Program Schedule
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May
222025SoFCB Keynote Lecture: Transporting Visions, Transcending BoundariesPresented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School
McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Lecture Hall, 3355 Woodland Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 • 9:15–10:45 am
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May 19
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Nov 122025Famous & Forgotten: The Game of AuthorsCurated by: Barbara Heritage & Zoe Langer
Held by Rare Book School on the second floor of the Edgar Shannon Library of the University of Virginia -
Mar
52025Bibliographic Performances and Surrogate Readings: Author Janelle Rebel in Conversation with Alison FraserPresented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
Zoom • 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
RBS News
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RBS in Oxford: “A Match Made in Library/Book History Heaven”
This summer, Rare Book School hosted its first-ever international courses at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. H-195 Transmission of the Bible from the Beginnings to 1500 was taught by Peter Toth, the Cornelia Starks Curator of Greek Collections at the Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and former Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts at the British Library. David Rundle, Senior Lecturer in Latin and Palaeography in the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent, taught
Posted on July 17, 2025 by RBS
M-60 Researching Medieval Manuscripts: From Cataloging to Cultural History. […] -
Watch Newly Posted RBS Summer 2025 Lecture Videos
Video recordings of our first two summer lectures are now available to watch online!
A Parallel History of Books and Blooks
Watch on YouTube
Mindell Dubansky, Conservator, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtJane Austen on the Cheap
Watch on YouTube
Janine Barchas, Chancellor’s Council Centennial Professor in the Book Arts, University of Texas at Austin
The Kenneth W. Rendell Endowed LectureIf you like what you see, please join us—either in person or over Zoom—when our lecture series resumes in July. […]
Posted on June 13, 2025 by RBS
