Race and Racism, Comparatively: A Fall 2022 Series
Co-organized by Aaron Coleman, Renee Ragin Randall and Giulia Riccò
“Race and Racism, Comparatively” is a series of three conversations highlighting the work of scholars both in and beyond U-M whose...
Transcultural Studies Virtual Information Session
The Accelerated Master's Degree Program in Transcultural Studies is hosting a virtual information session on Wednesday, October 5th at...
EIHS Lecture: Monuments Removed: Colonial-Era Statues in the Era of Decolonization
Durba Ghosh (Cornell University)
When India and Pakistan became independent, the urban landscape was marked by several hundred monumental statues to British military...
EIHS Workshop: Disinheriting the Past, Democratizing the Present: Politics, Ethics, and the Art of Remembering
Christopher Blackmore, Ayleen Paola Correa, Kristin Foringer, Allison Grenda, David Tamayo (moderator)
Acts of public memorialization and commemoration are modes of historical narrativization that inform one’s sense of belonging to a...
High Stakes Culture: How Do We Understand Abortion, Control, and Reproductive Justice?
A conversation about the cultural logics that are driving the rapidly transforming landscape of access to abortion and birth control in the United States.
High Stakes Culture explores the ongoing “culture wars'' and recent cultural flashpoints igniting across the country. Activists...
EIHS Lecture: The Quetzal Crosses the Pacific: Bridging Asian and Latin American Studies
Ricardo Padrón (University of Virginia)
In 1579, a group of Franciscan Friars entered Ming China with the intention of establishing a Catholic mission in the country. They brought...
EIHS Workshop: Geographic Imaginaries: Mapping Space, People, and Historical Mentalities
Noah Cashian, Ismael Pardo, Lediona Shahollari, Zoe Waldman, Kenneth Mills (moderator)
Abstract forthcoming....
The History of Jewish Friendship, 1650-1950
Conference Chairs: Shachar Pinsker and Shai Zamir
Is there a “Jewish” cultural model of friendship? How did it change over time? Could the study of Jewish friendships shed new light on...
The History of Jewish Friendship, 1650-1950
Conference Chairs: Shachar Pinsker and Shai Zamir
Is there a “Jewish” cultural model of friendship? How did it change over time? Could the study of Jewish friendships shed new light on...
Race and Racism, Comparatively: A Fall 2022 Series
Co-organized by Aaron Coleman, Renee Ragin Randall and Giulia Riccò
“Race and Racism, Comparatively” is a series of three conversations highlighting the work of scholars both in and beyond U-M whose...
Muscovy in the World
A Workshop in Honor of Val Kivelson
Scholarly workshop of about 15 invited scholars; papers submitted in advance, with intent of publication. More information TBA.
Muscovy in the World
A Workshop in Honor of Val Kivelson
Scholarly workshop of about 15 invited scholars; papers submitted in advance, with intent of publication. More information TBA.
EIHS Lecture: An Ambivalent History: Blackness and Homosexuality in the Post-World War II Political Imaginary
Jennifer Dominique Jones (University of Michigan)
Between 2003 and 2015, various media outlets perpetuated comparisons between the intensifying movement for marriage equality and the Modern...
EIHS Symposium: Interior Spaces: The Domestic, the Personal, the Intimate, and the In-Between
Hayley R. Bowman, Victoria Langland, Helmut Puff, Jessica Kenyatta Walker, Christian de Pee (moderator)
Abstract forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Stillness, Stuck-ness, and Sensing Against the Archive
Alexandra Hui (Mississippi State University)
Historians have much to learn from stopped time. Examining the sensation, perception, and documentation of stasis opens up categorical and...
EIHS Workshop: Beyond the Written Record: Exploring Past Sounds, Tastes, Smells, Vistas, and Touches
Emily Cornish, Julia LaPlaca, Ginevra Miglierina, Estrella Salgado, Helmut Puff (moderator)
Abstract forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: The Echo of the Whale: Taking History Below the Surface
Bathsheba R. Demuth (Brown University)
Bowhead whales have been known to three groups along the Bering Strait over the past two centuries: Indigenous Yupik and Inupiaq whalers,...
EIHS Workshop: Can the More-Than-Human Speak? Exploring the Possibilities and Limitations of Post-Anthropocentric Histories
Jahnabi Barooah Chanchani, Christopher DeCou, Sunhong Kim, Perrin Selcer (moderator)
Abstract forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Stuff
Mike Chin (University of California, Davis) + Rachel Rafael Neis (University of Michigan)
Abstract forthcoming....
EIHS Workshop: Material Culture: Objects Against the Historical Grain?
Sierra Jones, Ekaterina A. Olson Shipyatsky, Lucy Smith, Robyn Thum-O’Brien, Katherine French (moderator)
Abstract forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Reviving old Desires: The Rubaiyat, the Victorian Underworld, and the Mass Market for the Orient
Juan Cole (University of Michigan)
Edward FitzGerald likely translated the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as a roman-a-clef about the end of his relationship with his Persian...
EIHS Symposium
Abstract and panelist information forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Speak Politely to the Ancestors: Gender and Moral Community in Southeastern Africa's Second Millennium CE
Raevin Jimenez (University of Michigan)
In the ninth-century South African Highveld, Nguni-speakers lost their ancestors. They would spend nearly a millennium seeking new ones and...
EIHS Symposium
Abstract and panelist information forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Writing Enslaved Women’s Histories from the Crevices of the Archive
Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University)
This presentation offers an intimate portrait of the life of an enslaved woman, known as Abba, who appears multiple times in the diary of a...
EIHS Workshop: Atmospheres of Violence: Loss, Silence, and Affect in Archival Research
Janice Feng, Dora Gao, Allie Goodman, Norah Langat, Kathryn Babayan (moderator)
Abstract forthcoming....
