Video and Audio of RBS Summer 2025 Lectures Now Available
Rare Book School proudly presents the video and audio recordings of talks from our Summer 2025 Lecture Series. The list, with links, is below.
A Parallel History of Books and Blooks
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Mindell Dubansky, Conservator, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jane Austen on the Cheap
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Janine Barchas, Chancellor’s Council Centennial Professor in the Book Arts, University of Texas at Austin
The 2025 Kenneth W. Rendell Endowed Lecture
Publishing in the Renaissance: Christophe Plantin’s Business Strategy
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Mark McConnell, Associate Research Fellow, Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance, Johns Hopkins University
The 2025 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trades
Books for Virginia 1620: America’s First Public Library?
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E. M. Rose, Visiting Fellow, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University
The 2025 NEH-SHARP Living American History in Primary Documents Lecture
Iconographic Disjunction in the Ruskin Psalter/Hours: A Flemish Illuminated Manuscript of ca. 1470–80
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James H. Marrow, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Princeton University
Curious and Creative Women
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Rachael DiEleuterio, Librarian & Archivist, Delaware Art Museum
The 2025 Sue Allen Lecture for Women in Book History
The Catholicon Press Revisited: The Evidence of Nailheads
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Paul Needham, Retired Scheide Librarian at Princeton University & RBS Faculty Member
What Is Computational Bibliography?
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Christopher N. Warren, Professor of English and History (by courtesy), Carnegie Mellon University
The 2025 Sol M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture