Program Schedule
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Jul
292019Cheap and Bad Books: A Social History of Printing and Publishing in Colonial IndiaLecturer: Anindita Ghosh
UVA Special Collections • 5:30 p.m.
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Jul
222019Revolutionary Spirits: Typescript Books, DIY Zines, and Other Forms of Unsanctioned Publishing in Maoist and Post-Mao ChinaLecturer: Thomas S. Mullaney
UVA Special Collections • 5:30 p.m.
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Jul
102019The Right and Wrong Ways to Collect – The 2019 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin LectureLecturer: Heather O'Donnell & Rebecca Romney
UVA Special Collections • 5:30 p.m.
News
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RBS Receives Grant to Support the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage
Rare Book School has received a $1.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage, a six-year program which aims to advance multicultural collections through innovative and inclusive curatorial practice and leadership. Forty-five fellows who identify with diverse racial or ethnic communities and/or who work primarily with collections that document minority, immigrant, and non-Western cultural traditions will participate in this program over six years.
Comprising three overlapping cohorts of 15 fellows each, the fellowship will seek to fulfill four core goals: 1) developing skills for documenting and interpreting visual and textual materials in special collections and archives; […]
Posted 23 days ago by RBS -
Announcing the 2019–21 RBS-Mellon SoFCB Junior Fellows & 2019–20 RBS-UVA Fellows
We are pleased to announce the 2019–21 Junior Fellows in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, as well as the 2019–20 cohort of RBS-UVA Fellows. Many congratulations to all the Fellows; we much look forward to seeing you at RBS soon!
The 2019–21 RBS-Mellon SoFCB Junior Fellows are: […]
Posted 1 month, 5 days ago by RBS