Past Events



Annenberg Seminar in History (Virtual)

Celebrating New Faculty Books: Alex Chase-Levenson (UPENN), author of The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1760-1860, in conversation with David S. Barnes, Associate Professor in the History of Sociology and Science Department.
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Kaplan Memorial Lecture (Virtual)

The Need for Strangers: A Story of Love and Loathing
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We are pleased to announce that this year's Kaplan speaker will be Jeremy Adelman, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University. The lecture and discussion will take place virtually…



History Student Society Event (Virtual)

FROM BLACK DEATH TO YELLOW FEVER: DISEASE, DEATH, & DISTANCING IN HISTORY
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All Penn Undergraduates are welcome to join this discussion with Alex Chase-Levenson (UPenn) and Ada Kuskowski (UPenn).

 

From the Black Death to the 19th…



Annenberg Seminar in History (Virtual)

Celebrating New Faculty Books: Kathy Peiss (Upenn), author of Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe (Oxford University Press), in conversation with Peter Holquist (UPenn)
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Celebrating New Faculty Books: Kathy Peiss (Upenn), author of Information Hunters: When…



Russian History and Culture Workshop (Virtual)

Listening to Russia: Writing the ‘Voice of the People’ in the Nineteenth Century
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POSTPONED-Annenberg Seminar in History

Celebrating New Faculty Books Published in Spring 2020


CANCELLED-Penn Economic History Forum

The Invention of Entrepreneurship


CANCELLED-Penn Economic History Forum

Inclusive American Economic History: Containing Slaves, Freedmen, Jim Crow Laws, and the Great Migration


CANCELLED-Kaplan Memorial Lecture

The Need for Strangers: A Story of Love and Loathing


CANCELLED-Annenberg Seminar in History

Morphology and History: A Conversation