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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
- American Art and Visual Culture
- Borderlands and Latino Studies
- Early American History and Culture
- Labor History
- Women and Gender
- Urban History Dissertation Group
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