Rare Book School Lectures

Rare Book School

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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Rare Book School Lectures

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rarebookschool.org

Latest episode

Jun 16, 2026

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Episodes

France, Fenella - "Revealing Within: Non-Invasive Spectral Imaging of Historic Materials" 09.09.2015

Lecture 569 (16 June 2014)

Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. - "INVALID.KEYSTROKE: John Updike and the Bibliography of Word Processing" 09.09.2015

Lecture 568 (11 June 2014)

Noel, Will - "Global Digital Libraries: Some Principles and an Idea" (31 October 2013) 09.09.2015

Lecture 566 (31 October 2013)

Clemons, G. Scott - "How Aldus Manutius Saved Western Civilization" (31 July 2013) 09.09.2015

Lecture 565 (31 July 2013)

Geiger, Brian - "Transforming the English Short Title Catalogue into a 21st-Century Research Tool" 09.09.2015

Lecture 564 (29 July 2013)

Herman, Garrett - "Collecting Darwin: A Journey through My World of Evolution" (24 July 2013) 09.09.2015

Lecture 563 (24 July 2013)

Gitelman, Lisa - "Non-Codex for Good and By Design" (10 July 2013) 09.09.2015

Lecture 561 (10 July 2013)

Stetz, Margaret - "John S. Goodall and the Politics of British Picture Books" (8 July 2013) 09.09.2015

Lecture 560 (8 July 2013)

McGann, Jerome J. - "Memory Now" (19 June 2013) 09.09.2015

Lecture 559 (19 June 2013). The 2013 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Mintz, Sharon - "Envisioning Esther: The Art and History of Illustrated Esther Scrolls" 09.09.2015

Lecture 557 (17 June 2013)

Karian, Stephen - "Bibliography in the Digital Age" (10 June 2013) 09.09.2015

Lecture 555 (10 June 2013)

Greenspan, Ezra - "The Biographer and the Mysteries of the Archive: The Case of William Wells Brown" 09.09.2015

Lecture 553 (25 July 2012)

Carter, Matthew - "Genuine Imitations" (23 July 2012) 09.09.2015

Lecture 552 (23 July 2012). The 2012 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Gosin, Sue - "Rock, Paper, Scissors: The Revival of Hand Papermaking in the 20th & 21st Centuries" 09.09.2015

Lecture 551 (18 July 2012)

Bennett, Stuart - "Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles, 1660–1800" (16 July 2012) 09.09.2015

Lecture 550 (16 July 2012)

Brown, Matthew P. - "Bell’s Liberties" (4 July 2012) 09.09.2015

Lecture 549 (4 July 2012)

Kugelberg, Johan - "Documenting Counter-Culture" (2 July 2012) 09.09.2015

Lecture 548 (2 July 2012). Full title "Documenting Counter-Culture: Problems and Solutions in the Preservation of Unpopular Historical Narratives"

Eze, Anne Marie - "A Most Fascinating and Dangerous Pursuit" (13 June 2012) 09.09.2015

Lecture 547 (13 June 2012). Full title "A Most Fascinating and Dangerous Pursuit: Rare Books at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum"

Hirschland, Ed - "A Funhouse Mirror—Reflecting on Books, Collecting and Chicago History" 09.09.2015

Lecture 546 (11 June 2012)

Price, Leah - "Force-Reading: Captive Audiences in 19th-Century Britain" (27 July 2011) 09.09.2015

Lecture 541 (27 July 2011)

Belanger, Terry - "Parallel Lines Never Meet" (25 July 2011) 09.09.2015

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

Kiffer, Selby - "Printing the Declaration of Independence—and Selling It" (4 July 2011) 09.09.2015

Lecture 536 (4 July 2011)

Jackson, Robert H. - "Victorian Serials: Essential Parts of the C19 Imagination" (15 June 2011) 09.09.2015

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

Blair, Ann - "Managing Information in Manuscript and in Print in Early Modern Europe" (6 June 2011) 09.09.2015

Lecture 532 (6 June 2011)

Buchtel, John - "Books by Rail" (10 January 2011) 09.09.2015

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

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