2019 : Whitman Vignettes: Camden and Philadelphia
An exhibition in conjunction with Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy
Keynote Speaker: Ed Folsom
The Muriel Pfaelzer Bodek Fund for Library Public Events
Established in 2001 by Gordon S. Bodek, College 1942 in honor of his wife, this fund generously supports a lecture series on current public affairs.
Past Lectures
2018 : Arthur Tress
A Visual Odyssey
Speaker: Arthur Tress
2016 : Across the Spectrum
Color in American Fine and Private Press Books, 1890-2015
Keynote Speaker: Mark Dimunation
2014 : Creating Children's Books Symposium
Collaboration and Change
Keynote Address: Leonard S. Marcus
2008: The Next Government of the United States
Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them
Speaker: Donald F. Kettl
2007 : un-Spun
Finding Facts in a World of {Disinformation}
Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson
An Agenda for Ethics in a Morally Divided America
Speaker: Henry R. Silverman
Gun Barrel Democracy? Democratic Constitutionalism Following Military Occupation
Reflections on the US Experience in Japan, Germany, Afghanistan, and Iraq
Speaker: Stanley N. Katz, Professor of Public and International Affairs & Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University
Enemy Aliens and American Freedoms
Liberty and Security After September 11
Speaker: David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Let's Roll
America's Middle East Policy After 9/11
Speaker: Robert Vitalis, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania
What's Wrong With Cloning Your Cat?
Speaker: Arthur Caplan, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Chairman of the Department for Medical Ethics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Featured Image: Arthur Tress, Boy in Flood Dream, Ocean City, Maryland, 1972. Gelatin Silver Print. Courtesy of the artist