EIHS Lecture: Fathers and Sons: An Antigenealogy of Loyalism and Empire
Gregory Dowd (University of Michigan)
Born to an Anglicized Dutch family in Albany, NY, Jacob Glen Cuyler (1773-1854) became a child of revolutionary exile. This colonial North...
EIHS Symposium: Orders and the Unruly: A Conversation with our Fellows
Mathew Bahar, Allie Goodman, Hazal Özdemir, Casey M. Stark, Dario Gaggio (moderator)
Please join us for this exciting opportunity to engage with the research of this year’s Eisenberg and department fellows. For this...
EIHS Lecture: Labor, Spirit, and Sovereignty: Africa’s Great War, Dr. Stephen and Lee Gork Endowed Lecture
Michelle Moyd (Michigan State University)
In writing histories of World War I, the pull of linear narrative is an ever-present temptation, holding out the promise of making the...
CLIFF 2026 - 30th Anniversary Event
Comparative Literature Intra-student and Faculty Forum (CLIFF) has been a cornerstone of the Department of Comparative Literature since...
EIHS Workshop: Political Mobilization, Authority and Collaboration
Markus Merin, Sylvan Perlmutter, Maya Sudarkasa, Carina Ray (moderator)
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EIHS Lecture: Historicizing Transness Otherwise: Asia Narratives and Decolonial Thought
Howard Chiang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
This lecture develops transtopia as an unruly concept that emboldens a continuum model of transness, thereby activating a mode of historical...
EIHS Workshop: Gender Unruliness, Power, and Order
Jess Hasper, Yee Ting Leong, Mel Monier, Kai Ngu, Scott Spector (moderator)
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EIHS Lecture: Once Were Warriors: Colonial Mimesis, Martial Masculinity, and Imperial Nostalgia in Amazigh Morocco
Paul Silverstein (Reed College)
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EIHS Workshop: Transpolitics of Postcolonial Orders
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EIHS Lecture: Ordering the Sky: The Atmospherics of Sovereignty in the Hellenistic World
Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)
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EIHS Lecture: A Pretense of Ownership: The Peremptory Enslavement of Rose Bazile (Port-au-Prince, Santiago de Cuba, New Orleans)
Rebecca Scott (University of Michigan)
Almost a decade after the Haitian Revolution led to the abolition of slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, Napoleon Bonaparte sent...
