Tues., October 28th @ 6:00 PM Andrew Stauffer, Associate Professor of English and Director of NINES, University of Virginia The Book Traces Project engages the question of the future of the print record in the wake of wide-scale digitization. College and university libraries increasingly reconfigure access to nineteenth-century texts through public-domain versions via repositories such […]
Sept. 8th’s “Political Memories” Panel Video is Online
For anyone who was unable to join us on the evening of Sept. 8th, the “Political Memories” panel, featuring Gov. David Paterson, Jim Neal, Khalil Muhammad, Peggy Shepard, and Ester Fuchs, is now viewable here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOZ6Y6PhxR0&feature=youtu.be […]
Peter Harvey gift of Tennessee Williams set drawing
We are very fortunate that theatrical designer extraordinaire Peter Harvey has made a gift to RBML of his drawing for Tennessee Williams’s “Orpheus Descending,” produced at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in 1958. Tennessee was involved in the production and liked the set very much. Harvey graduated from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, in 1955. […]
Happy Constitution Day!
Today is Constitution Day, the commemoration of the signing of the Constitution by the members of the Constitutional Convention, in Philadelphia, on 17 September 1787. But that was just the beginning. A long struggle, filled with passionate debate, followed before the Constitution was finally ratified by the United States and a new government was formed. […]
One-Dimensional Man at 50: Herbert Marcuse & the Legacy of the Book that Inspired a Generation
An all-day conference, Sept. 29th, 9am – 5pm Butler Library, Room 523 Free and open to the public. No reservations required. “A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization…” Thus begins the opening chapter of Herbert Marcuse’s landmark study of modern ideology, One-Dimensional Man, first published in 1964. On Sept. 29th, the […]