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RBSC's History of the Book Seminar Series: Programming 2024-2025

The History of the Book is an interdisciplinary realm of study that includes printing and publishing, materials and technologies of the book, the book trade, reading and readers, and collectors and collections, as well as library and information history.

October Program

Beyond Walls, Beyond Bondage: Nineteenth Century Memoir

October 3, 2024 @ Noon-1:30 pm

Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Room

Founders Memorial Library, Room 403

Light refreshments will be provided.

Decorative

Kelly Ross (L); Owen Clayton (R).

February Program

"The Indissoluble Bands of Love and Devotion": Creation, Collection, and Adulation

February 6, 2025 @ Noon-1:30pm

Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Room

Founders Memorial Library, Room 403

Brown Bag Lunch Welcome

 

Elinor Olin (L); Beth McGowan (M); Nora Jimenez (R).

2024-2025 Seminars

 

March Program

J'Accuse: The Politics of Propaganda and Prosecution

March 6, 2025 @ Noon-1:30pm

Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Room

Founders Memorial Library, Room 403

Brown Bag Lunch Welcome

Katharina Barbe (L); Elizabeth Nowak (M); Jessica Cima (R).

November Program

Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Exploring Text and Paratext

November 7, 2024 @ Noon-1:30pm

Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Room

Founders Memorial Library, Room 403

Brown Bag Lunch Welcome

 

Decorative

David Gorman (L); Stephen Luis Vilaseca (R).

April Program

A Sense of Place: Maps and Meaning-Making

April 3, 2025 @ Noon-1:30pm

Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Room

Founders Memorial Library, Room 403

Light refreshments will be provided.

Decorative

Jim Wilson (L); Junlin Pan (R).