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Annenberg Seminar in History

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?"

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