Past Events



Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies

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Sven Beckert, Department of History, Harvard University
“Empire of Cotton: A Global History”

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2015 Steven Allen Kaplan Memorial Lecture

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Professor Lila Corwin Berman, Temple
Professor David Silverman, George Washington University
Professor Jamal J. Elias, UPenn
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Undergraduate Open House

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The History Department invites all undergraduates to attend its spring Open House, March 24, 12:00-1:30 in COLL 209.  Syllabi for fall courses will be available, and refreshments will be served!



Russian History & Culture Workshop

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Adam Leeds (Anthropology, Penn)
“Dreams in Cybernetic Fugue: Cold War Technoscience, the Intelligentsia, and the Birth of Soviet Mathematical Economics” 

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Center for Teaching & Learning Graduate Student Workshop

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Professor Kathy Peiss, History
Leading Discussions in History

DATE: Wednesday, March 18, 2015
TIME: 12:00pm-1:30pm
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Annenberg Seminar in History

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James Brophy, University of Delaware
“The Second Wave: Cultural Transfer and Print Markets in Central Europe, 1815-1848"

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Reconciliation and its Discontents

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Audra Simpson
Reconciliation and its Discontents



18th Annual Meyerhoff Lecture: Natalie Zemon Davis

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Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto
With an introduction by Roger Chartier, University of Pennsylvania/Collège de France…



Annenberg Seminar in History

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Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto
18th Annual Meyerhoff Lecture:  “Regaining Jerusalem: Eschatology and Slavery in Jewish Colonization in 17-Century Suriname.”…



Penn Economic History Forum

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Mark Rose, Florida Atlantic University
"Bill Clinton and the Politics of Bank Deregulation"

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