The institute continues its 2015-17 theme, "Senses and Longings," with fifteen events in fall 2016. Farina Mir's lecture kicks off the term on September 8, and the Eisenberg Forum "Digital History in a Digital Age?" wraps up programming on December 15-16.

Events take place in 1014 Tisch Hall except where noted; 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.

September 8 (4 pm), Farina Mir, University of Michigan
Lecture: Everyday Ethics in Colonial India: Akhlaq Literature, Urdu Print Culture, and the Diversity of Muslim Thought

September 9 (12 pm), Michigan Society of Fellows Forum
Panelists: Amanda Armstrong, Alice Goff, Allan Lumba, Howard Brick (chair)

September 12 (7 pm), Author Event at Literati: "Back Channel to Cuba"
Featuring Peter Kornbluh in conversation with Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

September 22 (4 pm), Charly Coleman, Columbia University
Lecture: The Spirit of Speculation: John Law and Economic Theology in the Age of Lights

September 23 (2 pm), Graduate Student Workshop
Panelists: Charly Coleman, Roxana Aras, Richard Reinhardt, Taylor Sims, Howard Brick (chair)

October 6 (4 pm), Haiyan Lee, Stanford University
Lecture: A Sino-Jewish Encounter, A Humanitarian Fantasy

October 7 (12 pm), Graduate Student Workshop
Panelists: Haiyan Lee, Jeremy Johnson, Allison Kemmerle, Kate Wroblewski, Howard Brick (chair)

October 11 (12 pm), Thomas Cauvin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lecture: From California to Italy: The Rise of an International Public History

October 27 (4 pm), Ramón A. Gutiérrez, University of Chicago
Lecture: Reies López Tijerina, the Apocalypse, and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

October 28 (12 pm), Graduate Student Workshop
Panelists: Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Salem Elzway, ToniAnn Trevino, Andrew Walker, Anthony P. Mora (chair)

November 2 (5:30 pm), Undergraduate Career Workshop: Dot Com, Dot Net, or Dot Org: History Careers in a Digital World
Panelists forthcoming

November 18 (12 pm), Symposium: Panels, Balloons, and Citations: Making Graphic History
Panelists: Rafe Blaufarb, Liz Clarke, Charles Cavaliere, Paulina Alberto (chair)

December 1 (4 pm), Paul M. Cobb, University of Pennsylvania
Lecture: Love, Friendship, and Jihad in the Age of Crusades

December 2 (12 pm), Graduate Student Workshop
Panelists: Paul M. Cobb, Noah Blan, Lamin Manneh, Ana María Silva, Katherine French (chair)

December 15-16, Eisenberg Forum: Digital History in a Digital Age?
Presented with support from the Kemp Family Fund