Lunch with the Libraries & Museums

Lunch with the Libraries & Museums

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Lunch with the Libraries & Museums
  • Illuminations: Exploring JHU’s Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Collections

    Lunch with the Libraries & Museums - Illuminations: Exploring JHU’s Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Collections

    Presented by Hopkins at Home, Sheridan Libraries and Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries

    Dr. Earle Havens, Director of the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History ...

  • Lunch with the Libraries & Museums| Adopt A Book: Highlights from the Collection

    Presented by Hopkins at Home, Sheridan Libraries and Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries

    Showcasing some of the most interesting, beautiful, and rare items recently purchased to support Hopkins research and teaching, the Sheridan Library's Adopt a Book program allows you to adopt s...

  • Lunch with the Libraries & Museums | Gertrude Stein in Circles: Spheres of [...]

    Presented by Hopkins at Home, Sheridan Libraries and Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries

    This September, the Sheridan Libraries will open Gertrude Stein in Circles: Spheres of Life and Writing, a major exhibition exploring the literary labors and social networks of Gertrude Stein (...

  • Lunch with the Libraries & Museums | Ballets Russes: The Designs of Léon Bakst

    Presented by Hopkins at Home, Sheridan Libraries and Johns Hopkins University Museums

    After first meeting Lèon Bakst (Russian, 1866-1924) in Paris around 1914, Alice Warder Garrett (1877-1952) began a years-long relationship with the Russian artist and theatrical designer, both acting as Bakst’s...

  • Lunch with the Libraries & Museums: Be(Longing): Unveiling the Imprint

    Presented by Hopkins at Home, Sheridan Libraries, and Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries

    Joseph Plaster is joined by archivist Tonika Berkley and 2023 Tabb Center Fellow Nicoletta Darita de la Brown to discuss the exhibition "Be(longing): Unveiling the Imprint of Black Women Hidde...

  • Lunch with the Libraries & Musuems: Leave No Trace: JWG's Trip to the US West

    Presented by Michelle Fitzgerald, Curator of Collections at the Johns Hopkins University Museums

    When Evergreen resident John Work Garrett made his first trip to Yellowstone National Park in 1894 as the student ornithologist participating in one of the late-19th century Princeton Geological Expe...

  • Lunch with the Libraries: Sir William Osler’s Books and the Tudor & Stuart Club

    Founded in 1923 by Sir William Osler, the Tudor & Stuart Club at Johns Hopkins centers around the study and shared love of books. Though widely dormant in the 1990s, the club has recently been revitalized as the T&S Society, continuing the club’s original commitment to camaraderie by way of bibli...

  • The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall

    What can Shakespeare's plays teach us about modern-day politics? Hear what SAIS Professor Eliot A. Cohen thinks in this conservation about his new book, “The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall,” with Elisabeth Long, Dean of Sheridan Libraries and University Museums.

    Ou...

  • Lunch with the Libraries:Celebrating Ethel Ennis, Baltimore's First Lady of Jazz

    Join Inheritance Baltimore Curatorial Fellow for Africana Collections Raynetta Wiggins-Jackson, PhD and Africana Archivist Tonika Berkley for a virtual introduction to the exhibition Ethel's Place: Celebrating Ethel Ennis, Baltimore's First Lady of Jazz on view in the George Peabody Library Exhib...

  • Lunch with the Libraries: Happy Birthday, Gertrude Stein!

    Presented by Hopkins at Home, the Sheridan Libraries, and Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries

    Gertrude Stein was born 150 years ago on February 3, 1874! After growing up in Vienna, Paris, and Oakland CA, she attended the “Radcliffe Annex” for women at Harvard University, and then t...

  • Lunch with the Libraries, Recollections of the Children's Experimental Theatre

    Presented by Hopkins at Home, Sheridan Libraries and Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries

    In Summer 2022, the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries and Museums received an offer of a scrapbook, overflowing with black and white photos, play programs, sketches, news clippings, a...