Top, left to right: Farina Mir, Charly Coleman, Haiyan Lee, Ramón Gutiérrez; middle, left to right: Paul Cobb, Ada Ferrer, Leslie Pincus, Rudolph "Butch" Ware, Robin D.G. Kelley; bottom, left to right: Elizabeth A. Wood, S.A. Smith, Osagie Obasogie, Robin Blackburn, Nancy Fraser.

 

In 2016-17, the Eisenberg Institute’s Thursday lecture series (featuring a March conference on the centennial of the Russian Revolution) will continue the biennial theme, “Senses and Longings,” an exploration of the role of human perception, feeling, and emotion within the timescapes of human experience (link for a full description).

On March 8-11, 2017, the 100th anniversary of the inception of Russia’s “February Revolution,” the Institute will present “Revolutionary Longings: The Russian Revolution and the World, 1917-1929,” a conference that will set the February and October revolutions of 1917 in the larger context of their global reverberations. The opening keynote, with S.A. Smith (University of Oxford), Elizabeth A. Wood (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Robin D. G. Kelley (University of California, Los Angeles), will be followed by three days of wide-ranging panels featuring twenty scholars from the United States, Russia, Great Britain, Mexico, Canada, and India.

Next year’s Thursday lecture series speakers—nominated by faculty and graduate students from the Department of History and selected by the Institute’s Steering Committee—include:

  • September 8, 2016: Farina Mir, University of Michigan
  • September 22, 2016: Charly Coleman, Columbia University
  • October 6, 2016: Haiyan Lee, Stanford University
  • October 27, 2016: Ramón Gutiérrez, University of Chicago
  • December 1, 2016: Paul Cobb, University of Pennsylvania
  • January 19, 2017: Ada Ferrer, New York University
  • February 2, 2017: Leslie Pincus, University of Michigan
  • February 16, 2017: Rudolph "Butch" Ware, University of Michigan
  • March 23, 2017: Osagie Obasogie, University of California Hastings College of the Law
  • April 13, 2017: Robin Blackburn, University of Essex; Nancy Fraser, The New School for Social Research

The Institute will announce 2016-17 workshops, symposia, and other special events later this summer.

These events are made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.