Events at the Kislak Center

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

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 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