
Visit the new Center for Historical Studies web site:
http://www.historicalstudies.northwestern.edu/
Events
Friday, January 25
4:30 to 6:00 P.M.
Harris 108
Center for Historical Studies
Celebration
and book-signing of the new Leopold biography,
Steven J. Harper's Straddling Two Worlds:
The Jewish-American Journey
of Professor Richard W. Leopold
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Thursday, February 28
12:15 to 2:00 P.M.
Harris 108
Center for Historical Studies Panel
Laura Hein, Josef Barton, and Peter Hayes
"What responsibilities do historians have
as scholars to address
the pressing
concerns of contemporary society?"
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SPRING 2008 CHS SPEAKERS will include:
Dylan Penningroth (History, NU)
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Christof Mauch (Munich)
Tuesday, April 22
Christopher Bayly (Cambridge)
Thursday, May 1
Laura de Mello e Souza (Sao Paulo)
Thursday, May 8
Edward Ayers (Virginia)
Thursday, May 22
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Saturday, April 5
10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Harris 108
CHS Graduate Fellows
Workshop
on Environmental History
with keynote speaker
Richard White
Margaret Byrne Professor of American History
Stanford University
Convener: Strother Roberts
Saturday, May 17
10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Hagstrum Room
University Hall 201
CHS Graduate Fellows
Workshop
on Reconstructing Social History
in a Post-Structural World
with keynote speaker
Keith Wrightson
Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History
Yale University
Convener: Lonnie Robbins
