Rare Book School

Archives, Memory & Identity Symposium: Welcome & Session 1 ("Access")

17 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcoming remarks by Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (Executive Director, Rare Book School) & John Unsworth (University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Unive...

Archives, Memory & Identity Symposium: Session 2 ("Storytelling & Memory")

17 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Session 2: Storytelling & Memory — 11:15 a.m.–12:45 p.m. Panelists: “Wakanda Forever: Three Opportunities for Legacy Making” – Aaisha Hayk...

Archives, Memory & Identity Symposium: Session 3 ("Community Archives & Outreach")

17 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Session 3: Community Archives & Outreach — 1:45–3:15 p.m. Panelists: “The Missing Stories: How Stories Become Lost and How They Can Be Recover...

Archives, Memory & Identity Symposium: Session 4 (Roundtable)

17 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Session 4: Roundtable Discussion: Cultural Heritage, Social Justice, and Individual Responsibility — 3:45–5:15 p.m. Panelists: Brenda Gunn (Asso...

Reese, William S. - "Some Americana Booksellers: Peter Decker, the Eberstadts, and Wright Howes"

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 318 (11 July 1991)

Cassidy, Brian - "TIGER TIGER: Notes Toward a Bibliography of Duplication"

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 627 (1 August 2018)

Baker, Cathleen A. - "New Research into John Baskerville’s Virgil" (30 July 2018)

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 626 (30 July 2018). The 2018 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture Full title: "New Research into John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757):...

Davis, Julie Nelson - "Presenting the Yoshiwara in Monochrome and Full Color"

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 625 (25 July 2018) Full title: "Presenting the Yoshiwara in Monochrome and Full Color: The Annual Events of the ‘Azure Towers,’ Illustrat...

Edney, Matthew H. - "The Materiality of Maps" (23 July 2018)

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 624 (23 July 2018)

Ogden, Amy - "A Manuscript for Living and Dying Well" (10 July 2018)

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 623 (10 July 2018)

Roundtable: "Women In A Golden Age of Artists' Books" (22 May 2018)

12 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This roundtable discussion included the following featured speakers: Cynthia Marsh, Professor of Art, Founder of the Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Coll...

Schrijver, Emile - "The Jewish Book Since the Invention of Printing" (11 June 2018)

12 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 621 (11 June 2018)

Nowviskie, Bethany - "Reconstitute the World" (4 June 2018)

12 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 620 (4 June 2018) Full title: "Reconstitute the World: Machine-reading Archives of Mass Extinction" Text available at http://nowviskie.org/2...

Brown, Andrew - "This Dish is Cheap But Delicious" (27 April 1987)

24 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 234 (27 April 1987) Full title: "This Dish is Cheap But Delicious: Academic Publishing in the Late 20th Century" Note: This recording is not...

McKitterick, David - "On Sir Geoffrey Keynes" (30 March 1987)

24 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 230 (30 March 1987) Note: the first half of the recording is very quiet

Mosley, James - "Printing and Typefounding in the Late 17th-Century 'Description of Trades'"

23 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 229 (23 March 1987). Full title "Printing and Typefounding in the Late 17th-Century 'Description of Trades' of the French Academy of Science" ...

Reynolds, Roger - "Roll, Book, and Candle: Rolls in Medieval Liturgy" (9 February 1987)

23 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 228 (9 February 1987) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.

Wolf, Edwin - "Nineteenth-Century American Embossed Bookbindings" (1 December 1986)

23 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 225 (1 December 1986) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in. It also ends abruptly in the 46th m...

Pickwoad, Nicholas - "More Stately Mansions: Books in National Trust Houses"

22 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 224 (24 November 1986) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.

Bryant, Douglas - "The American Trust for the British Library: A Long View"

22 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 223 (10 November 1986) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.

Hanna, Archibald - "The World of the Rare Book Curator in the 1950s and 1960s"

22 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 220 (6 October 1986) Note: This recording is not in stereo, so be sure you have both your headphones in.

Kristeller, Paul Oskar - "Manuscript Research and Its Problems" (17 July 1986)

22 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 215 (17 July 1986) Note: The audio on this one is rather wobbly. Apologies.

Dunlap, Ellen - "Wheel of Fortune" (15 July 1986)

22 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 214 (15 July 1986) Full title: "Wheel of Fortune; or, Strategic Planning in a Small Research Library and a Popular TV Game Show Compared"

Clark, Kathryn and Howard - "Papermakers as Book Designers: Fifteen Years at Twinrocker"

19 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 213 (9 July 1986)

Barlow, William P. - "The Uses of Antiquarian Catalogs" (7 July 1986)

19 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 212 (7 July 1986)

Briem, Gunnlauger SE - "Forces for Change in Letterform" (3 March 1986)

19 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 208 (3 March 1986)

Kidd, John - "Taking Issue with the New 'Ulysses'" (3 February 1986)

19 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 206 (3 February 1986)

Nebenzahl, Kenneth - "In Search of the Green Stick: Confessions of a Book Monger" (19 November 1985)

19 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 201 (19 November 1985) Note: The audio on this one is a little wobbly in places, and not in stereo for a stretch in the middle.

Etherington, Don -"The Development of Conservation and Bookbinding at the HRC"

18 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 200 (18 November 1985). Full title: "The Development of Conservation and Bookbinding at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center" Note: Th...

Staley, Thomas F. - "Keepers, Collectors and Curators: A Near Turn of the Century View"

18 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 283 (27 July 1989)

Allen, Greer - "The History of the University of Chicago Press - A Personal View" (19 July 1999)

17 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 425 (19 July 1999)

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Short Presentations 6

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Short Presentations 6: The Book and Its Time: Developing a ‘Period Eye’ Session Organizer: Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire (Winterthur Museum) Moderat...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Short Presentations 5

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Short Presentations 5: Dynamics of Digital Collections Session Organizer: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University) & Zachary Hines (The University...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Short Presentations 4

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Short Presentations 4: Teaching Global Book History Session Organizers: Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University) & Ben Nourse (University of Denver) Mod...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Short Presentations 3

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Short Presentations 3: Hands-on Demonstration – Teaching with Stuff: Building Bibliographical Collections at Rare Book School with Limited (or no) F...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Short Presentations 2

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Short Presentations 2: Innovative Pedagogy with Material Objects Session Organizer: Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa) Moderator: Michael F. Suarez,...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Short Presentations 1

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Short Presentations 1: Tools for Data Analysis & Visualization Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) Moderator: Meredith L. McGil...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Roundtable 6

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Roundtable 6: Ethics & Responsibility in the Bibliosphere Session Organizer: Claire Eager (University of Virginia) Moderator: Katherine Reagan (Assis...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Roundtable 5

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Roundtable 5: Materiality as a Sustainable Humanistic Discourse Session Organizers: Dahlia Porter (University of Glasgow) & Elizabeth Yale (Universit...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Roundtable 4

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Roundtable 4: Digitization, Representation & Access Session Organizers: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University) & Sonia Hazard (Franklin & Marsha...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Roundtable 3

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Roundtable 3: Authorship Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York) & Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Moderato...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Roundtable 2

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Roundtable 2: Performance, Textuality & Orality Session Organizer: Glenda Goodman (University of Pennsylvania) Moderator: Kate van Orden (Dwight P. R...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Pop-Up Session 1 (Q&A only)

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pop-Up Session 1: Critical Bibliography and Social Justice (Roundtable) Please note: due to a technical difficulty (the recorder got unplugged, we on...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 12

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Paper Session 12: Reappraising the Redundant: The Value of Copies in the Study of Textual Artifacts Session Organizer: Katherine Mintie (DePauw Unive...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 11

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Paper Session 11: Comparative Histories of the Book Session Organizers: Megan McNamee (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts) & Caroline Wiggi...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 10

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Paper Session 10: Reading the Whole Book: Object Interpretation Session Organizers: Lauren Jennings (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) & E...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 9

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Paper Session 9: Manuscript in the Age of Print Session Organizers: Rachael King (University of California, Santa Barbara) & Marissa Nicosia (Penn St...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 8

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Paper Session 8: Books as Agents of Contact Session Organizers: Hansun Hsiung (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), András Kiséry (The...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 7

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Paper Session 7: The Social Life of Books: Uses of Text & Image Beyond Reading & Viewing Session Organizers: Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 6

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Paper Session 6: Materiality of Digital Objects Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) Moderator: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (Profess...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 5

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Paper Session 5: Degradation, Loss, Recovery & Fragmentation Session Organizer: Jane Raisch (University of York) Moderator: Arthur Bahr (Associate Pr...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 4

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Paper Session 4: Transmission & Transfer of Images Session Organizer: Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University) Moderator: Kathryn Rudy (Director of ...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 3

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Paper Session 3: Questions of Scale, Production & Labor Session Organizer: Juliet Sperling (University of Pennsylvania) Moderator: Suzanne Karr Schmi...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 2

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Paper Session 2: Textual Instruments Session Organizer: Nick Wilding (Georgia State University) Moderator: Ann Blair (Carl H. Pforzheimer University ...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 1

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Paper Session 1: Graphic Representation: Illustration & Diagrams Session Organizer: Claire Eager (University of Virginia) Moderator: Michael Sappol (...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Plenary Session 3

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Plenary Session 3: “Bibliography Among the Disciplines” Community Plenary Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York) and ...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Plenary Session 2

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Plenary Session 2: The Future of the Past: Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age Nancy Y. McGovern (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) “Making D...

Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Plenary Session 1

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Plenary Session 1: "Historicizing Critical Bibliography" Anthony Grafton (Princeton University): “Bio-Bibliography in Early Modern Europe: Towards ...

Belanger, Terry - "You Load 15 Tons and What Do You Get?" - 1 November 2017

02 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 619 (1 November 2017), celebrating the 25th anniversary of Rare Book School's arrival at the University of Virginia

Ferdinand, Christine - "James Rivington: Transatlantic Bookseller, Entrepreneur, and Bankrupt"

09 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 618 (31 July 2017)

McGill, Meredith L. - "Form, Format, Genre, Medium: Poetry and Print in the Nineteenth-Century U.S."

31 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 616 (24 July 2017) Speaker: Meredith L. McGill, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University

Maddock, Philip G. - "Rescuing the Irish Parliamentary Journals" (12 July 2017)

20 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 614 (12 July 2017). The 2017 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Miranker, Glen - "When Is a Book More Than a Book?" (10 July 2017)

11 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 613 (10 July 2017) Speaker: Glen Miranker, Sherlock Holmes Collector

James, Kathryn - "Shakespeare’s Ghost: Matter and Meaning in the Imagined Object"

05 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 612 (12 June 2017). Beinecke Library, Yale University Speaker: Kathryn James, Curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn Coll...

Barrett, Timothy - "Listening to Fifteenth-Century Paper" (12 June 2017)

13 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 611 (12 June 2017). Watch the accompanying video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggttPftmVs

McGrady, Deborah - "Hunting for Textual Bodies" (5 June 2017)

06 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 610 (5 June 2017). Full title "Hunting for Textual Bodies: Rethinking the Relationship between the Poetic Voice and Manuscript Matter"

Tanselle, G. Thomas - "The Foundations of Analytical Bibliography" (12 July 1999)

04 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 422 (12 July 1999)

Wallace, Samantha - "Artifact, Assemblage, and the Composite Work" (10 May 2017)

11 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 609. Delivered at the RBS-UVA Fellowship Luncheon, 10 May 2017. Barbara Heritage introduces Rare Book School founding director Terry Belanger,...

"Shaping Eyre: A Conversation about (Re)reading Brontë in the 21st Century"

24 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Why are modern day readers still responsive to "Jane Eyre," and how do their readings influence the life of the text? UVA's Linden Kent Memorial Profe...

Turner, Michael - "Ten Years of Conservation in the Bodleian" (19 April 1988)

20 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 256 (19 April 1988)

McKillop, Beth - "Korea: Confucians, Buddhists, and their Books" (14 November 2016)

15 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 608 (14 November 2016)

Drucker, Johanna - "Alphabet Historiography: Analogue Artifacts and Digital Projects"

16 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 605 (5 August 2016). The 2016 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Schreyer, Alice - "The Newberry: Independent Research Libraries as Bibliographical Communities"

26 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 603 (25 July 2016)

van der Vlies, Andrew - "Print Cultures and Protest in (Southern) Africa" (11 July 2016)

12 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 601 (11 July 2016). Full title: "Print Cultures and Protest in (Southern) Africa: Bibliography, Anthropology, Ideology, and Aesthetics"

Reese, William S. - "Starting Out: My Early Days as a Rare Book Dealer" (15 June 2016)

16 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 600 (15 June 2016). The lecture is followed by a presentation in honor of Mary Gilliam, recently elected president of the Antiquarian Booksell...

Kelly, Mike - "Samson Occom and the Uses of Bibliography"

14 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 598 (13 June 2016)

Miller, Peter - "Making American Literature: Poetry With Footnotes"

19 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 595 (18 May 2016). Delivered at the RBS-UVA Fellowship Luncheon. Terry Belanger introduces Peter Miller as the winner of the 2016 Betsy and St...

Mole, Tom - "Scattered Odes in Shattered Books: Romantic Poems in Victorian Anthologies"

18 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 594 (17 March 2016)

Winship, Michael - "Hawthorne and the Scribbling Women" (30 July 2001)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 454 (30 July 2001). Full title "Hawthorne and the Scribbling Women: Publishing 'The Scarlet Letter' in the 19th-Century United States"

Winship, Michael - "The Anglo-American Trade in Books in the Nineteenth Century" (19 July 1993)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 340 (19 July 1993)

Winship, Michael - "Hermann Ernst Ludewig: America’s Forgotten Bibliographer" (16 December 1985)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 204 (16 December 1985). The 1985 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture

Dreyfus, John - "The Flowering of Typography" (28 October 1985)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 199 (28 October 1985). Full title "The Flowering of Typography: The Development of Printers’ Flowers with Special Reference to French Rococo...

Hidy, Lance - "An Artist in Search of An Historian" (30 September 1985)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 198 (30 September 1985)

Carter, Matthew - "The Creation of ‘Galliard’" (5 August 1985)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 196 (5 August 1985)

Kristeller, Paul Oskar - "In Search of Renaissance Manuscripts" (23 July 1985)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 193 (23 July 1985)

Corey, D. Steven - "Developing Special Collections of Fine Printing" (15 July 1985)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 190 (15 July 1985)

Tselos, George D. - "Digging in the Dumpster" (15 April 1985)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 186 (15 April 1985). Full title "Digging in the Dumpster and Other Cautionary Tales of Modern Manuscript Collecting"

Wilson, Alexander - "Toward a Universal History of Rare Books" (8 April 1985)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 185 (8 April 1985)

Berger, Thomas L. - "Two-Letter Words in Shakespeare’s 'Henry V'" (1 April 1985)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 184 (1 April 1985)

Hobson, Anthony - "Appropriations from Foreign Libraries During the French Revolution and Empire"

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 183 (25 March 1985)

McKitterick, David - "Writing the History of the University Library" (18 March 1985)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 182 (18 March 1985)

Winship, Michael - "Life with 'BAL'" (28 January 1985)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 179 (28 January 1985)

Dunlap, Ellen S. - "One Year In: Reflections of a New Director" (3 December 1984)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 177 (3 December 1984)

Dreyfus, John - "The Making of the Golden Cockerel Press 'Four Gospels'" (15 November 1984)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 175 (15 November 1984)

Urkowitz, Steven - "Voodoo Bibliography: Re-evaluating Shakespearean Textual Studies"

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 173 (22 October 1984)

Briggs, Carol Reid - "Three Years Out" (24 September 1984)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 169 (24 September 1984). Full title "Three Years Out: Reflections of a Young [But Rapidly Aging] Rare Book Librarian"

Leab, Katharine Kyes - "Automation in Rare Books: The Dark Side of the Moon" (14 August 1984)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 167 (14 August 1984)

Ochs, Michael - "Musical Americana in Harvard Libraries: The Genesis of an Exhibit"

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 166 (13 August 1984)

Banks, Paul N. - "Exhibitions: Consumption vs. Preservation" (8 August 1984)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 164 (8 August 1984)

Walker, William Bond - "Special Collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art" (7 August 1984)

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lecture 163 (7 August 1984)