Since 1972, the Book Arts Press and Rare Book School have offered more than 600 public lectures on a wide variety of bibliographical topics.
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kailani Polzak, "Pacific Encounters in Print," The Kress Foundation Lecture, 31 July 2023
52:51
52:51
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
52:51
Kailani Polzak, "Pacific Encounters in Print," The Kress Foundation Lecture, 31 July 2023 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Craig Welsh, "The Typesetting & Designs of the Declaration of Independence Broadsides," 26 July 2023
59:06
59:06
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
59:06
Craig Welsh, "The Typesetting & Designs of the Declaration of Independence Broadsides," 26 July 2023 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Christy S. Coleman, "A Nexus of Learning—Museums and the Importance of Public History," 24 July 2023
1:03:56
1:03:56
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:03:56
Christy S. Coleman, "A Nexus of Learning—Museums and the Importance of Public History," 24 July 2023 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Jeffrey Makala, "Lives (& Afterlives) of Stereotype Plates," Karmiole Lecture, 12 July 2023
49:34
49:34
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
49:34
Jeffrey Makala, "Lives (& Afterlives) of Stereotype Plates," Karmiole Lecture, 12 July 2023 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Walter O. Evans, "Why Collect?" The 2023 Kenneth W. Rendell Lecture, 14 June 2023
58:24
58:24
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
58:24
Walter O. Evans, "Why Collect?" The 2023 Kenneth W. Rendell Lecture, 14 June 2023 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Barbara E. Mundy, "Books in the Contact Zone," Malkin Lecture, 12 June 2023
56:42
56:42
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
56:42
Barbara E. Mundy, "Books in the Contact Zone," Malkin Lecture, 12 June 2023 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Leah Price, "Reader=Inessential Worker: Book History After Lockdown," 7 June 2023
54:51
54:51
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
54:51
Leah Price, "Reader=Inessential Worker: Book History After Lockdown," 7 June 2023 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
S. Max Edelson, "The Surveyor's Eye," NEH-SHARP Lecture, 5 June 2023
57:20
57:20
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
57:20
S. Max Edelson, "The Surveyor's Eye," NEH-SHARP Lecture, 5 June 2023 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kinniburgh, Mary Catherine - "Surface and Relief in Literary Archives" - SoFCB, 10 Oct 2023
54:10
54:10
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
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 ma…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Rezek, Joseph - "Ideologies of the Codex in Hakluyt and Smith" - NEH-SHARP Lecture, 1 Aug 2022
56:00
56:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
56:00
Rezek, Joseph - "Ideologies of the Codex in Hakluyt and Smith" - NEH-SHARP Lecture, 1 Aug 2022 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Marcus, Hannah - "Characterizing the Elderly across Formats in Early Modern Italy" - 27 July 2022
52:11
52:11
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
52:11
Marcus, Hannah - "Characterizing the Elderly across Formats in Early Modern Italy" - 27 July 2022 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
McNamee, Megan - "Significance of a Concertina-Fold Almanac" - Kress Lecture - 25 July 2022
53:27
53:27
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
53:27
McNamee, Megan - "Significance of a Concertina-Fold Almanac" - Kress Lecture - 25 July 2022 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Roldán Vera, Eugenia - "Book Trade in the Anglo-Iberian Atlantic" - Karmiole Lecture - 13 July 22
59:29
59:29
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
59:29
Roldán Vera, Eugenia - "Book Trade in the Anglo-Iberian Atlantic" - Karmiole Lecture - 13 July 22 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
White, Eric - "A History of the Gutenberg Bible (continued)" - Malkin Lecture, 11 July 2022
56:08
56:08
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
56:08
White, Eric - "A History of the Gutenberg Bible (continued)" - Malkin Lecture, 11 July 2022 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Wisecup, Kelly - "Making and Reading Indigenous Archives" NEH-GBHI - 15 June 2022
55:26
55:26
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
55:26
Wisecup, Kelly - "Making and Reading Indigenous Archives" NEH-GBHI - 15 June 2022 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Rogers, Beverly - "Victorian Connections: Books and Stories" Rendell Lecture - 13 June 2022
47:50
47:50
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
47:50
Rogers, Beverly - "Victorian Connections: Books and Stories" Rendell Lecture - 13 June 2022 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Wong, Dorothy - “Making Merit: East Asian Buddhist Material Culture” NEH-GBHI Lecture - 6 June 2022
57:23
57:23
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
57:23
Wong, Dorothy - “Making Merit: East Asian Buddhist Material Culture” NEH-GBHI Lecture - 6 June 2022 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Rustow, Marina - “Lost Archives and Paper Reuse in the Medieval Islamic World” - 20 July 2021
59:29
59:29
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
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 UniversityA Rare Book School lecture, 20 July 2021By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Arista, Noelani - “He Lau Nā Moʻolelo” - 29 June 2021
1:04:19
1:04:19
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:04:19
“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 UniversityA Rare Book School lecture29 June 2021By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Winship - Subscription Publishing in America over Three Centuries - Karmiole Lecture, 13 July 2021
1:14:34
1:14:34
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:14:34
"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 2021By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Goldsby and McGill - "What is 'Black' about Black Bibliography?" - 3 August 2021
1:08:00
1:08:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:08:00
Goldsby and McGill - "What is 'Black' about Black Bibliography?" - 3 August 2021 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Yale, Elizabeth - "Paper-Keeping: Women, Family, Knowledge Work..." - 27 July 2021
58:22
58:22
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
58:22
Yale, Elizabeth - "Paper-Keeping: Women, Family, Knowledge Work..." - 27 July 2021 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Hidalgo, Alex - "The Book as Archive" - 15 June 2021
58:39
58:39
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
58:39
Hidalgo, Alex - "The Book as Archive" - 15 June 2021 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Robb, Megan - "Print and the Urdu Public" - 23 July 2020
39:54
39:54
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
39:54
Robb, Megan - "Print and the Urdu Public" - 23 July 2020 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Nishikawa, Kinohi – "From Poet to Publisher: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks by Design" - 16 July 2020
58:02
58:02
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
58:02
Nishikawa, Kinohi – "From Poet to Publisher: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks by Design" - 16 July 2020 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ramachandran, Ayesha – "An Alternative History of the Atlas" - 2 July 2020
59:51
59:51
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
59:51
Ramachandran, Ayesha – "An Alternative History of the Atlas" - 2 July 2020 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Trettien, Whitney - "A Hornbook for Digital Book History" - 18 June 2020
59:41
59:41
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
59:41
Trettien, Whitney - "A Hornbook for Digital Book History" - 18 June 2020 by Rare Book School LecturesBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Bychowski, Brenna - "Adventures in Cataloging Popular Literature" - 11 June 2020
59:02
59:02
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
59:02
Full title: "Superheroes and Shocking Affairs, or, Adventures in Cataloging Popular Literature"By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
"Protest on the Page: Print as an Affordance for Revolutionary Spirits" (RBS-Mellon Lecture)
1:13:32
1:13:32
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:13:32
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.By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
"The Never-ending Popularity of Njáls Saga: The Manuscript Evidence" (RBS-Mellon Lecture)
1:01:31
1:01:31
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:01:31
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.By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
"The Futures of Handwriting" (SoFCB Conference) - 12 April 2019
1:13:18
1:13:18
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:13:18
This recording is of conference Session 2:Towards a Critical Bibliography of the HandwrittenChair: Dale Billingsley, University of Louisville “Messy Writings: Unraveling Korean Manuscript Books”Hwisang Cho, Emory University “Citational and Citationless: Reading the Development of Indian YunaniMedicine in the Margins of Arabic and Persian Manuscript…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
"Muslims & Manuscripts" (SoFCB Program) - 23 April 2019
1:39:43
1:39:43
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:39:43
Featuring "The Message & the Messengers: Artistic Illustrations of the Qur’an and the Prophets in Islamic Manuscripts"Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building, Princeton UniversityDr. Tehseen Thaver, Assistant Professor of Religion, Princeton UniversityDr. Christiane Gruber, Professor and Associate Chair, History of Art, University of MichiganSee ht…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Stallybrass, Peter - "Thrift, Horatio, Thrift: Recycling Woodcuts and the Printing of Books"
39:10
39:10
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
39:10
Lecture 513 (30 July 2008)By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Krupp, Andrea - "Nineteenth-Century Books Up Close: Bookcloth Grain Patterns"
46:34
46:34
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
46:34
Lecture 512 (28 July 2008)By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Johnson, Russell - "More Baby Books than You Can Shake a Rattle At" (9 July 2008)
39:41
39:41
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
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"By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Hudson, Alice - "Alice’s Top Ten List: Rare Maps" (7 July 2008)
41:11
41:11
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
41:11
Lecture 509 (7 July 2008)Full title: "Alice’s Top Ten List: Rare Maps: Keeping Them Under Control, Letting Them Go Public"By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Stone, Sumner - "Warp & Woof: History, Craft, Concept and Culture in Early Digital Type Design"
44:56
44:56
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
44:56
Lecture 508 (18 June 2008)By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Noel, William - "Writing Off Archimedes: Ten Years of Work on the Archimedes Palimpsest"
54:22
54:22
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
54:22
Lecture 507 (16 June 2008)By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Beare, Steve - "John Feely Meets Samuel Dodd" (9 June 2008)
49:33
49:33
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
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"By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kuhta. Richard - "The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608: Making It a Book Again"
42:04
42:04
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
42:04
Lecture 503 (30 July 2007)By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Immel, Andrea - "Scissors, Prints and Paste" (23 July 2007)
53:06
53:06
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
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"By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Willison, Ian - "Brave New World or Mere Anarchy?"
55:13
55:13
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
55:13
Lecture 501 (18 July 2007)Full title: "Brave New World or Mere Anarchy? Reflections on the Revolution in National Research Librarianship"By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Prochaska, Alice - "Cultural Restitution: Dilemmas and Cases in Europe and North America"
42:03
42:03
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
42:03
Lecture 498 (11 June 2007)By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Beare, Steve - "The Pattern Book of Samuel Dodd, 19th-Century New Jersey Engraver of Binding Stamps"
45:53
45:53
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
45:53
Lecture 497 (4 June 2007)Full title: "The Pattern Book of Samuel Dodd, 19th-Century New Jersey Engraver of Binding Stamps: A Remarkable Discovery"By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Belanger, Terry - "The State of the Bibliographical Nation: 2006" (14 December 2006)
34:08
34:08
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
34:08
Lecture 492 (14 December 2006)The 2006 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin LectureBy Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Dupont, Christian - "‘Take Things Always by Their Smooth Handle’" (24 July 2006)
36:29
36:29
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
36:29
Lecture 493 (24 July 2006)Full title: "‘Take Things Always by Their Smooth Handle,’ and Other Advices for a New Director"By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Golden, Vincent - "Chasing the Dumpster: Collecting American Newspapers" (17 July 2006)
32:00
32:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
32:00
Lecture 492 (17 July 2006)By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Heritage, Barbara - "Eyre's Heirs" (12 June 2006)
56:21
56:21
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
56:21
Lecture 491 (12 June 2006)By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Winship, Michael - "Pitching Theoretical Tents" (5 June 2006)
38:34
38:34
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
38:34
Lecture 489 (5 June 2006)Full title: "Pitching Theoretical Tents: A Lecture Celebrating RBS’s Acquisition of Its 100th Copy of John Greenleaf Whittier’s 'Tent on the Beach' (1867)"By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Buchtel, John - "'Jane Eyre' Goes to the Rotunda: The Biography of a Classic Novel"
44:22
44:22
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
44:22
Lecture 488 (6 March 2006)By Rare Book School Lectures
…
continue reading