Year of the Book, 2002–2003


Fall 2002

Writing Surfaces: The Matter of Texts
EXHIBITION & SPECIAL FACULTY PANEL
Sunday, September 22

Isabel Swift
The Substance of Romance
Wednesday, October 16

Annabel Patterson
The Man Who Loved Books But Couldn’t Afford Them
Wednesday, October 30

Charles Jencks
The Revenge of the Book
Tuesday, November 12

Special Lecture and Exhibition
Rediscovering Books as Physical Objects
Monday, November 18
The Library Company of Philadelphia

Andre Schiffrin
The World of Publishing
Wednesday, December 4

Henry Jenkins
Comic Books and Convergence
January 29, 5:00–6:30p, 200 College Hall

Philomathean Society Presents
Step Across This Line: An Evening with Salman Rushdie, February 11, 6:00p
Special reserve tickets only

Who Wrote (Down) the Qur'an? Conference February 21, 2:00–5:00p,
3619 Locust Walk

The Qur'an: Revelation, Inscription, and Tradition. Special Exhibition
February 21–April 6, University of Pennsylvania Library

Louis Menand
The Cat in the Hat
February 26, 5:00–6:30p, 200 College Hall

Spring 2003 (cont.)

Special Year of the Book Workshops on Making Paper and Artist Books
March 2 & 9, Historic Rittenhouse Town

Johanna Drucker, Virtual Codex: Page Space to E-Space
March 5, 5:00–6:30p, 3619 Locust Walk

Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture
Jack Miles, How Many Scriptures Became One Bible (And Why the Change Matters)
March 19, 5:00–6:30p, 200 College Hall

Paul Hendrickson, "Sons of Mississippi:
A Story of Race and Its Legacy"
March 25, 6:00p, 3619 Locust Walk

Technologies of Writing Conference
March 28, Terrace Room, Logan Hall
March 29, 3619 Locust Walk

Robert Darnton, Transgressions in Print
April 2, 5:00–6:30p, 200 College Hall

The Penn Humanities Forum celebrates the City of Philadelphia's One Book—One Philadelphia in a special Town Meeting
April 8, 8:00–9:30p, Free Library of Philadelphia

Books & Bodies, Tour and Talk at America's First Hospital. Special guest: Harvard medical historian Charles Rosenberg. April 15, 4:00–6:00p, Pennsylvania Hospital.

Rosenbach Lecture with Anthony Grafton speaking on Books and the Magus: Johannes Trithemius, 1462–1516
April 21 and 23, 5:30p, University of Pennsylvania Library

The Penn Humanities Forum gratefully acknowledges the support of the Nelson Goodman Trust, the Bogen Family Fund, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Hershey Family Foundation, and the Dr. S.T. Lee Fund.