Join us for a yoga series where we will dive into Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, the poetry collection he spent forty years of his life writing, rewriting, and expanding.
This tour examines artifacts of the Gratz family of Philadelphia and asks how they learned the ways of this new world and made it their home. We’ll discuss how faith and revolution contributed to their story and how that story impacted the lives of their relatives and our museum’s founders, the Rosenbach brothers.
This course is designed for people who have never read Plato or for people who “did Plato” in college and came away thinking once was enough. Besides being the world’s most famous philosopher, Plato is worth reading because he is shrewd about human nature and because he shows an artistic sense of the structure of a story.
Join the Young Friends of the Rosenbach for jazz-age garden party (costumes encouraged!) and hear from Irish Studies scholar Mary Burke, author of Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History (Oxford University Press 2023).
Join us for a monthly journey through Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was the first serialized novel written by Dickens and was published in 20 monthly parts (2-3 chapters per month) from March 1836-October 1837. Edward G. Pettit and a rotating set of Dickensian cohosts will talk about (more…)
You’ve read James Joyce’s Ulysses. Now take the adventure of a reading lifetime with Joyce’s final masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, with renowned Joyce scholar Vicki Mahaffey. Meeting once per month at the Rosenbach, home of one of the great Joyce collections in the world, you will explore this most unique creation with a group of readers in an person course over nine months, ending just in time for Bloomsday. This is your opportunity to conquer one of the most challenging novels of the English language in a friendly, accessible setting, alongside other readers who will take this most joy(ce)ful journey with you.
In this tour, we will join Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill aboard the USS Augusta and the HMS Prince of Wales and witness world history unfold in the midst of their deliberations. We will also discuss the consequences of the Atlantic Charter for global diplomacy since 1941 and consider the state of Anglo-American relations today.
For many centuries, Queer people have faced marginalization by mainstream society. Yet their obstacles have also given them unique perspectives on the human experience, and inspired important contributions to art, literature, politics, and social organizing. In this tour, we will meet Queer people from history, and consider how their diverse sexualities and identities shaped their lives and informed their work.
Michael Barsanti will take you through a different way of understanding Ulysses by showing the ways it can be understood as a wartime novel that lifts our shared humanity over divisive national, religious, and social identities.
The Delancey Society is invited to a festive reception in the garden with the opportunity to preview the Rosenbach’s new exhibition, Treasures from the Rosenbach’s Collection: Literature of Great Britain & Ireland opening to the public on June 16, 2024.