Events at the Kislak Center

May 01

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Orthodox liturgical roll fragments

For Coffee With A Codex on May 1 (rescheduled from March 20), Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Roll 2062, three fragments from an 11th-century manuscript roll of the Liturgy of Saint Basil in the Byzantine Rite.

• May 1, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

May 02

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Publishing Reimagined: An Interactive Workshop

Join us for an interactive workshop to explore alternative publishing futures.

• May 2, 2025
• 10:00am - 11:30am
• Room 626, Kislak Center Seminar Room, Floor 6

May 08

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex on the Road: Treatise of the Eucharist at Kalamazoo

On May 8, Curator Dot Porter will present WMU MS 170, a 12th century copy of a treatise of the Eucharist by Paschasius Radbertus, abbot of Corbie, with an extensive marginal apparatus.

• May 8, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

May 15

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: New Testament

On May 15, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1560, a complete New Testament with prologues, written in a tiny script and including extensive marginal notes.

• May 15, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

May 28 - 30

• Conference

Open to the Public

Textual Remediations: The Society for Textual Scholarship 2025 Conference

This conference aims to bring new voices into dialogue and present innovative approaches for expressing cultural heritage, communal knowledge, and historical memory.

• May 28 - 30, 2025
• Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

May 29

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Persian Romance

On May 29, guest host Neha Tiwari, PhD student in South Asia Studies, will present LJS 422, a 16th-century copy in Persian of a 12th-century romance about the life of Bahrām Gūr, a 5th-century king of Iran

• May 29, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online