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...
How Black is American Film History?: A Scholarship and Pedagogy Mini-Conference
Guest speakers include Cara Caddoo (Indiana University), Miriam Petty (Northwestern University), and Nicholas Sammond (University of Toronto).
The event investigates the formation of the American film industry from its origins into the 1940s and beyond, paying special attention to...
EIHS Workshop: Boundaries of Everyday Life
Description forthcoming....
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...
Brent Hayes Edwards Lecture
Sweet Willie Rollbar’s Orientation: Film Screening and Lecture
Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia) will present his digital restoration, from the original 16mm reels, of the legendary short film Sweet Willie...
Criminalization 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...
EIHS Lecture: Peacetime Aerial Bombing: A Colonial Genealogy for the Ever-Disappearing Civilian
Vazira Zamindar, Brown University (Series: Celebrating 30 Years of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History)
Abstract: This talk examines the "peacetime" interwar aerial bombing of Waziristan, and in particular its visual archive, to interrogate a...
Critical Conversations -- Memory
Naomi André | Sara Blair | Angela Dillard | Kristin Hass
Please join us for a conversation about Memory and Contemporary Studies...
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Development"
Susan Najita / William Glover / Perrin Selcer
During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around...
EIHS Lecture: Inner-City Blues: African Americans, Psychiatry, and the Post-World War II "Urban Crisis"
Martin Summers, Boston College
Psychiatrists have had a long history of drawing a tight correlation between black mental illness and city life. In the late nineteenth...
EIHS Workshop: Crises and Critical Moments
Description forthcoming....
Critical Conversations -- Feminisms
Adela Pinch | Cathy Sanok | Xiomara Santamarina | Ruby Tapia
Please join us for a transhistorical conversation about Feminisms....
Containment 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...
EIHS Lecture
Paul C. Johnson, University of Michigan
Lecture title, abstract, and speaker biography forthcoming....
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, 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 Hansen, Yale University
This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages” in...
Control 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...
EIHS Lecture
Alexandra Minna Stern, University of Michigan
Lecture title, abstract, and speaker biography forthcoming....
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...
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...
EIHS Lecture
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lecture title, abstract, and speaker biography forthcoming....
EIHS Lecture
Elizabeth Lunbeck, Harvard University
Lecture title, abstract, and speaker biography forthcoming....
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
Jamie Kreiner, University of Georgia
Lecture title, abstract, and speaker biography forthcoming....
