Rare Book School Lectures

Rare Book School

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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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Dunlap, Ellen - "Wheel of Fortune" (15 July 1986) 22.01.2018 43:40

Lecture 214 (15 July 1986) Full title: "Wheel of Fortune; or, Strategic Planning in a Small Research Library and a Popular TV Game Show Compared"

Clark, Kathryn and Howard - "Papermakers as Book Designers: Fifteen Years at Twinrocker" 19.01.2018 34:23

Lecture 213 (9 July 1986)

Barlow, William P. - "The Uses of Antiquarian Catalogs" (7 July 1986) 19.01.2018 44:37

Lecture 212 (7 July 1986)

Briem, Gunnlauger SE - "Forces for Change in Letterform" (3 March 1986) 19.01.2018 53:07

Lecture 208 (3 March 1986)

Kidd, John - "Taking Issue with the New 'Ulysses'" (3 February 1986) 19.01.2018 1:05:44

Lecture 206 (3 February 1986)

Nebenzahl, Kenneth - "In Search of the Green Stick: Confessions of a Book Monger" (19 November 1985) 19.01.2018 52:49

Lecture 201 (19 November 1985) Note: The audio on this one is a little wobbly in places, and not in stereo for a stretch in the middle.

Etherington, Don -"The Development of Conservation and Bookbinding at the HRC" 18.01.2018 52:24

Lecture 200 (18 November 1985). Full title: "The Development of Conservation and Bookbinding at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center" Note: The audio for the Q&A portion is very quiet.

Staley, Thomas F. - "Keepers, Collectors and Curators: A Near Turn of the Century View" 18.01.2018 37:28

Lecture 283 (27 July 1989)

Allen, Greer - "The History of the University of Chicago Press - A Personal View" (19 July 1999) 17.01.2018 55:11

Lecture 425 (19 July 1999)

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Short Presentations 6 20.11.2017 1:35:17

Short Presentations 6: The Book and Its Time: Developing a ‘Period Eye’ Session Organizer: Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire (Winterthur Museum) Moderator: Catharine Dann Roeber (Assistant Professor of Decorative Arts and Material Culture at the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library) Gabriella Angeloni (University of South Carolina) & Molly Bruce Patterson (Newport Historical Society) “William Ellery as...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Short Presentations 5 20.11.2017 1:25:29

Short Presentations 5: Dynamics of Digital Collections Session Organizer: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University) & Zachary Hines (The University of Texas at Austin) Moderator: Alex Gil (Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Humanities and History Division, Columbia University Libraries) Lindsay DiCuirci (University of Maryland) & Molly Hardy (American Antiquarian Society) “Serials Cataloging and A...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Short Presentations 4 20.11.2017 1:30:32

Short Presentations 4: Teaching Global Book History Session Organizers: Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University) & Ben Nourse (University of Denver) Moderator: Joseph Howley (Associate Professor of Classics, Columbia University) Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University) “Stone, Wood, Copper, Lead: The Multimedial Adventures of the Xi’an Nestorian Stele in the 17th-Century World” Florence C. Hsia & Robin...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Short Presentations 3 20.11.2017 1:31:02

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.o...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Short Presentations 2 20.11.2017 1:30:51

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 (In...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Short Presentations 1 20.11.2017 1:34:44

Short Presentations 1: Tools for Data Analysis & Visualization Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) Moderator: Meredith L. McGill (Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University) Kathryn Desplanque (Duke University) “Accountable Note-Taking: Qualitative Data Analysis Software as an Augmented Personal Research Tool” Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni (University of Oxford; The B...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Roundtable 6 20.11.2017 1:31:27

Roundtable 6: Ethics & Responsibility in the Bibliosphere Session Organizer: Claire Eager (University of Virginia) Moderator: Katherine Reagan (Assistant Director for Collections & Ernest L. Stern Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, Cornell University) Jeremy Dibbell (Rare Book School) “Announcing Major Acquisitions: A Responsibility” Eliza Gilligan (University of Virginia) “Through the Fold: Cho...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Roundtable 5 20.11.2017 1:28:58

Roundtable 5: Materiality as a Sustainable Humanistic Discourse Session Organizers: Dahlia Porter (University of Glasgow) & Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa) Moderator: Heather Wolfe (Curator of Manuscripts, Folger Shakespeare Library) Erika Mary Boeckeler (Northeastern University) “The Linguistic Biases of Descriptive Bibliography” Raina Joines (University of North Texas) “The Scholar’s Art: Ma...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Roundtable 4 20.11.2017 1:27:32

Roundtable 4: Digitization, Representation & Access Session Organizers: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University) & Sonia Hazard (Franklin & Marshall College) Moderator: Rebecca Hankins (Associate Professor and Archivist/Librarian of Africana Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies, Texas A&M University) Dan Blim (Denison University) “The Complete Package: Reissuing Albums, Reshaping Histories” Ele...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Roundtable 3 20.11.2017 1:32:39

Roundtable 3: Authorship Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York) & Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Moderator: Matt Cohen (Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Katy Chiles (University of Tennessee) “Alternative Black Authorship” Molly Des Jardin (University of Pennsylvania) “Rethinking the Oeuvre: Modern Japanese Periodicals as Corp...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Roundtable 2 20.11.2017 1:27:49

Roundtable 2: Performance, Textuality & Orality Session Organizer: Glenda Goodman (University of Pennsylvania) Moderator: Kate van Orden (Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music, Harvard University) Bethany Cencer (Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam) “Imagining Aurality in Smart’s Vocal Pocket Companion” Andrew Ferguson (University of Virginia) “Catching Them All: Vid...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Pop-Up Session 1 (Q&A only) 20.11.2017 29:31

Pop-Up Session 1: Critical Bibliography and Social Justice (Roundtable) Please note: due to a technical difficulty (the recorder got unplugged, we only have audio of the question and answer session for this panel) Organizer & Moderator: Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Melissa Adler (Western University) Rhae Lynn Barnes (University of Southern California; Princeton University) Alex G...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 12 20.11.2017 1:35:17

Paper Session 12: Reappraising the Redundant: The Value of Copies in the Study of Textual Artifacts Session Organizer: Katherine Mintie (DePauw University) Moderator: David Whitesell (Curator, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia) Kristin Jensen (University of Virginia) “Discovering Unique Specimens in Print Collections: Lessons from Book Traces @ UVA” Jim K...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 11 20.11.2017 1:26:54

Paper Session 11: Comparative Histories of the Book Session Organizers: Megan McNamee (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts) & Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Moderator: Will Noel (Director of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts and Director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania) Melissa Adler (Wester...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 10 20.11.2017 1:31:15

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...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 9 20.11.2017 1:35:58

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 Lan...