A Conversation about The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
DAAS-History-EIHS MLK Day Symposium Event
Please join us for a discussion of Julius S. Scott's seminal book, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian...
EIHS Lecture: Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism in India
William Glover, University of Michigan
This talk presents one genealogy for exploring how the city and the countryside were conceptualized in relation to one another in late...
EIHS Symposium: Thinking with The Country and the City: Revisiting the Raymond Williams Classic
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EIHS Lecture: Risk, Bodies, and Disease: Transatlantic Slavery and the History of Science and Medicine
Pablo F. Gómez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This talk will examine the history of the slave trade in the Iberian Atlantic and its relationship to the emergence of novel practices...
EIHS Lecture: Labor, Love, & Loss: Black Women's Networks of Care in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom
LaKisha Simmons, University of Michigan
This talk explores themes from a new book project that considers Black women’s reproductive care work in the face of miscarriage, infant...
Symposium: Where Is Social Reproduction Theory Now?
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EIHS Lecture: In Defense of Damascus: A Tradition in Words
Dana Sajdi, Boston College
This is a portrayal of Damascus that is based on a continuous tradition of local representations of the city that began in the twelfth...
EIHS Workshop: Exploring Topographies: Real and Imaginary
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Sports and the City: A Century in Detroit
Silke-Maria Weineck (University of Michigan), Stefan Szymanski (University of Michigan), Ketra Armstrong (University of Michigan)
City of Champions: Detroit, Sports, and a History of Triumph and Defeat (The New Press, 2020), by Silke-Maria Weineck (University of...
EIHS Lecture: Evil May Day, 1517: Xenophobia, Labour, and Politics in Early Tudor London
Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University
On the eve of May 1, 1517, later known as Evil May Day, an anti-immigrant riot broke out in London. From about nine o’clock in the evening...
