Seminar in the History of the Book

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SINCE 1997

2008 Program

ABSTRACTS

POSTERS (Feb.21-22) (March 27) (April 10)

Wayne Wiegand (Florida State University) and Sarah Wadsworth (Marquette University)
“Right Here I See My Own Books”:
A Cultural History of the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition
(Chicago, 1893)
Thursday, 21 February (Alexander Library, SCC Auditorium)

Melodie Fox, Associate Dean of Instruction at Bryant & Stratton College (Milwaukee) will give an interactive demonstration of the Woman's Building Library relational database on Friday, 22 February, 10-12 a.m. (SCILS, Faculty Lounge)


Zachary Lesser (University of Pennsylvania)
Literary Drama: William Shakespeare vs. The Anonymous Thomas Tomkis
Thursday, 27 March (Alexander Library, Pane Room)


Venkat Mani
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Unpacking Orhan Pamuk's Library: Shelf-Lives of Books
Thursday, 10 April (Plangere Annex in Murray Hall)

All lectures will start at 5:00 p.m.

Workshop and demonstration times vary, as noted above.

Locations for the talks will vary as noted:

Alexander Library
Scholarly Communication Center Auditorium (February 21)
Pane Room (March 27)

169 College
Ave., New Brunswick, New Jersey
Directions to Alexander Library at: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/alex_lib/alex_lib.shtml

Murray Hall
Plangere Annex (April 10)
510 George St., New Brunswick, New Jersey
Directions to Murray Hall at: http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id=399

SCILS
Faculty Lounge (February 22 workshop)
4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, New Jersey
Directions to SCILS at: http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id=284


For their support for the 2008 lecture series, the Rutgers Seminar in the History of the Book would like to thank the following programs and units at Rutgers:


Center for Cultural Analysis
Department of English
Department of French
History Department
Department of Library and Information Science
Program in Early Modern Studies (PEMS)
Rutgers University Libraries
School of Arts & Sciences
School of Communication, Information & Library Studies
The Department of Germanic,Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures
The Transliteratures Project

2008 Series Organizers:

Marija Dalbello (SCILS), Meredith McGill (English), and Lorraine Piroux (French)
{dalbello at scils.rutgers.edu} {mlmcgill at rci.rutgers.edu} {lpiroux at rci.rutgers.edu}

 

Laura Helton represented Rutgers at the Princeton Center for the Study of Books and Media Graduate Student Conference with a paper entitled, Collections and Collectives: Race Consciousness and the Practice of the Archive,1916-1945. More information on the conference at: http://www.princeton.edu/csb/conferences/february-2008.

Last updated: September 25, 2008