Spring 2021 Annenberg Seminar Schedule

ANNENBERG SEMINAR – SPRING 2021 - Virtual

 

Tuesday, January 26 - 4:30pm - Celebrating New Faculty Books

Ann Moyer (UPenn), author of The Intellectual World of Sixteenth-Century Florence: Humanists and Culture in the Age of Cosimo I (2020), in conversation with Eva Del Soldato (UPenn)

 

Tuesday, February 2 - 4:30pm

Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College

TBA

 

Tuesday, February 9 – 4:30pm - Graduate Work in Progress

Lacy Feigh (UPenn), "Punishing Slavery: Enforcing Abolition in Southwest Ethiopia, 1942-1952”

Gabriel Raeburn (UPenn), "'The color line was washed away in the blood': Race and Prosperity in the Pentecostal Healing Revival, 1940s – 1960s."

 

Tuesday, February 23 – 4:30pm - Graduate Work in Progress

Mengliu Cheng (UPenn), “Preaching Modernity: Presbyterian Missions and Agricultural Extension in China(1917-1927)”

Shang (Kaho) Yasuda (UPenn), “Who Are We? Han-Taiwanese and Indigenous Veterans of the Japanese Imperial Army (1941-1945)”

Moderator: Daniel Richter (UPenn)

 

Tuesday, March 16 – 4:30pm

Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

TBA

           

Tuesday, March 23 – 4:30pm - Graduate Work in Progress

Aron Brouwer (UPenn), “The Pan-Fascist Paradox: How Does a Nationalist-Minded Fascist Think and Act Transnationally?”

Kimberly White (UPenn), "Legal Armor: The Reagan Administration’s Use of Law to Justify the Grenada Invasion"

Moderator: Daniel Richter (UPenn)

 

Tuesday, March 30 - 4:30pm

Keisha N. Blain, University of Pittsburgh

TBA

 

Tuesday, April 6 – 4:30pm

Natasha G. Wheatley, Princeton University

TBA

 

Tuesday, April 13 – 12:00pm (Special Time)

Carlo Ginzburg, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Roger Chartier, Annenberg Visiting Professor of History UPenn and Professor at the Collège de France

“Morphology and History: A Conversation”

 

Tuesday, April 20 – 4:30pm

Brandon Byrd, Vanderbilt University

TBA

 

Tuesday, April 27 - 4:30pm - Celebrating New Faculty Books

Mia Bay (UPenn), author of Traveling Black. A Story of Race and Resistance (2021), in conversation with Heather Williams (UPenn)

 

Tuesday, May 4 4:30pm

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University

TBA