Image from The Author as Artist: Jack Kerouac and Friends Exhibit,
February 8
The following events, lectures, and conferences are sponsored or co-sponsored by the Friends of the Columbia Libraries unless otherwise noted. To attend, please respond to cul-events@columbia.edu or visit us on the Web at www.alumni.libraries.columbia.edu. When responding by e-mail, please indicate the date and title of the events you will be attending.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 6:00 p.m.
14th Annual Rare Book & Manuscript Library Bibliography Week Lecture
“‘The Need of Their Genius’: Women’s Reading and Writing Practices in Early America”
Mary Kelley
University of Michigan
Faculty Room, Low Memorial Library
535 West 116th Street (College Walk between Broadway and Amsterdam)
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Friday, February 8, 2008
On the Road turns 50: The Fourth Annual HOWL
Sponsored by the Columbia Alumni Association, the American Studies Program at Columbia University, and the Friends of the Columbia Libraries.
3:30–5:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: “On the Road: Then and Now,” 301 Philosophy Hall
5:00–7:00 p.m. Reception and exhibition viewing: The Author as Artist: Jack Kerouac & Friends, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 6th Floor, Butler Library
7:30–9:30 p.m. HOWL: Reading of original student and alumni poetry, East Gallery, Buell Hall
8:00–10:00 p.m. HOWL: Readings and Jazz in Honor of Columbia’s Beats, 301 Philosophy Hall
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Lecture by Czeslaw Jan Grycz
“The Iconic Copy: The Art of Creating Rare Book Reproductions”
Butler Library, Room 523
Reception immediately following in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Butler Library, 6th Floor, East).
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 6:00 p.m.
Lecture by David Johnson
“Forensic Philology and the Interventions of the Tremulous Hand of Worcester”
Sponsored by the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, the Interdepartmental Committee on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the Friends of the Columbia Libraries.
Butler Library, Room 523
Reception immediately following in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.