Weekly Calendar
Tuesday, November 10
The Richard Shryock Lecture in American History
Susan M. Reverby, Marion Butler McLean Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College
Examining the ‘Tuskegee' Syphilis Study: What More Can an Historian Say?
DATE: Tuesday, November 10th
TIME: 4:30 PM
LOCATION: College Hall 209
Susan M. Reverby has been a pioneer in U.S. women's history, and has written extensively on the history of nursing, health care, and medical ethics. Her publications include Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing (l987), Gendered Domains: Beyond the Public and Private in Women's History (1992), Health Care in America : Essays in Social History (1979), and America 's Working Women: a Documentary History (1976). An edited collection of articles and documents entitled Tuskegee 's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study appeared in 2000. Her latest book is Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Legacy, published this fall by the University of North Carolina Press.
The Greater Philadelphia's GeoHistory Network
Finding Places in Philadelphia History: Researching Historical Maps through Philadelphia's GeoHistory Network and Related Digital Tools
DATE: Tuesday, November 10th
TIME: 4:30-6:30 PM
LOCATION: Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies (3355 Woodland Walk)
A hands-on introduction to a new world of digital research tools emerging uniquely in Philadelphia for examining a treasure trove of Philadelphia's historical maps online. The Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network (GPGN), led by the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, has digitized thousands of Philadelphia 's most important historical maps. Many of these are electronically overlaid, and linked to the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings database, allowing interactive examination of the history of a building, a site, a block, or an entire neighborhood online. This electronic workshop tutorial will review the growing content of the site and examine its potential for use in historical research, preservation and planning. Organized by McNeil Center participant Larry Tise, already a true believer in things digital, this special session will be presented principally by Bruce Laverty, the Athenaeum's creative Curator of Architecture, with contributions from other GPGN participants as possible. For the fullest possible immersion in this emerging world of research, attendees who have access to the University of Pennsylvania wireless system are invited to bring their laptops and thereby enjoy the fullest possible hands-on experience.
For more information, please visit
www.philageohistory.org
Wednesday, November 11
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies: Secularism and its Discontents
David Meyers, University of California (Los Angeles)
The Political Theology of Satmar Hasidim: Between Sacred and Profane
DATE: Wednesday, November 11th
TIME: 12:00 PM
LOCATION: Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Lunch is provided.
Only open to Penn professors and graduate students. Registration is required.
For more information or to register, please contact
Sheila Allen
allenshe@sas.upenn.edu
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Brown Bag Session
Ellery Foutch, University of Pennsylvania
Temporality, Metamorphosis, and Perfection in 19 th -Century Art and Natural History
DATE: Wednesday, November 11th
TIME: 12:30-1:45 PM
LOCATION: McNeil Center, Seminar Room 105 (3355 Woodland Walk)
Papers are circulated in advance. Everyone should read the paper in advance.
For copies, please contact
mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Penn Humanities Forum on Connections
Helen Epstein, Author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
Politics and Pandemics
DATE: Wednesday, November 11th
TIME: 5:00-6:30 PM
LOCATION: Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum ( 3260 South Street )
In 2009-2010, the Penn Humanities Forum investigates webs, networks, and cross-fertilizations of the ancient past and the fast-approaching future in a Forum on Connections.
Technological advances have improved the ease of international travel, and globalization motivates the unprecedented crisscrossing of the world that marks our era. The value of such cultural connection and communication has its disadvantages, including the specter of new and deadly diseases sweeping uncontrolled across the globe. Public health advocate Helen Epstein examines the political issues surrounding these fears.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
For more information or to register, please visit
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu
The Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Memorial Lecture
Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History
Winning While Losing? The Civil Rights Predicament in the Obama Era
DATE: Wednesday, November 11th
TIME: 5:30 PM
LOCATION: Gittis Hall 214, University of Pennsylvania Law School (34th & Chestnut Streets)
For more information, please contact
Gale Garrison
ggarriso@sas.upenn.edu
215-746-7096
Thursday, November 12
Korean Studies Colloquium
Joy Kim, Princeton University
Bound in History: Slavery in Late Choson Korea
DATE: Thursday, November 12th
TIME: 4:30 PM
LOCATION: Room 111, Annenberg School
This talk examines Korea 's uneasy relationship with the institution of slavery (nobi-je) and its cultural and intellectual legacies. Slavery, until its abolition in 1894, was an integral part of Korean society for more than a millennium, yet its history has been condemned, denied, and effaced. But Korean slavery was slavery. Tracing the ways in which slavery was represented first by the slave- owning neo-Confucian elites in the late Choson period, and later by twentieth-century historians, this talk explores the correlations between the institution of slavery and elite identity construction. This talk not only speaks to the distinction of social power, but also addresses one of the central issues of Korea 's engagement with its contested past.
For more information, please visit
http://www.ceas.sas.upenn.edu/events.shtml
Friday, November 13
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Seminar
Brian Phillips Murphy, Baruch College and 2007-2008 Monticello-McNeil Dissertation Fellow
A Man, A Plan, a Canal: Erie
DATE: Friday, November 13th
TIME: 3:00-5:00 PM
LOCATION: The Library Company of Philadelphia (1314 Locust Street)
A reception is to follow.
The McNeil Center invites graduate students, faculty members, independent scholars, and all other Early Americanists in the Mid-Atlantic region to attend.
Papers are circulated in advance and should be read by those planning to attend.
To obtain copies via listserv, or for more information, please contact
mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
215-898-9251
UPCOMING: Tuesday, November 17
Annenberg Seminar in History
David Myers, University of California (Los Angeles)
Rethinking the History of Jewish Nationalism
DATE: Tuesday, November 17th
TIME: 4:30 PM
LOCATION: College Hall 209
For more information, please visit
http://www.history.upenn.edu/annenberg_speakers/index.shtml
or contact
Professor Antonio Feros
aferos@sas.upenn.edu
UPCOMING: Thursday, November 19
Ethnohistory Seminar
Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas and National University of México
Christian-Indigenous Art in Sixteenth Century New Spain
DATE: Thursday, November 19th
TIME: 4:30-6:30 PM
LOCATION: College Hall 209
Reception to follow.
For more information or to order the pre-circulated paper, please contacted
ethno@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
