EIHS Lecture: Imagine Lagos: Rethinking the Histories of West African Cities in the Nineteenth Century
Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Howard University)
Urban questions have taken on a new urgency, as cities like Lagos grow faster and more intensely, seemingly every day. But how should we...
EIHS Workshop: Re/Imagining Pre/Colonial Space: (Speculative) Mapping and Layered Methodologies
Lara-Marie Frick, Gabrielle Ione Hickmon, and Ezequiel Martin Parra, Eric Toups (moderator)
Mapping, though putatively about space, reveals much more about subjectivity and power. To take one example, British maps of 19th century...
Rebuilding Democracy
Osita Nwanevu in conversation with Elizabeth Anderson on the American Crossroads
As the country heads into the 2026 midterm elections, the University of Michigan welcomes journalist Osita Nwanevu, contributing editor at...
EIHS Lecture: Ottoman Roots
Samuel Dolbee (Vanderbilt University)
Fruit trees planted in the late Ottoman Empire may have lived for over a century after the polity they grew up in disappeared from maps....
EIHS Workshop: Environments, Empire, and More-than-Human Histories
Felipe Coimbra Moretti, Francesca Conterno, Leopoldo Martinez, and Oto Gulbani, Melanie Tanielian (moderator)
The “environment” is often treated as the background against which human histories unfold: a passive setting for state formation,...
Alternative Affinities: Constellations of Kinship and Community
2026 Graduate Student Conference
The Kleinfamilie, or “nuclear family,” endures as a core structure that helps to define human relations. With roots in the eighteenth...
Alternative Affinities: Constellations of Kinship and Community
2026 Graduate Student Conference
The Kleinfamilie, or “nuclear family,” endures as a core structure that helps to define human relations. With roots in the eighteenth...
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
In the face of global democratic backsliding, feminist demands have gained renewed visibility even as patriarchal, racial, and class-based...
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
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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)
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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
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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...
