
Musical Fund Society at 200
Diffusion of Taste in Philadelphia, 1820-2020
On exhibit: -

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

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

Gracián between Oracolo Manuale and L'Huomo di corte
Roger Chartier, Department of History and Collège de France

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Micha Perry (University of Haifa): "Medieval Jewish Bilingual Charters: Texts, Signs and Sounds"

From the Kislak Stacks
Regulating the Poor: Ephemeral Printing and Poor Relief Tickets in the Long Nineteenth Century
Mitch Fraas, Senior Curator
Virtual event

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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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
Elizabeth McHenry (NYU), "'Utterly Worthless'?: Race Publishing, Subscription Books and Black Communities"

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"

America 250 at Penn
Teaching Independence
Bridging the Communications Gap
Hybrid event
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McNeil Center for Early American Studies http://www.mceas.org/ , 3355 Woodland Walk, Philadelphia PA

From the Kislak Stacks
The French Origins of the Restaurant: The 1802 Menu of Antoine Beauvilliers, Restaurateur
Lynne Farrington, Senior Curator
Virtual event

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"

Kislak Center New Acquisitions Showcase
While you were away ...
In-person event

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

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

Hybrid event
Douglass Day
Celebrating 19th-Century Black Achievement
In-person and virtual event

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Roger Chartier (Penn): "The Skin of an Innocent Lamb: Jack Cade and the Roman Law"

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
Teresa A. Goddu (Vanderbilt), "Antislavery Media"

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Sarah Wasserman (Delaware), "Pop-up Buildings and Postage Stamps: Ephemera and the American Novel"

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

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

Hybrid event
Li Delun in Philadelphia
Ethnography, Archives, and Music Across the Pacific

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Material Texts Roadshow: Women Collectors and Their Collections

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

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series
Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Institute for Advanced Study, and Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto
Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Brenton Sullivan (Colgate), "Buddhist Monastic Constitutions"

Faces of Immigration: Photographs by Harvey Finkle

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

Building in China: A Century of Dialogues on Modern Architecture
On exhibit: -

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

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series
American Collectors and the British Market for Rare Books c. 1890-1939: Two Perspectives
Laura Cleaver and Danielle Magnusson, Institute for English Studies, University of London

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series
Between Central and East Asia: Chinese Manuscripts from Tenth-Century Dunhuang
Imre Galambos, University of Cambridge

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

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

From the Kislak Stacks
Orrin Evans and All Negro Comics
Sean Quimby, Director, Kislak Center
Virtual event
![Page from illuminated manuscript copy of Khushhal Khan's Rag Darshan - [Hyderabad, India], A.H. 1214-1219 (1799-1804)](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2022-04/schofield-wkshp-index-img.jpg?h=41bcad53&itok=A8EOgKV6)
Khushhal Khan's Rag Darshan
Workshop with Prof. Katherine Schofield, Kings' College, London

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Jack Lynch (Rutgers University-Newark), "Real Fakes and Fake Fakes: Materiality in Literary Forgery"

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
Marcy Dinius (DePaul University): "David Walker's Textual Engagements"

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

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

14th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (Online)
Loss
November 17-19, 2021
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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
Virtual Roadshow: Copy Technologies
Brian Cassidy (Type Punch Matrix), Jessica Linker (Northeastern), Michelle R. Warren (Dartmouth)

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

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series
Beyond the Page: Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England
Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford