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Thomas Sovereign Gates Library Lecture Fund

Made possible by the Thomas Sovereign Gates Fund.

Image used for the 2017 Gates lecture, The Science of Information

Past Events

2018 : Sound, Gender, and the Color Line

A Symposium and Celebration in Honor of Marian Anderson, Musician and Citizen of the World

2017 : American and Muslim Worlds, c. 1500-1900

2017 : The Science of Information, 1870-1945

The Universalization of Knowledge in a Utopian Age

Keynote Speaker: Michael Gordin

Featured Image: "A World Centre," heliogravure by Jules Chauvet, from Hendrik Christian Andersen's World Centre for Communication (Paris, 1913; no. 19 printed for the University of Pennsylvania)