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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...
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...
All day
CCHS graduate conference on "Punishment and Its Discontents" (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) with keynote address by Heather Ann Thompson (University...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
The Chabraja Center for Historical Studies lunch lecture (lunch starts at 12:15, the lecture about 12:30 p.m.): Cynthia RADDING (UNC), author...
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The GRAY BOYCE Memorial lecture in Medieval History byBrian CATLOS (University of Colorado), author of The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Please join us for a panel discussion to celebrate three new books published this year by members of the History...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
The Chabraja Center for Historical Studies lunch lecture (lunch starts at 12:15, the lecture about 12:30 p.m.): Anand YANG (University of...
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Joint CCHS/University Library Lecture on the History of the Book: ERIC SLAUTER (U of Chicago), author of The State as...
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished lecture on African American HistoryDavid BLIGHT (Yale University), author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Due to unforeseen circumstances we regret the Jan. 12 lecture is CANCELLED. We hope to rechedule it. The Chabraja Center for...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
The Chabraja Center for Historical Studies lunch lecture (lunch starts at 12:15, the lecture about 12:30 p.m.): Giancarlo CASALE (University of...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
The Chabraja Center for Historical Studies lunch lecture (lunch starts at 12:15, the lecture about 12:30 p.m.) in collaboration with...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
The Chabraja Center for Historical Studies lunch lecture (lunch starts at 12:15, the lecture about 12:30 p.m.): Tara ZAHRA (U of...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
The Chabraja Center for Historical Studies in collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEF): Paul JASKOT (DePaul University), author...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Michael COOK (Princeton University) "Was the Rise of Islam a Black Swan Event?" Tuesday, May 10
All day
CONFERENCE “Intimate Histories: Intersections between the Global and the Personal”Friday, April 15 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Convener:...
All day
CONFERENCE “Tradition, Myth and History: The Power of the Past”Friday, April 1 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Convener:...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Joint CCHS/History lecture (with lunch)Alexandra WALSHAM (Cambridge U)"'The Fanatique Rage of the Late Times': Iconoclasm, Reputation and Memory in the...
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
CCHS/CAAH Distinguished lecture on African American HistoryDonna MURCH (Rutgers University)“Crack in Los Angeles: Policing the Crisis and the War on...
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Joint CCHS/University Library Lecture on the History of the BookJanice RADWAY (NU)“Girl Zines, the 1990s, and the Challenge of Historical...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
CCHS Lunch Lecture Series from 12:15 to 1:50 p.m. (with catered lunch): Kenneth POMERANZ (University of Chicago) “How Did China Get so...
