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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Jun 16, 2026

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Episodes

Leah Price, "Reader=Inessential Worker: Book History After Lockdown," 7 June 2023 13.11.2023

Leah Price, "Reader=Inessential Worker: Book History After Lockdown," 7 June 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures

S. Max Edelson, "The Surveyor's Eye," NEH-SHARP Lecture, 5 June 2023 13.11.2023

S. Max Edelson, "The Surveyor's Eye," NEH-SHARP Lecture, 5 June 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures

Kinniburgh, Mary Catherine - "Surface and Relief in Literary Archives" - SoFCB, 10 Oct 2023 26.10.2023

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 making sense of high volume in literary collections....

Rezek, Joseph - "Ideologies of the Codex in Hakluyt and Smith" - NEH-SHARP Lecture, 1 Aug 2022 16.08.2022

Rezek, Joseph - "Ideologies of the Codex in Hakluyt and Smith" - NEH-SHARP Lecture, 1 Aug 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

Marcus, Hannah - "Characterizing the Elderly across Formats in Early Modern Italy" - 27 July 2022 05.08.2022

Marcus, Hannah - "Characterizing the Elderly across Formats in Early Modern Italy" - 27 July 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

McNamee, Megan - "Significance of a Concertina-Fold Almanac" - Kress Lecture - 25 July 2022 26.07.2022

McNamee, Megan - "Significance of a Concertina-Fold Almanac" - Kress Lecture - 25 July 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

Roldán Vera, Eugenia - "Book Trade in the Anglo-Iberian Atlantic" - Karmiole Lecture - 13 July 22 21.07.2022

Roldán Vera, Eugenia - "Book Trade in the Anglo-Iberian Atlantic" - Karmiole Lecture - 13 July 22 by Rare Book School Lectures

White, Eric - "A History of the Gutenberg Bible (continued)" - Malkin Lecture, 11 July 2022 21.07.2022

White, Eric - "A History of the Gutenberg Bible (continued)" - Malkin Lecture, 11 July 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

Wisecup, Kelly - "Making and Reading Indigenous Archives" NEH-GBHI - 15 June 2022 23.06.2022

Wisecup, Kelly - "Making and Reading Indigenous Archives" NEH-GBHI - 15 June 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

Rogers, Beverly - "Victorian Connections: Books and Stories" Rendell Lecture - 13 June 2022 22.06.2022

Rogers, Beverly - "Victorian Connections: Books and Stories" Rendell Lecture - 13 June 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

Wong, Dorothy - “Making Merit: East Asian Buddhist Material Culture” NEH-GBHI Lecture - 6 June 2022 08.06.2022

Wong, Dorothy - “Making Merit: East Asian Buddhist Material Culture” NEH-GBHI Lecture - 6 June 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures

Rustow, Marina - “Lost Archives and Paper Reuse in the Medieval Islamic World” - 20 July 2021 03.10.2021

“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 University A Rare Book School lecture, 20 July 2021

Arista, Noelani - “He Lau Nā Moʻolelo” - 29 June 2021 01.10.2021

“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 University A Rare Book School lecture29 June 2021

Winship - Subscription Publishing in America over Three Centuries - Karmiole Lecture, 13 July 2021 12.08.2021

"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 2021

Goldsby and McGill - "What is 'Black' about Black Bibliography?" - 3 August 2021 05.08.2021

Goldsby and McGill - "What is 'Black' about Black Bibliography?" - 3 August 2021 by Rare Book School Lectures

Yale, Elizabeth - "Paper-Keeping: Women, Family, Knowledge Work..." - 27 July 2021 29.07.2021

Yale, Elizabeth - "Paper-Keeping: Women, Family, Knowledge Work..." - 27 July 2021 by Rare Book School Lectures

Hidalgo, Alex - "The Book as Archive" - 15 June 2021 18.06.2021

Hidalgo, Alex - "The Book as Archive" - 15 June 2021 by Rare Book School Lectures

Robb, Megan - "Print and the Urdu Public" - 23 July 2020 10.09.2020

Robb, Megan - "Print and the Urdu Public" - 23 July 2020 by Rare Book School Lectures

Nishikawa, Kinohi – "From Poet to Publisher: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks by Design" - 16 July 2020 31.07.2020

Nishikawa, Kinohi – "From Poet to Publisher: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks by Design" - 16 July 2020 by Rare Book School Lectures

Ramachandran, Ayesha – "An Alternative History of the Atlas" - 2 July 2020 14.07.2020

Ramachandran, Ayesha – "An Alternative History of the Atlas" - 2 July 2020 by Rare Book School Lectures

Trettien, Whitney - "A Hornbook for Digital Book History" - 18 June 2020 29.06.2020

Trettien, Whitney - "A Hornbook for Digital Book History" - 18 June 2020 by Rare Book School Lectures

Bychowski, Brenna - "Adventures in Cataloging Popular Literature" - 11 June 2020 25.06.2020

Full title: "Superheroes and Shocking Affairs, or, Adventures in Cataloging Popular Literature"

"Protest on the Page: Print as an Affordance for Revolutionary Spirits" (RBS-Mellon Lecture) 24.10.2019

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.

"The Never-ending Popularity of Njáls Saga: The Manuscript Evidence" (RBS-Mellon Lecture) 24.10.2019

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.

"The Futures of Handwriting" (SoFCB Conference) - 12 April 2019 24.10.2019

This recording is of conference Session 2: Towards a Critical Bibliography of the Handwritten Chair: Dale Billingsley, University of Louisville “Messy Writings: Unraveling Korean Manuscript Books” Hwisang Cho, Emory University “Citational and Citationless: Reading the Development of Indian Yunani Medicine in the Margins of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts” Deborah Schlein, Princeton University “Blan...

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