Past Brown Bag Sessions



“Styling Secrecy on the Early American Stagee”

Brown Bag Session
Amy Huang, Brown University
Apr 15, 2020 at -



“A Penn graduate training in History in the making of one scholar's career”

Brown Bag Session
Nicholas Canny, Emeritus Professor National University of Ireland Galway
Apr 1, 2020 at -

Co-sponsor: Penn Department of History 



“Constructing Health: Concepts of Well-Being in the Creation of Early Atlantic Cities”

Brown Bag Session
Molly Nebiolo, American Philosophical Society/ Northeastern University
Mar 18, 2020 at -



“Spanish Hunger, Cattle Ranches, and the Decline of the Florida Missions”

Brown Bag Session
Juneisy Hawkins, New York University
Mar 4, 2020 at -



“‘A Free Republic, Like Our Own’: The US Navy and the founding of Liberia”

Brown Bag Session
Roger Bailey, University of Maryland
Feb 19, 2020 at -



“Enslaved Fiddlers in the British Colonial Caribbean”

Brown Bag Session
Maria Ryan, University of Pennsylvania
Feb 5, 2020 at -



“The Ambassadress Abroad: Abigail Adams in London and Paris”

Brown Bag Session
Miriam Liebman, City University of New York
Jan 22, 2020 at -



“Contested Futures: Narrating Anishinaabeg and American Cultures on the Upper Great Lakes, 1790-1840”

Brown Bag Session
Katie Lantz, University of Virginia/American Philosophical Society
Dec 4, 2019 at -



“‘The price and value of a soul:’ Spiritual Crisis and Anti-French Factionalism in Seventeenth-Century Iroquoia”

Brown Bag Session
Makiki Reuvers, University of Pennsylvania
Nov 20, 2019 at -



“Irving, Looking: Style, Sexuality, and the Sketch-Books of Geoffrey Crayon”

Brown Bag Session
Chip Badley, University of California-Santa Barbara/American Philosophical Society
Nov 6, 2019 at -