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 […]
Diverse Characters: An Exhibition of Letterforms and Books
Diverse Characters: An Exhibition of Letterforms and Books by Russell Maret […]
Book Traces comes to the Butler Stacks on October 8th
On Wednesday, October 8, Butler Library’s open stacks will become both hunting grounds and laboratory. That day we are pleased to welcome Andrew Stauffer, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and the Book Traces project to Columbia. The Book Traces project is a crowd-sourced web project aimed at identifying unique copies of nineteenth- […]
Sept. 8th, 6pm — A Panel Discussion with Former Gov. David Paterson and Leading Scholars and Community Organizers
A conversation on libraries, government, and activism, with: Former-Governor David Paterson. Jim Neal, Columbia University Librarian. Dr. Khalil Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, SIPA. Peggy Shepard, founder director of West Harlem Environmental Action. Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, 6pm. The Kellogg Center 1501 […]
Commemorating World War I
John Abell, a British artist, selected excerpts from Arthur Graeme West’s The Diary of a Dead Officer (published posthumously in 1919), and created powerful linocuts to go with them. The new edition, printed letterpress by The Old Stile Press, was issued this year in an edition of 150 copies. West managed to enlist in 1915, […]