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 Dome Room of the Rotunda or in the Auditorium of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. A reception follows each lecture.
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Jun
52023The Surveyor’s Eye: Topographic Mapping and the Contest for Empire in Eighteenth-Century British America – NEH-SHARP Living American History in Primary Documents LectureLecturer: S. Max Edelson - Professor of History, University of Virginia
Dome Room, UVA Rotunda • 5:30 p.m.
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Jun
72023Reader = Inessential Worker: Book History After LockdownLecturer: Leah Price - Distinguished Professor & Director, Rutgers Book Initiative, Rutgers University
UVA Special Collections • 5:30 p.m.
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Jun
122023Beside/s Milton: Other Histories of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s First FolioLecturer: Claire M. L. Bourne - Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries (Philadelphia) • 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.
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May
242023Collective Voices: Online Community Archives on Cuba and Its DiasporaPresented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage at Rare Book School
Zoom • 6:30 pm ET
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Apr
212023Preserving and Analyzing Digital TextsPresented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
Zoom • 3:00-4:30 p.m. ET
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Mar
292023Continental England: Author Elizaveta Strakhov in Conversation with Zachary Hines on Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ WarPresented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
Zoom • 12:00-1:00 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.
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Dec 23
2022Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School & the Book Arts PressCurated by: Barbara Heritage & Ruth-Ellen St. Onge
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York -
Jun 6
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May 1
2019Comics in CircuitCurated by: Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, Jennifer Camp, Elizabeth Dorton, Devon Shannahan, Katherine Smith, and Zach Tauscher
Dome Room, UVA Rotunda -
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Apr 30
2018An Archipelago of Readers: Forming a Literary Culture in Digital MediaCurated by: Katherine McNamara, with the assistance of Will Norton
Dome Room, UVA Rotunda