Wednesday, 7 February 2018, 6pm, Room 523 in Butler Library On Wednesday, February 7, the RBML and Karla Nielsen, Curator of Literature and Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, hosts Roger Chartier, Professor in the Collège de France and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Chartier will use Molière’s play, […]
Category: Printing History and Book Arts
2/2 @ 6PM “Blooks”: The Arts of Books that Aren’t
A panel discussion with Mindell Dubansky (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Lynn Festa (Rutgers University), and Bruce and Lynn Heckman (collectors). Part of the Book History Colloquium at Columbia. Tuesday, February 2, 2016 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM The Grolier Club […]
April 16th @ 6:00 PM – Book History Colloquium: “The Geography of History: Plotting Columbus in Map and Narrative”
Lindsay Van Tine, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Columbia University Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 6:00 PM Butler Library, Room 523 In the nineteenth century, an era in which geography was held to be the “eye of history,” books ranging from Bibles to exploration narratives included prominent fold-out maps. Yet modern scholarly editing and digitization […]
3/23 @ 6:30 PM – Book History Colloquium: “Books & Barrels: Readers and Reading in Colonial America”
Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University NOTE: This event will take place at The New York Society Library: 53 East 79th Street (at Madison Ave.); RSVP information below. The settlers of New England and the Mid-Atlantic states brought many practices with them from New England. One of them was reading: a […]
@ the RBML through Jan. 23rd: “Diverse Characters: An Exhibition of Letterforms and Books by Russell Maret”
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