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Winter 2013
Dario Gaggio, University of Michigan, "Rural Modernities: The Politics of Landscape in Postwar Tuscany, " January 17, 2013
Victor Lieberman, University of Michigan, "Southeast Asia and Eurasia During a Thousand Years," January 31, 2013
Lynda Coon, University of Arkansas, "Dark Age Jesus," February 14, 2013
Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick, "Shards for Sale: Manufacturing a Global History from Fragments" February 28, 2013
Sudipta Sen, University of California, Davis, "The Ultimate Journey: Origins of the River Ganga and the Himalayan Pilgrim Trail," March 14, 2013
Sharad Chari, University of the Witwatersrand, "From Progressive Segregation to the Ruins of Revolution: Ruinous Dialectics in Durban," April 4, 2013
Fall 2012
Jay Cook, University of Michigan, "Finding Otira: On the Geopolitics of Black Celebrity, 1770-1930, " September 13, 2012
Karl Schlögel, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), "Narratives of Simultaneity: Questions for a Topographically Sensitive Historiography," September 27, 2012
Derek Gregory, University of British Columbia, "Deadly Embrace: War, Distance, and Intimacy," October 11, 2012
Mrinalini Sinha, University of Michigan, "The Abolition of Indenture and the Space-Time of Global History," October 25, 2012
Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto, "Weltpolitik on the Persian Frontier: Germany and Iran 1906-1918," November 8, 2012
Seth Rockman, Brown University, "Negro Cloth, Planters Hoes, and the Geographies of Plantation Provisioning in Antebellum America," December 6, 2012
Winter 2012
Geoff Eley, University of Michigan, "Empire, Ideology, and the East: thoughts on Nazism's Spatial Imaginary," January 12, 2012
Tim Cresswell, Royal Holloway, University of London, "Visualizing Mobility in the Work of Eadweard Muybridge," January 26, 2012
Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan, "Aftermaths and Future Visions: Gender and the Meaning of Revolution in Germany 1918-19," February 2, 2012
Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, "The Social Production of Upscale Cosmopolitanism: Identity and Belonging on an Amsterdam Shopping Street," February 16, 2012
Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles, "Making Space: Saints and Settlers in Early Modern India," March 15, 2012 (recording cut short due to storm)
Nicholas Purcell, Brasenose College, University of Oxford, "Becoming Maritime: The Comparative History of Orientation Toward the Sea," March 29, 2012
Fall 2011
William Hanks, University of California, Berkeley, "Reducción in the Making of Colonial Yucatec Maya," September 22, 2011
Ellen Muehlberger, University of Michigan, "The Ignoble Death of Heretics and the Ingressive Memory of Place in Christian Historiography," October 6, 2011
Matthew Connelly, Columbia University, "'General, I Have Fought Just as Many Nuclear Wars as You Have': Forecasts, future Scenarios, and the Politics of Armageddon," October 20, 2011
Christian de Pee, University of Michigan, "The City as Nature: Textual Geographies and Urban Space in Eleventh-Century China," November 10, 2011
Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University, "'Schleppers and Shoppers': Jews, Street Markets, and Ready-to Wear Fashion in Interwar London," December 1, 2011
Winter 2011
Steven Mintz, Columbia University, "The American Journey through Adulthood," January 13, 2011
Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan, "Uranium from Africa and the Power of Nuclear Things," January 27, 2011
Dan Segal, Pitzer College, "Economic Knowledge, Capitalist Mythologies – About Supply and Demand, For Instance: How Economic Textbooks Have Come to Teach Students to Not Think about Labor Exploitation," February 10, 2011
Sandra Sherman, Fordham University, "A Pedagogic Revolution: Early English Culinary Texts and the Common Reader," March 10, 2011
Alice O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Narrating the Crisis: The Great Recession, the "Money Trust," and the Politics of Economic Reform," March 24, 2011
Fernando Coronil, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, "The Future in Question: History and Utopia in Latin America (1989-2010)," April 7, 2011
Fall 2010
Nelson Lichtenstein, UC, Santa Barbara, "The Return of Merchant Capitalism," September 9, 2010
Laurent Dubois, Duke University, "The Aftershocks of History in Haiti," September 23, 2010
Valerie Kivelson, University of Michigan, “Torture and the Moral Risks of Excess in Muscovite Witch Trials,” October 7, 2010
Elizabeth Thompson, University of Virginia, “Poor People's Movements and the Cold War in the Middle East,” October 21, 2010
Matt Lassiter, University of Michigan, “Innocence Lost: Crime, Drugs, and Double Standards in Suburban America,” November 4, 2010
Tony Ballantyne, University of Otago, New Zealand, “Economic Systems, Colonization and the Production of Difference: Thinking Through Southern New Zealand,” December 2, 2010
Winter 2010
Matthew Countryman, University of Michigan, “Who Needs the Bullet When You’ve Got the Ballot’: African-American Mayors and the Politics of Race in the Post- Civil Rights Era,” January 14, 2010
Steven Conn, Ohio State University, “False Starts: Native Americans, Representation and Museums,” January 28, 2010
Thomas Trautmann, University of Michigan, “Does India have history? Does history have India?” February 4, 2010
T. Jackson Lears, Rutgers University, “Making a Spectacle of Ourselves: Rethinking the American Sublime,” February 19, 2010
William Cronon, University of Wisconsin, “The Portage: Time, Memory, and, Storytelling in the Making of an American Place,” March 25, 2010
Ulrike Strasser, University of California, Irvine, “Economies of Death and Salvation: German Jesuits in Seventeenth-Century Oceania,” April 8, 2010
Fall 2009
Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan (with respondent Mamadou Diouf, Columbia University), “Microhistory Set in Motion: Six Generations of a Creole Family,” September 17, 2009
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California, Irvine, “Land Rights, Resources, and Chinese Development in Long-run and Comparative Perspective,” October 1, 2009
William H. Sewell, Jr., University of Chicago, “The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789-2009,” October 15, 2009
George Sánchez, University of Southern California, “Population Removals in Times of Crisis: Mexican Repatriation and Slum Clearance in the (Last) Great Depression,” October 29, 2009
Sharon Farmer, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Landscapes of Power, c. 1300: Social and Cultural Interactions at the Garden-Park of Hesdin,” November 19, 2009
Miranda Johnson, University of Michigan Society of Fellows, “When the Settlers Don’t Go Home: Indigenous Rights and the Re-Founding of Settler Societies,” December 10, 2009
Winter 2009
Timothy Tyson, Duke University, "Violence, Nonviolence, and the 'Redemptive' South," January 15, 2009
Kate Brown, University of Maryland, "Lethal Landscapes: The Still-Secretive History of Plutonium, Radiation and the Communities which Learned to Love the Bomb," January 29, 2009
Peter Perdue, Yale University, "The Rhetoric of Violence in Chinese Nationalism," February 12, 2009
Hitomi Tonomura, University of Michigan, "Samurai and Their Women: Violence, Gender and the State in Premodern Japan," March 5, 2009
Michael Watts, University of California Berkeley, "Economies of Violence: Some thoughts on Oil Insurgency and Petro-Pirates," March 19, 2009
Angela Zito, New York University, "Re-reading Foucault from a Distance: Li, Danwei, Discipline and the Person in China," April 2, 2009
Fall 2008
Isabel Hull, Cornell University, "Imperial Germany and International Law in the Great War, 1914-1918," September 11, 2008
Benedict Anderson, Cornell University, "Premonitions and Utopias," September 25, 2008
Pablo Piccato, Columbia University, "All Murder is Political: Homicide in the Public Sphere in Mexico," October 9, 2008
Susan Juster, University of Michigan, "What's 'Sacred' About Violence in Early America," October 23, 2008
Nikhil Singh, University of Washington, "Genealogies of Rollback: Race and War in US Globalism," November 6, 2008
Mark Pegg, Washington University, St. Louis, "Holy War and Sacred Violence in Latin Christendom," November 20, 2008
Timothy Mitchell, New York University, "Carbon Democracy," December 4, 2008
Winter 2008
Frederick Hoxie, University of Illinois, "Making the Private Public:Sarah Winnemucca's
Response to 19th Century Violence Against American Indians," January 10, 2008
Damon Salesa, University of Michigan (with Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois),
"The Future Ruins of London: Victorians, the British Empire, and the Wars of Race," January 24, 2008
Lyndal Roper, University of Oxford, "The Fat Doctor: Luther and Biography," February 14, 2008
David Anderson, University of Oxford, "Atrocity and Empire: Courtroom or Confessional," March 13, 2008
Ian Buruma, Bard College, "Sticks and Stones: The Limits of Verbal Violence," March 20, 2008
Robert Donia, Independent Scholar, "Feasting at the Pity Party: Violence and Nationalism in Post-Yugoslav Southeastern Europe," March 27, 2008
Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University, "On Violence and Naming," April 10, 2008
Fall 2007
Linda Kerber, University of Iowa, "Stateless in America," September 6, 2007
Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University, "Witnessing, Trauma, and the Sublime," September 20, 2007
Eric Love, University of Colorado, "Eleven Minstrels, Eight Ships, and A Corpse: Uncommon Coercions and the Opening of Japan," October 4, 2007
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California-Los Angeles, "Métissage and Imperial Violence: Revisiting the Portuguese Indies," October 18, 2007
Laura Briggs, University of Arizona, "Body Snatchers and Homeless Waifs: Contesting Reproduction and Negotiating Foreign Policy in Transnational Adoption," November 1, 2007
Dan Smail, Harvard University, "Violence and Predation in Marseille and Lucca (Fourteenth Century)," November 15, 2007
Ron Suny, University of Michigan, "Breaking Eggs, Making Omelets: Explaining Terror in Lenin and Stalin's Revolutions," November 29, 2007
David Blight, Yale University, "A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom,
Including their Own Narratives of Emancipation," November 8, 2007
Fall 2006
Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University, "Visualizing U.S. Cultural Hegemony in 20th Century Europe: A Big Problem," September 14, 2006
Philip Ethington, University of Southern California with Commentator Terrence J. McDonald, University of Michigan, "Seeing the Haunted Spaces of the Globe: Photography,Cartography, and the History of Los Angeles in Africa, Latin America and Asia, 1900-2001," September 28, 2006
Patrick Wright, Nottingham Trent University, "Iron Curtain: From the Theatre to the Burning World," October 12, 2006
Webb Keane, University of Michigan with Commentator Tomoko Masuzawa, University of Michigan, "Global Christian," October 26, 2006
Helmut Puff, University of Michigan with Commentator William Glover, University of Michigan, "City in Ruins: Modeling German History," November 9, 2006
Ciraj Rassool, University of the Western Cape with Commentator David William Cohen, University of Michigan, "Heritage and the Post-apartheid Nation: The Memorial Complex, the Biographic Order and the Spectacle of History," November 30, 2006
Fall 2005
"History and the Visual: Concepts, Meanings, Problems," with Panelists Chris Pinney, University of London, Celeste Brusati, University of Michigan, and Patricia Hayes, University of the Western Cape, September 15, 2005
Harry Harootunian, New York University, "Remembering the Historical Present," September 29, 2005
Patricia Hayes, University of the Western Cape, "Male Trouble: Realism and Phantasmagoria
in South Africa's Border War in Namibia, 1976-89" with Discussants Isabelle de Rezende (University of Michigan) and Damon Salesa (University of Michigan), October 13, 2005
Henk Schulte Nordholt, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, "Recording the Future: An Audio Visual Archive of Everyday Life in 21st century Indonesia," October 27, 2005
Bryant Simon, Temple University, with Discussants Robert Fishman (University of Michigan) and Rebecca Zurier (University of Michigan), "Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America," November 10, 2005
Katharine Park, Harvard University, with Discussants Val Kivelson (University of Michigan) and Yi-Li Wu (Albion College), "Visible Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection," December 1, 2005
Winter 2005
"Putting Religion Back on the Historical Map," with Panelists Sue Juster, Bob Greene, Genie Deerman, and Paul Johnson (all University of Michigan), January 13, 2005
James Brooks, School of American Research, "Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology, Prophecy, and the Ghosts of Awat'ovi Pueblo, January 27, 2005
Shirli Gilbert, University of Michigan, with Commentators Rob Genter, University of Michigan, and Nancy Hunt, University of Michigan, "Music and Memory in South Africa," February3, 2005
Keith Nield, University of Hull, and Geoff Eley, University of Michigan, "From the Social to the Cultural: How Should We Think About Class Now?," February 17, 2005
Richard White, Stanford University, "Dumb Growth: Counterfactuals, Contingency, and Alternative Pasts in Writing Corporations into the History of the Late Nineteenth-Century," February 17, 2005
"New Dimensions in Environmental History," with Panelists Paolo Squatriti, Doug Northrop, Maria Montoya, and Andrew Needham (all University of Michigan), March 17, 2005
William Sewell, University of Chicago, "Political Unconscious of Social and Cultural History, or, Confessions of a Former Quantitative Historian," March 24, 2005
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, University of Michigan, with Commentators David Pedersen (University of Michigan) and Rita Chin (University of Michigan), "The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Urban Crises in New York and Santo Domingoand the Shifting Terms of Dominican International Migration," March 31, 2005
Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto, "Liberty and License: Three Women in Colonial Suriname," April 14, 2005
Fall 2004
Martha Jones, University of Michigan, with Commentators Susanna Blumenthal, University of Michigan and Jay Cook, University of Michigan, "Leave of Court: African-American Claims- Making and Citizenship in the Era of Dred Scott v. Sanford", October 26, 2004
Documentary Film Symposium with Panelists Stashu Kybartas, Derek Vaillant, David Hess, Catherine Badgley, Matt Lassiter, Gina Morantz-Sanchez (all University of Michigan)
Val Kivelson, University of Michigan, with Commentators Neil Safier, University of Michigan, and Michael Witgen, University of Michigan, "Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth' Christianity and Imperial Maps in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century Russian Siberia," November 16, 2004
