Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Comparative Literature Open House (March 22, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61335 61335-15088054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 11:30am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

The Department of Comparative Literature is hosting an open house for undergraduate students. Stop by for lunch and to learn more about our programs: Major in Comparative Literature and Minor in Translation Studies.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:10:46 -0500 2019-03-22T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-22T13:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Reception / Open House Open House image
EIHS Workshop: Intimacy and State Power (March 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57334 57334-14157743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This panel will address the question of intimacy under the mechanisms of state power. How do we study personal, institutional and community relations that are permeated by traces of the state? Panelists will investigate the ways in which power operates intimately, in the tenderest and closest ways. How do we define "intimacy" in these instances, and are there new ways of imagining what it means for us to be intimate?

Featuring:

Stephanie Fajardo (PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan)
Luis Flores Jr. (PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of Michigan)
Gianna May Sanchez (PhD Student, History, University of Michigan)
Matthew Lassiter (respondent, Professor of History, Urban and Regional Planning, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan)
Molly Brookfield (chair, PhD Candidate, History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan)

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:26:19 -0400 2019-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar arrows
LACS Lecture. Judicial Abolitionism in Nineteenth- Century Spanish America: Afro-Uruguayan Soldiers and Spanish Diarist José María Márquez (March 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60662 60662-14937077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

This presentation examines how judicial litigation about the freedom of formerly enslaved black soldiers in late 1820s Montevideo shaped the first arguments about the abolition of slavery in the newly created country of Uruguay. Spanish diarist José María Márquez, who occupied the position of “Public Attorney for the Poor and Slaves” in Montevideo, published in his newspaper stories about the black soldiers he defended. This news became the first public arena to discuss the complete abolition of slavery. The actions of former slaves then black soldiers and their negotiations to secure freedom provided strong arguments and nationalist bases for conceiving a plan for full abolition. Through the lens of these actions and the communication between the courts and the public arena, here we examine judicial actions as one of the sources of abolitionism in the newly formed Spanish American republics, instead of Anglo-centric and North Atlantic models of abolitionist societies and newspapers.

Alex Borucki is associate professor of history in the University of California, Irvine, where he also is director of the Latin American Studies Center. He is the author of From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata (University of New Mexico Press, 2015), which was finalist of the 2016 Harriet Tubman Book Prize. Apart from Spanish-language books and articles published in Argentina and Uruguay, he has published articles on the slave trade and the African diaspora in the American Historical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Colonial Latin American Review, The Americas, History in Africa, Itinerario, Atlantic Studies, and Slavery and Abolition.

This event is generously co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of History at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:54:18 -0400 2019-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion event_image
Medieval Lunch. Holy Queer and Holy Cure: Sanctity, Disability and Transgender Identity in Tristan de Nanteuil (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59664 59664-14777897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:37:54 -0500 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Blake image
Comp Lit Colloquium (March 29, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52984 52984-13168222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Graham Liddell and Prof. Christopher Hill will present.

Graham Liddell, "Reflections on Translating Habiby’s Sextet of the Six Days"
Palestinian author Emile Habiby’s short story collection Sextet of the Six Days is set in the aftermath of the 1967 war, in which Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights. It is written from the perspective of Palestinians who were able to remain on their land in what became Israel in 1948. Habiby highlights a number of reunions that take place in this period, when some Palestinian refugees are able to visit relatives from whom they have been separated for nearly 20 years, and cities and towns from which were expelled. While these brief and incomplete reunions take place in the shadow of catastrophic circumstances, they nonetheless provide an occasion to take stock of physical, psychological, and spiritual damage, and to assess any hopes of repair. In this short presentation, I will discuss my translation of Habiby’s collection (a work in progress) and propose a theoretical framework for understanding the impact of national displacement on modes of storytelling. Habiby’s style offers readers a close look at the ways his characters experience the sensations of everyday life amid national trauma. The striking dialogism at play within the text is not only indicative of rifts in individual psyches, but also of the utterance’s inherent inclination toward others.


Prof. Christopher Hill, "Toward a Chronogeography of the Naturalist Novel"
In the decades after the variety of literary realism known as naturalism emerged in France in the 1860s, in the work of Emile Zola and the Goncourt brothers, it was widely adopted by writers around the world. By the turn of the twentieth century self-described naturalists were working from the Americas to East Asia. As it traveled, the topics, themes, and techniques of naturalist fiction changed in ways that could not have been predicted from its origins. Current paradigms for explaining literary history on a large scale rely on categories derived from the literary history of a handful of European countries and are unable to treat works that differ from the categorical norms as anything but deviations. My talk uses examples from the history of the naturalist novel to propose alternative approaches to large-scale literary history.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:22:10 -0400 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Lost in Translation: Black 92nd Infantry Division Soldiers, Italian Partisans, and the Politics of Liberation in World War Two Europe (April 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61863 61863-15223787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This presentation will explore the face-to-face interactions between black GIs and Italian civilians in the Apennines Mountains of Italy and how their perceptions of race, international affairs, and Civil Rights were fundamentally altered as a result of their encounters with German fighting forces during the winter and spring months of 1944 and 1945.


Robert F. Jefferson, Jr. is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Jefferson holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Fighting for Hope: African Americans and the Ninety-third Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), Brothers in Valor: The Battlefield Stories of the 89 African Americans Awarded the Medal of Honor (Lyons Press, 2018), and Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth Century America: Closing Ranks (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). Dr. Jefferson is currently working on Color and Disability: Vasco Hale and Twentieth Century America. His articles on the relationship between African American GIs and their communities during the Second World War have appeared in Representations dans le monde anglophone (2018), The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race in the American Military (Routledge, 2016), Oral History and Public Memories (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008), the Journal of Family History, the Annals of Iowa, Quaderni Storici (Bologna), Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora, and the Historian. Dr. Jefferson is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. Most recently, he has been selected by the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board to serve as the Danish Distinguished Chair in American Studies for the 2019-2020 academic year.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:34:52 -0400 2019-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Jefferson event poster
EIHS Lecture: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Authoritarian's Allure: 1939, 2019 (April 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52321 52321-12631421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Psychoanalysts writing in the 1930s and 1940s as witnesses to Europe’s embrace of fascism offered incisive accounts of their own historical moment couched in the idiom of narcissism (featuring fascination, grandiosity, and magical thinking; humiliation, helplessness, and insecurity) and drawn from psychoanalysis’s disavowed originary practices (such as hypnosis and suggestion). Individuals’ yearnings to participate in omnipotence and embrace of magical thinking sparked these analysts’ interest. In this talk, Professor Lunbeck will examine their conceptualizations of the relationship between leader and led, arguing that these offer a powerful framework within which to understand the fascinations of authoritarianism across the globe today.

Elizabeth Lunbeck is a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, offering courses in the history of the psychotherapies, of the psychological sciences, and of the fortunes of psychoanalysis in American culture. She is the author of The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America (Princeton, 1994); with Bennett Simon, of Family Romance, Family Secrets (Yale, 2003); and of The Americanization of Narcissism (Harvard, 2014). She has also co-edited a number of books in the history of science, most recently, with Lorraine Daston, Histories of Scientific Observation (Chicago, 2011). Her research has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as by the NEH and NSF, and she has been the recipient of a Distinguished Educator Award from the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education as well as, among other book awards, the John Hope Franklin Prize and the Morris D. Forkosch Prize.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:25:12 -0500 2019-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Elizabeth Lunbeck
EIHS Workshop: Psych! An Interdisciplinary Conversation about Histories and Sciences of the Mind (April 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57335 57335-14157744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

What are we referring to when we talk about the human mind? The brain? Concepts of selfhood or identity? Featuring interdisciplinary perspectives from History, the School of Information, Women’s Studies, and Psychology, this workshop invites conversations about how individuals and groups have thought about and attempted to make sense of the mind. Featuring:

Allura Casanova (Graduate Student, Psychology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan)
Megh Marathe (Graduate Student, School of Information, University of Michigan)
Cheyenne Pettit (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Henry Cowles (chair, Assistant Professor, History, University of Michigan)
Elizabeth Lunbeck (Professor, History of Science, Harvard University)

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:34:52 -0400 2019-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar bran cell drawing
BOOK LAUNCH WITH FRIEDA EKOTTO AND CORINE TACHTIRIS (April 5, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62542 62542-15399287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Frieda Ekotto is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at U Michigan. Corine Tachtiris received her PhD in Comparative Literature from U Michigan in 2012 and is Assistant Professor at U-Mass Amherst. Tachtiris will read and discuss her new translation of Ekotto's novel (Rutgers 2019), followed by open dialogue between translator and author.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:58:20 -0400 2019-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T15:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster
Conversation with Professor Peter Holland & Director Arthur Nauzyciel (April 6, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61116 61116-15036266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 6, 2019 11:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:19:13 -0500 2019-04-06T11:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
STS Distinguished Speaker. Race and Erasure: A People's History of the "Normal" Body (April 8, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58144 58144-14433275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

This talk explains how in the years after World War II, science leaders at the US National Institutes of Health set and expanded a second system to supply healthy people for human experiment, in addition to government-based arrangements to access people with restricted civil liberties. During the early 1950s, NIH aligned with private organizations from the major institutions of postwar America—religious groups, labor unions, universities, and civic organizations—to sign “procurement contracts” that allowed the organizations to send their healthy members to the NIH to live as “normal control” subjects of science experiments. In the process the US produced the legal possibility—and the living reality—of an enduring, large-scale civilian market for healthy human subjects. Yet this market for healthy humans had a distinctive feature. Because of the conventions of NIH research space and the demographics of the organizations with which the US government signed contracts, the Normals had one common trait: they all were White. As a result, the medical construct of “normalcy,” though officially race blind, was organized around White lives, a legacy that continues to inflect medicine with race-based discrimination and disparities.

Biosketch: Laura Stark is the author of Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research (Chicago, 2012), and is completing a book project on the lives of “normal control” research subjects at the US National Institutes of Health. The Normals: A People’s History will be published by University of Chicago Press. Her articles and book chapters explore the history of moral experience and the mind-body sciences in a global frame. Stark is Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University and is Associate Editor of the journal History & Theory.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:20:04 -0500 2019-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Prof. Stark
Medieval Lunch. Oleg Grabar's Qasr al-Hayr Archives and the Beginnings of Islamic Archaeology. (April 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59686 59686-14777947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:35:13 -0500 2019-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Oleg Grabar
EIHS Lecture: The Hoof of Destiny (April 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52322 52322-12631422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Does it make sense to think of pigs as having agency? Farmers, lawmakers, and philosophers in the early medieval West thought so. Pigs were smart enough, and delinquent enough, to make the process of domestication a two-way street. This talk explores the different ways that pigs made a dent in early medieval history, while also thinking about what their human collaborators thought was important (or not) when it came to thinking and acting and making a difference.

Jamie Kreiner is an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia. She is a historian of the early Middle Ages whose research focuses on the mechanics of culture, including how medieval communities themselves thought that knowledges and commitments were communicated, adopted, and affected by other forms of power. She's especially interested in the quieter forces that shape ethical systems—forces that were not always purposeful, individual, or human—and it's a thread that runs through her research on narrative, social forms of cognition, the interplay between science and religion, and animals. She explores the status of pigs as subjects and objects in her new book, Legions of Pigs, which will appear in Fall 2020 with Yale University Press. Her research has been supported by several grants and fellowships, including most recently a Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors at the Institute for Advanced Study; and her publications have been awarded prizes from the Medieval Academy of America, the Society for French Historical Studies, and the Agricultural History Society.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:27:26 -0500 2019-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Jamie Kreiner
EIHS Workshop: Comedy and Power (April 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57336 57336-14157745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This panel will deal with the close connection between power and comedy throughout European history from the high Roman Empire to the early nineteenth century. How can power be expressed through comedy and how can it be undermined by it? What are the relations between humor and such categories as gender, class, and the very notion of categorization? The panelists will trace new ways of incorporating humor into serious historical research. Featuring:

Alexander Clayton (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
John Finkelberg (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Alex Tarbet (Graduate Student, Classics, University of Michigan)
Haley Bowen (chair, Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Jaime Kreiner (respondent, Associate Professor, History, University of Georgia)

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Apr 2019 07:23:11 -0400 2019-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar spotlight and mic
Comp Lit Colloquium (April 19, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52985 52985-13168223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Prof. Xiaobing Tang and Megan Berkobien will each present.

Meg's presentation will be on her work Belaboring Translation: A Manifesto for the Emerging Translators Collective.

Prof. Xiaobing Tang's presentation is titled The Ocular Turn, Misty Poetry, and a Postrevolutionary Imagination: Rereading “The Answer” by Bei Dao.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:36:09 -0400 2019-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T16:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Panel: Viewpoint Diversity and the Future of Intellectual Discourse (April 23, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62901 62901-15492418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

We live in increasingly polarized times, and partisan animosity is at a high. Against this backdrop, it is tempting to sort ourselves into echo-chambers. What effects might this have on future discourse about important scientific, ethical, and policy matters? How does polarization affect the academy? Can viewpoint diversity increase the quality of research in politically relevant fields like social psychology, sociology, or political philosophy? Join us for a panel discussion with Lee Jussim, Professor of Psychology at Rutgers, and Hrishikesh Joshi, Postdoctoral Fellow at Michigan. All are welcome. Coffee and snacks will be provided!

Hosted by the Freedom and Flourishing Project.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:29:14 -0400 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion F&F Panel
Classical Receptions Colloquium: Graduate student presentations on "Approaches to Classical Reception Studies" (April 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61338 61338-15088100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Contexts for Classics

Joshua Billings studied Classics, German, and Comparative Literature at Harvard and Oxford. Before arriving at Princeton in 2015, he held a research fellowship at Cambridge, and taught at Yale for three years.

His research focuses on ancient Greek literature and philosophy and modern intellectual history, with a particular concentration on tragedy. After a first book on modern conceptions of tragedy and the tragic (Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy, Princeton 2014), he is now working on fifth-century (BCE) drama and intellectual culture. The project is provisionally entitled “Enlightenment on Stage” and it focuses on drama’s presentation of mythical figures as a reflection of the so-called “Attic Enlightenment.” Dramatic and (broadly) philosophical texts alike, he argues, use the stories of myth to explore common conceptual issues; unfolding this entails a method that recognizes the distinctive significance that myth has for thought in fifth-century culture.

Colloquium Schedule

10 am, Session 1: Embodying Classical Reception

1. Yopie Prins, U-M Professor of Comparative Literature
Welcome and introductions

2. Lauren Rudewicz, PhD student in English Literature
“Collaboration & Incorporation: Classical Receptions of and in Nineteenth-Century Museum Practice”

3. Francesca Schironi, U-M Professor of Classical Studies
“Dancing Myth: Martha Graham's 'Mythical’ Dances”

4. Amanda Kubic, PhD student in Comparative Literature
"The Mythic Pose as Liberatory Practice: A Presentation in Three Movements"

11:15 am, Session 2: Temporalities of Classical Reception

1. David Davison, PhD student in English Literature
“‘The Culture of an Age’: Walter Pater, Modernism, and Antiquity”

2.Marianna Hagler, PhD student in English Literature
“"as close as we could get": Elegiac Time in Anne Carson's Nox”

3. Talin Tahajian, MFA student
““Not a dirge”: “κάτοικτος”-ness, the Palladium, and Tragic Intertext”

12:15 pm, Lunch and discussion on publication

Informal Q&A with Professor Joshua Billings on how/when/where/why to publish new work in classical reception studies

1pm, Session 3: Classical Reception Pedagogies

1.Fernando Gorab Lemme, PhD student in Classical Studies
“Forward with Classics? Routes of Access to Classics and Different Classical Studies”

2.Alex Tarbet, PhD student in Classical Studies
“Parageography: The Study of Imaginary Worlds”

3.Grace Zanotti, PhD student in Comparative Literature
“Classical Resonances: A Syllabus on Greek Literature and Contemporary Political Problems”

2:15 pm, Session 4: New Directions in Classical Reception Studies

1.Basil Dufallo, U-M Professor of Classical Studies
“Collaborative Work on Reception at Michigan”

2.Joshua Billings, Princeton University
“Undisciplined”

3. Concluding discussion

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:32:18 -0400 2019-04-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T15:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Contexts for Classics Conference / Symposium poster
Contemporary Issues Discussion: New Motherhood (May 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63058 63058-15543235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Maria Bradford gave birth to her first child in late 1831, and she wrote to her mother shortly afterwards describing her childbirth, recovery, and longing for motherly advice. All are welcome to a discussion with historians, medical practitioners, and new mothers to explore how this stirring letter evokes transcending questions about the birthing experience, infancy, and the postpartum period. Join in the conversation by sharing your own history and personal reflections with other U-M and local community members over a complimentary lunch.

Registration is required; please register by May 7 at myumi.ch/Lqoje (or call the Clements Library at 734-647-0864). Children are welcome.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Apr 2019 10:36:46 -0400 2019-05-09T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-09T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion 1830s Image of Mothers
Theorizing and Historicizing: Political Economy, Rights, and Moral Worth (May 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63325 63325-15642810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Sociology

The symposium we have organized for Margaret Somers reflects the depth and breadth of her research practices and commitments, involving scholars who bridge as widely as possible all her areas of interest, and who have engaged with her work in varying capacities in their own work.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 01 May 2019 15:58:40 -0400 2019-05-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-05-17T18:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of Sociology Conference / Symposium Peggy Symposium
Theorizing and Historicizing: Political Economy, Rights, and Moral Worth (May 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63325 63325-15710565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Sociology

The symposium we have organized for Margaret Somers reflects the depth and breadth of her research practices and commitments, involving scholars who bridge as widely as possible all her areas of interest, and who have engaged with her work in varying capacities in their own work.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 01 May 2019 15:58:40 -0400 2019-05-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-18T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of Sociology Conference / Symposium Peggy Symposium
MEMS Fall Kick-off (September 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65055 65055-16509316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

MEMS community members are invited to meet and catch up after the summer break. Presentations will feature our Summer Research Award recipients.

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Other Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:57:59 -0400 2019-09-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-04T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Other Gathering in a garden
Chinese Railroad Workers, The Transcontinental, and the Making of Modern America (September 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63431 63431-15694218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

This year is the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad line. At Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869, the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad lines celebrated the spanning of the country with iron. Hailed ever since as a signal development in post-Civil War America, the story of the transcontinental is often romanticized and celebrated as a national triumph. Relegated to the margins or even erased altogether from many accounts, Chinese railroad workers were actually central to the effort. Chang’s historical recovery returns these workers to the center of the narrative. His lecture will consider historiography, the methodological challenge of writing history without traditional documentation, and the place of this history in the rise of modern America.


Gordon H. Chang is professor of history, Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, and the Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He studies the histories of America-China relations, U.S. diplomacy, and Asian American history. Among his publications are Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972; Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writing, 1942-1945; Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects; editor with Judy Yung and H.M Lai, Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present; editor with Mark Johnson and Paul Karlstrom, Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970; and Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China. He has been a Guggenheim and ACLS Fellow.

He currently co-directs the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford and has published two books this year: The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental (editor with Shelley Fisher Fishkin) and Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:45:05 -0400 2019-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
EIHS Lecture: Training Slaves for the Camera: “Racial Types” in Khartoum, 1882 (September 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63587 63587-15808567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Why did photographers in the nineteenth century take pictures of slaves? What were they looking for, in the faces and bodies of those in bondage? What, if any, aesthetic, cultural and racial understanding did these photographers bring to their craft? This discussion will explore these questions in the work of Louis Vossion, a French photographer commissioned by his government to visually recreate the “types” of people living in Khartoum, Sudan, in 1882. With over 150 photographs, Vossion created a visual encyclopedia of a city full of slaves, a city that in 2 years' time would be completely changed by the Mahdiyya rebellion. These pictures thus form a museum by themselves, an ode to a world that was, in Vossion’s lifetime, to be completely and violently changed.

Eve M. Troutt Powell is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies who teaches the history of the modern Middle East. As a cultural historian, she emphasizes the exploration of literature and film in her courses. She is the author of Tell This in my Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Empire (Stanford University Press, 2012), A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain and the Mastery of the Sudan (University of California, 2003) and the co-author, with John Hunwick, of The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam, (Princeton Series on the Middle East, Markus Wiener Press, 2002). Troutt Powell received her BA, MA and PhD from Harvard University. Prior to coming to Penn she taught for ten years at The University of Georgia. She has received fellowships from the American Research Center in Egypt and the Social Science Research Council, and has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2003 she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

Image credit: Lisa J. Godfrey

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:16:24 -0400 2019-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Eve Troutt Powell
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Envisioning Race (September 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63598 63598-15808597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Images are intimate. They are reflections of historical subjects that simultaneously reveal traces of their creators and gain new meanings when archived and revisited. This workshop features graduate student research on Afro-Brazilian community magazines and racialized political scandals in Brazil, jazz photography in the Jim Crow United States, and Jewish refugees from Europe in British India. Panelists will explore how images have been used to test or challenge racial categories, empower communities, and capture or instrumentalize intimate spaces and moments. We invite the speakers and the audience to share reflections on their own methodologies and experiences of interrogating visual sources.

Featuring:
Lucas Koutsoukos Chalhoub, Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan
Marisol Fila, Graduate Student, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Pragya Kaul, Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan
Traci Lombre, Graduate Student, American Culture, University of Michigan
Eve Troutt Powell, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Frank Espinosa (chair), Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:48:26 -0400 2019-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
Eighteenth-Century France and Beyond: New Cultural Histories (September 20, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66955 66955-16787747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This conference on “The Cultural History of France and the World” will bring together current and former students of Dena Goodman’s in her honor. These interdisciplinary scholars build on the foundations of cultural history while also defining and embracing new historical
questions in ways that keep gender, race, sexuality, and cultural practice at the core of their research. This conference will feature papers that centralize the margins of the French empire; foreground interpersonal relationships in the process of artistic, intellectual, and cultural production; and position science as an integral part of politics, culture, and society, including historical practice.

The conference will feature the research of current University of Michigan students working in these areas as well as former students engaging in interdisciplinary historical scholarship on French cultural history. Michigan faculty will chair each session. Dena Goodman, one of the most innovative historians in this field, will provide closing remarks for the conference.

Participants:
Former Michigan Students:
Danna Agmon, Virginia Tech University (Michigan History and Anthropology Ph.D., 2011)
Steve Auerbach, Georgia College and State University (Michigan B.A., 1991; LSU History
Ph.D., 1999)
Katie Cangany, Notre Dame University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2009)
Shannon Dawdy, University of Chicago (Michigan History and Anthropology Ph.D., 2003)
Alison DeSimone, University of Missouri-Kansas City (Michigan Musicology Ph.D., 2013
Jonathan Eacott, University of California, Riverside (Michigan History Ph.D., 2008
Jessica Fripp, Texas Christian University (Michigan Art History Ph.D., 2012)
Robert Kruckeburg, Troy University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2009)
Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Georgia (Michigan History and Women’s Studies Ph.D., 2008)
Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough (Michigan History and Anthropology
Ph.D., 2006)
Sean Takats, George Mason University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2007)
Ying Zhang, Ohio State University (Michigan History and Women's Studies Ph.D., 2010)

Current Michigan Students:
Haley Bowen, University of Michigan (Doctoral Student, History)
John Finkelberg, University of Michigan (Doctoral Candidate, History)
Courtney Wilder, University of Michigan (Doctoral Candidate, Art History)

Michigan Faculty:
Joshua Cole, History
David Hancock, History
Peggy McCracken, Romance Languages and Women’s Studies
Bill Paulson, Romance Languages
David Porter, English and Comparative Literature
Susan Siegfried, Art History and Women’s Studies

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:24:28 -0400 2019-09-20T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Portrait of Marie-Antoinette of Austria by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier d'Agoty, 1775
Eighteenth-Century France and Beyond: New Cultural Histories (September 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66955 66955-16787748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This conference on “The Cultural History of France and the World” will bring together current and former students of Dena Goodman’s in her honor. These interdisciplinary scholars build on the foundations of cultural history while also defining and embracing new historical
questions in ways that keep gender, race, sexuality, and cultural practice at the core of their research. This conference will feature papers that centralize the margins of the French empire; foreground interpersonal relationships in the process of artistic, intellectual, and cultural production; and position science as an integral part of politics, culture, and society, including historical practice.

The conference will feature the research of current University of Michigan students working in these areas as well as former students engaging in interdisciplinary historical scholarship on French cultural history. Michigan faculty will chair each session. Dena Goodman, one of the most innovative historians in this field, will provide closing remarks for the conference.

Participants:
Former Michigan Students:
Danna Agmon, Virginia Tech University (Michigan History and Anthropology Ph.D., 2011)
Steve Auerbach, Georgia College and State University (Michigan B.A., 1991; LSU History
Ph.D., 1999)
Katie Cangany, Notre Dame University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2009)
Shannon Dawdy, University of Chicago (Michigan History and Anthropology Ph.D., 2003)
Alison DeSimone, University of Missouri-Kansas City (Michigan Musicology Ph.D., 2013
Jonathan Eacott, University of California, Riverside (Michigan History Ph.D., 2008
Jessica Fripp, Texas Christian University (Michigan Art History Ph.D., 2012)
Robert Kruckeburg, Troy University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2009)
Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Georgia (Michigan History and Women’s Studies Ph.D., 2008)
Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough (Michigan History and Anthropology
Ph.D., 2006)
Sean Takats, George Mason University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2007)
Ying Zhang, Ohio State University (Michigan History and Women's Studies Ph.D., 2010)

Current Michigan Students:
Haley Bowen, University of Michigan (Doctoral Student, History)
John Finkelberg, University of Michigan (Doctoral Candidate, History)
Courtney Wilder, University of Michigan (Doctoral Candidate, Art History)

Michigan Faculty:
Joshua Cole, History
David Hancock, History
Peggy McCracken, Romance Languages and Women’s Studies
Bill Paulson, Romance Languages
David Porter, English and Comparative Literature
Susan Siegfried, Art History and Women’s Studies

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:24:28 -0400 2019-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Portrait of Marie-Antoinette of Austria by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier d'Agoty, 1775
The Making of the Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent (September 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65234 65234-16563503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This conference celebrates the upcoming publication of the two-volume Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent (co-edited by David Gilmartin, Prasannan Parthasarthi, & Mrinalini Sinha). The texts will mark the centenary of the original Cambridge History of India (published in 5 volumes between 1922-1937) as well as the 75th anniversary of the Independence and Partition of the subcontinent in 1947.

The new volumes will comprise approximately 70 commissioned essays, covering the history of the modern Indian subcontinent from the founding of the Mughal Empire to the early 21st century. The two-volume Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent will both reflect the changing contours of the region’s historiography since the 1980s and suggest openings for new directions.

The conference is open to the public.
The conference is made possible by the generous support of the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of History, and the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan.


Conference Schedule
1014 Tisch Hall

Sept 23

9:00-9:15 Welcome

Session One (9:15 – 11:15) Contours of a Colonial Order

Mithi Mukherjee, “Evolution of the colonial state”
Kaushik Roy, “The Indian Army and the Garrison State, 1830-1918”
Gopal Balachandran, “India, the ‘World Economy,’ and the Emerging World Order”

Tea and Coffee Break

Session Two (11:30-1:30) Genealogies of the Social

Sumathi Ramaswamy, “Schooling India”
Prachi Deshpande, “The Making of Regions, Regional Languages, and Regional Identities in South Asia”
Rachel Sturman, “Social Hierarchies: Changes and Continuities”

Lunch 1:30 -2:30

Session Three: (2:45 -4:45) Political Economy

David Ludden, “Empire and Agriculture”
Sanjay Sharma, “Famines, Crises and Disasters”
Mahesh Rangarajan, “Remaking the Wild: Fauna and Forest in Transition 1870s to 1920s”


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Sept 24

Session One (9:30- 11:30) Home and the World

Samita Sen, “World of Labor, 1830-1918” [virtual from Cambridge, U.K]
Subho Basu, “Mobility and Migration: Indian Labor and the World, 1830-1918”
Abigail McGowan, “Leisure and Consumption”

Tea and Coffee Break

Session Two (11:45-1:15) Aspects of the Political

Projit Mukharji, “Health, Disease, and Medicine: Betwixt the Biomoral and the Biopolitical”
Manu Goswami, “Political Thought and the Ideas of India”

Lunch 1:15- 2:30

Session Three (2:30- 4:30) Publics and Institutions

Sandria Freitag, “The Emergence of the “Public” as Practice and Idea”
Rohit De, “Worlds of Law”
Nitin Sinha, “Infrastructures of Transport and Communication, 1760-1900s”

Final Discussion (4:30-5:30)

*Unable to participate
Chandra Malampalli, “Making Religious Communities, 1830-1918”
Tanika Sarkar “The Making of the Domestic, circa 1830-1918”

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 05 Sep 2019 09:43:42 -0400 2019-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Portrait of a Group of Brahmans
The Making of the Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent (September 24, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65234 65234-16557457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 9:30am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This conference celebrates the upcoming publication of the two-volume Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent (co-edited by David Gilmartin, Prasannan Parthasarthi, & Mrinalini Sinha). The texts will mark the centenary of the original Cambridge History of India (published in 5 volumes between 1922-1937) as well as the 75th anniversary of the Independence and Partition of the subcontinent in 1947.

The new volumes will comprise approximately 70 commissioned essays, covering the history of the modern Indian subcontinent from the founding of the Mughal Empire to the early 21st century. The two-volume Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent will both reflect the changing contours of the region’s historiography since the 1980s and suggest openings for new directions.

The conference is open to the public.
The conference is made possible by the generous support of the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of History, and the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan.


Conference Schedule
1014 Tisch Hall

Sept 23

9:00-9:15 Welcome

Session One (9:15 – 11:15) Contours of a Colonial Order

Mithi Mukherjee, “Evolution of the colonial state”
Kaushik Roy, “The Indian Army and the Garrison State, 1830-1918”
Gopal Balachandran, “India, the ‘World Economy,’ and the Emerging World Order”

Tea and Coffee Break

Session Two (11:30-1:30) Genealogies of the Social

Sumathi Ramaswamy, “Schooling India”
Prachi Deshpande, “The Making of Regions, Regional Languages, and Regional Identities in South Asia”
Rachel Sturman, “Social Hierarchies: Changes and Continuities”

Lunch 1:30 -2:30

Session Three: (2:45 -4:45) Political Economy

David Ludden, “Empire and Agriculture”
Sanjay Sharma, “Famines, Crises and Disasters”
Mahesh Rangarajan, “Remaking the Wild: Fauna and Forest in Transition 1870s to 1920s”


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Sept 24

Session One (9:30- 11:30) Home and the World

Samita Sen, “World of Labor, 1830-1918” [virtual from Cambridge, U.K]
Subho Basu, “Mobility and Migration: Indian Labor and the World, 1830-1918”
Abigail McGowan, “Leisure and Consumption”

Tea and Coffee Break

Session Two (11:45-1:15) Aspects of the Political

Projit Mukharji, “Health, Disease, and Medicine: Betwixt the Biomoral and the Biopolitical”
Manu Goswami, “Political Thought and the Ideas of India”

Lunch 1:15- 2:30

Session Three (2:30- 4:30) Publics and Institutions

Sandria Freitag, “The Emergence of the “Public” as Practice and Idea”
Rohit De, “Worlds of Law”
Nitin Sinha, “Infrastructures of Transport and Communication, 1760-1900s”

Final Discussion (4:30-5:30)

*Unable to participate
Chandra Malampalli, “Making Religious Communities, 1830-1918”
Tanika Sarkar “The Making of the Domestic, circa 1830-1918”

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 05 Sep 2019 09:43:42 -0400 2019-09-24T09:30:00-04:00 2019-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Portrait of a Group of Brahmans
STS Workshop. Reflections on Modeling (September 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66602 66602-16767942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

We will host a conversation on the tensions between observers and modelers in the environmental sciences.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:54:43 -0400 2019-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-30T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
EIHS Lecture: Finding One's Racial Self: It's Always Personal (October 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63588 63588-15808568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This lecture explores the intersection between autobiography and history. It contends that the personal often shapes understanding, reason, perspective, and accounting. It centers on a handful of life events to explore and exam how we must think and write about race, historically. By juxtaposing the personal and the historical, it asks questions about boundaries, understandings and truths. It argues that such a juxtaposition centers on the multipositional self.

Noted social historian, award-winning author, and educational leader Earl Lewis is the founding director of the University of Michigan Center for Social Solutions. A professor of history and Afroamerican and African studies, Lewis is president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2013-18). At Michigan, Lewis and colleagues in the center will address three core areas of social concern: diversity and race, water, and the dignity of labor in an automated world. He previously served as executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at Emory University as well as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies (2004-2012). Prior to Emory, Lewis served on the faculty at the University of Michigan (1989-2004) and the University of California at Berkeley (1984-1989). In addition to professorial roles and titles (Robin D.G. Kelley and Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor), he served Michigan as vice provost and dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies (1998-2004). A frequent lecturer, he has authored or edited nine books, scores of essays, articles and comments. A member of numerous national committees and boards of directors or trustees, he is past president of the Organization of American Historians. He is an alum of Concordia College-Moorhead (1978) and the University of Minnesota (PhD, history, 1984), which honored him most recently with the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Alumni Award (2018). He is the recipient of several honorary degrees, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Sep 2019 11:23:50 -0400 2019-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Earl Lewis
EIHS Symposium: HistoryLabs: Pedagogy and Innovation (October 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63599 63599-15808598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

U-M HistoryLabs mobilize the power of history for real-world impacts that contribute to the common good. They bring together faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates as investigators and lab members in long-term research projects that involve both curricular and extracurricular components, often in collaboration with community partners. In this symposium, faculty from three HistoryLab initiatives—Immigrant Justice Lab, Policing and Social Justice Lab, and Collaborative Research in the Holocaust—will share their experiences and discuss the pedagogical implications of the lab model. Featuring:

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskoff, Professor; History, American Culture; Universiy of Michigan
Matt Lassiter, Professor of History, Urban and Regional Planning; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; University of Michigan
Jeff Veidlinger, Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies; Director, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Rita Chin (chair), Professor, History; Associate Dean of Social Sciences, Rackham Graduate School; University of Michigan

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:39:03 -0400 2019-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium Collaborative Research in the Holocaust students at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
STS Speaker. Change Over Time? Fracture and Reconciliation in Natural Science Infrastructure (October 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66596 66596-16767936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Scientists in the natural histories create the frameworks, calendars and infrastructures that allow us to understand and grapple with "deep time" -- but they do so within their own temporally complex scholarly settings: they draw on classification systems that are constantly facing revision and methodological revolution; database systems that simultaneously face forced obsolescence and true decay; and data collections in need of maintenance and migration. In this talk, I consider the rhythms of fracture and reconciliation in the data infrastructure in the natural sciences. This talk draws on Thomer's on-going work with the “Transforming Taxonomic Interfaces” and “Migrating Research Data Collections” projects.

Bio: Andrea Thomer is an assistant professor of information at the University of Michigan School of Information. She conducts research in the areas of data curation, museum informatics, earth science and biodiversity informatics, information organization, and computer supported cooperative work. She is especially interested in how people use and create data and metadata; the impact of information organization on information use; issues of data provenance, reproducibility, and integration; and long-term data curation and infrastructure sustainability. She is studying a number of these issues through the "Migrating Research Data Collections" project - a recently awarded Laura Bush 21st Century Librarianship Early Career Research Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Dr. Thomer received her doctorate in Library and Information Science from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign in 2017.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:23:44 -0400 2019-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Horror & Enchantment (October 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65467 65467-16603594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

We are fascinated by what we fear. Misery appalls and magnetises. Creation means possibility but also beckons dissolution and catastrophe. Change – perhaps most radically projected as “conversion” – is at once an exhilarating and menacing prospect. When meanings are destabilised and predictabilities lost, experiences of opportunity and of awe jostle with feelings of anxiety and insignificance. Even love casts its shadows, turning what is intimate and familiar into the province of comfort but also dread. Revered ancestors become ghosts, dear neighbours witches. There is desire in absence, monster in treasure, chaos in awe.

A distinguished, international selection of scholars from across the humanities and social sciences gathers in Ann Arbor to explore the entwinement of horror and enchantment – amidst the intrusions and disturbances that characterised the medieval and early modern worlds – in an array of the post-colonial settings and cultural imaginations they helped to set in motion – and in a recognition of the fact that to investigate the coincidence of horror and enchantment in the past is also to inquire into ourselves, and into the volatilities and predicaments of our own times and places.

convened by:
Kenneth Mills, University of Michigan
Kris Lane, Tulane University
Ato Quayson, Stanford University

Featuring:
Josiah Blackmore, Harvard
Clifton Crais, Emory
Harry Garuba, Capetown
Helen Hills, York (UK)
Megan Holmes, Michigan
Kris Lane, Tulane
Paul Christopher Johnson, Michigan
Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins
Jeff Malpas, Tasmania
Kenneth Mills, Michigan
Marcy Norton, Pennsylvania
Katrina B. Olds, San Francisco
Helmut Puff, Michigan
Ato Quayson, Stanford
Heidi Victoria Scott, Massachusetts, Amherst
Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College
Dale Shuger, Tulane
Zeb Tortorici, New York

Free and open to the public

Guests must register in order to gain access to pre-circulated papers. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOSnnYd5CRZdCbI39lAKXMaJthptUwtttXDrsiocOZbyh5RQ/viewform?usp=sf_link


Conference Schedule:

Friday, 11 October – 1014 Tisch Hall
Introductory Remarks
9-9:15

Session 1. Dark Detections
9:20-9:40
Dale Shuger, Tulane. This Early Modern Spanish Life: Podcasts from the Archives

Clifton Crais, Emory. Into the Dark: Nightmares of World History

9:40-9:50 Hayley Bowman, Michigan
9:50-10:10: discussion

Session 2. Matter and Form in Motion
10:10-10:40
Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins. Exceptional Matter and the Enchantment of the Frame: Traces, Translations, and a Techne for Ecologies of Devotion

Megan Holmes, Michigan. Enchanted Figuration and Performative Artifice in the Making and Unmaking of Demons in Early Modern European Painting

Marcy Norton, Pennsylvania. Enchantment and the Columbian Exchange

10:40-10:50 Hayley Bowman, Michigan
10:50-11:10: discussion

Break
11:10-11:20

Session 3. Enlightening Shadows
11:20-11:50
Heidi Victoria Scott, Massachusetts, Amherst. Between Horror and Enchantment in an Eighteenth-Century Mining Manual from Spanish America

Katrina Olds, San Francisco. The Picaresque Enlightenment – A Preliminary Précis

11:50-12:00 Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Michigan
12:00-12:20: discussion

Session 4. Summoned from Storystores
12:20-12:40
Josiah Blackmore, Harvard. Monsters of the Sky and Other Notable Things: Portugal and the Satisfaction of the Wise

Paul Christopher Johnson, Michigan. “Creature-Feeling”: Religion, Apparatus, and the Laboratory of the Human

Kris Lane, Tulane. Tales of Potosí Revisited: Horror, Enchantment, and the Origins of Andean Gothic


12:40-12:50 Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Michigan
12:50-1:10: discussion

2:30-3:20 A group visit to the University of Michigan Museum of Art for a brief presentation by Megan Holmes on a work in the collection that resonates with the symposium's theme


Session 5. Fable, Fashion and Fate
3:30-3:50
Helen Hills, York (UK). Colonial Materiality: Silver's Alchemy of Trauma and Salvation
Zeb Tortorici, New York. Fabricated Fictions of Morality: The “Oral Pear” and Popular Perceptions of the Inquisition

3:50-4:00 RIW discussant TBA
4:00-4:20: discussion


Saturday, 12 October – 1014 Tisch Hall

Introductory Remarks
10:00-10:05

Session 6. Damage and Deferral
10:05-10:35
Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College. Three Dismemberments

Helmut Puff, Michigan. Waiting in the Antechamber

Harry Garuba, Capetown. Horror and Enchantment in the Postcolony: Wole Soyinka’s Madmen and Specialists and the Disfiguring of Metaphor

10:35-10:45 RIW discussant TBA, Michigan
10:45- 11:00: discussion

Coffee Break

Session 8. Roundtable
11:10-12:00
Josiah Blackmore, Clifton Crais, Anne Lester, Sylvia Sellers-García, Dale Shuger

11:30-12:00 Discussion

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 10 Oct 2019 07:27:19 -0400 2019-10-11T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T16:20:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium H&E
Horror & Enchantment (October 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65467 65467-17035289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

We are fascinated by what we fear. Misery appalls and magnetises. Creation means possibility but also beckons dissolution and catastrophe. Change – perhaps most radically projected as “conversion” – is at once an exhilarating and menacing prospect. When meanings are destabilised and predictabilities lost, experiences of opportunity and of awe jostle with feelings of anxiety and insignificance. Even love casts its shadows, turning what is intimate and familiar into the province of comfort but also dread. Revered ancestors become ghosts, dear neighbours witches. There is desire in absence, monster in treasure, chaos in awe.

A distinguished, international selection of scholars from across the humanities and social sciences gathers in Ann Arbor to explore the entwinement of horror and enchantment – amidst the intrusions and disturbances that characterised the medieval and early modern worlds – in an array of the post-colonial settings and cultural imaginations they helped to set in motion – and in a recognition of the fact that to investigate the coincidence of horror and enchantment in the past is also to inquire into ourselves, and into the volatilities and predicaments of our own times and places.

convened by:
Kenneth Mills, University of Michigan
Kris Lane, Tulane University
Ato Quayson, Stanford University

Featuring:
Josiah Blackmore, Harvard
Clifton Crais, Emory
Harry Garuba, Capetown
Helen Hills, York (UK)
Megan Holmes, Michigan
Kris Lane, Tulane
Paul Christopher Johnson, Michigan
Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins
Jeff Malpas, Tasmania
Kenneth Mills, Michigan
Marcy Norton, Pennsylvania
Katrina B. Olds, San Francisco
Helmut Puff, Michigan
Ato Quayson, Stanford
Heidi Victoria Scott, Massachusetts, Amherst
Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College
Dale Shuger, Tulane
Zeb Tortorici, New York

Free and open to the public

Guests must register in order to gain access to pre-circulated papers. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOSnnYd5CRZdCbI39lAKXMaJthptUwtttXDrsiocOZbyh5RQ/viewform?usp=sf_link


Conference Schedule:

Friday, 11 October – 1014 Tisch Hall
Introductory Remarks
9-9:15

Session 1. Dark Detections
9:20-9:40
Dale Shuger, Tulane. This Early Modern Spanish Life: Podcasts from the Archives

Clifton Crais, Emory. Into the Dark: Nightmares of World History

9:40-9:50 Hayley Bowman, Michigan
9:50-10:10: discussion

Session 2. Matter and Form in Motion
10:10-10:40
Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins. Exceptional Matter and the Enchantment of the Frame: Traces, Translations, and a Techne for Ecologies of Devotion

Megan Holmes, Michigan. Enchanted Figuration and Performative Artifice in the Making and Unmaking of Demons in Early Modern European Painting

Marcy Norton, Pennsylvania. Enchantment and the Columbian Exchange

10:40-10:50 Hayley Bowman, Michigan
10:50-11:10: discussion

Break
11:10-11:20

Session 3. Enlightening Shadows
11:20-11:50
Heidi Victoria Scott, Massachusetts, Amherst. Between Horror and Enchantment in an Eighteenth-Century Mining Manual from Spanish America

Katrina Olds, San Francisco. The Picaresque Enlightenment – A Preliminary Précis

11:50-12:00 Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Michigan
12:00-12:20: discussion

Session 4. Summoned from Storystores
12:20-12:40
Josiah Blackmore, Harvard. Monsters of the Sky and Other Notable Things: Portugal and the Satisfaction of the Wise

Paul Christopher Johnson, Michigan. “Creature-Feeling”: Religion, Apparatus, and the Laboratory of the Human

Kris Lane, Tulane. Tales of Potosí Revisited: Horror, Enchantment, and the Origins of Andean Gothic


12:40-12:50 Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Michigan
12:50-1:10: discussion

2:30-3:20 A group visit to the University of Michigan Museum of Art for a brief presentation by Megan Holmes on a work in the collection that resonates with the symposium's theme


Session 5. Fable, Fashion and Fate
3:30-3:50
Helen Hills, York (UK). Colonial Materiality: Silver's Alchemy of Trauma and Salvation
Zeb Tortorici, New York. Fabricated Fictions of Morality: The “Oral Pear” and Popular Perceptions of the Inquisition

3:50-4:00 RIW discussant TBA
4:00-4:20: discussion


Saturday, 12 October – 1014 Tisch Hall

Introductory Remarks
10:00-10:05

Session 6. Damage and Deferral
10:05-10:35
Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College. Three Dismemberments

Helmut Puff, Michigan. Waiting in the Antechamber

Harry Garuba, Capetown. Horror and Enchantment in the Postcolony: Wole Soyinka’s Madmen and Specialists and the Disfiguring of Metaphor

10:35-10:45 RIW discussant TBA, Michigan
10:45- 11:00: discussion

Coffee Break

Session 8. Roundtable
11:10-12:00
Josiah Blackmore, Clifton Crais, Anne Lester, Sylvia Sellers-García, Dale Shuger

11:30-12:00 Discussion

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 10 Oct 2019 07:27:19 -0400 2019-10-12T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium H&E
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 (October 18, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63589 63589-15808570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

The state of African-American families, of marital status in particular, has been subject to debates going back centuries. Slavery was ground zero for explaining black familial impairments and has figured prominently in popular and scholarly assessments ever since. W. E. B. Du Bois was the first scholar to study the family and make this claim. This talk will take a critical look at his influential work and examine some of the contemporary debates about what marriage can and cannot do to redress the ills of racial oppression.

Tera W. Hunter is the Edwards Professor of American History and Professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is a scholar of labor, gender, race, and Southern history. Her most recent book is Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017). The book is the winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History; Mary Nickliss Prize, Organization of American Historians; Joan Kelly Memorial Prize and the Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association; Willie Lee Rose Book Award, Southern Association of Women’s Historians; and the Deep South Book Prize, from the Frances S. Sumersell Center for the Study of the South. It was also a finalist for the Lincoln Prize, Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute. To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War (Harvard University Press, 1997), received several awards as well. Hunter co-edited with Sandra Gunning and Michele Mitchell, Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas (Blackwell Publishing, 2004) and with Joe W. Trotter and Earl Lewis, African American Urban Studies: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Hunter has engaged in public history projects as a consultant for museum exhibitions and documentary films and worked with public school teachers. She has written op-eds for the New York Times, Washington Post, among other media outlets. She graduated from Duke University (BA) and Yale University (PhD). She is a native of Miami, Florida.

Free and open to the public.

This event presented by the Department of Women's Studies and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:38:46 -0400 2019-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Tera Hunter
LACS Central American Contexts Series. Writing Western Nicaragua's Colonial and Post-Colonial LGBTQ Histories (October 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67275 67275-16831241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Dr. González-Rivera's research on western Nicaragua's pre-1979 LGBTQ histories reveals a complex story. She documents a long-standing Indigenous “transgender” tradition in open-air markets, which rests on pre-colonial economic opportunities for women in tiangues and Nicaragua’s unique association between commerce and femininity. Dr. González-Rivera further contends that contemporary Nicaraguan negative attitudes towards trans women, while less prevalent than in other parts of the world, do exist and are highly steeped in racism and classism due to the association made between trans women and indigeneity. This project thus concludes that working-class women’s continuous economic participation in Nicaragua is a symbol of indigenous resistance to colonialism as is the continued existence of trans women. This presentation also documents the invention of indigenous sodomy in Nicaragua and the ways in which the Spanish contributed to the creation of the contemporary Nicaraguan “cochon,” the term used in the last hundred years to refer to presumably “passive” [“feminine”] male partners in same sex relations between men.

Co-sponsors: Department of History; Rackham Graduate School; Colonialism, Race, and Sexualities Initiative (CRSI) in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG); Women's Studies; Institute for the Humanities

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:04:55 -0400 2019-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T17:15:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Comparative Literature Lecture Series 2019-20: Phronesis and Materialism (October 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67963 67963-16975352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

It is a commonplace to turn to Book 6 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics to find out what the ancient Greeks thought about practical judgment or phronesis. There is good reason for this: Aristotle’s is the lengthiest account of phronesis. We regularly fail to note, however, the importance of phronesis in epicureanism. He will explore how Epicurus’s conception of phronesis differs from Aristotle’s. He will also indicate how Epicurus’s conception influences political discourse in early modernity in materialists such as Machiavelli and Spinoza. Finally, he will indicate how the exclusion of Epicurus’s conception of phronesis in early twentieth century, for instance by Heidegger, resulted in the invention of a politics beyond instrumentality and calculation as a way of repressing the materialism of practical judgment.

Dimitris Vardoulakis is the deputy chair of Philosophy at Western Sydney University. He is the author of The Doppelgänger: Literature’s Philosophy (2010), Sovereignty and its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence (2013), Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka’s Laughter (2016), Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (2018), and Authority and Utility: On Spinoza’s Epicureanism (forthcoming in 2020). He is the director of “Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society,” and the co-editor of the book series “Incitements” (Edinburgh University Press).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:46:59 -0400 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Speaker
Contemporary Issues Discussion: Dental Health (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67874 67874-16960534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Teenage newlywed Phebe Jane Knapp wrote a letter to her brother in 1851 describing her dental pain as well as other health issues, while she and her husband Marquis settled in the new state of Iowa.

All are welcome to a discussion with historians, curators, dentists, and archivists to explore how this powerful letter relates to current issues within dental care. Join in the conversation by sharing your own history and personal reflections with other U-M and local community members over a complimentary lunch. Free, registration is required. Please register online (or call 734-647-0864 to register) by Oct. 28.

Sponsored by Frank and Judy Wilhelme. Presented by the U-M Clements Library, the U-M Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, and the U-M Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:57:24 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion The anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the teeth. By Thomas Bell ... (1831)
Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68925 68925-17197030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

We are excited to invite you to the Global Theories of Critique's second event of the academic year, with our theme for this year being "On the Failed and Marginal," focusing on the excluded and undermined from and in Euro-American histories. Challenging these histories or going against and beyond them demands an interrogation of the space from which we think, write, and act: the university and its various arms. Following this thinking, our second event will be a workshop on "Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity" with Professor Reginald Jackson, to be held on Thursday, Oct. 31st, 4-6 pm, room 1014 Tisch Hall, dinner included.

Professor Jackson is an Associate Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature at U of M's department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and has been long committed to thinking and practicing knowledge production in relation to solidarity with the marginalized and forgotten, within both the university's own space and its many outsides. As such, ahead of this event, we recommend reading Professor Jackson's recently published article, titled "Solidarity's Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy," along with two theoretical pieces he is in engaging with. All readings are available here, and we recommend reading them in this order:

Readings, “The Idea of Excellence”
Jackson, “Solidarity’s Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy”
Moten and Harney, “The University and the Undercommons” (optional)

Additionally, if you plan on attending this event, please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9zWJXZZnlGwM1-MIwVj7GNA5DZ_vnK-KvGxWzV26Is898Vw/viewform. We would also very much appreciate circulating this invite with any student, department or anyone else who might be interested in this event.

This event and the Global Theories of Critique project are part of a partnership between the University of Michigan and the American University in Cairo (AUC) focusing on Public Humanities in the Global South supported by a Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to AUC. Please get in touch with Hakem Al-Rustom (hakemaa@umich.edu) or Raya Naamneh (rnaamneh@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:08:10 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Professor Reginald Jackson
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation (November 4, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68521 68521-17094823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Join us for a talk with award-winning author and Washington Post associate editor Steve Luxenberg, who will discuss his recent book, Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation.

Presented by the University of Michigan History Club, Department of American Culture, and Department of American History.

STEVE LUXENBERG is an associate editor at The Washington Post and an award-winning author. During his forty years as a newspaper editor and reporter, Steve has overseen reporting that has earned many national honors, including two Pulitzer Prizes.

His new nonfiction book, Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation, was published in 2019. It was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice, as well as a Best Book of the Month by Amazon and Goodreads. It has been featured in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and The Economist.

His first book was the critically-acclaimed Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret, honored as a Michigan Notable Book and selected as the 2013-2014 Great Michigan Read. During that year, Annie’s Ghosts was the focus of a state-wide series of events and discussions.

A frequent speaker, Steve has given talks and participated in conversations about his books, journalism, and nonfiction writing at conferences, universities, and book festivals, and has made occasional guest appearances on radio and television.

Steve’s journalistic career began at The Baltimore Sun, where he worked for 11 years. He joined The Post in 1985 as deputy editor of the investigative/special projects staff, headed by assistant managing editor Bob Woodward. In 1991, Steve succeeded Woodward as head of the investigative staff. From 1996 to 2006, Steve was the editor of The Post’s Sunday Outlook section, which publishes original reporting and provocative commentary on a broad spectrum of political, historical and cultural issues.

Steve is a graduate of Harvard College. He grew up in Detroit, where Annie’s Ghosts primarily takes place. He and his wife, Mary Jo Kirschman, a former school librarian, live in Baltimore. They have two grown children, Josh and Jill.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:45:10 -0400 2019-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation
STS Speaker. Working Things Out: Design-STS Transitions from Technical Formalization to Critical Imagination. (November 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66903 66903-16785542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

This talk will explore the notion that the fields of design and science and technology studies (STS) offer distinct but mutually enriching traditions of research and practice, and that at their nexus we may discover opportunities for critical and creative engagements with both technologies and the built environment. Drawing from the author’s recent efforts, including media archaeological, data-ethnographic, historiographic, and pedagogical explorations, the talk will articulate ways to mobilize STS themes and methods towards questions of design — broadly understood to encompass a diversity of conceptual and practical approaches to the production of artificial environments. It will show what we may gain by, on the one hand, creating the conditions for technologies to be formulated inquisitively to interrogate or renegotiate sociotechnical relations and, on the other, cultivating an interpretive attitude construing digital environments and human-machine entanglements as new and exciting sites of sociotechnical inquiry in the processes of designing and making. The picture that emerges is one of design as both a crucial phenomenon by which to understand and a sociotechnical ecology by which to thoughtfully re-imagine, intervene, and explore.

Bio: Daniel Cardoso Llach is an architecture and design scholar working on social and historical aspects of automation in design, the politics of representation and participation in software, and new methods for visualizing design as a socio-technical phenomenon. His book Builders of the Vision: Software and the Imagination of Design (Routledge, 2015) uses STS methods and themes to show how postwar era research on computer-aided design (CAD) and numerically controlled manufacturing shaped a technological imaginary of design shaping present-day architectural ideas and labors.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 08:05:24 -0400 2019-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
EIHS Lecture: The Truth of Place in Cities of the Habsburg Monarchy (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63590 63590-15808571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

How is “historical truth” inscribed or obscured in the material presence of cities? While much of East Central Europe belonged for centuries to the empire known from 1867 until its demise in 1918 as Austria-Hungary, various agendas of this vast realm’s successor states were chiefly opposed to preserving its memory. And yet, traces of this past are more integral to the present reality of these cities than they at first appear. Parallel examples of a few cities from Ukraine to Romania to Italy will open questions of how contemporary subjects relate to their place in space and time, and of the landscape of memory and forgetting.

Scott Spector (PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, 1994) is the Rudolf Mrázek Collegiate Professor of History and German Studies at the University of Michigan He is a cultural and intellectual historian of modern central Europe, specializing in Habsburg and Jewish culture. He is the author of Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siècle (University of California Press, 2000); Violent Sensations: Sexuality, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860-1914 (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and Modernism without Jews? German-Jewish Subjects and Histories (University of Indiana, 2017). He serves on the editorial board of the journal Jewish Social Studies as well as the series Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies and the book series Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany at the University of Michigan Press. He is currently working on a manuscript on the layers of historical traces in cities of the former Habsburg Empire, a project he has been researching in the past year as a DAAD visiting professor in Potsdam and a visiting fellow at the Institut für Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Vienna.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:28:38 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Scott Spector
EIHS Symposium: Rethinking Time, Thinking Multitemporally (November 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63600 63600-15808599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Time, the messy stuff of historical accounts, constitutes a rich nexus of possibilities. Yes, it moves steadily forward. Still, there were and are many times: Measured times, imagined times, lived times, narrated times, subaltern times, and other times await those who tend to temporal rhythms analytically, in the past as well as in the present. Recognizing the plural within the temporal is nothing new, however. Thinking time on multiple planes has a venerable intellectual pedigree. This panel aims to raise awareness about the polytemporal, the asynchronous, and the anachronic from a variety of perspectives. Featuring:

Hadji Bakara, Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, University of Michigan
Jennifer Nelson, Assistant Professor, History of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Catherine Sanok, Professor, English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
Helmut Puff (chair), Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Collegiate Professor of History and Germanic Languages

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:01:50 -0400 2019-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium Clock ca. 1852. The Metropolitcan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0.
The Vietnam War: What Happened and Why It Still Matters (November 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67982 67982-16977571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Keith W. Taylor, Cornell University
“Fashionable Myths and Unacknowledged Lessons”

Americans continue to remember the Vietnam War according to Hanoi wartime propaganda recycled via the anti-war movement into textbooks, documentaries, and talking heads. This has contributed to long-term effects of the war on domestic politics, foreign policy, and narratives of American history during the past half century. Does recent scholarship about the war allow a fresh perspective?

Olga Dror, Texas A&M University
“Civilians and Memories of Massacre.”

Communist forces massacred approximately 3,000 civilians in Hue City during the 1968 Tet Offensive. How and why did this happen, and why is it important for Americans to remember massacres committed by US troops but to ignore massacres committed by enemy forces? Memories of civilian massacres continue to influence history and politics in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora.

Biographies

Keith W. Taylor, a veteran of the Vietnam War, received his PhD in Vietnamese history at the University of Michigan in 1976. He subsequently taught at universities in Japan and Singapore and has conducted extensive research in Vietnam. For the past thirty years he has been Professor of Sino-Vietnamese Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. He regularly teaches a course about the Vietnam War and has published many articles and books about Vietnamese history and literature, including A History of the Vietnamese (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Educated in Russia, Israel, and the United States, Olga Dror is currently an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and Fellow at the National Humanities center (2019-2020). She has authored, translated, and co-edited five books and numerous articles on topics from theistic to political religions to Vietnamese non-combatants’ experiences during the War. Her most recent monograph Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965-1975 was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Ho Chi Minh’s Cult in Vietnamese Statehood.

Presented by the Department of History, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and Michigan War Studies Group.

Free and open to the public. Veterans are welcome to attend.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:50:37 -0400 2019-11-08T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Olga Dror (left) and Keith W. Taylor
STS Speaker. African Mathematics: Dzimbahwe Cosmologies, Methods, & Applications (November 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67230 67230-16828992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

In his current book project, entitled African Chemistry: Science with an African Totem, Chakanetsa asks the question: What does it mean to talk about African chemistry as imagined and practiced by Africans? Not simply western chemistry in African hands, but African-originated ideas and modes of chemistry, and the implications of taking these historical, philosophical, cultural, and technical understandings seriously with respect to Africa’s sustainable development. The book starts from endogenous modes of chemistry, through their encounters with incoming European influences, to the present in which young Africans are reclaiming indigenous foods, medicines, metallurgy, etc. and turning them into vibrant commercial product, value chain, and livelihood innovations. African Chemistry marks the beginning of an “African Science” book series which over the next decade will extend Chakanetsa’s research and writing to African physics, biology, medicine, mathematics/computation, engineering, science fiction, and digital innovation. The talk isolates and provides an early reading of the African chemistry material, reflecting with the audience implications of these archives, histories, and philosophies of science from Africa for the global histories and current and future practices of science, technology, and innovation.

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Other Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:29:07 -0400 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Other Tisch Hall
STS Speaker. Civil Rights as Patient Experience: How Healthcare Organizations Handle Complaints (December 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66888 66888-16785529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

The non-discrimination clause of the Affordable Care Act, known as Section 1557, formally expanded patients’ civil rights in nearly every healthcare setting in the U.S. in 2010. Sex discrimination was a protected category for the first time in healthcare, and the Obama administration interpreted sex discrimination to include transgender discrimination. Regulations required healthcare organizations to name a person to handle grievances and set up an internal grievance process for resolving them. Drawing on interviews with 58 healthcare grievance handlers in four U.S. states about how they process patient complaints, this study examines how medical organizations have responded to expanded patient rights. What does it mean to bring civil rights into U.S. healthcare settings, and what implications are there for transgender healthcare rights in particular? We found a range of approaches to rights in healthcare settings and a dominant approach devoted to patient experience that served to diminish the power of healthcare rights. The project also extends to health insurance problems and coverage for transgender care, religious non-discrimination rules as competing values in healthcare settings, and the Trump administration's efforts to undo the Obama efforts to advance transgender rights.

Bio: Anna Kirkland, J.D., Ph.D., is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She received her law degree (2001)and Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy (2003) from the University of California, Berkeley. Prof. Kirkland served as a committee member on the National Academies panel charged with studying sexual harassment in the STEM fields of academia, published in June 2018 as Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is the author of Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood(New York University Press, 2008), Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury (NYU 2016), and co-editor with Jonathan Metz lof Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality (New York University Press, 2010).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:44:40 -0400 2019-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Medieval Lunch. Architectural Representations in Late Medieval Donor Portraits (December 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68089 68089-17009818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Votive images of donors holding an architectural model appear in a variety of media spanning the entire Middle Ages. Although related to western European examples (examined by E. S. Klinkenberg in Compressed Meanings 2009, among others), the church models in late medieval votive paintings in the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres offer new insights into the multiplicity of meanings and functions of such architectural representations.

This talk focuses on several case studies from regions of the Balkans and the Carpathians that reveal the varied systems of signification of church models as they appear in votive murals, usually located in the naos of churches. These images show facets of the actual structures and the processes of decoration of the edifices. For example, in the Moldavian context, the church model is never shown with the rich exterior mural cycles that cover entirely the exterior of the churches. Instead, the focus is on select architectural features and the symbolic functions of the edifice in its representational form.

In examining the iconographic details of these image types, and in considering the multitude of their meanings and functions in their specific contexts of display, I argue that such architectural representations were carefully calibrated to give visual expression to local concerns related to patronage, salvation, and memory, as well as, on a larger scale, to the formation of new sacred landscapes in Eastern Europe for which Orthodox Christianity with its rich spatial and visual manifestations served as a defining force in the later medieval period.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:52:12 -0500 2019-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Donor portait: Moldovita Monestary
EIHS Lecture: The Pen and a Sea of Pearls: Decolonizing Contemporary Historical Storytelling (December 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63591 63591-15808572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

A racist assumption powerfully shapes many history books today: the idea that European knowledge traditions and Enlightenment sciences are superior to the epistemologies of the peoples once colonized by European empires. In this lecture Professor Khatun will explore methodologies of historical storytelling that seek to decolonize contemporary knowledge production about the past. Reading Bengali-language narratives of popular history that have enjoyed oral dissemination throughout the Bengal delta and sometimes across an Indian Ocean realm, Professor Khatun will show that we can use colonized peoples’ historiographical traditions as keys that offer escape from the prison house of colonial-modern thought.

Dr. Samia Khatun is a writer, filmmaker and cultural historian whose documentaries have screened on national broadcasters SBS-TV and ABC-TV in Australia. She was born in Dhaka, educated in Sydney and has held research fellowships in Berlin, Dunedin, New York and Melbourne. Her first book, Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia was published in December 2018 and was shortlisted for the Ernst Scott Prize for History. She is currently embarking on a new project about the spinners and weavers of eighteenth-century Dhaka. In September 2019, Samia will be taking up the position of Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Free and open to the public.

Presented in partnership with the Center for South Asian Studies. This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:33:21 -0500 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Samia Khatun
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Colonized Geographies (December 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63602 63602-15808600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

How do history and agency alter geographies and landscapes? Samia Khatun’s research has explored the spaces and scars left behind by colonization, arguing that “histories remain inscribed on the land itself.” This panel explores the concept of colonized geographies and will examine how the borders of colonized spaces are enforced, negotiated, and blurred. Speakers will approach this theme from comparative literature, political science, and history, providing new perspectives on the creation of colonized space, as well as how history operates both within and outside of its boundaries.

Featuring:

Jamie Clegg, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
Arighna Gupta, Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan
Jaideep Pandey, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
David Suell, Graduate Student, Political Science, University of Michigan
Sarah Wheat, Graduate Student, History of Art, University of Michigan
Samia Khatun (respondent), Senior Lecturer, Centre for Gender Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Farida Begum (chair), Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan

Presented in partnership with the Center for South Asian Studies. This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

Image: Adam Isacson, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Dec 2019 16:11:11 -0500 2019-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Border fence, Nogales, Arizona
Asian American and Pacific Islander Faculty and the Bamboo Ceiling: Barriers to Leadership and Implications for Leadership Development (December 6, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68921 68921-17197021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Racial stereotypes of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders limit their access to leadership positions in higher education. Using a national sample of college and university faculty at 2 and 4-year institutions, Dean Lee explores the reality and implications of the bamboo ceiling for Asian American faculty and staff.

Co-Sponsors: U-M Asian Pacific Islander Desi/American Staff Association and INDIGO, the LSA Asian/Asian American Faculty Alliance

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Dec 2019 14:46:33 -0500 2019-12-06T14:30:00-05:00 2019-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
Transcultural Studies Information Session (January 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69875 69875-17480878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Program in Transcultural Studies

The Program in Transcultural Studies is an accelerated master's degree program designed for LSA undergraduate students. Join us for an information session to hear from current students, learn more about the program and how to apply!

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Meeting Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:01:42 -0500 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Program in Transcultural Studies Meeting Transcultural Studies Information Session poster
Cleopatra Boy (January 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70339 70339-17584114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

A Host of People is a Detroit-based ensemble theater company creating original work that celebrates complexity, imagination, and the synthesis of seemingly disparate elements—at once epic and intimate, political and personal, poetic and approachable. AHOP exists to create aesthetically rigorous, intellectually challenging theatre that is also warm, welcoming, and inspiring to people from all walks of life. All of our programming moves the company in this direction. We choose our subject matter and themes very carefully with an eye to stories, topics, and aesthetic approaches that will be equally thrilling to the most adventurous theatre fans as well as those with less exposure to the form.

https://www.ahostofpeople.org/

About Cleopatra Boy:

Cleopatra Boy brings to light how women (and other non-straight/white/male) leaders’ histories are re-written, maligned, or erased. The iconic Egyptian pharaoh’s historic, mythic, and fictional representations across time inspired our ensemble to create a performance that speaks to the present moment. A theatrical thought experiment that is part pageant, part courtroom drama; our audience will shape-shift from spectators, to community members, to witnesses as we collectively address the injustice of losing control of our own narratives in order to rethink and remake history.

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For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email classics@umich.edu -- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive and welcoming to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Performance Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:16:10 -0500 2020-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Performance Cleopatra Boy
“MLK Jr.'s Legacy and the Crisis of Racial Capitalism - What's Next?” (January 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71080 71080-17774959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Barbara Ransby is an historian, writer, and longtime political activist. Ransby has published dozens of articles and essays in popular and scholarly venues. She is most notably the author of an award-winning biography of civil rights activist Ella Baker, entitled Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision(University of North Carolina, 2003), which won no less than six major awards.
Barbara’s most recent book is "Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the 21st Century" (2018). She serves on the editorial boards of The Black Commentator (an online journal); the London-based journal, Race and Class; the Justice, Power and Politics Series at University of North Carolina Press; and the Scholar’s Advisory Committee of Ms. magazine. In the summer of 2012 she became the second Editor-in-Chief of SOULS, a critical journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society published quarterly.
Professor Ransby received a BA in History from Columbia University and an MA and PhD in History from the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:23:14 -0500 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
A Modern-day Witch Hunt? A Historical Examination of Impeachment. (January 21, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71473 71473-17829920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan History Club

The History Club presents “A Modern-day Witch Hunt? A Historical Examination of Impeachment.” During the event, we seek to answer questions undergraduates have regarding presidential impeachment while situating the process in a deeper historical context. Our esteemed panelists come from a variety of backgrounds to offer students a nuanced view of impeachment today. We are excited to welcome Dr. Valerie Kivelson, Dr. Matthew Lassiter, and Charles Adside, Esquire.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:53:41 -0500 2020-01-21T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall University of Michigan History Club Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Medieval Lunch. Anglo-Saxon Time as an Enclosure. (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71373 71373-17819289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects. Presenters typically speak for approximately 30 minutes, leaving 10-15 minutes for Q&A.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:31:43 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
Transcultural Studies Information Session (January 24, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69875 69875-17480879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 10:30am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Program in Transcultural Studies

The Program in Transcultural Studies is an accelerated master's degree program designed for LSA undergraduate students. Join us for an information session to hear from current students, learn more about the program and how to apply!

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Meeting Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:01:42 -0500 2020-01-24T10:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T11:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Program in Transcultural Studies Meeting Transcultural Studies Information Session poster
Writing Displacement-Exile-Incarceration (January 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68937 68937-17197038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This event and the Global Theories of Critique project are part of a partnership between the University of Michigan and the American University in Cairo (AUC) focusing on Public Humanities in the Global South supported by a Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to AUC. Please get in touch with Hakem Al-Rustom (hakemaa@umich.edu) or Raya Naamneh (rnaamneh@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:34:59 -0400 2020-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Omid Tofighian, American University in Cairo
EIHS Lecture: Ecology and Empire on the Yellow River (January 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63592 63592-15808573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This presentation introduces Ruth Mostern’s work on the imperial and ecological history of the Yellow River, a five-thousand-year history of the relationship between people, water, and sediment. Her work reveals how gradual changes (for instance in climate and population) intersect with sudden cataclysms (such as wars and floods). Interweaving the history of the river’s moist floodplain with that of the erosion zone hundreds of miles away, it demonstrates how social and political transformations can have unintended ecological consequences very far from the locations where they transpire. This research combines maps and timelines with historical documents, archaeological information, and environmental science.

Ruth Mostern is associate professor of history and director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276 CE), the coeditor of Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers, and the principal investigator for the World-Historical Gazetteer, a digital ecosystem for sharing information about historical places.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:36:26 -0500 2020-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion “A Map of the Lower River,” Zheng Penghe
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Scaling Time and Space (January 31, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63603 63603-15808601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

How do fluctuations in scale impact the way we look at the past? Ruth Mostern’s research spans millennia and examines how local practices and political agendas influenced the ecology of the Yellow River. This panel will explore the ways in which spaces are created, managed, and contested over time. Shifting between scales, speakers will discuss the interconnections and conflicts between the local and the universal, with case studies ranging from the localized spaces of the workroom and kitchen to the expanses of empire and imagined nationhood.

Featuring:

Erin Johnson (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Shohei Kawamata (Graduate Student, International and Regional Studies, University of Michigan)
Fusheng Luo (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Jian Zhang (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Alexander Clayton (chair; Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Ruth Mostern (respondent; Associate Professor, History, University of Pittsburgh)

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 07:35:04 -0500 2020-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
Comparative Literature Lecture Series 2019-20: Respite: 12 Anthropocene Fragments (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70058 70058-17505681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This talk draws on work in the environmental humanities to rewrite the Anthropocene as autotheory. Written in a poetic-philosophical mode, “Respite” brings together 12 fragments as autotheoretical forms—autocollage, autothermograph, nested equation, and 9 others—for a self confronted with the unthinkable extinction of all life on earth. Grounded in human and natural archives, “Respite” is framed by Sylvia Wynter’s and Michel Foucault’s theoretical critiques of anthropos (Man). In casting self-writing as an experiment, “Respite” offers a new ethical model for being present to life in its ending.

Lynne Huffer is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She is the author of *Foucault’s Strange Eros* (forthcoming 2020); *Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex* (2013); *Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory* (2010); *Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference* (1998); and *Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing* (1992). She has published academic articles on feminist theory, queer theory, Foucault, ethics, and the Anthropocene, as well as personal essays, creative nonfiction, and opinion pieces in mass media venues. With Chicago artist Jennifer Yorke she also created Wading Pool, a collaborative artists book http://www.vampandtramp.com/finepress/h/Lynne-Huffer-Jennifer-Yorke.html.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:57:03 -0500 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Lynne Huffer
EIHS Lecture: The Labors of Human Nurture: Breastfeeding for Love or Money in Brazil, 1899-1960 (February 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63593 63593-15808574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

What kind of labor is breastfeeding? How have societies accorded value to those who undertake this potentially lifesaving work? By situating breastfeeding within the historiography of carework, this talk will address these questions, examining efforts directed at breastfeeding, wet nursing, and human milk donation in Brazil in the first half of the twentieth century. If Brazilian health officials in this period agreed that human milk was critical for infant survival, they did not see the efforts of all nursing women as equally valuable. Meanwhile many nursing women challenged these ideas, demanding recognition of their contributions.

Victoria Langland is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil (Duke University Press, 2013) and the co-editor of The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics, 2nd edition, (Duke University Press, 2019), and Monumentos, Memoriales y Marcas Territoriales (Siglo XXI, 2003). Langland's current book project is a history of breastfeeding, wet-nursing and human milk banking in Brazil that looks at how public policies, national and transnational breastfeeding advocacy, and the actions of breastfeeding women have transformed understandings and practices about infant nutrition and women’s roles over time.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:47:26 -0500 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Victoria Langland
#twitterstorians (February 25, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73006 73006-18123112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan History Club

Historians around the world are utilizing the tag #twitterstorians, pushing academic conversations into the public sphere and triggering questions about history in the digital age. During this event, we will explore the connections that historians have with Twitter and the site’s role in historical research and public engagement with history. We are excited to have Dr. Melanie Tanielian, Dr. Juan Cole, Dr. Paula Curtis, and Ms. Molly Brookfield to share their perspectives with our audience.

There will be light refreshments provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:47:36 -0500 2020-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall University of Michigan History Club Lecture / Discussion Twitterstorians
Medieval Lunch. Lorenzo di Marco’s Souvenir Shop and the Holy House of Loreto: Using Material Culture to Investigate a Late-Medieval Cult. (February 26, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71374 71374-17819290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects. Presenters typically speak for approximately 30 minutes, leaving 10-15 minutes for Q&A.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:38:20 -0500 2020-02-26T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-26T14:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
Lecture: The Hundred Years Against Palestine (February 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72626 72626-18033404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Professor Khalidi will discuss his latest work on the last century of US policy on Palestine and attempts to finalize that history by the proposed “deal of the century.”

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1974. His latest book is The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (2002).

Professor Khalidi's other works include: Brokers of Deceit: How the US has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009); The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997); Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War (1986); and British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980). He is the co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991) and has written over 110 scholarly articles.

Professor Khalidi has written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Vanguardia, The London Review of Books, and The Nation. He has been interviewed in Le Monde, Haaretz, Milliyet, al-Quds, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been a guest on radio and TV shows including All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, Morning Edition, The News Hour, The Charlie Rose Show, GPS with Fareed Zakaria, Amanpour on CNN International, and Nightline, and on the BBC, Radio France Inter and France Culture, the CBC, al-Jazeera, al-‘Arabiyya, Russia Today, and the Voice of America.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 10:35:37 -0500 2020-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Rashid Khalidi
What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Early Medieval Cities? (February 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72230 72230-17963868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Abstract: More than 30 years ago, a debate that took place in the journal Archeologia Medievale marked a turning print in the study of post-Roman urbanism. The subject was: can we consider Europe's late antique and early medieval cities as "proper" cities? After some decades, and many archaeological investigations, our perception of this subject has become much different from that pioneering starting point. Are "discontinuity" or "continuity" (in respect to the past) still useful terms to label that segment of European urban history? The presentation will explore the most recent data and discuss new perspectives on urban landscapes during late antiquity and the early middle ages. 

Andrea Augenti has taught medieval archaeology at the University of Bologna since 2000. He has carried out investigations in many Italian sites and directed the excavation of the monastery of San Severo in Classe (Ravenna). Andrea Augenti is also editor of the journal Archeologia Medievale and member of the International Advisory Board of the journal Medieval Archaeology. He is a member of Scientific Committee of the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum (Rome) and of the RavennAntica Foundation. He is the author of several publications, including Archeologia dell'Italia medievale (2016) and A come Archeologia (2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 07:55:25 -0500 2020-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T19:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Freedom Writings: Black Abolitionists and the Struggle Against "Race Hatred" in Brazil - 1870-1890 (March 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72781 72781-18077119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

How do you think about the experiences of freedom among black people in Brazil before the end of slavery in 1888? Interested in this question, this lecture presents a reflection on the experiences of free and literate black men, who were active in the press, as well as in the political-cultural landscape of the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ferreira de Menezes, Luiz Gama, Machado de Assis, José do Patrocinio, Ignacio de Araújo Lima, Arthur Carlos and Theophilo Dias de Castro are the central subjects in this narrative, along with so many other “free men of color” who sought in different ways to conquer and maintain their spaces in the public debate about the Brazil’s paths, while relying on the sustainability of their own individual projects. Against the grain of “ race hatred” daily practices, they not only contributed to debates on daily, abolitionist, black and literary newspapers, but also led the creation of resistance, confrontation and dialogue tools and mechanisms.

Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Brasília. She received her PhD in History from the State University of Campinas, her MA in History from the University of Brasília, and her BA in Journalism from The University Center of Brasília. Pinto has developed research articulating knowledge in the areas of History, Communication, Literature and Education, with an emphasis on political-cultural performance of black thinkers, black press, abolitionism and experiences of black freedom and citizenship in the slavery period and post-abolition in Brazil and elsewhere in the African Diaspora.

This lecture will take place on Monday, March 9, at 4:00pm in 1014 Tisch Hall.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:44:25 -0500 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto
Medieval Lunch. Dialogue and Diplomacy: Capuchin-Franciscans at the Safavid Court (March 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71375 71375-17819291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects. Presenters typically speak for approximately 30 minutes, leaving 10-15 minutes for Q&A.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:45:52 -0500 2020-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Transcultural Studies Information Session (March 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72700 72700-18059658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Program in Transcultural Studies

The Program in Transcultural Studies is an interdisciplinary accelerated master's degree program designed for LSA undergraduate students. This information session is an opportunity to ask questions, speak with current students in the program, and learn more about the program.

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Meeting Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:32:16 -0500 2020-03-11T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T18:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Program in Transcultural Studies Meeting Information session poster
CANCELLED - Brazil Initiative Lecture. Fake News Brazil: How a misinformation Campaign Has Aroused Hatred of Minorities and Negatively Impacted Democracy in Brazil (March 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73642 73642-18276411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event in Fall 2020.

Jean Wyllys was the first LGBTQ activist to serve in Brazil’s federal congress. His platform focused on human rights, the rights of minorities, and positive policies for social and political inclusion of marginalized communities. A vocal opponent of current President Jair Bolsonaro, since 2018, Wyllys has been in exile and is currently a Visiting Researcher at Hutchins Center, Harvard University. He is continuing his work as a journalist, writer, and human rights advocate, with a focus on LGBTQ+ rights. Previous publications include five books and innumerable articles in a variety of academic and non-academic venues.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:15:55 -0400 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion event_flier-Wyllys_lecture
CANCELLED: “Suing for an Enslaved Woman’s Child in the Nineteenth-Century Río de la Plata” (March 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73357 73357-18208321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Please join us for a lunchtime discussion of the pre-circulated paper:

“Suing for an Enslaved Woman’s Child in the Nineteenth-Century Río de la Plata”

This article traces the history of Petrona, an enslaved woman sold in Santa Fe (Argentina), sent to Buenos Aires and later possibly to Montevideo (Uruguay). Her case demonstrates how the legal status of enslaved persons was affected by the redefinitions of jurisdictions and by the forced or voluntary crossings between political units. It sheds light on the circulation and uses of the Free Womb law (1813) in Argentina and Uruguay and traces legal experts’ debates over its meaning. And it reveals the knowledge enslaved people had of those abolitionist norms and how they used them to resist forced relocations, attempt favorable migrations, or achieve full freedom. The article reflects on the impact of independence on enslaved persons’ lives, the gendered bias of the abolitionist process, and the
central yet untold uses of antislavery rhetoric in the national narratives.

The article will be circulated in advance of the event; please contact Elizabeth Collins (elizabac@umich.edu) to obtain a copy.

Magdalena Candioti is Associate Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr Emilio Ravignani” and Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Sciences, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina. Candioti’s doctoral research focused on the political history of justice in the nineteenth-century Río de la Plata, resulting in the book Un maldito derecho: leyes, jueces y derecho en la Buenos Aires republicana, 1810–1830 (Buenos Aires, Didot). She is currently working on a book on gradual abolition in the Río de la Plata (1810-1860) called El tiempo de los libertos. Esclavitud y abolición en el Río de la Plata. Candioti was a visiting fellow in ILAS-Columbia University, NYC (2010-2011), and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIeR), Frankfurt, Germany (2014). In 2014, she was awarded a scholarship by the Slicher van Bath DeJong Foundation, CEDLA (Holland) to conduct comparative research on slavery in Santa Fe and Buenos Aires. Currently, she is a Fulbright fellow at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University.

Ángela Pérez-Villa is an Assistant Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies at Western Michigan University. Her research and teaching focus on the social, legal, and gender history of Latin America, particularly Colombia. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript that examines how during Colombia’s war of independence, political power and legal practice were disputed and reconfigured locally on the terrains of family, sexuality, and gender.

Sponsored by the U-M Department of History, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:53:37 -0400 2020-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Modo de fabricar velas
CANCELLED: EIHS Lecture / Human Conditions Keynote: Towards A Decolonial Account of Chemical Exposures on the Lower Great Lakes (March 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63594 63594-15808575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This lecture is part of Human Conditions: An Eisenberg Forum.

What might a decolonial understanding of chemical exposures look like? While concepts like the Anthropocene scale environmental violence up to the planetary level—treating the chemical pollutant and the human body as the same everywhere—this talk takes a non-universalizing approach to chemical violence and its relations to land and bodies. Focusing on the history of Canada's Chemical Valley and the world’s oldest running oil refinery, this talk asks how the specificity of chemical exposures can be understood in relation to colonialism as well as Anishinabek and Haudenosaunee obligations to land on the lower Great Lakes. In so doing, it makes the case for the need to rethink the assumptions of universalism and liberal humanism that undergird conventional environmental understandings.

Michelle Murphy is professor of history and women and gender studies at the University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair of Science and Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice, and Director of the Technoscience Research Unit. Her current research looks at chemical pollution and environmental data in Canada's Chemical Valley, with a focus on the world's oldest running oil refinery which sits on the land of Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Murphy's most recent book is The Economization of Life (Duke University Press). She is Métis from Winnipeg.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:40:44 -0400 2020-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
CANCELLED: Human Conditions: An Eisenberg Forum (March 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63606 63606-15808603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Are we humans cooperative or warlike, rational or delusional, fixed or flexible? These questions have philosophical bite and political stakes. Indeed, they always have. But recent work in a range of disciplines asks us to go deeper. What if “we humans” are more fiction than fact? If we can’t assume the stability of the human across time and place, what happens to debates about human nature? Humanistic approaches including actor-network theory, posthuman criticism, and multispecies ethnographies challenge the idea of an autonomous human nature, while scientific studies of organ development, neuroendocrinology, and the microbiome are revealing how much nature there is inside of us. Human Conditions explores these questions through a braided history of the human and environmental sciences.

All events take place in 1014 Tisch Hall unless otherwise noted. The full schedule is below:

Thursday, March 19

4:00 p.m.
Keynote lecture: "Towards a Decolonial Account of Chemical Exposures on the Lower Great Lakes"
Michelle Murphy (University of Toronto)

6:00 p.m.
Reception in the Eisenberg Institute (1521 Haven Hall)

Friday, March 20

9:30 a.m.
Introductions by Henry Cowles and Perrin Selcer

9:45 a.m.
Panel #1: Human-in-Conditions

Henry M. Cowles (University of Michigan): “A Natural History of
Untruth”
Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton University): “Cultures and
Cohorts: the Slow Science of Long-Term Ecological Research”
Antoine Traisnel (University of Michigan): “The Animal Condition”
Comment: Susan (Scotti) Parrish (University of Michigan)

12:30 p.m.
Panel #2: Human-as-Conditions

Nitin K. Ahuja (University of Pennsylvania): “Permeability as
Pathology: Leaky gut and Other-Threatened Borders”
Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan): “Gyn-Ecology”
Elizabeth F.S. Roberts (University of Michigan): “Dense and
Infectious Environments”
Comment: Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan)

2:30 p.m.
Panel #3: Conditions-as-Human

David Havlick (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs): “Wild,
Native, or Pure: Trout as Genetic Bodies”
Laura J. Martin (Williams College): “The Pleistocene Overkill
Hypothesis, or Over-consumption as Human Nature”
Perrin Selcer (University of Michigan): “Domesticating Deep Time:
The Contemporaneity of the Agricultural and Green Revolutions”
Comment: Paolo Squatriti (University of Michigan)

4:15 p.m.
Reflections on Human Conditions
Open discussion with all participants and attendees.
Comment: Michelle Murphy (University of Toronto)

5:00 p.m. Reception
Eisenberg Institute (1521 Haven Hall)

This event is an Eisenberg Forum. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:41:30 -0400 2020-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T17:45:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium Aerial view of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010