2012-2013
Seminars will be held on the dates listed below on Tuesdays at 4:30PM in the History Lounge, College Hall 209. Papers will be posted and available to download at this webpage ten-to-fourteen days prior to the presentation. Papers will be removed at the time of the presentation. Please direct any questions to the series coordinator, Peter Holquist.
Fall 2012
September 18
Elidor Mehilli, Princeton University and Penn Humanities Forum
The Albanian Discovery of a Soviet World
October 2
Daniel Cheely, University of Pennsylvania
How to Marginalize other people's Scriptures Legitimately: Pasquier Quesnel's Nouveau Testament (1692) across Post-Reformation Europe
October 16
Michael Katz, University of Pennsylvania
What Kind of a Problem is Poverty? The Archeology of an Idea
November 13
Charles Sharpe, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and the Social Sciences at McGill University
Relief and the Wartime Alliances
November 27
Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
Food Insecurity and the Home Front in Wartime Japan: A Transnational Perspective
December 11
Celebration of faculty books published in the 2012 calendar year
Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania
Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: the Geniza Merchants and their Business World (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Introduction by: Prof. Thomas Safley, University of Pennsylvania
Eve Troutt Powell, University of Pennsylvania
Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire (Stanford University Press, 2012)
Introduction by: Prof. Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2013
January 15
Sidney Xu Lu, University of Pennsylvania
Good Women for Empire: Educating Overseas Female Emigrants in Imperial Japan, 1900-1924
January 29
Jarod ROLL, University of Sussex/Davis Center
“Though now we’re poor someday we’ll be richer”: The Moral Economy of America’s Most Conservative Miners
February 12
Angus BURGIN, Johns Hopkins University
Planning against Planning: The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Origins of Neoliberalism
February 26
JP DAUGHTON, Stanford University
The Politics of Violence and Humanity in the Modern French Empire
March 12
Vanessa Ogle, University of Pennsylvania
States, Rights, and Development: The 'New International Economic Order' and the Global Cold War, 1962-1981
March 19
Michele Mitchell, New York University
Hotbeds of Communism? New Deal Camps for Women during the Great Depression
April 2
Mehmet DARaKCIOGLU, Associate Director, Penn Middle East Center
Reading the Fine Print: Book Catalogues and the Intellectual Taste of Ottoman Elites
April 9
Roberta PERGHER, Indiana University
Where does the nation end and the empire begin? Fascist Expansionism, 1922-1943
April 16
Special Rountable Presentation
Roger Chartier, University of Pennsylvania
Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
Roundtable: "How do historians read literary texts?"
