The Stephen Allen Kaplan Memorial Lecture is organized annually by Clio: The Penn History Graduate Student Group. Each year, graduate students in the Department of History nominate a scholar noted for his or her broad appeal and compelling research. The Kaplan Memorial Lecture is intended to engage and bring together students from a variety of fields and discplines related to the study of history.
2011
Thursday, March 3
Bruce Hall, Duke University
Eve Troutt-Powell, University of Pennsylvania
"Towards an African History of Race: Blackness and Slavery in the Muslim Scholarship of West Africa, c. 1700-1900"
For more information about Bruce Hall, please visit his Faculty Page.
Thursday, March 24
Jeffrey Ostler, University of Oregon
Karl Jacoby, Brown University
Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania
"Histories of Violence: Expansion and Encounter in Nineteenth-Century U.S. History"
For more information about Jeffrey Ostler, please visit his Faculty Page.
For more information about Karl Jacoby, please visit his Faculty Page.
2010
Walter Johnson, Harvard University
“The Negro Fever”: Slavery, the South, and the Movement to Re-Open the Atlantic Slave Trade"
Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania
"Postscript - Confederate Style"
Walter Johnson's work focuses on slavery, capitalism, and, increasingly, imperialism. His book, Soul by Soul, used the slave market as a way into the fantasies, fears, negotiations, and violence that characterized American slavery.
Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago
"Title TBA"
Bruce Cumings' research and teaching focus on modern Korean history, 20th century international history, U.S.-East Asian relations, East Asian political economy,and American foreign relations. He has just completed Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power , which will be published by Yale University Press. He is working on a synoptic single-volume study of the origins of the Korean War, and a book on the Northeast Asian political economy.
2009
Geoff Eley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Remembering the Future: Intellectuals, Politics, and the Uses of the Past"
Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will be speaking about his recent work on the transition from social history to cultural history to a "history of society." Please refer to his recent book A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society .
2008
Sven Beckert, Harvard University
"The Empire of Cotton: A Global History"
Sven Beckert, Professor of American History at Harvard University, specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. history, with especial emphasis on social, economic and transnational history. His The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-96 appeared in 2001 to great acclaim, and he is currently working on a global history of cotton during the nineteenth century.
2006
Ann Laura Stoler, The New School for Social Research
"Love Letters in Colonial Exile: On Intimacy and the Politics of Comparison"
Ann Laura Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research, will be discussing her forthcoming publication, Love Letters in Colonial Exile. Her lecture will include an examination of the assumptions scholars make when using personal and official archival collections.
2005
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
"Puritan Conquistador: Toward a Pan-American Atlantic History"
2004
George Chauncey
"From Sodomy Laws to Marriage Amendments: Sexual Identity/Politics since 1900"
2003
Joan Scott
"'The Political Representation of Sexual Difference: Le Mouvement pour la parité in late 20th century France"
2002
Carlo Ginzburg
"Latitude, Slaves and the Bible: An Experiment in Microhistory"
