Isabel Hofmeyr (Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand & Global Distinguished Professor, NYU): “Hydrocolonial Print Cultures: Coast, Custom House and Dockside Reading” With a response by Meredith McGill (Professor of English, Rutgers University) November 6 at 4:30pm Seminar room 6051, CCA, 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick Questions: book@cca.rutgers.edu What does the oceanic turn … Read More
Rutgers Book Initiative Lecture Series 5 March at 4:30pm Alexander Library—Teleconference/Lecture Hall: Room 403. 169 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ "Bodies of Evidence: A very brief history of knowledge" (Jill Lepore | Kemper Professor of American History | Harvard University)
From Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers University Libraries Martin Antonetti, Rare Books Assessment Librarian will speak on "Why Study the History of the Book, the Archaeology of Texts" at the next Exploring Special Collections and University Archives program on Wednesday, September 22 from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. The archaeology of the book--discovering clues in the … Read More
Join colleagues for an in-person discussion of “Felon: A play; A discourse” by poet and scholar Reginald Dwayne Betts. Felon: An America Washi Tale is about re-imagining paper. A solo performance that begins with the pages of a book being slid into a cell, traverses stoves made of toilet paper, kites from a father, handwritten … Read More
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
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
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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