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 […]
Tag: Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Tues., Oct. 22nd, a Celebration Concert: “The Ulysses Kay Project” @ Columbia
On Tuesday, October 22, 2013, at 6:00 pm Columbia University Columbia University Office of the Chaplain’s Concert Series will feature the Harlem Chamber Players at St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University 117th Street and Amsterdam (See, map @ no. 12). This concert is part of what the Harlem Chamber Players have titled […]
Ulysses Kay Project Pre-Concert Talk with Prof. George Lewis & Others, Oct. 21 @ 5:00 PM
Event Date: Mon, 10/21/2013 – 5:00pm Event Location: Room 754 of Schermerhorn Extension Event Sponsors: Department of Music, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Office of Government and Community Affairs Admission Charge: Free and Open to the Public ULYSSES KAY PROJECT@ Columbia University Presents: A […]
Book History Colloquium: Panel on Handmade Books, Remade Genres
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 […]