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Due to the inclement weather, this event has been postponed.
Due to the inclement weather, this event has been CANCELED.
SAVE THE DATE!: Monday, March 1
Penn Slavic Seminar
Katerina Clark, Yale University Chapter from Moscow as a Fourth Rome
DATE: Monday, March 1st TIME: 6:00 - 7:30 PM LOCATION: College Hall 209
For more information, please contact Professor Peter Holquist holquist@sas.upenn.edu
TIME: 4:30 - 6:30 PM
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Monday, February 8
Latin American and Latino Studies Talk
Dario Euraque, Trinity College and former Director of the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and HistoryA Coup within the Coup of 2009 in Honduras : An Assault on Cultural Heritage Policy
DATE: Monday, February 8th LOCATION: Fireside Room, ARCH Building (3601 Locust Walk)
Dr. Eurarque has published widely on issues of politics and identity in Honduras including Estado, Poder, Nacionalidad y Raza en la Historia de Honduras: Ensayos (Tegucigalpa: Ediciones Subirana, 1996); El Capitalismo de San Pedro Sula y la Historia Política de Hondureña, 1870-1972 (Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 1997). Second edition, 2001 and Conversaciones Históricas con el Mestizaje en Honduras y su Identidad Nacional (San Pedro Sula: Centro Editorial, 2004) and Reinterpreting the "Banana Republic": Region and State in Honduras, 1870s-1972 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996; this book as well as other recent essays in English are on the reserve shelf for GNST 145 in Carpenter Library). He is currently engaged in a study of the history of sexuality in Honduras .
Migdalia Carrasquillo lals@sas.upenn.edu
Tuesday, February 9
Penn Law School Public Talk
Robert Edsel , authorThe Monuments Men
DATE: Tuesday, Feb 9th TIME: 4:30 PM LOCATION: Silverman 240-A
Come hear Robert Edsel speak about WWII Allied Heroes, Nazi thieves, the valuable art looted by Hitler and the study of one of the greatest treasure hunts of our time.
Robert Edsel is author of Rescuing DaVinci and The Monuments Men and co-producer of a documentary called “Rape of Europa.” He is also the founder of the non-profit organization The Monuments Men. The Monuments Men were a group of 345 or so men and women from thirteen nations who comprised the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives section during World War II. In the last year of the war they tracked, located, and ultimately returned more than 5 million artistic and cultural items stolen by Hitler and the Nazis. Their role in preserving cultural treasures was without precedent.
Reception and book signing to follow.
Sponsored by the Penn Law Association for Law in the Arts
Wednesday, February 10
Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Workshop
Fragmented Encounters: Religion, Race, and the Secular in Jewish-Muslim Relations
PRESENTERSEthan Katz, University of Cincinnati/CAJS Jonathan Gribetz, Katz CenterReeva Spector Simon, Yeshiva University Heather SharkeyMalika Rahal, University of Nottingham/Institut d'histoire du temps présentAomar Boum, University of Arizona
DATE: Wednesday, February 10th TIME: 9:30 AM – 5:15 PM
Dinner and reception to follow. Seating is limited; RSVP is required.
Co-sponsored by the Herbert D. Katz Center and the Middle East Center at Penn
For more information or to RSVP, please contact
Friday, February 12
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Seminar
Alyssa Mt Pleasant, Yale University Guiding Principles: “Guswenta” and the Debate over Formal Schooling at Buffalo Creek
DATE: Friday, February 12th TIME: 3:00-5:00 PM LOCATION: McNeil Center , Seminar Room 105 (3355 Woodland Walk)
A reception is to follow.
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.
To obtain copies via listserv, or for more information, please contact mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu 215-898-9251
UPCOMING: Friday, February 19
Penn Economic History Forum
Claire Priest, Yale UniversityUnderstanding the End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period
DATE: Friday, February 19th TIME: 2:00-4:00 PM
LOCATION: Lea Library, 6th Floor of Van Pelt LibraryAll are welcome.
Papers will be available by visiting the History Department website at:
http://www.history.upenn.edu/economichistoryforum/index.shtml
Daniel Raff
raff@wharton.eduSAVE THE DATE!: Tuesday, February 23
Walter Licht
Current Events in the History ClassroomDATE: Tuesday, February 23rd
LOCATION: College Hall 209For more information, please contact
Annenberg Seminar in History
Holly Case, Cornell University
Right under the Radar: Federative Schemes in East-Central Europe from Interwar to Cold WarDATE: Tuesday, February 23rd
TIME: 4:30 PM
LOCATION: College Hall 209For more information, please visit
http://www.history.upenn.edu/annenberg_speakers/index.shtmlor contact
Professor Antonio Feros
aferos@sas.upenn.eduSAVE THE DATE!: Thursday, March 4
Kaplan Memorial Lecture
Walter Johnson, Harvard University
Title TBADATE: Thursday, March 4th
TIME: 4:30-6:30 PM
LOCATION: McNeil 103Walter Johnson's work focuses on slavery, capitalism, and, increasingly, imperialism. His book, Soul by Soul, used the slave market as a way into the fantasies, fears, negotiations, and violence that characterized American slavery. Since the book, his work has followed two courses. On the one hand, he wrote a series of essays about social and historical theory: on notions of time in American slavery; on the idea of "agency" as the organizing theme of scholarship on slavery; on theories of capitalism and slavery; and on the idea of reparations for slavery as a historical narrative. On the other, he has been working on a history of the Mississippi Valley between the Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War entitled River of Dark Dreams : Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism in the Mississippi Valley . Without giving up the focus on the immediate experience of slavery and mastery upon which he focused in Soul by Soul, this book will embed the history of slavery in the U.S. in the histories of global capitalism (especially the cotton trade and the Atlantic money market) and U.S. imperialism (the Louisiana Purchase , the Mexican War, and the illegal invasions of Cuba and Nicaragua in the 1850s).
For more information about the speaker, please visit
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaas/faculty/walter_johnson/index.htmlFor more information about the lecture series, please visit
http://www.history.upenn.edu/kaplan/index.shtml
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Tuesday, February 2
Teaching Brown Bag Series
Roger ChartierTeaching Primary Sources in a Digital Age
DATE: Tuesday, February 2nd TIME: 12:00 – 1:00 PM LOCATION: College Hall 214
Jessica Lautin jlautin@sas.upenn.edu
Germanic Languages and Literatures Lecture
, University of Antwerp , BelgiumKafka, the Other and the End
DATE: Tuesday, February 2nd LOCATION: Max Kade German Culture & Media Center , Room 329A ( 3401 Walnut St .)
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/german/events/events.htm
Wednesday, February 3
Shmuel Feiner, Bar-Ilan University The Origins of Jewish Secularization in 18th Century Europe : A Renewed Perspective
DATE: Wednesday, February 3rd
Penn Campus Bookstore Book Discussion
Barbara SavageYour Spirit Walks Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion
DATE: Wednesday, February 3rd TIME: 5:30 PM LOCATION: Penn Campus Bookstore (second floor)
Your Spirits Walk Beside Us counters the assumption that African American religion and progressive politics have long been intertwined. Savage demonstrates that the tension between faith and political activism in black churches testifies to the difficult and unpredictable project of coupling religion and politics in the twentieth century.
This event is being held in conjunction with the Center for Africana Studies at Penn.
This event is free and open to the public.
http://www.upenn.edu/bookstore
215-898-7595
Thursday, February 4
Penn Eighteenth Century Reading Group
Cynthia Wall, University of VirginiaThe Impress of the Invisible
DATE: Thursday, February 4th TIME: 5:00 – 7:00 PM LOCATION: Fisher-Bennett 401
Professor Wall will deliver a talk entitled "The Impress of the Invisible" from her current manuscript project, The Business of Houses . She comes to Penn from the University of Virginia , where she specializes in Restoration and Eighteenth Century English literature. Her most recent book, The Prose of Things (2006) received honorable mention for the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize. She is also the author of The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London (1998) and editor of the 2006 Norton Critical Edition of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the 2003 Penguin Classics Edition of Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year .
For more information, please contact Dave Alffdalff@sas.upenn.edu
Friday, February 5
Journal of International Law Annual Symposium
Afro-Descendants and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean : Legal Rights and Realities
KEYNOTESir Clare K. Roberts, KCN , QC , BA, LLB (HONS), LEC, TEP
DATE: Friday, February 5th TIME: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM LOCATION: Levy Conference Center , The Law School
Cocktail reception in the Great Hall to follow
The program is free for University of Pennsylvania faculty, staff and students. RSVP is required.
To RSVP, please contactRSVP@penjil.com
For more information, or for a copy of the symposium program, please visithttp://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/jil/symposium.html
Germanic Languages and Literatures Conference
Inside/Out: Dress and Identity in German Literature, Performance, and Art
KEYNOTEDaniel Purdy, Pennsylvania State University
DATE: Friday, February 5th TIME: 9:30AM – 4:30 PM LOCATION: Max Kade German Culture & Media Center , Room 329A ( 3401 Walnut St .)
Friedrich Logau once rhymed: "Alamode-Kleider, Alamode-Sinnen; / Wie sichs wandelt aussen, wandelt sichs auch innen." Regardless of how fleeting fashions might be, Logau's 17th-century identification of the link between exterior and interior remains timeless. This conference aims to explore the relationship between dress and identity in German literature, theater, film, television, and the visual arts. How do clothes "speak" and what do they say? In what sense can they represent identity, or in some cases, misrepresent it? Do clothes lend expression to—or leave an impression on—what lies beneath them?
Funding for the conference has been provided by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Department of History, GAPSA and SASgov
For more information, or for a copy of the conference program, please visit:http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/german/conference10/home.htm
Friday, February 5 - Saturday, February 6
Medievalists @ Penn Conference
Bring Out Your Dead: “Memento Mori” and the Work of Remembrance in the Middle Ages
KEYNOTE D. Vance Smith
DATE: February 5th – February 6th TIME: Varies LOCATION: Golkin Room, Houston Hall * *Keynote will be held in Rosenwald Gallery, 6th fl. of Van Pelt. Reception to follow.
DEATH! PSALTERS! ROMANCE! ITALY! DREAM VISIONS! PHENOMENOLOGY! HELL! HISTORY! PLAGUE! AND...SOCK PUPPETS!
Organized by Medievalists @ Penn graduate reading group and sponsored by SASgov
For more information, or for a copy of the program, please contact Courtney Rydelrydel@sas.upenn.edu
UPCOMING: Tuesday, February 9
Eve Troutt-Powell, University of Pennsylvania The Slaves at Bedtime: Elite Egyptian and Ottoman Women and their Memories of Servant Care-Takers
DATE: Tuesday, February 9th
For more information, please visit
or contact
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Monday, January 25
Steven Kinzer, author of All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East TerrorAll the Shah's Men and the U.S./Iran Relationship
DATE: Monday, January 25th TIME: 7:30PM LOCATION: Free Library of Philadelphia , Montgomery Auditorium ( 1901 Vine Street )
Sponsored by the Middle East Center
Tuesday, January 26
Wednesday, January 27
Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp Secularization of Messianism in Modern Literature and Literary Theory
DATE: Wednesday, January 27th
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Brown Bag Session
Dael NorwoodSovereignty, Slavery, and Commerce: The China Trade in Early American Politics
DATE: Wednesday, January 27th 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
Thursday, January 28
Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Graduate Workshop
Forum on "Genealogies of Citizenship: Early Modern Constructions of Political Belonging"
Cristina Pangilinan, Department of English, University of PennsylvaniaRe-inventing London Citizenship in Thomas Usk's “The Testament of Love”
Murad Idris, Department of Political Science, University of PennsylvaniaErasmus on Christian Peace: Counting, Miscounting, and Discounting the Turk
DATE: Thursday January 28th TIME: 4:00 – 5:30 PM, LOCATION: College Hall, Room 219
Papers are pre-circulated.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/workshops/graduate.html
Jewish Studies Faculty Works-in-Progress Seminar
David Stern, NELC, University of Pennsylvania The Monk's Haggadah: The Story Behind A Remarkable 15th c. Codex and Its Discovery
DATE: Thursday January 28th TIME: 5:00 PM LOCATION: College Hall, Room 209
There is a fifteenth century codex housed in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich that contains a beautifully illustrated hand-written Passover Haggadah and a lengthy Latin prologue on the meaning of Passover written by a contemporary fifteenth century monk. David Stern's talk will describe the unusual features of the Haggadah, discuss the special status of the prologue as the earliest known Christian ethnography of Jewish culture, and tell of how a group of scholars have reconstructed its history.
Friday, January 29
Latin American and Latino Studies Talk
Norma Klahn, University of California Transplanted Genealogies: Re-Imagining the Nation
DATE: Friday, January 29th TIME: 12:00 PM LOCATION: Center for Africana Studies (3401 Walnut Street, Suite 330A)
This talk is part of a larger book project that examines how literature contests nation-state discourses and practices in Mexico , from the post-revolutionary period, through the watershed events of 1968, Tlatelolco, to the end of the Century's neo-liberal policies when accelerated displacements and re-locations complicate any stable reference to a national imaginary. In this paper, Professor Klahn discusses three “worlding” novels that enter a transnational circuit of textual production, not only as positing and recovering ancestral memories in the construction of differentiated subjectivities, but as poetic interventions that re-imagine the nation outside the official foundational narratives of “mestizaje.” Besides re-centering marginalized stories, these texts can be seen as forming an alternative to the exclusionary nation-state discourses and nationalist literary canons.
Co-sponsored by The Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Migdalia Carrasquillo lals@sas.upenn.edu
Amina Gautier, St. Joseph 's UniversityNot Love, but Labor: Suppressing Sentiment in the Narratives of Elleanor Eldridge and Nancy Gardner Prince
DATE: Friday, January 29th LOCATION: McNeil Center , Seminar Room 105 (3355 Woodland Walk)
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Tuesday, January 19
Symposium on Race, Wrongs, and Remedies
Amy Wax, Robert Mundheim Professor of Law, University of PennsylvaniaRace, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century
COMMENTATORSStephanos Bibas, Professor of Law and Criminology, University of PennsylvaniaAngel Harri, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Princeton UniversityLawrence Mead, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, New York University
DATE: Tuesday, January 19th TIME: 4:30 – 6:00 PM LOCATION: Silverman Hall Room 240A ( 3400 Chestnut Street )
In her new book, Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century (2009), Professor Amy Wax--whose scholarship addresses race discrimination, poverty, and family law and who is also an expert in the law of remedies--reviews the evidence concerning continuing racial inequality. She argues that social policy will not suffice to redress this inequality and that self-help is required.
There will then be an opportunity for questions from the audience.
Wednesday, January 20
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies: Secularism and its Discontents
Christoph Schulte, University of Postdam Messianism without Messiah: Some Nineteenth-Twentieth Century Perspectives in Jewish Thought
DATE: Wednesday, January 20th LOCATION: Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Lunch is provided.
Thursday, January 21
Middle East Center Public Lecture Series
Professor Yitzhak NakashThe Changing Political Landscape of the Middle East
DATE: Thursday, January 21st TIME: 4:00PM LOCATION: Room 231, Fisher Bennett Hall
Yitzhak Nakash is a leading authority on modern Islam and Middle Eastern politics and culture. He taught at Brandeis University between 1994 and 2007, serving as director of the Islamic and Middle Eastern studies program during 1999-2006. Dr. Nakash is the author of Reaching for Power: The Shi‘a in the Modern Arab World and The Shi‘is of Iraq . Both books were widely reviewed and served as primers for policymakers before and after the Iraq war. He has contributed articles to major U.S. newspapers and magazines, and has been interviewed by the top print and broadcasting journalists in the country. Nakash has received several distinguished awards, including a Carnegie Corporation fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars fellowship, and a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . He is currently engaged in researching a new book on governance and leadership in modern Islam. His talk will focus on the rise of the Shia as a major force in the Middle East, and the impact of this development on the geopolitics of the region and on the policies of the Obama administration as it shifts the U.S. war-effort from Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan .
Co-sponsored by the Middle East Center and the History Department
For more information, and to view other MEC events, please visithttp://www.sas.upenn.edu/mec/events
or contact Middle East Center 215-898-6335
Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Plural Citizenship
Arjun ChowdhuryExpectations of Order: State Failure in Historical Context
DATE: Thursday, January 21st TIME: 4:00-6:00 PM LOCATION: Silverstein Forum, 1st Floor, Stiteler Hall, (208 S. 37th St.)
Co-sponsored by the Penn Political Science Department and the Browne Center for International Politics.
For more information about this and other events in the series, or for a copy of the paper, please visit http://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/events.html
Friday, January 22
Rob Harper, University of Wisonsin-Stevens PointState Formation from the Ground Up: Political Brokers and Coalition Building in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley
DATE: Friday, January 22nd LOCATION: Weigley Room, 9th fl., Gladfeller Hall ( Temple University )
UPCOMING: Monday, January 25
A pre-circulated paper will be discussed.
For more information, or for a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please contact
UPCOMING: Tuesday, January 26
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Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the Alice Paul Research Center
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The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America
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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/celebrationRebellion 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, 1729-1742Jason Sharples , Princeton University and 2008-2009 Barra Monticello-McNeil Fellow
Plotting Rebellion NarrativesDATE: 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 TBADATE: 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.shtmlUPCOMING: 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 InstitutionDATE: Friday, January 22nd
TIME: 2:00-4:00 PM
LOCATION: Lea Library, 6th Floor of Van Pelt LibraryAll are welcome.
Papers will be available by visiting the History Department website at:
http://www.history.upenn.edu/economichistoryforum/index.shtmlFor more information, please contact
Daniel Raff
raff@wharton.eduSAVE 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, 1820-1845DATE: Monday, January 25th
TIME: 6:00 - 7:30 PM
LOCATION: College Hall 209For more information, please contact
Professor Peter Holquist
holquist@sas.upenn.eduSAVE 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 SeminarDATE: Tuesday, January 26th
TIME: 4:30 PM
LOCATION: College Hall 209
http://www.history.upenn.edu/annenberg_speakers/index.shtml
Professor Antonio Feros
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Tuesday, December 8
Germanic Languages and Literatures Student/Faculty Colloquium Series
Galili Shahar, University of FloridaAuerbach's Scars: Monotheism and the Question of Literature
Mara TaylorAnti-Mother or Anti-Modern? Depictions of the Lesbian's Social Role in Literature and Lesbian-Feminist Texts from 1900 – 1930
DATE: Tuesday, December 8th TIME: 5:00 PM LOCATION: Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (3401 Walnut St., Room 329, A Wing)
Auerbach's Scars: Monotheism and the Question of Literature: The presentation explores Erich Auerbach's work and discusses its origins and implications as a German-Jewish project which reflects the dialectic of modernism and tradition, literature and theology, Judaism and Christianity, the body and the script.
Anti-Mother or Anti-Modern? Depictions of the Lesbian's Social Role in Literature and Lesbian-Feminist Texts from 1900 – 1930: In this paper I examine how feminist texts and literary works clashed in their conceptualizations of individuals who experience female same-sex attraction. Lesbian feminists authors Johanna Elberskirchen and Anna Rüling, who both were writing in the early twentieth century, attempted to define the lesbian through her important social role, through her integration in society and her valuable role as a non-mother. The author of an important lesbian novel, Anna Elisabeth Weirauch, who published Part One of her novel fifteen years after Elberskirchen and Rüling, rejected an idealizing social role for the lesbian. Instead, she depicted her two main characters as individuals who retreat from, instead of integrate into, society in order to form their own world. I trace how the feminist texts and the literary work offered directly conflicting versions of female homosexual subjectivities. Ultimately, I argue that queer literature makes space to look into the affective gaps that the positivity of lesbian feminist texts does not permit exploring.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/german/events/events.htm
Wednesday, December 9
Ilana Pardes, Hebrew UniversityThe Songs of Songs in Israeli Culture: Agnon's Botany of Love
DATE: Wednesday, December 9th
Thursday, December 10
Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Plural Citizenship
Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Transnational Activism
DATE: Thursday, December 10th TIME: 4:00-6:00 PM LOCATION: Silverstein Forum, 1st Floor, Stiteler Hall, (208 S. 37th St.)
Co-sponsored by the Penn Political Science Department and the Browne Center for International Politics.
For more information about this and other events in the series, please visit http://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/
Reception for Essay Collection and Exhibition Catalogue
"The Good Education of Youth": Worlds of Learning in the Age of Franklin
DATE: Thursday, December 10th
TIME: 5:30-7:30 PM
LOCATION: Rosenwald Gallery, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich LibraryCopies of the book will be available for purchase at the reception.
"The Good Education of Youth": Worlds of Learning in the Age of Franklin , with a photographic essay, "Schoolhouses of the Delaware Valley ", explores little-known aspects of education, schools, and methods of schooling in Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic in the colonial and early national periods. The volume includes nine essays by scholars of American history and education and the full illustrated catalogue of an exhibition prepared by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in 2006.
For more information, please visit
http://www.oakknoll.com/detail.php?d_booknr=100470&d_currency=Friday, December 11
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Seminar
Kenneth Cohen, St. Mary's College of Maryland and 2007-2008 MCEAS Consortium Fellow
“The Entreaties and Persuasions of Our Friends”: Gambling on Sports and Politics in Early AmericaDATE: Friday, December 11th
TIME: 3:00-5:00 PM
LOCATION: The Library Company of Philadelphia (1314 Locust Street )A reception is to follow.
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.
To obtain copies via listserv, or for more information, please contact
215-898-9251
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