A screening of Obscene, a documentary about publisher Barney Rosset Introduced by the film’s co-director, Daniel O’Connor Chang Room, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Followed by a reception at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library […]
Tag: Book History Colloquium
A Panel on Personalities in Post-war Publishing
with Loren Glass, Boris Kachka, and Jay Gertzman December 11, 2013 (Wednesday) Butler Library, Room, 523, at 6:00 p.m. Loren Glass is a Professor of English at the University of Iowa and author of Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde (Stanford University Press, 2013). Boris Kachka is […]
The Reader’s Eye: Between Annotation and Illustration
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 […]
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 […]