Event Types
Location
Postcolonial Symposium: The Futures of Postcolonial Thought
The second symposium under the aegis of the Association of Postcolonial Thought. This year, scholars will present papers on the topic of...
EIHS Workshop: Atmospheres of Violence: Loss, Silence, and Affect in Archival Research
Dora Gao, Allie Goodman, Kristen Leer, Alexander McConnell (moderator)
Researching historical violence poses methodological, ethical, political, and affective challenges, particularly when this violence...
Postcolonial Symposium: The Futures of Postcolonial Thought
The second symposium under the aegis of the Association of Postcolonial Thought. This year, scholars will present papers on the topic of...
CREES Noon Lecture. Unearthing and Reckoning with Ukrainian Family History
Megan Buskey, writer
Growing up in Cleveland in the final years of the Cold War, writer Megan Buskey understood little about her Ukrainian family’s traumatic...
Transcultural Studies Virtual Information Session
Join us for a virtual information session for the Accelerated Master's Degree Program in Transcultural Studies!...
Insurgents and Intellectuals: Thought and Practice on the Left in US History
A Conference in Honor of Howard Brick
Insurgents and Intellectuals: Thought and Practice on the Left in US History...
Insurgents and Intellectuals: Thought and Practice on the Left in US History
A Conference in Honor of Howard Brick
Insurgents and Intellectuals: Thought and Practice on the Left in US History...
2023 Charles F. Fraker Graduate Conference
Keynote Speaker Professor Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University
The biannual Charles F. Fraker Conference is organized by doctoral students in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the...
2023 Charles F. Fraker Graduate Conference
Keynote Speaker Professor Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University
The biannual Charles F. Fraker Conference is organized by doctoral students in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the...
EIHS Lecture: The Invention of the Homeland: Racial Violence, Repatriation, and the Philippine Settler State
Adrian De Leon (University of Southern California)
What does it mean to go back home? By following the roots of the return migrant (Tagalog: balikbayan) in the early twentieth century, this...
EIHS Workshop: Writing Against History: Practicing the Past
Chantal Croteau, Orven Mallari, Caroline Murphy-Racette, Talitha Tukura Pam, Hakem Al-Rustom (moderator)
Abstract forthcoming....
New Observations: Bringing Art and Activism to Challenging Times
Join us for three speakers:...
EIHS Lecture: Planters’ Progress: Local Coffee Science and Trans-Imperial Circulations Through Early Colonial Kenya
Paul Ocobock (University of Notre Dame)
How do you grow a commodity and settler colony from scratch? How do you do it when every insect and fungus, even the climate and soil, seem...
EIHS Workshop: The Consequences of Colonialism, Capitalism, and Empire: Looking Out from the Archive
Justin Chun-Yin Cheng, Keanu Heydari, Leopoldo Solis Martinez, Mrinalini Sinha (moderator)
Abstract forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Zorro and the Curse of History: Swashbuckling Through the United States' Mexican Past
Anthony P. Mora (University of Michigan)
Zorro’s flowing black cape, mysterious mask, and pencil mustache make him instantly recognizable as one of the most enduring fictional...
CREES Noon Lecture. Measuring Ethnicity: Administrative Files on the “Determination of Ethnicity” during the Antonescu Regime
Tatiana Sîrbu, scientific collaborator, University of Louvain
This presentation tackles the challenges faced by the historian when exploring administrative archives and oral sources about a complex...
EIHS Symposium: Call and Response: Slavery, Art and the Politics of Repair
Tour and Conversation with Jason R. Young
Abstract forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Piercing Flesh and Joining Bones: The Materiality of the Body in the History of Chinese Medicine
Yi-Li Wu (University of Michigan)
Abstract and speaker biography forthcoming....
EIHS Symposium
Abstract and panelist information forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Listening to the Water, Capping a Verse: What Enslaved Women Did in the Medieval Mediterranean
Hannah Barker (Arizona State University)
What did enslaved women do in the medieval Mediterranean? The usual answer has been domestic work, but the field of slavery studies is in...
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop
Abstract and panelist information forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: A Life in Planetary History
Perrin Selcer (University of Michigan)
Inspired by Earth System scientists’ models of global environmental catastrophe, luminaries of “planetary history” proclaim the...
EIHS Symposium
Abstract and panelist information forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Memories of Iconoclasm and Violence in Indigenous Accounts of the “Conquest” of Mexico
Lisa Sousa (Occidental College)
The history of the conquest of Mexico has often been told from the perspective of Spanish conquerors, but indigenous accounts reveal a...
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop
Abstract and panelist information forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Promissory Talk and the Limits of Historical Imagination
Jolyon Thomas (University of Pennsylvania)
This lecture uses the concept of promissory talk to critically analyze one way of thinking “against history.” Promissory talk is a...
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop
Abstract and panelist information forthcoming....
EIHS Public Lecture
Speaker, abstract,and speaker biography forthcoming....
