Faculty Chat with Prof. Alex Chase-Levenson

What:

This coming month, four of my past faculty members have agreed to come to our house to have dinner with you! This will not be a big lecture in 1938; instead, we want to gather small groups of interested students to talk with one faculty member casually both about the work they do, and their life through and outside academia (how they came to their field, subject area, and position; what they engage with in their free time, and anything else you want to know from or about them!)
 
Alex Chase-Levenson, Assistant Professor of History, will be coming on Wednesday, October 16 at 6pm. His focus is on modern Britain and modern Europe. His broad areas of interest include borders and boundaries in nineteenth-century Europe, the history of travel, histories of liberalism, reform, and public health, and the history of museums and display. His published work has addressed trade, travel, and disease in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean, Victorian spectacle, and perceptions of ancient time in nineteenth-century Britain and France. His current book project is about the system of quarantine imposed on all travelers, traders, missionaries, soldiers, and others traveling from the Ottoman Empire and North Africa to Western Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. Find more info about him at https://www.history.upenn.edu/people/faculty/alex-chase-levenson!

When:

Wednesday October 16th, 2019 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM