Weekly Calendar
Monday, February 6
History of Sociology & Science Workshop
Christina Bicchieri, University of Pennsylvania
Norm entrepreneurship: how to eliminate negative norms and build better ones
DATE: Monday, February 6th
TIME: 3:30-5:30 PM
LOCATION: 337 Cohen Hall
For more information, please visit
http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/events/hss-workshop-christina-bicchieri
Middle East Center Lecture
Kamran Aghaie, University of Texas at Austin
Islam and Religious Nationalisms in the Middle East
DATE: Monday, February 6th
TIME: 4:30 PM
LOCATION: College Hall 318
Sponsored by the Departments of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Religion, and History
For more information, please contact
mec-info@sas.upenn.edu
History of Material Texts Seminar
Elchanan Reiner, Tel Aviv University
The Printed Talmud: A Project of Modern Jewish Culture
DATE: Monday, February 6th
TIME: 5:15 PM
LOCATION: Meyerson Conference Room, Van Pelt Library
The printing of the Babylonian Talmud in the sixteenth century made that work a fundamental text of Jewish culture. I argue that the printed Talmud is, in fact, a new text, different in important ways from the one familiar to medieval Jewish scholars. The Talmud has been seen as a traditional, conservative force in Jewish society; my thesis is that the printed Talmud was an innovative work that played a significant role in European Jewry's transition from traditionalism to modernity. The presentation is drawn from a work-in-progress on the changes in Ashkenazi Jewish culture brought on by the advent of the printed book.
For more information, please contact
Marla Pagan-Mattos
marpagan@sas.upenn.edu
Wednesday, February 8
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Seminar: Travel Facts and Travel Fiction
Elchanan Reiner, Tel Aviv University
Menahem of Hebron: A Thirteenth-Century Travelogue and its Strange Fate
DATE: Wednesday, February 8th
TIME: 12:00 PM
LOCATION: Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Lunch is provided afterwards.
Only open to Penn professors and graduate students. Registration is required.
For more information or to RSVP, please contact
Sheila Allen
allenshe@sas.upenn.edu
Thursday, February 9
Penn Cultural Heritage Center Lecture
Robert Wittman, Founder, FBI Art Crime Team
Hear the True Stories Behind the FBI’s Real ‘Indiana Jones’
DATE: Thursday, February 9th
TIME: 12:30 PM
LOCATION: Nevil Classroom, Penn Museum
During this afternoon lecture, Robert Wittman will discuss his experiences rising from humble roots as the son of an antiques dealer to build a twenty-year law-enforcement career that was nothing short of extraordinary. Armed with a scholar’s passion, a con man’s smile, and a daredevil’s nerves, he worked undercover to catch art thieves, scammers, and black-market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio and Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. During his twenty years as an FBI special agent, his accomplishments included the creation of the bureau’s Art Crime Team. He has recovered more than $300 million of stolen art and cultural property.
Brown bag lecture - please bring a lunch!
The Penn Cultural Heritage Center Spring Lecture Series is sponsored, in part, by the PoGo Family Foundation
For more information, please visit
http://www.pennchc.org/PennCHC/EVENTS.html
National Museum of American Jewish History Panel
Getting Ahead: Immigrants, Business, and Ethnic Identity
PANELISTS
Hasia Diner, New York University
Jennifer Lee, University of California, Irvine
Diane Vecchio, Furman University
MODERATOR
Beth Wenger, University of Pennsylvania
DATE: Thursday, February 9th
TIME: 6:00 PM
LOCATION: National Museum of American Jewish History (101 South Independence Mall East)
Please join us as a group of leading scholars explores the diverse immigrant experiences of Italians, Jews, Koreans, and others, in a comparative context.
Reception to follow.
Free for Museum Members and Penn students/faculty with valid ID Non-Members: $8
Presented by the National Museum of American Jewish History and the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Supported by the Arlene and Stanley Ginsburg Family Foundation.
To register for the event, please visit
www.nmajh.org/publicprograms
For more information, please call
215-923-3811 ext. 110
Saturday, February 11
Van Pelt Library Symposium
Architectures of the Text: An Inquiry Into the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
PARTICIPANTS
Ann Moyer (History)
John Dixon Hunt (Landscape Architecture)
Victoria Kirkham (Romance Languages)
David Leatherbarrow (Architecture)
Chris Nygren (History of Art)
Larry Silver (History of Art)
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto (Landscape Architecture)
Ian White, translator of the Hypnerotomachia
DATE: Saturday, February 11th
TIME: 10:00AM – 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Class of '55 Room and Meyerson Conference Room (Van Pelt Library, 2nd floor)
A symposium to celebrate the acquisition of the second edition of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1545) by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries
For more information, or to register, please visit
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/hypnerotomachia.html
or contact
rbml@pobox.upenn.edu
215-898-7088
UPCOMING: Tuesday, February 14
Annenberg Seminar in History
Samuel Hirst, University of Pennsylvania
Soviet- Turkish entanglements, 1920s-1930s
DATE: Tuesday, February 14th
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 Peter Holquist
holquist@sas.upenn.edu
SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday, February 29
Penn Institute for Urban Research - Urban Book Talk
Michael Katz, University of Pennsylvania
Why Don't American Cities Burn?
COMMENTATORS
Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania
Jeremy Novak, William Penn Foundation
DATE: Wednesday, February 29th
TIME: 5:30 PM
LOCATION: Inn at Penn, Living Room (3600 Sansom St.)
Michael Katz, Penn IUR Faculty Fellow and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, will share insights into the newest book in Penn IUR and Penn Press’s book series, “The City in the 21st Century.” Why Don’t American Cities Burn starts with the story of a horrific yet mundane murder of Robert Monroe who was killed in a dispute over five dollars. One of seven homicides to occur in the city that day and yet not make the major newspapers, for Katz, a juror on the murder trial, the incident exemplified the marginalization, social isolation, and indifference that plague American cities. Katz charts the emergence of the urban forms that underlie such events and explores the reasons American cities since the early 1970s have remained relatively free of collective violence while black men in bleak inner-city neighborhoods have turned their rage inward on one another rather than on the agents and symbols of a culture and political economy that exclude them. How, Katz asks, can we construct a new narrative that acknowledges the dark side of urban history even as it demonstrates the capacity of government to address the problems of cities and their residents? How can we create a politics of modest hope?
This event is free and open tot he public.
Co-sponsored by Penn’s Department of History and Penn Press.
For more information, or to register, please visit
http://penniur.upenn.edu/events
SAVE THE DATE: Monday, March 19
Stephen Allen Kaplan Memorial Lecture
Adam McKeown, Columbia University
Cindy Hahamovitch, College of William & Mary
Lee Cassanelli, University of Pennsylvania
Vanessa Ogle, University of Pennsylvania
Borders and Borderlands in History
DATE: Monday, March 19th
TIME: 5:30PM
LOCATION: College Hall 209
A Welcome Reception will be at 5:00PM.
For more information, please contact
Claire Kaiser
cpogue@sas.upenn.edu
