EIHS Lecture: Stillness, Stuck-ness, and Sensing Against the Archive
Alexandra Hui (Mississippi State University)
Historians have much to learn from stopped time. Examining the sensation, perception, and documentation of stasis opens up categorical and...
EIHS Workshop: Beyond the Written Record: Exploring Past Sounds, Tastes, Smells, Vistas, and Touches
Genevra Higginson, Julia LaPlaca, Ginevra Miglierina, Estrella Salgado, Helmut Puff (moderator)
An EIHS Multi-sensory Presentation Series and Roundtable Discussion...
EIHS Lecture: The Echo of the Whale: Taking History Below the Surface
Bathsheba R. Demuth (Brown University)
Bowhead whales have been known to three groups along the Bering Strait over the past two centuries: Indigenous Yupik and Inupiaq whalers,...
EIHS Workshop: Can the More-Than-Human Speak? Exploring the Possibilities and Limitations of Post-Anthropocentric Histories
Jahnabi Barooah Chanchani, Christopher DeCou, Sunhong Kim, Perrin Selcer (moderator)
Abstract forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Stuff and NonSense!
Mike Chin (University of California, Davis) + Rachel Rafael Neis (University of Michigan)
Abstract forthcoming....
EIHS Workshop: Material Culture: Objects Against the Historical Grain?
Sierra Jones, Ekaterina A. Olson Shipyatsky, Lucy Smith, Robyn Thum-O’Brien, Katherine French (moderator)
Abstract forthcoming....
Inclusive History Project Symposium
Abstract and panelist information forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Reviving old Desires: The Rubaiyat, the Victorian Underworld, and the Mass Market for the Orient
Juan Cole (University of Michigan)
Edward FitzGerald likely translated the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as a roman-a-clef about the end of his relationship with his Persian...
EIHS Lecture: Speak Politely to the Ancestors: Gender and Moral Community in Southeastern Africa's Second Millennium CE
Raevin Jimenez (University of Michigan)
In the ninth-century South African Highveld, Nguni-speakers lost their ancestors. They would spend nearly a millennium seeking new ones and...
EIHS Symposium
Abstract and panelist information forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Writing Enslaved Women’s Histories from the Crevices of the Archive
Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University)
This presentation offers an intimate portrait of the life of an enslaved woman, known as Abba, who appears multiple times in the diary of a...
EIHS Workshop: Atmospheres of Violence: Loss, Silence, and Affect in Archival Research
Janice Feng, Dora Gao, Allie Goodman, Norah Langat, Kathryn Babayan (moderator)
Abstract forthcoming....
