Upcoming Events: Kislak Center

Jun 02 - 11

• Lecture

Open to the Public

Rare Book School 2025 Livestreamed Lectures

The Kislak Center will livestream four evening lectures presented by Rare Book School, an independent institute supporting the study of the history of books, printing, and related subjects.

• June 2 - 11
• Livestreams held at the Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Jun 05

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Theological miscellany

For Coffee With A Codex on June 5, Curator Dot Porter will bring out will bring out Ms. Codex 696, a collection of theological texts written in Germany between approximately 1250 and 1399.

• June 5, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

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

Nov 20 - 22

• Symposium

Open to the Public

Interpreting the Ancients

Coinciding with the exhibition Reinventing Aristotle, on view this fall at Penn Libraries' Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, this year's symposium centers on the unceasing conversations with antiquity held across the pages of manuscripts, before and after the age of print.

• November 20-22, 2025
• Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; Free Library of Philadelphia & Online