Exhibits and Events

Musical Fund Society at 200

Diffusion of Taste in Philadelphia, 1820-2020

Conspiracy Theory and Political Culture, Past and Present

A Conversation with The Atlantic’s Adrienne LaFrance and James McAuley

Virtual event

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

Interactive Web Visualizations with D3

From First Interviews to Important Presentations: Tips to Help You Master the Virtual Job Market

Gracián between Oracolo Manuale and L'Huomo di corte

Roger Chartier, Department of History and Collège de France

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

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

Mitch Fraas, Senior Curator

Virtual event

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

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

The Ethics of Collecting in the 21st Century

Virtual event

Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) and Ben Davies (University of Portsmouth), "Corona Time: Reading Fiction During the Covid-19 Pandemic"

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

Ellen Gruber Garvey (New Jersey City University), "Unstable Access to the Print Record: The Case of Back Number Budd and 19th Century Newspapers"

Teaching Independence

Bridging the Communications Gap

Hybrid event

The French Origins of the Restaurant: The 1802 Menu of Antoine Beauvilliers, Restaurateur

Lynne Farrington, Senior Curator

Virtual event

Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia) and Amanda Licastro (Penn Libraries): "Book Traces: Library History and the Marks of Collaborative Reading"

While you were away ...

In-person event

Margaret M. Bruchac (Penn), "Reading the Material and Textual Histories in a Path Wampum Belt"

Asheesh Kapur Siddique (UMass Amherst), "Documenting the Body of State: Paper and the Matter of the US Constitution"

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

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

Douglass Day

Celebrating 19th-Century Black Achievement

In-person and virtual event

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

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]

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

Sarah Wasserman (Delaware), "Pop-up Buildings and Postage Stamps: Ephemera and the American Novel"

Masters in Miniature

Future Horizons for Italian Manuscript Studies

Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College

Dahye Kim (Northwestern University): "The Hangul Machines and the Curious Disappearance of Chinese Characters"

Li Delun in Philadelphia

Ethnography, Archives, and Music Across the Pacific

Material Texts Roadshow: Women Collectors and Their Collections

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

Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History

Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Institute for Advanced Study, and Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto

Brenton Sullivan (Colgate), "Buddhist Monastic Constitutions"

Museum Library as Palimpsest

Faces of Immigration: Photographs by Harvey Finkle

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

Building in China: A Century of Dialogues on Modern Architecture

The Declaration’s Journey: Thinking about the 250th Exhibition at the Museum of the American Revolution

Phillip Mead, Museum of the American Revolution

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

Between Central and East Asia: Chinese Manuscripts from Tenth-Century Dunhuang

Imre Galambos, University of Cambridge

Research Data & Digital Scholarship Data Jam

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 Secret Life of Books

Peter D. McDonald, University of Oxford

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

Orrin Evans and All Negro Comics

Sean Quimby, Director, Kislak Center

Virtual event

Khushhal Khan's Rag Darshan

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

Celebrating the Manuscripts of the Muslim World Project (2018-2021)

Jack Lynch (Rutgers University-Newark), "Real Fakes and Fake Fakes: Materiality in Literary Forgery"

Analyzing and Visualizing Text with Constellate and Proquest TDM Studio

Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen (University of St Andrews), "Materializing the Immaterial: Recovering the Lost Books of Early Modern Europe"

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

Wars in the Workshop: Digitizing Manuscript Rolls

Natasha Hodgson, Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Nottingham Trent University

Setting the Stage for Warhol and the Philadelphia Exploding Plastic Inevitable Event in 1966

Cheryl Harper, Independent Curator and Project Director

Virtual event

Loss

November 17-19, 2021

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]

Visualizing Networks with R

Virtual Roadshow: Copy Technologies

Brian Cassidy (Type Punch Matrix), Jessica Linker (Northeastern), Michelle R. Warren (Dartmouth)

Sarah Werner: "Speculations on Feminist Bibliography"

Beyond the Page: Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England

Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford

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