Seminar in the History of the Book

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2009 Program

ABSTRACTS

POSTERS

John Unsworth, with Tanya Clement, Sara Steger and Kirsten Uszkalo (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
How Not To Read A Million Books
Thursday, 5 March (5 p.m. Alexander Library, SCC Auditorium)


John Unsworth will also conduct a seminar titled, "The last professor, the new public, and too much information"
Thursday, 5 March (1 - 4 p.m. SCILS, Huntington House)
Due to space limitations, participation in this workshop is limited to 20 faculty and graduate students, and is by reservation only. Please contact Curtis Dunn at: 732.932.8426, or curtis.dunn@rutgers.edu.


Galen Brokaw (University at Buffalo)
Indigenous American Polygraphy and the Dialogic Model of Media
Thursday, 9 April (5 p.m. Alexander Library, Pane Room)

 

Lectures will start at 5:00 p.m.

Locations for the talks and seminar:

Alexander Library
Scholarly Communication Center Auditorium (March 5 lecture)
Pane Room (April 9 lecture)
169 College Ave., New Brunswick, New Jersey
Directions to Alexander Library at: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/alex_lib/alex_lib.shtml

 SCILS
Huntington House (March 5 seminar)
184 College Avenue, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Directions at: http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id=1109


For their support for the 2009 lecture series, the Rutgers Seminar in the History of the Book would like to thank the following programs and units at Rutgers:

American Studies
Center for Cultural Analysis
Department of English
Department of French
Department of Library and Information Science
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
The Graduate Program in Comparative Literature
Rutgers University Libraries
School of Communication, Information & Library Studies
The Transliteratures Project


2009 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}

 

Book History Reading Group Meetings:

 Dates to be announced


Please visit this page for more information about the talks and accompanying events, including Rutgers graduate student participation at the Princeton Center for the Study of Books and Media Graduate Student Conference on April 4. More information on the conference forthcoming soon!

 





Last updated: February 9, 2009