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



Southern New England Absence and Presence in the Colonial Archival Record

Brown Bag Session
Lydia Curliss, University of Maryland
Apr 9, 2025 at -

Lydia Curliss (Nipmuc) is a PhD Candidate at the University of Maryland, College of Information.  Her research interests include Indigenous Knowledges, cultural heritage memory institutions and their collections,…



"Work and Be Happy": Craft, Slavery, and Social Reform in Philadelphia, 1783-1840

Brown Bag Session
Bethany McGlyn, University of Virginia
Apr 23, 2025 at -

Bethany McGlyn is a PhD candidate and Jefferson Scholars Foundation Fellow at the University of Virginia studying craft labor and material culture in early national Philadelphia. In spring and summer 2025, Bethany will…