May
21
2025
Graduate-Faculty Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Graduates - Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty. If this will be your first time all...
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May
19
2025
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...
May
14
2025
History of the Book lecture by C. Zeltsman (CCHS/NUL)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
History of the Book Lecture (CCHS/University Libraries) Corinna ZELTSMAN (Princeton), author of Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico...
May
14
2025
Rescuing Ansky's Ethnographic Expedition into the Pale of Settlement During a Time of Crisis
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
RSVP for lunch here. Thank you! In this talk, Jonathan Brent, CEO and Executive Director of The YIVO Institute for Jewish...
May
8
2025
CCHS lecture on late imperial China by M. Sommer
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Matthew SOMMER (Stanford University), author of The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China...
May
3
2025
CCHS conference on documentation, identity, and citizenship in the USA: Day 2
All day
Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professor Susan PEARSON on “Paper People: Documentation, Identity, and Citizenship in U.S. History”—Friday and Saturday, May...
May
2
2025
CCHS conference on documentation, identity, and citizenship in the USA: Day 1
All day
Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professor Susan PEARSON on “Paper People: Documentation, Identity, and Citizenship in U.S. History”—Friday and Saturday, May...
Apr
30
2025
Graduate-Faculty Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Graduates - Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty. If this will be your first time all...
Apr
24
2025
Medieval history Lecture
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Gray Boyce Memorial Lecture in Medieval History (CCHS/History) Jamie KREINER (UCLA), author of The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us...
Apr
14
2025
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...
Apr
10
2025
CCHS Serhii Plokhii lecture
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Serhii PLOKHII (Harvard), author of The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (2015) and The Last Empire: The Final...
Apr
5
2025
Conference on caring for the dead in Africa and the Mongolian Empire: Day 2
All day
Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professors Jonathan BRACK, Sean HANRETTA, and Akinwumi OGUNDIRAN on “Caring for the Dead: Ancestor Veneration, Religious...
Apr
4
2025
CCHS conference on caring for the dead in Africa and the Mongolian Empire: Day 1
All day
Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professors Jonathan BRACK, Sean HANRETTA, and Akinwumi OGUNDIRAN on “Caring for the Dead: Ancestor Veneration, Religious...
Mar
14
2025
Midwestern History Reading Group
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Friday, March 14th 3:30-5pm, Harris Hall 101 Midwestern History Reading Group with Professor Doug Kiel Book selection—Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Meatpacking America: How Migration,...
Feb
27
2025
Reimagining “Women” in 1970s–1980s Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Shōjo | Manga Artists and Fans
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
In the early 1970s, Japan saw the emergence of three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who...
Feb
26
2025
Graduate/Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Graduates - Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty. If this will be your first time all...
Feb
25
2025
LACS | Histories of Solitude and Perplexity: Colombia Revisited
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Please join LACS in celebrating the launch of the recent Routledge series on the history of Colombia. Co-editors Lina Britto...
Feb
24
2025
Remembering to Forget: Histories and Legacies of Enslavement in Iran | Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Princeton
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
MENA welcomes Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Princeton. She will lecture on her book The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran. Lunch will...
Feb
20
2025
CCHS lecture on the Spanish Empire by M. McKinley
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Michelle McKINLEY (University of Oregon), author of Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 (2016)—Thursday, February...
Feb
18
2025
Cakes and Classes
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Join us for historically-themed cake and chat with faculty members about their upcoming Winter courses! This is one of History's...
Jan
29
2025
Rescheduled: Graduate/Faculty Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Graduates - Join lunch with your fellow History graduate students and faculty. If this will be your first time all...
Jan
22
2025
Solidarity and Civil Rights: Race, Caste, and Nonviolence - A Conversation with Nico Slate (History, Carnegie Mellon)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Nico Slate, Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon, will be in conversation with Daniel Immerwahr (Professor of History) and Ivy...
Nov
21
2024
Book talk on The Carceral City
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
John BARDES (Louisiana State University) will give a talk about his recently published book, The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of...
Nov
20
2024
Undergraduate-Faculty Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Undergrads! Join lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty at 12:30PM - 2:00PM. If this will be your first...
Nov
19
2024
Lecture on Black women and mass incarceration in the U.S.
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Talitha LeFLOURIA (University of Texas at Austin), author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New...
Nov
18
2024
MENA Monday | The Afrabians: The Rise of the Arab Gulf in the Horn of Africa | Alden Young
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Please join MENA in welcoming Alden Young, Yale. He will give a lecture "The Afrabians: The Rise of the Arab...
Nov
18
2024
Sanders Seminar Lecture: Prof. Katya Motyl on Embodied Histories
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
On behalf of the History Department and the Ian Sanders Seminar, Katya Motyl of Temple University will be giving a...
Nov
13
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...
Nov
11
2024
Cakes and Classes
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Join us for historically-themed cake and chat with faculty members about their upcoming Winter courses! This is one of History's...
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...
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...