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.

• Aug
  3

  2021
  What is “Black” about Black Bibliography? – The 2021 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

  Lecturer: Jacqueline Goldsby & Meredith McGill - Jacqueline Goldsby, Professor of English, African American Studies, and American Studies, Yale University; Meredith McGill, Professor and Chair of English, Rutgers University
  Zoom • 5:30 p.m.
  
• Jul
  27

  2021
  Paper-Keeping: Women, Family, and Knowledge Work in the Early Modern British World

  Lecturer: Elizabeth Yale - Lecturer, Department of History, The University of Iowa
  Zoom • 5:30 p.m.
  
• Jul
  20

  2021
  Lost Archives and Paper Reuse in the Medieval Islamic World

  Lecturer: Marina Rustow - Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Director of Princeton Geniza Lab, Princeton University
  Zoom • 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.

• Oct
  15

  2021
  Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography: Junior Fellows Program Informational Session

  Presented by: SoFCB fellows and RBS staff
  Zoom • 2:00–3:00 p.m. ET
  
• Oct
  11

  2021
  The Power of the Brush: Author Hwisang Cho in Conversation with Ben Nourse on Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea

  Presented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
  Zoom • 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
  
• Sep
  20

  2021
  Special Issue Launch: “Religion and Material Texts in the Americas” (SoFCB Senior Symposium)

  Presented by: Sonia Hazard, Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
  Zoom • 1:00–2:45 p.m. ET
  

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
  

  
  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
  /
  May 10
  

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

  Curated by: Barbara Heritage
  Dome Room, UVA Rotunda