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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: The Tribute: The 1963 March on Washington and the Gendered Politics of Freedom
DESCRIPTION:The 1963 March on Washington has become the standard bearer in American public memory for non-violent\, political demonstration. With Martin Luther King\, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” as one of the most recognizable moments of the event\, the depth and the nuance of the March on Washington and the movement that shaped has rarely surfaced among and academic and popular discourse. With attention to widening the frame in which to analyze the 1963 March on Washington\, historian Marcia Chatelain offers a new reading of the March from the vantage point of the gender dynamics that undoubtedly shaped it.\n\nMarcia Chatelain is the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A historian of African-American life and culture\, Dr. Chatelain has taught at the University of Oklahoma and Georgetown University. She is the author of three books: South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration\, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America\, and How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington. Dr. Chatelain has received awards for her writing and teaching\, including the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150722-21910003@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150722
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African American,Anthropology,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Social Sciences,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20261030T125044
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:IPAH at 25
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a one-day conference marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the University of Michigan’s Interdepartmental Program in Ancient History.\n\nThe conference will bring together invited speakers from the University of Michigan alumni community and institutions across North America and Europe to reflect on major transformations in the study of ancient history over the past several decades. Speakers will consider the evolution of their own scholarship and the broader disciplinary shifts that have shaped graduate training\, research methods\, and the expanding horizons of the field.\n\nMORNING SESSION\nRedefining Ancient History: Boundaries\, Connections\, and Scales\n \n9:00-9:30 AM: Brendan Haug\n“Introductory Remarks: Is there a Science of Ancient History?”\n \n9:30-10:15 AM: Nathanael Andrade\n“From ‘Greek and Roman’ to ‘Ancient’: Implications of the Shift”\nThe transformation of the Interdepartmental Program for Greek and Roman History (IPGRH) into the Interdepartmental Program for Ancient History (IPAH) reflects broader changes in how ancient historians conceptualize both their subjects and their discipline. Drawing on my own research\, this paper explores the shifts in approaches to ancient peoples as subjects of empires\, members of confessional communities\, and participants in a connected Afro-Eurasian world\, while considering questions of who has the authority to study and claim their pasts.\n \n10:15-11:00 AM: Denise Demetriou\n“A Connected Ancient Mediterranean World: The Challenges and Rewards of Bridging Disciplinary Divides”\nAdopting a Mediterranean perspective and bridging the traditional disciplinary divide between Classics and Ancient Near Eastern studies can illuminate neglected dimensions of ancient history\, including patterns of population and cultural interaction. This paper reflects on the challenges and rewards of such interdisciplinary approaches and considers their implications for the future direction of the field.\n \n11:00-11:45 AM: Jenn Finn\n“All (Royal) Roads Start in Ann Arbor: The Grammar of Imperial Legitimacy between Classics and Cuneiform Studies”\nAcross four millennia\, rulers from the ancient Near East to Rome appropriated the cultural heritage and monumental landscapes of the past to construct imagined boundaries of imperial authority. Drawing on research that bridges Classics and Assyriology\, this paper examines such practices as a form of soft power fundamental to imperial strategy and legitimacy.\n \n11:45 AM-12:30 PM: Peter Bang\n“Matching the Global with the Local: Ancient History between Macro and Micro”\n \n \nAFTERNOON SESSION\nWriting Ancient Histories: Narratives\, Experiences\, and Contemporary Relevance\n \n2:00-2:45 PM: Cam Grey\n“Social Historians Telling Stories”\nHow do social historians reconcile the particularity of individual anecdotes with the ambitions of grand historical narratives? This paper reflects on the tensions and occasional convergences between these modes of storytelling and considers the kinds of histories we can\, could\, and should construct from disparate forms of evidence.\n \n2:45-3:30 PM: Emily Lamond\n“The Ancient Body in Question”\nRecent scholarship has increasingly approached disability in antiquity not simply as a medical condition but as a culturally constructed category shaped by social expectations and individual circumstances. Moving beyond familiar representations of Roman society as uniformly hostile to disabled bodies\, this paper explores how disability could shape different dimensions of everyday experience and invites historians to reconstruct ancient individuals' relationships with their bodies in richer\, more contextually sensitive ways.\n \n3:30-4:15 PM: Adriaan Lanni\n“Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Law at UM and Beyond: Juries as a Check on Politicized Prosecutions in Athens and Today”\nBuilding on Michigan’s longstanding tradition of interdisciplinary legal history\, this paper explores how comparisons between ancient and modern legal systems can illuminate both Athenian law and contemporary legal problems. Focusing on politically motivated prosecutions in classical Athens\, it argues that Athenian juries exercised a form of prosecutorial discretion rather than simply engaging in jury nullification\, and considers what this comparison might teach us about the potential of modern juries to check politically motivated prosecutions.\n \n4:15-5:00 PM: Katherine Blouin\n“The Moral of the Story: On Doing Ancient History in Times of Collapse”\n\n5:00-5:30 PM: Wrap-up celebration
UID:154154-21917300@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154154
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ancient Rome,Archaeology,Classical Studies,History
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - Room 1014
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DTSTAMP:20261030T104139
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Childhood\, Gendered Affinities\, and Structures of Power
DESCRIPTION:**Note: The location of this workshop has changed to the Michigan Room in the Michigan League.\n\nIn the face of global democratic backsliding\, feminist demands have gained renewed visibility even as patriarchal\, racial\, and class-based violence and exclusion have become increasingly normalized across regional\, national\, and local boundaries. In this context\, childhood\, and girlhood in particular\, has emerged as a matter of political\, moral\, and ideological contestation. Situating these contemporary struggles within a broader historical perspective\, however\, reveals that gendered childhood\, as a concept and social project\, has long served as a site onto which collective fears\, social aspirations\, and competing visions of citizenship and belonging are projected. Indeed\, Marcia Chatelain's work has shown that\, during the Great Migration\, Black girlhood in Chicago’s South Side represented a potential path to social mobility\, even as it was undermined by indiscriminate lynchings\, labor demands in an expanding commercial market\, a punitive judicial system\, and sexual victimization. This scholarship raises important historical and methodological questions\, such as: Who is afforded the innocence and vulnerability of childhood? In what ways have race\, gender\, and class together impacted public discourses regarding what it means to be a “good citizen”? How have crises around racialized\, gendered\, and classed identity inspired unexpected historical affinities and collaborations? How might historians navigate (and overcome) gaps and silences in the traditional archive\, which have effectively erased the perspectives of racialized and working-class children?\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150723-21910004@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150723
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Life Science,Psychology,Science,Social Sciences,Sociology,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan Room
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DTSTAMP:20261026T114435
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261117T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261117T200000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:U-M History Film Series: Ten Times Better + About Face
DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department on the evening of Tuesday\, November 17\, for a screening of two documentary shorts\, Ten Times Better (2024) and About Face (2025)\, followed by a conversation with director Jennifer Lin. This event will take place in the Screening Room at the Michigan Theater starting at 5:30 pm.\n\nFollowing each film\, there will be a panel discussion with Lin\, moderated by Ian Shin (History) and Fangfei Miao (Dance). \n\nTen Times Better - Runtime 30m\n\nFrom ballet to Broadway to blackjack\, George Lee of Las Vegas has seen it all in his 89 years\, but never had his moment to shine. Until now. This short documentary elevates George’s contribution to dance\, including originating the Chinese role in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker and working with director Gene Kelly in Flower Drum Song. Plans are underway for a national PBS broadcast of the film\, which has been featured in the New York Times and AARP magazine.\n\nAbout Face - Runtime 1hr\n\nThis feature-length documentary spotlights Phil Chan and Georgina Pazcoguin\, two NYC dancers of Asian descent who founded the Final Bow for Yellowface movement to  jettison offensive Asian stereotypes\, including dancing in yellowface\, from classical ballet. The pair is taking on entrenched tradition and political pushback as they shine a critical spotlight on The Nutcracker and other beloved classics like La Bayadere in this vivid account of cultural missteps and creative evolution.\n\nJennifer Lin is a veteran journalist\, who was stationed in Beijing\, New York and Washington\, D.C. for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Beyond Yellowface is her third film project. In 2013\, she produced Geil of Doylestown: Forgotten Explorer. In 2021\, she produced and co-directed Beethoven in Beijing\, which premiered nationally on PBS’s Great Performances and was a finalist for the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. \n\nFangfei Miao\, an international dance theorist\, choreographer\, and dancer\, is Assistant Professor of Dance in the School of Music\, Theatre\, & Dance at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, where she teaches both seminar and physical practice courses. Miao’s scholarly research weaves dance and performance studies\, Chinese and East Asian studies\, and critical inquiries into globalization. Her in-progress monograph examines the productive historical “mis-steps” engendered by Sino-US cross-cultural dance transmissions in Reform-Era China (1978-the present).\n\nIan Shin is a social and cultural historian of the United States and Associate Professor of History and American Culture. His research and teaching focus on Asian American history and on the history of the U.S. in the Pacific World between 1850 and 1950. Shin comes to this work as a first-generation American who was born in Hong Kong\, grew up in California\, and spent the past decade and a half on the East Coast. His work is guided not only by his training in historical methods but also by my dedication to critical race and ethnic studies. He is the author of Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America's Pacific Century (Stanford University Press\, 2025).\n\nThis event is free and open to the public.
UID:153639-21916248@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153639
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asia,Chinese Studies,Dance,Film,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Music,Storytelling,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Screening Room
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DTSTAMP:20261019T121721
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261117T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261117T220000
SUMMARY:Performance:\"Don't Let The Sun\": Chamber Choir & University Choir
DESCRIPTION:WORLD PREMIERE\n\nComposer Theodore Wiprud and librettist Richard Wesley have created an oratorio examining a widespread expression of racism in America\, documented in the landmark book *Sundown Towns* by the late sociologist and historian James Loewen.\n\nConducted by Director of University Choirs Eugene Rogers\, *Don’t Let the Sun*\, for chorus\, vocal soloists\, and orchestra\, will run approximately 90 minutes (plus intermission). It tells the story of “sundown towns” where residents drove out or actively excluded specific groups from residing there (from being in a town after sunset) through ordinances\, signs\, and acts of violence. Sundown towns excluded Black people\, and in some cases\, Chinese Americans\, Jewish people\, Native Americans\, Latinas/os and other racialized groups. Since the 19th century these towns have been prevalent throughout the U.S. and especially in the Midwest\, West\, and East.\n\nThese policies did not completely disappear over time. The attitudes that drove them morphed into housing “covenants\,” redlining\, discrimination within the post-war FHA and discrimination in the granting of bank loans. The results of these decisions and policies haunt our country to this very day. *Don’t Let the Sun* will shine a light on this difficult chapter in America’s ever-expanding history\, and help audiences engage productively with “hard” histories.\n\nMr. Loewen’s *Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism* is the definitive history of these phenomena. Another source is the “History and Social Justice” website launched by Dr. Loewen\, which has had nearly one million visitors over the last three years\, and continues to amass cases and first-hand accounts. Librettist Richard Wesley’s text is inspired by the voices of individuals impacted by sundown towns and more recent policies\, examining the harm experienced by both the excluded and the excluders\; and recent efforts by many sundown towns to reckon with their past and shape a better future.\n\n*\"Don't Let the Sun\" was commissioned with support from an Arts Initiative Project Support (AIPS) grant\, an Arts Research: Incubation and Acceleration (ARIA) grant\, the U-M Brehm Choral Commissioning Fund and generous support from the Department of History\, the Department of American Culture\, and the School of Music\, Theatre & Dance.*\n\n–––\n*Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:*\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction\n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTISTS\n\nTHEODORE WIPRUD is a composer\, an educator\, and a researcher on the musical community’s work toward equity and inclusion. Many of his works address social issues\, including vocal works like *American Journal* (Robert Hayden) and *A Georgia Song* (Maya Angelou)\; and orchestral works like his Violin Concerto *“Katrina”\; Wind of Many Voices*\, responding to the troubled history of South Dakota\; and a second Violin Concerto *“on the brink”* exploring climate grief and climate action.  \n\nRICHARD WESLEY is a playwright and screenwriter whose many plays deal with social-historical moments. He wrote the libretto for Anthony Davis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning opera *Central Park Five*. Mr. Wesley has received numerous awards including the NAACP Image Award for Best Picture (for *Uptown Saturday Night*) and the National Black Theater Festival’s August Wilson Playwright Award. He teaches at New York University.
UID:149480-21906472@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149480
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Concert,Diversity,Free,Music,Social Impact,Storytelling
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20261006T151638
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Manoogian Postdoctoral Lecture | A Captive's Testimony: The Lives and Lies of an Ottoman-Armenian Prisoner in the Bastille
DESCRIPTION:Inside a hefty volume of multilingual documents stored in La Courneuve\, France\, there sits nestled a 60-page work written in early modern Armenian script. In his Manoogian Postdoctoral Lecture\, Daniel Ohanian takes us into the genre-defying pages of this work\, identifying the man (or men?) who produced it\, the lies and truths that it contains\, and the world that it reveals. Through it\, we explore the religious politics of early modern global Catholicism\, French-Ottoman diplomacy\, and the historiographic benefits of focusing attention on the lives of particular individuals.\n\nDaniel Ohanian is a historian of Armenians in the early modern Ottoman Empire. He is currently working on a cultural history of Catholic-Armenian contact in the c. 1700 Mediterranean and on the eighteenth-century travelogue of a merchant-turned-priest named Hovhannes Tovmajanian. Daniel's research has been supported by grants from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation\, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation\, among others\, and has been published in Turcica: revue d'études turques\, the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association\, and Genocide Studies International.\n\nZoom Webinar ID: 990 5623 7622\n\nCo-sponsors: Department of History (U-M)\, Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies (U-M)\, Department of Middle East Studies (U-M)\, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies (U-M)\, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.\nEmail Contact: armenianstudies@umich.edu
UID:153370-21915722@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153370
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Armenian Studies,Discussion,history,Lecture,Middle East Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555
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DTSTAMP:20260812T143717
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T173000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Past Matters: Environments and Methods in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:The field of medieval environmental history has grown immensely from its inception 30 years ago. While scholars of the classical past and modern period registered environmental changes made by their powerful states a little earlier\, the topic caught on more slowly in the medieval field\, where small and ineffective states posed different methodological challenges. It took different ways of studying nature to see how environments changed in Europe and the Mediterranean during the millennium between 500 and 1500 CE. Scholars of the medieval environment of necessity adopted an acrobatic approach to the past\, bringing together the usual tools of the historian -- close textual analysis – with archaeology\, archaeobotany\, and scientific studies of pollen distribution\, weather patterns\, and the contents of middens. Today\, the field of medieval environmental history represents one of the most methodologically diverse and inventive among any branch of history.\n\n\nThis one-day conference\, with an opening session on the previous afternoon\, will appraise the major developments and turning points of the last 30 years in medieval environmental history with papers from some of the leading scholars in the field. Since one of the pioneers in medieval environmental history\, Paolo Squatriti\, has been on the faculty of the U of M for 25 years\, the conference will take cues from his seminal works and methodological turns. Panels will offer papers within the following themes: 1. History in the mundane 2. Historical agency and unexpected actors 3. The Mediterranean as a place of hybridity 4. Materiality and the past 5. Science in the service of history.\n\nFeaturing:\nJon Arnold (University of Tulsa)\nHenrik Dey (Hunter College)\nHussein Fancy (Yale University)\nBenjamin Graham (University of Memphis)\nRichard Hoffman (York University)\nAlyssa Kotva (The Ohio State University)\nJamie Kreiner (University of California\, Los Angeles)\nStephanie Leitzel (Cornell University)
UID:150198-21908384@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150198
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Environment,European,Graduate,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Literature,Social Sciences
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260812T143717
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T173000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Past Matters: Environments and Methods in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:The field of medieval environmental history has grown immensely from its inception 30 years ago. While scholars of the classical past and modern period registered environmental changes made by their powerful states a little earlier\, the topic caught on more slowly in the medieval field\, where small and ineffective states posed different methodological challenges. It took different ways of studying nature to see how environments changed in Europe and the Mediterranean during the millennium between 500 and 1500 CE. Scholars of the medieval environment of necessity adopted an acrobatic approach to the past\, bringing together the usual tools of the historian -- close textual analysis – with archaeology\, archaeobotany\, and scientific studies of pollen distribution\, weather patterns\, and the contents of middens. Today\, the field of medieval environmental history represents one of the most methodologically diverse and inventive among any branch of history.\n\n\nThis one-day conference\, with an opening session on the previous afternoon\, will appraise the major developments and turning points of the last 30 years in medieval environmental history with papers from some of the leading scholars in the field. Since one of the pioneers in medieval environmental history\, Paolo Squatriti\, has been on the faculty of the U of M for 25 years\, the conference will take cues from his seminal works and methodological turns. Panels will offer papers within the following themes: 1. History in the mundane 2. Historical agency and unexpected actors 3. The Mediterranean as a place of hybridity 4. Materiality and the past 5. Science in the service of history.\n\nFeaturing:\nJon Arnold (University of Tulsa)\nHenrik Dey (Hunter College)\nHussein Fancy (Yale University)\nBenjamin Graham (University of Memphis)\nRichard Hoffman (York University)\nAlyssa Kotva (The Ohio State University)\nJamie Kreiner (University of California\, Los Angeles)\nStephanie Leitzel (Cornell University)
UID:150198-21908385@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150198
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Environment,European,Graduate,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Literature,Social Sciences
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260821T134056
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Race and Reckoning in the United States and Germany: Lessons from a Comparative Approach
DESCRIPTION:German atonement for the Holocaust is widely hailed as a paragon of national reckoning\, and African American intellectuals such as Ta-Nehisi Coates have invoked Germany as a useful model in their calls for Americans to confront the legacy of slavery. In tracing the complex process by which Germans have dealt with the Nazi past\, Chin considers how the German case is instructive for Americans seeking to pursue redress\, as well as how Germany’s vaunted memory culture has become fossilized such that it has recently become a stumbling block for a German society struggling with contemporary challenges.\n\nRita Chin is Louise A. Tilly Collegiate Professor of European History at the University of Michigan and served as Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives at Rackham Graduate School from 2018-25. A historian of post-1945 Europe\, she focuses on issues of immigration\, race\, and cultural diversity. Her books include The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: A History\, The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany\, and After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Beyond (co-author).\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150724-21910005@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150724
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African American,Anthropology,European,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Jewish Studies,Multidisciplinary Design,Social Sciences,Sociology
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260821T140510
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270128T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: The Transatlantic Slave Trade & the (Multi) Racial Origins of Early Black Print in Ghana
DESCRIPTION:Understanding how Afro-Europeans came to play leading roles in establishing the African-owned press in colonial Ghana\, and why they introduced race as the primary language of political protest in their newspapers requires reaching back to the late fifteenth century when the social world of the transatlantic slave trade first began to take shape. Two features of this social world—interracial sexual relationships between African women and European men and the concomitant growth of an Afro-European population that remained embedded in African society—were key drivers of the process of racialization unleashed by the transatlantic slave trade. This process would evolve over the course of four centuries in ways that gave Afro-European men the social positionality\, financial resources\, and political impetus to be the first founders of African-owned newspapers in colonial Ghana. Their newspapers reveal a late-nineteenth-century West African epistemology of blackness that stretched beyond its elite (primarily) Afro-European origins as literacy rates grew\, newspaper publishing expanded\, and the language of race became a politically consequential medium in the twentieth century that enabled dissent and shaped how Africans in the colony’s growing public sphere debated and fought for political futures defined not by their colonizers\, but by themselves.\n\nCarina Ray is a scholar of race and sexuality\; comparative colonialisms and nationalisms\; migration and maritime history\; print cultures\; bodily aesthetics\, and the relationship between race\, ethnicity\, and political power. Ray’s research is primarily focused on Ghana and its diasporas. She is the author of Crossing the Color Line: Race\, Sex\, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana\, winner of the American Historical Association's 2016 Wesley-Logan Book Prize and the African Studies Association's 2017 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize. Her articles have appeared in Gender and History\, PMLA\, The Journal of West African History\, and The American Historical Review\, among others. She is series co-editor of New African Histories (Ohio University Press) with Jacob Dlamini and Derek Peterson\, and African Identities: Past and Present (Cambridge University Press) with Toyin Falola. Ray previously served as series editor of Ohio Short Histories of Africa (Ohio University Press) with Dan Magaziner\, Michelle Moyd\, and Moses Ochunu\; as editor of Ghana Studies\; and as a member of the Board of Editors for The American Historical Review.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150725-21910006@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150725
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African American,Anthropology,History,Humanities,Social Sciences,Sociology,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20261104T132409
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270129T140000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:EIHS Symposium: Translation as Historical Practice
DESCRIPTION:Translation studies is a thriving field in comparative literature and related disciplines. Translation is also a pervasive and fraught historical practice\, not only for historians\, who must navigate different languages and cultural codes\, but also for the actors who people their narratives. It is hardly possible\, after all\, to make sense of difference without acts of translation. What does it mean for historians to take translation seriously? In this symposium\, some of our colleagues will share and discuss primary sources that have led them to reflect on the pleasures and perils of translation.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150727-21910007@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150727
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Humanities
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260824T140541
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270211T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Dr. Stephen and Lee Gork Endowed Lecture: Unpaid Debts: Non-Aligned Socialism and the Rise of Financialization after Empire
DESCRIPTION:More details forthcoming.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150728-21910008@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150728
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Economics,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Social Sciences,Sociology
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260821T141359
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270212T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Globalization\, Internationalism\, and Identity
DESCRIPTION:More details forthcoming.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150729-21910009@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150729
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260821T141929
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270225T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270225T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Animal Rights and Slave Rights: Linked Discourses in Early Islamic Thought
DESCRIPTION:More details forthcoming.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150730-21910010@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150730
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Social Sciences,Sociology,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260821T142335
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270226T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Recovering the Illegible: Bodies\, Languages\, and Marginality
DESCRIPTION:More details forthcoming.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150731-21910014@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150731
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260821T142904
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270325T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270325T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Student Activism Across Borders: China and the Communist World in the Late 1950s
DESCRIPTION:Yidi Wu is the O’Briant Developing Professor and Associate Professor of History at Elon University. Her first book\, Student Activism Across Borders: China and the Communist World in the Late 1950s\, is published by Cambridge University Press. She has written journal articles for Twentieth-Century China\, PRC History Review\, and Education About Asia. Her research has been supported by the National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, the Association for Asian Studies\, among others. She is a Public Intellectuals Program fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150733-21910015@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150733
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Social Sciences,Sociology,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260821T143202
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270326T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270326T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Remediating Educational Institutions
DESCRIPTION:More details forthcoming.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150735-21910016@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150735
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate School,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Social Sciences,Sociology,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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