Past Events



Russian History & Culture Workshop

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John Randolph (History, U. of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
"The Coachman and the Town Square: On the Space of Imperial Communication in Enlightenment Russia"

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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies

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Mitch Fraas, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
“Looking at India through an Atlantic lens: Forging British imperial law in the Eighteenth Century”



Penn Economic History Forum

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John Wallis (Co-author, Doug North), University of Maryland
“Leviathan Denied: Coordination, Coercion, Rules, and the Nature of Government”

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Annenberg Seminar in History

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Richard Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
“The Chronicler v the Count: Law, Libel and History in the Early Modern Atlantic World”

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Sub Specie Hominis: The Emergence of Kant's Critical Philosophy in the Mirror of His Correspondence with Marcus Herz

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Professor Boris Gasparov, Columbia University
Sub Specie Hominis: The Emergence of Kant's Critical Philosophy in the Mirror of His Correspondence with Marcus Herz

DATE: Monday,…



Workshop in the Global Nineteenth Century

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Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University
"Liberalism in the Eastern Colony"

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Honors Program Informational Session

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An informational session for the Honors Program will be held on Tuesday, September 23 from 12:30 to 1:30 in College Hall 209. Pizza will be served.



Memorial Service for Professor Michael B. Katz

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The History Department mourns the loss of Professor Michael B. Katz, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, who died August 23, 2014 at the age of 75.  A pioneering historian of public education,…



Social Science & Policy Forum Conference

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The War on Poverty at 50: Its History and Legacy (Conference)

Cosponsored by the Penn School of Social Policy and Practice, …