Rare Book School
428 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratingsSince 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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Kailani Polzak, "Pacific Encounters in Print," The Kress Foundation Lecture, 31 July 2023
November 13, 2023 19:14 - 52 minutes - 98.1 MBKailani Polzak, "Pacific Encounters in Print," The Kress Foundation Lecture, 31 July 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
Craig Welsh, "The Typesetting & Designs of the Declaration of Independence Broadsides," 26 July 2023
November 13, 2023 19:11 - 59 minutes - 109 MBCraig Welsh, "The Typesetting & Designs of the Declaration of Independence Broadsides," 26 July 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
Christy S. Coleman, "A Nexus of Learning—Museums and the Importance of Public History," 24 July 2023
November 13, 2023 19:08 - 1 hour - 119 MBChristy S. Coleman, "A Nexus of Learning—Museums and the Importance of Public History," 24 July 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
Jeffrey Makala, "Lives (& Afterlives) of Stereotype Plates," Karmiole Lecture, 12 July 2023
November 13, 2023 19:04 - 49 minutes - 92.3 MBJeffrey Makala, "Lives (& Afterlives) of Stereotype Plates," Karmiole Lecture, 12 July 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
Walter O. Evans, "Why Collect?" The 2023 Kenneth W. Rendell Lecture, 14 June 2023
November 13, 2023 18:59 - 58 minutes - 108 MBWalter O. Evans, "Why Collect?" The 2023 Kenneth W. Rendell Lecture, 14 June 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
Barbara E. Mundy, "Books in the Contact Zone," Malkin Lecture, 12 June 2023
November 13, 2023 18:54 - 56 minutes - 105 MBBarbara E. Mundy, "Books in the Contact Zone," Malkin Lecture, 12 June 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
Leah Price, "Reader=Inessential Worker: Book History After Lockdown," 7 June 2023
November 13, 2023 18:50 - 54 minutes - 101 MBLeah 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
November 13, 2023 18:45 - 57 minutes - 105 MBS. 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
October 26, 2023 14:08 - 54 minutes - 124 MBMary 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. In this talk, Kinniburgh discusses her ongoing series "Messy Archivist," which explores the i...
Rezek, Joseph - "Ideologies of the Codex in Hakluyt and Smith" - NEH-SHARP Lecture, 1 Aug 2022
August 16, 2022 19:36 - 56 minutes - 104 MBRezek, 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
August 05, 2022 14:12 - 52 minutes - 96.6 MBMarcus, Hannah - "Characterizing the Elderly across Formats in Early Modern Italy" - 27 July 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures
McNamee, Megan - "A Wrinkle in Time" - Kress Lecture - 25 July 2022
July 26, 2022 19:39 - 56 minutes - 52.5 MBMcNamee, Megan - "A Wrinkle in Time" - Kress Lecture - 25 July 2022 by Rare Book School Lectures
McNamee, Megan - "Significance of a Concertina-Fold Almanac" - Kress Lecture - 25 July 2022
July 26, 2022 19:39 - 53 minutes - 98.9 MBMcNamee, 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
July 21, 2022 19:04 - 59 minutes - 56 MBRoldán 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
July 21, 2022 18:42 - 56 minutes - 52.8 MBWhite, 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
June 23, 2022 19:15 - 55 minutes - 52 MBWisecup, 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
June 22, 2022 18:00 - 47 minutes - 39.2 MBRogers, 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
June 08, 2022 20:36 - 57 minutes - 54.1 MBWong, 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
October 03, 2021 20:23 - 59 minutes - 111 MB“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
October 01, 2021 22:13 - 1 hour - 119 MB“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
August 12, 2021 19:32 - 1 hour - 139 MB"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
August 05, 2021 19:23 - 1 hour - 126 MBGoldsby 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
July 29, 2021 13:32 - 58 minutes - 108 MBYale, Elizabeth - "Paper-Keeping: Women, Family, Knowledge Work..." - 27 July 2021 by Rare Book School Lectures
Hidalgo, Alex - "The Book as Archive" - 15 June 2021
June 18, 2021 13:01 - 58 minutes - 109 MBHidalgo, Alex - "The Book as Archive" - 15 June 2021 by Rare Book School Lectures
Robb, Megan - "Print and the Urdu Public" - 23 July 2020
September 10, 2020 13:28 - 39 minutes - 971 MBRobb, 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
July 31, 2020 14:59 - 58 minutes - 1.16 GBNishikawa, 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
July 14, 2020 21:50 - 59 minutes - 3.04 GBRamachandran, 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
June 29, 2020 19:54 - 59 minutes - 1.78 GBTrettien, 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
June 25, 2020 23:30 - 59 minutes - 1.64 GBFull 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)
October 24, 2019 14:52 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBRBS-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)
October 24, 2019 14:40 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBRBS-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
October 24, 2019 14:30 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBThis 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 “Blanks, Paperwork, Racialization” John Garcia, California State University – Northridge “Tra...
"Muslims & Manuscripts" (SoFCB Program) - 23 April 2019
October 24, 2019 14:18 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBFeaturing "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/muslims-manuscripts-sofcb/ for more information about this event.
Stallybrass, Peter - "Thrift, Horatio, Thrift: Recycling Woodcuts and the Printing of Books"
October 17, 2019 12:33 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBLecture 513 (30 July 2008)
Krupp, Andrea - "Nineteenth-Century Books Up Close: Bookcloth Grain Patterns"
October 17, 2019 12:32 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBLecture 512 (28 July 2008)
Johnson, Russell - "More Baby Books than You Can Shake a Rattle At" (9 July 2008)
October 17, 2019 12:31 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBLecture 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)
October 17, 2019 12:30 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBLecture 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"
October 17, 2019 12:28 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBLecture 508 (18 June 2008)
Noel, William - "Writing Off Archimedes: Ten Years of Work on the Archimedes Palimpsest"
October 17, 2019 12:27 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBLecture 507 (16 June 2008)
Beare, Steve - "John Feely Meets Samuel Dodd" (9 June 2008)
October 17, 2019 12:25 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBLecture 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"
October 16, 2019 12:16 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBLecture 503 (30 July 2007)
Immel, Andrea - "Scissors, Prints and Paste" (23 July 2007)
October 16, 2019 12:15 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBLecture 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?"
October 16, 2019 12:14 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBLecture 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"
October 16, 2019 12:12 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBLecture 498 (11 June 2007)
Beare, Steve - "The Pattern Book of Samuel Dodd, 19th-Century New Jersey Engraver of Binding Stamps"
October 16, 2019 12:11 - 45 minutes - 42 MBLecture 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)
October 16, 2019 12:09 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBLecture 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)
October 16, 2019 12:08 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBLecture 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)
October 16, 2019 12:06 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBLecture 492 (17 July 2006)
Heritage, Barbara - "Eyre's Heirs" (12 June 2006)
October 16, 2019 12:04 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBLecture 491 (12 June 2006)
Winship, Michael - "Pitching Theoretical Tents" (5 June 2006)
October 16, 2019 12:03 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBLecture 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)"