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Upcoming Events

Nov 07
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Python for Humanists

This short workshop will introduce humanists to the programming language Python and the numerous possibilities for its use for research in the humanities.

  • November 7, 2025
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange (RDDSx), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, First Floor
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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
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