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,…
Historical Thinking and Transitional Justice: Perspectives from Colombia
Catalina Muñoz (Ph.D., UPenn-History) is associate professor of history at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Her publications include A Fervent Crusade for the National Soul: Cultural Politics in…
History Department Open House
Penn Undergraduates are invited to join the History Department faculty at our fall Open House! Come and learn more about studying History at Penn, especially our spring '23 History courses and the History Major and…
“Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexicans Kings and Queens, 1539-1640”
Sponsors: Department of History and Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Sovereign Joy explores the performance of festive black kings and queens among Afro-Mexicans between 1539 and 1640. This fascinating study illustrates how the first African and Afro-creole people in colonial…