Event Types
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“MLK Jr.'s Legacy and the Crisis of Racial Capitalism - What's Next?”
with Barbara Ransby (History; Gender and Women's Studies; and African American Studies, UIC)
Barbara Ransby is an historian, writer, and longtime political activist. Ransby has published dozens of articles and essays in popular and...
Transcultural Studies Information Session
The Program in Transcultural Studies is an accelerated master's degree program designed for LSA undergraduate students. Join us for an...
Writing Displacement-Exile-Incarceration
Omid Tofighian, American University in Cairo
This event and the Global Theories of Critique project are part of a partnership between the University of Michigan and the American...
EIHS Lecture: Ecology and Empire on the Yellow River
Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh
This presentation introduces Ruth Mostern’s work on the imperial and ecological history of the Yellow River, a five-thousand-year history...
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Scaling Time and Space
How do fluctuations in scale impact the way we look at the past? Ruth Mostern’s research spans millennia and examines how local practices...
ASP Workshop | Afterlives of Catastrophes: “Western Armenia” in Comparative Perspective
Organizers: Karen Jallatyan, Anoush Suni, 2019-20 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellows, U-M, and Hakem Al-Rustom, Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History, U-M.
For complete workshop details, please see:...
ASP Workshop | Afterlives of Catastrophes: “Western Armenia” in Comparative Perspective
Organizers: Karen Jallatyan, Anoush Suni, 2019-20 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellows, U-M, and Hakem Al-Rustom, Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History, U-M.
For complete workshop details, please see:...
Teaching Contemporary Narratives of Migration
Sigrid Anderson | Hadji Bakara | Kristin Dickinson | Amal Hassan Fadlalla | Aliyah Khan | Supriya Nair | Joshua Miller (chair)
Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for our second panel discussion in a winter semester series on teaching contemporary...
EIHS Lecture: The Labors of Human Nurture: Breastfeeding for Love or Money in Brazil, 1899-1960
Victoria Langland, University of Michigan
What kind of labor is breastfeeding? How have societies accorded value to those who undertake this potentially lifesaving work? By situating...
EIHS Symposium: Exhibiting Histories, Engaging Publics in Detroit
Join the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and the Rackham Program in Public Scholarship as we hit the road to engage history on...
LACS Event. Utopian Imaginaries: Engaging with the Fernando Coronil Reader
Panel Discussion
In The Fernando Coronil Reader (Duke University Press 2019) Venezuelan anthropologist Fernando Coronil challenges us to rethink our...
EIHS Lecture / Human Conditions Keynote: Towards A Decolonial Account of Chemical Exposures on the Lower Great Lakes
Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto
This lecture is part of Human Conditions: An Eisenberg Forum....
Human Conditions: An Eisenberg Forum
Panels, participants, and full schedule coming soon....
EIHS Lecture: Medical Science and Legal Personhood: Remaking “Unsoundness” in English Civil Law, 1745-1830
John Carson, University of Michigan
During the early nineteenth century British judges and juries remade the legal condition “unsound of mind.” Understood as the inability...
EIHS-Women's Studies Lecture: Ukuphazama iNatali: Bringing Queer and Indigenous Studies Approaches to South African History and Beyond
T.J. Tallie, University of San Diego
How can critical indigenous and queer theoretical approaches transform the way we think about colonial history in South Africa (and beyond)?...
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Intimate Ties / Challenging Relations
Description forthcoming....
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.
