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 Workshop: Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and Colonialism
Rachael Barrett, Augusto Espinoza, Irene Mora, Sueann Caulfield (moderator)
For decades, historians of gender and sexuality have produced rich scholarship that analyzes how sex, sexuality, and gender are inextricably...
Winter 2024 MEMS Lecture. Since Time Immemorial: Managing Difference through Custom from Medieval Iberia to Colonial Mexico
Yanna Yannakakis, Emory Univerisity
My talk explores the relationship between custom and empire by connecting elite strategies for managing difference in medieval Iberia’s...
Science Studies After Historical Epistemology
Science matters. Over the last half-century, a field—called science studies—has emerged to explain why. Science studies accounts for...
EIHS Lecture: Promissory Talk and the Limits of Historical Imagination
Jolyon Baraka 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...
ASC 15th Anniversary Conference. Higher Education in the 21st Century: Keys to US-Africa Partnership
Opening & Keynote Speakers: Santa Ono (University of Michigan), Mary Catherine Phee (U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs), Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe (Nigeria’s National Capital) Debbie Dingell (Michigan’s 6th Congressional District), Sarah Mosoe
This two-day conference will feature notable speakers and panelists and explore the future of higher education, academic collaboration, and...
EIHS Workshop: The Media of History
Abstract forthcoming....
ASC 15th Anniversary Conference. Higher Education in the 21st Century: Keys to US-Africa Partnership
Opening & Keynote Speakers: Santa Ono (University of Michigan), Mary Catherine Phee (U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs), Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe (Nigeria’s National Capital) Debbie Dingell (Michigan’s 6th Congressional District), Sarah Mosoe
This two-day conference will feature notable speakers and panelists and explore the future of higher education, academic collaboration, and...
Donia Human Rights Center Panel | Human Rights in Nicaragua: From Dictatorship to Hope
Tamara Dávila Rivas, Ana Margarita Vijil, Dora María Téllez
Panelists:...
EIHS Public Lecture: “Species Insurance”: Harriet Tubman, Environmental Storytelling, and Historical Modes of Survival
Tiya Miles (Harvard University)
Format: Lecture followed by book signing with light refreshments. Literati Bookstore will sell copies of Professor Miles's book....
Professors Frieda Ekotto, Ursula Jakob, and Scott Spector, Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture
LSA Collegiate Lecture Series
This event will take place both in person and virtually....
IHP-EIHS Symposium: Approaches to Oral History and the Work of Inclusive History
Camron Michael Amin, Alexis A. Antracoli, Lorena Chambers, Jay Cook (moderator)
Abstract forthcoming....
History Department Undergraduate Commencement
Honoring the History Department's 2024 graduates! This year's ceremony will take place on Friday, May 3, at 1:00 pm in the Lydia...