Overlapping Jurisdictions: How Islamic Courts Upheld Jewish Law in Colonial Egypt
Guest Speaker: Samy Ayoub
This special lecture by Samy Ayoub and moderated by Aaron Rock-Singer will argue that legal pluralism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century...
U-M History Film Series: The Day After Tomorrow
Perrin Selcer and Naomi Levin
Join the History department on Tuesday, November 18, at the Michigan Theater (603 E Liberty St.), for a FREE screening of "The Day...
EIHS Lecture: Narrating "Before" and "After": Linearity and Sequence in Indigenous History
David Chang (University of Minnesota)
Can embracing Indigenous sequence be a strike against colonial order? "Indigenous history is not linea" is a axiom that holds much...
EIHS Workshop: Global Indigeneity
Addie Block, Gina Hsu, Lopaka O'Connor, Eric Toups (moderator)
The Global Indigeneity workshop takes its cue from David Chang’s work which challenges a narrative of discovery through accounts of how...
Donia Human Rights Center Panel | The Dayton Peace Accords on Bosnia at 30: Successes, Failures, and Challenges Ahead
Edin Hajdarpašić, Loyola University Chicago; Tatjana Papić, Union University Belgrade Law School; Valery Perry, Democratization Policy Council
Thirty years after the signing in Dayton, Ohio, of the peace agreement ending the war in Bosnia, both Bosnia and its neighbors face immense...
Lessons of Authoritarianism and Democratic Resilience in Latin America: Free Community Film Screening & Discussion I'm Still Here
Victoria Langland, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ana Guimarães, Department of Romance Languages and Literature
BRAZIL, 1971 - Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children is forced to reinvent...
EIHS Lecture: Fathers and Sons: Empire, Execution, and Partition in a Revolutionary Age, 1776-1816
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 North American...
EIHS Symposium
More details forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Labor, Spirit, and Sovereignty: Africa’s Great War
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...
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...
