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Past Events from April 26, 2022 – March 20 – Initiative for the Book Past Events from April 26, 2022 – March 20 – Initiative for the Book

Mexico’s Workers of Thought: Rethinking Press Freedom and Political Culture Through Printing

Academic Building West, CCA Room 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Corinna 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

Independent Publishing Perspectives from the Hispanophone World

Academic Building West, CCA Room 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Independent 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

Serial Blackness & William Still’s Underground Railroad

Lunchtime talk by University of Delaware Professor, Derrick Spires. Dr. Spires, whose most recent book, The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States was published in 2019, will be giving a talk called “Serial Blackness and William Still’s Underground Rail Road” about his current project.

RIB and Medieval & Renaissance Colloquium Trip to Pergamena

Pergamena - Handmade Parchment & Artisanal Leather 11 Factory St., Montgomery, NY, United States

Photo of the four graduate students in front of a stretched goat skin.   On March 20th, 2024, four graduate students from the Rutgers English Deparment were sponsored by the Rutgers Book Initiative and the Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium to attend a five-hour tour and workshop at Pergamena: Handmade Parchments and Leathers. This event was … Read More