Past Events



The Ghetto and Beyond: The Jews in the Age of the Medici

Sep 18, 2016 Sep 19, 2016 at -

The Ghetto and Beyond: The Jews in the Age of the Medici

A Two-Day Conference with keynote address by David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania…



Russian History and Culture Workshop

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Russian History and Culture Workshop

Kat Reischl, Slavic, Princeton
“Look Left, Young Man!: The International Exchange of Photo-Narratives" 

DATE: Monday, September 12, 2016…



Penn Economic History Forum

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Penn Economic History Forum 

Moritz Schularick, U Bonn
"No Price Like Home: Global House Prices, 1870-2012"

DATE: Thursday, September 8, 2016
TIME: 2:00pm-4:00pm



Graduation Reception

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All graduating History Majors and their families are invited to attend the History Department Graduation Reception on Sunday, May 15, at 2:30pm in College Hall 200.  Questions regarding the event may be directed to…



Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies

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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies

Roquinaldo Ferreira, Department of History, Brown University
“Africa and the Second Slavery, ca. 1820s-c. 1860s”

DATE: Tuesday…



Russian History & Culture Workshop

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Russian History & Culture Workshop

Masha Kirasirova, New York University Abu Dhabi
“Arabization, Purges, and Terror in the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV)…



Workshop in the History of Material Texts

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Workshop in the History of Material Texts

Roger Chartier, University of Pennsylvania
"When Shakespeare Met Cervantes"

DATE:…



Kislak Center’s Graduate Student Lecture and Exhibition Series

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Kislak Center’s Graduate Student Lecture and Exhibition Series

Kristian Taketomo, Penn History
"O public road": The Walt Whitman…



Penn Economic History Forum

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Michael Gilsenan (NYU, Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Center)
‘Trusts in the Family: An Arab business dynasty in colonial Singapore 1880-1960’