EIHS Workshop: Intimacy and State Power

This panel will address the question of intimacy under the mechanisms of state power. How do we study personal, institutional and community relations that are permeated by traces of the state? Panelists will investigate the ways in which power operates intimately, in the tenderest and closest ways. How do we define "intimacy" in these instances, and are there new ways of imagining what it means for us to be intimate?

Featuring:

Stephanie Fajardo (PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan)
Luis Flores Jr. (PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of Michigan)
Gianna May Sanchez (PhD Student, History, University of Michigan)
Matthew Lassiter (respondent, Professor of History, Urban and Regional Planning, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan)
Molly Brookfield (chair, PhD Candidate, History and Women's Studies, 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.