Upcoming Programs & Events

AAS programs include a variety of in-person, virtual, and hybrid public programs. Advance registration is required.

Some seminars have limited space and require advance application. Please check each event's page for more information.

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Citizens of A Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Virtual
Bookstores, Collectors, and the Rare Book Trade in Historical Perspective
Thursday, May 30, 2024
2:00-3:00pm EDT
Virtual
The Lives of John Swanson Jacobs
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Disability Histories in the Visual Archive: Redress, Protest, and Justice
Sunday, June 9-Friday, June 14, 2024
All day
Seminar
Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-Imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Chat With a Curator — And Bind Your Own Booklet!
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
5:00-6:30pm EDT
In-Person
Comparative Migrations and Multilingual Cultures of Print
Sunday, July 14-Friday, July 19, 2024
All day
Seminar
Toussaint Louverture Chef des Noirs Insurgés de Saint Domingue.
Haiti’s Media Revolution and the Racialization of Print
Monday, July 15, 2024
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
K-12 Teacher Institute: Historic Children’s Voices
Monday, August 5-Friday, August 9, 2024
All day
Seminar
Lost Literacies: Experiments in the 19th Century US Comic Strip
Thursday, September 19, 2024
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Book Anatomy: Body Politics and Materiality in Indigenous Book History
Thursday, September 26, 2024
2:00-3:00pm EDT
Virtual
Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Virtual
Trans History and Historicism in the Digital Age
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Original Meanings
Thursday, October 17, 2024
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World
Thursday, November 21, 2024
2:00-3:00pm EST
Virtual
Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
7:00-8:00pm EST
Hybrid