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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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Dreyfus, John - "A Spectacular View of the Advent of Printing" (12 October 1987)

Lecture 247 (12 October 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Aug 13, 2019•56 min

Rendell, Kenneth W. - "Other People’s Mail" (5 October 1987)

Lecture 246 (5 October 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Aug 13, 2019•51 min

Nord, David P. - "Teleology and News: The Religious Roots of American Journalism, 1630–1730"

Lecture 245 (28 September 1987)

Aug 13, 2019•52 min

Gatch, Milton McC. - "Signs of Ownership in Fragment Collections: On the Trail of John Bagford"

Lecture 242 (23 July 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Aug 13, 2019•49 min

Gallup, Donald - "Getting the 'Dial' Papers Together at Yale" (21 July 1987)

Lecture 241 (21 July 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.

Aug 13, 2019•48 min

Spawn, Willman - "Convention into Style: Tracing Bookbinders" (14 July 1987)

Lecture 240 (14 July 1987)

Aug 13, 2019•44 min

Stoddard, Roger - "'Fidèle à Nos Habitudes Laborieuses': Four Variations on a Theme by J.-C. Brunet"

Lecture 139 (12 December 1983)

Aug 13, 2019•42 min

Ghosh, Anindita - "Cheap and Bad Books" (29 July 2019)

Lecture 637 (29 July 2019) Full title: "Cheap and Bad Books: A Social History of Printing and Publishing in Colonial India" An NEH-GBHI Lecture

Jul 30, 2019•48 min

Mullaney, Thomas S. - "Revolutionary Spirits" (22 July 2019)

Lecture 636 (22 July 2019) Full title: "Revolutionary Spirits: Typescript Books, DIY Zines, and Other Forms of Unsanctioned Publishing in Maoist and Post-Mao China" An NEH-GBHI Lecture

Jul 26, 2019•56 min

Karmiole, Kenneth - "Shakespeare in Virginia" (13 July 2019)

Lecture 635 (13 July 2019) Delivered after the July 2019 meeting of the RBS Board of Directors.

Jul 26, 2019•25 min

O'Donnell, Heather & Rebecca Romney - "The Right and Wrong Ways to Collect"

Lecture 634 (10 July 2019) The 2019 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Jul 11, 2019•59 min

Whitted, Qiana - "Desegregating Comics: Debating Race in Early American Comic Books"

Lecture 633 (8 July 2019) Apologies for the quiet audio on this lecture; you may need to turn up the volume higher than usual.

Jul 11, 2019•55 min

Blassingame, Tia - "Despite Hostile Terrain" (10 June 2019)

Lecture 631 (10 June 2019) Full title: "Despite Hostile Terrain: Witness to Racism in the Artists’ Books of Primrose Press"

Jun 20, 2019•53 min

Chen, Jack - "Information Systems As/In Chinese Literary History" (3 June 2019)

Lecture 629 (3 June 2019)

Jun 20, 2019•55 min

Curtis, Neal - "Forgery and the Rise of Bibliographical Techniques of Detection"

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.

May 14, 2019•26 min

Archives, Memory & Identity Symposium: Welcome & Session 1 ("Access")

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, Univers...

Sep 17, 2018•1 hr 38 min

Archives, Memory & Identity Symposium: Session 2 ("Storytelling & Memory")

Session 2: Storytelling & Memory — 11:15 a.m.–12:45 p.m. Panelists: “Wakanda Forever: Three Opportunities for Legacy Making” – Aaisha Haykal (Manager of Archival Services, Avery Research Center, College of Charleston) “Preservation: The HistoryMakers Story” – Julieanna Richardson (Founder & Executive Director, The HistoryMakers) “Moving Memorials” – María Verónica San Martín (Artist, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program & Booklyn, Inc.) Moderator Holly Robertson (Exhibitions Coor...

Sep 17, 2018•1 hr 22 min

Archives, Memory & Identity Symposium: Session 3 ("Community Archives & Outreach")

Session 3: Community Archives & Outreach — 1:45–3:15 p.m. Panelists: “The Missing Stories: How Stories Become Lost and How They Can Be Recovered” – Samip Mallick (Executive Director, South Asian American Digital Archive) “Archiving Counter-Culture: Problems and Solutions” – Johan Kugelberg (Owner and Curator, Boo-Hooray gallery) “Charlottesville: Our Streets” – Brian Wimer (Director, Amoeba Films) Moderator: Krystal Appiah (Instruction Librarian, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections ...

Sep 17, 2018•1 hr 27 min

Archives, Memory & Identity Symposium: Session 4 (Roundtable)

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, Digi...

Sep 17, 2018•1 hr 18 min

Reese, William S. - "Some Americana Booksellers: Peter Decker, the Eberstadts, and Wright Howes"

Lecture 318 (11 July 1991)

Aug 09, 2018•39 min

Cassidy, Brian - "TIGER TIGER: Notes Toward a Bibliography of Duplication"

Lecture 627 (1 August 2018)

Aug 09, 2018•1 hr 3 min

Baker, Cathleen A. - "New Research into John Baskerville’s Virgil" (30 July 2018)

Lecture 626 (30 July 2018). The 2018 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture Full title: "New Research into John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757): Its Wove Paper and Typographical Variants"

Aug 09, 2018•51 min

Davis, Julie Nelson - "Presenting the Yoshiwara in Monochrome and Full Color"

Lecture 625 (25 July 2018) Full title: "Presenting the Yoshiwara in Monochrome and Full Color: The Annual Events of the ‘Azure Towers,’ Illustrated"

Aug 09, 2018•54 min

Edney, Matthew H. - "The Materiality of Maps" (23 July 2018)

Lecture 624 (23 July 2018)

Aug 09, 2018•1 hr 1 min

Ogden, Amy - "A Manuscript for Living and Dying Well" (10 July 2018)

Lecture 623 (10 July 2018)

Aug 09, 2018•46 min

Roundtable: "Women In A Golden Age of Artists' Books" (22 May 2018)

This roundtable discussion included the following featured speakers: Cynthia Marsh, Professor of Art, Founder of the Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection, Austin Peay State University (Clarksville, TN); Rebecca Michaels, Associate Professor of Photography, Tyler School of Art (Philadelphia, PA); Patty Smith, artist, printmaker, book artist, and professor of Fine Arts, Printmaking at The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA). Moderated by Tony White, the Florence and Herbert Irving Asso...

Jun 12, 2018•1 hr 10 min

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