Trump’s Rejection of America’s Founding Principles Steve Pincus warns that the US administration is repudiating the commitments celebrated each year on the Fourth of July.

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Our chat with Maureen has been rescheduled to next Wednesday, February 19, at the same time! We will also be moving back to our typical haunt, the John Hope Franklin room. See you there!

Our next session of Early Modern Lunch is Wednesday, 1/22, at 12:30pm in the John Hope Franklin room. Patrick Graham, PhD candidate in History, will present on the fiscal and political transformations of Restoration England. Hope to see you there!

Scholarly Seminars Scholarly Seminars provide spaces to discuss new humanities research as it develops.

All workshops will be held from 3-5pm at the Newberry Library. You can register to attend them here!

www.newberry.org/research/sch...

The Newberry British Studies Seminar has three great sessions for this winter quarter!

1/24 - Boone Ayala on corporations and the English constitution in the late Restoration

2/21 - Tyler Talbott on Channel 4 and Black British independent filmmaking

3/7 - David Hancock, title TBD

Please join us on 1/24 and 1/25 for the University of Chicago's British Studies Symposium, hosted by the Nicholson Center for British Studies. We are excited to hear from so many colleagues working across a variety of disciplines!

We're excited to announce the (slightly updated) schedule for the winter quarter of the Empires Workshop!

If you would like to present some of your work at Chicago's Early Modern Lunch during Winter Quarter 2025, please send a brief proposal to ChicagoEarlyModernLunch@outlook.com

Presentations are typically 5-10 minutes in length, and are accompanied by a short handout (one page, double sided).

Don't miss this next Wednesday!!

2025 Conference - Liverpool John Moores University — Britain and the World

It’s time, friends! We welcome submissions for #batw2025 in Liverpool, UK. Join us at John Moores University 25-27 June 2025 for another great conference!

We can’t wait to see you there! Watch here for more info.

britainandtheworld.org/2025

We are pleased to host Elizabeth Hines, Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins, for our January 8th session of Early Modern Lunch.

Dr. Hines will present research from her manuscript project concerning Anglo-Dutch relations and trans-imperial ventures.

Please join us at 12:30 CST on 1/8!

Exciting call for papers! Conference on the crisis of empires/age of Revolutions in Hong Kong March 2026. Come one, come all! nicholson.center.uchicago.edu/2024/12/13/c...