Symposia & Lectures

Collected here are videos of lectures, panel discussions, seminars, and more, in which scholars from U-M and elsewhere examine a wide range of topics in the University’s history.

Symposium 1967: Shock Waves: The Detroit Rebellion and Its Consequences
March 31, 2017

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Standing with Spain: Anti-Fascist Student Activism and the Spanish Civil War
March 23, 2017

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Detroiters Speak: Examining University Engagement with Detroit
March 23, 2017
A panel discussion with Joel Berger, Kendra Hearn, Aaron Kinzel, Ashley Lucas, Molly Sweeney

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The Institute for Social Research and Social Science at the University and Michigan and Beyond: 1946-1970
March 22, 2017
A panel discussion with Eugene Burnstein, James House, Robert Kahn, Donald Kinder, Margaret Levenstein, Robert Pachella, Frank Stafford

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Pentagon Midwest: Military Research and the Making of the University of Michigan
March 20, 2017
A panel discussion with David Chudwin, Salem Elzway, Joy Rohde, Paul Rubinson, Thomas Senior, Ernest P. Young

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Pop Art Comes to Michigan, 1963: Part I
March 18, 2017
Keynote Lectures by Michael Lobel, David McCarthy, Rebecca Zurier

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Pop Art Comes to Michigan, 1963
March 18, 2017

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Ernestine Ruben at Willow Run: Mobilizing Memory
March 15, 2017

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Symposium 1943: Willow Run: Gender, Race, and Factory Work During and After World War II
March 15, 2017
Lectures by Seth Bernstein, Deborah Dash Moore, Jennifer Friess, Stephen Hartke, Marian Krzyzowski, Ruth Milkman, Kate Rosenblatt, Ernestine Ruben

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