Program Schedule
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Sep
122025Famous & Forgotten Exhibition Opening, Film Screenings & WorkshopsPresented by:
Suite 230, Edgar Shannon Library, University of Virginia • 12–6:30 p.m.
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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
RBS News
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Support RBS Students through the Annual Fund Matching-Gift Challenge!
Rare Book School has concluded another successful summer of courses both at home and far afield. We welcomed some 570 students to 43 courses, which took place in Charlottesville, at nine partner institutions—including our first international courses at the Bodleian Library in Oxford—and around the globe with eight course offerings available online. RBS also hosted ten free public lectures, which examined topics such as a Renaissance publisher’s profit/risk strategies and the role that inexpensive editions played in making Jane Austen famous.
Even as our School continues to thrive, we recognize a growing crisis of financial access for our students. […]
Posted on August 8, 2025 by RBS -
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. […]
