Event Types
Location
EIHS Lecture: Between Home and Exile: Binational Living and Longing at the US-Mexico Border
Larisa L. Veloz (University of Texas at El Paso)
Mexican immigrants and migrants have been crossing back and forth along the US Mexico border for 150 years, and yet exile is most often...
EIHS Workshop: Challenging Gender in Labor and Migration
Amelia Burke, Cassandra Euphrat Weston, Daniel Jin, David Tamayo (moderator)
This workshop delves into the often-overlooked gendered dynamics of labor and migration, inspired by Professor Larisa Veloz's research...
Valerie Traub Retirement Conference - Knowledge Relations: A Conference on Historical Epistemologies, Emerging Methodologies, Contemporary Practices
in celebration of Valerie Traub
Friday, January 17, 12:00pm - 6:00pm...
Valerie Traub Retirement Conference - Knowledge Relations: A Conference on Historical Epistemologies, Emerging Methodologies, Contemporary Practices
in celebration of Valerie Traub
Friday, January 17, 12:00pm - 6:00pm...
Where Do We Go From Here?: Perspectives on Race, Democracy and Justice
Jelani Cobb, Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism and staff writer, New Yorker magazine
More information forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Divergent Connections: Participating in the Indian Ocean World from East Africa’s Interior, ca. 1000-1800
David Bresnahan (University of Utah)
This talk explores the history of the East African port city of Mombasa from the vantage point of communities that lived along its rural...
EIHS Workshop: Home and Exile: Reframing Global Connections and Encounters
Nicole Allora, Christopher DeCou, Allen Kendall, Inhae Yap, Derek Peterson (moderator)
Workshop description forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Beyond Affirmative Action: What Roman Identity Politics Can Teach the US
Nandini Pandey (Johns Hopkins University)
Dr. Nandini Pandey, Associate Professor of Classics at the Johns Hopkins University, previews her forthcoming book on ancient and modern...
EIHS Workshop: Exile as Erasure: Reflections on Marginality
Tuğçe Akgül, Melissa Itzkowitz, Zhaina Meirkhan, Talitha Pam, Anna Bonnell Freidin (moderator)
Workshop description forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture: Broken Bonds: Fugitive Bannermen, Civic virtue, and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China
Pär Cassel (University of Michigan)
In 1670, the Kangxi Emperor promulgated the Sacred Edict, a hortatory edict consisting of sixteen apothegms that enjoined his Chinese...
EIHS Symposium: Silences Broken: A Symposium in Honor of Michele Mitchell
The Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan is pleased to host “Silences Broken: A Symposium in Honor of...
EIHS Symposium: Silences Broken: A Symposium in Honor of Michele Mitchell
The Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan is pleased to host “Silences Broken: A Symposium in Honor of...
EIHS Lecture: Foreigners in Their Own Land: Chernobyl under the Russian Occupation (2022)
Serhii Plokhii (Harvard University)
On February 24, 2022, the first day of Russia’s all-out attack on Ukraine, armored vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant...
EIHS Workshop: Towards a Decolonial Methodology
Chandrica Barua, Azhar Dyussekenova, Keanu M. Heydari, Sara Ruiz, Sikandar Kumar (moderator)
Workshop description forthcoming....
U-M History Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony
Honoring the History Department's 2025 graduates! This year's ceremony will take place on Friday, May 2, at 1:00 pm in the Lydia...
