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Michael Weisberg is professor and chair of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the philosophy of science, especially the role of idealization in modeling. His other research includes social and cultural evolutionary theory, the nature of...
Photographer and urban planner Sandy Sorlien will present photographs, maps, and drawings from her upcoming book, Inland: The Abandoned Canals of the Schuylkill Navigation. A Philadelphia native and longtime Manayunk Canal neighbor, Sandy is an Environmental Photographer and tour developer for...
Timothy Sweet is the author of Extinction and the Human: Four American Encounters About this event In Extinction and the Human: Four American Encounters, Timothy Sweet examines the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, bison—and the often divergent Native American...
Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. In this talk based on her recent anthology of nature writing before 1700, The Marvels of the...
Dennis Drabelle discusses his new book, The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks, with Shaun Eyring Manager, Cultural Resources Division National Park Service. About the Book: Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we...
Join the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and the National Park Service for the 2nd Annual Sunday in the Square, a free musical celebration in Washington Square Park. Bring a blanket, a lawn chair, your neighbor, and enjoy an afternoon celebrating one...
In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed as an urban renaissance. From Detroit to Newark to Oakland and elsewhere commentators saw cities rising...
Please join The Athenaeum of Philadelphia for the 3rd Annual Sunday in the Square: A Musical Celebration in Washington Square Park. Bring a lawn chair, blanket, and maybe even a picnic and enjoy one of Philadelphia's most beautiful parks. The...
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