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SUMMARY:Day of Performance: Something Printed This Way Comes
DESCRIPTION:Puppets!  Playbills!  And Plenty of Performative Pandemonium! \nProfessor Talley Murphy and the Murray-Hall Players will be performing Macbeth in and around Murray Hall.  All are welcome– to perform\, to witness\, or to be made victims of the one-day regicidal celebration.  To mark the event\, the Scarlet Letterpress will be printing and distributing hand-made playbills\, and reconstructing some Shakespearean stage-blood.  Spot-remover will be provided! \nWednesday April 29th | Times TBD \nIn and around Murray Hall | College Avenue\, New Brunswick
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/day-of-performance-something-printed-this-way-comes/
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SUMMARY:Bookbinding in Theory and Practice
DESCRIPTION:I. Hands-on bookbinding workshop taught by Javiera Barrientos (3:30–4:30) \nRSVP to book@cca.rutgers.edu \nII. Lecture: Who Bound Books in Early Modern England? (5pm) \nAaron Pratt\, University of Texas at Austin \nCarl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts\, Harry Ransom Center \nRespondent: Javiera Barrientos\, Rutgers University \nAaron T. Pratt is Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center. His research and teaching focus on bibliography\, the history of the book\, and the literature and culture of early modern England. In addition\, his writing has appeared in several venues\, including Shakespeare Quarterly\, Shakespeare Studies\, The Library\, Fine Books and Collections magazine\, and the Times Literary Supplement. Moreover\, his work has appeared in edited collections published by Oxford and Cambridge. \nHis co-curated exhibition\, Lives and Literacy in Ancient Egypt\, is on view at the Ransom Center April 11 – August 2\, 2026. \nJaviera Barrientos is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Rutgers University\, where she researches bibliographic waste in colonial contexts during the early modern period. In addition\, she is a book historian\, bookbinder\, and essayist. \nHer most recent experimental essay\, Elegía a las bibliotecas perdidas\, is being reissued in the collection Habitar la Biblioteca published by Biblioteca Revelaciones. Additionally\, she is a graduate fellow at the Rutgers Initiative for the Book. \nFurthermore\, her work on waste paper and colonial bookbinding in libraries of the Viceroyalty of Peru was recognized with the D. F. McKenzie New Scholar Award from the Bibliographical Society of America in 2025. \nLocation \nBoth events will take place at Murray Hall 302\, 510 George St\, New Brunswick NJ.
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/event/bookbinding-in-theory-and-practice/
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