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Past Events from October 12, 2021 – October 12, 2022 – Page 2 – Initiative for the Book Past Events from October 12, 2021 – October 12, 2022 – Page 2 – Initiative for the Book

The Architecture of Books: The Artists’ Books of Golnar Adili [Rutgers Libraries]

Exploring Special Collections and University Archives The Architecture of Books: The Artists’ Books of Golnar Adili Book artist Golnar Adili will elaborate on her process-oriented approach in looking at the book as architecture in small scale, and the importance in tactility, be it in language or exploring the body. Golnar Adili is a mixed media … Read More

Bookbinding workshop

Instructor: Javiera Barrientos In this workshop you will learn basic pamphlet stitch techniques for making zines, plaquettes, chapbooks, small journals and more. The session will include a brief introduction to the history of the tools and materials, followed by making. Javiera Barrientos, cofounder of the Center for the Studies of Pretty and Useless Things, is … Read More

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 afternoon of April 19th. Participants will convene at the start of the session in the JetStream (Room 404) for a debriefing before dispersing to levels 2B and … 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 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