Exhibits and Events

Writing Across Genres

African American Women Writers in the Joanna Banks Collection

Romantic Prints on the Move

February 1-2, 2019

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

On exhibit March 11 - August 16, 2013

Divine Art / Infernal Machine

Western Views of Printing Surveyed

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan

Human Rights in the 21st Century

Returning Splendor to Ruins

Recovering the Alhambra in Plaster Casts & Prints

American Pie

The Politics of Food in the 21st Century

Maryanne Amacher: An Introduction

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

Who's Coming to Dinner?

Cooking for Different Audiences

Jane Austen

"In the Original Cloth"

Ormandy in China:

The Historic 1973 Tour

The Art of Reinvention

Travel — Exile — Recuperation

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

"Let Every Heart Be Filled with Joy"

Philadelphia's Savoy Company

Art, Territory, and Identity

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

From Antarctica to Zimbabwe

Around the World with Archives, Books and Codices

October 23, 2019, 5:00-6:30 PM

Holy Land on the Baltic:

The Gustaf Dalman Collection in Greifswald

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

Shakespeare's 451st Birthday Party

The Materiality of Scientific Knowledge:

Image-Text-Book

String Trio in the Pavilion

2016-2017 Concert Season Schedule

Representing Modern Japan:

The Luber Collection of Art Books

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

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

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

Texts on Flyleaves

An Investigation on Petrarch’s Writing Uses

Professor Maddalena Signorini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

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

Building Penn

Campus Planning and Architecture at America’s First University

Michael Winkler

Word Images 1982-2004

Come One, Come All!

Posters from the University of Pennsylvania Library

Deciphering the Past

A Retrospective View of the Art & Science of Cryptology

The Charles J. Mendelsohn Cryptology Collection

Thomas Evans

and the Professional Press

Tomorrow Never Knows

The Beatles in Text & Image

Wise Men Fished Here

A Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart, 1920-2020

Manuscriptistan

Photographs by Anthony M. Cerulli

Penn Flutes, Deluxe Holiday Edition

Cornucopia:

Corn Conquers the World

Paper: A Deckled Edge

The Paper Artwork of Lesley Haas

The Midwestern Experience:

Ormandy in Minneapolis

Van Pelt at 50

Life During Wartime:

Penn at Home and Abroad During the Great War

Utopian Explorations and Science Fiction

The Bibliophile as Bookbinder

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

Identification and Preservation of Inkjet Prints

in Museums, Libraries, and Archives

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

Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida:

Composition—Circulation—Reception

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

In-Quarto:

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

The Great Nadar The Man Behind the Camera

Philadelphia Launch

Pen and Press:

Practices of Writing & Publishing in Colonial America

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

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

Specula: Mirrors of Man and Nature

Manuscripts from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg

Printer, Publisher, Peddler

The Business of the Jewish Book

Polymorphous

The Forms of Artists Books

Listen to the Mockingbird

American Popular Culture in Sheet Music

Musical Partnerships at Play:

The Marlboro Music Festival

Defying Convention

Audacious Women in the Kislak Center Collections

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

Illuminations: Manuscript, Medium, Message

Music in the Pavilion

Immersive Storytelling: Creating Narratives with VR & AR

The Relevance of Dreyfus

in the Age of ISIS

Art of the Print

Drawing Away:

Exile and the Graphic Novel

Global Perspectives on the Medieval Past

This Book Belongs To...

Provenance Marks and Book Ownership Through the Centuries

Prehistoric Wessex:

Towards a Deep Map

LABECULAE VIVAE:

Building a Reference Library of Stains for Researching Medieval Manuscripts

The Bibliophile as Bookbinder:

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

A Symposium on Preserving Contemporary Cultural Heritage

Tales of Three Texts:

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

Music in the Pavilion

2018-2019 Concert Season Schedule

Bread and Civilization

Siamese Sampler:

19th-century Manuscripts of Scripture, Poetry, and Decree

Constellations of Atlantic Jewish History, 1555-1890

The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica

Making the Renaissance Manuscript

Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries

Re-covering the Ney Collection

Destiny and Design

Perception and Uses of Time in South Asia

Zola and the Dreyfus Affair

Intellectuals and the Struggle for Social Justice

American Contact

Virtual conference: Intercultural Encounter and the History of the Book

Borges

The Time Machine / la Máquina del Tiempo

Petrarch at 700

An Exhibition from the Collections of Cornell University Library and the University of Pennsylvania Library

Whitman Vignettes: Camden and Philadelphia

An exhibition in conjunction with

Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy

Sound, Gender, and the Color Line

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

Intertwined Worlds

Gothic Arts

An Interdisciplinary Symposium

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

Equus Unbound:

Fairman Rogers and the Age of the Horse

Literae Humaniores

Treasures from the University of Pennsylvania Library

Reading Pictures:

Sixteenth-Century European Illustrated Books

Word Play:

The Printed Game

Thomas Evans and Félix Nadar

Hooking Up

Red Etchings:

Soviet Book Illustrations from the Collection of Monroe Price

Cataloging Conflict

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

The Word Made Manifest

Text in Handmade Paper

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

The Treasured Hunt

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

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

Celebrating the Rediscovery of a Historic Recording

Writing the East:

History and New Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions

Agents Wanted

Subscription Publishing in America

Hidden in Plain Sight

Musical Treasures in the Penn Libraries

Line and Letter

Examining a 16th-century Shirazi Manuscript

The Meaning of Words

Marcus Jastrow and the Making of Rabbinical Dictionaries

Literae Humaniores in the University of Pennsylvania Library

Writing and Reading Rubrics in the Renaissance Decameron

Rhiannon Daniels, Senior Lecturer in Italian History Bristol University

Reactions: Medieval/Modern

Ezra Pound, Philadelphia Genius, and Modern American Poetry:

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

Expanding Earth

Travel, Encounter, and Exchange

Did Censorship Make the French Enlightenment?

The Evolution of Origin

Critical Refusals:

Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis

Recent Acquisitions

Silver Bells and Oscar Gold:

Ray Evans in Hollywood

In Sight: Seeing the People of the Holy Land

Selections from the Lenkin Family Collection of Photography

Arbitrary Pleasures - Plaisirs Arbitraires

"Let us go then, you and I"

The Paper Menagerie:

Animals on the Page in the Kislak Center's Special Collections

Leaves from The Kingdom of the Book:

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

Arthur Tress

A Visual Odyssey

Reading, Writing, Printing

A Conference in Honor of Peter Stallybrass

Music in the Pavilion

2017-2018 Concert Season Schedule

The Stage and All the World

Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps

Paul Saenger: "The Latin Bible as Codex"

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

Making Artificial Intelligence Trustable, Transparent & Useful

The Role of the National Library of Medicine

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

Riddles and Puzzles

Pythagoras in the Italian Quattrocento

Anna Corrias, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto

Thomas W. Evans and Royalty

A Chef and His Library

An Exhibition Selected from the Collection of Fritz Blank

Seasons of Western Pennsylvania

The Photography of Donald M. Robinson

The Nine Lives of Edgar Fahs Smith

Rudolf Serkin

A Musician's Life in Photographs and Documents

From Book to Garden and Back

Works of Ian Hamilton Finlay

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

Ashley Bryan

Renowned Artist, Poet, Storyteller, and Humanitarian

The Science of Information, 1870-1945:

The Universalization of Knowledge in a Utopian Age

Picking Up the Pieces

American and Muslim Worlds, c. 1500-1900

The Image Affair

Dreyfus in the Media, 1894-1906

Renaissance City Views from Above and Afar

Francis Johnson:

Music Master of Early Philadelphia

Wonders of the Microscope

Recent Acquisitions from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library

"Surely no person was ever so happy as I am":

Emma Hamilton's Path to Fame

The Worlds Between

An Exploration of Magic, Folklore, and the Occult

The Rebirth of Aquila Rose:

Benjamin Franklin's First Philadelphia Printing Job

The Great Emancipator and the Great Central Fair

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

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

The Stage and All the World

Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps

Michael Warner: "The Evangelical Public Sphere"

Soviet Architecture: The Fifth View

Remarkable Figures

Women in the Art of Ashley Bryan

Composing

Harry Mathews' Words & Worlds

Writing Surfaces

Matters of Texts

Selections from the Thomas Evans Collection

Making Prints

Prints from the University of Pennsylvania Library

The Body as Evidence

A Twenty-year Retrospective: The Photography of Candace diCarlo

Life in Boxes

Comic Art & Artifacts

Digital & Archival Approaches to Theater History

Creating Children's Books Symposium

Collaboration and Change

A symposium in honor of William Steig and Atha Tehon

Collecting Histories

The Politics of Paranoia and Nationalism in the Age of Trump

Lecture by Edward-Isaac Dovere

geographies of the book

Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You

Dissecting The Gross Clinic

John Milton at 400

The Joseph A. Wittreich Collection, A Gift in Honor of Stuart Curran on the Occasion of His Retirement

Resolved?

God Does Not Exist

Thomas Wiltberger Evans

16th Century Bible Collection

On exhibit May 1 -August 2, 2019

The Poet and the Dentist:

Stéphane Mallarmé and Thomas Evans

The Civil War:

An Ephemeral Lens Into the Life and Times

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

"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

Memory/Reason/Imagination:

Librarians and Scholars—Past, Present, and Future

A Symposium in Honor of Daniel Traister

Common Press at 10:

Printing, Writing, Teaching, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Ashley Bryan Archive Celebration

and Philadelphia Book Launch for Infinite Hope

We Are the Storm / Migration Now

Activist Poster Art by Justseeds Artists' Cooperative

The Revolt of the Bees

Wherein the Future of the Paper-Hive is Declared

Sister Carrie

“A Strangely Strong Novel in a Queer Milieu”

Werner Pfeiffer

(censor, villain, provocateur, experimenter)

Book-Objects & Artist Books

Shakespearean Residues:

Shakespeare at 450

The Qur’an

Revelation, Illumination, and Tradition

Collections on Display

A Look Back at 20 Years of Penn Libraries Exhibitions

A Mahzor is a Mahzor is a Mahzor?

Studying CAJS Rare MS 382

Professor Elisabeth Hollender, Goethe Institute Frankfurt

A Raging Wit

The Life and Legacy of Jonathan Swift

Penn and Slavery:

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

Across the Spectrum

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

Materials Library & Common Press Preview

Curated by German Pallares & Mary Tasillo. Text by Roksana Filipowska & Hannah Bennett

Gulliver's Reading

Oh Fresh!

Sophomore Proclamations of Freshman Rules, 1866-WWII

Textual Spaces

an Architecture of Reading

Behind the Scenes

Collecting Mesoamerica:

The Hemispheric Roots of U.S. Anthropology

Covered with Vines:

The Many Talents of Ludwig Bemelmans

The Solitary Twin

by Harry Mathews

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)

Common Press at 10:

Printing, Writing, Teaching, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Re-discovering the Turkish reed ney

Tablet, Scroll, & Book

Judaic Treasures

Twelve Black Classicists

The Earliest Contributions of African Americans to Classical Studies

The Penn Library Collections at 250

From Franklin to the Web

Collaborations

Enid Mark and the ELM Press

Osvaldo Romberg: The Library is Burning

Text, Image, Object: 1963-2006

Inventing Liberty

Books and Manuscripts on the American Revolution

Selected from the Library of Marvin Weiner