Oct
16
2024
Graduate-Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Grads - join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty at 12:30PM - 1:45PM. If this will be...
Past Events
Oct
9
2024
Undergraduate-Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Undergrads! Join lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty at 12:30PM - 2:00PM. If this will be your first...
Oct
8
2024
Lecture on history and science
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Kyle HARPER (University of Oklahoma), author of Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History (2021)—Tuesday, October...
Oct
2
2024
Sanders Seminar Lecture: Prof. Dylan Penningroth on his book Before the Movement
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
You are invited to a lunch talk with Professor Dylan Penningroth from the University of California-Berkeley. His talk with draw...
Oct
1
2024
Lecture on Jewish Resistance in Hitler's Germany, featuring Wolf Gruner
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
The Holocaust Educational Foundation and the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies present their Annual Fall Lecture, featuring Wolf Gruner (University...
Sep
26
2024
Lecture on commemoration in post-Mao China
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Melissa MACAULEY (Northwestern University), author of Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier (2021)—Thursday, September 26, 2023—LUNCH LECTURE: “The...
May
31
2024
African History at Northwestern: Past, Present, and Future
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A celebration of Jonathon Glassman and David Schoenbrun This spring, the history department is celebrating the work of two of our...
May
30
2024
Honors Senior Thesis Symposium
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join us as we celebrate our honor's candidates on the completion of their milestone thesis projects. Friends and family of the...
May
23
2024
Boyce Lecture in Medieval History
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Gray Boyce Memorial Lecture in Medieval History (CCHS/History) Kristina RICHARDSON (UVA), author of Roma in the Medieval Islamic Word: Literacy, Culture...
May
22
2024
Imperial Material: Talk by Alvita Akiboh
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
I’m happy to announce that, with sponsorship from CCHS and the Department, Alvita Akiboh, assistant professor at Yale, will be...
May
15
2024
Graduate/Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty on Wednesday May 15th, 2024 at 12:30PM - 1:45PM. If...
May
10
2024
Conference on "The Stories in Our Histories: Historians Confront Themselves” (CCHS)
All day
Friday, May 10—all-day faculty CONFERENCE (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Harris Hall 108), convened by Prof. Leslie HARRIS on "The...
May
9
2024
Conference on "The Stories in Our Histories: Historians Confront Themselves” (CCHS)
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
May 9-10 faculty CONFERENCE convened by Prof. Leslie HARRIS on "The Stories in Our Histories: Historians Confront Themselves” Conference keynote conversation on...
May
7
2024
Craig KOSLOFSKY lecture on Fanon, Afropessimism, and Early Modern Studies (CCHS)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Craig KOSLOFSKY (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), co-author of Stigma: Marking Skin in the Early Modern World (2023)—Tuesday, May 7 LUNCH...
May
1
2024
Undergraduate/Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Join lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty on Wednesday May 1, 2024 at 12:30PM - 1:45PM. If this...
Apr
18
2024
Lecture: Brooke Blower on Americans in a World at War
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Brooke Blower from Boston University will speak on her new book, Americans in a World at War. Prof. Blower is...
Apr
11
2024
CANCELED: Lecture by Ira KATZNELSON (CCHS)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Ira KATZNELSON (Columbia University), author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origin of Our Time (2013) and co-author...
Apr
10
2024
Graduate/Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty on Wednesday April 10, 2024 at 12:30PM - 1:45PM. If...
Mar
26
2024
History of the Book lecture
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Annual History of the Book Lecture (CCHS/University Libraries) Ann BLAIR (Harvard), co-author with Anthony Grafton of Information: A Historical Companion (2021)—Tuesday,...
Feb
29
2024
Lecture on Black History by Kris MANJAPRA (CCHS/CAAH)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished lecture on Black History Kris MANJAPRA (Northeastern University), author of Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of...
Feb
15
2024
"Why did the Uyghurs Become Buddhist?": A Talk by Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University)
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Please join the East Asia Research Forum and the Department of History as they host Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University)...
Feb
14
2024
Faculty Graduate Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Calling all History Faculty & Graduates! Join your History community, fellow grads and faculty, in Harris 108 on February 14th,...
Feb
8
2024
Lecture on the Great Depression by Stefan J. LINK (CCHS)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Stefan J. LINK (Dartmouth College), author of Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial...
Feb
7
2024
"Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps"
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Join Prof. Sarah Kovner of Columbia University for a talk on her recent book in which she offers a new...
Jan
22
2024
"David Reubeni's Diary: A Sixteenth-Century Black Jewish Messiah's Guide to Saving the Jewish People"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Graduate Student Faculty Colloquium "David Reubeni's Diary: A Sixteenth-Century Black Jewish Messiah's Guide to Saving the Jewish People" Alan Verskin Professor and Samuel...
Jan
17
2024
Faculty Undergraduate Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Calling all History Faculty & Undergrads! Join your History community, fellow students and faculty, in Harris 108 on Janurary 17th,...
Nov
15
2023
Faculty-Undergraduate Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Calling all History Faculty & Undergrads! Join your History community, fellow students and faculty, in Harris 108 on Nov. 15th....
Nov
9
2023
The Liberal Invention of Photography
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Michael Zakim | The Liberal Invention of Photography | Thurs., Nov. 9th, 12:30–1:50 | Lunch provided at 12 | Harris...
Nov
6
2023
Cakes and Classes
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Hey Undergrads! Join us for historically-themed cake and chat with faculty members about their upcoming Winter courses! Where: Harris Hall, Room...
Nov
6
2023
China and the West: Maps or Chaps? A Conversation with Profs. Ken Pomeranz and Joel Mokyr
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
A moderated discussion between University of Chicago Prof. Pomeranz and Northwestern Prof. Mokyr on the Early Modern "Great Divergence" between...
Nov
2
2023
Lecture by Ruth ROGASKI (CCHS)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Ruth ROGASKI (Vanderbilt University), author of Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland (2022)—Thursday, November...
Nov
1
2023
Faculty-Graduate Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Calling all History Faculty & Graduates! Join your History community, fellow grads and faculty, in Harris 108 on Nov. 1st....
Oct
24
2023
A Woman's Life is a Human's Life: Book Talk with Prof. Felicia Kornbluh
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
"A woman's Life is a Human Life: My Mother, Her Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice" Book...
Oct
23
2023
"Not So Black and White": Kenan Malik in conversation with Prof. Kennetta Hammond Perry
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Co-sponsored by the Graduate Cluster in British Studies and the History Department Lunch starts at 12:15 and conversation at 12:30pm Harris 108 In...
Oct
18
2023
Lecture on the Holocaust by Valerie HEBERT (CCHS/HEFNU)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Chabraja Center for Historical Studies (CCHS) in collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEFNU) Valerie HEBERT (Lakehead University), author...
Oct
12
2023
Lecture by Judith BYFIELD (CCHS)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Judith BYFIELD (Cornell University), author of The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria (2022)—Tuesday, October 12 LUNCH LECTURE...
Oct
10
2023
"Algeria, France, and the Origins of the European Union" with Prof. Megan Brown (NU '08), Swarthmore College
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Join the Department of History in The Leopold Room on Tuesday, October 10th from 4:00pm - 5:30pm. The EU's precursor named...
Oct
6
2023
Frank Safford Symposium
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Author of some of the most influential scholarship on nineteenth-century Colombia and Latin America, Professor Frank Safford passed on June...
Oct
5
2023
Where Lies History? Carlos Lozada in Conversation with Deborah Cohen
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
On behalf of the Department of History, we would like to invite you to our upcoming lecture - Where Lies...
Sep
26
2023
CCHS Ice Cream Lecture
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Annual start-of-the-year lecture by Northwestern History Faculty Part of the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies (CCHS) lecture series FREE...
Jun
2
2023
“Commercial Networks: Connections, Conversations, Conflicts” conference (CCHS)
All day
CCHS all-day graduate conference on “COMMERCIAL NETWORKS: Connections, Conversations, Conflicts”—convened by T.H. Breen Graduate Fellow Claire Arnold The keynote speaker will be...
May
22
2023
Works-in-Progress Seminar
All day
May 22, 2023 with Kathleen Belew The History Department's works-in-progress seminar is open to members of the History Department; a paper...
May
8
2023
Works-in-Progress Seminar
All day
May 8, 2023 Ed Muir (with Amy Stanley) The History Department's works-in-progress seminar is open to members of the History Department;...
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: “Equality before...
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:...
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
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: “Pearl...
Mar
2
2023
CANCELED: Distinguished Lecture on African American History by Tomiko Brown-Nagin (CCHS/CAAH event)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Due to unforseen circumstances, this event is CANCELED. We regret any inconvenience. Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished Lecture on African American History Tomiko BROWN-NAGIN...
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...
Jan
30
2023
"Reading the China Dream through the Writings of China’s Public Intellectuals" A conversation with David Ownby (Université de Montréal)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Please join the East Asia Research Forum for a talk given by David Ownby (Université de Montréal) as he explores...
Jan
25
2023
Works-in-Progress Seminars
All day
RECENT PAST works-in-progress seminars: Nov. 21, 2022: Daniel Immerwahr (with Keith Woodhouse as discussant) Jan. 23, 2023: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (with John Bushnell) These...
Jan
12
2023
Noticing Nature in Colonial Korea: Integrative Mapping and Potential Energy through Agricultural Science
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
The East Asia Research Forum is hosting Albert Park, Bank of America Associate Professor of Pacific Basin Studies (Claremont McKenna...
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...
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...
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...
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
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
14
2022
"What the Ukraine War Tells Us About China-Russia Convergence in the Information Space": A conversation with Maria Repnikova (Georgia State University)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
This talk will discuss how China’s media coverage of the war signals the emerging information nexus with Russia, as well...
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
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...
May
24
2022
Editing and Publishing Historians
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...
May
20
2022
A Symposium on the History of the Mamluk Sultanate in honor of Carl Petry
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...
May
12
2022
History of the Book lecture by Stephanie Newell (CCHS/University Libraries)
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...
May
5
2022
"Decolonizing the Civil War" lecture by A. Zimmerman (CCHS)
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...
Apr
29
2022
Conference on Pests in History
All day
“When They Became Pests: Human & Nonhuman Species As Vermin in History” a HYBRID one-day event convened by T.H. Breen Graduate...
Apr
21
2022
Medieval history lecture by Fiona Griffiths (Boyce Lecture)
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...
Apr
8
2022
Conference on Prison and Punishment (CCHS)
All day
“Global Perspectives on the Prison and Systems of Punishment ” HYBRID one-day graduate conference convened by T.H. Breen Graduate Fellow Chernoh...
Apr
7
2022
Virtual lecture on police violence by Elizabeth Hinton (CCHS)
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...
Mar
11
2022
Open Veins of Latin America: The Cuban Revolution, Cultural Politics, and the Making of a Classic
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...
Mar
10
2022
Russia's War on Ukraine: The Ukrainian Resistance
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...
Mar
2
2022
The Latest on Putin's Invasion: Voices from Kyiv
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...
Mar
1
2022
Marcy NORTON lecture on Amazonia after 1492 (CCHS)
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...
Feb
28
2022
Martha Jones lecture on African Americans and the 19th Amendment (CAAH/CCHS)
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...
Feb
28
2022
Russian Invasion of Ukraine Teach-in
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...
Feb
28
2022
Teach-in on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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...
Feb
23
2022
"We Have Boots" Documentary Screening and Q&A with Evans Chan, filmmaker and director
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 |...
Feb
23
2022
KGB Archives in Ukraine: Collections, Features, and Access
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...
Feb
22
2022
"Raise the Umbrellas" Documentary Screening and Q&A with Evans Chan, filmmaker and director
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/...
Nov
18
2021
David CHANG lecture on indigenous history (CCHS)
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...
Nov
4
2021
Bianca PREMO lecture on Peruvian history (CCHS)
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,...
Oct
28
2021
Holocaust CCHS/HEFNU annual lecture
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) ~...
May
20
2021
Roundtable on historical research
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...
May
14
2021
"Crisis and Collapse in History" conference
All day
Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies Graduate Conference on "The End of the World as They Knew It: Crisis and...
Apr
29
2021
Sophia ROSENFELD talks with Tessie LIU (CCHS)
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...
Apr
16
2021
"History of the Self" conference
All day
Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies Graduate Conference on "History of the Self" with Professor Judith COFFIN (UT-Austin, author of the...
Mar
4
2021
Roundtable on historical research--POSTPONED
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,...
Feb
25
2021
"The Coming of Humane War" Samuel Moyn lecture
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)...
Feb
24
2021
Africanization: The Bridge to Edward Blyden's Final Intellectual Transformation (Harry Nii Koney Odamtten)
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...
Jan
28
2021
Roundtable on "The Politics of Holocaust Memory"
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...
Jan
22
2021
January 6 Insurrection teach-in
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...
Nov
19
2020
"Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes: The Ethics of Perpetrator Representation” (CCHS/HEFNU event with Erin McGlothlin)
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:...
Nov
10
2020
"Global Perspectives on Policing and Justice" roundtable
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...
Oct
29
2020
"Pandemics Past and Present" roundtable
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...
Oct
27
2020
In Mexico There Are No Mexicans: Lucas Alamán, Decolonization, and Modernization, 1792-1853 (Eric Van Young)
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...
Oct
23
2020
"On the Crisis in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region" (James Millward)
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...
Oct
22
2020
"China as Polylith: It's Time for a New Paradigm in Chinese History" with James Millward
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...
Oct
15
2020
CANCELED: “How to Rig an Election: a Historian’s Guide” roundtable
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...
Oct
2
2020
“From the Women’s March to Black Lives Matter: Citizen Activism and the 2020 Campaign” (Lara Putnam)
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...
Oct
1
2020
“History in a Digital Age: Why Our Ethical and Evidentiary Paradigms Need to be Rebuilt, Fast” (Lara Putnam)
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...
Sep
28
2020
Support the 41: Iranian Student Activism in Northern California, 1970-1971 (Ida Yalzadeh)
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...
Jun
15
2020
Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area — A Talk by Peter Cole
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,...
May
30
2020
2019 Arryman Fellow and Scholars Symposium
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...
May
22
2020
Global Lunchbox: Indigenous Sovereignty Diminished (Doug Kiel, Northwestern)
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...
May
22
2020
Conference on labor in history--CANCELLED
All day
“All in a Day’s Work: Labor in History”—convened by T.H. Breen Graduate Fellow Laura McCOY—Friday, May 22, 2020 with keynote...
May
1
2020
Conference on progress in history
All day
“The Politics of Progress: Growth in and throughout History”—convened by T.H. Breen Graduate Fellow Sean HARVEY—Friday, May 1, 2020 with...
Apr
21
2020
Comparative Memorializations of Soviet Russia and the U.S. Confederacy - Christy Coleman and Maria Lipman
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...
Mar
16
2020
New Narratives on the Peopling of America
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,...
Mar
4
2020
Intellectual Networks and Islamic Realization in 18th Century North Africa (Zachary Wright)
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...
Mar
3
2020
Lecture on Native American literature by Michael Kelly (CCHS/University Libraries/CNAIR)
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...
Feb
26
2020
Lecture on "How to Be An Antiracist" by Ibram Kendi (CAAH/CCHS)
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...
Feb
21
2020
Lina Britto (History, Northwestern): Disciplinary Mestizaje: Medicine, Literature and Ethnography in the Work of Manuel Zapata Olivella
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...
Feb
14
2020
Global Lunchbox: Borders and Bordering in the Polish Second Republic: Refugees and the Shaping of Modern Citizenship
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...
Feb
14
2020
Keely Stauter-Halsted (University of Illinois, Chicago): Borders and Bordering in the Polish Second Republic: Refugees and the Shaping of Modern Citizenship
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...
Feb
10
2020
"Legacies of Slavery in the Era of Eugenics: Charles B. Davenport’s Race-Crossing Studies"
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...
Feb
6
2020
Boyce Lecture in Medieval History by Tamar Herzig (History/CCHS)
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...
Jan
30
2020
Premilla Nadasen: "History, Memory, & Household Worker Organizing"
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,...
Jan
29
2020
What's in the Manuscripts of Timbuktu? (Charles Stewart)
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...
Jan
24
2020
Global Lunchbox: Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise (Lina Britto)
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...
Jan
14
2020
Is Catholic Feminism an Oxymoron? Some Answers from Mexican History. (Margaret Chowning)
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...
Jan
13
2020
"Negotiating Tropical Difference: The Domestication of Meteorology in India, 1880-1960"
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...
Jan
6
2020
Opening up a Few Corpses: Islam, Dissection and Modernity (Khaled Fahmy)
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....
Nov
18
2019
Jean O'Brien and Thomas Stubblefield: Monuments of Omission—Erasure in the Memory Work of Indigenous Cultures and Contemporary Media
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...
Nov
18
2019
"Sex Contextualism"
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...
Nov
13
2019
Iconic Archive: Timbuktu and its Manuscripts in Public Discourse (Susana Molins Lliteras)
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...
Nov
12
2019
"Israel Facing a New Middle East: Challenges and Responses"
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...
Nov
12
2019
Famine, Sovereignty, and the Question of Responsibility in the French Empire
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...
Nov
12
2019
Lecture on the American Museum of Natural History by Ann Fabian (CCHS)
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...
Nov
11
2019
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Devi Mays)
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...
Nov
7
2019
The Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies
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...