Past Events



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,…



Tryon’s Travels and Franklin’s Fish: From War Slavery to Antiwar Antislavery

Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures
David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York
Nov 7, 2024 at -

David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, will inaugurate the new Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures series November 4-7 on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus.…



Slavery and War: The Original Origins Debate

Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures
David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York
Nov 6, 2024 at -

David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, will inaugurate the new Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures series November 4-7 on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus.…



The Problems of Slavery in an Age of History Wars: Looking back at 2019/1619

Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures
David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York
Nov 4, 2024 at -

David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, will inaugurate the new Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures series November 4-7 on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus.…



Telling Time and Tracing Trade: Locating Indigenous and European Exchange Networks in 16th Century Ontario

Friday Seminar
Megan Anne Conger, University of Georgia
Oct 25, 2024 at -

Megan Anne Conger is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Isotope Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Georgia in 2022. An archaeologist by training, Megan’s…



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…



“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…



Paradise of Women: Sex, Labor, and Utopianism in the Early Nineteenth Century

Friday Seminar
Elizabeth Hewitt, The Ohio State University
Oct 4, 2024 at -

Elizabeth Hewitt is Professor and Chair in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, Columbus. Her most recent books include Speculative Fictions: Explaining the Economy in the Early United States (2020)…



The Illusion of Freedom: Slavery in the Northern States

Conference
Oct 3, 2024 - Oct 5, 2024 at -

The McNeil Center is proud to be a sponsor of the 8th national Slave Dwelling Project Conference October 3-5 in Philadelphia. This year’s theme, The Illusion of Freedom: Slavery in the Northern States seeks to explore…



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…