Join us for an afternoon lecture on May 4th in HUB 250 featuring Dr. Ralph H. Craig III on Black Buddhism Through the Lens of Tina Turner. A light reception will be provided. Tina Turner's (1939–2023) successful recording career and electrifying stage...
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It seems like two separate realms. One is occupied by acclaimed dancers from Brooklyn’s world-renowned Mark Morris Dance Group, the other by people with Parkinson’s disease. CAPTURING GRACE is about what happens when those two worlds intersect. Filmed over the...
“If we fight, we must fight against the North as well as the South, Abraham Lincoln as well as Jefferson Davis,” Frederick Douglass declared in May 1861, just a few weeks after the Civil War began. His statement suggests a...
Move beyond the headlines and hot takes for a deeper conversation on labor and identity within women’s hoops with Dr. Courtney M. Cox, author of Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball (University of Illinois Press, 2025). In...
Join us for our Spring EU Democracy & Security Symposium - From Monarchies to Constitutional Democracies. We'll hear presentations and discussions with the following experts. Drinks and cookies will be served. Raymond Jonas (UW History Dept), “France’s Five Republics and what they...
Join us for an afternoon with scholar Artemis Leontis from the University of Michigan. Hidden for decades in a locked cabinet at the Center for Asia Minor Studies in Athens, Eva Palmer Sikelianos’s love letters (1900-1910)—personal, creative, and revealing networks of...
This lecture explores the place of music in the history of the emotions, beginning in the early modern period. It considers theories of embodied response and systems for visualising music through painting and poetry. It explores how colonial-era authors writing...
This panel will focus on how historians have expanded our understanding of the hemispheric history of slavery and abolition by attending to issues of imperial power. Bianca Dang (History, University of Washington) researches and teaches on the histories of Black freedom...
Join us for the first lecture of the UW's annual Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. This year the series features University of Michigan scholar and artist Rafael Neis. Register Here. Registration Required. Lecture 1: Did ‘Men’ and ‘Women’ Always Exist? What...