Events

Autumn 2023:

On Monday, October 23rd, the Graduate Cluster in British Studies will host Kenan Malik, the Guardian columnist, in conversation with Kennetta Hammond Perry (History), in Harris 108. They’ll be talking about Malik’s new book, Not So Black and White. Lunch will start at 12:15 and the conversation at 12:30.

On Wednesday, October 25th, Matthew Johnson (Anthropology) will be giving a public lecture on Zoom to the Castle Studies Group at 12.00 Central time on “Castles and Britishness.”

This year, the Global Eighteenth-Century Colloquium (GEEC) is being organized by Jennifer Comerford (English) and Alison Gibeily (English/MENA). Their schedule of events is as follows:

  • On Wednesday, November 1 at 5pm on Zoom, they will host a reading group meeting for two chapters of Dr. Rebekah Mitsein‘s book, African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment (University of Virginia Press 2022).
  • On Thursday, November 9 at 12:30pm in the Kaplan Seminar Room (Kresge 2-351), they will host a Graduate Pedagogy Workshop with Dr. Rebekah Mitsein (Boston College) entitled “Teaching the Unwritten Eighteenth Century: Globalizing Anglophone Literature by Thinking Outside the Text.” While this workshop has an eighteenth-century focus, we anticipate that it will be valuable across fields and disciplines. This event is open to graduate students and early career scholars. Lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend the graduate lunch workshop, please send your RSVP to jennifercomerford2023@u.northwestern.edu by Thursday, 2 November to be included in the final headcount.
  • On Thursday, November 9 at 5:15pm in the Kaplan Seminar Room (Kresge 2-351), Dr. Rebekah Mitsein will give a talk entitled “”‘She Followed Her Road Without Pause’: How Three Ethiopian Queens Walked into the European Imagination and Changed Literary History Forever.” The talk will be followed by Q&A and light refreshments.

Winter 2023:

Steve Hindle (History, Washington University) presents “Writing the Biographies of the Overlooked in Seventeenth-Century England” on Monday February 27 at 5:15 pm in Harris 108. More on Prof. Hindle here.

Spring 2022: 

A Discussion of Lynn Festa’s (English, Rutgers University) book Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture on Thursday May 26th, 4PM at The Great Room, 600 Haven St. Evanston IL. Reception to Follow. More on Professor Festa Here.

This event is presented by the British studies cluster with generous support from the English Department, the Science in Human Culture program, the Global Eighteenth Century Colloquium, and the Long Nineteenth Century Colloquium.

Fall 2021 :

James Mullholland (English, North Carolina State University) presents “Before the Raj: Writing in Early Anglophone India” on Wednesday November 17 at 4PM CST on Zoom. More on Prof. Mullholland Here.

Spring 2021:

James Chandler (English, University of Chicago) will present “Laurence Sterne and Ireland: ‘A Seminary for the Humanities’” on Friday, April 16 at 1:00 pm CST. More on Prof. Chandler here.

Events Tied to the Nicholson Center for British Studies at the University of Chicago