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Rare Book & Manuscript Library Events
- Thursday, September 17, 5:30 PM
- Werner Pfeiffer
- (censor, villain, provocatuer, experimenter):
Book-Objects & Artist Books
- Please join us for the exhibition opening and gallery talk with artist Werner Pfeiffer.
Kamin Gallery
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
3420 Walnut Street, first floor
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- Friday, October 23, 3-7 PM and
Saturday, October 24, 10 AM- 6 PM
- The Industrious Bee:
Francis Daniel Pastorius, His Manuscripts, and His World
- Conference
- The founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1683, Francis Daniel Pastorius wrote works that range from the first antislavery tract in America to children's ABC primers, legal texts, poetry, gardening manuals, and a massive manuscript commonplace book, "The Beehive." This conference explores varied aspects of his life and writings. A keynote address on Friday evening will be followed by discussion of precirculated papers and an exhibition of rarely seen Pastorius manuscripts on Saturday (registration required). Speakers include Anthony Grafton, Peter Stallybrass, Patrick Erben, and Bethany Wiggin. Co-sponsored by The McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
- Sunday, October 25, 10-11:30 AM
- Rare Judaica Book Tour
- Dr. Arthur Kiron, the Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica, leads a special tour of Penn's rare Judaica Collection. At this off-campus location, visitors will see the oldest Haggadah in the world, hundreds of medieval Hebrew manuscripts and beautifully illuminated scrolls, extraordinary selections of the first generation of printed Hebraica, and much more.
Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
420 Walnut Street
Please RSVP to Christine Walsh: chwalsh@sas.upenn.edu or 215-898-6654
- 2nd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium
on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
- Friday, October 30, 3-5 PM and
Saturday, October 31, 10 AM- 7 PM
- Lex Scripta The Manuscript as Witness to the History of Law
- Symposium
- In partnership with the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Biddle Law Library of the University of Pennsylvania, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library hosts the second Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's symposium, on recent scholarship on the history of medieval and early modern law, features keynote speaker Edward Peters, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Homecoming Weekend Events
- Friday, November 6, 4-5 PM
- What Good is an Old Book in the Age of Google?
- Hands-on Discussion
- In the age of Google and Kindle, with millions of books just a few clicks away, why would any university maintain a rare book library? Dr. Daniel Traister, Curator for Research Services at Penn's Rare Book & Manuscript Library and Bibliographer for Literature in English, leads a hands-on discussion using rare books and manuscripts from Penn's collections. What do these books reveal that cannot be replicated on a computer screen? - and why might anyone care?
Lea Library
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
3420 Walnut Street, sixth floor
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- Friday, November 6, 5:30-7 PM
- Ask the Chef
- Informal Q&A Session and Reception
- Join Chef Fritz Blank (Deux Cheminées) taking questions on cuisine, collecting cookbooks, and running a restaurant. Chef Blank retired to Thailand in 2007 after nearly thirty years as one of America's foremost French chefs. He is returning to Philadelphia to celebrate the gift of his culinary archive and library to Penn. A selection from his collection is included in the current exhibition Who's Coming to Dinner?.
Rosenwald Gallery
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
3420 Walnut Street, sixth floor
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- Saturday, November 7, 11 AM-12 PM
- Shakespeare Reinvented
- Hands-on Discussion
- Rebecca Bushnell, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English, discusses how editors and directors have altered Shakespeare's plays over time. Using the First Folio and other rare editions of his plays from Penn's Rare Book & Manuscript Library, as well as digital facsimiles, she will demonstrate the changing shape of Romeo and Juliet from its first performances to recent films.
Lea Library
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
3420 Walnut Street, sixth floor
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All events are free and open to the public (please show photo ID at entrance)
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