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 1943: Ann Arbor: The GI Bill and Its Impact on Higher Education
March 15, 2017
Lectures by Glenn Altschuler, Bob Bain, Philo Hutcheson

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Symposium 1943: Consequences of Mobilization
March 15, 2017

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Money Matters: Remaking U-M in the Auto Age
March 13, 2017
A lecture by Kevin Boyle

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Pop Art Comes to Michigan, 1963: Part II
March 1, 2017
A panel discussion with Miriam Levin, Michele Oka Doner, Alexander Potts

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A Conversation with President Emeritus James Duderstadt and Anne Duderstadt
February 23, 2017

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Science and Reputation: Biology, Social Thought, and the Modern University
February 21, 2017
A panel discussion with Robert Bender, Francis X. Blouin, Terrence J. McDonald, Kate Rosenblatt, Perrin Selcer

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Symposium 1917: Michigan Knowledge in a World of Empires and Colonies
February 17, 2017
A panel discussion with Allan Lumba, Andrew Patrick, Victoria Reyes, Colleen Woods

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Symposium 1917: Academic Freedom in Times of War
February 17, 2017
A panel discussion with Howard Brick, Beshara Doumani, Julia E. Liss, Joshua Miller, Melanie Tanielian

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Symposium 1917: Michigan’s Great War and Its Aftermath
February 17, 2017

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