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
  29

  2019
  Cheap and Bad Books: A Social History of Printing and Publishing in Colonial India

  Lecturer: Anindita Ghosh - Professor of Modern Indian History, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester
  UVA Special Collections • 5:30 p.m.
  
• Jul
  22

  2019
  Revolutionary Spirits: Typescript Books, DIY Zines, and Other Forms of Unsanctioned Publishing in Maoist and Post-Mao China

  Lecturer: Thomas S. Mullaney - Professor of Chinese History, Stanford University
  UVA Special Collections • 5:30 p.m.
  
• Jul
  13

  2019
  Shakespeare in Virginia

  Lecturer: Kenneth Karmiole - Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
  Dome Room, UVA Rotunda • 6:30 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.

• Nov 11
  /
  Nov 12
  

  
  2019
  RBS Seminar: Exploring Ephemera (10–12 November)

  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, Museums & Press • 6:00–9:00 p.m. Sunday; 8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m. Monday; 8:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Tuesday
  
• Oct
  23

  2019
  RBS Open House

  Presented by: Rare Book School
  118 Alderman Library • 12:00–4:00 p.m.
  
• Oct
  4

  2019
  Off Script: Global Books and Textual Technologies (SoFCB Program)

  Presented by: Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography; Hightower Fund, Emory College of Arts and Sciences; Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library; The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry; Emory Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures; Emory Korean Studies Program; Emory East Asian Studies Program; Emory Department of English; Emory Department of Art History; Emory Department of History; Georgia State University Department of History
  Stuart A. Rose Library, Emory University • 12:00–6:45 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
  

  
  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