September 10, 2019 to December 7, 2019

EXHIBITION | Queer Forms

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This multidisciplinary group exhibition and series of public programs investigates and celebrates the history, politics and culture of LGBTQ+ Liberation across a range of artistic forms and...

September 12, 2019

America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

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In her groundbreaking history, Pamela Nadell asks, “What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America”? Weaving together stories from the colonial era’s Grace Nathan to her great-...

September 13, 2019

CEMH Lecture: Anna Graber "The Lisbon Earthquake's Russian Aftershocks...

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"The Lisbon Earthquake's Russian Aftershocks: Enlightenment Debates and the Mineral Science of Mikhail Lomonosov" The defining natural event of the Enlightenment, the Great Lisbon...

September 13, 2019

Meghan Page, "The Role of Historical Science in Methodological Actualism"

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The Role of Historical Science in Methodological Actualism Meghan Page Department of Philosophy, Loyola University Abstract: Much of the most reliable information about the nature of...

September 21, 2019

RECEPTION + FASHION SHOW | Queer Forms

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Join us for a reception and fashion show featuring original fashion designs by Oskar Ly to celebrate Queer Forms, a multidisciplinary exhibition and public programs that investigates and...

September 26, 2019

Artist Talk: Michela Griffo and Alma López

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Join us for an artist talk with Michela Griffo and Alma López . New York-based artist Michela Griffo was an early member of the Gay Liberation Front, along with Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia...

September 27, 2019

CEMH Lecture: Shira Brisman "How Light is Spent

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"How Light is Spent" In 1551, the German engraver, waxworker, and goldsmith, Matthias Zündt, published a booklet of thirty-one engravings of tableware, entitled Insigne Ac Planè Novum Opis...

October 11, 2019

CEMH Lecture: George Qiao "The Making of a Smuggler"

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“The Making of a Smuggler - Contracts, Firms, and the Business Institutions of the Shanxi Merchant Network in Late Eighteenth Century China” Using business information revealed in the...

October 14, 2019

Theatrical Performance: even.years.of.shed.skin...

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Join us for a dramatic reading of even.years.of.shed.skin..., a play by Haygen-Brice Walker about first dates, dating apps, instas, finstas, celebrity, catfish, Kelly Rowland, and how to...

October 21, 2019

Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes: 1517-1798

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Piracy and captivity were banes of the early modern Mediterranean basin. Thousands of men and women and children were enslaved, bought and sold, ransomed or escaped. However, all the...

November 1, 2019

CEMH Lecture: David Do Paço “Ottoman Vienna: An Urban History of the 18th-century...

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“Ottoman Vienna: An Urban History of the 18th-century Habsburg Monarchy” Based on L'Orient à Vienne au dix-huitième siècle (Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2015), this talk is an attempt to...

November 15, 2019

CEMH Lecture: Benjamin Schmidt "From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat"

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"From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat: Christian Art, Christian Objects, and Christian Souls in Early Modern Japan” This talk will explore the idea and category of 'Christian art’ in Tokugawa...

December 2, 2019

Why did the PLO collect a Jewish Studies library?

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Some remember the PLO, in its founding years in the mid-1960s through the early-1980s, as a heroic group of freedom fighters; others recall a merciless group of terrorists. Largely...

February 27, 2020

Double Amnesia: Zionism and Human Rights in 1948 and Today

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2018 marked the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the UN Universal Declaration of Human...

April 16, 2020

Lauritsen Lecture 2020

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The History Department Presents our Lauritsen Lecture 2020 with guest lecturer Professor Susanna Elm of the University of California, Berkeley.

April 23, 2020

Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth

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In 2014 the Anti-Defamation League appealed to Facebook to take down a page titled “Jewish Ritual Murder.” In 2018, the shooter at a synagogue near San Diego, referred to Simon of Trent, a...

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