* All events take place in 1014 Tisch Hall from 4-6pm unless otherwise noted *

January 12, 2012
Geoff Eley
University of Michigan
"Empire, Ideology, and the East: thoughts on Nazism's Spatial Imaginary"

January 26, 2012
Tim Cresswell
University of London
"Visualizing Mobility in the Work of Eadweard Muybridge"

February 2, 2012
Kathleen Canning
University of Michigan
"Aftermaths and Future Visions: Gender and the Meaning of Revolution in Germany 1918-19"

February 16, 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"

March 15, 2012
Nile Green
University of California, Los Angeles
"Making Space: Saints and Settlers in Early Modern India"
**This recording was cut short due to a storm**

March 29, 2012
Nicholas Purcell
Brasenose College, University of Oxford
"Becoming Maritime: The Comparative History of Orientation Toward the Sea"

* All events take place in 1014 Tisch Hall from 4-6pm unless otherwise noted *

September 22, 2011
William Hanks
University of California, Berkeley
"Reducción in the Making of Colonial Yucatec Maya"

October 6, 2011
Ellen Muehlberger
University of Michigan
"The Ignoble Death of Heretics and the Ingressive Memory of Place
in Christian Historiography"

October 20, 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"

November 10, 2011
Christian de Pee
University of Michigan
"The City as Nature: Textual Geographies and Urban Space
in Eleventh-Century China"

December 1, 2011
Judith Walkowitz
Johns Hopkins University
" 'Schleppers and Shoppers': Jews, Street Markets, and Ready-to Wear Fashion
in Interwar London"

* All events take place in 1014 Tisch Hall from 4-6pm unless otherwise noted *

January 13-14
Steven Mintz
Columbia University
"The American Journey through Adulthood"

January 27
Gabrielle Hecht
University of Michigan
"Uranium from Africa and the Power of Nuclear Things"

February 10-11
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"

March 10-11
Sandra Sherman
Fordham University
"A Pedagogic Revolution: Early English Culinary Texts and the Common Reader"

March 24-25
Alice O'Connor
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Narrating the Crisis: The Great Recession, the "Money Trust," and the Politics of Economic Reform"

April 7-8
Fernando Coronil
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
"The Future in Question: History and Utopia in Latin America (1989-2010)"

* All events take place in 1014 Tisch Hall from 4-6pm unless otherwise noted *

September 9-10
Nelson Lichtenstein
UC, Santa Barbara
"The Return of Merchant Capitalism"

September 23-24
Laurent Dubois
Duke University
"The Aftershocks of History in Haiti"

October 7
Valerie Kivelson
University of Michigan
“Torture and the Moral Risks of Excess in Muscovite Witch Trials”

October 21-22
Elizabeth Thompson
University of Virginia
“Poor People's Movements and the Cold War in the Middle East”

November 4
Matt Lassiter
University of Michigan
“Innocence Lost: Crime, Drugs, and Double Standards in Suburban America”

December 2-3
Tony Ballantyne
University of Otago, New Zealand
“Economic Systems, Colonization and the Production of Difference:
Thinking Through Southern New Zealand”

* All events take place in 1014 Tisch Hall from 4-6pm unless otherwise noted *

January 14th
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 28th
Steven Conn
Ohio State University
“False Starts: Native Americans, Representation and Museums”
Jointly Sponsored with the Native American Studies Program

February 4th
Thomas Trautmann
University of Michigan
“Does India have history? Does history have India?”

February 18th
T. Jackson Lears
Rutgers University
“Making a Spectacle of Ourselves: Rethinking the American Sublime”

March 25th
William Cronon
University of Wisconsin
“The Portage: Time, Memory, and
Storytelling in the Making of an American Place”
Jointly Sponsored with the William L. Clements Library
*event will be held at the Clements Library, 909 S. University Ave.

April 8th
Ulrike Strasser
University of California, Irvine
“Economies of Death and Salvation: German Jesuits in Seventeenth-Century Oceania”

* All events take place in 1014 Tisch Hall from 4-6pm unless otherwise noted *

September 17th
Rebecca Scott
University of Michigan
w/ respondent Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University)
“Microhistory Set in Motion: Six Generations of a Creole Family”

October 1st
Kenneth Pomeranz
University of California, Irvine
“Land Rights, Resources, and Chinese Development in
Long-run and Comparative Perspective”

October 15th 
William H. Sewell, Jr.
University of Chicago
Jointly sponsored with the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
“The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789-2009”
*Founders Room, Alumni Center

October 29th
George Sánchez
University of Southern California
Keynote for the Latina/Latino Studies Conference
“Population Removals in Times of Crisis: Mexican Repatriation
and Slum Clearance in the (Last) Great Depression”

November 19th
Sharon Farmer
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Landscapes of Power, c. 1300: Social and Cultural
Interactions at the Garden-Park of Hesdin”

December 10th
Miranda Johnson
University of Michigan Society of Fellows
“When the Settlers Don’t Go Home: Indigenous Rights and
the Re-Founding of Settler Societies”

* All events take place in 1014 Tisch Hall from 4-6pm unless otherwise noted *

January 15th
Timothy Tyson
Duke University
"Violence, Nonviolence, and the 'Redemptive' South"

January 29th
Kate Brown
University of Maryland
"Lethal Landscapes: The Still-Secretive History of Plutonium, Radiation
and the Communities which Learned to Love the Bomb"

February 12th
Peter Perdue
Yale University
"The Rhetoric of Violence in Chinese Nationalism"

March 5th
Hitomi Tonomura
University of Michigan
"Samurai and Their Women: Violence, Gender and the State in Premodern Japan"

March 19th
Michael Watts
University of California Berkeley
"Economies of Violence: Some thoughts on Oil Insurgency and Petro-Pirates"

April 2nd
Angela Zito
New York University
"Re-reading Foucault from a Distance: Li, Danwei, Discipline and the Person in China"

April 16th
Topographies of Violence Roundtable

* All events take place in 1014 Tisch Hall from 4-6pm unless otherwise noted *

September 11th
Isabel Hull
Cornell University
"Imperial Germany and International Law in the Great War, 1914-1918"

September 25th
Benedict Anderson
Cornell University
"Premonitions and Utopias"

4-6pm
Founders Room, Alumni Center - 200 Fletcher Street

October 9th
Pablo Piccato
Columbia University
"All Murder is Political: Homicide in the Public Sphere in Mexico"

October 23rd
Susan Juster
University of Michigan
"What's 'Sacred' About Violence in Early America"

November 6th
Nikhil Singh
University of Washington
"Genealogies of Rollback: Race and War in US Globalism"

November 20th
Mark Pegg
Washington University, St. Louis
"Holy War and Sacred Violence in Latin Christendom"

December 4th
Timothy Mitchell
New York University
"Carbon Democracy"

January 10th
Frederick Hoxie
University of Illinois
"Making the Private Public:Sarah Winnemucca's
Response to 19th Century Violence Against American Indians"

January 24th
Damon Salesa w/ Antoinette Burton
University of Michigan / University of Illinois
"The Future Ruins of London: Victorians, the British Empire, and the Wars of Race"

February 14th
Lyndal Roper
University of Oxford
"The Fat Doctor: Luther and Biography"

March 13th
David Anderson
University of Oxford
"Atrocity and Empire: Courtroom or Confessional"

March 20th
Ian Buruma
Bard College
"Sticks and Stones: The Limits of Verbal Violence"
@ Rackham Amphitheatre

March 27th
Robert Donia
Independent Scholar
"Feasting at the Pity Party:
Violence and Nationalism in Post-Yugoslav Southeastern Europe"

April 10th
Veena Das
Johns Hopkins University
"On Violence and Naming"
@ Michigan League's Koessler Room

September 6th
Linda Kerber
University of Iowa, Past President, American Historical Association
"Stateless in America"
Clements Library, 4:00 pm

September 20th
Dominick LaCapra
Cornell University (Modern Europe/Holocaust/memory)
"Witnessing, Trauma, and the Sublime"
Rackham Amphitheatre, 4:00 pm
(Co-sponsored with the Center for European Studies)

October 4th
Eric Love
University of Colorado (US History / African American History)
"Eleven Minstrels, Eight Ships, and A Corpse:
Uncommon Coercions and the Opening of Japan"
(Co-sponsored with the Center for Afro-American and African Studies)

October 18th
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
University of California-Los Angeles (Indian/Indian Ocean, 15-18th centuries)
"Métissage and Imperial Violence: Revisiting the Portuguese Indies"

November 1st
Laura Briggs
University of Arizona (US Empire Puerto Rico, gender/reproduction)
"Body Snatchers and Homeless Waifs: Contesting Reproduction and Negotiating Foreign Policy in Transnational Adoption"

November 15th
Dan Smail
Harvard University (Medieval Europe)
"Violence and Predation in Marseille and Lucca (Fourteenth Century)"

November 29th
Ron Suny
University of Michigan (Sovient Union/post-Soviet Russia/nationalism)
"Breaking Eggs, Making Omelets: Explaining Terror in Lenin and Stalin's Revolutions"
(Co-sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies)

**Extra Off-calendar event

November 8th
David Blight
Yale University
"A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom,
Including their Own Narratives of Emancipation"
Ann Arbor Public Library, 7:00 pm
(Co-sponsored with Center for Afro-American and African Studies, and American Culture and the Ann Arbor District Library)

September 14th
Lecture: Victoria de Grazia
Columbia University
"Visualizing U.S. Cultural Hegemony in 20th Century Europe: A Big Problem"
Clements Library

September 28th
Seminar: Philip Ethington
University of Southern California
"Seeing the Haunted Spaces of the Globe: Photography,Cartography,
and the History of Los Angeles in Africa, Latin America and Asia, 1900-2001"
Commentator: Terrence J. McDonald, Department of History and Dean, College of LSA

October 12th
Lecture: Patrick Wright
Nottingham Trent University
"Iron Curtain: From the Theatre to the Burning World"

October 26th
Colloquium: Webb Keane
University of Michigan
"Global Christian"
Commentator: Tomoko Masuzawa, Departments of History and Comparative Literature

November 9th
Colloquium: Helmut Puff
University of Michigan
"City in Ruins: Modeling German History"
Commentator: William Glover, School of Art and Architecture

November 30th
Colloquium: Ciraj Rassool
University of the Western Cape
"Heritage and the Post-apartheid Nation:
The Memorial Complex, the Biographic Order and the Spectacle of History"
Commentator: David William Cohen, Department of History

September 15th - Panel Discussion
"History and the Visual: Concepts, Meanings, Problems"
Chris Pinney, University of London
Celeste Brusati, University of Michigan
Patricia Hayes, University of the Western Cape

September 29th - Inaugural Lecture, Clements Library
"Remembering the Historical Present"
Harry Harootunian, New York University

October 13th - Seminar
"Male Trouble: Realism and Phantasmagoria
in South Africa's Border War in Namibia, 1976-89"
Patricia Hayes, University of the Western Cape
Discussants:  Isabelle de Rezende and Damon Salesa, UM

October 27th - Colloquium
"Recording the Future: An Audio Visual Archive of Everyday Life in 21st century Indonesia"
Henk Schulte Nordholt, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

November 10th - Seminar
"Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America"
Bryant Simon, Temple University
Discussants:  Robert Fishman and Rebecca Zurier

December 1st - Seminar
"Visible Women:  Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection"
Katharine Park, Harvard University
Discussants:  Val Kivelson, UM and Yi-Li Wu, Albion College

January 13th - Panel Discussion
"Putting Religion Back on the Historical Map"
with Sue Juster, Bob Greene, Genie Deerman, and Paul Johnson,UM

January 27th - Lecture, Clements Library
"Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology, Prophecy, and the Ghosts of Awat'ovi Pueblo
James Brooks, School of American Research

February 3th - Seminar
"Music and Memory in South Africa"
with Shirli Gilbert, UM
Commentators:  Rob Genter and Nancy Hunt, UM

February 17th - Seminar Discussion
"From the Social to the Cultural:  How Should We Think About Class Now?"
with Keith Nield, University of Hull, UK and Geoff Eley, University of Michigan

February 17th - Lecture, Clements Library
In conjunction with the Comparative Borderlands Project
"Dumb Growth: Counterfactuals, Contingency, and Alternative Pasts in
Writing Corporations into the History of the Late Nineteenth-Century"
Richard White, Stanford University

March 17th - Panel Discussion
"New Dimensions in Environmental History"
with Paolo Squatriti, Doug Northrop, Maria Montoya, and Andrew Needham, UM

March 24th - Seminar Discussion
"Political Unconscious of Social and Cultural History,
or, Confessions of a Former Quantitative Historian"
William Sewell, University of Chicago

March 31st - Seminar
"The Best of Times, The Worst of Times:  Urban Crises in New York and
Santo Domingoand the Shifting Terms of Dominican International Migration"
with Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, UM
Commentators:  David Pedersen, Rita Chin, UM

April 14th - Lecture, Clements Library
In conjunction with Gender in the Archive Series
"Liberty and License:  Three Women in Colonial Suriname"
Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto

October 26th - Colloquium
"Leave of Court: African-American Claims- Making
and Citizenship in the Era of Dred Scott v. Sanford"
Paper presented by Martha Jones
Commentators: Susanna Blumenthal, Asst. Prof., Law School
& Jay Cook, Asst. Prof., History and American Culture

October 27th - Film Showing
The Corporation

October 28th - Documentary Film Symposium
The Corporation
Symposium Participants:
Stashu Kybartas, Program in Film & Video
Derek Vaillant, Department of Communications
David Hess, Business Law and Business Ethics, UM Business School
Catherine Badgley, Biologist & Research Scientist, LA Paleontology Museum,
UM Residential College
Matt Lassiter, Department of History
Panel Chair: Gina Morantz-Sanchez, Professor of History

November 16th - Colloquium
"Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth' Christianity and Imperial Maps
in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century Russian Siberia"
Presented by Val Kivelson, Professor of History
Commentators:  Neil Safier and Michael Witgen