Please note: All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Request an Author Event
University Departments and Student Groups may request that the bookstore help support their author events. These events can be held at a university hall, outside venue, or the bookstore can be requested as the location. The bookstore will provide the books for the event and help with marketing and promotions, if needed. Please use our online request form.
Alumni, Local Authors, and the Community may request that the bookstore help support their author events. These events can be held at an outside venue or the bookstore can be requested as the location. The bookstore will provide the books for the event and help with marketing and promotions. Please use our online request form.
Please note: You will be asked to sign-in to Gmail, if you aren't already, before accessing online form.
Bookstore Location
244 Thayer Street
Providence, RI
Phone: (401) 863-3168
Please contact us if you are unable to attend an event but would like an autographed book. We will do our best to accommodate your request at the author's and publisher's discretion.
September Events
The Providence Athenaeum Presents Ex Libris: Annette Gordon-Reed - Most Blessed of the Patriarchs
Friday, September 25, 2020
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Virtual Book Events
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Registration and info available here.
The Center for Middle East Studies Presents: Book Talk with Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor - The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Virtual Book Event
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Registration and info available here.
October Events
The Providence Athenaeum Presents Ex Libris: Rough Riders - The Crowded Hour by Clay Risen
Friday, October 2, 2020
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Virtual Book Event
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Registration and info available here.
The Providence Athenaeum Presents Ex Libris: David Blight - Frederick Douglass
Friday, October 9, 2020
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Virtual Book Event
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The Providence Athenaeum Presents Ex Libris: From Here to Equality by William A. Darity & A. Kirsten Mullen
Friday, October 16, 2020
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Virtual Book Event
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The Center for Middle East Studies Presents: Book Talk with Salih Can Aciksoz - Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
5:30 - 6:45 p.m.
Virtual Book Event
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The Providence Athenaeum Presents Ex Libris: Louisa May Alcott - Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson
Friday, October 30, 2020
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Virtual Book Event
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Registration and info available here.
November Events
The Providence Athenaeum Presents Ex Libris: Frederick Douglass - Facing Frederick by Tonya Bolden
Friday, November 6, 2020
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Virtual Book Event
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The Providence Athenaeum Presents Ex Libris: Senator Sherrod Brown - Desk 88
Friday, November 13, 2020
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Virtual Book Event
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The Providence Athenaeum Presents Ex Libris: Hail Caesar - The Landmark Julius Caesar edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub, Professor Emeritus of Classics
Friday, November 20, 2020
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Virtual Book Event
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Registration and info available here.
December Events
The Providence Athenaeum Presents Ex Libris: Alexander Chee - How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Friday, December 4, 2020
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Virtual Book Event
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Registration and info available here.
