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Upcoming Events

Posterboard
Posterboard
October 2020 – March 2021 Oct 2020 – Mar 2021
Oct
21
Wed
2020
Nov
18
Wed
2020
Oct 21 @ 5:30 pm – Nov 18 @ 5:30 pm
5:30 pm
Three Sessions: Wednesdays October 21, November 4 & November 18 5:30-7:00 p.m. est This seminar will consider the innovative contributions of John Dickinson to the creation of the United States Constitution through his work on[...]
Zoom
Oct
27
Tue
2020
Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6:00 pm
Tuesday, October 27th 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. ET via Zoom Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections is a round table discussion between Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at[...]
Zoom
Oct
29
Thu
2020
Oct 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Glenda Goodman, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania Register Here
Zoom
Nov
5
Thu
2020
Nov 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Jordan Alexander Stein, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Fordham University Register Here
Zoom
Nov
12
Thu
2020
Nov 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
  This Fireside Chat is based on a collaboration between the Visual Culture Program and Dr. Pauwels Art & Spectacle in the 19th-Century United States class. The seminar explored spectacle and the historical construction of vision as founding[...]
Zoom
Nov
17
Tue
2020
Nov 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
5:00 pm
During quarantine, Jennifer Rosner, Chief of Conservation, completed a research project on the Joseph T. Altemus bindery in Philadelphia.  There were a few detours along the way, and she will tell us about a trip[...]
Zoom
Nov
19
Thu
2020
Nov 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
  This Fireside Chat is based on a collaboration between the Visual Culture Program and Dr. Pauwels Art & Spectacle in the 19th-Century United States class. The seminar explored spectacle and the historical construction of vision as founding[...]
Zoom
Nov
23
Mon
2020
Nov 23 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
1:30 pm
Philadelphia at the Table: Sleuthing the Paper Trails of Culinary History in Library Company Collections and Regional Archives with Dr. William Woys Weaver Monday, November 23 1:30-2:30 p.m. EST Dr. William Woys Weaver is an[...]
Zoom
Dec
3
Thu
2020
Dec 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
5:00 pm
Thursday, December 3rd 5:00-6:30 p.m. est Drawing on period texts and illustrations (travelogues, almanacs, journals, advertisements) promoting coal, this talk will consider how contemporary audiences came to understand this fossil fuel in three ways: through[...]
Zoom
Dec
4
Fri
2020
Dec 4 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
12:00 pm
Co-Hosted with the Philadelphia Club     From 1985 to 2014, John Van Horne served as Director of the Library Company. From the time the first shipload of books arrived from London in 1732 through the[...]
Zoom
Dec
9
Wed
2020
Dec 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
5:00 pm
Attendance at this event is reserved for donors to the Junto Campaign or those members who are part of our Phillis Wheatley membership and above. To donate to the campaign, please visit https://librarycompany.org/development/development-donate-form/ and select[...]
Zoom
Dec
10
Thu
2020
Dec 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Emily Pawley, Associate Professor of History, Dickinson College Register
Zoom
Dec
17
Thu
2020
Dec 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Peter Mabli, Project Director of Online Programs, American Social History Productions, The Graduate Center at the City University of New York Register
Zoom
Jan
12
Tue
2021
Jan 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
5:00 pm
Co-Hosted by the Philadelphia Club Join us for a talk about the history of the Library Company’s horological collections featuring historian, lawyer and collector Jay Robert Stiefel, with an introduction by Linda August, Curator of[...]
Zoom
Jan
14
Thu
2021
Jan 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
John Smolenski, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Davis Register
Zoom
Jan
21
Thu
2021
Jan 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
Emily Casey, Assistant Professor of Art History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Register
Zoom
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 @ 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
Michele Navakas, Associate Professor of English, Miami University of Ohio Register
Zoom
October 2020 – March 2021 Oct 2020 – Mar 2021

2020 Holiday Closings

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day  – Monday, Jan 20, 2020
President’s Day – Monday, Feb 17, 2020
Memorial Day – Monday, May 25, 2020
Independence Day – Friday, July 3, 2020
Labor Day – Monday, September 7, 2020
Thanksgiving-  Thursday & Friday – November 26 & 27, 2020
Holiday Closing –  Thursday, Dec 24, 2020 – Friday, Jan 1, 2021

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