For Coffee With A Codex on October 16, Curator Dot Porter will visit the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, where she'll join Rosenbach Librarian Elizabeth Fuller for a look at MS 1004/29, a mid-fourteenth-century physician's belt book containing calendar, tables of solar and lunar eclipses, anatomical phlebotomy diagram, and urine wheel.
Mitch Fraas will discuss how British legal ideas about race, nationality, and colonial sovereignty were shaped by cases involving the capture of merchant vessels during the Napoleonic wars.
J. D. Sargan considers generative modes of reading through the premodern archive to seek out trans lives beyond the ephemeral glimpses that have gone unnoticed in the historical record.
A string trio will perform works by Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart, music loved by the artist Ursula Sternberg-Hertz, whose papers are housed in the Kislak Center.
October 17, 2025
6:15pm -
9:00pm
Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
On Tuesday, October 21, SIMS Curator for Digital Humanities Dot Porter and Program Coordinator of Technology and Play Christine Kemp will lead a workshop where we will make our own illuminated initials on parchment using gold leaf and paint.
This two-day conference highlights the visual documentary interventions of Sol Worth and Harvey Finkle in Philadelphia during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
October 22-23, 2025
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor
For Coffee With A Codex on October 23, Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman will bring out CAJS Rar Ms. 534, a manuscript written by Moses Gomez de Mesquita documenting his administration and institution of prayer customs for the Sephardim in England.
This pop-up exhibit showcases rare and archival materials that reflect how people have understood their health, well-being, and medical knowledge through the medium of bookmaking.
October 24, 2025
1:00pm -
4:00pm
Henry Charles Lea Library, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor
