Rebuilding Democracy
Osita Nwanevu in conversation with Elizabeth Anderson on the American Crossroads
As the country heads into the 2026 midterm elections, the University of Michigan welcomes journalist Osita Nwanevu, contributing editor at...
Rebuilding Democracy
Osita Nwanevu in conversation with Elizabeth Anderson on the American Crossroads
As the country heads into the 2026 midterm elections, the University of Michigan welcomes journalist Osita Nwanevu, contributing editor at...
Picturing Aura: A History of Technical Images at the Crossroads of Science, Art, and Occultism
Jeremy Stolow, Concordia University
Picturing Aura (MIT Press 2025) is a historical, anthropological, and philosophical study of modern efforts to visualize that hidden,...
Toxic Landscapes: Industrial Chemistry and the Politics of Risk in the Modern World
Jacob Steere-Williams, College of Charleston
Industrial capitalism engendered human and animal bodies toxic in myriad and uneven ways. This talk examines the entanglements of public...
Depressed Mothers and Rebellious Sons: Relationships in the History of American Mood Disorders
Laura Hirshbein, U-M
Additional details forthcoming.
Becoming Sensitive: The Pedagogy of Smelling and the Environmental Politics of Sensitivity
Tinghao Zhou, U-M
This talk examines how different social and technological bodies—including e-waste workers, environmental scientists, and...
A Brief History of Pretending to Use the Computer
Nick Seaver, Tufts University
The post-pandemic explosion of work-from-home arrangements is often credited with the rise of "mouse jigglers," devices or...
Japanese Medical Aid, Iranian Blood, and the Diplomacy of Genetic Racialism
Elise Burton, University of Toronto
In 1966, Japan’s Overseas Technical Cooperation Agency (OTCA) established an office for “medical cooperation,” which recruited...
People of the Machine: Computers and Human Reason in the Cold War
Joy Rohde, U-M
Additional details forthcoming.
