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
  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.
  
• Jul
  13

  2021
  Subscription Publishing in America over Three Centuries – Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trades

  Lecturer: Michael Winship - Iris Howard Regents Professor Emeritus of English II, University of Texas at Austin
  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.

• Mar
  5

  2021
  Rare Book School Summer 2021 Q&A

  Presented by: Laura Perrings, Director of Programs & Laura Eidam, Program Manager
  Zoom • 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
  
• Feb
  5

  2021
  Fluxus Forms: Author Natilee Harren in Conversation with Elizabeth Eager on Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network

  Presented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
  Zoom • 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET
  
• Nov
  18

  2020
  Forbidden Knowledge: Author Hannah Marcus in Conversation with Nick Wilding on Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

  Presented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
  Zoom • 3:00–4:00 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.

• 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