Events Calendar
Current and Upcoming Events
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
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...
Laurie Shannon – From Eden to the Anthropocene, 10/28, 4pm
Abigail Swingen – The Specter of Jacobitism and the Securing of Britain’s Financial Revolution, 11/8, 3pm
November 8th (FRIDAY) | AbigailSwingen at the Newberry Library British Studies Seminar Abigail Swingen is an Associate Professor in History at Texas Tech University presenting the paper “The Specter of Jacobitism and the Securing of Britain’s Financial Revolution”...
Sarah-Gray Lesley – Falstaff’s Fat Suit, 11/18, 5pm
November 18th (MONDAY) | Sarah-Gray Lesley at the Renaissance Workshop Sarah-Gray Lesley is a Teaching Fellow in English at the University of Chicago presenting the paper “Falstaff’s Fat Suit” Monday at 5:00pm, Rosenwald 405
Moritz Neugebauer – From ‘Masterless’ Vagrants to the Birth of Radicalized Chattel Slavery, 11/20, 4:30 PM
November 20th (WEDNESDAY) | Moritz Neugebauer at the History and Theory of Capitalism Workshop Moritz Neugebauer is an Post-Doctoral Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin and University of Chicago presenting the paper “From ‘Masterless’ Vagrants to the Birth of...
Christophe Jaffrelot – Gujarat to Delhi: Modi’s Strategies to Win and Retain Power, 11/19, 5pm
Fall Research Fellowship Applications are Open!
The Nicholson Center is pleased to announce that applications are now open for our Fall research grants! Both graduate and undergraduate students may apply. The deadline for applications is Friday, November 22nd. The Nicholson center has sponsored a wide range of...
Congratulations to Eli Wizevich and Sammy Aiko Zimmerman, Joint Winners of the 2024 Nicholson-BA Thesis Prize
The Nicholson Center is happy to announce joint winners of the Nicholson Prize for best BA thesis in a British Studies Topic: History BA student Eli Wizevich, for "In Transit and Transition: Shell, the British State, and the Global Fossil Fuel Economy, 1892-1914," and...