Events

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

  • Sheida Soleimani | Penny Stamps Speaker Series

    Featured

    What a Revolutionary Must Know Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian-American artist, educator, and activist. The daughter of political refugees who escaped Iran in the early 1980s, Soleimani makes work that excavates the histories of violence linking Iran, the United States, and the Greater Middle East. In working across form and medium — especially photography, sculpture, collage, and film — she often appropriates source images from popular/​digital media and resituates them within defamiliarizing tableaux. The composition depends on the question at hand. For example, how can one do justice to survivor testimony and to the survivors themselves (To [...]

  • The CAALS Bauder Lecture with Marlon James

    Featured

    PBS Books is thrilled to partner with the Marygrove Conservancy’s Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS) to welcome Marlon James, winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize as the featured speaker for the 2026 Bauder Lecture live streaming event.

  • Ismail Einashe | Penny Stamps Speaker Series

    Featured

    Award-winning British-Somali writer and 2025 – 2026 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow Ismail Einashe, presents a deeply personal exploration of how art can reclaim the humanity of migrants and their stories, too often lost in the headlines of global displacement.

  • Lisa Haawalt | Penny Stamps Speaker Series

    Featured

    Creating in the Age of Everything Lisa Hanawalt is an artist and writer, best known for her work in animation. She’s the production designer and producer of BoJack Horseman, the acclaimed animated series on Netflix. She’s the creator and executive producer of Tuca & Bertie, a vibrant and surreal animated show on Netflix and Adult Swim. And most recently, she’s the producer and production designer of Long Story Short, an adult animated comedy about family, spanning many decades. A graduate of UCLA, Hanawalt grew up in Palo Alto, California, and works across comics, animation, and illustration. Her projects range [...]

  • PBS Books National Library Week: Celebrating Libraries & Librarians

    Featured

    Host Heather-Marie Montilla and Daniel Montgomery, Executive Director of the American Library Association (ALA) explore the enduring importance of libraries and librarians in shaping American society, culture, and civic life. 

  • Jonathan Adler | Penny Stamps Speaker Series

    Featured

    Designer Jonathan Adler blends high and low cultural influences into a globally recognized brand defined by modern American glamour, humor, and craftsmanship, and in his talk shares how he built that distinctive voice—and how emerging designers can find their own—across a career spanning retail, television, and major industry honors.

  • Wilding by Isabella Tree | PBS Books Readers Club

    Featured

    PBS Books Readers Club takes on John Galsworthy's classic novel series The Forsyte Saga, a historical drama series and the inspiration for the highly anticipated PBS Masterpiece program, The Forsytes.