The Institute continues its 2015-17 theme, "Senses and Longings," with sixteen events featuring nearly fifty scholars, including the Eisenberg Forum, "A New Materialism? Rethinking the History of Global Capitalism at the Nexus of Culture and Political Economy," on April 1-2.

Unless noted, events take place in 1014 Tisch Hall; programs are free and open to the public. The term poster is available as a PDF. These events are made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

January 15 (12 pm), Jim Grossman, American Historical Association
Symposium: Preparing Historians for the Future Instead of the Past
Response: Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan 

January 18 (1 pm), Thomas C. Holt, University of Chicago
History Deparmtnet Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture: The Atrocity That Launched a Social Movement: Why the Civil Rights Movement Began When It Did, As It Did

January 21 (4 pm), Tara Zahra, University of Chicago
Lecture: Longing to Stay or Go? East-West Migration and the Making of the “Free World”
Presented with the support of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

January 22 (2 pm), Graduate Student Workshop
Panelists: Tasha Rijke-Epstein, Stephanie Skier, John Smith, Tara Zahra, Scott Spector (chair)

February 4 (4 pm), Regina Morantz-Sanchez, University of Michigan
Lecture: The Personal Is Political: The Autobiography of Rose Pastor Stokes

February 5 (12 pm), Cathy Stanton, Tufts University
Lecture: An Anthropologist Looks at the Public History Job Market

February 18 (4 pm), P. Gabrielle Foreman, University of Delaware
Lecture: Northern Slavery, the Art of Dissection, and a Doctor’s Fortune

February 19 (12 pm), Graduate Student Workshop
Panelists: Jamie Andreson, Andrés Pletch, Bruno Renero,P. Gabrielle Foreman, Mary C. Kelley (chair) 

March 10 (4 pm), Curie Virág, University of Toronto
Lecture: Landscape and Longing: On the Perils of Gazing from a Height in Traditional China

March 11 (12 pm), Graduate Student Workshop
Panelists: Sheng Long, Omer Sharir, Joost Van Eynde,Curie Virág, Christian de Pee (chair)

March 24 (4 pm), Paul N. Edwards, University of Michigan
Lecture: Time Crimes: The 20th Century’s Long Now

March 25 (12 pm), Symposium: Making Equity and Inclusion a U-M Reality
Panelists: Sueann Caulfield, Stephanie Fajardo, Anthony Mora, Ruby Tapia

April 1-2, Eisenberg Forum
A New Materialism? Rethinking the History of Global Capitalism at the Nexus of Culture and Political Economy

April 5 (6 pm, 100 Hutchins Hall), Film Screening: The 1916 Irish Rebellion
Panel Discussion: Christopher B. Fox, Briona Nic Dhiarmada, Thomas Bartlett
Presented in partnership with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame

April 7 (4 pm), Rüdiger Graf, Center for Contemporary History Potsdam
Lecture: Progressive Thought after the End of Progress: The Longevity of an Idea in the 20th Century

April 8 (12 pm), Graduate Student Workshop
Panelists: Kevin Donovan, Shana Melnysyn, David Patterson,Rüdiger Graf, Rita Chin (chair)