Rare Book School Announces Summer 2024 Lecture Series
Rare Book School has revealed the lineup for this summer’s lecture series at the University of Virginia.
* June 3 - Archive of the People: The Johnson Publishing Company with LeRonn Brooks, Curator of the African American Art History Initiative, Modern and Contemporary Collections, Getty Research Institute
* June 10 - Scholarly Editing and the Challenges of Attribution with Stephen Karian: Professor and Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of English, University of Missouri
* June 12 - A Librarian Like No Other: Belle da Costa Greene and Self-Invention with Deborah Parker: Professor of Italian, University of Virginia
* July 8 - De Motu Librorum: On the Movement of Books, The Kenneth W. Rendell Endowed Lecture, with G. Scott Clemons: Partner and Chief Investment Strategist, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., Collector & RBS Board Chair
* July 10 - New Light of the Early Publication History of Boswell’s Life of Johnson, The Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trades , with Richard B. Sher: Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, Federated History Department of NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) and Rutgers University, Newark
* July 22 - Buying a Book in Early Modern England with Aaron Pratt: Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts, Harry Ransom Center and Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin
* July 29 - Yongle Dadian: An Emperors’ Encyclopedia, The Sol M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture, with Li Wei Yang: Curator of Pacific Rim Collections at the Huntington Library
* July 31 - Collecting Daily Life in Early American Manuscripts, The NEH-SHARP Living American History in Primary Documents Lecture, with Ashley Cataldo: Curator of Manuscripts, American Antiquarian Society
All lectures are 30-40 minutes long, free and open to the public. Lecture recordings will be made available by fall 2024.
