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Serbest Kurdish Studies Conference

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...

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
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,...

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
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
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
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
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...

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...

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
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...

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...

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...

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
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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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
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...

Oct
28
2019

"Water and the Making of Modern India"

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...

May
15
2019

Lecture on Controversial Mughal History

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...

May
2
2019

Todd Shepard lecture (CCHS)

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),...

Apr
12
2019

Conference on migration

All day

Graduate CONFERENCE on “Walls and Bridges: Migration and Its Histories” (convened by Breen Fellow Aram SARKISIAN)Friday, April 12—all day, starting...