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Apr 16
  • Lecture

A Conversation with Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress

The Penn Libraries is pleased to welcome Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, for a public talk exploring the role of libraries in a pandemic and post-pandemic world. Hayden will highlight library workers who are thinking outside the box to make accurate information available to all.

  • April 16, 2022
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center, 6th Floor Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Portrait, Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress.
Apr 30
  • Lecture

Revealing Galen's Simples

This symposium will feature the oldest known translation of Galen's On the Mixtures and Powers of Simple Drugs, and presentations by imaging specialists, Syriac scholars, and historians of medicine working to reveal the secrets of this challenging manuscript.

  • April 30, 2016
  • 9:00am - 5:30pm
  • Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center, 6th Floor Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Page from the Galen Palimpsest in natural color and after processing to reveal the under text (2015).
Jan 26
  • Lecture
Open to the Public

Roundtable with Benjamin Bagby on Beowulf

Renowned performer of early music Benjamin Bagby joins Penn faculty to introduce and discuss the Old English epic poem Beowulf.

  • January 26, 2023
  • 5:15pm - 7:00pm
  • Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Benjamin Bagby performing Beowulf
Mar 23 - 26
  • Lecture
Open to the Public

The Evangelical Public Sphere

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2009

  • March 23, 25, and 26, 2009. Lectures begin 5:30pm @ Rosenwald Hall
  • Rosenwald Gallery, formerly 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.
Sep 24
  • Lecture

A Crucified Nun and an Amateur Iconographer

This talk will introduce a fascinating hybrid book now housed at the Kislak Center, a 1524 edition of Hendrik Herp’s Mirror of Perfection.

  • September 24, 2021
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Kislak Center
Illustration of a nun on a crucifix, surrounded by latin text.
Oct 14
  • Lecture
Open to the Public

A House Remembered: The Hedgerow Archive at Penn

Chris Lippa talks about the recently-cataloged Hedgerow Theatre records held in the Kislak Center and visits key moments in the theater's history.

  • October 14, 2022
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Virtual (link will be sent to registrants)
Hedgerow Theatre stage scene, 1920s?, Hedgerow Theatre Company records