Past Events
Distinguished Guest Speaker: Dr. Julia Alexander
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On March 4th, Dr. Alexander gave a lecture titled “The Museum as Cenotaph or Time-Machine? Thoughts on Art, History, and Institutions in Our Nearsighted Moment” followed by a reception in the Robert Earl Paige bedecked lobby. On March 5th, Dr. Alexander spoke with Dr. Andrei Pop (Allan and Jean Frumkin Professor of Art History and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago), moderated by Dr. Steve Pincus (Interim Director of the Nicholson Center and Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of History at the University of Chicago), in the Smart Museum’s Study Room.
Chicago British Studies Symposium
On January 24-25, 2025, the Nicholson Center for British Studies hosted our inaugural Chicago British Studies Symposium in the Social Science Tea Room.
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...
Congratulations to Caroline Funk, Winner of the 2024 Nicholson-MAPH Thesis Prize
The Nicholson Center is proud to announce that Caroline Funk has received the 2024 Nicholson-MAPH Thesis Prize for her project "Capital, Patriarchy, and Kinship: The Epitemological Evolution from Marital Risk to Communal Redemption in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda."...
Frank Trentmann – Demanding Citizens: Everyday Environments and New Narratives of Modern Britain, 5/23, 5pm
In collaboration with The Nicholson Center for British Studies The Department of History presents The Schaffner Visiting Professor Lecture (2023-24) Frank Trentmann Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London Demanding Citizens Everyday...
Rosinka Chaudhuri – A New Category: The People of India, 4/25, 3pm
Rosinka Chaudhuri A New Category: The People of India Thursday, 4/25, 3:00pm | Rosenwald 105 This paper will try to show that it was in the combined arenas of literature, culture, politics, petitions and associations in Calcutta in the late 1830s and early 1840s that...
4/3, 4-6pm CST, New Projects and Directions in British Sources Colloquium, Classics 110
3/5, 5-6:30pm, Esther Sin-Ching Yu, “On the Novel as Practice: The Conscience-Consciousness Nexus and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)”
Please join the Renaissance Workshop TUESDAY, March 5th, when Esther Sin-Ching Yu Assistant Professor of English, Stanford University presents the paper “On the Novel as Practice: The Conscience-Consciousness Nexus and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)” TUESDAY,...
Nicholson Faculty Lecture: Ulrike Stark, 4/24, 5pm
The Nicholson Center for British Studies Nicholson Faculty Lecture (2023-24) Ulrike Stark Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago Majestic Patronage Muslim and Christian Printing at the Lucknow Royal Press, 1819-1849 Introduction by...
Community Event: Uncommon Wealth at Pilsen Community Books, 2/9
Consider joining Nicholson Center Faculty Affiliate Julian Go this Friday, February 9th, at Pilsen Community Books, where he will be in discussion with Dr. Kojo Koram regarding Dr. Koram's book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. The discussion will...
Watch now: Karuna Mantena – Gandhi and Late Victorian Radicalism
Professor Karuna Mantena's Alison Winter Lecture is now available for streaming on the Nicholson Center's Youtube page. Tune in to learn more about Gandhi's early political development and the literary and activist milieu in which he circulated. Professor Mantena's...