2019-2020
Fall 2019
Tuesday, September 17
"'Free Men and Foreigners': Representation, Afro-Diasporic Thought and Cuban Politics ca. 1900"
Dalia Muller, University at Buffalo
Dalia Antonia Muller, Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, is the author of of Cuban Émigres and Independence in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf World (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). Her book in progress, The Boundaries and the Bonds of Cuban Citizenship During a Time of Transition, is a study of citizenship in Cuba during the first US occupation and the early republic. It explores the struggles of Cuban migrants stranded abroad who were denied rights they should have enjoyed as citizens, as well as the struggles of self-identified Africans in Cuba who resisted membership in the Cuban nation but were forced to accept Cuban citizenship.
Tuesday, October 15
"Fascism and Anti-Fascism: New Histories"
Kirsten Weld, Harvard University
and
Giuliana Chamedes, University of Wisconsin
There is no precirculated paper for this session—it will be an open roundtable discussion—but the following articles are available for those interested in acquainting themselves with Professor Chamedes's and Weld's work.
Kirsten Weld is Professor of History at Harvard University, is the author of Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (Duke University Press, 2014), which won the 2015 WOLA-Duke Human Rights Book Award and the 2016 Best Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association's Recent History and Memory Section. Her book in progress, Ruins in Glory: The Long Spanish Civil War in Latin America, examines the impact and legacies of the Spanish Civil War in the Americas from the 1930s to the present.
Giuliana Chamedes is assistant professor of history and a faculty affiliate of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. She is the author of A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican's Battle to Remake Christian Europe (Harvard University Press, 2019), and is now researching a second book, Failed Globalists: Economic Development, Decolonization, and the Demise of European Political Hegemony.
Tuesday, October 29
"The Trans Imperial Courtroom: Multi-Layered Historicities of Law in Colonial Algeria"
Sarah Ghabrial, Concordia University
Sarah Ghabrial is assistant professor of history at Concordia University and a fellow at Princeton's Shelly Cullom Davis Center. She is completing her first book, a social and gender history of the French-colonial administration of Islamic "family law" in Algeria from 1870 to 1930. It is centrally concerned with how colonial courtrooms functioned as sites of encounter between the colonial state and Algerian subjects, and how these spaces mediated litigants' engagement with local and transnational transformations in Western and Islamic legal cultures. She is the recipient of an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, SSHRC Insight Development Grant, and the Canadian Historical Association's John Bullen Thesis Prize.
Tuesday, November 19
"The Maritime Dynamics of Pre-Westphalian Interpolity Relations in Southeast Asia"
Jennifer L. Gaynor, University at Buffalo
Jennifer L. Gaynor is a fellow at the Baldy Center at the University at Buffalo. Her first book, Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia: Submerged Genealogy and the Legacy of Coastal Capture (Cornell University Press, 2016), received honorable mention for the Harry J. Benda Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, awarded to the best first book on Southeast Asia in any discipline. She has held fellowships at Michigan, Cornell, and the Australian National University, and is currently researching a work of contemporary history that crosses archipelagoes and ocean basins to examine land reclamation for strategic reasons and capitalist gain.
Please read the pre-circulated paper here.
Tuesday, December 10
Discussion and celebration of
In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire (California, 2019)
by Eiichiro Azuma, Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies
in conversation with Kathleen M. Brown, David Boies Professor of History
and
Sorting out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas (Princeton, 2019)
by Amy Offner, Assistant Professor of History
in conversation with Barbara Weinstein, NYU
Reception to follow
Eiichiro Azuma (University of Pennsylvania), author of In Search of our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire (California 2019) in conversation with Kathleen M. Brown (University of Pennsylvania).
Amy C. Offner (University of Pennsylvania), author of Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas (Princeton 2019), in conversation with Barbara Weinstein (NYU)
2018-2019
Tuesday, October 16
"Talking Back to Thomas Jefferson: African American Nationalism in the New Republic, 1776-1808"
Mia Bay, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, December 4
***This seminar will be held in VAN PELT 241***
Roundtable Discussion: "Writing the History of Money: Perspectives from Japan and France"
Federico Marcon, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University
and
Rebecca L. Spang, Professor of History, Indiana University
Tuesday, February 12
Roundtable Discussion: "Conversation on the History of Genocide, Human Rights and Humanitarianism"
Dirk Moses, Professor of Modern History, University of Sydney
and
Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History, Yale University
****PLEASE NOTE**** This event will be held in the Class of 78 Pavilion on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt Library. There is no pre-circulated paper for this event.
Tuesday, March 26
"Urdu Ethics in Literature in Colonial India: A Genre of Muslim Modernity? " (PDF)
Farina Mir, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Tuesday, April 9
"Cuba: An American History"
Ada Ferrer, Professor of History, New York University
To access this paper, please click here and sign into Penn Box using your PennKey and password.
Thursday, April 25
Discussion and celebration of Democracy and Truth: A Short History (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
by Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
in conversation with Benjamin Nathans, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Reception to follow
FALL 2017
September 5
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Title: “Plumbing the Past: Histories of Culture and Conflict in the Persian Gulf."
October 3
David Blackbourn, Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History, Vanderbilt University
Title: "Empires, the Atlantic World and the New Consumer Culture."
NOTE: THIS PAPER WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE IN HARD COPY. You must come to the history department office beginning September 26th to receive a copy.
November 28
Ned Blackhawk, Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University
Title: "The Unpredictability of Violence: Native Peoples and New France to 1701”
SPRING 2018
January 31
David Wheat, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University
Title: "Seville and the Atlantic: The Indies Fleets and the 16th-century Transatlantic Slave Trade."
*This seminar is presented in conjunction with a faculty campus visit made possible by a grant (LALSES) from Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS).
February 20: Honoring Recent Book Publications of the Faculty
Antonio Feros, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. Author of:
Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World (Harvard University Press, 2017)
In conversation with
Richard Kagan, Academy Professor and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor Emeritus of History, Johns Hopkins University.
AND
Lynn Hollen Lees, Professor of History Emerita, University of Pennsylvania, Author of:
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects British Malaya, 1786–1941 (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
In conversation with
Lee Cassanelli, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
March 13
Amy C. Offner, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "The Great Society as Good Business”
April 10
Beryl Satter, Professor of History, Rutgers University–Newark
Title: “The Meaning of ‘Development’: ShoreBank and the Search for Black Economic Empowerment in 1970s Chicago.”
2016-2017
Fall 2016
October 18
Walter Licht, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
“Rethinking the Economic History of the Nineteenth Century: The U.S. and the World.”
December 6
Honoring Recent Book Publications of the Faculty
Walter A. McDougall, Professor of History, Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania. Author of:
The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest (Yale University Press, 2016)
In conversation with
Professor Bruce Kuklick, Nichols Professor of American History Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
AND
Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. Author of:
Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy (Beacon Press, 2016)
In conversation with
Rogers M. Smith, Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2017
March 14 - POSTPONED
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
“Plumbing the Past: Histories of Culture and Conflict in the Persian Gulf."
April 4
Eiichiro Azuma, Alan Charles Kors Term Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
"California and Manchuria in the 'Global West': Trans-Pacific Networks of Japanese Immigrant Settler Colonialism."
2015-2016
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Reflections on Seminal Articles, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”: A Conversation with Joan Wallach Scott, Institute of Advanced Studies and CUNY, Graduate Center
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Reflections on Seminal Articles, “Contours of Slavery and Social Change in Africa”: A Conversation with Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University, "Spatial Histories of the Western Pacific, or Why the Selden Map Needs an Atlas".
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Honoring Recent Book Publications of the Faculty: Mary Berry’s We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family’s Search for a Home in the Atlantic World and Vanessa Ogle’s The Global Transformation of Time, 1870-1950.
March 1, 2016
Rosie Bsheer, Yale University, “Crude Imaginations: Capitalism, Space, and the Politics of History in Saudi Arabia”
April 12, 2016
Lillian Guerra, University of Florida and Abel Sierra, New York University, "Somos Felices Aquí [We are Happy Here]: The Mariel Boatlift, the Revolutionary Theatre State and Terror in Cuba, 1971-1980."
2014-2015
Seminars will be held on the dates listed below on Tuesdays at 4:30PM in College Hall 209 unless otherwise noted. Papers will be posted below and available to download at this webpage two weeks prior to the presentation: Exceptions will be noted below. Papers will be removed at the time of the presentation.
Please direct any questions to the series coordinators, Siyen Fei and Lee Cassanelli.
Fall 2014
September 16
Scott Levi, Ohio State University
"Silk Roads, Real and Imagined: Trade, State and Society in Early Modern Central Asia”
September 30
Richard Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
“The Chronicler v the Count: Law, Libel and History in the Early Modern Atlantic World”
October 14
Sara Byala, University of Pennsylvania
“How Teaching Writing Will Make You a Better Historian”
October 28
Valerie Hansen, Yale University
"The Interconnected World in the Year 1000: the View from China"
*This Annenberg is part of the Penn alum series.
November 11
Claire Kaiser and Alex Hazanov, Penn Ph.D. Candidates
“New Perspectives on the Soviet Union under Late Socialism”
November 25
Celebrating Department Authors: Dan Richter and David Ruderman
December 9
Nikki Kalbing, Penn Ph.D. Candidate
“Crime and Punishment on the Edge of Empire: Indirect Rule and the Adjudication of Violent Crime in Ovamboland, Namibia, 1920-1954"
Spring 2015
January 20
Lorrin Thomas, Rutgers University
"The Language of Human Rights in Mexico, 1960-1980"
*This Annenberg is part of the Penn alum series.
February 3
Roundtable with Eugene Park, Fred Dickinson, Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania
“Penn Perspectives on East Asia”
February 17
Jo Guldi, Brown University
David Armitage, Harvard University
"Debating The History Manifesto"
The entire text is available at http://historymanifesto.cambridge.org/
March 3 (5:00pm, Van Pelt Library, Class of '78 Pavilion)
Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto
18th Annual Meyerhoff Lecture: “Regaining Jerusalem: Eschatology and Slavery in Jewish Colonization in 17-Century Suriname.”
With an introduction by Roger Chartier, University of Pennsylvania/Collège de France
March 17
James Brophy, University of Delaware
“The Second Wave: Cultural Transfer and Print Markets in Central Europe, 1815-1848”
March 31
Molly Greene, Princeton University
“On the Famous Diversity of the Ottoman Empire: A Comparative Approach”
April 14
Susan Schulten, University of Denver
"Visual knowledge: Graphic and cartographic innovation in the early republic"
*This Annenberg is part of the Penn alum series.
Thursday, April 30 & Friday, May 1
Special Panel in Memory of Stephanie Camp:
"Closer to Freedom: Honoring the Work and Legacy of Stephanie Camp"
*This Annenberg is part of the Penn alum series.
2013-2014
Seminars will be held on the dates listed below on Tuesdays at 4:30PM in College Hall 209. Papers will be posted and available to download at this webpage two weeks prior to the presentation, with one exception, noted below. Papers will be removed at the time of the presentation.
This year, a series within the Annenberg Seminars will focus on early modern and modern urban history. These sessions are designated below and will culminate in a round table discussion by colleagues whose current research is connected with urban history. Please direct any questions to the series coordinator, Margo Todd.
Fall 2013
September 17
Amy Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
Lands of Refuge: Was Zionism a Humanitarian or a Nationalist Project for Americans after World War II?
October 1
James Amelang, Autonomous University of Madrid
The Walk of the Town: The Origins of Early Modern Urban Discourse
This Annenberg is part of the urban history series.
Co-sponsored by the Latin American & Latino Studies Program
October 15
Workshop on Post-Independences: Comparative Perspectives 1770-1870
October 29
J.M. Duffin, University of Pennsylvania
Viewing Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia through a New Lens: Using GIS to Interpret Land Records
This Annenberg is part of the urban history series.
November 12
Alfred Rieber, Central European University, Budapest
Nationalizing Armies: A Comparative Study of the Hapsburg, Ottoman, and Imperial Russian Cases
November 26
Doug Kiel, University of Pennsylvania
"Rooted Mobility": Rethinking the Urban/Reservation Relationship in American Indian History
This Annenberg is part of the urban history series.
December 3
Adam Clulow, Monash University, Australia
'The Murderous Conspiracy of Mr Towerson and his Accomplices': New perspectives on the Amboyna incident of 1623
Spring 2014
January 21 Cancelled / To be rescheduled
Scott Levi, Ohio State University
The Rise and Fall of Khoqand (1790-1876): Central Asia at the Crossroads of World History
February 4
Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto
Triangulating Empire: Diplomatic Translators and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Istanbul
This Annenberg is part of the urban history series.
February 18
Nathan Connolly, Johns Hopkins University
A Little Insurance: Landlords, Colored People, and the Forgotten Uses of the Federal Housing Administration
This Annenberg is part of the urban history series.
March 4
Noor Zaidi, University of Pennsylvania
The Prophet's Other Messengers: Faith, Politics, and Consumption at the Sayyeda Zainab and Bibi Pak Daman
March 25
Vanessa Harding, Birkbeck College, University of London
Health and the household in early modern London
This Annenberg is part of the urban history series.
April 8
Susan Pedersen, Columbia University
Between Internationalism and Empire: The World the League of Nations Made
April 22
ROUNDTABLE: The Current State of Urban History
Michael Katz, Siyen Fei, Lynn Lees, Thomas Safley, Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
April 29
Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania
Teaching and Surviving a MOOC: One View
2012-2013
Seminars will be held on the dates listed below on Tuesdays at 4:30PM in the History Lounge, College Hall 209. Papers will be posted and available to download at this webpage ten-to-fourteen days prior to the presentation. Papers will be removed at the time of the presentation. Please direct any questions to the series coordinator, Peter Holquist.
Fall 2012
September 18
Elidor Mehilli, Princeton University and Penn Humanities Forum
The Albanian Discovery of a Soviet World
October 2
Daniel Cheely, University of Pennsylvania
How to Marginalize other people's Scriptures Legitimately: Pasquier Quesnel's Nouveau Testament (1692) across Post-Reformation Europe
October 16
Michael Katz, University of Pennsylvania
What Kind of a Problem is Poverty? The Archeology of an Idea
November 13
Charles Sharpe, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and the Social Sciences at McGill
University
Relief and the Wartime Alliances
November 27
Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
Food Insecurity and the Home Front in Wartime Japan: A Transnational Perspective
December 11
Celebration of faculty books published in the 2012 calendar year:
Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania
Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: the Geniza Merchants and their Business World (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Introduction by: Prof. Thomas Safley, University of Pennsylvania
Eve Troutt Powell, University of Pennsylvania
Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire (Stanford University Press, 2012)
Introduction by: Prof. Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2013
January 15
Sidney Xu Lu, University of Pennsylvania
Good Women for Empire: Educating Overseas Female Emigrants in Imperial Japan, 1900-1924
January 29
Jarod Roll, University of Sussex/Davis Center
“Though now we’re poor someday we’ll be richer”: The Moral Economy of America’s Most Conservative Miners
February 12
Angus Burgin, Johns Hopkins University
Planning against Planning: The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Origins of Neoliberalism
February 26
JP Daughton, Stanford University
The Politics of Violence and Humanity in the Modern French Empire
March 12
Vanessa Ogle, University of Pennsylvania
States, Rights, and Development: The 'New International Economic Order' and the Global Cold War, 1962-1981
March 19
Michele Mitchell, New York University
Hotbeds of Communism? New Deal Camps for Women during the Great Depression
April 2
Mehmet Darakcioglu, Associate Director, Penn Middle East Center
Reading the Fine Print: Book Catalogues and the Intellectual Taste of Ottoman Elites
April 9
Roberta Pergher, Indiana University
Where does the nation end and the empire begin? Fascist Expansionism, 1922-1943
April 16
Special Rountable Presentation
Roger Chartier, University of Pennsylvania
Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
Roundtable: "How do historians read literary texts?"
2011-2012
Seminars will be held on the dates listed below on Tuesdays at 4:30PM in the History Lounge, College Hall 209. Papers will be posted and available to download at this webpage ten-to-fourteen days prior to the presentation. Papers will be removed at noon on the day of the presentation. Please direct any questions to the series coordinator, Peter Holquist.
September 20
Barbara Savage, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Merze Tate: Diplomatic Historian, Cosmopolitan Woman
October 4
Chase Richards, University of Pennsylvania
Ernst Keil vs. Prussia: Censorship and the Rule of Law in the Amazon Affair
October 18
John Brooke, The Ohio State University
"Global Transformations: Atlantic Origins, 1700-1870," Chapter 11 of A Rough Journey: Human History on a Volatile Earth
November 1
Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University
Nazi Crimes Against Humanity: Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat's Criticism of Nazism, 1933-1945
November 15
Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Brigham Young University
Captives, Slaves, Wives: Indian Women in the 19th Century American West
Prof. Pulsipher's seminar will be an oral presentation--no paper distributed for this session.
November 29
Judith Surkis, Columbia University
Scandalous Subjects: Religion and Law in 19th century Colonial Algeria
December 6
Presentation by Recent Department Authors
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, University of Pennsylvania
Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran
Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania
Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style
Daniel Richter, University of Pennsylvania
Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts
Jonathan Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania
Bismarck: A Life
December 13
Mark Bradley, University of Chicago
The United States and the Twentieth Century Global Human Rights Revolution
January 17
Henrietta Harrison, Harvard University
Catholic visionaries in Maoist China
January 31
Frederick Cooper, New York University
'Superposed nationality?' Being French and Africa in 1959
February 14
Samuel Hirst, University of Pennsylvania
Soviet-Turkish entaglements, 1920s-1930s
February 28
James Matthews, Institute for Advanced Study
'With Nothing but Our Bared Chests': Republican Armed Columns in the Militia Phase of the Spanish Civil War
March 13
Tamara Walker, University of Pennsylvania
Ladies, Gentlemen, Slaves, and Citizens in the City of the Kings: Lima and the Formation of an Aesthetic Economy, 1535-1740s
March 27
Andrew Pettegree, University of St. Andrews
Making the News in Renaissance Europe
April 10
Hilda Sabato, Universidad de Buenos Aires
The republican experiment. On people and government in nineteenth century Spanish America
April 24
Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania
Agency relations, contract enforcement, and changing business organization in the eleventh and twelfth centuries—the case of the 'Maghribī traders'
2010-2011
Seminars will be held on the dates listed below on Tuesdays at 4:30PM in the History Lounge, College Hall 209. For more information, including access to pre-circulated papers, please contact the series coordinator, Professor Antonio Feros.
September 21
Alison Games, Georgetown University
'A Tale of Two Massacres: Virginia (1622) and Amboyna (1623) in Comparative Perspective'
October 5
Brad Simpson, Princeton University
“Self-Determination, the End of Empire and the Fragmented Discourse of Human Rights in the 1970s"
October 19
Micah Muscolino, Georgetown University-Institute for Advance Studies, Princeton University
"Stories of Survival: War, Displacement, and the Environment in China's Henan Province, 1938-1947"
November 2
Christopher Nichols, University of Pennsylvania
“Promise and Peril: Debating American Internationalism and Isolationism, 1890s-1940s"
November 16
Molly Greene, Princeton University
"Beyond the Community: Writing the History of the Greeks under Ottoman Rule"
November 30
Pier Larson, The Johns Hopkins University
"Fragments of an Indian Ocean Life: Aristide Corroller between Islands and Empires"
December 7
William Kuby, University of Pennsylvania
“Til Disinterest Do Us Part: American Trial Marriage and the Laws of the Home, 1906-1930”
January 25
Bruce Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania
A Death in the Jungle: Assassinating Patrice Lumumba
February 1
Peter Arnade, California State University-San Marcos
The City Penanced, Punished and Destroyed: Princely Retributions against Cities in the Burgundian and Habsburg World
February 15
Robert St. George, University of Pennsylvania
Ethnographic Things: Objects and Subjects in Haida History
February 22
Matthew Karp, University of Pennsylvania
'The True Progress of Civilization': Visions of Modernity in the International Pro-Slavery Argument
March 1
Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University
The Fascist and his Retinue: A study of manners and morals in Mussolini's Italy
March 15
Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania
The Post-Marx of the Letter: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe between Postmodern Melancholy and Postmarxist Mourning
March 29
Michael Katz, University of Pennsylvania
Mae Ngai, Columbia University
Eiichiro Azuma, University of Pennsylvania
Cheikh Babou, University of Pennsylvania
"Immigration and History: Assessment and New Perspectives" Roundtable Discussion
April 12
Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania
Rachel St. John, Harvard University
"The American Civil War and its (Intellectual) Boundaries" Roundtable Discussion
April 19
Transnational Perspectives on Cold War Germany
Thomas Childers, University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Rodgers, University of Pennsylvania
'Pulling the Rug out from under Mistrust:' The International Tracing Service and the Normalization of German Foreign Relations
Katrin Schreiter, University of Pennsylvania
Between Cooperation and Competition: Cold War Diplomacy of German Design, 1967-1989
April 26
Mark Bradley, University of Chicago
The United States and the Twentieth Century Global Human Rights Revolution
This event has been CANCELED.
2009-2010
Seminars will be held on the dates listed below on Tuesdays at 4:30PM in the History Lounge, College Hall 209. For more information, including access to pre-circulated papers, please contact the series coordinator, Professor Antonio Feros.
September 22
Benjamin Nathans, University Pennsylvania
"Soviet Rights-Talk in the Post-Stalin Era"
October 6
David Serlin, University of California San Diego
"Touching Histories: Personality and Disability in American Sex Studies of the 1930s"
October 20
Daniel Richter, University of Pennsylvania
"Re-Reading William Penn's 1681 Letter to the Kings of the Indians"
October 27: Special Session
Mark Lloyd, University of Pennsylvania
Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania
“The West Philadelphia Community History Center”
November 3
Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania
"Holy War: Evangelical Women and the Battle against Secularism, 1975 – 2000"
November 17
David Myers, University of California, Los Angeles, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
“Rethinking the History of Jewish Nationalism”
December 1
Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania
"The Origins of Crimes against Humanity: The Russian Empire, International Law, and the 1915 Note on the Armenian Genocide"
January 26
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
David Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania
"Cross-Cultural Dialogues in Early Modern Europe: A Textual Seminar"
February 23
Holly Case, Cornell University
"Right under the Radar: Federative Schemes in East-Central Europe from Interwar to Cold War"
March 16
Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"A Nation-Building People: The American Effort to Expand Influence Without Empire since 1945, and its International Implications"
March 30
Laurent DuBois, Duke University
"The French Atlantic Revolution"
April 13
Ipek Yosmaoglu, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
"Violence and Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia "
April 20
Eve Troutt Powell, University of Pennsylvania
"The Slaves at Bedtime: Elite Egyptian and Ottoman Women and their Memories of Servant Care-takers"
April 27
Siyen Fei, University of Pennsylvania
"Sexuality and Empire: the cult of female chastity and the society-making process in Ming China (1368-1644)"
2008-2009
Seminars will be held on the dates listed below at 4:30PM in the History Lounge, College Hall 209. For more information, including access to pre-circulated papers, please contact the series coordinators, Professor Kathleen Brown and Professor Benjamin Nathans.
Thursday, October 2
Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University
"Spatial Politics"
Thursday, November 13
Dagmar Herzog, Professor of European History, CUNY Graduate Center
"Syncopated Sex: Transforming European Sexual Cultures
Thursday, December 4
Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Columbia University
"Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights"
Thursday, February 12
Mrinalini Sinha, Professor of History and Women's Studies, Penn State University
"Democratic Iterations: How the ‘Indian Question' Remade the British World"
Thursday, March 26
Kenneth Pomeranz, Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
"Chinese Development and World History: Putting the 'East Asian Model' in Perspective"
Thursday, April 23
Deborah Cohen, Professor of History, Brown University
"The Children Who Disappeared: Mental Disability and the Family in Britain, 1870-1960"
2007-2008
Seminars will be held on the dates listed below at 12 NOON in the History Lounge, College Hall 209. For more information, please contact the series coordinator, Professor Steven Hahn.
Thursday, October 18
Marcus Rediker, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
"The Floating Dungeon: A History of the Slave Ship"
Thursday, January 24
Stephanie Smallwood, University of Washington
"The Middle Passage in American History"
Thursday, February 28
Anand Yang, University of Washington"Between Slavery and Indenture: Indian Convict Labor in Southeast Asia in the 18th and early 19th Centuries"
Monday, March 24
4:30 PM in the History Lounge, College Hall 209
Shane White, University Of Sydney
"When Black Kings & Queens Ruled Harlem"
Thursday April 3
Ahmad Sikainga, Ohio State University
"Slavery and Social Life in 19th Century Turco-Egyptian Khartoum"
2006-2007
Seminars will be held at 12:00 noon on the dates listed below in the History Lounge, 209 College Hall. For more information, please contact the series coordinator, Prof. Steven Hahn
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Anne Bailey, State University of New York, Binghamton
"African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Paradigm for African Diaspora Studies"
Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, SUNY, Binghamton. Author of: African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame (Beacon Press, 2005)
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Marita Sturken, New York University
"The Kitschification of Memory"
Professor, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University. Author of: Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (University of California Press, 1997) and Tourists of History: Memory, Mourning, and Kitsch in American Culture (forthcoming, Duke University Press, 2007)
Thursday, November 16, 2006
John Bodnar, Indiana University
"Virtue and Violence: 'The Good War' in American Memory"
Chancellor's Professor, Department of History; Co-director, Center for Study of History and Memory, Indiana University. Author of: Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003); and Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 1992)
Thursday, February 8, 2007
David Blight, Yale University
"'Unusual Evidence': The Recently Discovered Slave Narratives and Emancipation of Wallace Turnage and John Washington"
Class of 1954 Professor of American History, Yale University. Author of: Race and Reunion: The Civil War and American Memory (Harvard University Press: 2001)
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Steve Stern, University of Wisconsin
"Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile: The Silent Making of the Youthful Protest Generation, 1973-1983"
Alberto Flores Galindo Professor of History, University of Wisconsin. Author of: Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1988 (Duke University Press, 2004) and Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988 (Duke University Press, 2006)
2005-2006 | Legal History
The Annenberg Distinguished Speaker Series for 2005-6 aims to stimulate discussion about historical approaches to the study of law. Invited speakers will explore themes such as comparative law, law and medicine, and race, religion, and civil liberties.
Seminars will be held in 209 College Hall at 4:30 pm on the dates listed below. Approximately two weeks before each seminar, copies of the paper to be discussed will be available electronically or in the history department office.
Friday, September 23, 2005
Jon Wiener, University of California, Irvine
Historians in Trouble
Thursday, October 27, 2005
John Witt, Columbia University
Crystal Eastman and the Internationalist Beginnings of American Civil Liberties
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
John Cairns, University of Edinburgh
The Scottish Law of Slavery
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Cornelia Dayton, University of Connecticut
Madness, Confinement and Legal Process: New England, 1780-1830
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago
Scandal and the Medieval Canon Law
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Cynthia Herrup, University of Southern California
The Qualities of Mercy, 1620-1680
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan
Plessy v. Ferguson and Equal "Public Rights": A Vernacular Anti-Caste Framework in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
2004-2005 | Regional, Comparative, & Global History
The Annenberg seminar this year explores the multiple ways in which scholars grounded in particular regions have expanded their work to encompass global processes and problems. Our speakers will consider the interactions of regional and world history, and the problems posed by this particular approach to research and teaching. The concept of territory as a bounded region of inquiry needs to be interrogated and reassessed, but the concept of "globalization" provides no easy alternative.
All events will be held in College Hall 209, the History Lounge. A catered reception will follow. For more information, contact Lynn Lees or David Ludden.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Combining Regional and World Histories
We begin our series with a roundtable discussion on October 12, 4:30-6:00PM, featuring comments by experts in the history of Africa, the Middle East, the United States, South Asia, and Europe. We will begin with ten minute presentations on teaching and research by each panelist, and then open the floor to discussion. A lavish reception will follow.
Panelists:
Chair: Lynn Lees, History
Aditya Behl, South Asian Studies
Kathy Brown, History
Lee Cassanelli, History
Bob Vitalis, Political Science
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Imperialism in the Age of Nation States
The Annenberg seminar this year explores the multiple ways in which scholars grounded in particular regions expand their work to encompass global processes and problems. Our second set of panelists this term will consider interactions of regional and world history in research and teaching by discussing the concept of empire as a boundary-crossing and globalizing medium in the age of national states. Their short presentations will open general discussion.
This time a really lavish reception will follow.
Panelists:
Amy Kaplan, English
Anne Norton, Political Science
Frederick Dickinson, History
Ronald Granieri, History
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, History
David Ludden, History
SPRING SCHEDULE
This term the department will host an all-star cast of speakers who work on broad themes in comparative and global history. In most cases, there will be a pre-circulated paper, available electronically or in the History Office, 208 College Hall. Please join us in the History Lounge to meet the following people:
Friday, January 28, 2005, 12:00 noon
Karen Wigen, Stanford University
Maritime Maps as Metaphors for Inter-Area History
Please come for lunch and an illustrated talk.
Karen Wigen, Associate Professor of History (Stanford University) is a geographer with training in Japanese history and culture. She has written THE MAKING OF THE JAPANESE PERIPHERY, 1750-1920, and is the co-author of THE MYTH OF CONTINENTS: A CRITIQUE OF META-GEOGRAPHY, which takes a critical look at the ways social scientists divide the world into supposedly discrete units. Her interests center on Early Modern Japan, historical geography, and issues related to what she terms "geographies of the imagination."
Wednesday, February 16, 2005, 4:30 pm
Ken Pomeranz, University of California
Is there an East Asian Development Path: Long Term Comparisons, Constraints, and Continuities
Kenneth Pomeranz, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine, specializes in Chinese history and in comparative economic history. His second book, THE GREAT DIVERGENCE: EUROPE, CHINA, AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD ECONOMY, has won multiple prizes and been the subject of round table discussions at several historians' conferences. His controversial work challenges the familiar model of the "Rise of the West." We will discuss with him "Son of the Great Divergence," or "Is there an East Asian Development Path: Long Term Comparisons, Constraints, and Continuities."
Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 4:30 pm
Michael Adas, Rutgers
Constructing Development Strategies in the Cold War
Michael Adas, Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History and holder of a Board of Governors' Chair at Rutgers University, began as a historian of South East Asia, writing on social change in the Burma Delta and on anti-colonial millenarian movements in the modern period. His prize-winning book, MACHINES AS THE MEASURE OF MEN: SCIENCE,.TECHNOLOGY, AND THE IDEOLOGIES OF WESTERN DOMINANCE, examines European attitudes toward the technologies and material culture of China, India, and Africa. He has recently completed DOMINANCE BY DESIGN: TECHOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES AND AMERICAN CIVILIZING MISSION. Adas teaches courses on 20th century global history and has helped Rutgers develop its world history program for graduate students.
Monday, March 21, 2005, 4:30 pm
Claudia Ulbrich, Free University Berlin
"That we shall pray to our God for you.... On Christian-Muslim Relations in Early Modern Europe"
Claudia Ulbrich is Professor of History, Free University Berlin. Professor Ulbrich is one of the leading experts on gender history in Germany today, and the author of Shulamit and Margarete. Power, Gender and Religion in a Rural Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Brill Academic Publishers, 2004), a microhistorical look at a small village on the border of Germany and France in the eighteenth century to discover the boundaries created by language, states, religions, cultures, sex, and gender. She is also the author of many articles and edited volumes on the history of gender, Jewish-Christian relations, and autobiography, and director of the Research Group on Self-Testimonies (Autobiographies) in Trans-cultural Perspective at the Free University.
Professor Ulbrich's lecture is co-sponsored by the Annenberg Colloquium in European History and the Annenberg Distinguished Speaker Series
Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 4:30 pm
Barbara Andaya, University of Hawaii
Breaking Out of Boxes: Gender, Highlands, and Area Studies
Barbara Andaya, Professor of History, University of Hawaii, specializes in Southeast Asian history. Her HISTORY OF MALAYSIA, co-authored with Leonard Andaya is the standard work in the field, and she has written more specialized studies of the Malay state of Perak and of Sumatra in the early modern period. Her interests include comparative women's history.
Friday, April 15, 2005, 12:00 noon
Richard Eaton, University of Arizona
Removing Territory from the Teaching of History
Richard Eaton Professor of History, Arizona University, has published widely on Islamic history and Indian history. His books include SUFIS OF BIJAPUR, 1300-1700; THE RISE OF ISLAM AND THE BENGAL FRONTIER, 1204-1760; FIRUZABAD: PALACE CITY OF THE DECCAN, AND ESSAYS ON ISLAM AND INDIAN HISTORY. His discussions of Islam as a "global civilization" have shaped historians' thinking on the Muslim world. Eaton's teaching includes courses on the interactions of Asia and the West.
"Like many who have joined the the world history movement, I have been disappointed with most world history textbooks, which (despite their protests to the contrary) often project onto the world problematic assumptions inherited from the days of Western Civ. Chief among these is the use of territory as the principal unit of analysis. I'll discuss some of my own experiments in deterritorializing world history -- failures, successes, future ideas."
2003-2004 | African History
This year's Annenberg Distinguished Speaker Series focuses on the contribution of African history to comparative history and historiography and features an exciting group of prominent African and American Africanists. Faculty and graduate students in all fields are welcome. No reservations are required, and all colloquia will be held in 209 College Hall at 4:30 on selected Thursdays. We look forward to seeing you at the opening session on October 2 with Joseph Miller of UVA.
October 2, 2003
Joseph Miller (UVA)
"African Dimensions of the Atlantic Slave Trade"
November 6, 2003
Jean Allman (UIUC)
"Fashioning Nation: Gender, Power and the Politics of Dress in Nkrumah's Ghana"
February 5, 2004
Lamin Sanneh (Yale)
"Sacred Truth and Secular Agency: Separate Immunity or Double Jeopardy? An Intellectual Inquiry into the Shari'ah Debate in Nigeria"
February 26, 2004
Sara Berry (John Hopkins)
"The value of history- Transacting the past in Africa today"
March 25, 2004
Tabitha Kanogo (UC Berkeley)
"African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya : Dancing on a Grave and Crossing Boundaries"
April 22, 2004
Richard Roberts (Stanford)
"Women Seeking Divorce; Men Seeking Control: Litigant Strategy, Institutional Change, and Social History in the Native Courts of the French Soudan"
2002-2003 | Transnational Imaginations: Expanding the Boundaries of American History
All talks will take place at 4:30 pm in College Hall 209; refreshments at 4:00pm. Precirculated papers will be available in College Hall 208 one week before the scheduled talk.
October 3, 2002
Thomas Bender, New York University
"What was Discovered in 1492 - and What Difference Does It Make for American History?"
October 31, 2002
Kenneth Cmiel, University of Iowa
"The United States as Beacon and Beast: Taking Human Rights Seriously, 1940 to the Present"
November 21, 2002
Ann Fabian, Rutgers University
"'Crania Americana' Presenting Nations of the Dead"
February 21, 2003
Glenda Gilmore, Yale University
"'The Nazis and Dixie': How African Americans used Anti-Fascism to Fight Southern White Supremacy"
March 27, 2003
Walter Johnson, New York University
"Slavery, Cotton, and Credit: The 'Flush Times' in the Mississippi Valley"
April 24, 2003
Robert Orsi, Harvard University
"Remembering/Forgetting in Late-Twentieth Century American Catholicism"
2001-2002 | Twentieth Century Lives
A public lecture series co-sponsored by the Department of History and the College Alumni Society. Penn professors will explore lives that shaped and illuminated the century that "raised the greatest hopes ever conceived by humanity, and destroyed all illusions and ideals."-Yehudi Menuhin
No reservations are required.
All lectures will be held in College Hall 200.
Wednesday, September 12, 2001, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Warren Breckman
Sigmund Freud
Wednesday, October 17, 2001, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Bruce Kuklick
Woodrow Wilson
Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Thomas Childers
Elvis Presley
Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Kathy Peiss
Betty Friedan
Wednesday, January 16, 2002, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Thomas Sugrue
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wednesday, January 30, 2002, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Arthur Waldron
Mao Zedong
Wednesday, February 27, 2002, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Jonathan Steinberg
Margaret Thatcher
Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Dr. Benjamin Nathans
Andrei Sakharov