Lectures, conferences, & event series: Archive

Romantic Prints on the Move

February 1-2, 2019

Philadelphia Museum of Art & Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Writing and Reading Rubrics in the Renaissance Decameron

Rhiannon Daniels, Senior Lecturer in Italian History Bristol University

Ashley Bryan

Renowned Artist, Poet, Storyteller, and Humanitarian

Digital & Archival Approaches to Theater History

A Mahzor is a Mahzor is a Mahzor?

Studying CAJS Rare MS 382

Professor Elisabeth Hollender, Goethe Institute Frankfurt

Defying Convention

Audacious Women in the Kislak Center Collections

Sound, Gender, and the Color Line

A Symposium and Celebration in Honor of Marian Anderson, Musician and Citizen of the World

Carlo Ginzburg: Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

The Science of Information, 1870-1945:

The Universalization of Knowledge in a Utopian Age

Creating Children's Books Symposium

Collaboration and Change

A symposium in honor of William Steig and Atha Tehon

Divine Art / Infernal Machine

Western Views of Printing Surveyed

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan

Illuminations: Manuscript, Medium, Message

Intertwined Worlds

Reactions: Medieval/Modern

Picking Up the Pieces

Collecting Histories

Human Rights in the 21st Century

The Politics of Paranoia and Nationalism in the Age of Trump

Lecture by Edward-Isaac Dovere

Penn and Slavery:

A Symposium organized by the Penn & Slavery Project
& the Program on Race, Science, and Society

Immersive Storytelling: Creating Narratives with VR & AR

Gothic Arts

An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Ezra Pound, Philadelphia Genius, and Modern American Poetry:

Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Hilda Doolittle, and Marianne Moore

American and Muslim Worlds, c. 1500-1900

geographies of the book

American Pie

The Politics of Food in the 21st Century

The Relevance of Dreyfus

in the Age of ISIS

Trumped

Cartooning in the Wind of the Donald Trump Presidency

Signe Wilkinson, Editorial Cartoonist for The Philadelphia Inquirer

Across the Spectrum

Color in American Fine and Private Press Books, 1890-2015

Hooking Up

The Bibliophile as Bookbinder

The Angling Binding of S.A. Neff, Jr.

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

Genizah Scribes at Work

Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Historiques et Philologiques

Identification and Preservation of Inkjet Prints

in Museums, Libraries, and Archives

Preacher's Lost Voice:

The Roman Inquisition and Oral Sermons in Early Modern Italy

Holy Land on the Baltic:

The Gustaf Dalman Collection in Greifswald

Lecture by Dr. Daniel Stein Kokin, University of Greifswald, Germany

A Symposium on Preserving Contemporary Cultural Heritage

Changing Minds

Geographic Discoveries and New Worlds
through the Eyes of a Renaissance Jewish Scholar

Professor Fabrizio Lelli, University of Salento (Lecce, Italy)

Leaves from The Kingdom of the Book:

Thoughts on the History of Printing in Morocco (1865-1935) and Penn's Fez Lithographs Collection

"No Longer Alien Residents"

Italian Jewish Texts in the Late Renaissance

Professor Alessandro Guetta, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris

Medieval - Renaissance Welcome Back Party

Round Table and Reception to Kick Off the New Year!

Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida:

Composition—Circulation—Reception

Francesco Marco Aresu, Assistant Professor of Italian and Medieval Studies, Wesleyan University

Tales of Three Texts:

The Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew Medical Texts in UPenn MS Codex 1649

Arthur Tress

A Visual Odyssey

Paint over Print

Hand-Colored Books and Maps of the Early Modern Period

Revealing Galen's Simples

The Materiality of Scientific Knowledge:

Image-Text-Book

In-Quarto:

A Symposium on Formats and Meanings in Early Modern England and Spain

Bread and Civilization

Academic Freedom Now

A symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the Scott Nearing Affair

Reading, Writing, Printing

A Conference in Honor of Peter Stallybrass

Architectures of the Text:

An Inquiry Into the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

A symposium to celebrate the acquisition of the second edition of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1545) by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Memory/Reason/Imagination:

Librarians and Scholars—Past, Present, and Future

A Symposium in Honor of Daniel Traister

Charles IV

An Emperor in Europe (1316-2016)

The Stage and All the World

Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps

The Stage and All the World

Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps

Common Press at 10:

Printing, Writing, Teaching, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Common Press at 10:

Printing, Writing, Teaching, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Pen and Press:

Practices of Writing & Publishing in Colonial America

Paul Saenger: "The Latin Bible as Codex"

Michael Warner: "The Evangelical Public Sphere"

Alberto Manguel: "The Traveller, the Tower & the Worm"

Paul Needham: "The First Quarter Century of European Printing"

Ann Blair: "Hidden Hands: Amanuenses and Authorship in Early Modern Europe"

William Zachs: "Authenticity and Duplicity: Investigations into Multiple Copies of Books"

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum: "Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage"

Mary J. Carruthers: "Cognitive Geometries: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages"

The Treasured Hunt

Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Past, Present, and Future

Making Artificial Intelligence Trustable, Transparent & Useful

The Role of the National Library of Medicine

Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD
Director, National Library of Medicine

Writing Across Genres

African American Women Writers in the Joanna Banks Collection

Making the Renaissance Manuscript

Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries

Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and Its Premiere by the Philadelphia Orchestra:

Celebrating the Rediscovery of a Historic Recording

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

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

Roger Chartier on Castiglione's Book of the Courtier

"Per dir forse una nova parola": Sixteenth-century translations of sprezzatura

Writing the East:

History and New Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions

American Contact

Virtual conference: Intercultural Encounter and the History of the Book

Manuscript Studies in the Covid-19 Age

November 18-20, 2020

Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale, Pisa): Lectures and Dialogues

Translating Experience into Science in the Middle Ages

Elly R. Truitt, University of Pennsylvania

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

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

Celebrating the Manuscripts of the Muslim World Project (2018-2021)

Loss

November 17-19, 2021

Conspiracy Theory and Political Culture, Past and Present

A Conversation with The Atlantic’s Adrienne LaFrance and James McAuley

Virtual event

The Ethics of Collecting in the 21st Century

Virtual event

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]

Jack Lynch (Rutgers University-Newark), "Real Fakes and Fake Fakes: Materiality in Literary Forgery"

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]

Ada Kuskowski (Penn), "Foundational Legal Documents in an Era of Customary Law: Thinking about the Middle Ages"

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

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

Teresa A. Goddu (Vanderbilt), "Antislavery Media"

Brenton Sullivan (Colgate), "Buddhist Monastic Constitutions"

Elizabeth McHenry (NYU), "'Utterly Worthless'?: Race Publishing, Subscription Books and Black Communities"

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

Sarah Wasserman (Delaware), "Pop-up Buildings and Postage Stamps: Ephemera and the American Novel"

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

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

Virtual Roadshow: Copy Technologies

Brian Cassidy (Type Punch Matrix), Jessica Linker (Northeastern), Michelle R. Warren (Dartmouth)

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

Carlos Spoerhase (Bielefeld University), "Failed Formats: Goethe’s Literary Anthology for the German People"

Masters in Miniature

Future Horizons for Italian Manuscript Studies

Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College

The Secret Life of Books

Peter D. McDonald, University of Oxford

Gracián between Oracolo Manuale and L'Huomo di corte

Roger Chartier, Department of History and Collège de France

Teaching Independence

Bridging the Communications Gap

Hybrid event

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

Dahye Kim (Northwestern University): "The Hangul Machines and the Curious Disappearance of Chinese Characters"

Aylin Malcolm (University of Pennsylvania): "Revolutionary Science: Movable Books and the Medieval Universe"

Meg Leja (Binghamton University): "Mending Bodies by (A)mending Texts: Medical Manuscripts from the Early Middle Ages"

Marcy Dinius (DePaul University): "David Walker's Textual Engagements"

Sarah Werner: "Speculations on Feminist Bibliography"

Micha Perry (University of Haifa): "Medieval Jewish Bilingual Charters: Texts, Signs and Sounds"

The French Origins of the Restaurant: The 1802 Menu of Antoine Beauvilliers, Restaurateur

Lynne Farrington, Senior Curator

Virtual event

Li Delun in Philadelphia

Ethnography, Archives, and Music Across the Pacific

Orrin Evans and All Negro Comics

Sean Quimby, Director, Kislak Center

Virtual event

Beyond the Page: Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England

Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford

Regulating the Poor: Ephemeral Printing and Poor Relief Tickets in the Long Nineteenth Century

Mitch Fraas, Senior Curator

Virtual event

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

Roger Chartier (Penn): "The Skin of an Innocent Lamb: Jack Cade and the Roman Law"

Material Texts Roadshow: Women Collectors and Their Collections

Networks of Relation: Connecting Communities & Collections with Mukurtu CMS

Dr. Kim Christen

The Declaration’s Journey: Thinking about the 250th Exhibition at the Museum of the American Revolution

Phillip Mead, Museum of the American Revolution

Setting the Stage for Warhol and the Philadelphia Exploding Plastic Inevitable Event in 1966

Cheryl Harper, Independent Curator and Project Director

Virtual event

A Collector's Journey into Warhol's Unknown Works

Paul Maréchal, Art historian, author, curator

Iconic Artists, Iconic Images: Leonardo, Picasso, Warhol

Jo Ann Caplin, Lecturer, Center for Contemporary Writing, Department of Critical Writing at the University of Pennsylvania

Virtual event

Moving Art: Pontus Hultén and the Question of Andy Warhol’s Copies

Patrik Andersson, Associate Professor, Audain Faculty of Art, Emily Carr University

Virtual event

Sean Quimby (Penn Libraries)

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

Ulrich von Bülow (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach), "W. G. Sebald's Papers and Photographs"