Event Types
Location
LACS Central American Contexts Series. Crises of Care: Narrating Central American and Mexican Migration through Children and Families
Paige Andersson, Postdoctoral Scholar, DePauw University
By the time the Trump Administration's family separation policy took effect in 2018, children had been a focus of news coverage of...
LACS Central American Contexts Series. Climate, Caravans, and Historical Violence in Central America
Tony Andersson, Lecturer, DePauw University
Recent news coverage of Central American migrants routinely describes them as “climate refugees,” fleeing lands where anthropogenic...
EIHS-Women's Studies Lecture: Can Marriage Save the Race? Ideas About African-American Marriage from W.E.B. Du Bois to Our Own Times
Tara W. Hunter, Princeton University
The state of African-American families, of marital status in particular, has been subject to debates going back centuries. Slavery was...
Agrippina: “I, Me, Mine”?
Prof. Mary T. Boatwright, Dept. Classical Studies - Duke University
Who was Agrippina, what did she do and how was she constrained, and what belonged to her? To write a biography of Agrippina the Younger...
LACS Central American Contexts Series. Writing Western Nicaragua's Colonial and Post-Colonial LGBTQ Histories
Victoria González-Rivera
Dr. González-Rivera's research on western Nicaragua's pre-1979 LGBTQ histories reveals a complex story. She documents a...
A/PIA Studies Fall Social
Join us for dinner, mingle with friends and faculty, and learn about the A/PIA Studies program!
CCPS Lecture. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Politics of History in Today’s Poland
Dariusz Stola, professor of history, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews opened its core exhibition less than five years ago, but it has already attracted millions of...
WCED Lecture. Hegemon Risen: Turkey's Emergence as an Independent Authoritarian State
Michael Hickok (PhD History, 1995), Las Vegas Division Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation
In 2000, leaders in the last Western-orientated Turkish government embarked on a strategic realignment and defense plan that encouraged more...
Author's Forum Presents: "Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity"
A Conversation with Ellen Muehlberger and Deborah Dash Moore
Ellen Muehlberger (history, classical studies, Middle East studies) and Deborah Dash Moore (Judaic studies, history) discuss...
Donia Human Rights Center Distinguished Lecture. Global Challenges to Human Rights Today
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2014-18)
From refugee crises and global poverty to rigged elections, growing populism – and the intolerance and oppression it breeds, we are at a...
EIHS Lecture: The Truth of Place in Cities of the Habsburg Monarchy
Scott Spector, University of Michigan
How is “historical truth” inscribed or obscured in the material presence of cities? While much of East Central Europe belonged for...
EIHS Symposium: Rethinking Time, Thinking Multitemporally
Time, the messy stuff of which history is made, constitutes a rich nexus of possibilities. Yes, it moves steadily forward. Still, there were...
The Vietnam War: What Happened and Why It Still Matters
A Talk by Professors Keith W. Taylor and Olga Dror
Keith W. Taylor, Cornell University...
Professor Valerie Kivelson, the Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor of History, Inaugural Lecture
Why Witchcraft & Magical Spells Give Us All the Answers to Early Modern Russian History
Early modern Russia was an autocratic state ruled by a despotic tsar and a powerful Orthodox Church. Its population was largely illiterate....
Author's Forum Presents: "Racial Migrations New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean"
A Conversation with Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof and Felix Contreras
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (American culture) and Felix Contreras (host of NPR’s Alt.Latino,...
Between Life and Death: The Cultural Politics of Modern Spanish Medicine, 1770-1808
Nicolás Fernández Medina, Pennsylvania State University
In 1770, Charles III of Spain issued a royal decree to overhaul the university system throughout his kingdom. As part of this overhaul, a...
U-M History in the Public Service: A Vision for the Humanities PhD in the 21st Century
Featuring PhD alumni who currently operate in non-academic contexts—media companies and museums, journalism and publishing, government...
U-M History in the Public Service: A Vision for the Humanities PhD in the 21st Century
Featuring PhD alumni who currently operate in non-academic contexts—media companies and museums, journalism and publishing, government...
EIHS Lecture: The Pen and a Sea of Pearls: Decolonizing Contemporary Historical Storytelling
Samia Khatun, University of London
A racist assumption powerfully shapes many history books today: the idea that European knowledge traditions and Enlightenment sciences are...
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Colonized Geographies
Abstract forthcoming. Featuring:...
The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac: The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California
Clayton Howard, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University
The right to privacy is a pivotal concept in the culture wars that have galvanized American politics for the past several decades. It has...
EIHS Lecture: Title Forthcoming
Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh
Abstract and speaker biography forthcoming....
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Title Forthcoming
This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution...
EIHS Lecture: Title Forthcoming
Victoria Langland, University of Michigan
Abstract and speaker biography forthcoming....
EIHS Symposium: Title Forthcoming
This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution...
Human Nature: An Eisenberg Forum (Keynote)
Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto
Abstract and speaker biography forthcoming....
Human Nature: An Eisenberg Forum
This event is an Eisenberg Forum. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
EIHS Lecture: Title Forthcoming
John Carson, University of Michigan
Abstract and speaker biography forthcoming....
EIHS Symposium: Title Forthcoming
This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution...
EIHS-Women's Studies Lecture: Title Forthcoming
T.J. Tallie, University of San Diego
Abstract and speaker biography forthcoming....
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Title Forthcoming
This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution...
History Department Honors Symposium
Honoring the History Department's 2020 honors students. Venue forthcoming.
History Department Commencement Ceremony
Honoring the History Department's 2020 graduates. Venue forthcoming.
History Department PhD Commencement Ceremony
Honoring the History Department's 2020 PhD graduates. Venue forthcoming.
