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.

President’s Bicentennial Colloquium: Reflections on the Future University Community
February 13, 2017

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Symposium 1877: Reconstructing the University of Michigan
February 10, 2017
A panel discussion with Martin Hershock, Michelle McClellan, John Quist, Gayle Rubin

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Symposium 1877: Reconstructing the University of Michigan
February 10, 2017

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Frederick Novy and the Beginnings of Bacteriology in American Medicine, 1889-1933
February 8, 2017
A lecture by Powel Kazanjian

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Making Michigan Medicine
February 6, 2017
A Hospital of Our Own: The Origins and Early History of the University of Michigan Hospital. A lecture by Joel Howell

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Social Justice and the Performing Arts: A Discussion with Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Susanne Baer
January 31, 2017

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A Dialogue with Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Susanne Baer
January 30, 2017

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Making Michigan in the Industrial Age
January 24, 2017
A panel discusison with Stefan J. Link, Noam Maggor, Christopher Newfield, Anthony Ross.

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The Leaders and The Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan
January 13, 2017
Ribbon Cutting and Gallery Walk

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