Event Calendar
Indicates Members Only Events
Indicates Reservations Required
(To make a reservation call 215-925-2688 or email events@philaathenaeum.org unless other instructions are given)
Afternoons at The Athenaeum Brochure (pdf)
Winter-Spring 2019 Evening Events Brochure (pdf)
| January 8 | 11:00AM | Socrates Cafe Discussion Group. RSVP to Gil Feinberg at gsfesq@verizon.net |
| January 21 | Closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day | |
| January 28 | Exhibition Opens: The Federal Presence in Philadelphia | |
| January 30 | 2:00PM | The Athenaeum Takes a
Hard Look at Philadelphia in the Movies. First of three
programs in the series. “A Contrarian Looks at The Philadelphia Story,” with film critic Carrie Rickey. 
Free. |
| February 7 | 5:30PM | Lecture: Discovering
Philadelphia, Places Little Known. David Traub in
conversation with David Brownlee.
Athenaeum Members: Free, General Public: $15.
Additional Information |
| February 11 | 3:00PM | Lecture: Wendell Pritchett,
Provost and Presidential Professor, University of Pennsylvania,
“Universities and Civic Engagement in the 21st Century”
Free. |
| February 12 | 11:00AM | Socrates Cafe Discussion Group. RSVP to Gil Feinberg at gsfesq@verizon.net |
| February 18 | Closed for Presidents' Day | |
| February 20 | 3:30PM | Lecture: Maureen Corrigan,
National Public Radio book critic, “Who Do You Think You Are? A
Critic Responds”
Free. |
| February 22 | 3:00PM | Lecture: Bob Perkins, longtime
WRTI radio host and dean of radio jazz broadcasters, “Preparing for
the Unknown”
Free. |
| February 25 | 3:00PM | Charles Cullen, President of
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, “The Past, Present, and
Future of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania”
Free. |
| February 27 | 2:00PM | The Athenaeum Takes a
Hard Look at Philadelphia in the Movies. “The Philadelphia
Lawyer in The Young Philadelphians,” with Carrie Rickey.
Free. |
| February 28 | 5:30PM | Lecture: Steven Conn, “Thinking
about Thoreau in an Age of Resistance.”
Athenaeum Members: Free, General Public: $15.
Additional Information |
| March 6 | 3:00PM | Michael Barsanti, Director of
the Library Company, “The Past, Present, and Future of the Library
Company”
Free. |
| March 12 | 11:00AM | Socrates Cafe Discussion Group. RSVP to Gil Feinberg at gsfesq@verizon.net |
| 5:30PM | Lecture: Michael Witmore, “A
Monument to Shakespeare in the Nation’s Capital.”
This is an event for Athenaeum Shareholders Only
Additional Information |
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| March 19 | 2:00PM | Celebrate the 125th anniversary
of the Reading Terminal: Talking and Tasting
Free. |
| March 27 | 2:00PM | The Athenaeum Takes a
Hard Look at Philadelphia in the Movies. “Trading Places,
Then and Now,” with Carrie Rickey.
Free. |
| April 8 | 5:30PM | 204th Annual Meeting.
Speaker: Martin Filler, “Makers of Modern Architecture: A Critic’s
Journey.” Athenaeum Shareholders will receive an invitation.
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| April 9 | 11:00AM | Socrates Cafe Discussion Group. RSVP to Gil Feinberg at gsfesq@verizon.net |
| April 10 | 1:00PM | A visit to the KieranTimberlake
Studio, with James Timberlake. Shareholders Only. Space is
limited.
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| April 15 | 3:00PM | Bill Marrazzo, President of
WHYY, “Public Media, Built to Last!”
Free. |
| April 19 | Closed for Good Friday | |
| April 23 | 1:00PM | A visit to Laurel Hill
Cemetery. Kerry L. Bryan, Fairmount Park docent, will lead a tour
featuring “Lovers of Learning: Founding Athenaeum Members at Laurel
Hill Cemetery” Shareholders Only. Space is limited.
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| April 30 | 5:30PM | Musical Performance: AYA Trio.
Athenaeum Members: Free, General Public: $15.
Additional Information |
| May 7 | 2:30PM | Society Hill - Hot and
Healthy: Dr. Howard Haber is a Clinical Associate Professor
of Medicine at Penn Medicine, and the Director of the Cardiac
Catheterization Laboratory at Pennsylvania Hospital. “How Can You
Mend a Broken Heart? Viewpoint from an Interventional Cardiologist.”
Free |
| May 13 | 3:00PM | Steven Weitzman, Director of
the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania,
“The Book of Job”
Free. |
| May 14 | 11:00AM | Socrates Cafe Discussion Group. RSVP to Gil Feinberg at gsfesq@verizon.net |
| May 22 | 3:00PM | Signé Wilkenson, Pulitzer
Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, “Drawing Controversy: A
perfectly reasonable cartoonist’s sometimes contentious chronicle of
politics, culture and life in Philadelphia.”
Free. |
| May 27 | Closed for Memorial Day | |
| May 29 | 3:00PM | Larry Platt, editor of
Citizen, “Reinvigorating Citizenship in the Birthplace of
American Democracy”
Free. |
| June 3 | 3:00PM | Robert Hauser, Executive
Officer, American Philosophical Society, “The Past, Present and
Future of APS”
Free. |
| June 11 | 11:00AM | Socrates Cafe Discussion Group. RSVP to Gil Feinberg at gsfesq@verizon.net |
| June 12 | 3:00PM | The Director’s Lecture.
Peter Conn, Vartan Gregorian Professor Emeritus, University of
Pennsylvania, “The Athenaeum and the History of Libraries”
Free. |
| July 4 | Closed for Independence Day | |
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