The Penn in the Field: Student Fieldwork Photography exhibit showcases fieldwork and research travel by current undergraduate and graduate students through their own lenses. This year's contributors include student photographers from Penn's departments of Anthropology, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, Classics/Ancient History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and History of Art.
The exhibit will remain on display on the Museum Library’s first and second levels until August 2024
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Wednesday, August 28, 11-12: Register here
Friday, August 30, 1:30-2:30: Register here
Thursday, September 5, 10-11: Register here
Friday, September 20, 2-3pm, in-person at the Museum Library
Research in anthropology and archaeology involves compiling many sources - everything from books & journal articles to maps, interviews, and a variety of media. Learn how to use the free and user-friendly software, Zotero, in order to collect your sources, keep your research organized, and generate citations for your papers. More specifically, this workshop will cover:
setting up and managing your Zotero library across devices and in the cloud,
adding sources to your Zotero library while doing research online and off,
keeping notes in Zotero,
adding citations and bibliography to Word documents.
a workshop with the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation
Friday, November 15, 2024, 1:30-2:30pm, in-person in Anthropology 345, Penn Museum Academic Wing
Tuesday, March 4, 2-3pm, in person at the Museum Library
CETLI Fellow, Rebecca Winkler, will lead a discussion about students' evolving needs and information literacy skills. Head of the Museum Library, Deb Stewart, will demonstrate short lessons for teaching library research skills to undergraduate students. This workshop counts towards the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
The Ainu are the Indigenous peoples traditionally connected to the northern islands of Japan and parts of Russia. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, American, European, and Japanese scholars collected objects, photographs, and stories from Ainu individuals and communities for non-Ainu audiences to encounter through museums, libraries, archives, and universities, like Penn’s. Today, Ainu authors, artists, and activists speak for themselves, their communities, and their heritage through a variety of different media, fueling political movements, cultural revitalization, and new opportunities for self-representation.
Highlighting materials held by the Penn Libraries and the Penn Museum, including manuscripts, woodblock printed books, photographs, and comic books, the exhibit From Manuscript to Manga: Ainu Representations Across Media reflects upon the creators, modes, and influence of cultural representations of Indigenous peoples and indigeneity. It is on display on the 1st Floor Lobby, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, and Penn Museum Library from January 31 until May 19, 2025.
Co-Curated by Stephen A. Lang, Keeper of the Asian Collection at the Penn Museum; Eri Mizukane, Assistant Director of Operations, Kislak Center; Rebecca Mendelson, Japanese Studies Librarian; and Deborah Stewart, Head, Penn Museum Library.
Want peer-to-peer support from other students as you write your thesis, grant proposals, and/or creative pieces?
Then you are welcome to join the Weekly Co-Working Group on Tuesdays, 1:30-4:30pm, on the Museum Library's Egyptian Study Space (top floor).
Co-sponsored by the Penn Museum Graduate Advisory Council and Penn Museum Library.
Looking for a friendly group with whom to eat while knitting, crocheting, or doing other creative things?
Bring your own lunch and craft supplies on Thursdays, 12-1pm, to the Museum Library's first level.
(Please discard your trash near the elevators, and please bring nothing that requires heating elements. Fire and books are a bad combo!)
Penn Museum respectfully acknowledges that it is situated on Lenapehoking, the ancestral and spiritual homeland of the Unami Lenape.
The Museum Library, located in the Academic Wing of the Penn Museum, is the University of Pennsylvania's branch library for anthropology and archaeology. With over 145,000 volumes on-site with historic strengths in biological and physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology worldwide, and Native American studies, it is one of the premier branch libraries for anthropology in the United States.
Learn more on the Museum Library's homepage.
