All Rare Book School summer lectures are free, open to the public, and hosted on Grounds at the University of Virginia. Lectures begin at 5:30 p.m. and are followed by a reception. Monday lectures are held in Room 330 of UVA’s Edgar Shannon Library, and Wednesday lectures are held in the Auditorium of UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.
Recordings of this summer’s lectures will be made available later this year.
Please email contactRBS@virginia.edu with any questions.
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Jul
312024Collecting Daily Life in Early American Manuscripts – NEH-SHARP Living American History in Primary Documents LectureLecturer: Ashley Cataldo - Curator of Manuscripts, American Antiquarian Society
UVA Special Collections • 5:30 p.m.
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Jul
292024Yongle Dadian: An Emperor’s Encyclopedia – The Sol M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin LectureLecturer: Li Wei Yang - Curator of Pacific Rim Collections at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
UVA Edgar Shannon Library, Room 330 • 5:30 p.m.
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Jul
222024Buying a Book in Early Modern EnglandLecturer: Aaron Pratt - Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
UVA Edgar Shannon Library, Room 330 • 5:30 p.m.
Rare Book School sponsors and co-sponsors a range of programming at various times throughout the year, including activities at book fairs, symposia at UVA and other locations, and more. These include events organized by members of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at their home institutions.
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Dec
122024Digital Victorians: Author Paul Fyfe and Ryan Cordell on Nineteenth-Century Media and the Digital HumanitiesPresented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
Zoom • 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
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Nov
62024Archival Conversations (A Two-Part Series): Realities of Archival DiasporaPresented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage at Rare Book School
Zoom • 2:00–3:30 p.m. ET
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Nov
52024War of the Dots: A Symposium Exploring Accessibility in Archive and Museum ExhibitsPresented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage at Rare Book School
Zoom • 2:00–3:30 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. PT
Since 1992, Rare Book School has been responsible for a rotating series of exhibitions in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, many curated by UVA undergraduate and graduate students. The books and other materials shown in these exhibitions are drawn both from the RBS collections and from the UVA Library, supplemented by occasional loans by other institutions and individuals.
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Sep 28
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Dec 23
2022Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School & the Book Arts PressCurated by: Barbara Heritage & Ruth-Ellen St. Onge
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York -
Jun 6
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May 1
2019Comics in CircuitCurated by: Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, Jennifer Camp, Elizabeth Dorton, Devon Shannahan, Katherine Smith, and Zach Tauscher
Dome Room, UVA Rotunda -
Jun 13
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Apr 30
2018An Archipelago of Readers: Forming a Literary Culture in Digital MediaCurated by: Katherine McNamara, with the assistance of Will Norton
Dome Room, UVA Rotunda