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  Wednesday, January 13

  Rachel Manekin, University of Maryland Galician Haskalah and the Discourse of Religious Enthusiasm (‘Schwärmerei')

  DATE: Wednesday, January 13th

  McNeil Center for Early American Studies Brown Bag Session

  Claire Gherini, Johns Hopkins University Smallpox and Small Places: James Kilpatrick's Negotiations of Medical Knowledge Cultures in the British Atlantic

  DATE: Wednesday, January 13th 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 copies, please contact mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

  The Story of "We, The People": Join the Conversation

  Richard Reeves, authorDaring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift

  MODERATORThomas Childers

  DATE: Wednesday, January 13th TIME: 6:30 PM LOCATION: The National Constitution Center

  The National Constitution Center welcomes acclaimed presidential biographer Richard Reeves, recounting the stories of the brave pilots who risked their lives to supply humanitarian aid to those who were considered enemies only a few short years earlier during World War II.

  Tickets are free!  

  A book sale and signing will follow the program, courtesy of Joseph Fox Bookshop. Parking for this event is available for $9.00 at the National Constitution Center 's garage located at the rear of the Center on Race Street between 6th and 5th Streets.

  For more information or to reserve your seats, please visithttp://www.constitutioncenter.org/ncc_calen_Landing.aspx?code=3432

  or call 215-409-6700 (during business hours)

  Friday, January 15

  Seminar on Franklin 's Legacy: American National Character

  Forces Shaping American Character

  Sheldon Hackney, University of PennsylvaniaFreedom and Identity

  Walter McDougall, University of PennsylvaniaAmericans as Hustlers

  MODERATORBarbara Savage, University of Pennsylvania

  DATE: Friday, January 15th TIME: 9:00 AM LOCATION: Benjamin Franklin Hall ( 427 Chestnut St )

  Who are these Americans? How, in a land of diversity and complexity, have we forged a single distinct identity? This year's birthday celebration, which pays tribute to the legacy of Dr. Franklin, explores the concept of American character — how Americans see themselves and how they are perceived, and how this has evolved over the course of history.

  Procession and Wreath-Laying

  DATE: Friday, January 15th TIME: 11:00 AM
  LOCATION: From American Philosophical Society Library (5th and Chestnut St ) to Christ Church Burial (5th and Arch St )

  Luncheon to follow honoring Dr. Sheldon Hackney, recipient of the “Franklin Founders Award,” who will give the keynote address (registration required)

  Sponsored by the The Independence Hall Association.

  For more information or to register, please visit
  www.ushistory.org/celebration

  Rebellion Plots?: Rumor, Narrative, and Eighteenth Century Slavery

  Justin Pope, George Washington University and 2008-2009 Barra Dissertation Fellow
  “Dangerous Spirit of Liberty ”: The Spread of Slave Resistance in the British Atlantic, 1729-1742

  Jason Sharples , Princeton University and 2008-2009 Barra Monticello-McNeil Fellow
  Plotting Rebellion Narratives

  DATE: Friday, January 15th
  
  LOCATION: Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room , McNeil Center (34th and Sansom St )

  UPCOMING: Wednesday, January 20

  Richard Shryock Distinguished Lecture

  Margot Canaday, Princeton University
  Title TBA

  DATE: Wednesday, January 20th
  TIME: 4:30 PM
  LOCATION: Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room , McNeil Center (34th and Sansom St )

  Dr. Canaday is an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University , and a legal and political historian who studies gender and sexuality in modern America .  Her talk will be based on her recently published book, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (Princeton University Press, 2009).    The Straight State  examines military, immigration, and welfare policy to ask how homosexuality came to be a meaningful category for the federal state over the early- to mid-twentieth century.

  Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Program

  
  http://www.history.upenn.edu/shryock/index.shtml

  UPCOMING: Friday, January 22

  Penn Economic History Forum

  Marina Martin, Yale University
  Hundi in the Dock: The Impact of the British Indian Courts on a South Asian Indigenous Credit Institution

  DATE: Friday, January 22nd
  TIME: 2:00-4:00 PM
  LOCATION: Lea Library, 6th Floor of Van Pelt Library

  All are welcome.

  Papers will be available by visiting the History Department website at:
  http://www.history.upenn.edu/economichistoryforum/index.shtml

  For more information, please contact
  Daniel Raff
  raff@wharton.edu

  SAVE THE DATE!: Monday, January 25

  Penn Slavic Seminar

  Nathaniel Knight, Seton Hall University
  Science and 'the People': The Emergence of the Concept fo the Narod, 1820-1845

  DATE: Monday, January 25th
  TIME: 6:00 - 7:30 PM
  LOCATION: College Hall 209

  For more information, please contact
  Professor Peter Holquist
  holquist@sas.upenn.edu

  SAVE THE DATE!: Tuesday, January 26

  Annenberg Seminar in History

  Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
  David Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania
  Cross-Cultural Dialogues in Early Modern Europe: A Textual Seminar

  DATE: Tuesday, January 26th
  TIME: 4:30 PM
  LOCATION: College Hall 209

  
  http://www.history.upenn.edu/annenberg_speakers/index.shtml

  
  Professor Antonio Feros
  aferos@sas.upenn.edu

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