May 17
Center for Historical Studies Speaker
Elie Rekhess
Program of Jewish Studies and Visiting Professor
“Arabs in a Jewish State - Between Integration and Separation.
***
Monday, May 14, 2007, 5:00 p.m.
Harris Hall #107
Bi-Annual Holocaust Educational Foundation Lecture
“1943: Jewish Culture and Civilization at Ground Zero”
David Roskies
Sol and Evelyn Henkind Professor of Yiddish Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary
***
May 8
Center for Historical Studies Speaker
Christopher Grasso
Editor of the William and Mary Quarterly
“The ‘Gauntlet’ of Academic Publishing.”
***
May 3
Center for Historical Studies Speaker
Zachary Lockmann
Professor of Mideastern History, New York University
“Shifting Paradigms, Contentious Politics: Trends in the Historiography of the Modern Middle East.”
***
April 19
Center for Historical Studies Speaker
Dorothy Ko
Professor of Chinese History, Barnard University
“The Body of the Artisan: The Case of Gu Erniang (ca. 1662 – ca. 1724), a Female Inkstone Carver.”
***
April 17, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Pick-Staiger Hall
The 2007 Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
“Guenter Grass and My German Question—Again”
Peter Gay
Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University
***
April 12
Center for Historical Studies Speaker
Colin Calloway
Dartmouth Center for Native American Studies
“(More) New Directions in American Indian History: Where Do We Go From Here?”
***
Tuesday, February 20, 2007, 5:00 p.m.
McCormick Tribune Center Forum
The Allan Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
“Lost Between Memory and History: Writing the Holocaust for the Next Generation”
Daniel Mendelsohn
Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities, Bard College
***
December 1: Frederick Cooper
NYU - Professor of History
***
November 10: David Blackbourn
Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University
***
November 7: Susan Ferber
History Editor, Oxford University Press
***
October 27: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
***
September 29: Natalie Zemon Davis
Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emerita, Princeton University. Currently adjunct professor of History and Medieval Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, Canada
***
May 4, 2006, 12:30 p.m.
Harris Hall 108
James Green
Professor of History and Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Boston
Retelling an Old Story for a New Time
Contextualizing and Dramatizing the History of the Haymarket Tragedy of May 4, 1886
- flyer -
***
April 28, 2006, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
1902 Sheridan
Benjamin Frommer
The Postwar Reckoning:
Europe’s Confrontation with its Nazi Past
sponsored by the Center for International and Comparative Studies
***
April 28: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. &
April 29: 9:00 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Harris Hall 108
"The Genius of the People"
New Perspectives on the American Revolution
A Conference sponsored by
The Graduate School, Northwestern University
For information, please contact David Davidson at:
d-davidson@northwestern.edu
***
Black Europe & the African Diaspora
April 21-22, 2006
A Symposium Sponsored by The Center for African American History, Department of African American Studies, Department of History, Office of the Provost, Institute for Diaspora Studies, The Graduate School, Center for International and Comparative Studies, and Program of African Studies
Website: http://www.cas.northwestern.edu/afam/blkeurope/
***
Monday, April 17, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Harris Hall 107
Ken Alder
Milton H. Wilson Professor in the Humanities
Inaugural Lecture
Technology of Truth: Lies, Damn Lies, and the American Polygraph
***
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 12.30
Harris Hall 108
Mary-Louise Roberts
Department of History, University of Wisconsin at Madison
The Myth of the Manly GI:
Gender and Photojournalism in the Second World War
Presented by The Department of History, the Gender Studies Program and the French Interdisciplinary Group
***
Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Harris Hall, Room 108
Anthony L. Cardoza
Professor of History, Loyola University, Chicago
The Contested Duce: Recent Debates on Benito Mussolini and
Italian Fascism
Presented by The Friends of Italian Culture and the Department of History
***
Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 12:30-2 p.m.
Harris Hall, 108
History Department Colloquium:
Jacob Lassner
History/Religion Department, Northwestern University
Is There an Islamic Solution to the Israel-Palestinian Problem:
Memory, Innovation, and the Ideology of Hamas
***
Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 12:30-2 p.m.
Harris Hall 108
History Department Colloquium:
Tijana Krstic
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Northwestern University
The Gospel in Dispute—Muslim-Christian Polemics and the Ottoman-Habsburg Imperial Rivalry in the Sixteenth Century
***
Thursday, March 9, 2006, 5 p.m.
University Hall 201
Mae Ngai
University of Chicago
Rethinking the Japanese American internment of World War II
American Cultures Colloquium co-sponsored by the Department of English, Asian American Studies Program, Department of History, Department of African American Studies, and the American Studies Program
***
Friday, March 3, 2006, 4:30 p.m.
Harris Hall 107
Dwight A. McBride
Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies
Race, Faith, and Sexuality:
Or a Snapshot Genealogy of the Grateful Negro
and
Darlene Clark Hine
Professor of African American Studies & History
Maude Callen (1898-1990), Nurse-Midwife, and
Community Building in the Era of Jim Crow, 1890-1954
Inaugural Lectures to celebrate the new doctoral program in African American Studies
Presented by the Department of African American Studies &
the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
***
February 10, 2006, 12:30-2 p.m.
Harris Hall 108
Alexander Kulik
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Jews in Old Rus: Sources and Historical Reconstruction
***
January 26, 2006, 12:30
Harris Hall 108
Michael Grossberg
Creating Child Protection: Age and the Persistent Challenges of American Social Policy
***
January 20, 2006, 12:00 Noon
University Hall, Room 122
Sokhieng Au
Northwestern University
Making the Modern Bubonic Plague in Colonial Cambodia
***
January 3-February 14, 2006
Tomiyama Taeko exhibit
Remembrance and Reconciliation
in Dittmar Gallery in the Norris Student Center
Related Speakers:
Monday January 9, 2006, 5 p.m.
University Hall 122
Lecture by Rebecca Jennison
Professor of Japanese Literature at Kyoto Seika University
Gender, Geography, and Memory in Tomiyama Taeko's 'Requiem for the Twentieth Century'
Monday January 16, 2006, Harris 108
Lecture by Yuki Miyamoto
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religions Studies at DePaul University
Fire and Femininity: Fox Imagery in Japanese Folklore
***
Friday, January 6th, 12 noon
University Hall, American Studies lounge, Room 20
Mats Fridlund
Northwestern University
Engineering Ideologies: Histories of Modern Technopolitics from Nationalism to Terrorism
Presented by The Klopsteg seminar series in
Science in Human Culture
***
Monday, Dec. 5, 2005, 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Humanities Center seminar room
2010 Sheridan Road, Evanston
David Schoenbrun
Department of History
& current Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities Fellow
Violence and Scorn in Eastern African Slavery Before 1800
A Center Workshop for faculty and graduate students
Thursday, December 1, 5-7pm
Norris University Center, Ohio State Room
A Tribute to the Life & Legacy of Rosa Parks
The 50th Anniversary of Her Historic Act
Viewing of "Eyes on the Prize - Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott"
Discussion Moderators:
Professor Martha Biondi, African American Studies
Professor Dylan Penningroth, History
Sponsored by African American Student Affairs
Monday, November 28, 2005, 3:00 p.m.
Harris Hall, Room 307
Joyce Chaplin
Professor of History
Harvard University
Maps, Empire, and Benjamin Franklin
Tuesday, November 22, 2005, 12 Noon
Harris 108
Naoko Shibusawa
Assistant Professor of History
Brown University
& NU History Alumni
A Transpacific No-No Boy: The Treason Trial of Tomoya Kawakita
presented by The Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Program, Asian American Studies Program, and the Department of History
Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Harris 107
Tom Daschle
LEOPOLD LECTURE:
The American Journey: New Paths and Opportunities in a Changing World
Tuesday, November 1, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Harris 108
Melissa Macauley, Northwestern University
Improvisation and the Discussion Section
presented by the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence
Thursday, October 20, 12:00 p.m.
Kresge 1-375
Peter Hayes, Northwestern University
From Aryanization to Auschwitz: Degussa in the Third Reich
presented by the Department of German
Wednesday, October 12, 4:00 p.m.
1902 Sheridan Rd.
Josef Barton, Northwestern University
At the Edge of the Storm: Mexican Rural People in an Emerging Regime of Consumption, 1880-1930
presented by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Urban Historian Henry Binford speaks on
Hurricane Katrina disaster
Chicago Public Radio (NPR) "Odyssey" program
"The Social Geography of Death"
aired on September 26, 2005
link to audio recording
Panel discussion sponsored by the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
October 17, 2005
link to video recording
Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 12:30-2 p.m., Harris 108
Tijana Krstic, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
"Islam, Syncretism, and Anti-Syncretism in the Early Modern Ottoman Balkans."
Monday, May 16, 2005
James Holston, UCSD
TBA
Monday, April 18, 2005, 4-5:30 p.m., 620 Library Pl.
Scott Straus, University of Wisconsin
The Dynamics of Genocide in Rwanda
Monday, April 4, 2005, 12:30 p.m., Harris 108
Patrick Singy
"Using Women and Abusing Oneself: Experiencing Sex in the Eighteenth Century."
April 2005, date TBA
Asian American Studies Conference
Speakers: Gary Okihiro of Columbia University and Evelyn Hu-Dehart of Brown University
Friday and Saturday, March 4-5, All Day, Harris 108
Workshop: "Remapping the Ottoman World: History, Legacy, Culture History."
Friday, March 4, 2005, noon, CICS
Peter Carroll, Northwestern University
"Suicide, the media, and the search for causality in Republican China."
Friday, February 11, 2005, noon, University 201 (Hagstrum Rm)
Pauline Kusiak, Northwestern University
"Medical Instruments, Mentalities-Talk, and Civil Epistemologies of Late Colonialism in French West Africa."
Thursday, February 10, 2005, 4 pm, 620 Library (PAS)
Richard Roberts, Stanford University
"Social Conflict, Court Cases, and the End of Slavery in the French Soudan."
Monday, February 7, 2005, 12:30 pm, Harris 108
Michael Kramer, University of North Carolina
"Fighting with Rock and Soul: Countercultural Music in Southeast Asia During the Vietnam War."
Monday, January 24, 2005
Prof. Kathryn Barrett-Gaines, University Of Maryland-Eastern Shore
Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 4 pm, Harris 108
Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan
"Crossing the Gulf: Overlapping Freedom Struggles in Cuba and Louisiana, 1869-1899."
Monday, November 8, 2004, Noon, Harris 108
Penny Von Eschen, Department of History, University of Michigan
"Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War"
Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 7:30 pm, Harris 107
The 15th Annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture
The 15th Annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture welcomes Fareed Zakaria, political commentator and editor of Newsweek International. He will deliver, "The Next Security Crisis: Global Threats and U.S. Foreign Policy" on Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 7:30 pm in Harris 107, 1881 Sheridan Road. Book signing and reception to follow. Free and open to the public. Call 847/467-3005 for more information.
Friday and Saturday, October 22-23, 2004
Haitian Revolution Conference
French & Italian
Monday, October 18, 2004, Noon, Harris 108
Michael Salman, Department of History, UCLA
“Collecting the Empire: The Philippines and American Imperial Knowledge in the Chalabian Moment"
Monday, October 4, 2004
Dina Rubina, an acclaimed Russian-Jewish writer
will be presenting her newly published Russian book
SINDIKAT: roman-komiks (Moscow, 2004)
Friday, April 9, 2004, noon
Carolyn Dean, Brown University
"Goldhagen's Celebrity: Numbness and Empathy in History Writing about the Holocaust"
Harris 108
Thursday, November 20, 2003
David Kertzer, Prof. of Anthropology at Brown, will talk on "The Catholic Church and Antisemitism"
Wednesday, October 22, 2003. 7:30 p.m.
Annual Richard W. Leopold Lectureship.
Guest Speaker: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
"Patriotism and Dissent in Wartime"
Harris Hall, Room 107 (Accenture Forum).
Reception to Follow in Harris Hall, Room 108.
The Annual Leopold Lecture is one way we honor our retired colleague, Professor Emeritus Richard W. Leopold.
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Gerald Feldman, Prof. of History at Berkeley, will give the Holocaust Educational Foundation Biennial Lecture
Friday, October 10, 2003. Noon.
Jacques Revel, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
"The Political Uses of the Past"
Scott Hall, the Ripton Room.
"Are Mexican Americans 'Whites or People of Color'?: Comparing 'Brown' and Black Organizing for Access to Good Jobs in the 1960s and 1970s"
Institute for Policy Research Colloquium
Nancy MacLean, Associate Professor of History and IPR Faculty Associate
May 19, 2003, 12:00-1:00 pm
Conference Room, 617 Library Place
Contact: Patricia Reese, ipr
northwestern.edu or 847-491-8712
“‘Like a Mayor in Wartime': Occupation and Nazification in the Netherlands from the Perspective of Local Government”
Dr. Peter Romijn, Chair of 20th century History, University of Amsterdam and Head of Research and Deputy Director of the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation
Monday, April 14th, 4 p.m.
University Hall, room 118
"Crisis of Legitimate Authority in Colombia"
A Conference featuring: Frank Safford, Northwestern University; Eduardo Posada-Carbo, University of Chicago; Herbert Braun, University of Virginia; Joanne Rappaport, Georgetown University; Victoria Sanford, Notre Dame University; Mary Roldan, Cornell University; Claudia Steiner, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota; Marc Chernick, Georgetown University; and Ambassador Curt Kamman.
April 12th, 2003
Harris Hall, room 108
9:30 am- 6 pm
Contact cicsnorthwestern.edu or call 847-467-2770 for details
"Imagining the Other in the Middle East: Jewish and Arab/Muslim Narratives"
An International Conference Hosted by:
The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies
Wednesday and Thursday, April 9-10
http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/jewish-studies/imagining/
"'the ends of sexuality': Pleasure and Danger in the New Millennium"
The Edith Kreeger Wolf Conference
presented by The Gender Studies Program at Northwestern
April 4-5, 2003
Speakers include: Leo Bersani, University of California, Berkeley; Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago; Lisa Duggan, New York University; David Halperin, University of Michigan; Cora Kaplan, University of Southampton; Dorinne Kondo, University of Southern California; Valerie Traub, University of Michigan; Michael Warner, Rutgers University.
Free and open to the public. Advance registration required.
http://www.genderstudies.northwestern.edu/conference.htm
