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Rendering of Center for Global Collections Event Space

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Close up of orrery built by David Rittenhouse in 1770

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Close-up of ornamentations on a fifteenth-century Arabic manuscript
May 2, 2024

Words Touching Bodies: Devotional Texts in Late Medieval North Africa

Join us for a presentation by Ali Noori, Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Studies, on a fifteenth-century text called Guide to Goodness (Dalaʾil al-Khayrat) held at the Kislak Center.

  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Lea Library, Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center (6th floor)
Open to the Public
May 02
  • Workshop
May 2, 2024

En Plein Air

Paint like the impressionists in Penn Park! Spend time outside and learn how to paint a landscape.

  • 4:30pm - 6:30pm
  • Meet in front of Fox Fitness Center at 4:30, walk together to Penn Park at 4:40
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff
Diary spread with handwritten entries from Friday, July 3, to Wednesday, July 8, 1863
  • Lecture
May 3, 2024

The Philadelphia Gilded Age: Firsthand Accounts

J.M. Duffin will discuss the diaries of Philadelphia banker Cornelius N. Weygandt and West Philadelphia homemaker Anna Rebecca Garland.

  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Virtual (link will be sent to registrants)
Open to the Public

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