2008-2009
Seminars will be held on the dates listed below at 4:30PM in the History Lounge, College Hall 209. For more information, including access to pre-circulated papers, please contact please contact the series coordinators, Professor Kathleen Brown and Professor Benjamin Nathans.
Thursday, October 2
Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, STANford University
"Spatial Politics"
Thursday, November 13
dagmar herzog, Professor of European History, cuny graduate center
"Syncopated Sex: Transforming European Sexual Cultures
Thursday, December 4
Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Columbia University
"Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights"
Thursday, February 12
Mrinalini Sinha, Professor of History and Women's Studies, Penn State University
"Democratic Iterations: How the ‘Indian Question' Remade the British World"
Thursday, March 26
Kenneth Pomeranz, Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
"Chinese Development and World History: Putting the 'East Asian Model' in Perspective"
Thursday, April 23
Deborah Cohen, Professor of History, Brown University
"The Children Who Disappeared: Mental Disability and the Family in Britain, 1870-1960"
2007-2008
Seminars will be held on the dates listed below at 12 NOON in the History Lounge, College Hall 209. For more information, please contact the series coordinator, Professor Steven Hahn.
Thursday, October 18
Marcus Rediker, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
"The Floating Dungeon: A History of the Slave Ship"
Thursday, January 24
Stephanie Smallwood, University of Washington
"The Middle Passage in American History"
Thursday, February 28
Anand Yang, University of Washington
"Between Slavery and Indenture: Indian Convict Labor in Southeast Asia in the 18th and early 19th Centuries"
Monday, March 24
4:30 PM in the History Lounge, College Hall 209
Shane White, University Of Sydney
"When Black Kings & Queens Ruled Harlem"
Thursday April 3
Ahmad SiKainga, Ohio State University
"Slavery and Social Life in 19th Century Turco-Egyptian Khartoum"
2006-2007
Seminars will be held at 12:00 noon on the dates listed below in the History Lounge, 209 College Hall. For more information, please contact the series coordinator, Prof. Steven Hahn
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Anne Bailey, State University of New York, Binghamton
"African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Paradigm for African Diaspora Studies"
Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, SUNY, Binghamton. Author of: African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame (Beacon Press, 2005)
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Marita Sturken, New York University
"The Kitschification of Memory"
Professor, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University. Author of: Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (University of California Press, 1997) and Tourists of History: Memory, Mourning, and Kitsch in American Culture (forthcoming, Duke University Press, 2007)
Thursday, November 16, 2006
John Bodnar, Indiana University
"Virtue and Violence: 'The Good War' in American Memory"
Chancellor's Professor, Department of History; Co-director, Center for Study of History and Memory, Indiana University. Author of: Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003); and Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 1992)
Thursday, February 8, 2007
David Blight, Yale University
"'Unusual Evidence': The Recently Discovered Slave Narratives and Emancipation of Wallace Turnage and John Washington"
Class of 1954 Professor of American History, Yale University. Author of: Race and Reunion: The Civil War and American Memory (Harvard University Press: 2001)
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Steve Stern, University of Wisconsin
"Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile: The Silent Making of the Youthful Protest Generation, 1973-1983"
Alberto Flores Galindo Professor of History, University of Wisconsin. Author of: Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1988 (Duke University Press, 2004) and Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988 (Duke University Press, 2006)
2005-2006 | Legal History
The Annenberg Distinguished Speaker Series for 2005-6 aims to stimulate discussion about historical approaches to the study of law. Invited speakers will explore themes such as comparative law, law and medicine, and race, religion, and civil liberties.
Seminars will be held in 209 College Hall at 4:30 pm on the dates listed below. Approximately two weeks before each seminar, copies of the paper to be discussed will be available electronically or in the history department office.
Friday, September 23, 2005
Jon Wiener, University of California, Irvine
Historians in Trouble
Thursday, October 27, 2005
John Witt, Columbia University
Crystal Eastman and the Internationalist Beginnings of American Civil Liberties
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
John Cairns, University of Edinburgh
The Scottish Law of Slavery
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Cornelia Dayton, University of Connecticut
Madness, Confinement and Legal Process: New England, 1780-1830
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago
Scandal and the Medieval Canon Law
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Cynthia Herrup, University of Southern California
The Qualities of Mercy, 1620-1680
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan
Plessy v. Ferguson and Equal "Public Rights": A Vernacular Anti-Caste Framework in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
2004-2005 | Regional, Comparative, & Global History
The Annenberg seminar this year explores the multiple ways in which scholars grounded in particular regions have expanded their work to encompass global processes and problems. Our speakers will consider the interactions of regional and world history, and the problems posed by this particular approach to research and teaching. The concept of territory as a bounded region of inquiry needs to be interrogated and reassessed, but the concept of "globalization" provides no easy alternative.
All events will be held in College Hall 209, the History Lounge. A catered reception will follow. For more information, contact Lynn Lees or David Ludden.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Combining Regional and World Histories
We begin our series with a roundtable discussion on October 12, 4:30-6:00PM, featuring comments by experts in the history of Africa, the Middle East, the United States, South Asia, and Europe. We will begin with ten minute presentations on teaching and research by each panelist, and then open the floor to discussion. A lavish reception will follow.
Panelists:
- Chair: Lynn Lees, History
- Aditya Behl, South Asian Studies
- Kathy Brown, History
- Lee Cassanelli, History
- Bob Vitalis, Political Science
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Imperialism in the Age of Nation States
The Annenberg seminar this year explores the multiple ways in which scholars grounded in particular regions expand their work to encompass global processes and problems. Our second set of panelists this term will consider interactions of regional and world history in research and teaching by discussing the concept of empire as a boundary-crossing and globalizing medium in the age of national states. Their short presentations will open general discussion.
THIS TIME A REALLY LAVISH reception will follow.
Panelists:
- Amy Kaplan, English
- Anne Norton, Political Science
- Frederick Dickinson, History
- Ronald Granieri, History
- Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, History
- David Ludden, History
SPRING SCHEDULE
This term the department will host an all-star cast of speakers who work on broad themes in comparative and global history. In most cases, there will be a pre-circulated paper, available electronically or in the History Office, 208 College Hall. Please join us in the History Lounge to meet the following people:
Friday, January 28, 2005, 12:00 noon
Karen Wigen, Stanford University
Maritime Maps as Metaphors for Inter-Area History
Please come for lunch and an illustrated talk.
Karen Wigen, Associate Professor of History (Stanford University) is a geographer with training in Japanese history and culture. She has written THE MAKING OF THE JAPANESE PERIPHERY, 1750-1920, and is the co-author of THE MYTH OF CONTINENTS: A CRITIQUE OF META-GEOGRAPHY, which takes a critical look at the ways social scientists divide the world into supposedly discrete units. Her interests center on Early Modern Japan, historical geography, and issues related to what she terms "geographies of the imagination."
Wednesday, February 16, 2005, 4:30 pm
Ken Pomeranz, University of California
Is there an East Asian Development Path: Long Term Comparisons, Constraints, and Continuities
Kenneth Pomeranz, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine, specializes in Chinese history and in comparative economic history. His second book, THE GREAT DIVERGENCE: EUROPE, CHINA, AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD ECONOMY, has won multiple prizes and been the subject of round table discussions at several historians' conferences. His controversial work challenges the familiar model of the "Rise of the West." We will discuss with him "Son of the Great Divergence," or "Is there an East Asian Development Path: Long Term Comparisons, Constraints, and Continuities."
Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 4:30 pm
Michael Adas, Rutgers
Constructing Development Strategies in the Cold War
Michael Adas, Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History and holder of a Board of Governors' Chair at Rutgers University, began as a historian of South East Asia, writing on social change in the Burma Delta and on anti-colonial millenarian movements in the modern period. His prize-winning book, MACHINES AS THE MEASURE OF MEN: SCIENCE,.TECHNOLOGY, AND THE IDEOLOGIES OF WESTERN DOMINANCE, examines European attitudes toward the technologies and material culture of China, India, and Africa. He has recently completed DOMINANCE BY DESIGN: TECHOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES AND AMERICAN CIVILIZING MISSION. Adas teaches courses on 20th century global history and has helped Rutgers develop its world history program for graduate students.
Monday, March 21, 2005, 4:30 pm
Claudia Ulbrich, Free University Berlin
"That we shall pray to our God for you.... On Christian-Muslim Relations in Early Modern Europe"
Claudia Ulbrich is Professor of History, Free University Berlin. Professor Ulbrich is one of the leading experts on gender history in Germany today, and the author of Shulamit and Margarete. Power, Gender and Religion in a Rural Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Brill Academic Publishers, 2004), a microhistorical look at a small village on the border of Germany and France in the eighteenth century to discover the boundaries created by language, states, religions, cultures, sex, and gender. She is also the author of many articles and edited volumes on the history of gender, Jewish-Christian relations, and autobiography, and director of the Research Group on Self-Testimonies (Autobiographies) in Trans-cultural Perspective at the Free University.
Professor Ulbrich's lecture is co-sponsored by the Annenberg Colloquium in European History and the Annenberg Distinguished Speaker Series
Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 4:30 pm
Barbara Andaya, University of Hawaii
Breaking Out of Boxes: Gender, Highlands, and Area Studies
Barbara Andaya, Professor of History, University of Hawaii, specializes in Southeast Asian history. Her HISTORY OF MALAYSIA, co-authored with Leonard Andaya is the standard work in the field, and she has written more specialized studies of the Malay state of Perak and of Sumatra in the early modern period. Her interests include comparative women's history.
Friday, April 15, 2005, 12:00 noon
Richard Eaton, University of Arizona
Removing Territory from the Teaching of History
Richard Eaton Professor of History, Arizona University, has published widely on Islamic history and Indian history. His books include SUFIS OF BIJAPUR, 1300-1700; THE RISE OF ISLAM AND THE BENGAL FRONTIER, 1204-1760; FIRUZABAD: PALACE CITY OF THE DECCAN, AND ESSAYS ON ISLAM AND INDIAN HISTORY. His discussions of Islam as a "global civilization" have shaped historians' thinking on the Muslim world. Eaton's teaching includes courses on the interactions of Asia and the West.
"Like many who have joined the the world history movement, I have been disappointed with most world history textbooks, which (despite their protests to the contrary) often project onto the world problematic assumptions inherited from the days of Western Civ. Chief among these is the use of territory as the principal unit of analysis. I'll discuss some of my own experiments in deterritorializing world history -- failures, successes, future ideas."
2003-2004 | African History
This year's Annenberg Distinguished Speaker Series focuses on the contribution of African history to comparative history and historiography and features an exciting group of prominent African and American Africanists. Faculty and graduate students in all fields are welcome. No reservations are required, and all colloquia will be held in 209 College Hall at 4:30 on selected Thursdays. We look forward to seeing you at the opening session on October 2 with Joseph Miller of UVA.
October 2, 2003
Joseph Miller (UVA)
"African Dimensions of the Atlantic Slave Trade"
November 6, 2003
Jean Allman (UIUC)
"Fashioning Nation: Gender, Power and the Politics of Dress in Nkrumah's Ghana"
February 5, 2004
Lamin Sanneh (Yale)
"Sacred Truth and Secular Agency: Separate Immunity or Double Jeopardy? An Intellectual Inquiry into the Shari'ah Debate in Nigeria"
February 26, 2004
Sara Berry (John Hopkins)
"The value of history- Transacting the past in Africa today"
March 25, 2004
Tabitha Kanogo (UC Berkeley)
"African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya : Dancing on a Grave and Crossing Boundaries"
April 22, 2004
Richard Roberts (Stanford)
"Women Seeking Divorce; Men Seeking Control: Litigant Strategy, Institutional Change, and Social History in the Native Courts of the French Soudan"
Reading available in College Hall 208 or here (Microsoft Word File).
2002-2003 | Transnational Imaginations: Expanding the Boundaries of American History
All talks will take place at 4:30 pm in College Hall 209; refreshments at 4:00pm. Precirculated papers will be available in College Hall 208 one week before the scheduled talk.
October 3, 2002
Thomas Bender, New York University
"What was Discovered in 1492 - and What Difference Does It Make for American History?"
October 31, 2002
Kenneth Cmiel, University of Iowa
"The United States as Beacon and Beast: Taking Human Rights Seriously, 1940 to the Present"
November 21, 2002
Ann Fabian, Rutgers University
"'Crania Americana' Presenting Nations of the Dead"
February 21, 2003
Glenda Gilmore, Yale University
"'The Nazis and Dixie': How African Americans used Anti-Fascism to Fight Southern White Supremacy"
March 27, 2003
Walter Johnson, New York University
"Slavery, Cotton, and Credit: The 'Flush Times' in the Mississippi Valley"
April 24, 2003
Robert Orsi, Harvard University
"Remembering/Forgetting in Late-Twentieth Century American Catholicism"
2001-2002 | Twentieth Century Lives
A public lecture series co-sponsored by the Department of History and the College Alumni Society. Penn professors will explore lives that shaped and illuminated the century that "raised the greatest hopes ever conceived by humanity, and destroyed all illusions and ideals."-Yehudi Menuhin
No reservations are required.
All lectures will be held in College Hall 200.
Wednesday, September 12, 2001, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Warren Breckman
Sigmund Freud
Wednesday, October 17, 2001, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Bruce Kuklick
Woodrow Wilson
Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Thomas Childers
Elvis Presley
Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Kathy Peiss
Betty Friedan
Wednesday, January 16, 2002, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Thomas Sugrue
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wednesday, January 30, 2002, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Arthur Waldron
Mao Zedong
Wednesday, February 27, 2002, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Jonathan Steinberg
Margaret Thatcher
Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Benjamin Nathans
Andrei Sakharov
