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Rare Book School Scholarships & Fellowships Now Available
October 1, 2020
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182020Forbidden Knowledge: Author Hannah Marcus in Conversation with Nick Wilding on Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern ItalyPresented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
Zoom • 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET
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Nov 202020RBS OnlinePresented by: Rare Book School
Please visit RBS Online to learn how to register for our various events. • See RBS Online for all event dates.
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Mar 82020RBS at the New York International Antiquarian Book FairPresented by: Rare Book School
Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY • 5:00–9:00 p.m. Thursday; 12:00–7:00 p.m. Friday; 12:00–7:00 p.m. Saturday; 12:00–5:00 p.m. Sunday
News
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RBS Mourns the Passing of Daniel Chabris
It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Daniel D. Chabris, a longtime friend and supporter of Rare Book School. An enthusiastic and discerning book collector, Chabris created one of the largest private collections of the work of Sinclair Lewis, and also collected Washington Irving, Louis Bromfield, and Dante Alighieri. In June 2018, Chabris donated his collection of editions of Dante’s Divina Commedia to Rare Book School, which includes editions printed from the seventeenth century to the present, in both Italian and English. Rare Book School’s faculty and students have benefitted immensely from this generous gift which exemplifies the richness of our written heritage. […]
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RBS Announces Summer 2021 Schedule
The summer 2021 Rare Book School course schedule is available! Please note that more courses for the summer of 2021 will be announced soon. Owing to circumstances created by COVID-19, final details for several classes are still being determined.
To ensure that as many students as possible can participate in courses next summer, RBS is implementing a more flexible schedule than usual. If it is safe to do so, we will be offering a full suite of more than 30 in-person courses, along with several online-only courses. If in-person classes cannot take place, many of the courses will transition to being taught online. […]
Posted 28 days ago by RBS