Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, Professor at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, recently visited the RBML for his project, Two Literary Agents in the American Century: William and Jenny Bradley, Transatlantic Cultural Passeurs (Deux agents littéraires dans le siècle américain: William et Jenny Bradley, passeurs culturels transatlantiques, Lyon, ENS Editions, 2023). Professor Cossu-Beaumont’s work draws on previously unexplored archival […]
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Description and digitization of the George Hunt Kwak’wala ethnographic manuscripts
Starting in 1913 and over the course of his life, anthropologist Franz Boas gifted stacks of handwritten manuscripts to Columbia University. Boas founded the Department of Anthropology at Columbia in 1902, and is hailed as the father of the ‘four-field’ approach of anthropology in North America (i.e. socio-cultural, linguistic, physical, and archaeological anthropology). His work […]
Exhibition | Lost In Transcription
Oral history transcription practice has undergone several changes since implemented at the inception of the field’s standardization and formalization starting in the late 1960s. The oral history transcripts selected for the “Lost in Transcription” case in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s exhibition, Original Copies: Facsimiles & Mediations of Authenticity & Ownership, reflect different […]
Original Copies: Facsimiles and their Mediations of Authenticity and Ownership
We are delighted to announce the opening of a new exhibition in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library‘s Kempner Gallery: Original Copies: Facsimiles and their Mediations of Authenticity and Ownership. The desire to capture likenesses, to reproduce things of value as closely as possible, stretches deep back into human history. We have been creating visually […]
Research at the RBML | Lawrence Stern on Robert K. Merton
Sociology Professor Lawrence Stern is making his way through 200 linear feet and nearly 500 boxes of materials that document sociologist Robert K. Merton’s decades at Columbia. Stern’s forthcoming monograph, Robert K. Merton: A Scholarly Life will draw significantly on his finds in the RBML archives, from Merton’s lecture notes and correspondence, to his staggering to-do lists […]