Event Types
Location
Failing Flint: Lessons from the Water Crisis
Michigan Horizons (LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester)
This discussion takes place at the Flint Public Library (1026 E. Kearsley St., Flint, MI 48503) and features panelists:...
U-M 2117: What Future for the Public University?
Christopher Newfield, Terrence McDonald
Lecture by Christopher Newfield (University of California, Santa Barbara) with response from Terrence J. McDonald (University of Michigan)....
LACS Lecture. Atlantic History Initiative - Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution
Devyn Spence Benson, assistant professor of Africana and Latin American studies, Davidson College
How do racism and antiracism coexist? How do we fight against racism in a racist world? What are the lessons learned from the 1959 Cuban...
Lecture: "Maize, Blue, and Lavender: Revisiting U-M's LGBTQ Past"
Tim Retzloff (Michigan State University)
Tim Retzloff received his BA with highest honors in history from the University of Michigan in 2006 and earned his PhD in history from Yale...
Rus' in Celluloid: Takes on Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev
Michael Flier, Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology, Harvard University
How can a film based on the life of a world-famous icon painter about whom virtually nothing is known be of use to students studying the...
Lecture: "The Lavender Scare: Federal Anti-Gay Purges during the Cold War"
David K. Johnson (University of South Florida)
David K. Johnson (Ph.D. Northwestern) is an Associate Professor in the history department at the University of South Florida. His first...
Masons, Scouts, and Legionnaires: Voluntary Associations and the Surprising Histories of Chinese American Civil Society, 1864–1965
Ian Shin
This talk presents three case studies of Chinese American voluntary associations between 1864 and 1965: the Chinese Freemasons (also known...
Horizons of the Movement: Discussing the Future of Racial Justice Organizing at Michigan with Black Activists from BAM I to the Present
Horizons of the Movement will bring together multiple generations of Black activists who attended the University of Michigan and fought for...
EIHS Lecture: At the Gates of the Temple: Tracing the Boundaries of Political Culture in Ptolemaic Egypt
Ian Moyer, University of Michigan
At the gates of ancient Egyptian temples are traces of public space and transcultural politics that have gone misrecognized and neglected in...
EIHS Symposium: Attica and Foucault: A Conversation on Heather Ann Thompson's "Blood in the Water"
Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan; Bernard Harcourt, Columbia Law School
In 1972, the French philosopher Michel Foucault visited Attica in upstate New York. Though engaged in prison reform in his native France,...
And You Will See Wonders: Magic, Fraud, and Deceit in Late Medieval Venice
Mike Ryan
Michael A. RYAN is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of...
The Future of the Military and Civilians in War
LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: The Future of War and Peace
Panel discussion featuring the following presenters and topics:...
Technologies and Instruments of War
LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: The Future of War and Peace
Panel discussion featuring the following presenters and topics:...
Technologies and Instruments of Peace
LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: The Future of War and Peace
Panel discussion featuring the following presenters and topics:...
History Department Fall Open House
Check out courses for Winter 2018!
Meet our faculty and catch up with your classmates at this annual celebration. See what's cookin' for Winter term.
Rita Chin: The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe
Conversation with Mrinalini Sinha and Book Signing
Literati Bookstore is partnering with the Department of History to welcome Professor Rita Chin to share her latest book, The Crisis of...
Michigan Urban Futures: Envisioning and Engaging Cities in U-M's Third Century
LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: Urban Futures
Speakers:...
EIHS Lecture: The Global Crisis of 2008: Approaches for a Future History
Adam Tooze, Columbia University
2008 is associated in American historical memory above all with the failure of Lehman Brothers, the subprime crisis, the Big Short, and the...
MEMS Lecture Series. Eating Italy: A History of Italian Food and Italian Identity
Massimo Montanari, University of Bologna
Pizza, pasta, and tiramisù are today some of the most obvious symbols of Italian culture. Why is this? What has connected food and...
EIHS Lecture: The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene: Finding a Usable Past in Japan
Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame
Abstract coming soon....
Prospects for Peace in the Middle East
Daniel Kurtzer
Lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and...
EIHS Workshop: Crossing Boundaries in Environmental History
Workshop description forthcoming....
Futures of Law and Political Inclusion
LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: Crisis Democracy
Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on, interpret, and imagine the...
Futures of Free Speech, Safe Space, and Political Expression
LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: Crisis Democracy
Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on, interpret, and imagine the...
Futures of Democratic Social Movements
LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: Crisis Democracy
Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on, interpret, and imagine the...
Democratic Futures at Michigan: A Discussion with Local Organizers
LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: Crisis Democracy
Panelists and description forthcoming....
Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Lecture: Fugitive Democracy Revisited
LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: Crisis Democracy
Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on, interpret, and imagine the...
The Other America: Still Separate. Still Unequal.
This interdisciplinary, day-long event will focus on issues of inequality as they manifest in relation to black lives in the United States....
EIHS Thursday Lecture Series
Gregory Pflugfelder, Columbia University
Title, abstract, and speaker biography coming soon....
EIHS Thursday Lecture Series
Edda L. Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University
Title, abstract, and speaker biography coming soon....
EIHS Thursday Lecture Series
Dena Goodman, University of Michigan
Title, abstract, and speaker biography coming soon....
EIHS Thursday Lecture Series
Ruth Mazo Karras, University of Minnesota
Title, abstract, and speaker biography coming soon....
EIHS Thursday Lecture Series
Alan Mikhail, Yale University
Title, abstract, and speaker biography coming soon....
