Exhibits and Events

Christopher Maltman and Audrey Saint-Gil

A Musical Evening with Christopher Maltman and Audrey Saint-Gil

Fall 2022

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Li Delun conducting

Hybrid event

Li Delun in Philadelphia

Ethnography, Archives, and Music Across the Pacific

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Inscription by Frances Wolfreston at the beginning of The Tragedy of Othello: "wolfreston her bouk a sad one"

Workshop in the History of Material Texts

Material Texts Roadshow: Women Collectors and Their Collections

Niagara (1953) movie poster

Warhol Wednesdays

Screening of Niagara (1953), directed by Henry Hathaway

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Collage from William Kentridge’s 2nd Hand Reading project (2014), using the 1936 revised Oxford English Dictionary, Kentridge Studio

The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography

The Secret Life of Books

Peter D. McDonald, University of Oxford

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Jishou Art Museum, designed by Yung Ho Chang / Atelier FCJZ

Building in China: A Century of Dialogues on Modern Architecture

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Fisher Exhibition Space , Fisher Fine Arts Library , 1st floor
Dr Kim Christen

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

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Astronomical diagram with Hebrew text.

15th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

Translating Science

November 10-12, 2022

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Front cover of All Negro Comics, 1947

From the Kislak Stacks

Orrin Evans and All Negro Comics

Sean Quimby, Director, Kislak Center

Virtual event

Unite or Die woodcut from Pennsylvania Journal December 12 1774

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

Online (via Zoom)
Image with assorted books and manuscripts

Workshop in the History of Material Texts

Sean Quimby (Penn Libraries)

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Camera scanning unrolled manuscript of genealogical roll.

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)

Khushhal Khan's Rag Darshan

Workshop with Prof. Katherine Schofield, Kings' College, London

Lea Library , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Placeholder image with assorted books and manuscripts

Workshop in the History of Material Texts

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

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Frontispiece to Baltasar Gracian, L'huomo di corte (Venice 1703)

Gracián between Oracolo Manuale and L'Huomo di corte

Roger Chartier, Department of History and Collège de France

Lea Library , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Full-page view of an English illuminated manuscript from the Rosenbach Museum and Library (MS 439.16, fol. 9r)

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series

Beyond the Page: Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England

Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford

Announcement for Andy Warhol films 1966

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

Photograph of Borje Bengsston with art in the background

Warhol Wednesdays

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

Image of father instructing children, frontispiece to Charles Atmore, Serious Advice from a Father to His Children (Philadelphia, 1819)

America 250 at Penn

Teaching Independence

Bridging the Communications Gap

Hybrid event

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
McNeil Center for Early American Studies http://www.mceas.org/ , 3355 Woodland Walk, Philadelphia PA
Middlesex Soup & Dinner Kitchen, 1899

From the Kislak Stacks

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

Mitch Fraas, Senior Curator

Virtual event

Andy Warhol: The Album Covers

Warhol Wednesdays

A Collector's Journey into Warhol's Unknown Works

Paul Maréchal, Art historian, author, curator

Placeholder image with assorted books and manuscripts

Workshop in the History of Material Texts

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

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Image of a pink fist with "FEMINIST" spelled out on knuckles stamped over the title page of Fredson Bowers' Principles of Bibliographic Description (1949).

Workshop in the History of Material Texts

Sarah Werner: "Speculations on Feminist Bibliography"

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Young readers holding books and chatting in library stacks

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"

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Andy Warhol, ca. 1965-67

Warhol Wednesdays

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

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Peter Stallybrass (Penn), "The Ten Commandments and/as Erasable Wax Tablets"

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Fourteenth-century charter from Germany with a few lines in Hebrew at the bottom

Workshop in the History of Material Texts

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

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Image with assorted books and manuscripts

Workshop in the History of Material Texts

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

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Andy Warhol and Pontus Hultén

Warhol Wednesdays

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

Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 5:30-7:00pm
Translating Warhol: Symposium

Translating Warhol: Symposium

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor
Warhol @ Penn Again

Exhibitions

Warhol @ Penn Again

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See also