
Writing Across Genres
African American Women Writers in the Joanna Banks Collection
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OK, I'll Do It Myself
Narratives of intrepid Women in the American Wilderness
Selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness
On exhibit: -

2018-2019 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & Center for Italian Studies Fellow’s Lecture in Italian Manuscript Studies
Writing and Reading Rubrics in the Renaissance Decameron
Rhiannon Daniels, Senior Lecturer in Italian History Bristol University

The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Carlo Ginzburg: Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

9th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Reactions: Medieval/Modern
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27th Ezra Pound International Conference
Ezra Pound, Philadelphia Genius, and Modern American Poetry:
Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Hilda Doolittle, and Marianne Moore
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Expanding Earth
Travel, Encounter, and Exchange
On exhibit: -

Critical Refusals:
Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis
On exhibit: -

Recent Acquisitions
On exhibit: -

Silver Bells and Oscar Gold:
Ray Evans in Hollywood
On exhibit: -

Thomas Evans and Félix Nadar
On exhibit: -

12th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Hooking Up
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Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, 3rd fl.

Red Etchings:
Soviet Book Illustrations from the Collection of Monroe Price
On exhibit: -

The Bibliophile as Bookbinder:
The Angling Bindings of S. A. Neff, Jr.

Penn Libraries presents
A Symposium on Preserving Contemporary Cultural Heritage

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies-Herbert D. Katz Center Fellowship in Jewish Manuscript Studies and the David B. Ruderman Distinguished Fellowship Lecture
Tales of Three Texts:
The Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew Medical Texts in UPenn MS Codex 1649

Sponsored by the Penn Music Department & the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Music in the Pavilion
2018-2019 Concert Season Schedule
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Siamese Sampler:
19th-century Manuscripts of Scripture, Poetry, and Decree
On exhibit: -

Sponsored by the Penn Music Department & the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
2016-2017 Concert Season Schedule
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The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Pen and Press:
Practices of Writing & Publishing in Colonial America
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The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Alberto Manguel: "The Traveller, the Tower & the Worm"
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The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
William Zachs: "Authenticity and Duplicity: Investigations into Multiple Copies of Books"
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Constellations of Atlantic Jewish History, 1555-1890
The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica
On exhibit: -

The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Printing Abolition
How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807
Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Director, Rare Book School and University Professor, University of Virginia
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The Revolt of the Bees
Wherein the Future of the Paper-Hive is Declared
On exhibit: -

Sister Carrie
“A Strangely Strong Novel in a Queer Milieu”
On exhibit: -

Werner Pfeiffer
(censor, villain, provocateur, experimenter)
Book-Objects & Artist Books
On exhibit: -

Shakespearean Residues:
Shakespeare at 450
On exhibit: -

The Qur’an
Revelation, Illumination, and Tradition
On exhibit: -

13th Annual (Virtual) Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Manuscript Studies in the Covid-19 Age
November 18-20, 2020
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The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations: Symbolizing the Elements That Create Manuscripts and Their Structural History with VisColl 2.0
Alberto Campagnolo, University of Udine
Dot Porter, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Penn Libraries

From the Kislak Stacks
A Crucified Nun and an Amateur Iconographer
Denis Faucher’s Handbook for a Female Monastic (Ms. Codex 1620)
Nicholas Herman, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Curator [In-person event]

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Teresa A. Goddu (Vanderbilt), "Antislavery Media"

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Sarah Wasserman (Delaware), "Pop-up Buildings and Postage Stamps: Ephemera and the American Novel"

The SIMS & Italian Studies Fellow in Italian Manuscript Studies Online Lecture
Masters in Miniature
Future Horizons for Italian Manuscript Studies
Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Dahye Kim (Northwestern University): "The Hangul Machines and the Curious Disappearance of Chinese Characters"

Hybrid event
Li Delun in Philadelphia
Ethnography, Archives, and Music Across the Pacific

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Material Texts Roadshow: Women Collectors and Their Collections

Warhol Wednesdays
Screening of Niagara (1953), directed by Henry Hathaway

An Evening with
Ashley Bryan
Renowned Artist, Poet, Storyteller, and Humanitarian

Thomas Sovereign Gates Library Lecture Fund in partnership with the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce:
The Science of Information, 1870-1945:
The Universalization of Knowledge in a Utopian Age
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8th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Picking Up the Pieces
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The Thomas Sovereign Gates Library Lecture Fund
American and Muslim Worlds, c. 1500-1900
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McNeil Center for Early American Studies (3355 Woodland Walk)

The Image Affair
Dreyfus in the Media, 1894-1906
On exhibit: -

Renaissance City Views from Above and Afar
On exhibit: -

Francis Johnson:
Music Master of Early Philadelphia
On exhibit: -

Wonders of the Microscope
On exhibit: -

Recent Acquisitions from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library
On exhibit: -

"Surely no person was ever so happy as I am":
Emma Hamilton's Path to Fame
On exhibit: -

In Sight: Seeing the People of the Holy Land
Selections from the Lenkin Family Collection of Photography
On exhibit: -

Arbitrary Pleasures - Plaisirs Arbitraires
On exhibit: -

"Let us go then, you and I"
On exhibit: -

Archives Month Philly
Cataloging Conflict

2019-2020 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellow's
Lecture in Jewish Manuscript Studies
Changing Minds
Geographic Discoveries and New Worlds
through the Eyes of a Renaissance Jewish Scholar
Professor Fabrizio Lelli, University of Salento (Lecce, Italy)

Unpublished Titanic Collection Lands at the Penn Libraries

Academic Freedom Now
A symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the Scott Nearing Affair
![Detail from Biblia Latina, [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, before August 1456] Courtesy of the William H. Scheide Library, Princeton University Library](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2019-09/feature-sq-needham.jpg?itok=RITnHSYL)
The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Paul Needham: "The First Quarter Century of European Printing"
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Making the Renaissance Manuscript
Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries
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Tablet, Scroll, & Book
Judaic Treasures
On exhibit: -

Twelve Black Classicists
The Earliest Contributions of African Americans to Classical Studies
On exhibit: -

The Penn Library Collections at 250
From Franklin to the Web
2000

Collaborations
Enid Mark and the ELM Press
On exhibit: -

Osvaldo Romberg: The Library is Burning
Text, Image, Object: 1963-2006
On exhibit: -

Inventing Liberty
Books and Manuscripts on the American Revolution
Selected from the Library of Marvin Weiner
On exhibit: -

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies Faculty Working Group Lecture
The Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai and its Manuscripts
Crossroads of Culture in the Medieval Mediterranean
Claudia Rapp, University of Vienna

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series
Across the Margin: Finding a New Page from Jean Bourdichon's Hours of Louis XII
Nicholas Herman, The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Penn Libraries

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series
Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Institute for Advanced Study, and Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto
Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Brenton Sullivan (Colgate), "Buddhist Monastic Constitutions"

Faces of Immigration: Photographs by Harvey Finkle

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Aylin Malcolm (University of Pennsylvania): "Revolutionary Science: Movable Books and the Medieval Universe"

Building in China: A Century of Dialogues on Modern Architecture
On exhibit: -

Presented by Research Data and Digital Scholarship at Penn Libraries and the Price Lab for Digital Humanities
Networks of Relation: Connecting Communities & Collections with Mukurtu CMS
Dr. Kim Christen
Fall 2022

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Sean Quimby (Penn Libraries)

Collections on Display
A Look Back at 20 Years of Penn Libraries Exhibitions
On exhibit: -

A conference in honor of the Philadelphia Playbills Project
Digital & Archival Approaches to Theater History
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Muriel Pfaelzer Bodek Fund for Library Public Events
Creating Children's Books Symposium
Collaboration and Change
A symposium in honor of William Steig and Atha Tehon
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7th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Collecting Histories
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Sponsored by the Penn Music Department, the Kislak Center, & the Albrecht Music Library
Music in the Pavilion
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Beitler Collection Distinguished Lecture
The Politics of Paranoia and Nationalism in the Age of Trump
Lecture by Edward-Isaac Dovere

21st annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP)
geographies of the book
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Dissecting The Gross Clinic
On exhibit: -

John Milton at 400
The Joseph A. Wittreich Collection, A Gift in Honor of Stuart Curran on the Occasion of His Retirement
On exhibit: -
![Detail of head of Christ, from [De philosophia naturali] (Germany, ca.1485-1499), Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2019-09/god-exist.jpg?itok=TUD5UsQj)
Resolved?
God Does Not Exist
On exhibit: -

Musical Fund Society at 200
Diffusion of Taste in Philadelphia, 1820-2020
On exhibit: -

The Worlds Between
An Exploration of Magic, Folklore, and the Occult
On exhibit: -
![An Elegy On the much Lamented Death of the Ingenious and Well-Belov'd Aquila Rose, Clerk to the Honourable Assembly at Philadelphia, who died the 24th of the 6th Month, 1723. Aged 28. Philadelphia: [Printed by Benjamin Franklin for Samuel Keimer], 1723. University of Pennsylvania Libraries collection.](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2019-05/aquilarose_300.jpg?h=490d1451&itok=xxjA79_1)
The Rebirth of Aquila Rose:
Benjamin Franklin's First Philadelphia Printing Job
On exhibit: -
![Ptolemy, [Almagest] [manuscript] [Spain], A.H. 783 (1381), LJS 268, 132v](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2019-07/feature-sq-ljs268.jpg?h=101193d7&itok=k8GetTE_)
The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Arabic and Greek Science and Philosophy
Form and Style in the Transmission to the Latin West
Professor Charles Burnett, The Warburg Institute, University of London
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The Great Emancipator and the Great Central Fair
On exhibit: -

Archives Month Philly
The Paper Menagerie:
Animals on the Page in the Kislak Center's Special Collections

Arthur Tress
A Visual Odyssey

The English Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts invite you to:
Reading, Writing, Printing
A Conference in Honor of Peter Stallybrass
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Sponsored by the Penn Music Department & the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Music in the Pavilion
2017-2018 Concert Season Schedule
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The Stage and All the World
Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps
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The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum: "Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage"
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Making Artificial Intelligence Trustable, Transparent & Useful
The Role of the National Library of Medicine
Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD
Director, National Library of Medicine

Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and Its Premiere by the Philadelphia Orchestra:
Celebrating the Rediscovery of a Historic Recording

Kathy Peiss, author of Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe
In conversation with Roger Chartier and Arthur Kiron

Modern Ireland
Four Centuries through English, American, and Irish Eyes
On exhibit: -

Building Penn
Campus Planning and Architecture at America’s First University
On exhibit: -

Michael Winkler
Word Images 1982-2004
On exhibit: -

Come One, Come All!
Posters from the University of Pennsylvania Library
On exhibit: -

Deciphering the Past
A Retrospective View of the Art & Science of Cryptology
The Charles J. Mendelsohn Cryptology Collection
On exhibit: -
![Niccolo Machiavelli, Discorsi di Nicolo Machiavelli, fiorentino, sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Vinegia: Per Giouann' Antonio de Nicolini da Sabio, [1537]), title page, printer's mark](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2021-01/IC5_M1842_531d_1537_TP%20crop.jpg?h=bbc3a8d5&itok=YOTRbesV)
Series of five virtual lectures
Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale, Pisa): Lectures and Dialogues
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The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series
American Collectors and the British Market for Rare Books c. 1890-1939: Two Perspectives
Laura Cleaver and Danielle Magnusson, Institute for English Studies, University of London

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series
Between Central and East Asia: Chinese Manuscripts from Tenth-Century Dunhuang
Imre Galambos, University of Cambridge

From the Kislak Stacks
Apud Carolam Guillard: Charlotte Guillard, First Woman Printer of the French Renaissance
HIghlights from the Peter Way Collection on French Renaissance Philology and Lexicography
David McKnight

The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
The Secret Life of Books
Peter D. McDonald, University of Oxford
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Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Meg Leja (Binghamton University): "Mending Bodies by (A)mending Texts: Medical Manuscripts from the Early Middle Ages"

From the Kislak Stacks
Orrin Evans and All Negro Comics
Sean Quimby, Director, Kislak Center
Virtual event

America 250 at Penn
The Declaration’s Journey: Thinking about the 250th Exhibition at the Museum of the American Revolution
Phillip Mead, Museum of the American Revolution

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Joseph Rezek (Boston University), "Ideologies of the Codex in Richard Hakluyt and John Smith"

A Symposium
Romantic Prints on the Move
February 1-2, 2019
Philadelphia Museum of Art & Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Philadelphia Museum of Art's Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Perelman Building

2018-2019 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellow’s Lecture in Jewish Manuscript Studies
A Mahzor is a Mahzor is a Mahzor?
Studying CAJS Rare MS 382
Professor Elisabeth Hollender, Goethe Institute Frankfurt

The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Divine Art / Infernal Machine
Western Views of Printing Surveyed
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan
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A Raging Wit
The Life and Legacy of Jonathan Swift
On exhibit: -

Penn and Slavery:
A Symposium organized by the Penn & Slavery Project
& the Program on Race, Science, and Society
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Muriel Pfaelzer Bodek Public Affairs Lecture Series
American Pie
The Politics of Food in the 21st Century
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Across the Spectrum
Color in American Fine and Private Press Books, 1890-2015
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Materials Library & Common Press Preview
Curated by German Pallares & Mary Tasillo. Text by Roksana Filipowska & Hannah Bennett
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Textual Spaces
an Architecture of Reading
On exhibit: -

Thomas Wiltberger Evans
16th Century Bible Collection
On exhibit May 1 -August 2, 2019
On exhibit: -

The Poet and the Dentist:
Stéphane Mallarmé and Thomas Evans
On exhibit: -

The Civil War:
An Ephemeral Lens Into the Life and Times
On exhibit: -

The School of Atha:
Collaboration in the making of Children's books
On exhibit: -

Archives Month Philly 2016
By the Book:
Making—and Breaking!—the Rules

Remembering Chef Fritz, Guiding Star of Philadelphia's Restaurant Renaissance
Author talk with Sam Young

Paint over Print
Hand-Colored Books and Maps of the Early Modern Period
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The Stage and All the World
Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps
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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
Visiting Research Fellow’s Lecture
Riddles and Puzzles
Pythagoras in the Italian Quattrocento
Anna Corrias, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto

Roger Chartier on Castiglione's Book of the Courtier
"Per dir forse una nova parola": Sixteenth-century translations of sprezzatura

Book Arts from UArts
Selections from the University of the Arts MFA Program in Book Arts/Printmaking 1989-2005
On exhibit: -
![detail of LJS 429 - [De philosophia naturali]](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2020-03/squ.jpg?h=57e47a14&itok=n-G1jOJq)
Specula: Mirrors of Man and Nature
Manuscripts from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg
On exhibit: -

Printer, Publisher, Peddler
The Business of the Jewish Book
On exhibit: -

Polymorphous
The Forms of Artists Books
On exhibit: -

Listen to the Mockingbird
American Popular Culture in Sheet Music
On exhibit: -

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Jack Lynch (Rutgers University-Newark), "Real Fakes and Fake Fakes: Materiality in Literary Forgery"

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen (University of St Andrews), "Materializing the Immaterial: Recovering the Lost Books of Early Modern Europe"

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Marcy Dinius (DePaul University): "David Walker's Textual Engagements"

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series
Wars in the Workshop: Digitizing Manuscript Rolls
Natasha Hodgson, Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Nottingham Trent University
![Page from illuminated manuscript copy of Khushhal Khan's Rag Darshan - [Hyderabad, India], A.H. 1214-1219 (1799-1804)](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2022-04/schofield-wkshp-index-img.jpg?h=41bcad53&itok=A8EOgKV6)
Khushhal Khan's Rag Darshan
Workshop with Prof. Katherine Schofield, Kings' College, London

Warhol Wednesdays
Amazing Stories of a Collector: An Interview with Börje Bengtsson (Bengtsson Fine Art, Landskrona, Sweden)

Thomas Evans
and the Professional Press
On exhibit: -

On exhibit March 11 - August 16, 2013
On exhibit: -

Returning Splendor to Ruins
Recovering the Alhambra in Plaster Casts & Prints
On exhibit: -

Maryanne Amacher: An Introduction
A talk by scholar-artist Bill Dietz on the life and work of Maryanne Amacher (1938 – 2009)

Ormandy in China:
The Historic 1973 Tour
On exhibit: -

Archives Month Philly 2017
Behind the Scenes
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Collecting Mesoamerica:
The Hemispheric Roots of U.S. Anthropology
On exhibit: -

Covered with Vines:
The Many Talents of Ludwig Bemelmans
On exhibit: -

The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania Presents
Genizah Scribes at Work
Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Historiques et Philologiques

The Buddha's Flower Sermon
Book Discussion & Reading with Jeff Shore

2016-2017 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellow's Lecture in Jewish Manuscript Studies
"No Longer Alien Residents"
Italian Jewish Texts in the Late Renaissance
Professor Alessandro Guetta, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris

Early Medical and Dental Books
From the Thomas Wiltberger Evans Collection
On exhibit: -

Common Press at 10:
Printing, Writing, Teaching, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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![Detail from [The Alchemist] Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. le Brun., (Engraving) [17--]. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, E. F. Smith Collection.](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2019-09/feature-sq-amanuensis.jpg?itok=PBCI6znC)
The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Ann Blair: "Hidden Hands: Amanuenses and Authorship in Early Modern Europe"
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Soviet Architecture: The Fifth View
On exhibit: -

Remarkable Figures
Women in the Art of Ashley Bryan
On exhibit: -

Re-covering the Ney Collection
On exhibit: -

Destiny and Design
Perception and Uses of Time in South Asia
On exhibit: -

Zola and the Dreyfus Affair
Intellectuals and the Struggle for Social Justice
On exhibit: -

American Contact
Virtual conference: Intercultural Encounter and the History of the Book
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Borges
The Time Machine / la Máquina del Tiempo
On exhibit: -

Petrarch at 700
An Exhibition from the Collections of Cornell University Library and the University of Pennsylvania Library
On exhibit: -

14th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (Online)
Loss
November 17-19, 2021
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From the Kislak Stacks
Armenian Photographers, a Turkish Sultan, a French Empress, and an American Doctor
The stories behind an Ottoman album of Constantinople photographs (Ms. Coll. 445)
Nicholas Brenner and John Pollack [in-person event]

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Virtual Roadshow: Copy Technologies
Brian Cassidy (Type Punch Matrix), Jessica Linker (Northeastern), Michelle R. Warren (Dartmouth)

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Sarah Werner: "Speculations on Feminist Bibliography"

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series
Beyond the Page: Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England
Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford

Warhol Wednesdays
Setting the Stage for Warhol and the Philadelphia Exploding Plastic Inevitable Event in 1966
Cheryl Harper, Independent Curator and Project Director
Virtual event

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Ulrich von Bülow (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach), "W. G. Sebald's Papers and Photographs"

Musical Partnerships at Play:
The Marlboro Music Festival

The Kislak Center’s Gotham Book Mart Centennial
Wise Men Fished Here
A Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart, 1920-2020
On exhibit: -

Manuscriptistan
Photographs by Anthony M. Cerulli
On exhibit: -

Music in the Stacks
Penn Flutes, Deluxe Holiday Edition

Cornucopia:
Corn Conquers the World
On exhibit: -

Paper: A Deckled Edge
The Paper Artwork of Lesley Haas
On exhibit: -

A Selection of Sixteenth-Century Books from the Thomas Wiltberger Evans Collection
On exhibit: -

"Let Every Heart Be Filled with Joy"
Philadelphia's Savoy Company
On exhibit: -

Fisher Fine Arts Library exhibit
Art, Territory, and Identity
On exhibit: -

Book Launch
The Solitary Twin
by Harry Mathews

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies in partnership with the Center for Italian Studies is pleased to announce the following lecture:
Preacher's Lost Voice:
The Roman Inquisition and Oral Sermons in Early Modern Italy

Medieval - Renaissance Welcome Back Party
Round Table and Reception to Kick Off the New Year!

Revealing Galen's Simples

Charles IV
An Emperor in Europe (1316-2016)
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Common Press at 10:
Printing, Writing, Teaching, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Mary J. Carruthers: "Cognitive Geometries: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages"
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Ashley Bryan Archive Celebration
and Philadelphia Book Launch for Infinite Hope

We Are the Storm / Migration Now
Activist Poster Art by Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
On exhibit: -

4th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Writing the East:
History and New Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions
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Agents Wanted
Subscription Publishing in America
On exhibit: -

Hidden in Plain Sight
Musical Treasures in the Penn Libraries
On exhibit: -

Line and Letter
Examining a 16th-century Shirazi Manuscript
On exhibit: -

Literae Humaniores in the University of Pennsylvania Library
On exhibit: -

Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair Distinguished Lecture Series
Conspiracy Theory and Political Culture, Past and Present
A Conversation with The Atlantic’s Adrienne LaFrance and James McAuley
Virtual event

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Ada Kuskowski (Penn), "Foundational Legal Documents in an Era of Customary Law: Thinking about the Middle Ages"
Virtual event
From First Interviews to Important Presentations: Tips to Help You Master the Virtual Job Market

Gracián between Oracolo Manuale and L'Huomo di corte
Roger Chartier, Department of History and Collège de France

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Micha Perry (University of Haifa): "Medieval Jewish Bilingual Charters: Texts, Signs and Sounds"

From the Kislak Stacks
Regulating the Poor: Ephemeral Printing and Poor Relief Tickets in the Long Nineteenth Century
Mitch Fraas, Senior Curator
Virtual event

Warhol Wednesdays
A Collector's Journey into Warhol's Unknown Works
Paul Maréchal, Art historian, author, curator

Audubon's Birds of America
On permanent display

Archives Month Philly Event
Defying Convention
Audacious Women in the Kislak Center Collections

11th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Illuminations: Manuscript, Medium, Message
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Wolf Conference 2019
Immersive Storytelling: Creating Narratives with VR & AR

Beitler Collection Distinguished Lecture
The Relevance of Dreyfus
in the Age of ISIS

Drawing Away:
Exile and the Graphic Novel
On exhibit: -

Global Perspectives on the Medieval Past
On exhibit: -

This Book Belongs To...
Provenance Marks and Book Ownership Through the Centuries
On exhibit: -

Prehistoric Wessex:
Towards a Deep Map
On exhibit: -

Life During Wartime:
Penn at Home and Abroad During the Great War
On exhibit: -

Utopian Explorations and Science Fiction
On exhibit: -

The Bibliophile as Bookbinder
The Angling Binding of S.A. Neff, Jr.
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Archives Month Philly
From Antarctica to Zimbabwe
Around the World with Archives, Books and Codices
October 23, 2019, 5:00-6:30 PM

Shakespeare's 451st Birthday Party

Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians 5th Annual Audience Appreciation Day
String Trio in the Pavilion

Representing Modern Japan:
The Luber Collection of Art Books
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Thomas W. Evans and Royalty
On exhibit: -

A Chef and His Library
An Exhibition Selected from the Collection of Fritz Blank
On exhibit: -

Seasons of Western Pennsylvania
The Photography of Donald M. Robinson
On exhibit: -

The Nine Lives of Edgar Fahs Smith
On exhibit: -

Rudolf Serkin
A Musician's Life in Photographs and Documents
On exhibit: -

From Book to Garden and Back
Works of Ian Hamilton Finlay
On exhibit: -

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) and Ben Davies (University of Portsmouth), "Corona Time: Reading Fiction During the Covid-19 Pandemic"

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Elizabeth McHenry (NYU), "'Utterly Worthless'?: Race Publishing, Subscription Books and Black Communities"

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Ellen Gruber Garvey (New Jersey City University), "Unstable Access to the Print Record: The Case of Back Number Budd and 19th Century Newspapers"

America 250 at Penn
Teaching Independence
Bridging the Communications Gap
Hybrid event
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McNeil Center for Early American Studies http://www.mceas.org/ , 3355 Woodland Walk, Philadelphia PA

From the Kislak Stacks
The French Origins of the Restaurant: The 1802 Menu of Antoine Beauvilliers, Restaurateur
Lynne Farrington, Senior Curator
Virtual event

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia) and Amanda Licastro (Penn Libraries): "Book Traces: Library History and the Marks of Collaborative Reading"

Whitman Vignettes: Camden and Philadelphia
An exhibition in conjunction with
Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy
On exhibit: -

Thomas Sovereign Gates Library Lecture Fund
Sound, Gender, and the Color Line
A Symposium and Celebration in Honor of Marian Anderson, Musician and Citizen of the World

10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Intertwined Worlds
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Gothic Arts
An Interdisciplinary Symposium
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Beitler Collection Distinguished Lecture
Trumped
Cartooning in the Wind of the Donald Trump Presidency
Signe Wilkinson, Editorial Cartoonist for The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Variety of the feather'd Kind"
The Birds of Mark Catesby
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Equus Unbound:
Fairman Rogers and the Age of the Horse
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Literae Humaniores
Treasures from the University of Pennsylvania Library
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Reading Pictures:
Sixteenth-Century European Illustrated Books
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Word Play:
The Printed Game
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LABECULAE VIVAE:
Building a Reference Library of Stains for Researching Medieval Manuscripts
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Identification and Preservation of Inkjet Prints
in Museums, Libraries, and Archives
Cusack Family Seminar Room 629, Kislak Center

The Department of English, The Department of History, The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center, and Van Pelt-Dietrich Library co-sponsor
A Double Reading
by Wendy Moffat, author of A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster and Justin Spring, author of Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade

In partnership with the Center for Italian Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is pleased to present the following lecture:
Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida:
Composition—Circulation—Reception
Francesco Marco Aresu, Assistant Professor of Italian and Medieval Studies, Wesleyan University

Author Event
The Great Nadar The Man Behind the Camera
Philadelphia Launch

SIMS Italian Studies Fellow in Italian Manuscript Studies
Texts on Flyleaves
An Investigation on Petrarch’s Writing Uses
Professor Maddalena Signorini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Composing
Harry Mathews' Words & Worlds
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Selections from the Thomas Evans Collection
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Making Prints
Prints from the University of Pennsylvania Library
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The Body as Evidence
A Twenty-year Retrospective: The Photography of Candace diCarlo
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Life in Boxes
Comic Art & Artifacts
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The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies Faculty Working Group Lecture Series
Translating Experience into Science in the Middle Ages
Elly R. Truitt, University of Pennsylvania

Kislak Center New Acquisitions Showcase
While you were away ...
In-person event

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Margaret M. Bruchac (Penn), "Reading the Material and Textual Histories in a Path Wampum Belt"

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Asheesh Kapur Siddique (UMass Amherst), "Documenting the Body of State: Paper and the Matter of the US Constitution"

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Carlos Spoerhase (Bielefeld University), "Failed Formats: Goethe’s Literary Anthology for the German People"

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Pamela H. Smith (Columbia University): "Making and Knowing in Early Modern How-To Texts"

Hybrid event
Douglass Day
Celebrating 19th-Century Black Achievement
In-person and virtual event

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Roger Chartier (Penn): "The Skin of an Innocent Lamb: Jack Cade and the Roman Law"