Events Calendar
Current and Upcoming Events
Richard Strier – George Herbert and Renaissance Poetry, 2/4, 12pm
Please join the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop and the Renaissance Workshop TUESDAY, February 4th, when Richard Strier Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature, University of Chicago will virtually present the paper “George Herbert and...
Jonathan Connolly in Conversation with Kaneesha Parsard – 2/6, 4pm
Seminary Co-Op, Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Jonathan Connolly will discuss Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation. He will be joined by Nicholson affiliate faculty Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard. A Q&A and signing will...
Ian Harnarine – “Doubles” 2/7, 7pm
“Doubles,” with Director Ian Harnarine Logan Center for the Arts Screening Room (915 E 60th Street) Friday, February 7 at 7pm Free and open to the public, food and drink to follow https://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/event/doubles Ian Harnarine’s debut feature...
Anti-Colonial/De-Colonial Text and Print in the Cold War Era: Lives and Afterlives, 2/7-2/8
Anti-Colonial/De-Colonial Text and Print in the Cold War Era: Lives and Afterlives https://irn-postcolonial-print-cultures.org/index.php/events/international-conferences/ 7-8 February 2025, Calcutta This conference of the International Research Network on Postcolonial...
Jessica Swanston Baker – “Island Time” 3CT New Book Salon, 3/31, 5pm
3CT New Book Salon Monday, March 31, 2025, 5:00–6:30pm Classics 110, 1010 E. 59th St. In Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis (University of Chicago Press, 2024 ), ethnomusicologist Jessica Swanston Baker examines wylers, a musical form from...
Kirsten Macfarlane – Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World, 4/28, 12pm
Kirsten Macfarlane: Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World The Dean’s Forum puts Divinity School faculty members from across disciplines into conversation with each other to discuss their colleagues’ new works. The Divinity School warmly...
Jim Secord – “Signs of the Times” 2024-25 Alison Winter Lecture, 5/6, 4:30pm
'Signs of the Times: Caricaturing the March of Intellect in the Age of the Machine' Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 4:30pm Classics 110 Introduction by James (Jim) Chandler The early nineteenth century witnessed a transformation...
Anand Venkatkrishnan in Conversation with Kirsten Macfarlane – 2/17, 12pm
February 17, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm CST Hyde Park Campus Swift Hall, Common Room The Dean’s Forum puts Divinity School faculty members from across disciplines into conversation with each other to discuss their colleagues’ new works. The Divinity School warmly welcomes...
Glover Conducts English Classics, 2/20-2/22
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Feb 20-22, 2025 https://cso.org/performances/24-25/cso-classical/glover-and-english-classics/ Mixing ceremonial pomp with pastoral splendor, this survey of British classics features Haydn’s last and grandest symphonic statement, the London...
Tyler Talbott – Channel 4 Workshops and the Death of the Director, 2/21, 3pm
February 21, 2025 at 3pm https://www.newberry.org/calendar/tyler-talbott Channel 4 Workshops and the Death of the Director Tyler Talbott, Assistant Professor of 20th/21st-century British Literature, Creighton University Aimed at providing integrated film educational,...
Julia Alexander – The Museum as Cenotaph or Time-Machine? 3/4, 4pm
The Museum as Cenotaph or Time-Machine? Thoughts on Art, History, and Institutions in Our Nearsighted Moment Co-Presented by the Nicholson Center for British Studies and the Smart Museum of Art, UChicago Public Lecture on Tuesday, March 4th at 4pm, with reception to...
Art and Historicity: Julia Alexander in Conversation with Andrei Pop, 3/6, 4:30pm
Art and Historicity: Julia Alexander in conversation with Andrei Pop Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 4:30pm Organized by the Nicholson Center for British Studies, in partnership with the Smart Museum and the Art History Department. Join us in the Smart Museum's Education...
Call for Papers – Global 1776: Imperial Worlds in Upheaval
The American Revolution is often told as a national story. Yet it was also part of a series of world events which culminated in a global age of imperial crisis lasting from the 1760s through the 1820s. That crisis was simultaneously intellectual, cultural, political,...
Past Events
Jim Secord – “Signs of the Times” 2024-25 Alison Winter Lecture, 5/6, 4:30pm
'Signs of the Times: Caricaturing the March of Intellect in the Age of the Machine' Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 4:30pm Classics 110 Introduction by James (Jim) Chandler The early nineteenth century witnessed a transformation...
James Chandler: Yeats and the Poetry of ‘Romantic Ireland’ – 1/22, 5pm
James Chandler: Yeats and the Poetry of 'Romantic Ireland’ The History and Form of the Lyric Annual Lecture Wednesday, January 22nd, 5:00–6:20pm Rosenwald 405James Chandler, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of English and CMS
Kaneesha Parsard and Nikhita Obeegadoo – Afterlives of Indenture in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean, 1/16, 4pm
RDI Diasporas Workshop “Afterlives of Indenture in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean” Thursday, January 16, 2025, 4:-5:30pm Kelly Hall Room 108 https://events.uchicago.edu/event/242214-rdi-diasporas-workshop-kaneesha-parsard-and
Kashaf Qureshi – Pain without Pathos, 1/17, 11:30am
Kashaf Qureshi at the Medieval Studies Workshop “Pain without Pathos: Affective Detachment in the Lyric Dialogue Stond Wel, Moder, Ounder Rode” Kashaf Qureshi PhD Candidate, English, UChicago Friday, January 17th, 11:30-1:00pm CST Rosenwald 405 With a response from...
Boone Ayala – The Cedars and the Shrub, 1/24, 3pm
British Studies Seminar, Jan 24, 2025, 3:00pm–5:00pm At the Newberry – Classroom B-84 https://www.newberry.org/calendar/christopher-montague-northwestern-university The Cedars and the Shrub: The Political Theory of Corporations and the Demise of the Massachusetts Bay...
Chicago British Studies Symposium, 1/24-1/25
The Nicholson Center for British Studies presents CHICAGO BRITISH STUDIES SYMPOSIUM Friday, January 24 - Saturday, January 25, 2025 Social Science Research Building, Tea Room (201) The goal of our first inaugural symposium is to stimulate cross-departmental and...
Dunedin Consort – In Concert, 11/15, 7:30pm
Dunedin Consort Friday, November 15 // 7:30PM Mandel Hall (Reynolds Club) “The Dunedins approach the score with a scholarly angle…but it’s the heart rather than the head that informs their music making.” – BBC Music Magazine Bearing the ancient Celtic...
Early Global Caribbean Conference: Convergences – 10/18, 10am-4:30pm
Early Global Caribbean Conference: Convergences Friday, October 18, 2024–Saturday, October 19, 2024 10:00 am PDT – 4:30 pm PDT The Conference will be available for Livestream on the Center’s Youtube channel.
Timothy Harrison – Privation and Incapacity in the Anthropology of John Milton, 10/25, 12pm
October 25th (FRIDAY) | Timothy Harrison at the History and Philosophy of Science Workshop Timothy Harrison is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago presenting the paper “Privation and Incapacity in the Anthropology of John Milton” Friday at...
