William H. Sherman, Professor of English, University of York November 14, 2013 (Thursday) Butler Library, Room, 523, at 5:00 p.m. (please note the earlier time) Recent scholarship in the lively field of marginalia has treated readers’ marks almost exclusively as a verbal phenomenon – as words, that is, next to other words. But in doing […]
Selling Russia’s Treasures
November 12, 2013 (Tuesday) Butler Library, Room 203 at 6:00 PM Please join us for a presentation on the Soviet Trade in Nationalized Art, 1917-1938 – an authoritative illustrated account of the unprecedented sale of Russia’s cultural treasures by the Soviet government. Speakers will include Nicolas Iljine, Natalia Semenova, Elena Solomakha, Robert H. Davis, […]
Celebrating Composers: Jack Beeson’s “Lizzie Borden”
November 6, 2013 (Wednesday) Butler Library, Room, 523, at 6:00 p.m. ————————————————— The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is Columbia’s principal repository for primary source collections. The range of collections in RBML span more than 4,000 years and comprise rare printed works, cylinder seals, cuneiform tablets, papyri, and Coptic ostraca; medieval and renaissance manuscripts; […]
Book History Colloquium: “The Birth of Italics”
Randall McLeod, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Toronto November 4, 2013 (Monday) Butler Library, Room, 523, at 6:00 p.m. The 1501 Venetian Vergil was the first book printed entirely in italics. On the verso of the title page, the printer, Aldo Manuzio, celebrated the type-cutter, Francesco da Bologna. (The two fell out a year […]
Book History Colloquium: Girls, Zines, and their Afterlives: On the Significance of Multiple Networks and Itineraries of Dissent
Janice Radway, Walter Dill Scott Professor of Communications, Northwestern University October 24, 2013 (Thursday) Barnard Zine Library Tour at 5:00 PM (meeting in Lehman Hall lobby) [See, map @ no. 20] Talk at 6: 00 PM in Butler Library, Room 523 Dissident and non-conforming girls and young women developed an interest in what are now […]