November 1, 4:30 pm Bulter 203 (with a post-talk reception in the RBML’s Kempner Gallery) Dean of Georgetown College and Professor of Classics and History at Georgetown University, Christopher Celenza will deliver the sixth Paul O. Kristeller lecture. He is the author of The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search […]
Talk | Re-embracing the Lachrymose Theory of Jewish History: Dialogue with a Columbia Tradition
October 30, 2018 @ 6PM Faculty House Garden Room 2 Norman E. Alexander Lecture in Jewish Studies In his multi-volume social and religious history of the Jews, Salo Baron, one of the most influential Jewish historians of the 20th century, decried how Jewish history had been told and retold as an endless tale of woe. […]
New exhibition | Persian Bookbinding
Following the introduction of lacquer-painting in the 15th century, bookbindings became a rejuvenated site for creative expression in Iran. ‘In the School of Wisdom’ presents over thirty examples, representing the diversity of the art as it developed from the late Safavid to Qajar eras and contextualizing it within a changing landscape of libraries and book […]
Discussion | The Art and Craft of Stage Design
Thursday, October 25, 2018, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM 203 Butler Library In conjunction with the exhibition “Florenz Ziegeld & Joseph Urban: Transforming Broadway,” Professor Arnold Aronson (School of the Arts) will discuss the legacy and contemporary relevance of Joseph Urban with Tony Award Winning Stage Designer Christine Jones (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child). Christine […]
Gallery Talk | The Second-Hand Binding
October 23, 2018, 6:00 PM 523 Butler Reproduction technologies, from chromolithography to digitization, have long been heralded as boon as to scholarship in the arts of the book. Nevertheless, bookbinding, especially that from the Muslim world, has remained at the fringes of the field. Exhibition curator Matthew Gillman will talk about the historical circumstances (such […]