Penn Ottoman and Persian History Group
Seçil Yılmaz, University of Pennsylvania
Penn History Book Conversations
Ada Kuskowski and Roger Chartier
Discussion of Ada Kuskowski, Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France (Cambridge University Press, 2022). In dialogue with Prof. Roger Chartier.
History Major and More Dinner
Interested in the History Major, History Minor, or Legal Studies and History Minor? Bring your questions and join us for dinner on Feb 15. Registration required.
Russian History and Culture Workshop
David Brandenberger (History, Richmond)
"Stalin and the Historical Relationship between the Russians and Ukrainians: A Case Study of the General Secretary’s Editing of A. V. Shestakov’s 1937 History of the USSR."
Join the History Department at the Palestra!
Penn Athletics and Recreation is excited to host the History Department at the Palestra on Saturday, February 11th at 2PM.
Full-time grad and undergrad students can download free tickets by scanning the QR…
Johann Schiltberger’s Excellent Adventure: Traveler’s Tales from Late Medieval Eurasia
Paul Cobb, University of Pennsylvania
This is the first talk in the Penn Ottoman and Persian Histories Faculty Working Group series.
Hosted in the Department of History, this talk is made…
HISTORY SPEAKING
In Defense of Defiance: Women and Political Resistance in Iran
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is a prominent scholar of Iranian and Middle Eastern history. Her research addresses issues of national and cultural formation and gender concerns in Iran, as well as…
Legal History Workshop
Yanay Israeli (University of Michigan)
The workshops will continue to be hybrid. Zoom links and classroom location will be available in the calendar invites. Papers will be circulated for each individual workshop closer to the date. Lunch will be…
HISTORY SPEAKING
Tales that Bodies Tell: The Entangled Paths to Black Lives Matter and the Repeal of Roe v. Wade
Kathleen Brown is a historian of gender and race in early America and the Atlantic World. Educated at Wesleyan University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, she is author of Good Wives,…