Book History Colloquium: Panel on Handmade Books, Remade Genres

    Rachel Feder, "Marginal Experiments" Ellen Gruber Garvey, "Repurposed Books" Karen Sánchez-Eppler, "Beyond the Press of History"   October 10, 2013 (Thursday)   Butler Library, Room 523 at 6:00 p.m.   This panel brings together three scholars who work on 19th-century American and British handmade books. In “Marginal Experiments”, Rachel Fader will explore the […]

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Book History Colloquium: “How to Read Books Doing Things in Imperial Rome”

Joseph Howley Assistant Professor of Classics, Columbia University   September 26, 2013 (Thursday) Butler Library, Room 523 at 6:00 p.m. Between the Alexandrian aesthetics of the poetic book roll and the modern values of the industrially printed codex lies the world of  the Roman book.  This talk examines some uses of the material text in […]

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Thursday, April 18th– Book History Colloquium: “Translating the Enlightenment: The Publisher as Cultural Intermediary” with Jeffrey Freedman

The last third of the eighteenth century was a period of remarkable creativity in the world of German letters, a period historians associate with such famous authors as Lessing, Kant, and Goethe. At that time, however, German works were practically unknown outside of Germany unless translated into French, the universal language of educated Europeans. This […]

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Thursday, March 28th– Book History Colloquium: “Amiable with Big Teeth: Discovering Claude McKay’s Long Lost Novel”

Speakers: Jean-Christophe Cloutier and Brent Edwards Location: 523 Butler Library, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.   In 2009, the complete typescript of Amiable with Big Teeth, a previously unknown novel by Claude McKay written in 1941, was discovered in Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library.  In anticipation of the novel’s publication, this talk covers the […]

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Book History Colloquium: “The Golden Age of Theatrical Scrapbooks, 1880-1930”

Sharon Marcus, Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University   December 3, 2012 (Monday) Butler Library, Room 523 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.     Theatrical scrapbooks are some of the least utilized documents in theater history archives, yet also among the most useful, replete with cast lists, advertising imagery, ticket […]

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