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Yet under the surface of the war\u2019s grand narratives are the many wayward histories that refuse to get in formation. The history of World War I in the African world can be, and often has been, written as military or political history, in which imposing order on unruly details and examples compensates for Eurocentric sidelining or exclusion of African and African descended peoples from the historiography. This lecture examines sites of unruliness and insurgency in African histories of the war by analyzing African refusals of European imperial extraction. Faced with war-driven colonial labor and tax demands, African peoples decried these unrelenting abuses in modes that drew on ancestral, spiritual, medicinal, and Biblical authority, gesturing towards sovereignty and political reconfiguration. Using examples from different parts of the African world, this lecture argues for understanding the war years as a temporal frame for recognizing and naming multimodal African insurgencies against imperial extractivism and violence.\r\n\r\nMichelle Moyd is Associate Professor of History and Red Cedar Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. She is the author of \"Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa,\" published by Ohio University Press in 2014. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Radical History Review, Slavery and Abolition, and International Labor and Working Class History. She is currently working on \"The African World and the First World War,\" under contract with Cambridge University Press for the New Approaches to African History series.\r\n\r\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. 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Popular movements\u2014both state and non-state\u2014are reshaping political life by preserving, contesting, and reworking state power. As the boundaries between citizen and subject, resistance and authority, become increasingly blurred, long-standing frameworks for understanding collaboration and power demand reconsideration.\n\nThis workshop centers the figure of the intermediary\u2014particularly colonial intermediaries who operated as both agents and instruments of imperial rule. We invite scholars to explore how these actors complicate binary narratives of resistance and collaboration, coercion and consent. How do we account for the moral ambiguity, partial complicity, and aspirational authority of those who worked in the shadow of power as translators, clerks, soldiers, chiefs, informants, and community figures within popular movements and state-making projects?\n\nJoin us for a conversation that revisits power, agency, and political belonging across historical and geographic contexts.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. 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The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/dg461\r\n \r\nOver the last forty years, the Government of India has rapidly expanded access to primary education. As a result, India has achieved near-universal enrollment in education, previously a pox on India's social development record. At the same time, there has been an explosion in private education. What explains this double movement? I argue that the expansion of government education in a society marked by caste hierarchies has led to the exit of upper caste groups to private schools and a decrease in state-level public funding for governmentm education. Together, they help explain the case of Indian education that exhibits high enrollment, high aspirations, high private school access, and low quality.\r\n \r\n Emmerich Davies is a research fellow at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He works on comparative politics with a regional focus on South Asia and comparative work in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. He is interested in the politics of service provision and bureaucratic politics. His work has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and Governance, and his work has won awards from the Comparative and International Education Society. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania, and his B.A. in political science and economics from Stanford University.\r\n \r\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at csas@umich.edu. 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It follows the work of Pandurang Sukhatme at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Am\u00edlcar Cabral as surveyor for the Portuguese colonial government and guerrilla leader in Guinea Bissau. Their engagement with statistics, namely with sampling and randomization, enables the historical weaving of projects of world governance at the UN, Indian independence, and West African liberation movements. In this connected history of decolonization, statistical methods are central to denounce the injustices of the colonial order, but also to unveil forms of agency from below for worldmaking after empire.\n\nTiago Saraiva is Professor of History at Drexel University, author of Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism (MIT Press, 2016), which was awarded the Pfizer Prize for best scholarly book by the History of Science Society in 2017, and co-author of Moving Crops and the Scales of History (Yale University Press, 2023), also awarded best book in 2024 by the Society for the History of Technology and the World History Association. He is an historian of science and technology interested in the connections between science, technology, crops, and politics at the global scale. After revisiting the history of European fascism through stories of technoscientific organisms such as wheat, pigs, and sheep, he has recently completed a transnational study on the history of cloning oranges and cultivating whiteness in California, South Africa, Algeria, Palestine, and Brazil. His new project explores the connected histories of statistical methods and liberation movements in the global south, from India to West Africa, from Brazil to the South of the US. 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That is, it challenges both the assumption that gender nonconforming figures did not exist historically and the idea that the Western category of transgender delivers the best framework for understanding their experience. To unveil and remedy some of the most salient flaws of epistemic convention in historical inquiry, historical exemplars from the Sinophone Pacific will be analyzed and weighted in decolonial terms.\r\n\r\nHoward Chiang holds the Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, Director of the Center for Taiwan Studies, and an affiliated faculty of History and Feminist Studies. He is the author of two award-winning monographs: \"After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China\" (Columbia, 2018) and \"Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific\" (2021). 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