Past Events



Faculty Working Group on Concepts, Ideas, and Discourses: "Sovereignty"

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Don Herzog (Law School, Michigan) –



Penn and Slavery Project Presentation

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The Penn & Slavery Project has just completed its second year of research into the early university's support and involvement in slavery. The undergraduate researchers have conducted archival research…



Annenberg Seminar: Discussion and Celebration of Democracy: A Short History

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Discussion and celebration of Democracy: A Short History  with Sophia Rosenfeld and Benjamin Nathans with dinner to follow.



Kaplan Lecture: "Decolonizations, Colonizations, and More Decolonizations: The End of Empire in Time and Space."

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"Decolonizations, Colonizations, and More Decolonizations: The End of Empire in Time and Space." 

Professor Frederick Cooper, NYU

 



Russian History and Culture Workshop: "Comparative Philology and the Origins of Russian Formalism"

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Jessica Merril, Slavic Languages, Columbia University



Annenberg Seminar: Writing a Popular History of Cuba

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Annenberg Seminar:

Ada Ferrer, Professor of History, New York University

"Writing a Popular History of Cuba"

Date: April 9, 2019

Time: 4:30PM

Location: College Hall 209…



Penn and Slavery Project Symposium

Apr 3, 2019 Apr 4, 2019 at -

This symposium, co-hosted by the Penn & Slavery Project and the Program on Race, Science & Society (housed in the Center for Africana Studies) with support from the Office of the Provost, the Kislak Center…



Annenberg Seminar: Urdu Ethics Literature in Colonial India: A Genre of Muslim Modernity?

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Annenberg Seminar:

Farina Mir, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan

"Urdu Ethics Literature in Colonial India: A Genre of Muslim Modernity? "

Date: March 26, 2019…



Annenberg Seminar: Conversation on the History of Genocide, Human Rights and Humanitarianism

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Annenberg Seminar:

Dirk Moses, Professor of Modern History, University of Sydney

and

Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History, Yale University

"A…