Person holding flowers at Lavender Graduation.
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Lavender Graduation, 2011

Events

Upcoming Events

IHP events offer opportunities to engage with the project’s central questions about where the university has been and where it must go.

Through our programming, participants can learn about research findings, hear project updates, share thoughts and ideas, and find ways to participate in the project. The IHP also co-sponsors events that advance the project’s mission with a number of partners across the university.

We hope you will both join us at an upcoming event and take a look at our archive of past events below.

Aerial view of the Ann Arbor central campus, showing the Bell Tower, the Michigan League, and the Rackham Building.
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Ann Arbor campus, 1946
Symposium
Chicanas Changing History: The First 100 Symposium
  • Feb. 20, 2025 - Feb. 21, 2025
  • Time Varies (see details)
  • In-Person & Virtual

Chicanas Changing History: The First 100 Symposium

This two-day symposium will explore how Chicana historians have transformed the way we do and understand history, as well as who is included in U.S. history.

Past Events

Past events offer the opportunity to learn about the IHP’s work and its plans for what comes next.

Whenever possible, the IHP records its events to make them available to future viewers.

Information about previous IHP events, from our first symposium in February 2023 to our most recent programming, can be found below.

Flint graduates walk across the Michigan Stadium field in Ann Arbor.
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UM-Flint 1958 Graduation
Event
Making Michigan Lecture: Admissions Quotas and President C.C. Little: Jewish Inclusion and Exclusion at U-M in the 1920s
  • Nov. 14
  • In-Person & Virtual

Making Michigan Lecture: Admissions Quotas and President C.C. Little: Jewish Inclusion and Exclusion at U-M in the 1920s

Professor Karla Goldman, co-PI of the IHP’s project site Outsiders, Insiders, Radicals, and Reformers: A History of Jews at the University of Michigan, discussed the status of Jewish students at Michigan during the 1920s and how President C.C. Little, well known as a eugenicist, actually resisted some of the racist and antisemitic assumptions of his time. His tenure illustrates the long and complicated history of inclusion and exclusion at U-M and in American higher education.
Event
IHP Teaching Fund Virtual Information Session
  • Oct. 18
  • Virtual

IHP Teaching Fund Virtual Information Session

The Inclusive History Project hosted a virtual information session about the IHP Teaching Fund. Participants learned how to prepare an application and work with the campus archives at U-M. In addition to IHP staff, librarians and archivists from each of the three campuses delivered presentations.
Event
UM-Flint Students of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Mixer
  • Sep. 13
  • In-Person

UM-Flint Students of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Mixer

Current, past, and future UM-Flint students mixed it up at this special homecoming event.
Event
Exhibition Opening Reception
  • Sep. 05
  • In-Person

Exhibition Opening Reception

In Search of Memories: Exploring the Archival Gaps between Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

The IHP hosted an opening reception for “In Search of Memories: Exploring the Archival Gaps between Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” an interactive photography exhibition about memory, archives, and the power of stories.
Exhibition
In Search of Memories
  • Sep. 05-Sep. 17, 2024
  • In-Person

In Search of Memories

Exploring the Archival Gaps between Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

This exhibition asked past and present UM-Flint+ community members to tell their stories and help fill gaps that exist in the archives.
Symposium
IHP-EIHS Symposium
  • Apr. 19
  • In-person & Virtual

IHP-EIHS Symposium

Approaches to Oral History and the Work of Inclusive History

Drawing on the perspectives of three scholars in different fields, this symposium explored the potential uses of oral history work for projects that are public facing, DEI-centered, and explicitly reparative. How does the practice of oral history change the ways we think about our audiences, our work with community partners, our research, and the potential impacts of our scholarship?
Event
Inclusive History Project Showcase
  • Mar. 19
  • In-Person & Virtual

Inclusive History Project Showcase

At the conclusion of the academic year 2023-2024, the IHP hosted a showcase that shared its progress to date and featured leaders of existing projects on the university’s past.
Co-sponsored event
Free to Speak!
  • Nov. 30-Dec. 01, 2023
  • In-person

Free to Speak!

A Convening on Art, Slavery, and Reconciliation

The University of Michigan’s Museum of Art presented “Free To Speak!,” a celebration of Black creativity, agency, and memory that served as the culminating events of the powerful exhibit Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina. The convening featured contemporary artists Theaster Gates and Adebunmi Gbadebo, National Book Award winning poet Nikky Finney, and social justice curator Monica O. Montgomery. Part storytelling, part scholarly convening, “Free To Speak!” focused on uplifting artistic practice, celebrating diverse perspectives, and inspiring institutions to repair racial injustices.
Co-sponsored event
Beyond the Firsts
  • Oct. 12
  • In-person & Virtual

Beyond the Firsts

Celebrating the African American Student Project | Charles H. Wright Museum

This event celebrating the Bentley Historical Library’s African American Student Project featured musical performances and a panel of African American alumni who shared their lived experiences at the university.
Event
Inclusive History Project Community Forums
  • Apr. 06-Apr. 18, 2023
  • In-person & Virtual

Inclusive History Project Community Forums

Near the conclusion of the winter 2023 term, the IHP hosted in-person forums on each of the university’s three campuses and a virtual forum open to all campuses. The forums provided participants with an opportunity to learn about the IHP and share feedback through small group discussions.
Symposium
Confronting an Institution’s Pasts
  • Feb. 10
  • In-Person & Virtual

Confronting an Institution’s Pasts

Inclusive History Project + Eisenberg Institute
for Historical Studies Symposium

Over the past twenty years, scores of universities have committed themselves to uncovering and reckoning with their ties to slavery as well as broader histories of exclusion and discrimination at their institutions.