Event Types
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Donia Human Rights Center Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture. Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman, Jr., Pulitzer Prize Winning author and professor of law, Yale University
In his lecture, James Forman, Jr. will discuss some of the questions raised by his Pulitzer-prize winning book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime...
2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor
In collaboration with the Iran Symposium and the Iranian Graduate Students Association
January 20: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006), directed by Massoud Bakhshi...
EIHS Lecture: Charcot's Brazilian Monkey: Religion, Psychiatry and Nearhuman Attraction
Paul C. Johnson, University of Michigan
Two Rosalies: The first was one of pre-psychiatry’s most famous patients, Rosalie Leroux, who entered the care of a rising medical star in...
EIHS Symposium: Confronting a Climate of Despair: Transformative Pedagogies in the Anthropocene
Dagomar Degroot, Georgetown University
The arc of history is long and trending hotter, but at the moment it is hard to claim it bends towards justice. This symposium engages...
2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor
In collaboration with the Iran Symposium and the Iranian Graduate Students Association
January 20: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006), directed by Massoud Bakhshi...
Donia Human Rights Center Special Lecture to Launch the Robert J. Donia Graduate Student Fellowship. Human Rights in the Neoliberal Maelstrom
Samuel Moyn, professor of law and professor of history, Yale University
The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
De-centering the Global Middle Ages invites researchers to consider scholarly perspectives of the “global turn” of the premodern world,...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
De-centering the Global Middle Ages invites researchers to consider scholarly perspectives of the “global turn” of the premodern world,...
2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor
In collaboration with the Iran Symposium and the Iranian Graduate Students Association
January 20: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006), directed by Massoud Bakhshi...
Control and the Carceral State
Roundtable
This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...
2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor
In collaboration with the Iran Symposium and the Iranian Graduate Students Association
January 20: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006), directed by Massoud Bakhshi...
EIHS Lecture: White Nationalists Dream of the Ethnostate
Alexandra Minna Stern, University of Michigan
This talk traces the genealogy of the ethnostate, often envisioned by white nationalists in the United States as the ultimate destination in...
EIHS Symposium: Public Engagements, Digital Tools, Global Contexts: A Roundtable and Discussion
Public scholarship takes on different forms depending on the tools, communities, topics, and time periods with which we engage. During this...
2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor
In collaboration with the Iran Symposium and the Iranian Graduate Students Association
January 20: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006), directed by Massoud Bakhshi...
Community and the Carceral State
Roundtable
This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...
EIHS Lecture: Migrant Longing, Courtship, and Gendered Identity in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara
Drawing upon a collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the US-Mexico border in the...
EIHS Workshop: Intimacy and State Power
Description forthcoming. Featuring:...
EIHS Lecture: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Authoritarian's Allure: 1939, 2019
Elizabeth Lunbeck, Harvard University
Psychoanalysts writing in the 1930s and 1940s as witnesses to Europe’s embrace of fascism offered incisive accounts of their own...
EIHS Workshop: Psych! An Interdisciplinary Conversation about Histories and Sciences of the Mind
Description forthcoming. Featuring:...
Beyond the Carceral State
Roundtable
This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...
EIHS Lecture: The Hoof of Destiny
Jamie Kreiner, University of Georgia
Does it make sense to think of pigs as having agency? Farmers, lawmakers, and philosophers in the early medieval West thought so. Pigs were...
EIHS Workshop: Comedy and Power
Description forthcoming. Featuring:...
