Rachel Feder, "Marginal Experiments" Ellen Gruber Garvey, "Repurposed Books" Karen Sánchez-Eppler, "Beyond the Press of History" October 10, 2013 (Thursday) Butler Library, Room 523 at 6:00 p.m. This panel brings together three scholars who work on 19th-century American and British handmade books. In “Marginal Experiments”, Rachel Fader will explore the […]
Book History Colloquium: “How to Read Books Doing Things in Imperial Rome”
Joseph Howley Assistant Professor of Classics, Columbia University September 26, 2013 (Thursday) Butler Library, Room 523 at 6:00 p.m. Between the Alexandrian aesthetics of the poetic book roll and the modern values of the industrially printed codex lies the world of the Roman book. This talk examines some uses of the material text in […]
Christmas in August
A carton appeared in my mailbox late Friday afternoon, a good time for a treat. I opened it and found these: Also in the box was a letter from Terry Belanger of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. This program, which Terry founded, had its start at Columbia back in […]
Jerome Moross Centennial Celebration
RBML is the repository of the papers of Jerome Moross, and we are delighted to announce the following broadcasts in honor of his 100th birthday tomorrow, August 1st, 2013. In addition, Moross will be featured in an exhibition on composers in RBML this fall, on display in the Kempner Gallery from September 23, 2013 through […]
“Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here” is here!
The new exhibition on the third floor of Butler Library is a powerful collection of over 50 works by book artists responding to the tragic bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, the centuries-old center of book selling in Baghdad, on March 5, 2007. There was an international call to book artists, and there so many responses, it's […]