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Monday, February 6
Christina BicchieriNorm entrepreneurship: how to eliminate negative norms and build better ones
DATE: Monday, February 6th
http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/events/hss-workshop-christina-bicchieri
Middle East Center Lecture
Kamran Aghaie, University of Texas at AustinIslam and Religious Nationalisms in the Middle East
DATE: Monday, February 6th LOCATION: College Hall 318
Sponsored by the Departments of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Religion, and History
Elchanan Reiner, Tel Aviv UniversityThe Printed Talmud: A Project of Modern Jewish Culture
DATE: Monday, February 6th TIME: 5:15 PM
The printing of the Babylonian Talmud in the sixteenth century made that work a fundamental text of Jewish culture. I argue that the printed Talmud is, in fact, a new text, different in important ways from the one familiar to medieval Jewish scholars. The Talmud has been seen as a traditional, conservative force in Jewish society; my thesis is that the printed Talmud was an innovative work that played a significant role in European Jewry's transition from traditionalism to modernity. The presentation is drawn from a work-in-progress on the changes in Ashkenazi Jewish culture brought on by the advent of the printed book.
Wednesday, February 8
Elchanan Reiner, Tel Aviv UniversityMenahem of Hebron: A Thirteenth-Century Travelogue and its Strange Fate
DATE: Wednesday, February 8th
Thursday, February 9
Penn Cultural Heritage Center Lecture
Robert Wittman, Founder, FBI Art Crime TeamHear the True Stories Behind the FBI’s Real ‘Indiana Jones’
DATE: Thursday, February 9th LOCATION: Nevil Classroom, Penn Museum
During this afternoon lecture, Robert Wittman will discuss his experiences rising from humble roots as the son of an antiques dealer to build a twenty-year law-enforcement career that was nothing short of extraordinary. Armed with a scholar’s passion, a con man’s smile, and a daredevil’s nerves, he worked undercover to catch art thieves, scammers, and black-market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio and Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. During his twenty years as an FBI special agent, his accomplishments included the creation of the bureau’s Art Crime Team. He has recovered more than $300 million of stolen art and cultural property.
Brown bag lecture - please bring a lunch!
The Penn Cultural Heritage Center Spring Lecture Series is sponsored, in part, by the PoGo Family Foundation
http://www.pennchc.org/PennCHC/EVENTS.html
National Museum of American Jewish History Panel
Getting Ahead: Immigrants, Business, and Ethnic Identity
PANELISTSHasia DinerJennifer Lee, University of California, IrvineDiane Vecchio, Furman University
MODERATORBeth Wenger
DATE: Thursday, February 9th TIME: 6:00 PM LOCATION: National Museum of American Jewish History (101 South Independence Mall East)
Please join us as a group of leading scholars explores the diverse immigrant experiences of Italians, Jews, Koreans, and others, in a comparative context.
Reception to follow.
Free for Museum Members and Penn students/faculty with valid ID Non-Members: $8
Presented by the National Museum of American Jewish History and the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Supported by the Arlene and Stanley Ginsburg Family Foundation.
To register for the event, please visitwww.nmajh.org/publicprograms
For more information, please call 215-923-3811 ext. 110
Saturday, February 11
Van Pelt Library Symposium
Architectures of the Text: An Inquiry Into the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
PARTICIPANTSAnn Moyer (History)John Dixon Hunt (Landscape Architecture)Victoria Kirkham (Romance Languages)David Leatherbarrow (Architecture)Chris Nygren (History of Art)Larry Silver (History of Art)Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto (Landscape Architecture)Ian White, translator of the Hypnerotomachia
DATE: Saturday, February 11th TIME: 10:00AM – 6:00 PM LOCATION: Class of '55 Room and Meyerson Conference Room (Van Pelt Library, 2nd floor)
A symposium to celebrate the acquisition of the second edition of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1545) by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries
For more information, or to register, please visithttp://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/hypnerotomachia.html
rbml@pobox.upenn.edu 215-898-7088
UPCOMING: Tuesday, February 14
Samuel HirstSoviet- Turkish entanglements, 1920s-1930s
DATE: Tuesday, February 14th
SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday, February 29
Penn Institute for Urban Research - Urban Book Talk
Michael KatzWhy Don't American Cities Burn?
COMMENTATORSThomas SugrueWalter Licht, University of PennsylvaniaJeremy Novak, William Penn Foundation
DATE: Wednesday, February 29th LOCATION: Inn at Penn, Living Room (3600 Sansom St.)
Michael Katz, Penn IUR Faculty Fellow and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, will share insights into the newest book in Penn IUR and Penn Press’s book series, “The City in the 21st Century.” Why Don’t American Cities Burn starts with the story of a horrific yet mundane murder of Robert Monroe who was killed in a dispute over five dollars. One of seven homicides to occur in the city that day and yet not make the major newspapers, for Katz, a juror on the murder trial, the incident exemplified the marginalization, social isolation, and indifference that plague American cities. Katz charts the emergence of the urban forms that underlie such events and explores the reasons American cities since the early 1970s have remained relatively free of collective violence while black men in bleak inner-city neighborhoods have turned their rage inward on one another rather than on the agents and symbols of a culture and political economy that exclude them. How, Katz asks, can we construct a new narrative that acknowledges the dark side of urban history even as it demonstrates the capacity of government to address the problems of cities and their residents? How can we create a politics of modest hope?
This event is free and open tot he public.
Co-sponsored by Penn’s Department of History and Penn Press.
For more information, or to register, please visithttp://penniur.upenn.edu/events
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Monday, January 30
History of Sociology & Science Workshop
Peter Sachs CollopyCybernetic Utopianism: The Politics of Experimental Video
DATE: Monday, January 30th TIME: 3:30-5:30 PM LOCATION: 337 Cohen Hall
http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/events/hss-workshop-thomas-schlich
Patricia Crain, New York UniversityThe Bank of Industry": Rewards of Merit and the (Cultural) Capital of Childhood
DATE: Monday, January 30th TIME: 5:30 PM
The reward of merit, a premium handed out in the nineteenth-century schoolroom and one of very few dedicated childhood print genres, imitates other nineteenth-century documents, especially currency, stock certificates, transportation and entertainment tickets, and voting ballots, as well as parlor prints. Rewards of Merit constitute a site of the full array of nineteenth-century visual iconography and advertise, often self-consciously, the printer’s art. This paper explores rewards of merit’s iconology, the ways in which these bits of ephemera imagine and position children, and the ideology of making the classroom into a site of mock-capital exchange, that figures childhood as the place to transact the business of what one set of rewards calls “the bank of industry."
Tuesday, January 31
Wednesday, February 1
Julia Phillips Cohen, Vanderbilt UniversityCulturla Crossings: Ottoman Jewish Merchants as Oriental Ambassadors
DATE: Wednesday, February 1st
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Brown Bag Session
Mitch FraasFrom India to the Atlantic world: “Indian grants” and the Imperial Jurisprudence of the 18th Century
DATE: Wednesday, February 1st 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
Penn Museum Scholars
Dr. Patrick McGovern, Biomolecular Archaeology LaboratoryGretchen Hall, Penn Museum
Biomolecular Archaeology: Past and Future
DATE: Wednesday, February 1st TIME: 12:30 PM LOCATION: Classroom 2, Penn Museum
Highly sensitive chemical techniques, which have become available over the past several decades, have made it possible to identify fingerprint compounds of ancient organics and natural products, and to even re-create ancient beverages, foods, medicines, dyes, and other goods. Penn Museum's Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory has been at the forefront of these developments. Some of the lab's past discoveries focused on Royal Purple and the “King Midas” funerary feast, and set our research agenda for the future. Recent analyses of wines from Etruria and their impact on southern France illustrate how viniculture was transferred from one culture to another. A new project in collaboration with Penn's Abramson and Medical Centers shows how ancient fermented beverages, laced with herbs and other botanicals, can be explored for their anti-cancer and other medicinal effects. In short, biomolecular archaeology holds out the prospect of uncovering much more about what it means to be human, both biologically and culturally, by uncovering and reconstructing our human ancestry and genetic development, cuisine, medical practice and other crafts over the past 4 million years and more.
For more information, please visithttp://www.penn.museum/events-calendar/details/685-biomolecular-archaeology-past-and-future.html
Carolyn AbbateTim Corrigan, University of PennsylvaniaAlex Galloway, New York University
Faculty Forum: Pleasures and Pitfalls of Film Adaptation
DATE: Wednesday, February 1st LOCATION: Ibrahim Theater, International House (3701 Chestnut St.)
The history of cinema is one of adaptations from other media. Great adaptations are often more innovative and enduring than their sources. Indeed, they compel us to rethink the whole relationship between originals and copies, sources and targets. Our distinguished faculty discuss some of their favorite film adaptations, including those featured in the Adaptations Film Series.
For more information, please visithttp://www.phf.upenn.edu/11-12/film_series.shtml
Thursday, February 2
Jewish Studies Faculty Works-In-Progress Seminar
Ian Lustick, University of PennsylvaniaIs There a Plausible Future for Israel that is also "Positive?"
DATE: Thursday, February 2nd
In preparation for the seminar, Professor Lustick requests that participants read the following article, which relates to his larger project:
http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/faculty/publications/Lustick_Emigration_ISR_11.pdf
Jewish Studies Program
jsp-info@sas.upenn.eduMichael Arnush, Skidmore College
Forg[er]ing and Forg(ett)ing the Past: The Decree of Themistocles reduxDATE: Thursday, February 2nd
TIME: 4:30 PMIn 1960 Michael Jameson of the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania published the editio princeps of an inscription from Troezen in the Argolid purporting to represent a decree of the Athenian strategos Themistokles. Because the text appears to conflict with the Herodotean account of the Persian Wars, for fifty years scholars have struggled with the authenticity of this document. Is it an inept Hellenistic copy of the original from ca. 481 BCE? is it an amalgam of decrees from the 5th-3rd centuries? or, is it a forgery, a 3rd century attempt to reimagine the past for contemporary purposes? This paper will review the scholarly assessment of Jameson’s discovery and attempt to reconcile the decree with both classical and Hellenistic Greek history.
For more information, please visit
http://www.classics.upenn.edu/events/2012/forgering-and-forgetting-past-decree-themistocles-redux/michael-arnush-skidmore-collegeor contact
SP2 Latin@ Initiative Lecture Series
Marta Tienda
Toward a Child Centered Perspective of International Migration and Social IntegrationDATE: Thursday, February 2nd
LOCATION: Irving Auditorium 110, Amado Recital HallInternational migration has been rising against the backdrop of an age divide between industrialized and developing nations. Despite growing attention to the children of immigrants, there is little systematic research about the auspices of child migration, which is highly fragmented by place, method and substance. I illustrate the advantages of a child-centric approach (1) by examining living arrangements in cross-national perspective and (2) showing how the lifecycle timing of migration reverberates into adulthood.
Light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Ezekiel Dixon-Román
ezekield@sp2.upenn.eduFriday, February 3
Penn Economic History Forum
Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University
Public Power, Private Power, and the Construction of the American StateDATE: Friday, February 3rd
TIME: 2:00-4:00 PM
LOCATION: College Hall 209All are welcome.
For more information about the Penn Economic History Forum, please contact
Daniel Raff
raff@wharton.eduMcNeil Center for Early American Studies Seminar
Christopher M. Parsons, McNeil Center Barra Postdoctoral Fellow
Botany in the Borderlands: The Circulation of Ecological Knowledge pays d’en hautDATE: Friday, February 3rd
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.
For more information, or to obtain a copy of the paper via listserv, please contact
mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
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Monday, January 23
History of Material Texts Seminar
Zachary Lesser, University of PennsylvaniaEnter the Ghost in His Nightgown: Hamlet after Q1
DATE: Monday, January 23rd TIME: 5:15 PM LOCATION: Meyerson Conference Room, Van Pelt Library
In 1823, while doing some inventory of the manor house he had recently inherited in Great Barton, Suffolk, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered “a small quarto, barbarously cropped, and very ill-bound” in one of his closets. Bound together in the volume were twelve Shakespeare plays, most of them first editions, including copies of Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and several history plays. But what struck him, and the world of nineteenth-century British letters, most powerfully was an edition of The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke dated 1603, a year earlier than any edition then known. This was the first quarto, the so-called “bad quarto,” of Hamlet, a version of the play strangely different from the one that had, by 1823, already become one of the most important pieces of literature in the English language. Bunbury's discovery, in itself a historical accident, has had profound effects on our understanding of Hamlet, of Shakespeare, and of the Shakespearean text. In this paper, I examine a single stage direction that appears in the closet scene, but only in Q1: “Enter the Ghost in his nightgown.” These six new words transformed Victorian ideas about the play, both in criticism and in performance, in ways that, while largely invisible and unrecognized, continue to shape our own critical, stage, and editorial practice.
Marla Pagan-Mattosmarpagan@sas.upenn.edu
Wednesday, January 25
Adam Beaver, Princeton UniversityWhat Jews are These: Spanish Travelers’ Encounters with the Sephardic Diaspora, ca. 1492-1600
DATE: Wednesday, January 25th
DCC Graduate Workshop
Radha Modi, University of PennsylvaniaGenerational Differences in Immigrant Adolescent Civic and Political Engagement Attitudes
Aliya Hamid Rao, University of PennsylvaniaWith One Definition, Two Groups: Tracing the Inception of Hindu Nationalism and its Inflexible Exclusion of Muslims in India
DATE: Wednesday, January 25th
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
Penn Humanities Forum
Michael Gordin, Princeton UniversitySpeaking Utopian Science in an Artificial Language
DATE: Wednesday, January 25th TIME: 5:00-6:30 PM LOCATION: Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum (3260 South St.)
By the turn of the 20th century, scientific knowledge was being produced in so many different national languages that individual scientists could no longer follow the important developments. Some thought the best way out of this linguistic logjam was to adapt one of the so-called "artificial languages," such as Esperanto, to the purposes of scientific communication. Award-winning historian Michael Gordin illuminates this curious moment of crisis and adaptation in the history of modern science.
Cosponsored by Penn's Departments of History and History of Sociology of Science
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/11-12/gordin.shtml
Thursday, January 26
Penn Classical Studies Colloquium
Andrew Riggsby, University of Texas at AustinQuae pondere numero mensura consistunt: Is there any such thing?
DATE: Thursday, January 26th
Penn Social Science and Policy Forum Lecture
Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Scribner, 2008)Invisible Bridge: The 1970s and the Rise of Ronald Reagan
DATE: Thursday, January 26th TIME: 5:00 PM LOCATION: Annenberg 110
The lecture is part of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum and is co-sponsored with the History Department, the Annenberg School, and the Penn Program on Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Citizenship.
For more information, please contact Erika Kitzmillererika.kitzmiller@gmail.com
Friday, January 27
UPCOMING:
Frederick Cooper, New York University'Superposed nationality?' Being French and Africa in 1959
DATE: Tuesday, January 31st LOCATION: College Hall 209
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SAVE THE DATE: Monday, March 19
Stephen Allen Kaplan Memorial Lecture
Adam McKeown, Columbia University
Cindy Hahamovitch, College of William & Mary
Lee Cassanelli, University of Pennsylvania
Vanessa Ogle, University of PennsylvaniaBorders and Borderlands in History
DATE: Monday, March 19th
TIME: 5:30PM
LOCATION: College Hall 209A Welcome Reception will be at 5:00PM.
For more information, please contact
Claire Kaiser
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Tuesday, January 17
Prof. Harrison's paper will not be posted at the website. Those who wish to read to have a copy of the paper should contact Prof. Holquist .
Wednesday, January 18
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Seminar: Travel Facts and Travel Fiction
Ora Limor, Open University
Wondrous Nature: Landscape and Weather in Early Pilgrimage NarrativesDATE: Wednesday, January 18th
TIME: 12:00 PM
LOCATION: Center for Advanced Judaic StudiesLunch is provided afterwards.
Only open to Penn professors and graduate students. Registration is required.
For more information or to RSVP, please contact
Sheila Allen
allenshe@sas.upenn.eduMcNeil Center for Early American Studies Brown Bag Session
Melissah Pawlikowski, Ohio State University
“By Beat of Drum Declared themselves Independent”: Squatter Ethnogenesis & the Ohio Country Civil War, 1763-1785DATE: Wednesday, January 18th
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
mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.eduLatino Dialogue Institute Lecture
Jonathan Rosa, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Making Latina/o Identities and Managing American AnxietiesDATE: Wednesday, January 18th
TIME: 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Terrace Room, Cohen HallRefreshments will be served
Co-sponsored by the Center for Hispanic Excellence: La Casa Latina
For more information, please contact
Migdalia Carrasquillo
lals@sas.upenn.eduThursday, January 19
Penn Classical Studies Colloquium
Grace Ledbetter, Swarthmore College
Ballet and the Greeks: Balanchine and Stravinsky’s ApolloDATE: Thursday, January 19th
TIME: 4:30 PM
LOCATION: Cohen Hall 402Open to the public. Preceded by a coffee hour in Cohen Hall 250 at 4:00 PM.
For more information, please contact
Renee Campbell
reneecam@sas.upenn.eduPenn Program in Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism: Corporations & Citizenship
Jonathan Harber, CEO, SchoolNet Inc
Deborah Quazzo, Co-Founder, NeXtAdvisors, LLC
Peter Smith, Senior VP, Kaplan Higher EducationRoundtable on For-Profit Education
DATE: Thursday, January 19th
TIME: 4:30-6:30 PM
LOCATION: Silverstein Forum (Stiteler Hall, 1st floor)For more information, please visit
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/events.htmlFriday, January 20
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Seminar
Dawn Peterson, Smith College and 2009-2010 Consortium Fellow
Maps, Sacra, and Entradas: Communications Networks in Southeastern North America from Cahokia to De SotoDATE: Friday, January 20th
TIME: 4:30-6:00 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
Papers are circulated in advance and should be read by those planning to attend.
For more information, or to obtain a copy of the paper via listserv, please contact
mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
215-898-9251UPCOMING: Friday, January 27
Penn Economic History Forum
Thomas Safley, University of Pennsylvania
Social Networks and South German Capital: Reflections on a Current FashionDATE: Friday, January 27th
TIME: 2:00-4:00 PM
LOCATION: College Hall 209All are welcome.
For more information about the Penn Economic History Forum, please contact
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SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, January 17
Henrietta Harrison, Harvard UniversityCatholic visionaries in Maoist China
DATE: Tuesday, January 17th
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Monday, December 12
Tuesday, December 13
Mark Bradley, University of ChicagoThe United States and the Twentieth Century Global Human Rights Revolution
DATE: Tuesday, December 13th
Wednesday, December 14
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Each book will be introduced by a member of the department, followed by comments from the author. We will have a short time for questions after all books have been presented. We will conclude with a reception in the second-floor hallway. We hope to see you at this celebration of our authors. If you are free, please, stay to have a drink and talk with our authors and other colleagues.
DCC Graduate Workshop Series
Matthew Kruer, University of PennsylvaniaPopulist Revolt and the Problems of Indian Subjects in the Seventeenth Century English Empire
Noah Rosenblum, Columbia UniversityPositivish Republicanism
DATE: Wednesday, December 7th TIME: 12:00-1:30 PM
Food and beer will be served.
For more information, or for a copy of the paper, please visithttp://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/workshops/graduate.html
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