Events at the Kislak Center

Mar 20

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Orthodox liturgical roll fragments

For Coffee With A Codex on 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.

• March 20, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Mar 20 - 21

• Symposium

Open to the Public

The Scopes Trial at 100: Secularism, Race, and Education

This symposium will feature some of the most cutting-edge scholars linking the Scopes Trial to our present moment one hundred years later.

• March 20 - 21, 2025
• Hybrid event: Online and in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor

Mar 24 - 27

• Lecture

Open to the Public

Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation

In this series of three lectures, Kelly Wisecup examines how Indigenous peoples made and used the page to address structures of dispossession.

• March 24 - 27, 2025
• Hybrid event: Class of 78 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 6th Floor; and virtual (via Zoom)

Mar 27

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Anonymous Sermons

On March 27, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 742, a collection of anonymous sermons for Sundays from the Second Sunday of Advent through the 25th Sunday after Pentecost.

• March 27, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Mar 28

• Lecture

Open to the Public

Indigenous Voices in the Archives: Surveying Native Collections in the Kislak Center

Drawing on lessons learned from collaborating with Native American and First Nations peoples, in-resident researcher Emily Jean Leischner will share stories and snippets from her initial survey of Indigenous knowledge in the Kislak Center archives.

• March 28, 2025
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm
• Virtual (link will be sent to registrants)

Mar 28

• Lecture

Open to the Public

Unfolding Concertina-Fold Almanacs: The Making of an Exhibition

Sarah Griffin and Megan McNamee will discuss their exhibition Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar on view at Lambeth Palace Library in London and explore ideas about time in the Middle Ages through the concertina-fold almanac, a rare and remarkable book type introduced in the fourteenth century

• Friday, March 28, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
• 12:00pm - 1:30pm
• Virtual

Mar 29

Open to the Public

Walking Tour: Penn's Revolutionary Campus

Starting at the site of the University of Pennsylvania's original college campus at 4th and Arch Streets, this walking tour of Old City will bring to life stories of the places and people associated with Penn in the 18th century.

• March 29, 2025
• 11:00am - 1:00pm
• Tour begins at 4th and Arch Streets

Apr 01

• Lecture

Open to the Public

Collecting and Reading the Dreyfus Affair: Postcards, Photo Albums, and Journals

Karine Macarez, 2024 Lorraine Beitler Research Fellow, shares how lesser-studied mediums such as postcards, photo albums, and journals illustrate public opinions around the Dreyfus Affair.

• April 1, 2025
• 5:30pm - 7:00pm
• Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th Floor

Apr 02

• Book Talk

Open to the Public

Book Talk: Michael Visontay on "Noble Fragments"

Journalist Michael Visontay tells the story of the maverick who scandalized the bibliophile world one hundred years ago.

• April 2, 2025
• 5:30pm - 6:30pm
• Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center