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Thursday, May 9
Penn Social Science & Policy Forum
Chairman:Sheila Bair, Former FDIC Chairman
Panelists:Franklin AllenRichard Herring, University of PennsylvaniaSusan Wachter, University of Pennsylvania
Ending Too Big to Fail: Financial Regulation After Dodd-Frank
DATE: Thursday, April 9th TIME: 2:00-4:30 PM LOCATION: 402 Cohen Hall
The talk by Chairman Bair will be followed by a panel discussion on financial regulation featuring Bair and Wharton Professors.
Co-sponsored by The Wharton School and The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR).
For more information, please visit http://www.sas.upenn.edu/sspf/upcoming
or contact penn-sspf@sas.upenn.edu
Friday, May 10
David Waldstreicher, Temple UniversityAncients, Moderns, and Africans: Phillis Wheatley and the Politics of Slavery
DATE: Friday, May 10th LOCATION: Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
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Monday, April 29
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies 19th Annual Gruss Colloquium
Patterns of Relations: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Thirteenth Century
DATE: Monday, April 29, 2013 to Tuesday, April 30, 2013 TIME: 9:15 AM LOCATION: Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium
http://katz.sas.upenn.edu/news-and-events/gruss-colloquium
Penn Economic History Forum
Jeroen Puttevils, Centre for Urban History, University of Antwerp, and Visiting Fulbright Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History“I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak” Debt finance through bills obligatory in sixteenth-century Antwerp
DATE: Monday, April 29th TIME: 12:00-1:30 PM
Daniel Raffraff@wharton.upenn.edu
or visithttp://www.history.upenn.edu/economichistoryforum/index.shtml
Thursday, May 2
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Colloquium
Jewish Networks throughout Time and Space
DATE: Thursday, May 2nd TIME: 10:00-4:30 PM LOCATION: Class of ’49 Room, Houston Hall
Jewish individuals and communities have often been characterized by their ability to develop extensive networks, whether international in scope or as part of the social fabric of a specific community. The interdisciplinary nature of Jewish studies makes clear that the study of networks should be placed at its core. When one considers the richness of the Cairo Genizah, the astonishing spread of Sabbatianism, the ubiquity of Jewish vernaculars in the Diaspora, the instrumental role of self-help in Eastern Europe and in American immigrant communities, and the eager participation of Jewish intellectuals in Viennese café culture, it is hard not to be impressed by the depth and breadth of these connections. At the same time, digital networks and resources are today more than ever an invaluable tool for researchers in Jewish Studies. Indeed, explorations of networks and other facets of Jewish scholarship are taking place through use digital and other methods within our own network of students here at the University of Pennsylvania. We hope to explore the role of networks in Jewish Studies and in Jewish Studies at Penn.
Sonia Gollancegollance@sas.upenn.edu
Friday, May 3
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Seminar
Patricia Lott, Northwestern University and 2011-2012 Richard S. Dunn FellowWhen Was “The First Emancipation?” Notes on Gradual Abolition, Legal Geography, and Racial Slavery’s Afterlife in the 19th-Century U.S. North
DATE: Friday, May 3rd TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust St.
The McNeil Center invites graduate students, faculty members, independent scholars, and all other Early Americanists in the Mid-Atlantic region to attend.
The Journal of the History of Ideas Annual Lovejoy Lecture
Peter StruckDivine Signs and Human Nature: A Cognitive Approach to Divination in Antiquity
DATE: Friday, May 3rd TIME: 5:00 PM LOCATION: McNeil Center for Early American Studies
This event is open to the public.
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Monday, April 22
Wednesday, April 24
Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Induction Breakfast
DATE: Wednesday, April 24th TIME: 10:00- 11:00 AM
Undergraduates recently accepted into Penn's chapter of Phi Alpha Theta are invited to an induction breakfast. RSVP is required
For more information, or to RSVP, please contact Dr. Yvonne Fabella fabella@sas.upenn.edu
Ephraim KanarfogelYeshiva UniversityThe (Non-) Use of Maimondies’ Mishneh Torah in Thirteenth-Century Ashkenaz: Foe or Friend?
Mordechai CohenYeshiva UniversityA New Look at Nahmanides’ Four Senses of Scriptural Signification (or: ‘Rule of Peshat’) in Light of His Jewish and Christian Intellectual Contexts
DATE: Wednesday April 24th
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Brown Bag Session
Braxton Boren, New York UniversityUsing Acoustic Archaeology to Simulate George Whitefield’s Voice
DATE: Wednesday, April 24th TIME: 12:30-1:45 PM LOCATION: Seminar Room 105, McNeil Center (3355 Woodland Walk)
Papers are circulated in advance. Everyone should read the paper in advance.
For more information, or to obtain a copy of the paper via listserv, please contactmceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Panel: Remembering the Letter from Birmingham Jail (April 1963)
DATE: Wednesday, April 24th TIME: 6:00-8:00 PM LOCATION: Room 110, Annenberg School for Communication
On this, the 50th anniversary of the Birmingham freedom struggle, the Annenberg School for Communication presents a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Speakers will reflect on: Dr. King, the American Friends Service Committee’s special relationship to the “Letter,” the black church’s historic role in the fight for justice, and the timeless power of the “Letter’s” prophetic vision.
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required.
Debra Williamsdwilliams@asc.upenn.edu
To RSVP, please emailrsvp@asc.upenn.edu
Thursday, April 25
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies 16th Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture
John Van Engen, University of Notre DameJews, Friars, and Beguines: Narrating the History of Thirteenth-Century Europe
DATE: Thursday, April 25th TIME: 5:00-7:00 PM LOCATION: McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room
Carrie Lovecarrielo@sas.upenn.edu
Penn Libraries Beitler Collection Distinguished Lecture
R. Kent Newmyer, University of Connecticut, Law SchoolPresident Jefferson, Chief Justice Marshall and the Treason Trial of Aaron Burr
DATE: Thursday, April 25th TIME: 5:30 PM LOCATION: Class of 1978 Pavilion, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Special Collections Center
Drawing on his latest book, The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr, distinguished historian R. Kent Newmyer (University of Connecticut Law School) will take us inside one of the most dramatic and important criminal trials in American history. The explosive mix of personality, politics, and law imbedded in this battle of titans makes for edge-of-your-seat storytelling and provides fascinating insight into the origins of America’s political and legal systems. A book signing and reception follow the lecture.
Registration appreciated but not required.
For more information, please contact John Pollackjpollack@upenn.edu
to register, please visithttp://www.library.upenn.edu/forms/eventsresponse12.html
Undergraduate Honors Symposium
DATE: Thursday, April 25th TIME: 12:30 PM
The Department of History is proud to celebrate the accomplishments of its Honors Thesis students at this annual event. A poster session will begin at 12:30 pm in the hall outside COLL 209. Formal presentations of student research will begin at 1:00 in COLL 209. Faculty and students are welcome to attend.
For more information, please contact Dr. Yvonne Fabella fabella@sas.upenn.edu
Friday, April 26
Middle East Center Symposium
16th to 20th Century Ottoman-Persian Exchanges
DATE: Friday, April 26th LOCATION: 218 Houston Hall, Ben Franklin Room
The symposium hopes to bring together scholars working on issues at the intersection of Ottoman and Persian relations, to shift the focus of the debate to the eastern fault line of Middle Eastern history, and to shed light on the historical interactions between the two empires which governed almost the entire Middle East up until the end of World War I.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of History.
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/mec/events/2013/april/ottoman-persian-exchanges-16th-20th-centuries
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Seminar
Rachel Herrmann, University of Texas, 2011-2012 Society of the Cincinnati and Friends of the MCEAS Fellow“From Hunters to Husbandmen:” Culinary Imperialism and the Pan-Indian Western Confederacy War
DATE: Friday, April 26h TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Weigley Room (9th floor), Gladfelter Hall, Temple University
The McNeil Center invites graduate students, faculty members, independent scholars, and all other Early Americanists in the Mid-Atlantic region to attend.
For more information, please contact mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
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Monday, April 15
Penn Cultural Heritage Center Conference
Cultural Policies and Corridors in the Balkans and Turkey
DATE: Monday, April 15th TIME: 9:00 AM LOCATION: Classroom 2, Penn Museum
In the past decade interest has grown in cultural policies pertaining to heritage routes and cultural corridors. Rehabilitation of cultural places and the preservation of natural landscapes often provide the foundation of such initiatives. The underlying goal of such programs tends to be pitched from two perspectives: to support economic initiatives and to foster a sense of community and shared histories, especially important in post-conflict locations. Billed as strategic components along “cultural corridors” or “heritage routes” gentrification and preservation programs pushed by UNESCO, the Council of Europe and other groups have been endorsed by ministries of culture and made possible by constituencies with interest in supporting rehabilitation of those places tied to their overall mission. This working group will explore the political agendas embedded in the design and implementation of cultural corridors in Balkans and Turkey and the implications on local and transnational communities.
Free Admission, for more information, please visithttp://www.penn.museum/events-calendar/details/1047-policies-corridors.html
Dissertation Defense
Mark Brennan, University of PennsylvaniaConsecrated Toil: American Methodist Missionaries in Cuba, 1898-1945
DATE: Monday, April 15th TIME: 10:00 AM
All are welcome!
Ann Greene, University of PennsylvaniaA Canal Runs Through It: The Erie and the Environment
DATE: Monday, April 15th
The Erie Canal enjoys iconic status as a technological and political event that promoted westward expansion, economic development, urban growth, and northern sectional identity. However, many Americans assume that the Canal was eventually rendered obsolete and subsequently abandoned, and are surprised to that it has remained in continuous operation from 1825 to the present. Almost no scholarly work examines the Erie Canal after its first rebuilding at mid-century, or considers the environmental implications of its construction and operation at any time in its two-century history. This workshop presentation lays out the beginning of a project on the environmental history of the Erie Canal looking at the canal’s role in the landscape and ecology of central and western New York, in conservation politics and the debate about forests and watersheds, in the history of alien and invasive species, and in regional identity and tourism. It is possible that the history of the Erie Canal reflects the history of environmentalism from the antebellum period to the present.
http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/events/hss-workshop-ann-greene
David Scott Kastan, Yale UniversityThe Body of the Text
DATE: Monday, April 15th
Tuesday, April 16
Wednesday, April 17
Rami ReinerBen-Gurion University“For out of France shall go forth the Torah:” Acceptance of the French Tosafists’ Method in Europe—Provence and Germany as Case Studies
DATE: Wednesday April 17th
Penn DCC Grad Workshops: National Identity and Citizenship: The Formation and Contestation of Civic Allegiance in the Early U.S. and Korea
Jonathan W. Wilson, Syracuse UniversityHow to Make an American in the Early Republic: Some Notes on the Limits of State, Structure, and Strife
Yumi Lee, University of PennsylvaniaDetention, Repatriation, Humaitarianism: On the Korean War POW in Ha Jin’s Ware Trash
DATE: Wednesday, April 17th TIME: 12:00-1:30 PM
In their papers, Jonathan W. Wilson (History, Syracuse) and Yumi Lee (Engllish, Penn) both address challenges associated with the formation of civic identity. Wilson focuses on influences and processes shaping of national identity during the early United States, and Lee examines Korea, during the 1950s. We encourage participants to read the papers in advance if possible.
For more information, or a copy of the paper, please contactpenndcc@gmail.com
Penn Humanities Forum on Peripheries
Steven Feierman, University of PennsylvaniaHarvey Friedman, Chief of Infectious Diseases Division, Professor of Medicine, and Director, Botswana-Penn Partnership, Penn MedicineJulie Livingston, Rutgers University
Medicine at the Margins
DATE: Wednesday, April 17th TIME: 5:00-6:30 PM LOCATION: Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum
What are the practical and ethical challenges of taking medical practices and technologies developed in metropolitan centers and extending them into remote communities where modern health care resources are scarce? Join us for a lively conversation featuring reports and reflections on recent field work in southern Africa by Harvey Friedman, director of the Botswana-UPenn Partnership, Steven Feierman, historian of African science and medicine, and Julie Livingston, African historian and ethnographer.
This event is free and open to the public, Pre-Registration is required.
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/calendar.shtml
Thursday, April 18
Dissertation Defense
Arthur “Chase” Richards, University of PennsylvaniaPages of Progress: German Liberalism and the Popular Press after 1848
DATE: Thursday, April 18th TIME: 1:00 PM LOCATION: 209 College Hall
All are welcome!
Matthew Carter, University of Western OntarioJuan Luis de la Cerda: Maronolater
DATE: Thursday, April 18th
uan Luis de la Cerda, a Jesuit working in Toledo in the early 1600s, wrote a massive commentary on the entire corpus Vergilianum and is regarded by specialists as "Vergil's first great modern commentator" (Clausen). This paper surveys his achievement, discussing in detail some examples of his finest work, and situates Cerda as the intellectual heir of the tradition represented by Macrobius, whose interlocutors regard the "maximus poeta" as all but omniscient.
Penn DCC Faculty Workshops
Valerie Bunce, Cornell UniversityCommunist Federations
DATE: Thursday, April 18th TIME: 4:30-6:30 PM LOCATION: Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall (1st floor)
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/events.html
Friday, April 19
Penn Slavic Symposium: The Global Russian Culture
DATE: Friday, April 19th to Saturday April 20th TIME: 9:00 AM LOCATION: B21, Stiteler Hall
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/events/slavic_symposium/Global_Russian_Culture/program.htmlMcNeil Center for Early American Studies Conference
Anglicization Reconsidered: Celebrating the Career of John M. Murrin
DATE: Friday, April 19th to Saturday April 20th
TIME: 4:30 PM
LOCATION: McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3335 Woodland WalkOrganized by students and friends of Professor John M. Murrin, Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University, this conference sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies will feature original papers presented by his students exploring a central insight of Professor Murrin’s work: the idea of Anglicization in early American history. To foster the widest possible dialogue, papers will be pre-circulated to those in attendance and, in most cases, will not be read at the conference sessions.
The conference is free and open to the public, but preregistration is required for on-line access to the pre-circulated papers.
For more information, and to register, please visit
www.mceas.org/anglicizationor contact
Penn Economic History Forum
Philip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology
Why Was It Europeans who conquered the World? Causes and ConsequencesDATE: Friday, April 26th
TIME: 2:00-4:00 PM
LOCATION: 209 College Hall
Daniel Raff
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Memorial Service for Professor Emeritus Robert F. Engs
DATE: Friday, April 19th
TIME: 3:00 - 5:00 PM
LOCATION: College Hall 200All are welcome to attend.
For more information, please contact
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LOCATION: Parkway Central Library, Montgomery Auditorium (1901 Vine St., Philadelphia, PA)
( PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME AND LOCATION)In 1880 the Prussian Lower House, the
Jonathan Steinberg is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania, former Chair of the Department of History, and is an Emeritus Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge. His most recent book, Bismarck. A Life (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2011), was short-listed for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, June 2011 and short-listed for the Duff Cooper Prize in London, February 2012. The German edition with the title, Bismarck: Magier der Macht was published by Propyläen Verlag, an imprimatur of Ullstein Verlag of Berlin and is listed as a ‘bestseller’. Contracts have been signed for Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Romanian editions. The Danish edition published by Sohn of Copenhagen appeared in September 2012.
Book signing to follow; books provided by the Penn Book Center.
RSVP is required. To RSVP, please visit
http://jonathansteinbergbismarck.eventbrite.com/
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