2024-2025
The Penn East European History and Culture Workshop meets in person in College Hall 209 on Mondays at 5:30pm for a 90-minute discussion of a pre-circulated paper. We will distribute papers roughly ten days prior to the event.
Contact: Ben Nathans, Department of History
Directions to College Hall here: https://www.history.upenn.edu/contact
For those coming from outside the Penn area, there is often street parking available in the Penn neighborhood (via the Park Mobile app). In addition, there are two parking garages near the Penn campus, both off 34th Street:
- Drexel Parking Lot G (on Ludlow St., off 34th Street—just off Market—between 33rd and 34th Streets): https://drexel.edu/business-services/parking/daily-parking/
- The Penn Parking Garage, on 34th Street between Market Street and Chestnut: https://www.facilities.upenn.edu/maps/parking/parking-garage-chestnut-34
FALL 2024
Oct. 7 Page Herrlinger (History, Bowdoin College): “Seeing and Believing: Orthodox Women as Witnesses of Soviet Life in the 1920s and 30s”
Nov. 11 Ilya Kliger (Russian and Slavic Studies, NYU): “Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism”
Dec. 2 Anatoly Pinsky (Visiting Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki; Visiting Scholar, Kennan Institute): “The Stalin Cult and Soviet Lyric Poetry of the 1930s”
SPRING 2025
March 3 Emily Wang (German and Russian Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame): “Pushkin, the Decembrists, and Civic Sentimentalism”
March 21-22 Mega-kruzhok at Princeton University
April 14 Malgorzata Mazurek (Sociology, Columbia University): “Poland’s Heterodox Socialists: Reckoning with Germany, the Soviet Union, and the World Economic Crisis (1932-33)”