Upcoming Events
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Caroline Eden | Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
Thu, January 16, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Caroline Eden | Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels REGISTER In Conversation with Jonathan Deutsch From the author of Red Sands, a New Yorker "Best Cookbook of the Year," a cozy, thoughtful memoir recalling food and travel in Eastern Europe…
Author Talk: Ken Kalfus
Sat, January 18, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Falls of Schuylkill Library
Join us in conversation with local author and journalist Ken Kalfus. Three of his books have been named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Brimming with mystery, suspense, and distinctive comic irony, 2 A.M. in Little America poses several questions vital to the current…
Hope and Struggle in the Policed City
Sat, January 18, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library
Join us for a book reading with Menika Dirkson, PhD, historian and lifelong Germantown resident whose new work explores Philly's history of black criminalization and resistance from the Civil Rights Era through the 1970s. (Published by NYU Press, 2024).
Uché Blackstock | Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
Wed, January 22, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Uché Blackstock | Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine REGISTER In Conversation with Dr. Joel Bervell The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the…
Julia Fortenberry Author Visit
Thu, January 23, 2025
12:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Join us in welcoming author and illustrator, Julia Fortenberry. Julia has an MFA from Hunter College. Her paintings have been in the Whitney Museum of Art. Now she paints and writes for children. Astronaut Sisters, her newest book, has just been released. This event will…
Nathalie Anderson & Lisa Sewell
Thu, January 23, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Nathalie Anderson & Lisa Sewell have been friends in poetry for over twenty-five years, sharing manuscripts, and working together to coordinate events at Swarthmore (where Anderson directed the program in Creative Writing before her recent retirement) and at Villanova (where Sewell…
Juan Williams | New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement
Tue, January 28, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Juan Williams | New Prize for These Eyes REGISTER In New Prize for These Eyes, award-winning author Juan Williams shines a light on this historic, new movement. Who are its heroes? Where is it headed? What fires, furies, and frustrations distinguish it from its…
The Literature Department presents: Louis Parascandola - A Black Philadelphia Reader
Sat, February 1, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Louis J. Parascandola is a Professor of Humanities at Long Island University, Brooklyn. He has published several books on Black authors including Eric Walrond, Gwendolyn Bennett, J. A. Rogers, and Amy Jacques Garvey. He is currently working on two projects, one a collection of the writings of…
Destined: A Story of Resilience and Beating the Odds, Aminata Sy in conversation with Cherri Gregg
Mon, February 3, 2025
5:00 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
Join us for an evening with Philadelphia author and American diplomat, Aminata Sy , in conversation with award-winning journalist, Cherri Gregg . Aminata Sy left Senegal in 2001, starting a new life in Philadelphia with the challenges of being a high school dropout who did not speak English. In…
Brian Kelly | How to Win at Travel
Mon, February 3, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Brian Kelly | How to Win at Travel REGISTER In Conversation with Haley Sacks In How to Win at Travel, Brian Kelly shares his greatest tips and strategies to experience the world in ways you never thought possible. This comprehensive guide is a road map with…
Author Event: Menika Dirkson's Hope and Struggle in the Policed City
Tue, February 4, 2025
5:00 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library
Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia explores how concerns about poverty-induced Black crime cultivated by police, journalists, and city officials sparked a rise in tough-on-crime policing in Philadelphia. Dirkson's book reveals…
Anthony Jack | Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price
Wed, February 5, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Anthony Jack | Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price REGISTER In Conversation with Desmond Upton Patton Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their…
Judy Giesberg & Lee Hawkins | Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families AND I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free
Thu, February 6, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Judy Giesberg & Lee Hawkins | Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families AND I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free REGISTER In Conversation with Cherri Gregg Judith Giesberg…
John Sayles | To Save the Man
Mon, February 10, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents John Sayles | To Save the Man REGISTER In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle School, a military-style boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania, founded and run by Captain Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt considers himself a…
Author Event: Wendy Horwitz's Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments
Tue, February 11, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library
In Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments , Wendy A. Horwitz shares stories about celebration, loss, change,and the best way to open a pomegranate. With observations from nature, religion, and literature, Horwitz explores how ritual can exalt ordinary moments and frame the…
Senator Ron Wyden | It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change
Tue, February 11, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Senator Ron Wyden | It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change REGISTER Endowed Lecture: Pine Tree Foundation It Takes Chutzpah is an inspirational call to action by a senior U.S. politician, describing how Americans of…
Marlene Daut | The First and Last King of Haiti
Thu, February 13, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Marlene Daut | The First and Last King of Haiti REGISTER In Conversation with Grace Sanders Johnson Slave, revolutionary, traitor, king, and suicide, Henry Christophe was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. Born in 1767 to an enslaved…
Rick Steves | On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Tue, February 18, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Rick Steves | On the Hippie Trail Montgomery Auditorium is now sold out, but tickets are still available for a live simulcast screening in Room 108 at the Parkway Central Library. REGISTER Meelya Gordon Memorial Endowed Lecture Stow away with Rick Steves for a…
Katherine Stewart | Money, Lies, and God
Wed, February 19, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Katherine Stewart | Money, Lies and God REGISTER In Conversation with Anthea Butler Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspiracy-mongers, backroom strategy gatherings,…
W.E.B. DuBois & His Artistic Approach to Social Science
Thu, February 20, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
In the Social Science & History Department W.E.B. Du Bois viewed sociology as a human science. In his effort to understand and explain the human capacity to transform society he employed art in its many forms including music, painting, novels and poetry. This talk, from DuBois Scholar…