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About the Rutgers Initiative for the Book (RIB)
In its first year, the Book Initiative hosted inaugural lectures by Isabel Hofmeyr and Jill Lepore. Since then, we have co-organized transcribe-a-thons with the Colored Conventions Project and Alexander Library, sponsored graduate student field trips to area libraries and letterpresses, granted graduate student fellowships to Rare Book School, sponsored an undergraduate class in bookmaking as well as co-sponsored a rare book exhibition. Recent events include talks, bookbinding studios, and scavenger hunts with Javiera Barrientos, Jesse Erickson, Denise Gigante, Melina Moe, Heather O’Donnell, Matt Rubery, Andrew Stauffer, Corinna Zeltsman, Kari Kraus, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Tia Blassingame, Jonathan Senchyne, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Ryan Cordell, Christy Pottroff, Olivia Moy, Katherine Ruffin, Miles Grier, Nicholas Dames, and Isabel Duarte-Gray. The Scarlet Letterpress is open to print student projects, dissertation and honors thesis title-pages, protest posters and more.
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Upcoming Events
Valentine’s Day card-printing event.
Join us in printing Valentine’s Day cards for all of those that you love!
Friday February 14 | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Murray Hall 309 | College Avenue, New Brunswick
Moravia Scriptori: the Rutgers Initiative for the Book’s and English Department’s first transcribathon.
Join us in transcribing the first 1,000 lines of two famous medieval poems, and a fantastic roundtable of three stellar medievalists.
Wednesday April 30 | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm
Murray Hall Lounge | College Avenue, New Brunswick
Past Events
Paper Making Workshop with Rejin Leys and Professor Brad Evans’s Class “Writing Forests”
Join us in recycling printed waste matter into new, usable paper, demonstrated by Rejin Leys for Professor Brad Evans’s students in his class “Writing Forests.”
Friday November 15 | 12:10 am and 1:30 pm
Murray Hall 309 | College Avenue, New Brunswick
The Rutgers Book Initiative’s Scarlet Letterpress’s First Birthday.
Join us in printing aging- and fall-related poems!
Friday November 8 | 10:00 am and 2:00 pm
Murray Hall 309 | College Avenue, New Brunswick