Center for American History and Culture Programs

Gertrude Stein visiting Chicago, 1935
Bobsy Goodspeed, Gertrude Stein, Fanny Butcher, Alice Roullier, Alice B. Toklas, Thornton Wilder. Mdwst MS Butcher Bx44 Fl#1846.

In cooperation with Chicago-area universities, the Scholl Center sponsors seminars that bring scholars and students from different institutions together to discuss their ongoing research in a workshop format.

Current Scholl Center seminar series include

In previous years, the Scholl Center has sponsored seminars on Religious History; Rural History; Sport and Culture; and Technology, Politics, and Culture. These seminars are currently on hiatus.

Upcoming Programs

Friday, February 24, 2012

Religion, Feminism, and Beauty Culture in Black Chicago

“‘Modesty on Her Cheek’: The Moorish Science Temple, African- American Girls and Great Migration Beauty Culture”

Thursday, March 15, 2012

“Paper Money and the Problem of Circulation in Provincial New England: Natural Law, Natural History, and Political Economy
Jeffrey Sklansky, University of Illinois at Chicago

Friday, March 16, 2012

“Documentary Proof: Evidence of Age and the Campaign Against Child Labor in the United States
Susan Pearson, Northwestern University

Friday, March 23, 2012

“Defining, Confining, and Inventing Japan: American “Japan Rooms,” 1854–1893
Ellen E. Roberts, Art Institute of Chicago

Friday, March 23, 2012 to Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Out of Many: Religious Pluralism in America
An NEH Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges Program

Friday, March 30, 2012

Reimagining the Postwar Wife

“Domesticity and Feminism in the Displaced Homemaker Movement in the late 20th Century

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Please note that this session will run from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm on Saturday

Friday, April 13, 2012

“How I Became a Rebel: Experience, Education and the Politics of Working Class Knowledge”
Tobias Higbie, University Of California, Los Angeles