Brown Bag Sessions

Please join us from 12:30 to 1:45 pm approximately twice a month on Wednesday afternoons between September and May for our Works-in-Progress Brown Bag Series. Works-in-Progress papers are circulated in advance. For copies or Zoom links, please contact mceas@sas.upenn.edu

Upcoming



“Of virtue becoming their situation”: The Making of Refugee Women's Religious Communities in the 19th-Century Mid-Atlantic

Brown Bag Session
Taneil Ruffin, Princeton University
Mar 20, 2024 at -

Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office.



“American and British Indians": Inventing National Citizens in the Post-1812 Great Lakes

Brown Bag Session
Elena Ryan, Princeton University
Apr 3, 2024 at -

Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office.



The Molasses Act's Long Shadow: Smuggling in the British Atlantic, 1733-1763

Brown Bag Session
Eva Landsberg, Yale University
Apr 17, 2024 at -

Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office. --



Hemispheric Negotiations: the USA Recognition of Brazilian Independence

Brown Bag Session
Edú Levati, Universidade de São Paulo
May 1, 2024 at -

Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office. --



“Is Death Not Preferable to Slavery?”: Resistance and Diaspora in the Circum-Gulf Region, 1729-1769

Brown Bag Session
Leila K. Blackbird, University of Chicago
May 1, 2024 at -

Leila K. Blackbird (Louisiana Creole, unenrolled adoptee of Apache-Cherokee descent) is currently the Pozen Human Rights Doctoral Fellow of US & Atlantic History at the University of Chicago. She also serves as the…