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Friday, May 11
Saturday, May 12
Sunday, May 13
UPCOMING: Friday, May 18
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Penn Program in Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism 2012 Annual Conference
Corporations & Citizenship
DATE: Friday, May 4th
TIME: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium (3401 Spruce St.)What is the purpose of the modern business corporation within human society, and what is its power to do good and evil in the world? How do national states regulate corporations, and what challenges are posed by multinational corporations? These are some of the questions we will address in a daylong conference featuring leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines ranging from history, political science and anthropology to law and business studies.
For more information, please visit
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/events.htmlSunday, May 6
UPCOMING: Friday, May 11
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Seminar
Laura Keenan Spero, Williams College and 2008-2009 McNeil Hamer Dissertation Fellow
“The Obscure Problem of Their History”: The Shawnee Diaspora in Early AmericaDATE: Friday, May 11th
TIME: 4:30-6:00 PM
LOCATION: The American Revolution Center (101 S. Third St, 3rd and Chestnut)The McNeil Center invites graduate students, faculty members, independent scholars, and all other Early Americanists in the Mid-Atlantic region to attend.
Papers are circulated in advance and should be read by those planning to attend.
The Center’s annual end-of-the-year picnic and celebration will follow, weather permitting, in the courtyard of the American Revolution Center.
For more information, or to RSVP to be the picnic, please contact
mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
215-898-9251UPCOMING: Saturday, May 12
Penn Bookstore Live Performance and Book Signing
Tom Fitzgerald, author
Michael Zuckerman, University of PennsylvaniaPoor Richard’s Lament: A Most Timely Tale
DATE: Saturday, May 12th
TIME: 2:00 PM
LOCATION: Penn Campus Bookstore (second floor)Fitzgerald imagines a world in which Benjamin Franklin returns to life in present day America. With a special introduction by Dr. Zuckerman and scenes from the book acted out live.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact
215-898-7595or visit
http://www.upenn.edu/bookstoreUPCOMING: Sunday, May 13
SAVE THE DATE: Friday, May 18
Hagley Symposium
Daniel Raff, The Wharton School and NBER
How to Do Things with Time: Reflections on Method and Practice in Business HistoryDATE: Friday, May 18th
TIME: 1:00-5:00 PM
LOCATION: Hagley Library, Copeland Room (Route 100 and Buck Road, Greenville, DE)MODERATOR
Sidney Winter, The Wharton SchoolCOMMENTATORS
Steven Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Andrew Popp, University of Liverpool
Christine Rosen, University of California, BerkeleyFor more information, or for a copy of the paper, please contact
Carol Ressler Lockman
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SAVE THE DATE: Sunday, May 13
Graduation Reception For Class of 2012
The faculty and staff of the History Department welcomes all graduating seniors and their families to our celebration for the Class of 2012.
DATE: Sunday, May 13th TIME: 3:00-5:00 PM LOCATION: College Hall 200
In addition to recognizing our graduates we will be awarding the Department prizes for best theses and essays, and honoring the recipients of the History Undergraduate Advisory Board (HUAB) teaching awards.
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, please contactDr. Yvonne Fabella
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UPCOMING: Sunday, May 6
Religious Studies Conference
Packaging of Legal Traditions in Late Antique & Medieval Cultures: Responsum, Fatwa, Case Law
DATE: Sunday, May 6th
TIME: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
:LOCATION: Class of '49 Auditorium, Houston HallCo-Sponsored by Departments of Religious Studies, History, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, the Jewish Studies Program, and Middle East Center
For more information, please contact
Dr. Talya Fishman
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Friday, May 4
2012 Arthur O. Lovejoy Lecture
Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University
Civil Religion—Metaphysical, Not Political: Nature, Faith and Communal Order in European Thought, c. 1150-1550DATE: Friday, May 4th
TIME: 5:00 PM
LOCATION: McNeil Center for Early American StudiesReception to follow.
Sponsored by the Journal of the History of Ideas.
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Sunday, April 29 - Monday, May 1
UPCOMING: Monday, May 7
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Monday, April 23
Ulf Schmidt, University of KentJonathan MorenoFrom Nerve Gas to Neurons: Military Medical Research in the Cold War and the War on Terror
DATE: Monday, April 23rd
, University of OxfordPapers and Proof of Identity in Nazi Germany
DATE: Monday, April 23rd
'Auweis bitte!' (Your papers please!) is a phrase stereotypically associated with British and American 1950's war movies conjuring up a leather-clad Gestapo officer scrutinizing the forged papers of an escaped POW or persecuted Jew. What these papers actually were is rarely specified. An equally curve image of 'German' efficiency might assume that the Nazi regime of paper ID was comprehensive and uniform, but in practice it hardly lived up to the stereotype. From September 1939, carrying photographic ID became compulsory for German nationals, but, in contrast to wartime Britain, there was no single uniform, mandatory ID document. I will look at some of the administrative procedures, techniques, and impediments that adhered to the paper proof and policing of identity. My focus will be on two such documents in particular, the Kennkarte (official ID card) and the Postausweis (postal identity card): the former was an element in the regime's repertoire of military, security, and racial controls, while the latter played an unintended role in the struggle to evade these.
Tuesday, April 24
Wednesday, April 25
Ilana Pardes, Hebrew UniversityAgnon’s Biblical Geographies and the Quest for the Ultimate Song
DATE: Wednesday, April 25th
DCC Graduate Workshop
Merlin ChowkwanyunSurface Mining, Public Health, and Human Suffering in Central Appalachia (1960-1990)
Mara Cecilia OstfeldOne Vision: Latino Political Identity and Spanish Language Television News
Doug WeckDemocratic Authority and the Obligation to Obey the Law
DATE: Wednesday, April 25th TIME: 12:00-1:30 PM
Food and refreshments will be served.
For more information, or for a copy of the paper, please visithttp://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/workshops/graduate.html
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Brown Bag Session
Rob McLoone University of IowaPrint Submissions and Plantation Seats: The Women Writers of Virginia’s Early Periodical Culture
DATE: Wednesday, April 25th TIME: 12:30-1:45 PM LOCATION: McNeil Center, Seminar Room 105 (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
Thursday, April 26
Daniel RichterTom Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
Writing and Delivering Good Lectures
DATE: Thursday, April 26th TIME: 12:00-1:30 PM
For the last in our year-long series of workshops on teaching, join two of our department's most talented lecturers in a discussion about how to write and deliver excellent undergraduate lectures. We'll cover structure, pacing, visual aids and other media. Should you read a text? Adlib from notes? How do you decide what to leave out? Come talk about all this and more.
Get out of the library and take a break from writing. Delicious lunch will be served to celebrate our final session and the end of the semester.
Penn Program in Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism: Corporations & Citizenship
Hirokazu Moyazaki, Cornell UniversityCorporations in East Asia
DATE: Thursday, April 26th TIME: 4:30-6:30 PM LOCATION: Silverstein Forum (Stiteler Hall, 1st floor)
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/events.html
Friday, April 27
Nicole Ivy, Yale University and 2010-2011 McNeil Center Richard S. Dunn Dissertation Fellow“Do You Call that Thing a Doctor?” J. Marion Sims and the First Anarcha
DATE: Friday, April 27th LOCATION: Weigley Room, 9th Floor, Gladfelter Hall (Temple University)
UPCOMING: Sunday, April 29 - Monday, May 1
18th Annual Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies
Jews and Journeys
DATE: Sunday, April 29th – Monday, May 1st
For more information or for a copy of the program, please visithttps://katz.sas.upenn.edu/news-and-events/2012-gruss-colloquium
Sheila Allenallenshe@sas.upenn.edu
SAVE THE DATE!: Monday, May 7
Richard Shryock Lecture in American History: A Trans-Atlantic Conference
Fractures: Defining and Redefining the Twentieth-Century United States
DATE: Monday, May 7th TIME: 9:30AM - 6:00PM LOCATION: McNeil Center for Early American Studies (34th and Walnut St.)
This event is free and open to the public. Breakfast and lunch will be served.
For more information, or for a copy of the program, please visithttp://www.history.upenn.edu/shryock/index.shtml
To RSVP for the lunch, please contactpenn-sspf@sas.upenn.edu
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Monday, April 16
Jonathan Metzl, Vanderbilt UniversityFallen doctors: An Ethnography of Medical Transgression
DATE: Monday, April 16th
Center for Teaching & Learning: Teaching Workshop
Authority & Identity in the Classroom
DATE: Monday, April 16th TIME: 4:30-6:00 PM LOCATION: College Hall 214
Particularly as young scholars beginning our teaching careers, it's often a struggle to set the right tone and win student respect in the classroom. How do we develop our public identities as teachers, and how might that be influenced by our other identities (religious, political, gender, national-origin, etc.)? Is it easier or harder for some of us to have "cred" on particular subjects because of who we are? In this workshop, Profs Wenger and Brown share their experiences and discuss challenges, successes, and strategies.
NOTE: Because of the unusual hour, this workshop will include light snacks and beer or wine rather than lunch
Rachel Gubermanguberman@sas.upenn.edu
Liliane WeissbergWalter Benjamin’s Manuscripts: Reading the “Thesis on History”
DATE: Monday, April 16th
The German philosopher, writer, and translator Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a meticulous writer. Many of his essays and reviews exist in multiple manuscript versions that give evidence of a laborious process of revision and recasting, often over long stretches of time. While Benjamin's work has been widely read and enthusiastically received in the United States in recent years, the mode of the production of his texts has received less attention. Thus, the recent edition of his works edited by Michael Jennings and published by Harvard University Press proceeds chronologically, even though Benjamin's constant revisions would put such a chronology into question. A 2006 exhibition at the Berlin Akademie der Künste was the first attempt to cast light on the physical aspect of his manuscripts in a more general way, showing his careful choice of paper for both quality and size, and his calligraphic, and at times micrographic, writing. The present workshop will focus on one particular text, Benjamin's so-called "Theses on History." We will study and discuss the manuscript, and try to relate its specific, and perhaps surprising form of production to Benjamin's philosophical statements.
Tuesday, April 17
Penn Latitudes Presentation
Anupama Rao, Columbia UniversityException, Universality, and the Subject of Rights: Dalit Engagements with Global Thought
DATE: Tuesday, April 17th LOCATION: Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401
Co-sponsored by Latitudes, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and The Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women
http://www.english.upenn.edu/Grad/readinggroups/latitudes
Wednesday, April 18
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Seminar: Travel Facts and Travel Fiction
Jackie Feldman, Ben Guiron UniversityJewish Guide/Christian Pilgrim/Bible Land: Performative Dialogues on the Bus Tour to Zio
DATE: Wednesday, April 18th TIME: 12:00 PM LOCATION: Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Lunch is provided afterwards.
Only open to Penn professors and graduate students. Registration is required.
For more information or to RSVP, please contact Sheila Allenallenshe@sas.upenn.edu
15th Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture
Jane Caplan, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford“Jetzt judenfrei (now free of Jews)”: Being a Tourist in Nazi-Occupied Poland
DATE: Wednesday, April 18th LOCATION: Cohen Hall, room G17
In 1943 Karl Baedeker, publisher of the well-known and long-established series of European tourist guides, issued a new volume on the General Government region of Nazi-occupied Poland. Indistinguishable in format from the rest of the series, the guide was sponsored and introduced by the Governor General Hans Frank (later hanged at Nuremberg). It was intended not only to provide German visitors to the region with the usual tourist information on accommodation, sight-seeing etc., but also to fulfill Frank’s political agenda: to showcase his semi-autonomous fiefdom as an outpost of age-old German culture and a harbinger of the Nazi new order in the east. This lecture will discuss how the surface normality of a tourist handbook was related to the project of racial imperialism pursued by Frank and the Nazi regime in this region.
Open to the public, no RSVP required.
Sponsored by the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, the Jewish Studies Program, the Department of History, the Penn Political Theory Workshop, and the Department of German Languages and Literatures
http://katz.sas.upenn.edu/news-and-events/15th-annual-meyerhoff-lecture-jane-caplan
Penn Museum “Imagine Africa” Lecture Series
Cheikh Babou, University of PennsylvaniaCultural Encounters in the Diaspora: When African and African-American Cultures Meet
DATE: Wednesday, April 18th LOCATION: Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum
What adjustments and accommodations do Africans have to make when they move into African-American communities? What stereotypes do both groups face? Join Penn historian Dr. Cheikh Anta Babou, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, as he discusses the complexities associated with black identity in modern America.
This lecture is free with PennCard!
For more information, please visithttp://penn.museum/events-calendar/details/681-cultural-encounters-in-the-diaspora.html
Thursday, April 19
Penn Legal History Consortium
Pnina Lahav, Boston University Law SchoolA War to Make More Wars: Law, Use of Force, Diplomacy, and International Relations: The Suez Crisis of 1956
DATE: Thursday, April 19th TIME: 12:00 PM LOCATION: Law School faculty lounge
For more information, or for a copy of the paper, please contact Anna Gavinagavin@law.upenn.edu
Dylan Sailor, UC Berkeley
The Empire of C. VerresDATE: Thursday, April 19th
In this talk I argue that in his Verrine orations Cicero transfers historical responsibility for ethically dubious features of Roman involvement in Sicily onto the person of Verres and thus holds out to the jury the opportunity to purify Rome’s empire by finding Verres guilty.
Friday, April 20
Penn Economic History Forum
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology
Inherited- versus Self-Made Wealth in Paris, 1872-1937DATE: Friday, April 20th
TIME: 2:00-4:00 PMAll are welcome!
For a copy of the paper, please visit
http://www.history.upenn.edu/economichistoryforum/index.shtmlMcNeil Center for Early American Studies Seminar
Carrie Hyde, UCLA and 2009-2010 McNeil Center Consortium Dissertation Fellow
Citizenship in Heaven: Eschatologies of Emancipation in Stowe’s DredDATE: Friday, April 20th
TIME: 4:30-6:00 PM
LOCATION: Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American StudiesThe McNeil Center invites graduate students, faculty members, independent scholars, and all other Early Americanists in the Mid-Atlantic region to attend
Papers are circulated in advance and should be read by those planning to attend.
215-898-9251Friday April 20 - Sunday, April 22
Slavic Languages & Literatures Research Symposium
Russia’s First Total War: The Wars Against Napoleon in Historical and Cultural Perspective
DATE: Friday, April 20th – Sunday, April 22nd
TIME: Varies
LOCATION: VariesFor more information, please visit
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/events/slavic_symposium/1812_Symposium/program.htmlSunday, April 22
“Judaism And:” Jewish Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium
DATE: Sunday, April 22nd
TIME: 9:15 AM – 4:15 PM
LOCATION: Benjamin Franklin Room (218 Houston Hall)The academic study of Judaism and Jewish civilization has always been an interdisciplinary endeavour that requires interlocking and contrasting skills and knowledge sets. Those who work in Jewish Studies today must not only reach across disciplinary boundaries, but, in the shifting landscape of academic research, must also integrate a range of media and navigate a host of digital and online resources.
This day-long conference showcases the work of graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania. Drawing from a broad spectrum of student research, this conference will highlight diverse approaches and methods in the field of Jewish Studies.
For more information, or to RSVP, please contact
Nina Cohen
nco@sas.upenn.eduUPCOMING: Tuesday, April 24
Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvia
Agency relations, contract enforcement, and changing business organization in the eleventh and twelfth centuries—the case of the 'Maghribī traders'DATE: Tuesday, April 24th
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Monday, April 9
Thomas Schlich, McGill UniversityA Bizarre Ritual: The Controversies about Surgical Gloves in 1890s Germany
DATE: Monday, April 9th TIME: 3:30-5:30 PM
http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/events
China and International Human Rights Colloquium Series
Eva Pils, The Chinese University of Hong KongWeiquan (Rights Protection) Lawyers in China
DATE: Monday, April 9th TIME: 4:30–6:00 PM LOCATION: Silverman Hall, Room 240 B, Penn Law School
Colloquium Series co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and the Penn Law School.
http://www.ceas.sas.upenn.edu/
, University of Pennsylvania and Ecole des hautes études en sciences socialesChronicle and Comedia, Stage and Page: Fuente Ovejuna
DATE: Monday, April 9th
Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna was printed in 1616 in the "Dozena parte" of his "comedias." This presentation will address two main questions. First, I will begin by analyzing Lope de Vega's interpretation and appropriation for his dramatic plot of the "hecho de Fuente Ovejuna" as it is related in Francisco de Rades y Andrada's Chronica de las tres ordenes y cauallerias de Santiago, Calatrava y Alcantara, published in Toledo in 1572. As Shakespeare did in his Histories, so Lope distorted the narration of the Chronicle by staging both the 1476 revolt of the villagers of Fuente Ovejuna against their master and the forgiveness granted by the King Ferdinand. Secondly, the seminar will look at the different modes of circulation and publication of Lope's "comedias" and, more broadly, the relations between performance and edition in Golden Age theater. As on every Monday, the seminar will be built on the foundations given by the splendid collections of the Library and it will be made possible by the infinite patience and dedication of the librarians of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Tuesday, April 10
Wednesday, April 11
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Brown Bag Session
Rachel BannerTautologies of Native Removal in Marshall, Boudinot, and Black Hawk
DATE: Wednesday, April 11th TIME: 12:30-1:45 PM LOCATION: McNeil Center, Seminar Room 105 (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 contact
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture
Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Northwestern University and President of the American University of Central Asia, KyrgyzstanCentral Asia and Nationalism in Comparative Perspective
DATE: Wednesday, April 11th TIME: 5:00 PM LOCATION: Stiteler Hall B21
For more information, please contact Alina Yakubovayakubova@sas.upenn.edu
Penn Book Center Reading
Neil LanctotCampy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella
DATE: Wednesday, April 11th TIME: 6:00 PM LOCATION: Penn Book Center (130 S. 34th St.)
Neil Lanctot will discuss his highly praised biography of Roy Campanella, which is now available in paperback. Join us for a reading, discussion and light refreshment.
http://www.pennbookcenter.com/campy
Thursday, April 12
Jarrett Welsh, University of TorontoAfranius and the Traditions of Roman Comedy
DATE: Thursday, April 12th
The history of Roman comedy confronting the togata playwright Afranius (late second century BCE) included a century of traditionalism and experimentation in performances in Latin as well as a substantial ‘pre-history’ of Greek drama. In this talk I explore how Afranian comedy extended those traditions and experiments, focusing especially on the comic treatment of marriages and families. I seek to argue that Afranius drew extensively on and reworked that comic past to create innovative theater that also had a role to play in contemporary Rome.
UPCOMING: Monday, April 16
Russian Studies Seminar
Benjamin NathansThe Self as Other: On Soviet Dissident Memoirs
DATE: Monday, April 16th TIME: 6:00 PM
For more information or a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please contact Professor Peter Holquist holquist@sas.upenn.edu
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