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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Jul 23, 2026

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Episodes

"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...

"Muslims & Manuscripts" (SoFCB Program) - 23 April 2019 24.10.2019

Featuring "The Message & the Messengers: Artistic Illustrations of the Qur’an and the Prophets in Islamic Manuscripts" Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building, Princeton University Dr. Tehseen Thaver, Assistant Professor of Religion, Princeton University Dr. Christiane Gruber, Professor and Associate Chair, History of Art, University of Michigan See https://rarebookschool.org/all-programs/events/m...

Stallybrass, Peter - "Thrift, Horatio, Thrift: Recycling Woodcuts and the Printing of Books" 17.10.2019

Lecture 513 (30 July 2008)

Krupp, Andrea - "Nineteenth-Century Books Up Close: Bookcloth Grain Patterns" 17.10.2019

Lecture 512 (28 July 2008)

Johnson, Russell - "More Baby Books than You Can Shake a Rattle At" (9 July 2008) 17.10.2019

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"

Hudson, Alice - "Alice’s Top Ten List: Rare Maps" (7 July 2008) 17.10.2019

Lecture 509 (7 July 2008) Full title: "Alice’s Top Ten List: Rare Maps: Keeping Them Under Control, Letting Them Go Public"

Stone, Sumner - "Warp & Woof: History, Craft, Concept and Culture in Early Digital Type Design" 17.10.2019

Lecture 508 (18 June 2008)

Noel, William - "Writing Off Archimedes: Ten Years of Work on the Archimedes Palimpsest" 17.10.2019

Lecture 507 (16 June 2008)

Beare, Steve - "John Feely Meets Samuel Dodd" (9 June 2008) 17.10.2019

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"

Kuhta. Richard - "The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608: Making It a Book Again" 16.10.2019

Lecture 503 (30 July 2007)

Immel, Andrea - "Scissors, Prints and Paste" (23 July 2007) 16.10.2019

Lecture 502 (23 July 2007) Full title: "Scissors, Prints and Paste: Frederick and Amelia Lock Make a Scrapbook at Norbury Park in 1791"

Willison, Ian - "Brave New World or Mere Anarchy?" 16.10.2019

Lecture 501 (18 July 2007) Full title: "Brave New World or Mere Anarchy? Reflections on the Revolution in National Research Librarianship"

Prochaska, Alice - "Cultural Restitution: Dilemmas and Cases in Europe and North America" 16.10.2019

Lecture 498 (11 June 2007)

Beare, Steve - "The Pattern Book of Samuel Dodd, 19th-Century New Jersey Engraver of Binding Stamps" 16.10.2019

Lecture 497 (4 June 2007) Full title: "The Pattern Book of Samuel Dodd, 19th-Century New Jersey Engraver of Binding Stamps: A Remarkable Discovery"

Belanger, Terry - "The State of the Bibliographical Nation: 2006" (14 December 2006) 16.10.2019

Lecture 492 (14 December 2006) The 2006 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Dupont, Christian - "‘Take Things Always by Their Smooth Handle’" (24 July 2006) 16.10.2019

Lecture 493 (24 July 2006) Full title: "‘Take Things Always by Their Smooth Handle,’ and Other Advices for a New Director"

Golden, Vincent - "Chasing the Dumpster: Collecting American Newspapers" (17 July 2006) 16.10.2019

Lecture 492 (17 July 2006)

Heritage, Barbara - "Eyre's Heirs" (12 June 2006) 16.10.2019

Lecture 491 (12 June 2006)

Winship, Michael - "Pitching Theoretical Tents" (5 June 2006) 16.10.2019

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)"

Buchtel, John - "'Jane Eyre' Goes to the Rotunda: The Biography of a Classic Novel" 16.10.2019

Lecture 488 (6 March 2006)

Chase, Karen - "Who’s/Whose Jane Eyre?" (9 December 2005) 15.10.2019

Lecture 486 (9 December 2005)

Whitesell, David - "Quixotic Typography" (18 July 2005) 15.10.2019

Lecture 484 (18 July 2005) Full title: "Quixotic Typography: Composing Maps and Illustrations Using Special Letterpress Fonts"

Siegel, Jane Rodgers - "Teaching Penmanship in Ninteenth-Century America: A Comedy" 15.10.2019

Lecture 483 (11 July 2005)

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