30 days of events

COVID-19 update: As public health guidelines evolve, status and location of all events are subject to change. Please check the individual event webpages for the most up-to-date information.

2022-10-10

Christopher Maltman and Audrey Saint-Gil (photo: Chris Singer)

Fall 2022

A Musical Evening with Christopher Maltman and Audrey Saint-Gil

7:00pm

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th floor

2021-01-25 , 2021-02-01 , 2021-02-08 , 2021-02-15 , 2021-02-22 , 2021-03-01 , 2021-03-08 , 2021-03-15 , 2021-03-22 , 2021-03-29 , 2021-04-05 , 2021-04-12 , 2021-04-26 , 2021-05-03 , 2021-05-10 , 2021-05-24 , 2021-05-31 , 2021-06-07 , 2021-06-14 , 2021-06-21 , 2021-06-28 , 2021-07-12 , 2021-08-23 , 2021-08-30 , 2021-09-06 , 2021-09-27 , 2021-10-04 , 2021-10-11 , 2021-10-18 , 2021-10-25 , 2021-11-15 , 2021-11-22 , 2021-11-29 , 2021-12-06 , 2021-12-13 , 2021-12-20 , 2022-01-12 , 2022-01-19 , 2022-01-26 , 2022-02-02 , 2022-02-09 , 2022-02-16

Rare book open on table

Jan

26

and more

Coffee with a Codex

Virtual event

Noon - 12:30pm

Online

2021-01-25 , 2021-02-01 , 2021-02-08 , 2021-02-15 , 2021-02-22 , 2021-03-01 , 2021-03-08 , 2021-03-15 , 2021-03-22 , 2021-03-29 , 2021-04-05 , 2021-04-12 , 2021-04-26 , 2021-05-03 , 2021-05-10 , 2021-05-24 , 2021-05-31 , 2021-06-07 , 2021-06-14 , 2021-06-21 , 2021-06-28 , 2021-07-12 , 2021-08-23 , 2021-08-30 , 2021-09-06 , 2021-09-27 , 2021-10-04 , 2021-10-11 , 2021-10-18 , 2021-10-25 , 2021-11-15 , 2021-11-22 , 2021-11-29 , 2021-12-06 , 2021-12-13 , 2021-12-20 , 2022-01-12 , 2022-01-19 , 2022-01-26 , 2022-02-02 , 2022-02-09 , 2022-02-16

Rare book open on table

Feb

26

and more

Coffee with a Codex

Virtual event

Noon - 12:30pm

Online

2022-02-14

Autographed photograph portrait of Frederick Douglass, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Papers, University of Pennsylvania Archives

Feb

14

Douglass Day

Hybrid event

Noon-3:00pm

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th floor

2022-02-11

Initial B from a choir book, showing Christ blessing a Dominican nun.

Feb

11

Masters in Miniature

The SIMS & Italian Studies Fellow in Italian Manuscript Studies Lecture

January 27, 2022, 5:15 - 6:30 pm

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th floor

Coming events

2022-02-14

2/14

Volvelle from Penn MS Codex 1881

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

Workshop in the History of Material Texts

5:15pm lecture, to be followed by discussion

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Floor plan | Campus map

2022-01-31

1/31

Image of Carlos Spoerhase

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

Workshop in the History of Material Texts

5:15pm lecture, to be followed by discussion

2022-01-26

1/26

and more

Rare book open on table

Coffee with a Codex

Virtual event

Noon - 12:30pm

Online

2022-02-07

2/7

Placeholder image with assorted books and manuscripts

Dahye Kim (Northwestern University): "The Hangul Typewriter: Failing Communication and the Korean Writing System"

Workshop in the History of Material Texts

5:15pm lecture, to be followed by discussion

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Floor plan | Campus map

2022-02-14

2/14

Autographed photograph portrait of Frederick Douglass, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Papers, University of Pennsylvania Archives

Douglass Day

Hybrid event

Noon-3:00pm

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Floor plan | Campus map

2022-02-16

2/16

Harvey Finkle, photograper, "Sierra Leone-Dukuray Family Prepares for Church, Philadelphia"

Faces of Immigration: Photographs by Harvey Finkle

3:00 - 7:30pm

Lea Library

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Floor plan | Campus map

2022-02-11

2/11

Initial B from a choir book, showing Christ blessing a Dominican nun.

Masters in Miniature

The SIMS & Italian Studies Fellow in Italian Manuscript Studies Lecture

January 27, 2022, 5:15 - 6:30 pm

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Floor plan | Campus map

2022-02-21

2/21

Drawing of a physician picking herbs from Paris, BnF lat. 6862, f. 18v (detail)Drawing of a physician picking herbs from Paris, BnF lat. 6862, f. 18v (detail)

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

Workshop in the History of Material Texts

5:15pm lecture, to be followed by discussion

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Floor plan | Campus map