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We provide history graduate students with opportunities for intellectual engagement

We Are/We Were: Histories of Penn State Students Shaping Who and What Penn State is For
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
1:45 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
Mann Assembly Room, Paterno Library
“The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran”
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
5:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
302 Pond Laboratory
Religious Studies Reads: “Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy”
Thursday, November 13, 2025
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
302 Pond Laboratory
“The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century”
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
5:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
102 Weaver Building
The Barbara Jordan Lecture Series: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Robb Hall, Hintz Family Alumni Center
“The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders”
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
5:00 p.m.
121 Borland Building
“‘What you sew, you shall rip’: The Bible, Horror, and Captivity in Appalachia”
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
12:15 p.m.–1:15 p.m.
102 Weaver Building
“The Politics of the Roman Slave Revolts”
Friday, October 17, 2025
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
102 Weaver Building
Gaza from War to Genocide: Two Years since October 7
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
“Replacing Empires: The Archaeology of Political Transformation and Spatial Dynamics in First Millennium BCE Mesopotamia”
Thursday, October 2, 2025
5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
“Inquisition, Incarceration, and Gendered Resistance in Colonial Latin America”
Friday, September 26, 2025
1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Weaver 102
No Other Land
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
5:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
“Jewish Perspectives on the New Testament”
Monday, September 15, 2025
12:15 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
102 Weaver Building
Teaching by Example: Charismatic Figures in Islam’s Past and Present
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
12:15 p.m.–1:15 p.m.
102 Weaver Building
Jerusalem to Morocco: A Musical Meeting
Friday, April 4, 2025
2:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m.
Memorial Lounge, 107 Pasquerilla Spiritual Center

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New 911 Address: 212 Curtin Road, University Park, PA 16802

Statement Condeming Anti- Asian Racism and Violence

History Department Statement on Racist Zoom Bombing

History Undergraduate Awards

History Graduate Awards

History Undergraduate Awards Slideshow

History Graduate Awards Slideshow

Spring 2021 Graduates

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