Watch Newly Posted RBS Summer 2025 Lecture Videos
Video recordings of our first two summer lectures are now available to watch online!
A Parallel History of Books and Blooks
Watch on YouTube
Mindell Dubansky, Conservator, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jane Austen on the Cheap
Watch on YouTube
Janine Barchas, Chancellor’s Council Centennial Professor in the Book Arts, University of Texas at Austin
The Kenneth W. Rendell Endowed Lecture
If you like what you see, please join us—either in person or over Zoom—when our lecture series resumes in July. All lectures, which are free and open to the public, start at 5:30 p.m. ET. Learn more.
Wednesday, 9 July
Auditorium, UVA Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, or register for the livestream
Publishing in the Renaissance: Christophe Plantin’s Business Strategy
Mark McConnell, Associate Research Fellow, Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance, Johns Hopkins University
The 2025 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trades
Monday, 21 July
Room 330, UVA Edgar Shannon Library, or register for the livestream
Books for Virginia 1620: America’s First Public Library?
E. M. Rose, Visiting Fellow, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University
The 2025 NEH-SHARP Living American History in Primary Documents Lecture
Wednesday, 23 July
Auditorium, UVA Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, or register for the livestream
Iconographic Disjunction in the Ruskin Psalter/Hours: A Flemish Illuminated Manuscript of ca. 1470–80
James H. Marrow, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Princeton University
Monday, 28 July
Room 330, UVA Edgar Shannon Library, or register for the livestream
Curious and Creative Women
Rachael DiEleuterio, Librarian and Archivist, Delaware Art Museum
The 2025 Women in Books Speaker Program Lecture
Wednesday, 30 July
Auditorium, UVA Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, or register for the livestream
What is Computational Bibliography?
Christopher N. Warren, Professor of English and History (by courtesy), Carnegie Mellon University
The 2025 Sol M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture