Program Calendar
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August 2025–March 2026(Exhibition, hybrid) "Preserving Pages: 60 Years of Sharing the World’s Handwritten Past," curated by Thomas Meier with special assistance from Dr. Audrey Thorstad.
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August 7, 2025(Event, in-person) “Why Preservation Matters,” a presentation by Dr. Daniel K. Gullo at Pilgrimage of Our Lady of Champion for the Order of Malta in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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September 18, 2025(Event, in-person) Exhibition opening reception, with curator comments, in HMML's Reading Room in Collegeville, Minnesota.
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November 2, 2025(Event, in-person) "Artemisia Gentileschi and the Ghost of Michelangelo,"
a public lecture at the Minneapolis Institute of Art by Dr. Sheila Barker, co-sponsored by the Minneapolis Institute of Art and HMML's Malta Study Center, in partnership with the Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy. -
January 28, 2026(Event, virtual) Winter Lecture Series—“The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library.”
Speakers: Wayne Torborg, Dr. Catherine Walsh, and John Meyerhofer. -
February 25, 2026(Event, virtual) Winter Lecture Series—“Manuscripts in Partition.”
Speaker: Dr. Josh Mugler. -
March 25, 2026(Event, virtual) Winter Lecture Series—“Finding Common Ground Across Cultures: Building Relationships Through HMML’s Work.”
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman. -
March 2026–September 2026(Exhibition, hybrid) "Lost & Found in Translation," curated by Dr. Jennifer Carnell.
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April 21, 2026Event, in-person: Alcuin Library, Saint John's University
“Reading Without Words: Hidden Stories of Ethiopic Manuscripts”
Speaker: Dr. Jeremy R. Brown. -
April 23, 2026Event, in-person: Minnesota Humanities Center
“Reading Without Words: Hidden Stories of Ethiopic Manuscripts”
Speaker: Dr. Jeremy R. Brown. -
May 16, 2026Event, in-person & virtual: Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis
“Across Borders and Centuries: Protecting Humanity’s Written Heritage”
Speaker: Dr. Columba Stewart.
HMML Stories
Read about a few key moments in HMML's History
Where We’re Working: Sarajevo
The 1990s were chaotic and violent in the Balkan federation then known as Yugoslavia. For centuries, the region had been a composite of different ethnicities and religions with historic ties to the...
HMML's History: 2020s
Milestones in manuscripts digitized. Cataloging focus. HMML Authority File...
Getting it in Writing: Knowledge Preserved and Passed on in Handwritten Catalogs
Sixty years ago, Father Oliver Kapsner was on the road, traveling Austria, Switzerland, and Italy in an attempt to get support for a fledgling project by Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, to microfilm medieval manuscripts at Benedictine monasteries...
HMML History
Preserving and sharing the world’s handwritten past to inspire a deeper understanding of our present and future
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