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Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture
Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America, Professor Ollie Johnson
ABSTRACT: This lecture explores the question of Black political activism and racial representation in Brazilian politics. In the last 40...
The Movement Made Us All: Historical Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement and the Current Moment
David Dennis, Jr., (author, journalist, senior writer at Andscape and ESPN commentator) David Dennis, Sr., UM Law ’71 (founder and director of the Southern Initiative Algebra Project, CORE Southern Regional Director, 1962-65)
As part of the University of Michigan's MLK Symposium, please join us for a conversation with journalist and sports commentator David...
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...
U-M History Film Series: I'm Still Here
Victoria Langland and Ana Guimarães
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: 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 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...
CREES Noon Lecture. Nonalignment and Decolonial Imagination: Yugoslav Literary Encounters with the Global South
Nataša Kovačević, Professor of English, Eastern Michigan University
Yugoslavia’s pivot away from the Eastern Bloc and toward decolonizing countries in the Global South, which resulted in the founding of the...
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
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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
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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 Workshop
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CREES Noon Lecture. The Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain: Bulgarian Computers and The Society They Tried to Build
Victor Petrov, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
How did a small Balkan state become a Cold War power in the electronic field during its socialist period? During the years of late...
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...
U-M History Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony
Honoring the History Department's 2026 graduates! This year's ceremony will take place on Friday, May 1, at 5:00 pm in the...