Past Events



Annenberg Seminar in History

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Annenberg Seminar in History

Walter A. McDougall, Professor of History, Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of…



Penn Economic History Forum

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Penn Economic History Forum 

Julia Ott, The New School
"From Labor to Capital: The Forgotten History of the Tax Preference for 'Earned Income'" 

DATE: Friday, December 2, 2016



Penn Book Center Talk: The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy

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Penn Book Center Talk

Walter McDougall, Penn History
The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America's Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest

DATE: Thursday, December…



Russian History and Culture Workshop

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Russian History and Culture Workshop

Susanne Schattenberg, History, University of Bremen
From her forthcoming biography of Leonid Brezhnev: “‘How the Steel was Tempered,’ or: Careers…



CTL Faculty-to-Faculty Lunch

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CTL Faculty-to-Faculty Lunch

Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, History
Bob Hollebeek, Physics and Astronomy
What Is This…



Penn Economic History Forum

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Penn Economic History Forum 

Eric Hilt, Wellesley College
“Economic History, Historical Analysis and the "New History of Capitalism."  

DATE: Friday, November 11, 2016



Russian History and Culture Workshop

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Russian History and Culture Workshop

Michele Commercio, Political Science, University of Vermont
“One Consequence of Post-Communist Economic and Political Transitions: Polygyny in…



20th Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture

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Katz Center 20th Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture

Professor Bonnie Honig, Brown University
Is Man a "Sabbatical Animal"? Giorgio Agamben, Franz Rosenzweig, and A. J. Heschel…



"Japan Library" Lecture Event

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"Japan Library" Lecture Event

Road to the Pacific War in Recent Historiography

DATE: Thursday, November 3, 2016
TIME: 3:00pm-6:00pm*
LOCATION: The International House, 3701 Chestnut St., South…



Russian History and Culture Workshop

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Russian History and Culture Workshop

Ilya Kukulin, Cultural Studies, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
“Engineering Soviet Selves: Alexander Bogdanov's ‘Philosophy of Living…