2025 Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures

Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures The 2025 lectures “On Seeing the Stain of Slavery: An Art History of Titian’s Poesie (1550) and the Maryland Portraits of Justus Engelhardt Kühn (1710),” will be delivered on October 20-23 by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Carey Law School. Dr. Shaw is the James and Nan Wagner Farquhar Professor in the History of Art and the Inaugural Faculty Director of the Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. All lectures will be held at Penn Carey Law School. Please enter the Law School at 3501 Sansom Street. Photo ID is required for entry to the Law School. The lectures on Monday and Tuesday will be followed by a reception at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. All are invited to attend the two receptions. The Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures, established thanks to the generosity of the Estate of Margy Ellin Meyerson, are delivered annually by an eminent scholar of early American studies. Each set of lectures will be published in an edition by Penn Press. (Photo credit: Eric Sucar) More Info below.