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



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…