Rare Book School sponsors a number of free, open-to-the-public evening lectures each year at the University of Virginia on a wide variety of bibliographical topics; please browse our list of past lectures for a sampling. RBS lectures are usually held Mondays and Wednesdays while RBS is in session, at 5:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. A reception follows in 118 Alderman Library.

• Jul
  23

  2018
  The Materiality of Maps

  Lecturer: Matthew H. Edney - Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, University of Southern Maine; Director, History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  UVA Special Collections • 5:30 p.m.
  
• Jul
  25

  2018
  Presenting the Yoshiwara in Monochrome and Full Color: The Annual Events of the ‘Azure Towers,’ Illustrated

  Lecturer: Julie Nelson Davis - Professor, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
  UVA Special Collections • 5:30 p.m.
  
• Jul
  30

  2018
  New Research into John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757): Its Wove Paper and Typographical Variants – The 2018 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

  Lecturer: Cathleen A. Baker - Conservation Librarian Emerita, University of Michigan
  UVA Special Collections • 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.

• Sep 9
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  Sep 11
  

  
  2018
  RBS Seminar: Exploring Ephemera

  Presented by: Catharine Dann Roeber, Jeanne Solensky, Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire, Emily Guthrie, Jesse R. Erickson, Rebecca Johnson Melvin, and Mark Samuels Lasner
  Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library and the University of Delaware Library • 6:00–9:00 p.m. Sunday; 8:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Monday–Tuesday
  
• Sep
  7

  2018
  Archives, Memory & Identity: A Public Symposium

  Presented by: Rare Book School, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and UVA Libraries
  Auditorium of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, UVA • 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  
• Jun
  12

  2018
  “Comics in Circuit” Gallery Tour

  Presented by: Ruth-Ellen St. Onge
  Dome Room, UVA Rotunda • 5:15–5:45 p.m.
  

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.

• Jun 6
  /
  May 1
  

  ends in
  2019
  Comics in Circuit

  Curated by: Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, Jennifer Camp, Elizabeth Dorton, Devon Shannahan, Katherine Smith, and Zach Tauscher
  Dome Room, UVA Rotunda
• Jun 13
  /
  Apr 30
  

  
  2018
  An Archipelago of Readers: Forming a Literary Culture in Digital Media

  Curated by: Katherine McNamara, with the assistance of Will Norton
  Dome Room, UVA Rotunda
• Sep 15
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  May 10
  

  
  2017
  Shaping Eyre: Charlotte Brontë’s Classic Novel in 200 Objects

  Curated by: Barbara Heritage
  Dome Room, UVA Rotunda