Events at the Kislak Center

Jun 12

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Prayers in Arabic & Coptic

For Coffee With a Codex on June 12, Curator Dot Porter will bring out two examples of manuscripts written in Coptic and Arabic.

• June 12, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Jun 13

Open to the Public

Finding Edna Lewis: Documentary Screening and Discussion with Deb Freeman and Chef Valerie Erwin

This Juneteenth event will celebrate renowned chef, teacher, and author Edna Lewis with a documentary screening, discussion, and display of her cookbooks as well as tastings of some of her recipes.

• June 13, 2025
• 5:30pm - 8:00pm
• Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Jun 26

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Handbook for Parish Priests

For Coffee With A Codex on June 26, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 75, a Handbook of canon law and pastoral theology for parish priests.

• June 26, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Jul 03

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Ascetic miscellany

For Coffee With a Codex on July 3, Dot Porter will bring out an ascetic miscellany containing a selection of works related to self-privation.

• July 3, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Jul 10

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Coins in Leeds

For Coffee With a Codex on July 10, Dot Porter will be at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK. While there she'll look at coins with Lucy Moore, Associate Curator of Numismatic and Object Collections at the Leeds University Library.

• July 10, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Jul 17

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: On the Spirit and the Soul

For Coffee With a Codex on July 17, Dot Porter will bring out a 15th century Italian manuscript of treatise De spiritu et anima, erroneously attributed to St. Augustine (actually written by Alcherus of Clairvaux).

• July 17, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Jul 24

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: On calculation with integers and fractions

For Coffee With A Codex on July 24, Curator Dot Porter will bring out a copy of the text On calculation with integers and fractions, written in Baghdad in A.H. 590 (1194).

• July 24, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Jul 31

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Astronomical Texts (Two fragments from the same original manuscript)

For Coffee With A Codex on July 24, Curator Dot Porter will bring out two fragments of a number of astronomical texts in Middle English, written in England circa 1496.

• July 31, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Sep 12

• Symposium

Open to the Public

Making the Medieval Archive: Celebrating Elizabeth A.R. Brown at Penn

This day-long symposium will commemorate Elizabeth (Peggy) A. R. Brown’s extraordinary legacy in the field of Medieval Studies and will mark the official launch of the Elizabeth A. R. Brown Medieval Historians’ archive.

• September 12, 2025
• 10:00am - 7:00pm
• Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts & Online