Initiative for the Book

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 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

RSVP at book@cca.rutgers.edu

A photo of Isabel Duarte-Gray before she gave her talk.

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.

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

The Rutgers Book Initiative invites you to this symposium with speakers Karl Berglund and Justin Tackett.

Self-Publishing Workshop Come learn abotu the world of spirit duplication. Bookseller and historian of radical publishing Brian Cassidy will provide an overview of these technologies and their use in early … Read More