Past Schedules

AUTUMN 2015:

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Amy Dru Stanley, Associate Professor of History and the College

“Slave Emancipation and the Revolutionizing of Human Rights”

Discussant: Thomas C. Holt, James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History and the College

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Ashley Finigan, Doctoral Student

Dissertation proposal: “‘There is no such thing as just being local when you’re part of a national movement’: The National Council of Negro Women and the Creation of an International Black Women’s Movement, 1935-1975”

Discussant: Allison Robinson, Doctoral Student

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Brendon O’Connor, Associate Professor of American Politics, University of Sydney

“The Ideology of American Exceptionalism”

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University

Lecture – Presented in partnership with The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 (note different day)

Nicholas Kryczka, Doctoral Student

Dissertation proposal: “Selective Renewal: Education Markets and Urban Renaissance in Post-Civil Rights Chicago”

Thursday, December 3, 2015 (located in the Social Sciences Tea Room)

Paul Kramer, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

Paper title TBA.

 

SPRING 2013:

Thursday, April 4–Sarah Weicksel (Ph.D. candidate, Department of History):”‘The Negro’s Right to Coat of Blue/To Freemen’s Hopes and Manhood Too’: African American Soldiers, Uniforms, and Claims to Citizenship.” Commentator: Katherine Turk (Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas, Dallas).

Tuesday, May 7 (co-sponsored with the Scherer Center for American Culture)–David Henkin (Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley): (Title TBA). Commentator: TBA

Thursday, May 16–Ellen Wu (Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University, Bloomington): (Title TBA). Commentator: TBA

Tuesday, May 21 (co-sponsored with the International History Workshop)–Daniel Immerwahr (Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University): “How to Hide an Empire: The United States and its Overseas Territories.” Commentator: Kenneth Pomeranz (University Professor of Modern Chinese History and the College, University of Chicago)

Thursday, May 30–Celeste Moore (Ph.D. candidate, Department of History): (Title TBA). Commentator: TBA

 

WINTER 2011:

January 20:  Julia Brookins, PhD Student at the University of Chicago, “Immigrant Settlers and Frontier Citizens: Germans in the Mexican Borderlands, 1835-1880.”

February 16, 4:30 p.m., Kelly 114: Kathryn Schumaker, PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago, “Civil Rights and Uncivil Society: School Desegregation in the Midwest, 1967-1985.”

March 3, 4:30 p.m., John Hope Franklin Room:  Stephen Miller, Associate Professor of French and European History at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, “Peasants, Markets and Capitalism in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century France, New England and the Midwest.”  Co-sponsored with the Modern France Workshop.

March 7, 10:30 a.m., Location TBD:  Sarah Levine-Gronningsater, PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago, “The Law as a Fickle Friend: Race, Age, and Freedom in New York, 1799-1841.”

FALL 2010:

November 17, 2010: Christopher Dingwall, PhD Student, University of Chicago

Co-Sponsored with American Literatures and Cultures

4:00 p.m., Rosenwald 405

November 22, 2010: Paul Schor, Associate Professor in American History and American Studies, Department of Anglophone Studies, Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France

“The Politics of Counting People:  An American example” (A talk based on his recently published book, Compter et classer. Histoire des recensements américains, 1790-1940. Editions de l’EHESS, 2009)

4:30 p.m., John Hope Franklin Room – Social Sciences 224

December 3, 2010: Paul Cheney, Assistant Professor of Modern European History, University of Chicago

Co-sponsored with the Modern France Workshop

“A Colonial Cul de Sac: Saint-Domingue during the American War of Independence”

4 p.m., Wieboldt 408

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