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Past Events
Alison Bashford, “Reading Modern Hands,” 2022-23 Alison Winter Lecture
Alison Bashford Laureate Professor in History and Director of the Centre for History & Population University of New South Wales "Reading Modern Hands: The Disenchantment of Palmistry" Introduction by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson 27th April, 2023...
North American Conference of British Studies Annual Conference — November 10-13, 2022
The Nicholson Center is proud to be a co-sponsor of NACBS 2022. The Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies will take place in Chicago, November 10-13, 2022. For full details on how to register, see https://www.nacbs.org/conference/.
Ian Duncan, “Darwin’s Human History,” 2021-22 Alison Winter Lecture
2021-22 Alison Winter Lecture Ian Duncan (Professor and Florence Green Bixby Chair in English, University of California, Berkeley) “Darwin's Human History”
Mary Poovey, “Modeling and Its Discontents” — 2018-19 Alison Winter Lecture
2018-19 Alison Winter Lecture Mary Poovey (Emeritus Professor at New York University / Cultural Historian and Literary Critic) “Modeling and Its Discontents”
Janet Browne, “Darwin’s Afterlives: Recollection and the Making of Biography” — 2017-18 Alison Winter Lecture
2017-18 Alison Winter Lecture Janet Browne (Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University) “Darwin’s Afterlives: Recollection and the Making of Biography”
Simon Schaffner, “Time Machines and Memory Devices: Powers of Mind and Modern Histories” — 2016-17 Alison Winter Lecture
2016-17 Alison Winter Lecture Simon Schaffner (Professor of History of Science, University of Cambridge) “Time Machines and Memory Devices: Powers of Mind and Modern Histories”
Fredrik Jonsson, “Fossil Future: Rethinking British History in the Anthropocene” — 2021-22 Nicholson Faculty Lecture
Fredrik Jonsson Associate Professor of British History Department of History & Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science Lecture Title: Fossil Future: Rethinking British History in the Anthropocene Introduction by Dipesh Chakravarty Tuesday, 29 March (2022)...
Steven Pincus, “Thinking the British Empire Whole to 1788” — 2019-2020 Nicholson Faculty Lecture
Steven Pincus Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of British History and the College “Thinking the British Empire Whole to 1788” Thursday, November 7th (2019)
Maud Ellmann, “The Salesman Only Rings Once: The Vacuum Cleaner in Midcentury British Culture” — 2018-19 Nicholson Faculty Lecture
Maud Ellmann Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel Department of English Language and Literature "The Salesman Only Rings Once: The Vacuum Cleaner in Midcentury British Culture" Thursday, February 14th (2019)
Tom Gunning, “Unknown Hitchcock: British and Silent” — 2017-2018 Nicholson Faculty Lecture
Tom Gunning Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor Department of Art History and Department of Cinema and Media Studies Lecture: "Unknown Hitchcock: British and Silent" Thursday, May 3rd (2018)