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Walking in the Steps of Black Women: Guided Campus Tour
Join Professor LaKisha Simmons and students Brittany Simmons and Maria Garcia Reyna on a guided campus walking tour featuring landmarks of...
Cultural Configurations of the “Alt-Right”
Over the past decade, the “alt-right” has moved from what one scholar called the “lunatic fringe” to the centers of power, and...
Cultural Configurations of the “Alt-Right”
Over the past decade, the “alt-right” has moved from what one scholar called the “lunatic fringe” to the centers of power, and...
Austerity and Anti-Austerity Beyond Capitalism
An Eisenberg Forum
During the global economic crisis of 2008 many observers predicted that austerity economics would be discredited and abandoned, but over the...
Austerity and Anti-Austerity Beyond Capitalism
An Eisenberg Forum
During the global economic crisis of 2008 many observers predicted that austerity economics would be discredited and abandoned, but over the...
EIHS Lecture: Training Slaves for the Camera: “Racial Types” in Khartoum, 1882
Eve M. Troutt Powell, University of Pennsylvania
Why did photographers in the nineteenth century take pictures of slaves? What were they looking for, in the faces and bodies of those in...
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Envisioning Race
Abstract forthcoming. Featuring:...
The Making of the Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent
This conference celebrates the upcoming publication of the two-volume Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent (co-edited by...
The Making of the Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent
This conference celebrates the upcoming publication of the two-volume Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent (co-edited by...
EIHS Lecture: Finding One's Racial Self: It's Always Personal
Earl Lewis, University of Michigan
This lecture explores the intersection between autobiography and history. It contends that the personal often shapes understanding, reason,...
EIHS Symposium: HistoryLabs: Pedagogy and Innovation
Abstract forthcoming. Featuring:...
EIHS-Women's Studies Lecture: Can Marriage Save the Race? Ideas About African-American Marriage from W.E.B. Du Bois to Our Own Times
Tara W. Hunter, Princeton University
The state of African-American families, of marital status in particular, has been subject to debates going back centuries. Slavery was...
Donia Human Rights Center Distinguished Lecture. Global Challenges to Human Rights Today
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2014-18)
Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein of Jordan is the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Known for his outspoken criticism...
EIHS Lecture: The Truth of Place in Cities of the Habsburg Monarchy
Scott Spector, University of Michigan
How is “historical truth” inscribed or obscured in the material presence of cities? While much of East Central Europe belonged for...
EIHS Symposium: Rethinking Time, Thinking Multitemporally
Time, the messy stuff of which history is made, constitutes a rich nexus of possibilities. Yes, it moves steadily forward. Still, there were...
Professor Valerie Kivelson, the Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor of History, Inaugural Lecture
This event is a public lecture and reception honoring Professor Valerie Kivelson on her collegiate professorship in History. Further details...
EIHS Lecture: The Pen and a Sea of Pearls: Decolonizing Contemporary Historical Storytelling
Samia Khatun, University of London
A racist assumption powerfully shapes many history books today: the idea that European knowledge traditions and Enlightenment sciences are...
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Colonized Geographies
Abstract forthcoming. Featuring:...
EIHS Lecture: Title Forthcoming
Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh
Abstract and speaker biography forthcoming....
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Title Forthcoming
This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution...
EIHS Lecture: Title Forthcoming
Victoria Langland, University of Michigan
Abstract and speaker biography forthcoming....
EIHS Symposium: Title Forthcoming
This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution...
Human Nature: An Eisenberg Forum (Keynote)
Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto
Abstract and speaker biography forthcoming....
Human Nature: An Eisenberg Forum
This event is an Eisenberg Forum. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
EIHS Lecture: Title Forthcoming
John Carson, University of Michigan
Abstract and speaker biography forthcoming....
EIHS Symposium: Title Forthcoming
This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution...
EIHS-Women's Studies Lecture: Title Forthcoming
T.J. Tallie, University of San Diego
Abstract and speaker biography forthcoming....
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Title Forthcoming
This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution...
