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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...
“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...
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...
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...
Join us for the first lecture of UW's annual Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. This year the series features University of Michigan scholar and artist Rafael Neis.  Registration link coming soon. Read about the first lecture here.  Lecture 2. Monsters...
Will green capitalism save us from the climate crisis? "Clean" technologies and renewable energy are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment, with government policies playing a key role in making these sectors profitable. But the supply chains that produce the...
Join us in welcoming visiting author and scholar Jacob Daniels, discussing his new book, The Jews of Edirne: The End of the Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders. At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was...