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DTSTAMP:20260821T131227
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Ottoman Roots
DESCRIPTION: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. Starting from these trees and their relationship to time\, this presentation elucidates the relationship between fruit production and violence at the end of empire. Many who planted the trees left—or were forced to leave—and newly settled people—many of them refugees themselves—came to care for these living relics of past social worlds. Through apricots\, figs\, grapes\, hazelnuts\, olives\, and pistachios\, the project places displaced people and their rootedness in the face of uprooting at the center\, and suggests their role in Turkey’s world-leading production of these commodities today. \n\nSamuel Dolbee is an environmental historian of the modern Middle East\, and an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University. His first book Locusts of Power was the co-winner of the 2024 Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Book Prize. His work has appeared in American Historical Review\, Comparative Studies of Society and History\, Environmental History\, Journal of Global History\, and Past & Present among other places. He was formerly editor-in-chief of and is currently a contributor to Ottoman History Podcast. \n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150717-21909994@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150717
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Asia,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260924T121655
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Environments\, Empire\, and More-than-Human Histories
DESCRIPTION:The “environment” is often treated as the background against which human histories unfold: a passive setting for state formation\, migration\, violence\, and social change. Samuel Dolbee’s work challenges this assumption by asking us to consider how borders\, disease\, landscapes\, and ecological systems actively shape the histories of empire and everyday life. In his work \, Dolbee shows how environmental forces were not merely acted upon by states and empires\, but became entangled in the making of borders\, regimes of control\, and imperial knowledge.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150718-21909995@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150718
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Ecology,Environment,History,Humanities,Immigration,Interdisciplinary,International,Life Science,Natural Sciences,Science,Social Sciences
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261013T130024
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T190000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Alternative Affinities: Constellations of Kinship and Community
DESCRIPTION:The Kleinfamilie\, or “nuclear family\,” endures as a core structure that helps to define human relations. With roots in the eighteenth century\, the Kleinfamilie provided a social and economic foundation for the rise of the modern nation state. However\, the heterogeneous and multidimensional ways individuals and communities connect with one another today require a broader focus. A more fluid and encompassing term\, “kinship\,” offers a way of seeing and describing those ties that extend beyond the nuclear family and are by nature shifting and\ntemporary.\n\nUsing kinship as a framework\, Heidi Schlipphacke’s book The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century (Bucknell University Press\, 2023) reexamines 18th-century German novels and dramas to uncover alternative affinities that are hidden when exclusively considered through the walled-off Kleinfamilie. Sclipphacke’s investigation belongs to a larger body of recent scholarly work seeking to reconceive of  repurpose the term “kinship.” For example\, Jennifer Evans’s The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism (Duke University Press\, 2023) deploys kinship as an analytic category to demonstrate how queer and trans people in postwar and contemporary Germany navigated citizenship\, love\, and public and family life. A broader investigation into kinship\, Adele E. Clarke’s and Donna Harraway’s edited volume\nMaking Kin Not Population: Reconceiving Generations (The University of Chicago Press\, 2018) contemplates questions of reproductive and environmental justice to\nconsider how we establish personal and public connections today. Building on recent interventions like these\, this conference will approach kinship as an interdisciplinary tool for exploring relational networks and the formation of personal and collective identity within–and in opposition to–“Western\,” modern\, white\, heterosexual\, and even anthropocentric norms.\n\nPROGRAM: \n\nFriday\, October 30th\nPalmer Commons\, Great Lakes North\n\n3:00 pm \nKeynote: Heidi Schlipphacke\nTitle: Kinship in Space and Time\n\n4:30 pm\nCoffee and Tea Break\n\n4:45 pm: Panel 1: Loss\, Fracture\, and Memory\n● Henrique Carvalho Pereira\, Der andere Fehl\n● Emma Stratman\, Wer über die Märchen lacht\, war nie in Not: On Obstinacy and the\nFairytale in the Work of Alexander Kluge\n● Nathan Bailey\, Seismic Epiphanies: Utopian Modes of Caring and Nursing in Heinrich\nvon Kleist‘s Das Erdbeben in Chili\nRespondent: Ella Wilhelm\n\n\nSaturday\, October 31st\nPalmer Commons\, Great Lakes North\n\n8:00 am\nBreakfast\n\n8:45 am: Panel 2: Nation and Empire\n● Hannah Edwards\, Kinship and Kingship: Heraklean Affinities and Diplomacy in Ancient\nMacedonia\n● Sam Farmer\, Partisan Places and Anti-Fascism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Family on Film\n● Deborah Pomeranz\, The Klein-Familie on Wheels: Race\, Genre\, and Kinship in Turn of\nthe Century Popular Performance (Deborah Pomeranz)\n● Ibrahim Adissa Owoo\, Orphans of the Empire: Colonial Kinship and Diasporic Belonging\nin La Saison de l’ombre of Léonora Miano\nRespondent: Kristin Dickinson\n\n10:15 am: Coffee and Tea Break\n\n10:30 am: Panel 3: Female Kinship\n● Tamar Gutfeld\, Daughters of 1930: Authority\, Crisis and Kinship in Gilgi eine von uns\n(Keun\, 1931) and Kuhle Wampe (Dudow and Brecht\, 1932)\n● Mathilda Trausch\, Flying Witches: Gossip and Alternative Female Kinship in Helma\nSanders Brahms’ Deutschland\, bleiche Mutter (1980)\n● Maria Zahner\, Mothers and Daughters in the Holocaust: reading Ruth Klüger and\nCordelia Edvardson\nRespondent: Kerstin Barndt\n\n12:00 pm: Lunch\n\n1:00 pm: Panel 4: Kinship in 20th Century Literature\n● Kehinde Sowunmi\, Witnessing the Wall: Narrative Kinship and the Implicated Reader in\nMarlen Haushofer’s Die Wand\n● Ruth Ireti Falaiye\, Kinship and Transatlantic Friendship in Kafka’s Das Urteil\n● Olivia Gilbert\, Lateral Affinities: Sibling Sociality in Robert Musil’s Man Without Qualities\n(1930-1934)\nRespondent: Johannes von Moltke\n\n2:30: Closing Remarks
UID:149285-21906191@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149285
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Books,Conference,Ecology,European,European Studies,Free,German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,Germany,global,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Humanities,In Person,Interdisciplinary,International,Language,LGBT
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Great Lakes North
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261013T130024
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T081500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T160000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Alternative Affinities: Constellations of Kinship and Community
DESCRIPTION:The Kleinfamilie\, or “nuclear family\,” endures as a core structure that helps to define human relations. With roots in the eighteenth century\, the Kleinfamilie provided a social and economic foundation for the rise of the modern nation state. However\, the heterogeneous and multidimensional ways individuals and communities connect with one another today require a broader focus. A more fluid and encompassing term\, “kinship\,” offers a way of seeing and describing those ties that extend beyond the nuclear family and are by nature shifting and\ntemporary.\n\nUsing kinship as a framework\, Heidi Schlipphacke’s book The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century (Bucknell University Press\, 2023) reexamines 18th-century German novels and dramas to uncover alternative affinities that are hidden when exclusively considered through the walled-off Kleinfamilie. Sclipphacke’s investigation belongs to a larger body of recent scholarly work seeking to reconceive of  repurpose the term “kinship.” For example\, Jennifer Evans’s The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism (Duke University Press\, 2023) deploys kinship as an analytic category to demonstrate how queer and trans people in postwar and contemporary Germany navigated citizenship\, love\, and public and family life. A broader investigation into kinship\, Adele E. Clarke’s and Donna Harraway’s edited volume\nMaking Kin Not Population: Reconceiving Generations (The University of Chicago Press\, 2018) contemplates questions of reproductive and environmental justice to\nconsider how we establish personal and public connections today. Building on recent interventions like these\, this conference will approach kinship as an interdisciplinary tool for exploring relational networks and the formation of personal and collective identity within–and in opposition to–“Western\,” modern\, white\, heterosexual\, and even anthropocentric norms.\n\nPROGRAM: \n\nFriday\, October 30th\nPalmer Commons\, Great Lakes North\n\n3:00 pm \nKeynote: Heidi Schlipphacke\nTitle: Kinship in Space and Time\n\n4:30 pm\nCoffee and Tea Break\n\n4:45 pm: Panel 1: Loss\, Fracture\, and Memory\n● Henrique Carvalho Pereira\, Der andere Fehl\n● Emma Stratman\, Wer über die Märchen lacht\, war nie in Not: On Obstinacy and the\nFairytale in the Work of Alexander Kluge\n● Nathan Bailey\, Seismic Epiphanies: Utopian Modes of Caring and Nursing in Heinrich\nvon Kleist‘s Das Erdbeben in Chili\nRespondent: Ella Wilhelm\n\n\nSaturday\, October 31st\nPalmer Commons\, Great Lakes North\n\n8:00 am\nBreakfast\n\n8:45 am: Panel 2: Nation and Empire\n● Hannah Edwards\, Kinship and Kingship: Heraklean Affinities and Diplomacy in Ancient\nMacedonia\n● Sam Farmer\, Partisan Places and Anti-Fascism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Family on Film\n● Deborah Pomeranz\, The Klein-Familie on Wheels: Race\, Genre\, and Kinship in Turn of\nthe Century Popular Performance (Deborah Pomeranz)\n● Ibrahim Adissa Owoo\, Orphans of the Empire: Colonial Kinship and Diasporic Belonging\nin La Saison de l’ombre of Léonora Miano\nRespondent: Kristin Dickinson\n\n10:15 am: Coffee and Tea Break\n\n10:30 am: Panel 3: Female Kinship\n● Tamar Gutfeld\, Daughters of 1930: Authority\, Crisis and Kinship in Gilgi eine von uns\n(Keun\, 1931) and Kuhle Wampe (Dudow and Brecht\, 1932)\n● Mathilda Trausch\, Flying Witches: Gossip and Alternative Female Kinship in Helma\nSanders Brahms’ Deutschland\, bleiche Mutter (1980)\n● Maria Zahner\, Mothers and Daughters in the Holocaust: reading Ruth Klüger and\nCordelia Edvardson\nRespondent: Kerstin Barndt\n\n12:00 pm: Lunch\n\n1:00 pm: Panel 4: Kinship in 20th Century Literature\n● Kehinde Sowunmi\, Witnessing the Wall: Narrative Kinship and the Implicated Reader in\nMarlen Haushofer’s Die Wand\n● Ruth Ireti Falaiye\, Kinship and Transatlantic Friendship in Kafka’s Das Urteil\n● Olivia Gilbert\, Lateral Affinities: Sibling Sociality in Robert Musil’s Man Without Qualities\n(1930-1934)\nRespondent: Johannes von Moltke\n\n2:30: Closing Remarks
UID:149285-21906192@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149285
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Books,Conference,Ecology,European,European Studies,Free,German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,Germany,global,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Humanities,In Person,Interdisciplinary,International,Language,LGBT
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Great Lakes North
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DTSTAMP:20260924T124558
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: The Tribute: The 1963 March on Washington and the Gendered Politics of Freedom
DESCRIPTION:The 1963 March on Washington has become the standard bearer in American public memory for non-violent\, political demonstration. With Martin Luther King\, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” as one of the most recognizable moments of the event\, the depth and the nuance of the March on Washington and the movement that shaped has rarely surfaced among and academic and popular discourse. With attention to widening the frame in which to analyze the 1963 March on Washington\, historian Marcia Chatelain offers a new reading of the March from the vantage point of the gender dynamics that undoubtedly shaped it.\n\nMarcia Chatelain is the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A historian of African-American life and culture\, Dr. Chatelain has taught at the University of Oklahoma and Georgetown University. She is the author of three books: South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration\, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America\, and How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington. Dr. Chatelain has received awards for her writing and teaching\, including the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150722-21910003@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150722
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African American,Anthropology,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Social Sciences,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260924T122159
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Childhood\, Gendered Affinities\, and Structures of Power
DESCRIPTION:In the face of global democratic backsliding\, feminist demands have gained renewed visibility even as patriarchal\, racial\, and class-based violence and exclusion have become increasingly normalized across regional\, national\, and local boundaries. In this context\, childhood\, and girlhood in particular\, has emerged as a matter of political\, moral\, and ideological contestation. Situating these contemporary struggles within a broader historical perspective\, however\, reveals that gendered childhood\, as a concept and social project\, has long served as a site onto which collective fears\, social aspirations\, and competing visions of citizenship and belonging are projected. Indeed\, Marcia Chatelain's work has shown that\, during the Great Migration\, Black girlhood in Chicago’s South Side represented a potential path to social mobility\, even as it was undermined by indiscriminate lynchings\, labor demands in an expanding commercial market\, a punitive judicial system\, and sexual victimization. This scholarship raises important historical and methodological questions\, such as: Who is afforded the innocence and vulnerability of childhood? In what ways have race\, gender\, and class together impacted public discourses regarding what it means to be a “good citizen”? How have crises around racialized\, gendered\, and classed identity inspired unexpected historical affinities and collaborations? How might historians navigate (and overcome) gaps and silences in the traditional archive\, which have effectively erased the perspectives of racialized and working-class children?\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150723-21910004@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150723
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Life Science,Psychology,Science,Social Sciences,Sociology,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261006T151638
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Manoogian Postdoctoral Lecture | A Captive's Testimony: The Lives and Lies of an Ottoman-Armenian Prisoner in the Bastille
DESCRIPTION:Inside a hefty volume of multilingual documents stored in La Courneuve\, France\, there sits nestled a 60-page work written in early modern Armenian script. In his Manoogian Postdoctoral Lecture\, Daniel Ohanian takes us into the genre-defying pages of this work\, identifying the man (or men?) who produced it\, the lies and truths that it contains\, and the world that it reveals. Through it\, we explore the religious politics of early modern global Catholicism\, French-Ottoman diplomacy\, and the historiographic benefits of focusing attention on the lives of particular individuals.\n\nDaniel Ohanian is a historian of Armenians in the early modern Ottoman Empire. He is currently working on a cultural history of Catholic-Armenian contact in the c. 1700 Mediterranean and on the eighteenth-century travelogue of a merchant-turned-priest named Hovhannes Tovmajanian. Daniel's research has been supported by grants from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation\, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation\, among others\, and has been published in Turcica: revue d'études turques\, the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association\, and Genocide Studies International.\n\nZoom Webinar ID: 990 5623 7622\n\nCo-sponsors: Department of History (U-M)\, Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies (U-M)\, Department of Middle East Studies (U-M)\, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies (U-M)\, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.\nEmail Contact: armenianstudies@umich.edu
UID:153370-21915722@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153370
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Armenian Studies,Discussion,history,Lecture,Middle East Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260812T143717
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T173000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Past Matters: Environments and Methods in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:The field of medieval environmental history has grown immensely from its inception 30 years ago. While scholars of the classical past and modern period registered environmental changes made by their powerful states a little earlier\, the topic caught on more slowly in the medieval field\, where small and ineffective states posed different methodological challenges. It took different ways of studying nature to see how environments changed in Europe and the Mediterranean during the millennium between 500 and 1500 CE. Scholars of the medieval environment of necessity adopted an acrobatic approach to the past\, bringing together the usual tools of the historian -- close textual analysis – with archaeology\, archaeobotany\, and scientific studies of pollen distribution\, weather patterns\, and the contents of middens. Today\, the field of medieval environmental history represents one of the most methodologically diverse and inventive among any branch of history.\n\n\nThis one-day conference\, with an opening session on the previous afternoon\, will appraise the major developments and turning points of the last 30 years in medieval environmental history with papers from some of the leading scholars in the field. Since one of the pioneers in medieval environmental history\, Paolo Squatriti\, has been on the faculty of the U of M for 25 years\, the conference will take cues from his seminal works and methodological turns. Panels will offer papers within the following themes: 1. History in the mundane 2. Historical agency and unexpected actors 3. The Mediterranean as a place of hybridity 4. Materiality and the past 5. Science in the service of history.\n\nFeaturing:\nJon Arnold (University of Tulsa)\nHenrik Dey (Hunter College)\nHussein Fancy (Yale University)\nBenjamin Graham (University of Memphis)\nRichard Hoffman (York University)\nAlyssa Kotva (The Ohio State University)\nJamie Kreiner (University of California\, Los Angeles)\nStephanie Leitzel (Cornell University)
UID:150198-21908384@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150198
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Environment,European,Graduate,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Literature,Social Sciences
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260812T143717
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T173000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Past Matters: Environments and Methods in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:The field of medieval environmental history has grown immensely from its inception 30 years ago. While scholars of the classical past and modern period registered environmental changes made by their powerful states a little earlier\, the topic caught on more slowly in the medieval field\, where small and ineffective states posed different methodological challenges. It took different ways of studying nature to see how environments changed in Europe and the Mediterranean during the millennium between 500 and 1500 CE. Scholars of the medieval environment of necessity adopted an acrobatic approach to the past\, bringing together the usual tools of the historian -- close textual analysis – with archaeology\, archaeobotany\, and scientific studies of pollen distribution\, weather patterns\, and the contents of middens. Today\, the field of medieval environmental history represents one of the most methodologically diverse and inventive among any branch of history.\n\n\nThis one-day conference\, with an opening session on the previous afternoon\, will appraise the major developments and turning points of the last 30 years in medieval environmental history with papers from some of the leading scholars in the field. Since one of the pioneers in medieval environmental history\, Paolo Squatriti\, has been on the faculty of the U of M for 25 years\, the conference will take cues from his seminal works and methodological turns. Panels will offer papers within the following themes: 1. History in the mundane 2. Historical agency and unexpected actors 3. The Mediterranean as a place of hybridity 4. Materiality and the past 5. Science in the service of history.\n\nFeaturing:\nJon Arnold (University of Tulsa)\nHenrik Dey (Hunter College)\nHussein Fancy (Yale University)\nBenjamin Graham (University of Memphis)\nRichard Hoffman (York University)\nAlyssa Kotva (The Ohio State University)\nJamie Kreiner (University of California\, Los Angeles)\nStephanie Leitzel (Cornell University)
UID:150198-21908385@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150198
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Environment,European,Graduate,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Literature,Social Sciences
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260821T134056
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Race and Reckoning in the United States and Germany: Lessons from a Comparative Approach
DESCRIPTION:German atonement for the Holocaust is widely hailed as a paragon of national reckoning\, and African American intellectuals such as Ta-Nehisi Coates have invoked Germany as a useful model in their calls for Americans to confront the legacy of slavery. In tracing the complex process by which Germans have dealt with the Nazi past\, Chin considers how the German case is instructive for Americans seeking to pursue redress\, as well as how Germany’s vaunted memory culture has become fossilized such that it has recently become a stumbling block for a German society struggling with contemporary challenges.\n\nRita Chin is Louise A. Tilly Collegiate Professor of European History at the University of Michigan and served as Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives at Rackham Graduate School from 2018-25. A historian of post-1945 Europe\, she focuses on issues of immigration\, race\, and cultural diversity. Her books include The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: A History\, The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany\, and After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Beyond (co-author).\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150724-21910005@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150724
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African American,Anthropology,European,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Jewish Studies,Multidisciplinary Design,Social Sciences,Sociology
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260821T140510
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270128T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: The Transatlantic Slave Trade & the (Multi) Racial Origins of Early Black Print in Ghana
DESCRIPTION:Understanding how Afro-Europeans came to play leading roles in establishing the African-owned press in colonial Ghana\, and why they introduced race as the primary language of political protest in their newspapers requires reaching back to the late fifteenth century when the social world of the transatlantic slave trade first began to take shape. Two features of this social world—interracial sexual relationships between African women and European men and the concomitant growth of an Afro-European population that remained embedded in African society—were key drivers of the process of racialization unleashed by the transatlantic slave trade. This process would evolve over the course of four centuries in ways that gave Afro-European men the social positionality\, financial resources\, and political impetus to be the first founders of African-owned newspapers in colonial Ghana. Their newspapers reveal a late-nineteenth-century West African epistemology of blackness that stretched beyond its elite (primarily) Afro-European origins as literacy rates grew\, newspaper publishing expanded\, and the language of race became a politically consequential medium in the twentieth century that enabled dissent and shaped how Africans in the colony’s growing public sphere debated and fought for political futures defined not by their colonizers\, but by themselves.\n\nCarina Ray is a scholar of race and sexuality\; comparative colonialisms and nationalisms\; migration and maritime history\; print cultures\; bodily aesthetics\, and the relationship between race\, ethnicity\, and political power. Ray’s research is primarily focused on Ghana and its diasporas. She is the author of Crossing the Color Line: Race\, Sex\, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana\, winner of the American Historical Association's 2016 Wesley-Logan Book Prize and the African Studies Association's 2017 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize. Her articles have appeared in Gender and History\, PMLA\, The Journal of West African History\, and The American Historical Review\, among others. She is series co-editor of New African Histories (Ohio University Press) with Jacob Dlamini and Derek Peterson\, and African Identities: Past and Present (Cambridge University Press) with Toyin Falola. Ray previously served as series editor of Ohio Short Histories of Africa (Ohio University Press) with Dan Magaziner\, Michelle Moyd\, and Moses Ochunu\; as editor of Ghana Studies\; and as a member of the Board of Editors for The American Historical Review.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150725-21910006@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150725
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African American,Anthropology,History,Humanities,Social Sciences,Sociology,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260821T140417
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270129T140000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:EIHS Symposium
DESCRIPTION:More details forthcoming.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150727-21910007@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150727
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Humanities
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260824T140541
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270211T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Dr. Stephen and Lee Gork Endowed Lecture: Unpaid Debts: Non-Aligned Socialism and the Rise of Financialization after Empire
DESCRIPTION:More details forthcoming.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150728-21910008@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150728
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Economics,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Social Sciences,Sociology
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260821T141359
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270212T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Globalization\, Internationalism\, and Identity
DESCRIPTION:More details forthcoming.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150729-21910009@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150729
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260821T141929
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270225T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270225T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Animal Rights and Slave Rights: Linked Discourses in Early Islamic Thought
DESCRIPTION:More details forthcoming.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150730-21910010@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150730
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Social Sciences,Sociology,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260821T142335
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270226T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Recovering the Illegible: Bodies\, Languages\, and Marginality
DESCRIPTION:More details forthcoming.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150731-21910014@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150731
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260821T142904
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270325T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270325T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Student Activism Across Borders: China and the Communist World in the Late 1950s
DESCRIPTION:Yidi Wu is the O’Briant Developing Professor and Associate Professor of History at Elon University. Her first book\, Student Activism Across Borders: China and the Communist World in the Late 1950s\, is published by Cambridge University Press. She has written journal articles for Twentieth-Century China\, PRC History Review\, and Education About Asia. Her research has been supported by the National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, the Association for Asian Studies\, among others. She is a Public Intellectuals Program fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150733-21910015@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150733
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Social Sciences,Sociology,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260821T143202
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270326T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270326T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Remediating Educational Institutions
DESCRIPTION:More details forthcoming.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150735-21910016@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150735
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate School,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Social Sciences,Sociology,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260921T123957
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270405T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270405T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Japanese Medical Aid\, Iranian Blood\, and the Diplomacy of Genetic Racialism
DESCRIPTION:In 1966\, Japan’s Overseas Technical Cooperation Agency (OTCA) established an office for “medical cooperation\,” which recruited Japanese medical schools to participate in international aid projects to strengthen scientific\, as well as political\, ties with countries across Asia and Africa. Gifu University Medical School was selected to work in Iran\, launching a flow of Japanese personnel and scientific equipment to the laboratories of Tehran University. While Iranian scientists were primarily interested in receiving technical aid\, Japanese scientists were eager to conduct joint fieldwork projects. The organization of a joint expedition to northern Iran in 1972 exposed a series of tensions in the Japanese-Iranian collaboration. The team eventually collected blood samples from thousands of Iranian villagers to screen them for pathologies. Then\, most of these blood samples were shipped to Japan\, where they had a surprising afterlife. Circulating through laboratories in Tokyo\, Nagasaki\, and Osaka\, the Iranian blood was incorporated into a research project to analyze genetic variation within Japan’s own population\, and data from the samples featured in Japanese publications hypothesizing about the origins of the Japanese race. Meanwhile\, in publications with Iranian co-authors\, the meaning of the genetic data had to be re-negotiated according to Iranian understandings of racial identity.\n\nElise K. Burton is an associate professor for the Institute of the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity (Stanford University Press\, 2021). She is currently working on multiple projects examining the history of 20th-century scientific collaborations across Asia and the Middle East\, including the history of Japanese archaeological and genetic expeditions in West Asia\, the linked histories of physical anthropology in India and Iran\, and the history of ancient DNA studies in Egypt. She is also one of the co-editors of Isis\, the flagship journal of the History of Science Society.
UID:152558-21913914@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152558
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science,Society,Technology
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260821T143412
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270422T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270422T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Public Lecture
DESCRIPTION:More details forthcoming.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150736-21910018@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150736
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Humanities
LOCATION:1027 E. Huron Building
CONTACT:
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