The Eisenberg Institute will host five speakers for its Thursday lecture series in winter 2021: William Glover, Pablo F. Gómez, LaKisha Simmons, Dana Sajdi, and Shannon McSheffrey (pictured above left to right).
The Friday series features two symposia and two graduate student workshops. Two special events round out Eisenberg programming: the January 18 MLK Day Symposium on Julius Wilson's award-winning book The Common Wind, and the April 6 event on the book City of Champions: Detroit, Sports, and a History of Triumph and Defeat.
All events are free and open to the public and will take place remotely via Zoom. When possible, recordings will be available after the event. Follow the links below for additional details and registration information.
- January 18, 4-5:30 pm: 2021 DAAS-History-EIHS MLK Day Symposium
A Conversation about The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
Julius S. Scott, Laurent Dubois, Rebecca J. Scott, Stephen Ward, Matthew Countryman
- January 28, 4-5 pm: Lecture
Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism in India
William Glover, University of Michigan
Presented in partnership with the Center for South Asian Studies
- January 29, 12-1 pm: Symposium
Thinking with The Country and the City: Revisiting the Raymond Williams Classic
Kathryn Babayan, Stephen A. Berrey, Christian de Pee, Mrinalini Sinha (chair)
- February 18, 4-5 pm: Lecture:
Risk, Bodies, and Disease: Transatlantic Slavery and the History of Science and Medicine
Pablo F. Gómez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- March 18, 4-5 pm: Lecture
Labor, Love, & Loss: Black Women's Networks of Care in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom
LaKisha Simmons, University of Michigan
- March 19, 12-1 pm: Symposium
Where Is Social Reproduction Theory Now?
Presented in partnership with Women's and Gender Studies
- April 1, 4-5 pm: Lecture
In Defense of Damascus: A Tradition in Words
Dana Sajdi, Boston College
- April 2, 12-1 pm: Workshop
Exploring Topographies: Real and Imaginary
- April 6, 4-5 pm: Special Event
Sports and the City: A Century in Detroit
Silke-Maria Weineck, Stefan Szymanski, Ketra Armstrong
- April 15, 4-5:15 pm: Lecture
Evil May Day, 1517: Xenophobia, Labour, and Politics in Early Tudor London
Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University
- April 16, 12-1 pm: Workshop
Legitimizing Assembly: Language, Media, and the Law, Past and Present
