Initiative for the Book

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 … Read More

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

The Second Colloquium on Independent Publishing Come hear Dante Gonzalez present his "Edición, Literatura y Pensamiento en Lenguas Originarias" (event in Spanish) and the subsequent conversation "Independent Publishing and the … Read More