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Kislak Center Upcoming Events

Lectures, symposia, and exhibitions presented and co-sponsored by the Penn Libraries’ Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.

On View

Laurence Salzmann: A Life with Others

On exhibit August 28 - December 4, 2023. Curated by Jason Francisco, a visual artist tenured in the Film and Media Department at Emory University, this exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of the work of Laurence Salzmann (American, born 1944), whose collection was donated to the Penn Libraries in 2018. 

Two men wearing hats pass each other on a city street surrounded by graffiti-laden walls. Black and white photograph.Legible graffiti reads "the new
Dec 14
  • Event
  • Kislak
Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Breviary collages

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.

 

  • December 14, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 12:30pm
  • Online
Ms. Coll. 713
Jan 11
  • Event
  • Kislak

Coffee with a Codex: Astronomy

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.

  • January 11, 2024
  • 12:00pm - 12:30pm
  • Online
Photo of page from LJS 57
Jan 18
  • Event
  • Kislak
Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Notated Breviary

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.

  • January 18, 2024
  • 12:00pm - 12:30pm
  • Online
Page from Ms. Codex 1233
Feb 16
  • Lecture
  • Kislak
Open to the Public

Dioscorides Disordered: Penn's Persian Kitab al-Hashayish

Marianna Shreve Simpson explores the disordered folia of LJS 278, a 17th-century illustrated Persian copy of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica.

  • Friday, February 16, 2024, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
  • 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  • Virtual
First folio of LJS 278, an incomplete copy of Dioscurides' Kitāb-i Ḥashāyish, showing two botanical illustrations of unidentified plants.
Mar 13
  • Lecture
  • Kislak
Open to the Public

Traces of University Teaching in Renaissance Books: Examples and Problems

Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the Center for Italian Studies Fellow's Lecture in Italian Manuscript Studies

  • Wednesday, March 13, 5:15 - 6:30 pm EST
  • 5:15pm - 6:30pm
  • Kislak Center, Seminar Room 627, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th Floor
page from UPenn LJS, an Italian school miscellany. Page shows passage from Cicero's De officiis.