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The 2020 Lantern Slide Salon video is now on our YouTube page! As part of Archives Month Philly, the talk features digitized lantern slide images from four Philadelphia-area collections: The Library Company of Philadelphia, PHS : Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Swarthmore College Libraries Peace Collection, and the Wagner. The slides feature travels through Europe, Philadelphia, Victorian gardens & rock quarries (like the one shown), among other amazing places. Enjoy the show whenever you want! https://www.youtube.com/cha/UCyd3rFwZ7S9ImfhFBs8vTPA/videos

The last WEEKNIGHTS AT THE WAGNER lecture of 2020 is coming up! Climate scientist, Dr. Robert Kopp discusses rising sea levels impact along our coasts. #Climatechange #environmentalscience

Join us Tonight at 6:30pm!

We need science now, more than ever. A gift to the Wagner today will support the vital role we play in our community and make it possible for us to continue to offer free access to science both online and in person for all. https://bit.ly/3oeeSKM #GivingTuesday2020

6:30 PM tonight (Thursday): our region's lantern slides keep shining even through COVID-19! The Virtual Lantern Slide Salon, part of Archives Month Philly, features digitized lantern slide images from four Philadelphia-area collections: The Library Company of Philadelphia, PHS : Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, and the Wagner. Register for the Zoom link!

Sample the history of restaurants and their role in many global issues: technology, race, labor, and cultural exchange with historians Katie Rawson, Ph.D. and Elliott Shore, Ph.D. A Weeknights at the Wagner online lecture, September 16, 2020 Elliott Shore and Katie Rawson, authors of Dining Out: A Global History of Restaurants expand on their July lecture. Come to the virtual table for more restaurant history, including their definition of a restaurant, ethnic restaurants thr...ough the ages, a look at Philadelphia's restaurant history, grand hotels, restaurant chains and moveable restaurant feasts. Rawson and Shore hope to present an evening of delectable and probing history of the places where we have eaten. About Katie Rawson, Ph.D., and Elliott Shore, Ph.D. Katie Rawson is director of learning innovation at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published on food in Faulkner, labor at Waffle House, collaboration in the academy, and data curation in the humanities. She has a Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts at Emory University and was previously the managing editor of Southern Spaces and the English Librarian at Emory and the University of Pennsylvania. Elliott Shore is professor emeritus of history at Bryn Mawr College and a lifelong Philadelphian. He has published books and articles in the history of advertising, the history of publishing, of radicalism, of German-America and of restaurants. He served as head of the Contemporary Culture Collection at Temple University’s library, head of the Historical Studies-Social Science Library at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Director of Libraries, CIO and Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College and the Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries. He has his Ph.D. in History from Bryn Mawr College, an M.S. in Library Science from Drexel University and an M.A. in International History at the London School of Economics and his B.A. from Temple University.

Tonight: learn how National Malacologist David Robinson, Ph.D. has helped Battling the Giant African Snail in Miami in Weeknights at the Wagner online, 6:30PM EST. This hyperbolic WIRED story from 2014 covers some of the giant, plaster- and plant-eating snail's slime trail through Florida. The registration link is in the comments below!

Did you know that there is a National Malacologist? David Robinson has served in the role since 1995, identifying whether snails and slugs that reach U.S. borders are harmful or can be allowed in. This Wednesday, he'll talk about his work and the decades of efforts to eradicate the voracious and dangerous giant African snail from Florida. Register for the link!

For Indigenous People's Day: last year, Hidden City Philadelphia searched for the Lenape in Philadelphia historic sites and monuments. They found absence and misrepresentation--and tribal members working to correct it.

We're live! Join us now through 4 PM for Concurrent Streams: Philly Science Explorations, a Delaware River Festival event.

Saturday: our Delaware River Festival event is a live, virtual broadcast from water and science sites around Philadelphia! Concurrent Streams: Philly Science Explorations is hosted by our educators and Saint Joseph's University partners. View glass lantern slides of river scenes, take a wildlife nature walk in Cobbs Creek and John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge At Tinicum, meet our local museum specimens, and more, all from the comfort of home. Streaming on Facebook Live and Zoom (with registration) from 2-4 p.m.

Tonight at 6:30 PM EST, learn how interdependent we are, even down to the microbiotic level. Join You Complete Me: A Symbiotic View of Life with Dr. Scott Gilbert, a Weeknights at the Wagner online talk. Register for the Zoom link! He'll discuss the concept of the holobiont, the complicated idea of the biological "individual," and how even our individual immune response to COVID-19 partly depends on symbionts. Learn more and register: https://holobiont.eventbrite.com