

Course | Reading Faulkner’s Light in August with Carl Rollyson | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
Faulkner’s Light in August dives into the darkest corners of American history: religious fanaticism, racism, the horror of the Civil War, and the brutal legacy of lynching. In this bold masterpiece, Faulkner plays with time’s unbreakable grip.

Course | Reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Jim Casey | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
This course on Midsummer Night’s Dream will be an interactive experience and will rely on your participation, enthusiasm, and free-flowing conversations. Each time we meet, we will practice a variety of reading techniques that will enable you to begin experiencing Midsummer (and eventually all of Shakespeare’s plays) more deeply and effectively on your own.

Course | Victorian Female Detectives with Olivia Rutigliano | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
For modern readers, the great secret of the Victorian cultural world is that lady detective characters were among the most popular in the literature of the time. In this course, we will explore many of the most popular of these characters and interrogate how they reflected the spectrum of Victorian attitudes about women and how they both played into and resisted conventional Victorian conceptions of (and anxieties about) female ability, acumen, psychology, and labor.

Biblioventures | Sherlock Monthly | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
November 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
December 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
January 11, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
April 19, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
June 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.

Course | Reading Jane Austen’s Persuasion with Paula Byrne | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
Persuasion is often considered Austen’s autumnal novel, her most mature work, and a farewell to her life as a fiction writer. In this course, we will examine the many ways in which she deploys her satire, and we will explore the novel’s themes of heartbreak, hope, personal growth, and second-chance love.

Course | Reading The Mystery of Edwin Drood serially with Edward G. Pettit | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
The Rosenbach holds in its collection the original serial parts of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Throughout this course, we’ll read the existing six serial parts as the first readers did, one part at a time for six sessions, then we’ll spend a final session discussing the many ways Dickens could have unspooled his final mystery, perhaps even solving the mystery of Edwin Drood itself.

Course | Reading Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights with Claire O’Callaghan | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
In this four-week course, we’ll journey into the pages of Wuthering Heights, the beloved novel written and published by Emily Brontë in 1847.

Biblioventures | Sherlock Monthly | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
November 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
December 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
January 11, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
April 19, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
June 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.

The Rosenbach Presents | The Annual Rosenbach Bloomsday Virtual Talk: The Joyce of Everyday Life with Vicki Mahaffey | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
Acclaimed Joyce scholar Vicki Mahaffey will lead our annual Bloomsday virtual discussion on her new book, The Joyce of Everyday Life.

Biblioventures | Sherlock Monthly | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
November 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
December 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
January 11, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
April 19, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
June 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.

Biblioventures | Sherlock Monthly | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
November 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
December 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
January 11, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
April 19, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
June 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.

Member Event | Uncle Umberto’s Orchard with Frederic Tuten and Mark Fischer | In-Person
- The Rosenbach Museum & Library (map)
- Google Calendar ICS
Join us and Plain Wrapper Press Redux publisher, Mark Fischer, at a Members Event centered on Uncle Umberto’s Orchard by Frederic Tuten.

Course | The Sonnet in English with Sean Hughes | Virtual Program
In this course, we’ll explore how great poets across the centuries have used the sonnet. Authors will likely include William Shakespeare, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Keats, Christina Rosetti, John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Terrance Hayes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wanda Coleman, William Butler Yeats, and Percy Shelley. This course will be enjoyable for both people who are new to reading poetry and aficionados alike.

Book Club | The Body in the Library Book Club: Nekesa Afia, Dead Dead Girls | In-Person
- The Rosenbach Museum & Library (map)
- Google Calendar ICS
This is the third and final session of this series of The Body in the Library Book Club. In this series we celebrate the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance by rediscovering talented mystery writers from the era, and then engage with recent mystery novels set in early 20th-century Harlem. During this session we will be focusing on Nekesa Afia’s, Dead Dead Girls (2021)

Workshop | Book Arts: Printing America’s Founding Documents – A People’s Friend Program | In-Person
- The Rosenbach Museum & Library (map)
- Google Calendar ICS
In this hands-on printing workshop, you will use a tabletop press to create your own, personal copies of U.S. founding documents–such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights—complemented by a selection of important engravings from the Rosenbach’s holdings.

Behind the Bookcase Tour | Book Arts: The World Between the Covers | In-Person
- The Rosenbach Museum & Library (map)
- Google Calendar ICS
In this tour, we’ll connect historical treasures of the Rosenbach collections to the contemporary creative field of Book Arts.

Workshop | Authentic Heart: Yin Yoga Illuminated by the Work and Life of Mercedes de Acosta | In-Person
- The Rosenbach Museum & Library (map)
- Google Calendar ICS
This two-hour workshop, co-led by yogi Liza Seltzer and Rosenbach John C. Haas Director Kelsey Scouten Bates, will introduce you to de Acosta’s work and legacy and invite you to take a deep dive into what it means to be truly authentic.

Book Club | The Power of Bridging by john a. powell – A People’s Friend Program | In-Person
- The Rosenbach Museum & Library (map)
- Google Calendar ICS
Esteemed civil rights scholar john a. powell offers a framework for building connection across differences through the practice of bridging.
![[SOLD OUT] Behind the Bookcase Tour | The Duties of the Tea-Table: Exploring the History and Culture of Tea | In-Person](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66fb68a83ed38c0c99c762f9/1739667007848-MCLFN0L33ML12PPQGL4R/Duties-of-the-Tea-Table-graphic.jpg)
[SOLD OUT] Behind the Bookcase Tour | The Duties of the Tea-Table: Exploring the History and Culture of Tea | In-Person
- The Rosenbach Museum & Library (map)
- Google Calendar ICS
This tour will explore the global, cross-cultural connections forged via the thriving tea market in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s, as well as the role tea drinking played in the cultural history of the British Empire.

Workshop | Calligraphy: The Art of the Hebrew Letter | In-Person
September 22, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
November 3, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 23, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 18, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
In this four-part workshop series, explore the creativity and connection that live within the art of Hebrew lettering.
![[SOLD OUT] Course | Ulysses Weekly with Robert Berry | Virtual Program](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66fb68a83ed38c0c99c762f9/1739663006621-SKYKMABRWAGNMLU3CP1K/Ulysses-Weekly-graphic.jpg)
[SOLD OUT] Course | Ulysses Weekly with Robert Berry | Virtual Program
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
February 20, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
February 27, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
March 6, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
March 13, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
March 20, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
March 27, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
April 3, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
April 10, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
April 17, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
April 24, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
May 1, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
May 8, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
May 15, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
May 22, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
May 29, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
June 5, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
This immersive weekly course will help readers explore (and enjoy) the intricacies, enigmas and hilarities of Ulysses. First time readers of the novel will find many resources for understanding this challenging work.
![[SOLD OUT] Course | Huck and James: Reading Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Percival Everett’s James with Edward Whitley | Virtual](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66fb68a83ed38c0c99c762f9/1739657552210-485BV110BPRMDRBHLDKF/HuckJames-Course-Graphic.png)
[SOLD OUT] Course | Huck and James: Reading Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Percival Everett’s James with Edward Whitley | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
In this five-week online class, we will spend the first two weeks reading Huckleberry Finn. For our third meeting, we will explore the legacy of Huck and Jim in African American culture with a series of short readings from authors such as Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, and John Keene. We will spend the final two weeks reading Everett’s James.

Biblioventures | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
February 24, 2025 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
March 3, 2025 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
March 10, 2025 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
March 17, 2025 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
March 24, 2025 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Join us on a new Biblioventure with a special subscription-only show on Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

Book Arts Workshop: Locked Love Letters
- The Rosenbach Museum & Library (map)
- Google Calendar ICS
Send a secret love note in this hands-on workshop exploring the custom of manipulating a letter so it forms its own elaborate sealed envelope–to be opened only by its intended recipient!

Workshop | Bookmaking and Book Arts with Bryn Michelson-Ziegler | In-Person
- The Rosenbach Museum & Library (map)
- Google Calendar ICS
Join Rosenbach Assistant Curator Bryn Michelson-Ziegler and the Young Friends of the Rosenbach to learn how to make your own buttonhole stitch book.

Biblioventures | Sherlock Monthly | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
November 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
December 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
January 11, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
April 19, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
June 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.

Reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and The Last Man with Vivian Papp | Virtual Course
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
In this class we will map a chronological route through these two texts from 1818 to today. Shelley will have us rethinking our positions as human beings in a world where the giddy rate of technological advancement far exceeds our potential to maintain even the slightest semblance of balance.
![[SOLD OUT] Reading Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey with Claudia L. Johnson | Virtual Course](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66fb68a83ed38c0c99c762f9/1739662053855-UYWMZOXYN0TVOCW86SMH/Northanger-course-graphic.jpg)
[SOLD OUT] Reading Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey with Claudia L. Johnson | Virtual Course
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
Our class will examine Austen’s simple-seeming language carefully. Having told us that “A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can,” we will consider the knowledge this novel conceals beneath its sunny un-Gothic surface.

Reading the Harlem Renaissance with Michele Lisa Simms-Burton | Virtual Course
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
Informed by the Rosenbach’s Langston Hughes and Alaine Locke holdings, during the four sessions of this course, we will read and discuss works by four prominent Harlem Renaissance writers and intelligentsia: Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston.
![POSTPONED] [LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE] Yoga Workshop: Refuge: Hatha Yoga & Rumi’s The Guest House – A People’s Friend Program](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66fb68a83ed38c0c99c762f9/1738260615619-P7WKATBW3QMGZ05JXFBC/Rumi-Yoga-825x450.jpg)
POSTPONED] [LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE] Yoga Workshop: Refuge: Hatha Yoga & Rumi’s The Guest House – A People’s Friend Program
- 2008 Delancey St (map)
- Google Calendar ICS
Give yourself the gift of an hour on your mat, moving mindfully while exploring themes from this popular Rumi poem, including self-awareness, acceptance and gratitude. The gentle flow sequence will be suitable for all levels. ..
![[POSTPONED] [SEATS AVAILABLE] The History and Future of the American Presidency – A People’s Friend Program](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66fb68a83ed38c0c99c762f9/1738098994716-V0VVKGTEU7FJIBP4PTFK/History-and-Future-American-Presidency-BTB-825x450.png)
[POSTPONED] [SEATS AVAILABLE] The History and Future of the American Presidency – A People’s Friend Program
On the eve of the presidential inauguration, join the Rosenbach Museum & Library for a consideration of the development of the office of the presidency over the last 249 years. View rare books and manuscripts documenting presidential history from George Washington to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, discuss how the powers of the executive office fit into the separation of powers as outlined in the U.S. Constitution, and reflect on the evolving role of the presidency in the wider work of the federal government and American national life. The tour will include time for reflection and dialogue among participants about the executive office and civic participation.
![[SOLD OUT] Fakes and Forgeries: Forging Shakespeare | Behind the Bookcase](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66fb68a83ed38c0c99c762f9/1738094464202-HG9V4HJXPMOXFUKSCHLF/Fakes-and-Forgeries-BtB-825x450.jpg)
[SOLD OUT] Fakes and Forgeries: Forging Shakespeare | Behind the Bookcase
- The Rosenbach (map)
- Google Calendar ICS
In the world of antiquity and collecting, how do experts identify the subtle (or glaring!) difference between authenticity and forgery? In this tour, we’ll explore this question with a wide range of objects in the Rosenbach’s collection. We’ll look at some of Shakespeare’s greatest works, a mug that once belonged to George Washington, a manuscript draft by Edgar Allan Poe, and in this special edition of the popular Fakes & Forgeries tour, we will spend additional time examining several Shakespeare forgeries by William Henry Ireland.
![[SOLD OUT] Reading Dracula with Edward G. Pettit | Virtual Course](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66fb68a83ed38c0c99c762f9/1739664724980-UNEYK0E63HMPQNXW8CUD/Dracula-course-graphic.png)
[SOLD OUT] Reading Dracula with Edward G. Pettit | Virtual Course
January 23, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
February 6, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
February 20, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
March 6, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
March 20, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
In this course we’ll consider how Dracula highlights the fears and anxieties of the culture that produced it and discover how this vampire story is just as much about themes of difference and otherness, race and ethnicity, and sexuality and gender, issues still relevant for contemporary readers.

Biblioventures | Sherlock Monthly | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
November 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
December 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
January 11, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
April 19, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
June 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.

Biblioventures | Sherlock Monthly | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
November 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
December 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
January 11, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
April 19, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
June 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.

Biblioventures | Sherlock Monthly | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
November 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
December 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
January 11, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
April 19, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
June 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.
![[SOLD OUT] Course | Reading Moby-Dick with Hester Blum | Virtual](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66fb68a83ed38c0c99c762f9/1739835731325-Y7T5VCQWXY6INYG523VS/Moby-Dick-course-graphic.jpg)
[SOLD OUT] Course | Reading Moby-Dick with Hester Blum | Virtual
- Virtual Program
- Google Calendar ICS
November 13, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
December 11, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
January 8, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
February 12, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
March 19, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
April 9, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
In this course, which welcomes first-time Melville readers and Moby-Dick obsessives alike, our discussions will range from the novel’s most thunderous, epic heights to its quirkiest, crudest jokes.
![[SOLD OUT] Reading Macbeth with Jim Casey | Virtual Course](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66fb68a83ed38c0c99c762f9/1729608099815-MYSLRDHHK4C15WZBEOZ7/ladymacbeth.jpeg)
[SOLD OUT] Reading Macbeth with Jim Casey | Virtual Course
- Virtual
- Google Calendar ICS
This course will explore the richness and depth of this remarkable text, with close consideration of the work’s language, action, characterization, worldview, and more.

Delancey Society Excursion: A Bibliophile’s Guide to Charlottesville
- Monticello (map)
- Google Calendar ICS
As the Rosenbach and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation prepare to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, we are pleased to offer a once-in-a-lifetime glimpse into the complex history of Jefferson’s famed plantation estate and the libraries he built and enjoyed there.