EIHS Lecture: Untopics in History: Air Travel Anthropology
Chandra D. Bhimull, Colby College (Series: Celebrating 30 Years of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History)
Abstract: Anthropologists and historians fly to work. We fly to the archive. We fly to the field. (At least those of us with documents,...
EIHS Workshop: Technologies of Movement and Belonging
(Series: Celebrating 30 Years of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History)
As we travel through a world that moves ever more rapidly around us, how and where do we build and maintain senses of belonging? Showcasing...
The Young Karl Marx
Film Screening and Discussion
This gripping film tells the story of how a 26-year-old Karl Marx met Friedrich Engels. Together these brilliant minds and...
EIHS Lecture: Medieval Chests as Ideological Objects
Katherine French, University of Michigan
Abstract: Chests were the most common piece of medieval furniture. As aristocratic households moved from castle-to-castle, chests...
EIHS Symposium: The Past and Futures of Anthropology and History
(Series: Celebrating 30 Years of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History)
As part of a semester-long celebration of the thirtieth year of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology an History, this panel brings together...
EIHS Lecture: Is There a Socialist Everyday? Production and Social Reproduction in Maoist Beijing
Fabio Lanza University of Arizona
Abstract: In the years between 1958 and 1962, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical effort to change the daily lives or city...
EIHS Workshop: Boundaries of Everyday Life
Description forthcoming....
Screening and Discussion of "GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II"
Lisa Ades, Filmmaker
GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II tells the story of the 550,000 Jewish American men and women who fought in World War II. In their...
EIHS Lecture: Peacetime Aerial Bombing: A Colonial Genealogy for the Ever-Disappearing Civilian
Vazira Zamindar, Brown University (Series: Celebrating 30 Years of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History)
Abstract: This talk examines the "peacetime" interwar aerial bombing of Waziristan, and in particular its visual archive, to interrogate a...
EIHS Lecture: Inner-City Blues: African Americans, Psychiatry, and the Post-World War II "Urban Crisis"
Martin Summers, Boston College
Psychiatrists have had a long history of drawing a tight correlation between black mental illness and city life. In the late nineteenth...
EIHS Workshop: Crises and Critical Moments
Description forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture
Paul C. Johnson, University of Michigan
Lecture title, abstract, and speaker biography forthcoming....
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages” in...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages” in...
EIHS Lecture
Alexandra Minna Stern, University of Michigan
Lecture title, abstract, and speaker biography forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lecture title, abstract, and speaker biography forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture
Elizabeth Lunbeck, Harvard University
Lecture title, abstract, and speaker biography forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture
Jamie Kreiner, University of Georgia
Lecture title, abstract, and speaker biography forthcoming....
