Upcoming Public Programming Events

Event—Public Programming

Colloquium: Voices of Our Common Life

with Stephen Wade (author and musician)

Nov 11, 2026

4:00pm–5:00pm

At the Newberry – Baskes Boardroom

Event—Public Programming

Intruders, Grafters, and Frauds: Indigenous Resistance to False Claimants in the Allotment Era

Nov 12, 2026

5:00pm–7:00pm

Hybrid – Ruggles Hall and Zoom

Event—Public Programming

Dear Rhoda

Nov 14, 2026

10:00am–12:30pm

At the Newberry – Ruggles Hall

Event—Public Programming

Colloquium: New Deal Dialectics in Indian Country

with Nina Woodsum, Monticello College Foundation Fellow

Nov 18, 2026

4:00pm–5:00pm

At the Newberry – Baskes Boardroom

Event—Public Programming

Radical Resistance, Religion, and the Meaning of Social Change / Resistencia radical, religión y el significado del cambio social

Nov 19, 2026

6:00pm–7:30pm

At the Newberry – Ruggles Hall and Online

Event—Public Programming

Newberry 101: An Introduction to Research at the Newberry

Dec 05, 2026

9:30am–10:30am

At the Newberry – Baskes Hall

Event—Public Programming

Celebrate the Holidays with the Shakespeare Project of Chicago

Dec 05, 2026

10:00am–11:30am

At the Newberry – Ruggles Hall

Event—Public Programming

Colloquium

with Lisa Schoblasky, Director of Reader Services

Jan 13, 2027

4:00pm–5:00pm

At the Newberry – Baskes Boardroom

Event—Public Programming

Colloquium: New Acquisitions

with Will Hansen (Roger and Julie Baskes Vice President for Collections and Library Services and Curator of Americana) and Analú López (Ayer Librarian and Assistant Curator of American Indian and Indigenous Studies)

Jan 20, 2027

4:00pm–5:00pm

At the Newberry – Baskes Boardroom

Event—Public Programming

Colloquium: New Acquisitions

with Alison Hinderliter (Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts and Selector for Modern Music) and Matthew Rutherford (Curator of Genealogy and Local History)

Jan 27, 2027

4:00pm–5:00pm

At the Newberry – Baskes Boardroom

Event—Public Programming

Colloquium

with Neil Harris, Newberry Library Trustee & Preston and Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus, History and Art History, University of Chicago

Feb 03, 2027

4:00pm–5:00pm

At the Newberry – Baskes Boardroom

Event—Public Programming

Colloquium

with José María Moreno Madrid, Richard H. Brown / William Lloyd Barber Fellow and Evelyn Dunbar and Ruther Dunbar Davee Fund Fellow

Feb 17, 2027

4:00pm–5:00pm

At the Newberry – Baskes Boardroom