Past Events



Kaplan Memorial Lecture

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Penn Economic History Forum

Harold James [Princeton]
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Symposium on Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization (New Haven: Yale University Press, February 2023)  



Film screening and discussion of "Port Triumph" with Director Jeffrey L. Gould

Hosted by Professor Amy Offner
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The History Department and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies are pleased to co-sponsor a screening and discussion of the documentary film Port Triumph with the film's director, Professor Jeffrey L.…



Iranian Jews in the 21st Century: A Photographic Journey

Lior B. Sternfeld, Penn State University
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Join us for a talk by Professor Lior Sternfeld entitled "Iranian Jews in the 21st Century: A Photographic Journey".

Sponsored by Penn's History Department, the Jewish Studies Program, and the…



Russian History and Culture Workshop

Iuliia Skubytska (History, ZZF-Postdam/Princeton University)
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“Documenting and Representing an Ongoing War: the Work of the War Childhood Museum in Ukraine”



Penn Economic History Forum

Maylis Avaro [Penn History]
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"A Gold Battle? De Gaulle and the Dollar Hegemony during the Bretton Woods Era". 



Penn Ottoman and Persian History Group

Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware
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Prof. Rudi Matthee is the John A. Munroe and Dorothy L. Munroe…



Notes from the Valley of Slaughter: An eyewitness journal and diary of the Holocaust in the ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania, by Dr. Aharon Pick (1872–1944)

Jewish Studies Program
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The Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series and the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania are proud to invite you to an extraordinary book celebration.

Author and…



HISTORY SPEAKING

Laws of War: Russia and the Curious Origins of the Rules of Armed Conflict
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Peter Holquist's teaching and research focus upon the history of Russia and modern Europe. He is the author of Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia's Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921 (…