April 2013 |
Outsiders in the Library
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Speakers include Lisa Gitelman of New York University, Amateurs and Their Discontents, 1870-2000; Ann Komaromi of the University of Toronto, Inside, Outside, Around, and Through: Conceptualist Publishing in the U.S. and U.S.S.R.; and Jenna Freedman of Barnard College Library, Pinko vs. Punk: a Generational Comparison of Alternative Press Publications and Zines. A panel discussion on self-publishing will follow the talks.
A related exhibition will also be open for viewing. "Politics, Piety, and Poison," is an exhibition of French pamphlets from 1600-1800, some of them examples of alternative publishing, including an early crime "zine."
Events begin at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 6 at the Newberry Library. Free and open to the public. Quimby's Bookstore of Wicker Park will be at the event selling do-it-yourself and other alternative press materials.
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