Event



Revolution at Penn?: Historians in Conversation

Penn Libraries
- | Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

From the Penn Libraries website:

To celebrate the opening of Revolution at Penn?, curators John Pollack and J. M. Duffin will give a tour of the exhibition, followed by a panel conversation. Topics to be explored center around Philadelphia's "radical" revolution, the place of Penn and its political and social status in the 18th century, the discoveries of the Penn and Slavery Project, and the implications of these histories for the contemporary university. 

Exhibit tour: 4:30pm

Panel discussion: 5:30pm

Panelists

  • Kathleen Brown, David Boies Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
  • VanJessica Gladney, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
  • Jessica Roney, Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University
  • Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
  • Jonathan Zimmerman, Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education, Policy, Organizations, Leadership, and Systems Division; Professor of History of Education, University of Pennsylvania
     

Open to the Public