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The May 2 event with Naomi Oreskes has been cancelled. Please check out our upcoming TRUTH Dialogue on May 7 with...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture by Praenjit DUARA (Duke University), author of author of The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The Jews of the island of Rhodes lived under Ottoman rule for many centuries. They began to undergo many changes...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Concentration camps are normally associated with the “evil empires” of the twentieth century. Yet like so many modern phenomena, they...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture by Lynn THOMAS (University of Washington), author of Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya...
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GLOBAL ISLAM IN AFRICA: AFRICAN MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD, MUSLIM WORLDS IN AFRICA is a one-and-a-half day conference sponsored by...
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CCHS conference on “Resistance in History: From Transgression to Transformation” (convened by Breen Fellow Bonnie ERNST)--Friday, APRIL 20. For full PROGRAM...
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Gray Boyce Memorial Lecture in Medieval HistoryJoel KAYE (Barnard College), author of A History of Balance, 1250-1375 (Chicago UP, 2014) "Reconceiving...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Frederick E. Hoxie is Swanlund Professor Emeritus of History, Law, and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign....
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Claude CLEGG (University of North Carolina), author of Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New...
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Historian Raevin Jimenez will be giving a talk entitled, "Domination of Youths: Gender, Generation, and Political Economic Transformation in Second...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents "God Particle: Sublimity, Matter, and Virtuality in Black Feminist Poetics" – a...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Professor Christine Gerhardt (University of Bamberg, Germany) giving a talk on “Dickinson’s Garden Ecologies.”
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The talk will discuss the ways in which different actors tried to establish the truth about crime in twentieth century...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join us for a dialog between Lamin Sanneh (Yale University and Yale Divinity School), author of Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Faculty Colloquium presented by Paul Ramírez, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University In the early modern world, Mexican salt was...
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Brookings Institution and the Buffett Institute will gather experts from Northwestern, Washington, and Japan for an afternoon of discussion...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Please join us for a panel discussion with three professors from Northwestern’s Jewish Studies program. Each will present research from...
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Presenter: Kate Masur, Associate Professor, Department of History Kate Masur’s talk will explore the history of racism in American law, with...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
For historians of sexuality, the post-Stonewall period has long been regarded as a time when gay identity was in formation....
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program is excited to take part in co-hosting Crisis in Venezuela: Historical Perspectives and Potential Solutions. The...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents a talk by Dr. Mel Y. Chen (University of California, Berkeley). The event...
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
"Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's The Vietnam War : A Discussion with Two Historians and a Filmmaker" A panel discussion of the...
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Lecture by Janice RADWAY (NU), author of A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle Class Desire...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Come, eat cake, and talk with history professors about courses they’ll teach this spring!
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies is excited to host Dr. Sergio...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
*Please RSVP on our website* Join ISGMH for our Current Issues in LGBTQ Health lecture featuring Dr. Jennifer Brier! Dr. Brier’s talk...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Professor Zakiyyah I. Jackson (University of Southern California) giving a talk titled “‘Not Our Own’: Speciation, Genre, and Subjectivation in...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Between 1949 and 1951, 123,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them...
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Liesl Olson (The Newberry Library, Chcago) speaks about her new book Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis....
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Liesl Olson is Director of Chicago Studies at the Newberry Library. She is author of Modernism and the Ordinary (Oxford U...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
This year's Nao Lecture will feature Tatiana Seijas from Penn State University, who will speak about indigenous peoples' confrontation with...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture by Anne HYDE (U of Oklahoma), author of Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American...
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Lecture by John Morán González, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies & Professor in the Department of...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The History Department welcomes you to our CAKES AND CLASSES event on Thursday, November 9th in Harris Hall, Room 108,...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture by Jane KAMENSKY (Harvard U), author of A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley (2016) "The Republic...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies (CCHS) in collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEF)Jan GRABOWSKI...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture by Lynn HUNT (UCLA), author of Writing History in the Global Era (2014) Part of the lunch lecture series organized...
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Nancy MacLean (Duke University) will speak about her 2017 book of the same title. Free and open to the public. Reception...
