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When London viewers opened elegant folio books like 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘺 or 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 they were not just engaging with visual and cultural difference. They were also seeing an image process that was quite familiar. Polite interest in picturesque sketching meant that many Britons had experience drawing outlines, “dead coloring” shadows, and adding enlivening watercolor touches. In this lecture, Douglas Fordham frames that familiarity as the “haptic picturesque.”

This talk highlights a number of resourceful women in American book history, some celebrated and some whose names we’ll never know, who found ways to preserve and share aspects of the historical record outside the established institutions of their own day.

Women’s book collections appear in a wide range of forms: as catalogued libraries; as groups of surviving books linked by inscription and family use; or as volumes dispersed but still …

By the turn of the millennium the word text had become a verb. Three and a half years ago ChatGPT was released into the wild, decisively severing the link between …

This talk returns to the decades in our previous century when the printed newspaper thrived as the center of the news cycle, and it highlights some of the hidden landscapes, labor, and infrastructures enabling that.

This talk will draw from the past thirteen years that Mike Kelly has spent building the Native American Literature Collection in the Archives & Special Collections at Amherst College, as well as current work to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into library, archives, and museum practices. Kelly will demonstrate how a deep knowledge of traditional bibliography coupled with an understanding of Indigenous history results in a rich and complex understanding of this aspect of book history.