12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Jared FARMER (University of Pennsylvania), author of Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees (2022)—Thursday, October 9—LUNCH LECTURE on "Historians,...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Grads! Join your fellow grads and faculty for lunch on Wednesday, October 1, 2025 in Harris Hall, Room 108.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Undergrads! Have lunch with your fellow History undergrads and faculty at 12:30PM - 1:30PM on Monday, September 29, 2025.
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Annual ICE CREAM LECTURE with Scott SOWERBY, author of Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution (2013)—Thursday, September 25—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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professor Susan PEARSON on “Paper People: Documentation, Identity, and Citizenship in U.S. History”—Friday and Saturday, May...
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Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professor Susan PEARSON on “Paper People: Documentation, Identity, and Citizenship in U.S. History”—Friday and Saturday, May...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professors Jonathan BRACK, Sean HANRETTA, and Akinwumi OGUNDIRAN on “Caring for the Dead: Ancestor Veneration, Religious...
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Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professors Jonathan BRACK, Sean HANRETTA, and Akinwumi OGUNDIRAN on “Caring for the Dead: Ancestor Veneration, Religious...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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)...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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May 22, 2023 with Kathleen Belew The History Department's works-in-progress seminar is open to members of the History Department; a paper...
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May 8, 2023 Ed Muir (with Amy Stanley) The History Department's works-in-progress seminar is open to members of the History Department;...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
A conversation between author and publisher Richard COHEN and Prof. Sarah MAZA on "Editing and Publishging Historians." There will be lunchboxes...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
A hybrid (in-person and livestream) symposium on the history of the Mamluk Sultanate in honor of Carl Petry, the Hamad...
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Joint CCHS/University Libraries Lecture on the History of the Book Stephanie NEWELL (Yale University), author of Histories of Dirt in West...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Angela ZIMMERMAN (George Washington University), formelry known as ANDREW ZIMMERMAN, author of Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German...
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“When They Became Pests: Human & Nonhuman Species As Vermin in History” a HYBRID one-day event convened by T.H. Breen Graduate...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Gray Boyce Memorial Lecture in Medieval History: Fiona GRIFFITHS (Stanford University), author of Nuns' Priests' Tales Men and Salvation in Medieval...
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“Global Perspectives on the Prison and Systems of Punishment ” HYBRID one-day graduate conference convened by T.H. Breen Graduate Fellow Chernoh...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Elizabeth HINTON (Yale University), author of the award-winning From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making...
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America, originally published in 1971, is one of the most widely read books in...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Marcy NORTON (University of Pennsylvania), author of Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished lecture on African American History FREE and open to the PUBLIC hybrid event--you can attend in person or...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The History Department and the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies are sponsoring a teach-in, 12:30-1:50, Harris Hall #108, on the...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The History Department and the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies are sponsoring a TEACH-IN tomorrow, 12:30-1:50, Harris Hall #108, on...
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Please join the East Asia Research Forum for a documentary screening with Evans Chan (NU, Screen Culture Ph.D., 2014). USA |...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
The KGB (State Security Committee) and its Soviet-era predecessors were among the key USSR institutions. As one of the major...
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Please join the East Asia Research Forum for a documentary screening with Evans Chan (NU, Screen Culture Ph.D., 2014). (USA/HD/color/117 min/2016; Cantonese/English/...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
David CHANG (University of Minnesota), author of The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration...
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Bianca PREMO (Florida International University), author of The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire (2017) Thursday,...
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
The Nicholas D. Chabrja Center for Historical Studies (CCHS) in collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEFNU) ~...
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Historians @ Home event—for the Northwestern community Thursday, May 20 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Roundtable on “How Do We Choose What We...
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Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies Graduate Conference on "The End of the World as They Knew It: Crisis and...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Nicholas D. Chabraja event—free and open to PUBLIC: Talk by Sophia ROSENFELD (University of Pennsylvania), author of Democracy and Truth: A...
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Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies Graduate Conference on "History of the Self" with Professor Judith COFFIN (UT-Austin, author of the...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
This event is postponed to the Spring Quarter. Roundtable on “The Challenges of Planning Your Research” with Haydon Cherry, Gideon Cohn-Postar,...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Samuel MOYN (Yale University), author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (2018)—in conversation with Daniel Immerwahr (History)...
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Africanization: The Bridge to Edward Blyden's Final Intellectual Transformation Join ISITA for a talk by Harry Nii Koney Odamtten (history, Santa...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Roundtable on “The Politics of Holocaust Memory” with Sarah Cushman, Stefan Ionescu, and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Part of the Historians @ Home...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
History Dept. Teach-in on the Jan. 6 insurrection Lina BRITTO—Autogolpe/Self-Coup: Lessons from Latin America Kate MASUR—Reconstruction and White Supremacy Lauren STOKES—The Transnational Attack...
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
In collaboration with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern (HEFNU) Erin McGLOTHLIN (Washington University, St. Louis), author of Second-Generation Holocaust Literature:...
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
A Historians @ Home roundtable on "Global Perspectives on Policing and Justice" with Lina Britto, Peter Carroll and Sean Hanretta. Open...
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
A Historians @ Home roundtable on "Pandemics Past and Present" with historians Joel Mokyr, Edward Muir and Helen Tilley. Open to...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Please join us on Zoom for this lecture by historian Eric Van Young. The Mexican statesman, entrepreneur, public intellectual, and historian...
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
James MILLWARD (Georgetown University), author of The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (2013) conducts a conversation with Northwestern historian...
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
James MILLWARD (Georgetown University), author of The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (2013) leads a roundtable with Northwestern historians...
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CANCELED due to unforseen cirumstances. We regret any inconvenience. Roundtable on “How to Rig an Election: a Historian’s Guide” featuring historians...
