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2019 Summer Seminar Series

Sessions convene with refreshments at 5:15 p.m.

An informal talk and discussion begins at 5:45, followed by a complementary buffet supper at 7:15.

6 June:

Whitney Martinko, Villanova University
The Corporate Origins of Cultural Property in the Early United States

20 June:

Mia E. Bay, University of Pennsylvania
“The Badge of Servitude”: Race, Class and Gender on Nineteenth Century Common

11 July:

Janine Yorimoto Boldt, Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow American Philosophical Society
“There are no gains without pains”: Curating Benjamin Franklin at the APS Museum

*Hosted by the American Philosophical Society

25 July: 

Rachel Wheeler, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI
Sarah Eyerly, Florida State University
Naaxkohmãak “Jesu paschgon kia”: Mohican Language Hymns from the Moravian Archives

1 August: 

 

Dr. Lee Francis 4, Native Realities LLC, An Indigenous Imagination Company
Crafting a Graphic Novel: Ghost River: the Fall and Rise of the Conestoga

Seating and meal availability for this session are limited. RSVP to mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu by July 30 to let us know you will be attending. Supper may be limited to those who have reserved a place in advance.

Unless otherwise noted, all events will
take place at 5:15 p.m. at 3355 Woodland
Walk (34th & Sansom Sts.) on the
University of Pennsylvania Campus