LibGuides: RBSC's History of the Book Seminar Series: 2023-2024 Programming

October Program

October 5, 2023 @ 5-6pm

Light refreshments will be provided.

Emily Coccia (L); Sata Prescott, (R).

Presenter: Emily Coccia, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
“The Queer Affordances of Ambivalence: Nineteenth Century Readers and Mass Popular Literature.”
Presenter: Sata Prescott, Preservation Coordinator , NIU Libraries
"The Ship Wars of 1909: Fandom Discourse in the Frank Merriwell Fandom."

March 7, 2024 @ Noon-1pm

Brown bag lunch welcome.

Presenter: Dr. Chris Nissen, NIU, Emeritus Professor, CLAS, World Languages and Cultures
“From Sixteenth-Century Manuscripts to Published Edition: The Lost Works of Giulia Bigolina”
Presenter: Dr. Brian Sandberg, Professor, NIU History Department
"Medici Queens and Gendered Power Dynamics during the French Wars of Religion"

November 2, 2023 @ Noon-1pm

Brown bag lunch welcome.

Michael Barnes (L); Dee Anna Phares (R).

Presenter: Dee Anna Phares, NIU, Assistant Professor, University Libraries
“'Exquisite Twitterations’ and ‘Delightful Miseries’: Passion, Obsession, and Private Book Collection.”
Presenter: Michael Barnes, NIU, Professor, School of Art and Design, Printmaking
"Innovation and History: The invention of Lithography and its Transformation of Printing and the Dissemination of Information."

April 4, 2024 @ 5-6pm

Light refreshments will be provided.

February 1, 2024 @ Noon-1pm

Brown bag lunch welcome.

Lara Crowley (L); Hao Phan (R).

Presenter: Lara Crowley, NIU, Professor, English Department
"Is it Donne? Authorship and Attribution in Early Modern England"