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Since 1972, the Book Arts Press and Rare Book School have offered more than 600 public lectures on a wide variety of bibliographical topics.

Rare Book School Lectures


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    Richard B. Sher, “New Light on the Early Publication History of Boswell's Life of Johnson," Karmiole Lecture, 10 July 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 48:08


    Richard B. Sher, “New Light on the Early Publication History of Boswell's Life of Johnson," Karmiole Lecture, 10 July 2024 by Rare Book School Lectures

    "Archive of the People: The Johnson Publishing Company" Lecture by LeRonn Brooks

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 37:21


    "Archive of the People: The Johnson Publishing Company" Lecture by LeRonn Brooks by Rare Book School Lectures

    "Scholarly Editing and the Challenges of Attribution" Lecture by Stephen Karian

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 33:55


    "Scholarly Editing and the Challenges of Attribution" Lecture by Stephen Karian by Rare Book School Lectures

    "A Librarian Like No Other: Belle da Costa Greene and Self-Invention" Lecture by Deborah Parker

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 44:59


    "A Librarian Like No Other: Belle da Costa Greene and Self-Invention" Lecture by Deborah Parker by Rare Book School Lectures

    "De Motu Librorum: On the Movement of Books" Lecture by G. Scott Clemons

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 46:03


    "De Motu Librorum: On the Movement of Books" Lecture by G. Scott Clemons by Rare Book School Lectures

    “Buying a Book in Early Modern England” Lecture by Aaron Pratt

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 45:17


    “Buying a Book in Early Modern England” Lecture by Aaron Pratt by Rare Book School Lectures

    “'Yongle Dadian:' An Emperors' Encyclopedia” Lecture by Li Wei Yang

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 29:08


    “'Yongle Dadian:' An Emperors' Encyclopedia” Lecture by Li Wei Yang by Rare Book School Lectures

    “Collecting Daily Life in Early American Manuscripts” Lecture by Ashley Cataldo

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 36:18


    “Collecting Daily Life in Early American Manuscripts” Lecture by Ashley Cataldo by Rare Book School Lectures

    Kailani Polzak, "Pacific Encounters in Print," The Kress Foundation Lecture, 31 July 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 52:51


    Kailani Polzak, "Pacific Encounters in Print," The Kress Foundation Lecture, 31 July 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Craig Welsh, "The Typesetting & Designs of the Declaration of Independence Broadsides," 26 July 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 59:06


    Craig Welsh, "The Typesetting & Designs of the Declaration of Independence Broadsides," 26 July 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Christy S. Coleman, "A Nexus of Learning—Museums and the Importance of Public History," 24 July 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 63:56


    Christy S. Coleman, "A Nexus of Learning—Museums and the Importance of Public History," 24 July 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Jeffrey Makala, "Lives (& Afterlives) of Stereotype Plates," Karmiole Lecture, 12 July 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 49:34


    Jeffrey Makala, "Lives (& Afterlives) of Stereotype Plates," Karmiole Lecture, 12 July 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Walter O. Evans, "Why Collect?" The 2023 Kenneth W. Rendell Lecture, 14 June 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 58:24


    Walter O. Evans, "Why Collect?" The 2023 Kenneth W. Rendell Lecture, 14 June 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Barbara E. Mundy, "Books in the Contact Zone," Malkin Lecture, 12 June 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 56:42


    Barbara E. Mundy, "Books in the Contact Zone," Malkin Lecture, 12 June 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Leah Price, "Reader=Inessential Worker: Book History After Lockdown," 7 June 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 54:51


    Leah Price, "Reader=Inessential Worker: Book History After Lockdown," 7 June 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures

    S. Max Edelson, "The Surveyor's Eye," NEH-SHARP Lecture, 5 June 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 57:20


    S. Max Edelson, "The Surveyor's Eye," NEH-SHARP Lecture, 5 June 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Kinniburgh, Mary Catherine - "Surface and Relief in Literary Archives" - SoFCB, 10 Oct 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2023 54:10


    Mary Catherine Kinniburgh is the co-director of Granary Books, an independent publisher and archives/rare book dealer. As a scholar of postwar American poetry and an archives broker, her activities occur at the intersection of research and praxis, and her writing often focuses on the poetics of archival work. In particular, her research explores making sense of high volume in literary collections. In this talk, Kinniburgh discusses her ongoing series "Messy Archivist," which explores the interstitial qualities of working on archives through prose, poetry, and images. Published by her experimental imprint TKS Books, each "Messy Archivist" is a handmade chapbook that is often organized around a keyword, such as messy, or need. For the fourth volume and this talk, the premise is surface: what might be interpreted as an archival surface, and how does our attentiveness to the relationship between surface and depth inform our understanding of archives, especially at scale? Drawing on Sharon Marcus and Stephen Best's concept of “surface reading” in literary texts, the physics of surfing, what puts the “relief” in relief printing, and Kinniburgh's experiences working on specific archives at Granary Books, this talk will contextualize the concept of surface as a lens for the information overload that necessarily comes with archival work, and a critical approach for the toolkits of fellow scholars and archivists of twentieth century American poetry and beyond.

    Rezek, Joseph - "Ideologies of the Codex in Hakluyt and Smith" - NEH-SHARP Lecture, 1 Aug 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2022 56:00


    Rezek, Joseph - "Ideologies of the Codex in Hakluyt and Smith" - NEH-SHARP Lecture, 1 Aug 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Marcus, Hannah - "Characterizing the Elderly across Formats in Early Modern Italy" - 27 July 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2022 52:11


    Marcus, Hannah - "Characterizing the Elderly across Formats in Early Modern Italy" - 27 July 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

    McNamee, Megan - "Significance of a Concertina-Fold Almanac" - Kress Lecture - 25 July 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2022 56:55


    McNamee, Megan - "Significance of a Concertina-Fold Almanac" - Kress Lecture - 25 July 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Roldán Vera, Eugenia - "Book Trade in the Anglo-Iberian Atlantic" - Karmiole Lecture - 13 July 22

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2022 59:29


    Roldán Vera, Eugenia - "Book Trade in the Anglo-Iberian Atlantic" - Karmiole Lecture - 13 July 22 by Rare Book School Lectures

    White, Eric - "A History of the Gutenberg Bible (continued)" - Malkin Lecture, 11 July 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2022 56:08


    White, Eric - "A History of the Gutenberg Bible (continued)" - Malkin Lecture, 11 July 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Wisecup, Kelly - "Making and Reading Indigenous Archives" NEH-GBHI - 15 June 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2022 55:26


    Wisecup, Kelly - "Making and Reading Indigenous Archives" NEH-GBHI - 15 June 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Rogers, Beverly - "Victorian Connections: Books and Stories" Rendell Lecture - 13 June 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2022 47:50


    Rogers, Beverly - "Victorian Connections: Books and Stories" Rendell Lecture - 13 June 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Wong, Dorothy - “Making Merit: East Asian Buddhist Material Culture” NEH-GBHI Lecture - 6 June 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022 57:23


    Wong, Dorothy - “Making Merit: East Asian Buddhist Material Culture” NEH-GBHI Lecture - 6 June 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Rustow, Marina - “Lost Archives and Paper Reuse in the Medieval Islamic World” - 20 July 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2021 59:29


    “Lost Archives and Paper Reuse in the Medieval Islamic World” Marina Rustow, Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, and Director of the Geniza Lab, Princeton University A Rare Book School lecture, 20 July 2021

    Arista, Noelani - “He Lau Nā Moʻolelo” - 29 June 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2021 64:19


    “He Lau Nā Moʻolelo: The Challenge and Promise of Hawaiian Language Textual Archives” Noelani Arista, Director, Indigenous Studies Program, and Associate Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University A Rare Book School lecture29 June 2021

    Winship - Subscription Publishing in America over Three Centuries - Karmiole Lecture, 13 July 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2021 74:34


    "Subscription Publishing in America over Three Centuries" by Michael Winship - Rare Book School's inaugural Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trades, presented on Tuesday, 13 July 2021

    Goldsby and McGill - "What is 'Black' about Black Bibliography?" - 3 August 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2021 68:00


    Goldsby and McGill - "What is 'Black' about Black Bibliography?" - 3 August 2021 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Yale, Elizabeth - "Paper-Keeping: Women, Family, Knowledge Work..." - 27 July 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2021 58:22


    Yale, Elizabeth - "Paper-Keeping: Women, Family, Knowledge Work..." - 27 July 2021 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Hidalgo, Alex - "The Book as Archive" - 15 June 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2021 58:39


    Hidalgo, Alex - "The Book as Archive" - 15 June 2021 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Robb, Megan - "Print and the Urdu Public" - 23 July 2020

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2020 39:54


    Robb, Megan - "Print and the Urdu Public" - 23 July 2020 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Nishikawa, Kinohi – "From Poet to Publisher: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks by Design" - 16 July 2020

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2020 58:02


    Nishikawa, Kinohi – "From Poet to Publisher: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks by Design" - 16 July 2020 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Ramachandran, Ayesha – "An Alternative History of the Atlas" - 2 July 2020

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2020 59:51


    Ramachandran, Ayesha – "An Alternative History of the Atlas" - 2 July 2020 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Trettien, Whitney - "A Hornbook for Digital Book History" - 18 June 2020

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2020 59:41


    Trettien, Whitney - "A Hornbook for Digital Book History" - 18 June 2020 by Rare Book School Lectures

    Bychowski, Brenna - "Adventures in Cataloging Popular Literature" - 11 June 2020

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2020 59:02


    Full title: "Superheroes and Shocking Affairs, or, Adventures in Cataloging Popular Literature"

    "Protest on the Page: Print as an Affordance for Revolutionary Spirits" (RBS-Mellon Lecture)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2019 73:32


    RBS-Mellon lecture by Pamela Klassen (Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto), given at Franklin & Marshall College on 25 October 2017. See https://rarebookschool.org/all-programs/events/protest-on-the-page/ for more information on this event.

    "The Never-ending Popularity of Njáls Saga: The Manuscript Evidence" (RBS-Mellon Lecture)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2019 61:31


    RBS-Mellon lecture by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir (Research Associate Professor, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland), given at the University of Maine on 30 March 2017. See https://rarebookschool.org/all-programs/events/njals-saga/ for more information about this event.

    "The Futures of Handwriting" (SoFCB Conference) - 12 April 2019

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2019 73:18


    This recording is of conference Session 2: Towards a Critical Bibliography of the Handwritten Chair: Dale Billingsley, University of Louisville “Messy Writings: Unraveling Korean Manuscript Books” Hwisang Cho, Emory University “Citational and Citationless: Reading the Development of Indian Yunani Medicine in the Margins of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts” Deborah Schlein, Princeton University “Blanks, Paperwork, Racialization” John Garcia, California State University – Northridge “Transcription of Early Modern Handwriting and the Slow Reading Movement: Notes from the Field” Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library See https://rarebookschool.org/all-programs/events/the-futures-of-handwriting-sofcb/ for more information about this event.

    "Muslims & Manuscripts" (SoFCB Program) - 23 April 2019

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2019 99:43


    Featuring "The Message & the Messengers: Artistic Illustrations of the Qur’an and the Prophets in Islamic Manuscripts" Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building, Princeton University Dr. Tehseen Thaver, Assistant Professor of Religion, Princeton University Dr. Christiane Gruber, Professor and Associate Chair, History of Art, University of Michigan See https://rarebookschool.org/all-programs/events/muslims-manuscripts-sofcb/ for more information about this event.

    Stallybrass, Peter - "Thrift, Horatio, Thrift: Recycling Woodcuts and the Printing of Books"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 39:10


    Lecture 513 (30 July 2008)

    Krupp, Andrea - "Nineteenth-Century Books Up Close: Bookcloth Grain Patterns"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 46:34


    Johnson, Russell - "More Baby Books than You Can Shake a Rattle At" (9 July 2008)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 39:41


    Lecture 510 (9 July 2008) Full title: "More Baby Books than You Can Shake a Rattle At: Building a New Collection for Research in the History of Infant Development"

    Hudson, Alice - "Alice’s Top Ten List: Rare Maps" (7 July 2008)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 41:11


    Lecture 509 (7 July 2008) Full title: "Alice’s Top Ten List: Rare Maps: Keeping Them Under Control, Letting Them Go Public"

    Stone, Sumner - "Warp & Woof: History, Craft, Concept and Culture in Early Digital Type Design"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 44:56


    Noel, William - "Writing Off Archimedes: Ten Years of Work on the Archimedes Palimpsest"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 54:22


    Lecture 507 (16 June 2008)

    writing lecture archimedes palimpsest
    Beare, Steve - "John Feely Meets Samuel Dodd" (9 June 2008)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 49:33


    Lecture 506 (9 June 2008) Full title: "John Feely Meets Samuel Dodd: The Use of Internet Databases in Studying the History of the American Book Trades"

    Kuhta. Richard - "The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608: Making It a Book Again"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2019 42:04


    Lecture 503 (30 July 2007)

    Immel, Andrea - "Scissors, Prints and Paste" (23 July 2007)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2019 53:06


    Lecture 502 (23 July 2007) Full title: "Scissors, Prints and Paste: Frederick and Amelia Lock Make a Scrapbook at Norbury Park in 1791"

    Willison, Ian - "Brave New World or Mere Anarchy?"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2019 55:13


    Lecture 501 (18 July 2007) Full title: "Brave New World or Mere Anarchy? Reflections on the Revolution in National Research Librarianship"

    Prochaska, Alice - "Cultural Restitution: Dilemmas and Cases in Europe and North America"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2019 42:03


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