EIHS Lecture: Pop after Empire: Disco, Decolonization, and the Re-Making of a Music Industry
Kira Thurman (University of Michigan)
In this talk, Kira Thurman investigates the rise of Black Europeans in popular music since WWII. After the collapse of European empires,...
EIHS Symposium: Orders and the Unruly: Engaging Primary Sources
Kathryn Babayan, John Carson, Yanay Israeli, Farina Mir, Dario Gaggio (moderator)
More details forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: The Nature of Spanish Empire
Mackenzie Cooley
When Spain sought dominion over vast early modern landscapes—from islands to highlands, deserts to rainforests—it faced a crisis of...
EIHS Workshop: Constructing the Natural
Participants: Grant Halliday, Jenny Flores, Ira Anjali Anwar, and Wanhan Xing...
EIHS Lecture: Pictures of Home Away from Home: Esther Bubley’s Wartime Family Album
Deborah Dash Moore (University of Michigan)
In January 1943 the Jewish photographer Esther Bubley took a series of photographs in a boarding house in Washington, D.C. The photographs...
Histories of Slavery, Freedom & the Law
This conference brings together historians who study legal and social processes that shaped enslavement and struggles for freedom and...
Histories of Slavery, Freedom & the Law
This conference brings together historians who study legal and social processes that shaped enslavement and struggles for freedom and...
CAS Guest Lecture. The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979
Houri Berberian, University of California, Irvine; and Talinn Grigor, University of California, Davis
With this book, Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of...
EIHS Lecture: Narrating "Before" and "After": Linearity and Sequence in Indigenous History
David Chang (University of Minnesota)
Can embracing Indigenous sequence be a strike against colonial order? "Indigenous history is not linea" is a axiom that holds much...
