Lessons of Authoritarianism and Democratic Resilience in Latin America: Free Community Film Screening & Discussion I'm Still Here
Victoria Langland, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ana Guimarães, Department of Romance Languages and Literature
BRAZIL, 1971 - Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children is forced to reinvent...
EIHS Lecture: Fathers and Sons: Empire, Execution, and Partition in a Revolutionary Age, 1776-1816
Gregory Dowd (University of Michigan)
Born to an Anglicized Dutch family in Albany, NY, Jacob Glen Cuyler (1773-1854) became a child of revolutionary exile. This North American...
EIHS Symposium
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EIHS Lecture: Labor, Spirit, and Sovereignty: Africa’s Great War
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...
CREES Noon Lecture. Nonalignment and Decolonial Imagination: Yugoslav Literary Encounters with the Global South
Nataša Kovačević, Professor of English, Eastern Michigan University
Yugoslavia’s pivot away from the Eastern Bloc and toward decolonizing countries in the Global South, which resulted in the founding of the...
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...
CREES Noon Lecture. The Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain: Bulgarian Computers and The Society They Tried to Build
Victor Petrov, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
How did a small Balkan state become a Cold War power in the electronic field during its socialist period? During the years of late...
