Upcoming Public Programming Events

Event—Public Programming

Planting Seeds: An Indigenous Zine Fest

May 16, 2026

11:00am–3:00pm

At the Newberry – Ruggles Hall

Event—Public Programming

The ‘Chicago Lancelot’: Tracing the Early Circulation of the Arthurian Cycle

with Claudio Lagomarsini (Lester J. Cappon Fellow in Documentary Editing)

May 20, 2026

4:00pm–5:00pm

At the Newberry – Baskes Boardroom

Event—Public Programming

Knowing Polygamy: People, Plants, and Progress in the Eighteenth Century

with Jocelyn Zimmerman (Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow)

May 27, 2026

4:00pm–5:00pm

At the Newberry – Baskes Boardroom

Event—Public Programming

Newberry 101: An Introduction to Research at the Newberry

Jun 06, 2026

9:30am–10:30am

At the Newberry – Baskes Hall

Event—Public Programming

Mini Used Book Sale

Jun 06, 2026

10:00am–3:00pm

At the Newberry – Rettinger Hall

Event—Public Programming

The Declaration of Independence with Danielle Allen and Scott Stephenson

Jun 06, 2026

2:00pm–3:00pm

Hybrid – Ruggles Hall and Zoom

Event—Public Programming

Faith, Connection, and Social Change in Black Chicago / Fe, conexión y cambio social en el Chicago negro

Jun 07, 2026

12:40pm–1:25pm

Off-site – Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street, Chicago

Event—Public Programming

Social Change, Faith, and the Making of Latino Chicago / El cambio social, la fe y la configuración del Chicago latino

Jun 07, 2026

2:20pm–3:05pm

Off-site – Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street, Chicago

Event—Public Programming

Antony and Cleopatra

Jun 13, 2026

10:00am–12:30pm

At the Newberry – Ruggles Hall

Event—Public Programming

Picturing the News: A Panel Discussion with Political Cartoonists

Jun 18, 2026

6:00pm–7:00pm

Hybrid – Ruggles Hall and Zoom

Event—Public Programming

Breaking Barriers: A Librarian's Story of Changing Times

with Robert Wedgeworth (Newberry Library Trustee)

Jun 24, 2026

4:00pm–5:00pm

At the Newberry – Baskes Boardroom

Event—Public Programming

Sharing the Spirit of America: A Statewide & National Reading of the Declaration of Independence

Jul 08, 2026

5:00pm–5:30pm

At the Newberry – Ruggles Hall