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Browse upcoming classes, discussions, readings, tours, performances, and more. Unless otherwise indicated, all programs are free with advance registration.

Poet and sociologist Eve L. Ewing discusses race and literature in Chicago during a Newberry public program.

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Inventing Mexico: Maps, Manuscripts, and Materiality, 1521-1921

Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar Taught by Delia Cosentino and Emmanuel Ortega

Jan 17-May 04, 2023

2:00pm-5:00pm

At the Newberry - Baskes Boardroom

Event—Adult Education

The Russians Are Coming: Repression in Russian Music, from Tchaikovsky to Shostakovich

Led by Glenn Derringer

Weekly on Wednesdays, Feb 08 - Mar 15, 2023

6:00pm-7:30pm

Online

Event—Adult Education

Lady Audley’s Secret: A Serial Reading of a Victorian Sensation

Led by Amber Pouliot

Weekly on Wednesdays, Feb 08 - Mar 15, 2023

6:00pm-8:00pm

Online

Event—Adult Education

The Golden Age of Mystery Fiction: Soft-Boiled and Hard-Boiled

Led by Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch

Weekly on Wednesdays, Feb 08 - Mar 08, 2023

6:00pm-7:30pm

Online

Event—Tour

Guided Tour of the Newberry

Feb 09, 2023

1:00pm-2:00pm

At the Newberry

Event—Adult Education

A Serial Reading of David Copperfield

Led by Steven J. Venturino

Weekly on Thursdays, Feb 09 - Mar 30, 2023

2:00pm-4:00pm

Online

Event—Public Programming

Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Meet the Author: Joan DeJean in conversation with Jack McCord

Feb 09, 2023

6:00pm-7:00pm

Online

Event—Scholarly Seminars

Canceled: Maximilian Scholz, Florida State University

Premodern Studies Seminar

Feb 10, 2023

1:00pm-3:00pm

Online

Event—McNickle Center

2023 NCAIS Graduate Student Conference

Feb 11, 2023

8:00am-8:00pm

At the Newberry

Event—Tour

Guided Tour of the Newberry

Feb 11, 2023

10:30am-11:30am

At the Newberry

Event—Adult Education

American Expats in Jazz-Age Paris

Led by Dawn Sardella-Ayres

Weekly on Saturdays, Feb 11 - Mar 04, 2023

2:00pm-4:00pm

Online

Event—Tour

Guided Tour of the Newberry

Feb 14, 2023

11:30am-12:30pm

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