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Feb 02
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Faculty and Staff

AI in the Workplace

In this skills-focused workshop, you will use generative AI tools to make common workplace tasks easier and more efficient.

  • February 2, 2026
  • 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  • Meyerson Conference Room 223, Van Pelt Library, 2nd floor
laptops next to a stack of books and a graduation cap
Feb 03
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Online Zine Making to Support Time Management

Join Learning Enrichment for an online, hands-on workshop where you’ll create a personalized study and project plan, designed as an online zine, to help you stay organized and maintain balance throughout the semester.

  • February 3, 2026
  • 3:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Zoom
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Feb 03
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Managing Your Qualitative Data with NVivo

Join this workshop for an introduction to NVivo, a software offered for free through the Penn Libraries, which can help you work with qualitative data by managing your files and analysis.

  • February 3, 2026
  • 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Logo of NVivo, a management software for qualitative research
Feb 04
Open to the Public

Studio Use Training

This one-hour intensive session is focused on proper studio practices to enable participants to use Common Press independently as an advanced user.

  • February 4, 2026
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Common Press Space
an image of two hands working on a letterpress
Feb 04
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Bloomberg 101

This class covers basic database structure and practical and useful commands in Bloomberg, a definitive source of information for security pricing, indicative and fundamental data, customized analytics and business news.

  • February 4, 2026
  • 3:30pm - 4:30pm
  • Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Room 244
Photograph of a monitor screen displaying the Bloomberg terminal
Feb 05
  • Workshop
Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Book of Hours Fragments

On February 5, curator Dot Porter will bring out a variety of fragments and leaves from books of hours, from the 15th and 16th centuries and written in France, the Netherlands, and England.

  • February 5, 2026
  • 12:00pm - 12:30pm
  • Online
Feb 05
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Sun Ra/Afro-Futurism/Jazz: A Music of the Spirit

Ahmed Abdullah, jazz trumpeter, adjunct professor at The New School, and former member of the Sun Ra Arkestra, leads a workshop on Sun Ra and the history of jazz.

  • February 5, 2026
  • 4:00pm - 5:30pm
  • Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor
A pamphlet reads "Sun Ra Research" in bold red and black, with a photograph of Sun Ra beneath it: a black man wearing a cape and an intricate hat, and holding a large round metallic object.
Feb 05
  • Book Talk
Open to the Public

Ahmed Abdullah: A Strange Celestial Road

Ahmed Abdullah, jazz trumpeter, adjunct professor at The New School, and former member of the Sun Ra Arkestra, presents a talk on his memoir A Strange Celestial Road.

  • February 5, 2026
  • 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor
Cover of the book A Strange Celestial Road featuring a performer onstage wearing a brightly colored, rainbow-hued cape and matching headpiece, standing with arms outstretched beneath stage lights.
Feb 06
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Fun with #DHMakes

This hour-long workshop will introduce the #DHMakes movement, which combines digital humanities interests with physical making/arts and crafts.

  • February 6, 2026
  • 10:00am - 11:00am
  • Kislak Center Vitale II, Room 623, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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