EIHS Lecture: The Impostor Sea: The Making of the Medieval Mediterranean
Hussein Fancy, University of Michigan
Abstract: The past century of scholarship has offered two competing views of the medieval Mediterranean: a zone of intense conflict or one...
EIHS Lecture: Untopics in History: Air Travel Anthropology, You’ve Never Thought about That?
Chandra D. Bhimull, Colby College
Abstract: Anthropologists and historians fly to work. We fly to the archive. We fly to the field. (At least those of us with documents,...
Comparing Roman Hellenisms
Hellenism, defined as the “adoption or imitation of (elements of) the ancient Greek language, culture, philosophy, etc.” (OED) is...
Comparing Roman Hellenisms
Hellenism, defined as the “adoption or imitation of (elements of) the ancient Greek language, culture, philosophy, etc.” (OED) is...
Jacqueline Goldsby Workshop
A conversation with Jacqueline Goldsby (Yale).
EIHS Lecture: Medieval Chests as Ideological Objects
Katherine French, University of Michigan
Abstract: Chests were the most common piece of medieval furniture. As aristocratic households moved from castle-to-castle, chests...
EIHS Lecture: Is There a Socialist Everyday? Production and Social Reproduction in Maoist Beijing
Fabio Lanza University of Arizona
Abstract: In the years between 1958 and 1962, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical effort to change the daily lives or city...
Mediterranean Seminar. Margins of the Mediterranean
Keynote Address: Persis Berlekamp, associate professor of art history, University of Chicago
The Mediterranean is defined by its margins: the edge that connects land and sea, the cultural boundary that delineates the maritime region...
Mediterranean Seminar. Margins of the Mediterranean
Keynote Address: Persis Berlekamp, associate professor of art history, University of Chicago
The Mediterranean is defined by its margins: the edge that connects land and sea, the cultural boundary that delineates the maritime region...
EIHS Lecture: The Disappearance of Things: A Civil Line of Enquiry
Vazira Zamindar, Brown University
Abstract: In the interwar period of the twentieth century, in the visual archive of aerial bombing and surveying of Waziristan, I...
EIHS Lecture
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EIHS Lecture
Paul C. Johnson, University of Michigan
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De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hanson, Yale University
This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages” in...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hanson, Yale University
This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages” in...
EIHS Lecture
Alexandra Minna Stern, University of Michigan
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Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara
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EIHS Lecture
Elizabeth Lunbeck, Harvard University
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EIHS Lecture
Jamie Kreiner, University of Georgia
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