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How Local Can You (Really) Go? Archaeology in the Ottoman Lands in the Long Nineteenth Century with Dr. Edhem Eldem

Humanities at Large, Wolf Humanities
- | College Hall 209

How Local Can You (Really) Go? Archaeology in the Ottoman Lands in the Long Nineteenth Century

Edhem Eldem
Professor of Turkish Studies, Columbia University

One of the major challenges faced…



Fisayo Akinlude, “Enslaved Children before the Protector and Courts of Mauritius, 1828-1835.”

Race and Slavery Working Group
- | Online

Fisayo Akinlude, “Enslaved Children before the Protector and Courts of Mauritius, 1828-1835.”
Respondent: Bianca Dang 

Please email ella.starkman-hynes@yale.edu to…

History Speaking

In an age of wrenching social change and momentous global challenges, history gives us fresh perspectives, important distinctions, and a sense of how we got here. This year, join Penn historians for lively discussions of the past that seek to better orient us in the present. Because as events unfold, that’s History Speaking, too.

Penn & Slavery Project

The Penn & Slavery Project teaches us that no colony, state, or well-funded university was buffered from slavery’s reach. Penn’s story is a national story, and one of great importance to our ongoing efforts to come to terms with our nations’s history of slavery.