Program Schedule
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Dec
12021M. C. Lang Fellowship: Informational SessionPresented by: RBS Director of Programs & Education
Zoom • 4:00–5:00 p.m. ET
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Nov
162021Ink under the Fingernails: Author Corinna Zeltsman in Conversation with Alex Hidalgo on Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century MexicoPresented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
Zoom • 5:00–6:00 p.m. ET
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Nov
112021Reading In and Out of Order in the Roman Mediterranean (SoFCB Junior Fellow Symposium)Presented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
Zoom • 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. ET
RBS News
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RBS Mourns the Passing of Jay T. Last
It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Jay T. Last, friend and benefactor of Rare Book School. He died in Los Angeles on 11 November 2021; he was 92.
As a physicist and entrepreneur, Jay Last is renowned as one of the founders of the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, the origin of Silicon Valley. As an art collector, publisher, scholar, author, and philanthropist, Jay’s legacy of support for the arts, art history, and education will endure for many years to come. A collector of West and Central African Art, Jay, along with his wife Deborah, […]
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RBS Mourns the Passing of William P. Barlow, Jr.
It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of William P. Barlow, Jr., former Rare Book School faculty member and Treasurer of the School’s Board of Directors.Barlow died in San Francisco on 21 October 2021 after a heart attack; he was 87.
Barlow began collecting books seriously as an undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology, continuing to collect when he transferred to the University of California at Berkeley, and thereafter for the rest of his life. He had the greatest collection of the works of the English printer John Baskerville in private hands, a superb collection of antiquarian bibliography, and many other collecting interests, including the Daniel Press and various private presses, restaurant ephemera, postal history, books on food and wine, and water skiing.
Posted 1 month, 1 day ago by Laura Eidam