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Past Events from October 13, 2021 – November 16, 2022 – Page 2 – Initiative for the Book Past Events from October 13, 2021 – November 16, 2022 – Page 2 – Initiative for the Book

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 … Read More

Douglass Day 2022

https://dh.rutgers.edu/event/frederick-douglass-day-transcribe-a-thon/

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

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