Brown Bag Sessions

Please join us from 12:15 to 1:30 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



A Natural History of Nursing

Brown Bag Session
Lilith Todd, Columbia University
Sep 18, 2024 at -

Lilith Todd is a PhD candidate in English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation, "Tending Another," describes the rhetoric and labor of nursing in the long eighteenth century and within a…



The Absent Imperiled Soul: Absence, Captivity, and Religion in colonial New England and Quebec

Brown Bag Session
Emma Chapman, University of California, Davis, and Library Company of Philadelphia
Oct 2, 2024 at -

Emma Chapman is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis. She studies gender, economy, and family structures in early New England and New France. She has worked on multiple public history projects with…



“Our Coming to America”: Remembering the Middle Passage in the Colored Conventions

Brown Bag Session
Courtney Murray, Pennsylvania State University
Oct 9, 2024 at -

Courtney Murray is a Dual-Title PhD Candidate in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University and a #DigBlk Scholar at the Center for Black Digital Research (CBDR). Her…



Opera, Pantomime, and Circus in late 18th-century Montréal

Brown Bag Session
Elizabeth Rouget, Princeton University
Oct 23, 2024 at -

Elizabeth Rouget is a PhD candidate at Princeton University completing her dissertation titled “Dance as Translation: Establishing French Opéra-Comique, Ballet, and Circus in Early North America, 1780-1810.” Following…



Domestic Carceral Labor: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Punishment at Eastern State Penitentiary

Brown Bag Session
Whitney Fields, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Nov 20, 2024 at -

Whitney N. Fields is a PhD Candidate in History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She received a B.A. in History and American Studies from the College of William and Mary in 2015. Her work combines carceral studies,…



Mutable Materiality: The Art of Devotion in the Early Modern Afro-Iberian Atlantic

Brown Bag Session
Nathalie Miraval, Yale University
Dec 4, 2024 at -

Nathalie Miraval is a PhD Candidate in the Art History Department at Yale University. Her research focuses on the spiritual expressive cultures of the early modern Afro-Iberian Atlantic, with a focus on gender and race…