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 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 27 days ago by Laura Eidam -
RBS Receives $100,000 NEH Grant to Prepare Curators and Teachers for the U.S. Semiquincentennial
Rare Book School has been awarded a grant for $100,258 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) program “Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan.”
RBS was one of 292 recipients among the 937 eligible organizations that applied. The grant supports the School’s initiative, “Living American History in Primary Documents,” which anticipates the approaching 250th anniversary of the United States by providing educational content for the cultural heritage professionals who care for our nation’s documentary records.
“We are delighted to help prepare the custodians of our nation’s heritage to mediate their collections to a citizenry eager to learn more about their history,” said Rare Book School Director Michael F. […]
Posted 1 month, 9 days ago by Laura Eidam