Paper Session 10: Reading the Whole Book: Object Interpretation Session Organizers: Lauren Jennings (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) & Elizaveta Strakhov (Marquette University) Moderator: Stephen Nichols (Professor Emeritus and Research Professor; James M. Beall Professor Emeritus of French and Humanities, Johns Hopkins University) Ellen Handy (The City College of New York, CUNY) “The Art of Ethnography in Photogravure: Reading Julia Peterkin and Doris Ullmann’s Roll, Jordan, Ro...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 31 min
Paper Session 9: Manuscript in the Age of Print Session Organizers: Rachael King (University of California, Santa Barbara) & Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College) Moderator: Margaret J.M. Ezell (Distinguished Professor of English and John and Sara Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University) Mimi Ensley (University of Notre Dame) “Manuscript, Romance, and the Visual Language of Print” Emily Friedman (Auburn University) “Manuscripts and Metadata: Taxonomizing M...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 36 min
Paper Session 8: Books as Agents of Contact Session Organizers: Hansun Hsiung (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), András Kiséry (The City College of New York), Yael Rice (Amherst College) Moderator: Isabel Hofmeyr (Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Global Distinguished Professor of English, New York University) John R. Blakinger (University of Southern California) “The Book as Agent of Interstellar Contact: The Voyager Record/The EchoS...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 30 min
Paper Session 7: The Social Life of Books: Uses of Text & Image Beyond Reading & Viewing Session Organizers: Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University), Hannah Marcus (Harvard University), Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College) Moderator: Leah Price (Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Harvard University) Melissa Reynolds (Rutgers University) “Consuming the Word: Late Medieval Medical Charms and the Curative Power of Writing” Kathryn Rudy (University ...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 36 min
Paper Session 6: Materiality of Digital Objects Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) Moderator: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (Professor, Department of English, University of Maryland) Meaghan Brown (Folger Shakespeare Library) & Jessica Otis (Carnegie Mellon University Library) “Name That Book: Identifying Digital Objects During Research and Discovery” Alan Galey (University of Toronto) “Bibliography for a Used Future: What Bibliographical Methods Can Teach Us About Digital A...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 31 min
Paper Session 5: Degradation, Loss, Recovery & Fragmentation Session Organizer: Jane Raisch (University of York) Moderator: Arthur Bahr (Associate Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Niv Allon (Metropolitan Museum of Art) “Gem wesh (found missing): Representing Ancient Fragmentary Texts and Their Lacunae” Kristopher Driggers (University of Chicago) “Manuscript Alteration and Stylistic Evolution: Why Codex Durán Kept its Changes Visible” Megan Heffernan (DePaul Uni...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 39 min
Paper Session 4: Transmission & Transfer of Images Session Organizer: Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University) Moderator: Kathryn Rudy (Director of Research, School of Art History, University of St. Andrews) David A. Brewer (Ohio State University) “Copies, Transfers, and Excerpts; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Derivative” Elizabeth Bacon Eager (Southern Methodist University) “John Jenkins’s Ingenious Mechanics: The Visual and Physical Construction of Authorship in Early Am...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 30 min
Paper Session 3: Questions of Scale, Production & Labor Session Organizer: Juliet Sperling (University of Pennsylvania) Moderator: Suzanne Karr Schmidt (George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, The Newberry) Megan Cook (Colby College) “Craven Ord’s Brass Rubbings: Size, Scope, and Scale in Antiquarian Practice” Will Hansen (The Newberry) “Extra-Illustrated Editions: The Case of Irving’s Life of George Washington, 1889” Lauren Williams (University of Toronto) “Uncovering t...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 28 min
Paper Session 2: Textual Instruments Session Organizer: Nick Wilding (Georgia State University) Moderator: Ann Blair (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University) Ivana Horacek (University of Minnesota) “Instrumental Images and Gifts of Knowledge: Stars, Books, and Instruments” Jennifer Nelson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) “Basilischco, Elifanntto, Tiruno: The Holzschuher War Machines Revisited” Suzanne Karr Schmidt (Th...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 29 min
Paper Session 1: Graphic Representation: Illustration & Diagrams Session Organizer: Claire Eager (University of Virginia) Moderator: Michael Sappol (Independent scholar, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study) Holly Borham (Princeton University) “Itinerant Images: Crossing Boundaries of Confession, Geography, and Media in Early Modern Germany” Michael Patrick Kuczynski (Tulane University) “Imaging Monasticism: The St. Gall Plan as a Meditative Object” Meekyung MacMurdie (University of Chicago)...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 29 min
Plenary Session 3: “Bibliography Among the Disciplines” Community Plenary Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York) and Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College) Note that this session also includes closing remarks to the conference by Rare Book School Executive Director Michael F. Suarez, S.J., by conference co-chairs Barbara Heritage and Donna Sy, and by Mellon Society of Fellows President Stephanie Ann Frampton. See the conference website at http://rareb...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 47 min
Plenary Session 2: The Future of the Past: Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age Nancy Y. McGovern (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) “Making Digital Practice Work for Our Collections” W. Brent Seales (University of Kentucky) “Emergent Practices for Non-Invasive Analysis of Artifacts” Session Organizer: Stephanie Ann Frampton (MIT) See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 33 min
Plenary Session 1: "Historicizing Critical Bibliography" Anthony Grafton (Princeton University): “Bio-Bibliography in Early Modern Europe: Towards a History of Practice” François Deroche (Chair in the History of the Qur’an, Text and Transmission, Collège de France): “From One Giant to Another: Bio-Bibliographical Practice in the Islamic World (10th–17th Centuries)” Session Organizers: Vera Keller (University of Oregon), Yael Rice (Amherst College) Note that this session also includes general wel...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 44 min
Lecture 619 (1 November 2017), celebrating the 25th anniversary of Rare Book School's arrival at the University of Virginia
Nov 02, 2017•58 min
Lecture 618 (31 July 2017)
Aug 09, 2017•49 min
Lecture 616 (24 July 2017) Speaker: Meredith L. McGill, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University
Jul 31, 2017•56 min
Lecture 614 (12 July 2017). The 2017 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture
Jul 20, 2017•1 hr
Lecture 613 (10 July 2017) Speaker: Glen Miranker, Sherlock Holmes Collector
Jul 11, 2017•1 hr 1 min
Lecture 612 (12 June 2017). Beinecke Library, Yale University Speaker: Kathryn James, Curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
Jul 05, 2017•41 min
Lecture 611 (12 June 2017). Watch the accompanying video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggttPftmVs
Jun 13, 2017•40 min
Lecture 610 (5 June 2017). Full title "Hunting for Textual Bodies: Rethinking the Relationship between the Poetic Voice and Manuscript Matter"
Jun 06, 2017•59 min
Lecture 422 (12 July 1999)
Jun 04, 2017•53 min
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.
May 11, 2017•26 min
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 Boo...
Mar 24, 2017•58 min
Lecture 256 (19 April 1988)
Mar 20, 2017•1 hr 10 min
Lecture 608 (14 November 2016)
Nov 15, 2016•56 min
Lecture 605 (5 August 2016). The 2016 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture
Aug 16, 2016•1 hr 3 min
Lecture 603 (25 July 2016)
Jul 26, 2016•55 min
Lecture 601 (11 July 2016). Full title: "Print Cultures and Protest in (Southern) Africa: Bibliography, Anthropology, Ideology, and Aesthetics"
Jul 12, 2016•55 min
Lecture 600 (15 June 2016). The lecture is followed by a presentation in honor of Mary Gilliam, recently elected president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
Jun 16, 2016•1 hr
