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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.

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Hirschland, Ed - "A Funhouse Mirror—Reflecting on Books, Collecting and Chicago History"

Lecture 546 (11 June 2012)

Sep 09, 2015•54 min

Price, Leah - "Force-Reading: Captive Audiences in 19th-Century Britain" (27 July 2011)

Lecture 541 (27 July 2011)

Sep 09, 2015•1 hr 3 min

Belanger, Terry - "Parallel Lines Never Meet" (25 July 2011)

Lecture 540 (25 July 2011). Full title "Parallel Lines Never Meet: Dolphins and Anchors and Aldus || Book Historians and Numismatists and Roman Coins"

Sep 09, 2015•59 min

Kiffer, Selby - "Printing the Declaration of Independence—and Selling It" (4 July 2011)

Lecture 536 (4 July 2011)

Sep 09, 2015•1 hr 8 min

Jackson, Robert H. - "Victorian Serials: Essential Parts of the C19 Imagination" (15 June 2011)

Lecture 535 (15 June 2011). Full title "Victorian Serials: Essential Parts of the 19th-Century Imagination." The 2011 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Sep 09, 2015•1 hr 6 min

Blair, Ann - "Managing Information in Manuscript and in Print in Early Modern Europe" (6 June 2011)

Lecture 532 (6 June 2011)

Sep 09, 2015•1 hr 18 min

Buchtel, John - "Books by Rail" (10 January 2011)

Lecture 531.5 (10 January 2011). Full title "Books by Rail: The Baltimore & Ohio Employees’ Free Circulating Library"

Sep 09, 2015•53 min

Pattison, Todd - "19th-Century Bookbinding Mistakes" (21 July 2010)

Lecture 529 (21 July 2010)

Sep 09, 2015•1 hr 4 min

Russem, Michael - "Postage Stamps by Type Designers: A Primer" (12 July 2010)

Lecture 526 (12 July 2010)

Sep 09, 2015•47 min

Kristensen, John - "The Heavyweight Bout: Linotype vs Monotype"(7 June 2010)

Lecture 522 (7 June 2010). Full title "The Heavyweight Bout: Linotype vs Monotype. The Two Dominant Technologies of Hot-Metal Typesetting Square Off"

Sep 09, 2015•1 hr 10 min

Helfand, William - "The Company of Undertakers: Learning from a Print Collection" (4 November 2009)

Lecture 520 (4 November 2009)

Sep 09, 2015•54 min

Stoddard, Roger E. - "B. H. B. in Retrospect" (22 June 2009)

Lecture 516 (22 June 2009). Full title "B. H. B. in Retrospect: Bernard H. Breslauer, Bookseller of the World"

Sep 09, 2015•52 min

Enniss, Stephen - "‘Exit, pursued by a bear'" (8 June 2009)

Lecture 515 (8 June 2009). Full title "‘Exit, pursued by a bear': Reflections on Libraries, Wall Street, and Things that Last"

Sep 09, 2015•30 min

Storm van Leeuwen, Jan - "Bookbindings: Depicted and Real" (6 January 2009)

Lecture 514 (6 January 2009). Full title "Bookbindings: Depicted and Real, On Chemise and Girdle Bindings, and Other Special and Plain Bindings from the 15th to the 19th Centuries"

Sep 09, 2015•56 min

Kuhta, Richard - "The Future of Research and Rare Book Libraries" (21 July 2008)

Lecture 511 (21 July 2008). Full title "The Future of Research and Rare Book Libraries (and What It Will Take for Them to Have a Future)." The 2008 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Sep 09, 2015•53 min

Stinson, Timothy - "Counting Sheep: What DNA Can Reveal about Medieval Manuscripts and Texts"

Lecture 504 (15 October 2007)

Sep 09, 2015•53 min

Suarez, Michael F. - "‘Thou Shall Not Sit with Statisticians'" (12 June 2007)

Lecture 499 (12 June 2007). Full title "‘Thou Shall Not Sit with Statisticians': Bibliography, Book History, and the Difficulties of Counting to Three"

Sep 09, 2015•34 min

Green, James N. - "‘All Sorts of Printing at reasonable Rates'" (18 July 2007)

Lecture 500 (18 July 2007). Full title "‘All Sorts of Printing at reasonable Rates': Franklin’s Way to Wealth as a Job Printer." The 2007 Sol. M and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Sep 09, 2015•42 min

Wendorf, Richard - "The Scholar-Librarian" (27 July 2005)

Lecture 485 (27 July 2005). The 2005 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Sep 09, 2015•47 min

Pritchard, Margaret Beck - "Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America" (6 June 2005)

Lecture 480 (6 June 2005)

Sep 09, 2015•51 min

Carpenter, Kenneth E. - "Oaks from Acorns?" (26 July 2004)

Lecture 477 (26 July 2004). Full title "Oaks from Acorns? The Historical Turning Points of American Learned Libraries"

Sep 09, 2015•46 min

Foot, Mirjam - "‘Make Haste But Slowly';—Binders at Work" (12 July 2004)

Lecture 476 (12 July 2004). The 2004 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Sep 09, 2015•55 min

Barker, Nicolas - "The Origins of the Second-Hand Book Trade" (25 July 2001)

Lecture 453 (25 July 2001). Full title "The Origins of the Second-Hand Book Trade: The Market for Antiquarian Books in England between the Middle Ages and 1726." The 2001 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Sep 09, 2015•54 min