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Past Public Lectures and Events, 2000 –

10 January 2006 {487}
David H. Stam
(Senior Scholar, History Department, Syracuse University): “Innocents on Ice: The Evolution of an Exhibition.” The Grolier Club, New York City.

9 December 2005 {486}
Karen Chase
(Professor of English, UVa): “Who’s/Whose Jane Eyre?” UVa Rotunda Dome Room.

27 July 2005 {485}
Richard Wendorf
(Stanford Catherwood Director and Librarian, Boston Athenaeum): “The Scholar-Librarian.” UVa Rotunda Dome Room. The 2005 Sol M and Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin Lecture in Bibliography.

18 July 2005 {484}
David Whitesell
(Rare Book Cataloger, Houghton Library, Harvard University): “Quixotic Typography: Composing Maps and Illustrations Using Special Letterpress Fonts.” Clemons Library, UVa.

11 July 2005 {483}
Jane Siegel
(Curator of Graphic Arts, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University): “Teaching Penmanship in c19 America: A Comedy.” Clemons Library, UVa.

27 June 2005 {482}
William Noel
(Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, Walters Art Museum): “Where's My Towel? The Archimedes Palimpsest in 2005.” Library of the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion, Baltimore. [Repeated in Baltimore, 15 August 2005.]

13 June 2005 {481}
E Jennifer Monaghan
(Professor Emerita, Brooklyn College, CUNY): “Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America.” Clemons Library, UVa.

6 June 2005 {480}
Margaret Beck Pritchard
(Curator of Prints, Maps, and Wallpaper, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation): “Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America.” Small Special Collections Library, UVa.

4 January 2005 {479}
Irene Tichenor
: “The Practice of Typography: The Legacy of Theodore DeVinne (1828-1914).” The Grolier Club, New York City.

2 August 2004 {478}
Sidney F. Huttner
(Head, Special Collections, University of Iowa Libraries): “America's Favorite Book, 1860-1930: Owen Meredith's Lucile.” Clemons Library, UVa.

26 July 2004 {477}
Kenneth Carpenter
(Retired Assistant Director for Resources, Harvard University Library): “Oaks from Acorns? The Historical Turning Points of American Learned Libraries.” Clemons Library, UVa.

12 July 2004 {476}
Mirjam Foot
(Professor of Library and Archive Studies, University of London): “'Make Haste But Slowly' -- Binders at Work.” Clemons Library, UVa. The 2004 Sol M. and Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin Lecture in Bibliography.

7 June 2004 {475}
David L. Vander Meulen
(Professor of English, UVa): “The Illustrated, Illustrious Life of Warren Chappell.” Clemons Library, UVa; repeated Clemons Library, 5 July 2004.

11 March 2004 {474}
Justin Howes
(The Type Museum, London): “Typographical Monstrosities.” Jefferson Hall, UVa.

8 March 2004 {473}
Charles F. Bryan, Jr
(President and Chief Executive Officer, Virginia Historical Society): “The Myth of the American Historical Ignoramus.” The Rotunda, UVa.

1 March 2004 {472}
Andrew Atkinson
(Centre for Fine Print Research, Bristol England): “The Search for the Permanent Photography: The Woodburytype and c19 Printing.” Alderman Library, UVa.

5 January 2004 {471}
Terry Belanger
(Director, RBS): “Printing History is Something You Can Pick Up and Hold in Your Hand.” Clemons Library, UVa.

4 August 2003 {470}
Leon Jackson
(Dept of English, Univ of SC): “The Printer as Author from Franklin to Whitman.” The Rotunda, UVa.

28 July 2003 {469}
William Noel
(Curator of MSS and Rare Books, Walters Art Museum): “King David and His Books in the Middle Ages.” Clemons Library, UVa.

7 July 2003 {468}
John Bidwell
(Astor Curator of Printed Books and Bindings, Morgan Library): “Industrial Hubris: A Revisionist History of the Papermaking Machine.” The Rotunda, UVa.

9 June 2003 {467}
John Dagenais
(Dept of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA): “Medieval Manuscripts in the c21.” Clemons Library, UVa.

6 January 2003 {466}
Christian Dupont
(Head, Special Collections, Syracuse University Library): “Bringing Dante to America: Book Hunting and Bibliography in the Golden Age.” Clemons Library, UVa.

20 November 2002 {465}
Jerome McGann
(John Stewart Bryan University Professor, UVa): “Textonics: or The Study of Books in a Digital Age.” The Rotunda, UVa.

5 August 2002 {464}
Terry Belanger
(Director, RBS): “MA and Us: Margaret Armstrong at Rare Book School.” The Rotunda, UVa.

29 July 2002 {463}
Robert Gross
(Professor of History, College of William & Mary): “Seeing the World in Print.” The Rotunda, UVa.

15 July 2002 {462}
Selby Kiffer
(Head, Books & MSS, Sotheby's NY): “Dear Sir or Madam: I Have an Old Book; or, Not Everything in Your Attic is Gold.” The Rotunda, UVa. The 2002 Sol M. and Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin Lecture in Bibliography.

11 July 2002 {461}
Greer Allen
: “All I Know about Book Design I Learned on the Racetrack.” Clemons Library, UVa; repeated 14 July 2003 as the Sol M. and Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin Lecture in Bibliography.

8 July 2002 {460}
Alan Fern
(retired director, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC): “The Photograph as Illustration.” Clemons Library, UVa.

3 June 2002 {459}
Terry Belanger
(Director, RBS): “The Future of Rare Book Libraries Revisited.” Clemons Library, UVa.

27 May 2002 {458}
Richard Kuhta
(Librarian, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC): “'Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing' : Shakespeare's First Folio and the Rare Book Marketplace.” Clemons Library, UVa.

11 March 2002 {457}
Barbara A. Shailor
(Director, Beinecke Rare Book and MSS Library, Yale University): “Otto Ege: A Biblioclast and Modern Technology.” Clemons Library, UVa.

7 January 2002 {456}
Terry Belanger
(Director, RBS): “Westward the Course of Books Takes Its Way: English Books and American Collectors in the Later 19th and Earlier 20th Centuries.” Alderman Library, UVa.

6 August 2001 {455}
William Noel
(Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, Walters Art Museum): “Eureka? The Archimedes Palimpsest.” Clemons Library, UVa.

30 July 2001 {454}
Michael Winship (Professor of English Literature, University of Texas): “Hawthorne and the Scribbling Women: Publishing The Scarlet Letter in the c19 United States.” The Rotunda, UVa.

25 July 2001 {453}
Nicolas Barker (editor of The Book Collector): “The Origins of the Second-hand Book Trade: The Market for Antiquarian Books in England between the Middle Ages and 1726.” The Rotunda, UVa. The 2001 Sol M. and Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin Lecture in Bibliography.

23 July 2001 {452}
Greer Allen: “The Vitality of Fritz Kredel's Book Illustrations.” Clemons Library, UVa.

16 July 2001 {451}
Marie Korey (Librarian, Massey College): “From Bibliography to Book History: The Massey College Press and Other Special Collections of the Robertson Davies Library, Massey College, University of Toronto.” The Rotunda, UVa.

4 June 2001 {450}
Jan Storm van Leeuwen (Keeper of the Bookbinding Collection of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands): “On Bookbindings: Their Depictions, Their Owners and Their Contents.” Clemons Library, UVa.

22 March 2001 {449}
Steven E. Smith (Special Collections Librarian, Texas A & M University): “The Stars and the Bard: Pluto, William Shakespeare, the Beer-Can Launcher, and the Invention of the Hinman Collator.” Alderman Library, UVa. Co-sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, the UVa Department of English, and Rare Book School.

12 March 2001 {448}
Greer Allen: “The Vitality of Fritz Kredel's Book Illustrations.” Clemons Library, UVa.

21 February 2001 {447}
Joseph Viscomi (James G. Kenan Professor of English, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill): “William Blake's Graphic Imagination: Origins of Illuminated Printing.” Clemons Library, UVa.

8 January 2001 {446}
Daniel Traister (Curator of Research Services, Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania): “Walter Van Tilburg Clark's The Ox-Bow Incident: A Case Study in the Complexities of Book History.” Alderman Library, UVa.

9 August 2000 {445}
Brett Charbeneau (Network Administrator, Williamsburg Regional Library): “How to Succeed in Bibliography without Really Trying.” The Rotunda, UVa.

31 July 2000 {444}
Daniel Traister (Curator of Research Services, Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania): “Hoosiers: Collecting the Unread and the Uninteresting.” The Rotunda, UVa.

24 July 2000 {443}
William S. Reese (President, Wiliam Reese Company - Rare Books and Manuscripts, New Haven, CT): “Paul Mellon as a Collector of Americana and Virginiana.” The Rotunda, UVa. The 2000 Sol M. and Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin Lecture in Bibliography.

26 June 2000 {442}
Greer Allen: “A Scholarly Printing House is Born: How and Why the Stinehour Press Came to Be.” Clemons Library, UVa.

19 June 2000 {441}
Jackie Dooley (Head, Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine): “Mastering the Machines: Special Collections Librarians, Technology, and the Future.” The Rotunda, UVa.

8 May 2000 {440}
Mark Samuels Lasner: “A Bibliophile's Story.” Alderman Library, UVa.

7 May 2000 {439}
Terry Belanger (Director, RBS): “Oughts: State of the Bibliographical Nation.”

27 March 2000 {438}
James Mosley (Librarian, St Bride Printing Library, London): “A Hobble to Genius? The Design and Making of Type in France from Grandjean to Fournier.” Alderman Library, UVa.

13 March 2000 {437}
David Seaman (Director, Etext Center, UVa Library): “'Speaking of My Book As a Machine': Electronic Paper and Digital Ink.” Clemons Library, UVa.

12 March 2000 {436}
Terry Belanger (Director, RBS): “Oughts: State of the Bibliographical Nation.” Alderman Library, UVa.

13 January 2000 {435}
Terry Belanger (Director, RBS): “Oughts: State of the Bibliographical Nation.”

10 January 2000 {434}
Daniel Traister (Curator of Research Services, Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania): “Put 'em Up: Late Night Thoughts on Library Book Exhibitions.” Alderman Library, UVa.


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