Past Events



50 Years of African History at Penn: A conference in honor of the retirement of Lee Cassanelli

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Professor Lee Cassanelli is retiring from the University of Pennsylvania this Spring after a half century of service. To celebrate his dedication to his students—both graduate and undergraduate—and to his academic…



Ana Hontanilla, “Voices of Authority and Conflict: The Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo and the Shaping of Slavery (1765-1812).”

Race and Slavery Working Group
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Ana Hontanilla, “Voices of Authority and Conflict: The Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo and the Shaping of Slavery (1765-1812).”

Respondent: Adriana Chira 



Penn Economic History Forum

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The final Penn Economic History Forum event of the year will be a lecture by Claudia Goldin.  The event is co-sponsored with the Penn Economics Department and will take place not in our usual time slot and venue but…



Book Conversations: Sophia Rosenfeld and Melissa Teixeira

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Age of Choice



Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World with Asli Zengin

Embodied Histories Working Group on the study of Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Global South
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The Laboring Refugee: Profiting from the Displaced during Hot and Cold War with Rebecca Nedostup

Annenberg Seminar
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The Laboring Refugee: Profiting from the Displaced during Hot and Cold War

Rebecca Nedostup

During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45) as many as 100 million people were internally displaced in…



Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society Induction

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CELTI Graduate Student Workshop

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Majors and More Dinner: History

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Undergraduates are invited to the History Department's "Majors and More" Dinner on April 15 in Lauder House.  Join History faculty and current History Majors to discuss all your questions regarding: major/minor…



Malgorzata Mazurek: “Poland’s Heterodox Socialists: Reckoning with Germany, the Soviet Union, and the World Economic Crisis (1932-33)”

East European History and Culture Workshop
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April 14: Malgorzata Mazurek (Sociology, Columbia University): “Poland’s Heterodox Socialists: Reckoning with Germany, the Soviet Union, and the World Economic Crisis (1932-33)”