Event Types
Location
2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor
In collaboration with the Iran Symposium and the Iranian Graduate Students Association
January 20: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006), directed by Massoud Bakhshi...
EIHS Lecture: White Nationalists Dream of the Ethnostate
Alexandra Minna Stern, University of Michigan
This talk traces the genealogy of the ethnostate, often envisioned by white nationalists in the United States as the ultimate destination in...
Angela Naimou Lecture
Border Lamentations
Can modes of lamentation in poetry contribute to current thought on international border regimes? How do literary forms and temporalities of...
EIHS Symposium: Public Engagements, Digital Tools, Global Contexts: A Roundtable and Discussion
Public scholarship takes on different forms depending on the tools, communities, topics, and time periods with which we engage. During this...
Critical Conversations -- Diaspora
Manan Desai | Annette Joseph-Gabriel | Angela Naimou (Clemson) I Supriya Nair I Madhumita Lahiri (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series for 2018-19. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about...
2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor
In collaboration with the Iran Symposium and the Iranian Graduate Students Association
January 20: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006), directed by Massoud Bakhshi...
Exhibit Opening & Reception: "she was here, once"
nastassja e. swift, artist
Join artist Nastassja Swift to celebrate the official opening of her solo exhibition, "she was here, once," in the Lane Hall Gallery....
FellowSpeak: "Apostolic Longing in the Early Modern Spanish World"
Kenneth Mills
U-M Professor of History and 2018-19 Institute for the Humanities John Rich Faculty Fellow Kenneth Mills gives a 30-minute talk followed by...
Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon
Interpreting Objects and Exhibitions at the National Museum of Eritrea
Presentation by Timnet Gedar (PhD candidate, History)...
EIHS Lecture: Charcot's Brazilian Monkey: Religion, Psychiatry and Nearhuman Attraction
Paul C. Johnson, University of Michigan
NOTE: This event has been rescheduled to Tuesday, March 12....
Critical Conversations -- Dissent
Hadji Bakara | Bénédicte Boisseron | Ingrid Diran | Colin Gunckel | Ruby Tapia (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2018-19. In each session, a panel of four...
Community and the Carceral State
Roundtable
This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...
Sexual Modernities Conference
Benjamin Kahan, Heather Love, and Marcia Ochoa
This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly...
Sexual Modernities Conference
Benjamin Kahan, Heather Love, and Marcia Ochoa
This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly...
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum
Keynote: Professor Irena Klepfisz
Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers...
Sexual Modernities Conference
Benjamin Kahan, Heather Love, and Marcia Ochoa
This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly...
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum
Keynote: Professor Irena Klepfisz
Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers...
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Criminal Justice and the Built Environment"
Claire Zimmerman / Heather Thompson / David Thatcher
During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around...
Academic Freedom at a Global University: A Transnational Perspective
An open lunch conversation
Speakers:...
The Author's Forum Presents "The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images": A Conversation with Christiane Gruber and Juan Cole
Christiane Gruber and Juan Cole
Christiane Gruber (history of art) and Juan Cole (history) discuss Gruber's new book "The Praiseworthy One," which aims to bring back into...
EIHS Lecture: Migrant Longing, Courtship, and Gendered Identity in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara
Drawing upon a collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the US-Mexico border in the...
EIHS Workshop: Intimacy and State Power
Description forthcoming. Featuring:...
LACS Lecture. Judicial Abolitionism in Nineteenth- Century Spanish America: Afro-Uruguayan Black Soldiers and Spanish Diarist José María Márquez
Alex Borucki, University of California, Irvine
This presentation examines how judicial litigation about the freedom of formerly enslaved black soldiers in late 1820s Montevideo shaped the...
Critical Conversations -- The Novel
Alicia Christoff | Danny Hack | Akil Kumarasamy | Antoine Traisnel | Gaurav Desai (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2018-19. In each session, a panel of four...
EIHS Lecture: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Authoritarian's Allure: 1939, 2019
Elizabeth Lunbeck, Harvard University
Psychoanalysts writing in the 1930s and 1940s as witnesses to Europe’s embrace of fascism offered incisive accounts of their own...
EIHS Workshop: Psych! An Interdisciplinary Conversation about Histories and Sciences of the Mind
Description forthcoming. Featuring:...
Beyond the Carceral State
Roundtable
This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...
EIHS Lecture: The Hoof of Destiny
Jamie Kreiner, University of Georgia
Does it make sense to think of pigs as having agency? Farmers, lawmakers, and philosophers in the early medieval West thought so. Pigs were...
EIHS Workshop: Comedy and Power
Description forthcoming. Featuring:...
