2009-2010
Seminars will be held on the dates listed below on Tuesdays at 4:30PM in the History Lounge, College Hall 209. For more information, including access to pre-circulated papers, please contact the series coordinator, Professor Antonio Feros .
Fall 2009
September 22
Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania
“Soviet Rights-Talk in the Post-Stalin Era”
October 6
David Serlin,University of California San Diego
“Touching Histories: Personality and Disability in American Sex Studies of the 1930s”
October 20
Daniel Richter, University of Pennsylvania
“Re-Reading William Penn's 1681 Letter to the Kings of the Indians”
October 27: Special session of the Annenberg Seminar in History
Mark Lloyd and Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania
“The West Philadelphia Community History Center”
November 3
Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania
“Holy War: Evangelical Women and the Battle against Secularism, 1975 – 2000"
November 17
David Myers, University of California (Los Angeles) and Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
"Rethinking the History of Jewish Nationalism"
December 1
Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania
“The Origins of Crimes against Humanity: The Russian Empire, International Law, and the 1915 Note on the Armenian Genocide”
Spring 2010
January 26
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
David Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania
“Cross-Cultural Dialogues in Early Modern Europe: A Textual Seminar”
February 9
Eve Troutt Powell, University of Pennsylvania
Title TBA
February 23
Holly Case, Cornell University
Title TBA
March 16
Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title TBA
March 30
Laurent Doubois, Duke University
Title TBA
April 13
Ipek Yosmaoglu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title TBA
April 27
Siyen Fei, University of Pennsylvania
Title TBA
