EIHS Lecture: Labor, Spirit, and Sovereignty: Africa’s Great War, Dr. Stephen and Lee Gork Endowed Lecture
Michelle Moyd (Michigan State University)
In writing histories of World War I, the pull of linear narrative is an ever-present temptation, holding out the promise of making the...
CLIFF 2026 - 30th Anniversary Event
Comparative Literature Intra-student and Faculty Forum (CLIFF) has been a cornerstone of the Department of Comparative Literature since...
EIHS Workshop: Political Mobilization, Authority and Collaboration
Markus Merin, Sylvan Perlmutter, Maya Sudarkasa, Carina Ray (moderator)
We live in a moment of intense global political mobilization. Popular movements—both state and non-state—are reshaping political life by...
EIHS Lecture: Historicizing Transness Otherwise: Asia Narratives and Decolonial Thought
Howard Chiang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
This lecture develops transtopia as an unruly concept that emboldens a continuum model of transness, thereby activating a mode of historical...
EIHS Workshop: Gender Unruliness, Power, and Order
Jess Hasper, Yee Ting Leong, Mel Monier, Kai Ngu, Scott Spector (moderator)
More details forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Once Were Warriors: Colonial Mimesis, Martial Masculinity, and Imperial Nostalgia in Amazigh Morocco
Paul Silverstein (Reed College)
Amazigh cultural-political activism in North Africa is premised on a rhetoric of resistance for territorial autonomy against imperial...
EIHS Workshop: Transpolitics of Postcolonial Orders
Vishesh Chander Guru, Shane Niesen, Leela Riesz, Clayton Van Woerkom, Yasmin Moll (moderator)
More details forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Ordering the Sky: The Atmospherics of Sovereignty in the Hellenistic World
Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)
More details forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: A Pretense of Ownership: The Peremptory Enslavement of Rose Bazile (Port-au-Prince, Santiago de Cuba, New Orleans)
Rebecca Scott (University of Michigan)
Almost a decade after the Haitian Revolution led to the abolition of slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, Napoleon Bonaparte sent...
