Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CANCELLED. STS Speaker. All in the Family: U.S. Demography and the Origins of Neoliberalism (March 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70368 70368-17586195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Neoliberalism is generally understood as an intellectual and political project to retool regulation to protect capital. Consequently, scholars of neoliberalism have traced its progenitors and principles to the disciplines of economics and law. But new scholarship suggests compellingly that neoliberalism is not only a philosophy of government and markets but also a philosophy of care—one that upholds the private family (in lieu of the state) as the ultimate provider and underwriter of that care. Seen in this light, an alternative history of proto-neoliberal ideas reveals itself among a corpus of social scientists whose work has gone unremarked in the historiography of those ideas: demographers.

This talk reframes postwar U.S. demography as a crucible in which the ideal of “family responsibility” for the costs of human welfare was first forged, and global “family planning” as the technoscientific project through which that principle was eventually—and powerfully—instantiated.

Bio: Savina Balasubramanian is assistant professor of Sociology and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at Loyola University Chicago. She is a historical sociologist of gender and science in transnational perspective. Her current book manuscript, Intimate Investments: The Science and Politics of Family Planning in Cold War India, tells the story of how American demographers pursued family planning in non-aligned India as an effort to serve U.S. goals to stifle the formation of a robust welfare state in the country—and how the Indian state implemented family planning in ways that conformed to and departed from demographers’ visions.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 20:10:46 -0400 2020-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
CANCELLED: EIHS Symposium: An Uncommon Book: Celebrating Julius Scott’s The Common Wind (April 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63607 63607-15808605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Description forthcoming.

Matthew Countryman (Associate Professor of History, American Culture; Chair, Afroamerican and African Studies; University of Michigan)
Laurent Dubois (Professor, History, Duke University)
Susan Juster (Rhys Isaac Collegiate Professor, History, University of Michigan)
Julius S. Scott (Lecturer; Afroamerican and African Studies, History; University of Michigan)
Rebecca J. Scott (Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, 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, 12 Mar 2020 08:59:10 -0400 2020-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium Tisch Hall
[POSTPONED] Contemporary Issues Discussion: Death and Grief (April 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73814 73814-18322365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

* Update 3-12-20: This event has been postponed. It will be rescheduled at a later date.*


In the spring of 1846, Nancy Dorsey of Piqua, Ohio, sent a letter to her sister vividly describing the death of her infant daughter and her struggle to come to terms with her loss. (See links to download and read the letter.)

All are welcome to a discussion of this emotional letter and the human experience of death and loss across time. Join in the conversation by sharing your own history and personal reflections with grief counselors, historians, and local community members over a complimentary lunch.

*Registration is required.* Please register by April 3.

Coordinated by the William L. Clements Library with generous support from Frank & Judy Wilhelme. Presented in collaboration with the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and GrieveWell of Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:30:26 -0400 2020-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T13:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion William L. Clements Library Graphics Division
CANCELLED: EIHS-Women's Studies Lecture: Ukuphazama iNatali: Bringing Queer and Indigenous Studies Approaches to South African History and Beyond (April 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63596 63596-15808577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

How can critical indigenous and queer theoretical approaches transform the way we think about colonial history in South Africa (and beyond)? If settler colonialism itself is presented as a form of orientation, of making a recognizable and inhabitable home space for European arrivals on indigenous land, then native peoples and their continued resistance can serve to ‘queer’ these attempted forms of order. In such circumstances, the customs, practices, and potentially the very bodies of indigenous peoples can become queer despite remaining ostensibly heterosexual in orientation and practice, as their existence constantly undermines the desired order of an emergent settler state.

T.J. Tallie is an assistant professor of African history at the University of San Diego. He specializes in the comparative settler colonial and imperial history, with a focus on South Africa. His interests include colonialism, gender and racial identity, indigeneity, sexuality, and religious expression. He is the recent author of Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa.

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, 12 Mar 2020 08:59:57 -0400 2020-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
CANCELLED: EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Intimate Ties / Challenging Relations (April 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63608 63608-15808606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Description forthcoming.

Featuring:

Janice Feng (Graduate Student, Political Science, University of Michigan)
Xiaoyue Li (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Zoe Waldman (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Essie Ladkau (chair; Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
T.J. Tallie (respondent; Assistant Professor, History, University of San Diego)

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, 12 Mar 2020 09:00:28 -0400 2020-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall