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Upcoming Events

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February – July 2021 Feb – Jul 2021
Feb
3
Wed
2021
Feb 3 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
5:30 pm
Michael W. Twitty is a culinary historian and food writer from the Washington D.C. area. He blogs at Afroculinaria.com. Michael has appeared on Bizarre Foods America with Andrew Zimmern, Many Rivers to Cross with Dr.[...]
Feb
4
Thu
2021
Feb 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Danielle Skeehan, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative American Studies, Oberlin College and Conservatory Register
Zoom
Feb
9
Tue
2021
Feb 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
5:00 pm
Supported, in part, by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Join Jasmine Smith, our African American History Specialist and Reference Librarian for a live collection review featuring items from our first ever Mellon Scholars on-line exhibition,[...]
Zoom
Feb
11
Thu
2021
Feb 11 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
2:30 pm
Thursday, February 11 2:30-3:30 p.m. EST Click Here to Register Led by Ainsley Wynn Eakins, Reading Room Assistant, Library Company of Philadelphia Obeah was carried to the Caribbean through the Transatlantic Slave Trade, but its[...]
Zoom
Feb
11
Thu
2021
Feb 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
David Head, Associate Lecturer, Department of History, University of Central Florida Register
Zoom
Feb
17
Wed
2021
Feb 17 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
5:30 pm
Wednesday, February 17 5:30-7 p.m. EST Click Here to Register A conversation with Sharon Block (UC Irvine), Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins), and Jessica Marie Johnson, author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in[...]
Zoom
Feb
25
Thu
2021
Feb 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Derrick R. Spires, Associate Professor of English, Cornell University Register
Zoom
Mar
4
Thu
2021
Mar 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Agnès Trouillet, Associate Professor in Political, Economic, Social, Cultural History of the British Isles, Université Paris X Nanterre Register
Zoom
Mar
9
Tue
2021
Mar 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
5:00 pm
Supported by the Davida T. Deutsch Program in Women’s History According to suffragist Susan B. Anthony, bicycling “did more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” Temperance activist Frances Willard learned to ride[...]
Zoom
Mar
11
Thu
2021
Mar 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Adam Gordon, Associate Professor of English, Whitman College Register
Zoom
Mar
18
Thu
2021
Mar 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Bob Frishmen, Fellow of the National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors Sponsored by the Visual Culture Program Register
Zoom
Mar
25
Thu
2021
Mar 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Women have been comparing women’s bodies to coral, and women’s labor to the act of reef-making, for centuries. What’s the thinking behind this analogy? In this talk, Michele Navakas will discuss a range of overlooked[...]
Zoom
Apr
1
Thu
2021
Apr 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
  Kyle B. Roberts, Associate Director of Library & Museum Programming, American Philosophical Society Register  
Zoom
Apr
8
Thu
2021
Apr 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
  Mark Boonshoft, Assistant Professor of History, Duquesne University Register  
Zoom
Apr
15
Thu
2021
Apr 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
  Emily Gowen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Boston University Register  
Zoom
Apr
22
Thu
2021
Apr 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
  Andrea Krupp, Visual Artist and Conservator at the Library Company of Philadelphia Register
Zoom
Apr
29
Thu
2021
Apr 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
  Michael Hattem, Associate Director, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Register
Zoom
May
6
Thu
2021
May 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
  Amanda Brickell Bellows, Lecturer, The New School Register
Zoom
May
13
Thu
2021
May 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
  Carolyn Eastman, Associate Professor of History, Virginia Commonwealth University Register
Zoom
May
20
Thu
2021
May 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
  Julie Miller, Specialist for Early American History, Library of Congress Register
Zoom
May
27
Thu
2021
May 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg examines how conceptions of mental illness intersected with American society, law, and politics during the early American Republic. Swedberg illustrates how[...]
Zoom
Jun
3
Thu
2021
Jun 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Chris Kuncio, Creator of Young Ben Franklin Register
Zoom
Jun
10
Thu
2021
Jun 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Donald F. Johnson, Assistant Professor of History, North Dakota State University Register
Zoom
Jun
17
Thu
2021
Jun 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Kirsten Fischer, Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota The first comprehensive biography of Elihu Palmer tells the life story of a freethinker who was at the heart of the early United States’ protracted contest[...]
Zoom
Jun
24
Thu
2021
Jun 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Zachary Dorner, Assistant Clinical Professor, University Honors, University of Maryland, College Park The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century—the so-called long eighteenth century of English history—was a time of profound global[...]
Zoom
Jul
8
Thu
2021
Jul 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Karen Racine, Professor of Latin American History, University of Guelph Register
Zoom
Jul
15
Thu
2021
Jul 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Crystal Lynn Webster, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas, San Antonio Register
Zoom
Jul
22
Thu
2021
Jul 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Cordelia Frances Biddle, Independent Scholar and Novelist Register
Zoom
Jul
29
Thu
2021
Jul 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Emily Casey, Assistant Professor of Art History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Register
Zoom
February – July 2021 Feb – Jul 2021

2021 Holiday Closings

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day  – Monday, Jan 18, 2021
President’s Day – Monday, Feb 15, 2021
Memorial Day – Monday, May 31, 2021
Independence Day – Monday, July 5, 2021
Labor Day – Monday, September 6, 2021
Thanksgiving-  Thursday & Friday – November 25 & 26, 2021
Holiday Closing –  Friday, Dec 24, 2021 – Friday, Dec 31, 2021

For more information on these events please call 215-546-3181 or email Dayjah Brock, dbrock@librarycompany.org.