
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 & 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

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

A conference in honor of the Philadelphia Playbills Project
Digital & Archival Approaches to Theater History
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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

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

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

The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Carlo Ginzburg: Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited
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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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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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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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11th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Illuminations: Manuscript, Medium, Message
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10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Intertwined Worlds
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9th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Reactions: Medieval/Modern
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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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7th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Collecting Histories
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Beitler Collection Distinguished Lecture
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
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Wolf Conference 2019
Immersive Storytelling: Creating Narratives with VR & AR

Gothic Arts
An Interdisciplinary Symposium
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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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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)

21st annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP)
geographies of the book
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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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Beitler Collection Distinguished Lecture
The Relevance of Dreyfus
in the Age of ISIS

Beitler Collection Distinguished Lecture
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
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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.

The Bibliophile as Bookbinder
The Angling Binding of S.A. Neff, Jr.
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![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 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

Identification and Preservation of Inkjet Prints
in Museums, Libraries, and Archives
Cusack Family Seminar Room 629, Kislak Center

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

Penn Libraries presents
A Symposium on Preserving Contemporary Cultural Heritage

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)

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

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

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

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

Arthur Tress
A Visual Odyssey

Paint over Print
Hand-Colored Books and Maps of the Early Modern Period
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Revealing Galen's Simples

Academic Freedom Now
A symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the Scott Nearing Affair

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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Charles IV
An Emperor in Europe (1316-2016)
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The Stage and All the World
Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps
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The Stage and All the World
Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps
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Common Press at 10:
Printing, Writing, Teaching, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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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
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
Paul Needham: "The First Quarter Century of European Printing"
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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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The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
William Zachs: "Authenticity and Duplicity: Investigations into Multiple Copies of Books"
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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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The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Mary J. Carruthers: "Cognitive Geometries: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages"
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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

Writing Across Genres
African American Women Writers in the Joanna Banks Collection
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Making the Renaissance Manuscript
Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries
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Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and Its Premiere by the Philadelphia Orchestra:
Celebrating the Rediscovery of a Historic Recording

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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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

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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American Contact
Virtual conference: Intercultural Encounter and the History of the Book
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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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![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 & 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

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

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

14th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (Online)
Loss
November 17-19, 2021
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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

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

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

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

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Teresa A. Goddu (Vanderbilt), "Antislavery Media"
Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Brenton Sullivan (Colgate), "Buddhist Monastic Constitutions"

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

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

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
Virtual Roadshow: Copy Technologies
Brian Cassidy (Type Punch Matrix), Jessica Linker (Northeastern), Michelle R. Warren (Dartmouth)

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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