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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

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 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

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 Jersey

Panel 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 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