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EPISODE 1786: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Abby Smith Rumsey, author of MEMORY, EDITED, about what we should remember and what we should forget about historyAbby Smith Rumsey is an intellectual and cultural historian. She focuses on the impact of information technologies on perceptions of history, time, and identity, the nature of evidence, and the changing roles of libraries and archives. Her most recent book is When We Are No More: How Digital Memory is Shaping our Future (2016). Rumsey served as director of the Scholarly Communication Institute at the University of Virginia; Director of Programs at the Council on Library and Information Resources; and manager of programs relating to preservation of and access to cultural heritage collections at the Library of Congress. She served on the National Science Foundation's Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Economics of Digital Preservation and Access; the American Council of Learned Societies' Commission on the Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences; and the Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure Program. Board service includes: Chair, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences; the Radcliffe Institute's Schlesinger Library Advisory Council; the Stanford University Library Advisory Committee; the Society of Architectural Historians; the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia; and the Harvard Board of Overseers Committee to Visit the Harvard University Library. Rumsey received a BA from Harvard College and MA and PhD in Russian and intellectual history from Harvard University.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.
Man of No Importance at Classic Stage Theater. S & P Luncheonette. Bud Zero comes to the rescue. Rare Book School and the Grolier Club. Vittore Carpaccio at the National Gallery. The History of Lace at the Bard Graduate Center. Jule Campbell and Sports Illustrated. Ashkenazi DNA. Credits: Talent: Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Ellie Suttmeier Art: Zeke Abuhoff
Let's talk investing. This week we have a guest sharing about the root systems of economics, how they apply to a household, and how YOU can be confident with your financial status. Often times we think buying low and selling high is a no-brainer when really, it should feel uncomfortable and against the grain. This is the sweet spot of investments. Listen and learn more from the brilliant Scott Clemons! Join the UnlockU Community HERE. Connect with Scott More about Scott Clemons: G. Scott Clemons joined Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in 1990, and has held a variety of investment roles at the firm over the past 32 years. Scott started his career as a portfolio manager of European and domestic equities, before stepping into a leadership role in the New York office of the firm's Private Banking business in 2005. In 2010 he was appointed Chief Investment Strategist, and is today one of the firm's primary writers and speakers on topics related to the economy, financial markets and investing. Scott is a frequent contributor to print and broadcast media, and appears regularly in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times and on camera at CNBC, Bloomberg and CNN. Scott is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the CFA Institute. Outside of his professional interests, Scott serves as a trustee of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, and the Research Corporate for Science Advancement, the nation's oldest foundation dedicated to the support of basic scientific research. Born and raised in Florida, he is a magna cum laude graduate (Classics) of Princeton University, and lives in Manhattan with his family.
Let's talk investing. This week we have a guest sharing about the root systems of economics, how they apply to a household, and how YOU can be confident with your financial status. Often times we think buying low and selling high is a no-brainer when really, it should feel uncomfortable and against the grain. This is the sweet spot of investments. Listen and learn more from the brilliant Scott Clemons! Join the UnlockU Community HERE. Connect with Scott More about Scott Clemons: G. Scott Clemons joined Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in 1990, and has held a variety of investment roles at the firm over the past 32 years. Scott started his career as a portfolio manager of European and domestic equities, before stepping into a leadership role in the New York office of the firm's Private Banking business in 2005. In 2010 he was appointed Chief Investment Strategist, and is today one of the firm's primary writers and speakers on topics related to the economy, financial markets and investing. Scott is a frequent contributor to print and broadcast media, and appears regularly in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times and on camera at CNBC, Bloomberg and CNN. Scott is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the CFA Institute. Outside of his professional interests, Scott serves as a trustee of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, and the Research Corporate for Science Advancement, the nation's oldest foundation dedicated to the support of basic scientific research. Born and raised in Florida, he is a magna cum laude graduate (Classics) of Princeton University, and lives in Manhattan with his family.
RARE BOOK CAFE 6.0 (S6 E9) Our guest is Andrew Stauffer, author, Rare Book School faculty member, and founder of the Book Traces Project. We also feature Lin Thompson on children’s illustrator Randolph Caldecott, and David Hess on Things Found in Old Books. Plus, cafe denizen Lee Linn. The host for Rare Book Cafe is Ed Markewicz. the executive producer is T. Allan Smith. This is the mostly unedited audio soundtrack from the live streamed program. You can watch the video version on YouTube or Facebook.
Dr. Lucas A. Dietrich is Adjunct Professor of Humanities at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a council member and former president of the New England American Studies Association and the recipient of a Northeast Modern Language Association Fellowship at the Newberry Library and a Directors' Scholarship at Rare Book School. Dr. Dietrich has published articles in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS), Book History, and Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA). His book, Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, has just been released by the University of Massachusetts Press. Dr. Dietrich was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia in 2016. This chat originally aired at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, July 9, 2020.
Andrea Lemoins, Community Organizer at the Free Library of Philadelphia, talks about her work with community, professionalization, library school, Afrofuturism, Yusef Omowale’s article “We Already Are”, community archives, and an upcoming Memory Lab project. Follow Andrea on twitter @ALemoins The reading list from the Community Archives and Digital Cultural Memory class at the Rare Book School: (https://rarebookschool.org/courses/library/l115/reading-list/) The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic. Read along with the transcript. The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic. You can reach us at: • Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com • Twitter: @OrganizingPod • Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/organizing-ideas/message
Lecture 628. Delivered at the RBS-UVA Fellowship Luncheon, 10 May 2019. Rare Book School founding director Terry Belanger introduces Neal Curtis as the winner of the 2019 Betsy and Stuart Houston Prize.
Michael Suarez is the director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. A renowned historian, author and worldwide leader of rare book scholarship interests, he co-edited The Oxford Companion to the Book. Suarez will provide us with a compelling, richly illustrated description about how a group of printers were instrumental in making the antislavery movement happen in England. Their broadside engraving with an image diagramming human cargo on the Brookes, a slave ship, became a force for political change in the worldwide abolitionist movement. MLF Organizer: Anne W. Smith Notes: MLF: Arts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SPEAKERS Michael F. Suarez, S.J. Director, Rare Book School, Professor of English and Honorary Curator of Special Collections, the University of Virginia; Author, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume V This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on February 9th, 2019.
Session 4: Roundtable Discussion: Cultural Heritage, Social Justice, and Individual Responsibility — 3:45–5:15 p.m. Panelists: Brenda Gunn (Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Preservation, University of Virginia) Aaisha Haykal (Manager of Archival Services, Avery Research Center, College of Charleston) Johan Kugelberg (Owner and Curator, Boo-Hooray gallery) Samip Mallick (Executive Director, South Asian American Digital Archive) Bethany Nowviskie (Executive Director, Digital Library Federation) Julieanna Richardson (Founder & Executive Director, The HistoryMakers) Moderators: Danielle Culpepper (Director of Budget & Finance, Rare Book School); Barbara Heritage (Associate Director & Curator of Collections, Rare Book School)
Welcoming remarks by Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (Executive Director, Rare Book School) & John Unsworth (University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, University of Virginia) Session 1: Access — 9:15–10:45 a.m. Panelists: “Spatial Narratives of the Historic Tibetan Capital of Lhasa with 3D GIS” – Guoping Huang (Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Virginia School of Architecture); Will Rourk (Information Visualization Specialist, Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia); & Kurtis R. Schaeffer (Frances Myers Ball Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia) “The Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal: A Model for Ethical Access to Cultural Heritage” – Trevor James Bond (Co-Director, Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation and Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries) “Introducing the Digital Library of the Middle East” – Peter Herdrich (Co-Founder, The Antiquities Coalition and CEO, Cultural Capital Group, LLC); Houra Kadivar (Assistant to the Middle East Studies Librarian, UNC Chapel Hill Libraries); & Bethany Nowviskie (Executive Director, Digital Library Federation) Moderator: Donna Sy (Mellon Society Administrative Director, Rare Book School)
Short Presentations 3: Hands-on Demonstration – Teaching with Stuff: Building Bibliographical Collections at Rare Book School with Limited (or no) Financial Resources; or, Necessity Is the Mother of Invention Session Presenter: Terry Belanger (Founding Director, Rare Book School, University of Virginia), with Barbara Heritage (Rare Book School) See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.
Short Presentations 2: Innovative Pedagogy with Material Objects Session Organizer: Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa) Moderator: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (Director, Rare Book School; Professor of English, University Professor, Hon. Curator of Special Collections, University of Virginia) Rhae Lynn Barnes (University of Southern California; Princeton University) & Stephanie Elizabeth Beck Cohen (Indiana University) “Stitched Histories of Government & Grief: Teaching Quilts as Texts in the Black Transatlantic” Kyle Dugdale (Yale School of Architecture) “Bibliographical Architectures” Adam Hooks (University of Iowa) “How Does It Work and Why Is It Here? Teaching Text as Technology” Rebecca Wingfield (Stanford University) “Hearing the Voices of the Past: Teaching with Audio Recordings of Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.
Lecture 619 (1 November 2017), celebrating the 25th anniversary of Rare Book School's arrival at the University of Virginia
Lecture 609. Delivered at the RBS-UVA Fellowship Luncheon, 10 May 2017. Barbara Heritage introduces Rare Book School founding director Terry Belanger, who introduces Samantha Wallace as the winner of the 2017 Betsy and Stuart Houston Prize.
Why are modern day readers still responsive to "Jane Eyre," and how do their readings influence the life of the text? UVA's Linden Kent Memorial Professor Karen Chase (Brontë scholar and author of "Eros & Psyche") leads a discussion with author Patricia Park ("Re Jane") and RBS curator Barbara Heritage (“Shaping Eyre”) about the enduring influence of Charlotte Brontë’s nineteenth-century novel, "Jane Eyre." This program, held on 23 March 2017, is part of the 2017 Virginia Festival of the Book, and is sponsored by Rare Book School and the UVA Libraries.
A lecture by Michael Suarez, S.J., Director of Rare Book School, Professor of English, and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia. In celebration of Professor Arnie Sanders’ long career at Goucher College, on his retirement. Sponsorship by the Goucher College Book Studies program, the Friends of the Goucher College Library, and The Baltimore Bibliophiles.
Ryan Cordell, co-director of the Viral Texts project, speaks about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines. The Viral Texts project seeks to develop theoretical models that will help scholars better understand what qualities—both textual and thematic—helped particular news stories, short fiction, and poetry “go viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines. What texts were reprinted and why? How did ideas—literary, political, scientific, economic, religious—circulate in the public sphere and achieve critical force among audiences? How might computational methods reveal Melville’s popular reception and reputation or expose the shaping influence of the popular press on his writing? And how can these popular (perhaps even ephemeral) texts thicken our understanding of literary authors like Herman Melville? Cordell is Assistant Professor of English and Core Founding Faculty Member in the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University. His scholarship focuses on convergences among literary, periodical, and religious culture in antebellum American mass media. Prof. Cordell collaborates with colleagues in English, History, and Computer Science on the NEH-funded Viral Texts project, which uses robust data mining tools to discover reprinted content across large-scale archives of antebellum texts. These “viral texts” help us to trace lines of influence among antebellum writers and editors, and to construct a model of viral textuality in the period. Cordell is currently a Mellon Fellow of Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also serves as vice president of the Digital Americanists scholarly society; is Co-Editor-in-Chief of centerNet’s forthcoming new journal, DHCommons; and writes about technology in higher education for the group blog ProfHacker at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
This from the Yale University Library website: "William Reese '77 is an antiquarian bookseller living in New Haven, CT. His firm, William Reese Company, founded in 1975 when he was a sophomore, is one of the leading rare book dealers in the world, specializing in Americana, travels and voyages, and literature. He has been active with the Yale Library for many years, funding a number of fellowships in the Beinecke Library. Bill served on the committee to raise funds for the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library and contributed, with his family, the Jackson Family Rare Book Room there, named in honor of his grandfather, John Day Jackson, Class of 1890, who gave Yale its first music library. Bill has also given Yale major collections of 20th-century writers such as Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, as well as books and manuscripts ranging from 18th-century Louisiana to the diary of an interned Japanese-American in World War II. He has also curated four major exhibitions in the Beinecke Library, including their Columbian Quincentenary exhibition in 1992, and the show honoring Paul Mellon's bequest to the Beinecke Library in 2002, both commemorated with published catalogs. He has also funded Beinecke publications such as the recently published Alfred Stieglitz–Georgia O'Keefe correspondence, funded cataloguing initiatives in the Map Collection, and underwritten Yale staff members attending the Rare Book School. Bill has also served on the committee to award the undergraduate book- collecting prize for thirty years. Bill has worked with many book libraries throughout the country on issues of collection development, security, and fund-raising. He serves on the Council of the American Antiquarian Society and the board of the Library of America."