14
May
Reading by Touch: Learning from Tactile Print
An online SoFCB-sponsored symposium on the history and uses of tactile books for blind readers.
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10
Jun
Rendell Lecture: Women’s Libraries & Their Afterlives
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
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 …
8
Jul
Karmiole Lecture: Landscapes, Labor, and the Infrastructures of Printed Newspapers
Wednesday, 8 July 2026
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.
22
Jul
NEH-SHARP Lecture: Indigenous Agency and Intervention in the Bibliographical Record
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
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 …
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