EIHS Lecture: The Tribute: The 1963 March on Washington and the Gendered Politics of Freedom
Marcia Chatelain (University of Pennsylvania)
The 1963 March on Washington has become the standard bearer in American public memory for non-violent, political demonstration. With Martin...
EIHS Workshop: Childhood, Gendered Affinities, and Structures of Power
Rachael Barrett, Ayriel Marie Coleman, Robert Diaz, and Henry E. Chen, LaKisha Michelle Simmons, moderator
Note: The location of this workshop has changed to the Michigan Room in the Michigan League....
Manoogian Postdoctoral Lecture | A Captive's Testimony: The Lives and Lies of an Ottoman-Armenian Prisoner in the Bastille
Daniel Ohanian, Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian History
Inside a hefty volume of multilingual documents stored in La Courneuve, France, there sits nestled a 60-page work written in early modern...
Past Matters: Environments and Methods in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
A Conference in Honor of Paolo Squatriti
The field of medieval environmental history has grown immensely from its inception 30 years ago. While scholars of the classical past and...
Past Matters: Environments and Methods in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
A Conference in Honor of Paolo Squatriti
The field of medieval environmental history has grown immensely from its inception 30 years ago. While scholars of the classical past and...
EIHS Lecture: Race and Reckoning in the United States and Germany: Lessons from a Comparative Approach
Rita Chin (University of Michigan)
German atonement for the Holocaust is widely hailed as a paragon of national reckoning, and African American intellectuals such as Ta-Nehisi...
EIHS Lecture: The Transatlantic Slave Trade & the (Multi) Racial Origins of Early Black Print in Ghana
Carina Ray (University of Michigan)
Understanding how Afro-Europeans came to play leading roles in establishing the African-owned press in colonial Ghana, and why they...
EIHS Symposium: Translation as Historical Practice
Ken Mills, Sanne Ravensbergen, and Eric Toups
Translation studies is a thriving field in comparative literature and related disciplines. Translation is also a pervasive and fraught...
EIHS Dr. Stephen and Lee Gork Endowed Lecture: Unpaid Debts: Non-Aligned Socialism and the Rise of Financialization after Empire
Giuliana Chamedes (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
More details forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Animal Rights and Slave Rights: Linked Discourses in Early Islamic Thought
Kristina Richardson (University of Virginia)
More details forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Student Activism Across Borders: China and the Communist World in the Late 1950s
Yidi Wu (Elon University)
Yidi Wu is the O’Briant Developing Professor and Associate Professor of History at Elon University. Her first book, Student Activism...
EIHS Workshop: Remediating Educational Institutions
More details forthcoming....
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...
