Join Rare Book School on 30 October for special events hosted in conjunction with our Objects of Poetry exhibition, on view through 13 November on the second floor of UVA’s Shannon …
RBS will host an online information session on Wednesday, 28 October for those interested in learning more about the M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching …
Join Rare Book School and renowned printer and book artist Barbara Henry for a two-day workshop, free and open to UVA students, faculty, and members of the local community. Inspired …
You are cordially invited to join the Rare Book School staff for our fall Open House on Thursday, 8 October from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. to: All are welcome! How to …
Join Rare Book School on 17 September for special events hosted in conjunction with our Objects of Poetry exhibition, which is on view through 13 November on the second floor of …
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.
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.
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 writing and human …
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 …
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.
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.”
An online SoFCB-sponsored symposium on the history and uses of tactile books for blind readers.