The Words Turned Sideways – The 27th Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium [RU Libraries]
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Touch / teach: studying books in an unfinished pandemic
November 18, 2021 4:00pm What ways of teaching have we invented or reinvented after a year of hands-off reading (for those of us lucky enough to be working or learning remotely) and hand-to-hand transmission (for those essential workers who packed, trucked, sold or lent books)? How has the reading, making, repurposing, circulating and banning of … Read More
Douglass Day 2022
https://dh.rutgers.edu/event/frederick-douglass-day-transcribe-a-thon/
Hemispheric and Transatlantic Archives Workshop: Researching Iberian, Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx Collections [RU CLAS]
Friday, March 4, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 4th Fl. Conference Hall, Alexander Library, CAC Join us for hands on workshops, presentations and exhibits highlighting an array of exciting materials (print and digital) for research and teaching in the arts, humanities and social sciences relevant to these expansive transnational areas. The guests are prominent research librarians … Read More
Girls, Zines, and Their Travels: Imagining Lives, Crafting Archives for a New Century [Rutgers Libraries]
This year Professor Janice Radway will deliver the 36th annual Louis Faugères Bishop Lecture online on March 10, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. Janice Radway is the Walter Dill Scott Professor of Communication Studies and a professor of American studies and gender studies within the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. Radway is widely … Read More
Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia : Book Traces
Andrew Stauffer of the UVA Department of English guides a scavenger hunt for annotated 19th-century books in the PS and PR sections of the Alexander stacks, as a session of the Book Traces project on the … Read More
RIB Lecture Series presents Matthew Rubery: Podcasts, Audiobooks, and Podiobooks
Matthew Rubery is a professor of modern literature at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book (Harvard University Press, 2016) and the coeditor of Further Reading (Oxford University Press, 2020), part of the series Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature. April 26 at 6:00pm Podcasts, Audiobooks, … Read More
Mexico’s Workers of Thought: Rethinking Press Freedom and Political Culture Through Printing
Academic Building West, CCA Room 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, New JerseyCorinna Zeltsman , "Mexico's Workers of Thought: Rethinking Press Freedom & Political Culture through Printing." Response by Marcy Schwartz (Professor of Spanish, Rutgers.) Wednesday, Oct 12. 4pm - 6pm, Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051. Corinna Zeltsman is assistant professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of Ink under the Fingernails: Printing … Read More
Panel Discussion of Denise Gigante’s Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America
Academic Building West, CCA Room 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, New JerseyPanel discussion of Denise Gigante’s BOOK MADNESS : A Story of Book Collectors in America. Wednesday, Nov 16. 5pm - 7pm With Jesse Erickson (Morgan Library), Melina Moe (Columbia University) and Heather O’Donnell (Honey & Wax Books). Location: HYBRID Online: REGISTER In person: CCA, Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051 Book Madness: A Story of … Read More
Independent Publishing Perspectives from the Hispanophone World
Academic Building West, CCA Room 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, New JerseyIndependent Publishing Perspectives from the Hispanophone World April 12-15, 2023 This conference convenes editors, publishers, and writers from Latin America and Spain to participate in a multi-day, multi-university conversation on the state of independent book publishing in the Spanish-speaking world. Events will take place at Rutgers, Columbia, CUNY, and NYU, and will include a series … Read More