Columbia’s collection of incunabula are part of a growing database

The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the University of Oxford’s attempt to track and catalog, “the half-million books printed from 1450 to 1500 that still survive and are now scattered across 4,000 libraries in Europe and the U.S.” Consuelo Dutschke, Curator of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s Medieval and Renaissance Collections, reports that […]

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Event | Author Jennifer Egan to discuss use of oral history in new novel, Manhattan Beach

Thursday, January 25, 2018, 6:00 – 7:30 pm The Columbia Center for Oral History Research Office will sponsor a talk with author Jennifer Egan about the use of oral histories in her new novel, Manhattan Beach, about Brooklyn in the 1930s and 40s. Egan will discuss her “experiences as an interviewer, how she thinks oral history […]

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Event | Experimental Design Workshop

Friday, January 26th, 2018, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Join the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE), home to the Columbia Center for Oral History Research Office, for an Experimental Design Workshop. The workshop will feature two presentations: Kate Khanna on “The Intersectional Nature of Masculinity: Social Class Threat and the Dynamic Nature of Gender Attitudes” […]

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Increasing visibility of the Muslim world

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), recently awarded Columbia University and its peer institutions — The Free Library of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, and Bryn Mawr College — $500,000 to digitize Islamic manuscripts and paintings dating from 1000 to 1900. “Arising from an extraordinary confluence of collecting foresight, scholarly curiosity, and shared expertise, […]

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