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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom: The Prince of Binders: Joseph Altemus and the Apex of Publishers' Bindings in the Nineteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThe Prince of Binders”: Joseph Altemus and the Apex of Publishers’ Bindings in the Nineteenth Century” Todd Pattison.\nJuly 15\, Monday\, 7:30 Eastern\, 4:30 Pacific. Zoom\nTodd will talk about the commercial bindings produced by the firm of Joseph Altemus\, a Philadelphia bookbinder who produced the widest range of commercial bindings between 1845 and 1853. Todd Pattison is the Conservator for American Ancestors\, Vice President of the Guild of Book Workers\, and Fellow in the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC).\nTo get on the list for this group\, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-the-prince-of-binders-joseph-altemus-and-the-apex-of-publishers-bindings-in-the-nineteenth-century/
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SUMMARY:California: A Slave State
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nCalifornia owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives—the first slaves transported into California—and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Rush. San Quentin Prison incubated California’s carceral state. Kidnapped Chinese girls were sold in caged brothels in early San Francisco. Indian boarding schools supplied new farms and hotels with unfree child workers. \nBy looking west to California\, Jean Pfaelzer upends our understanding of slavery as a North-South struggle and reveals how the enslaved in California fought\, fled\, and resisted human bondage. In unyielding research and vivid interviews\, Pfaelzer exposes how California gorged on slavery\, an appetite that persists today in a global trade in human beings lured by promises of jobs but who instead are imprisoned in sweatshops and remote marijuana grows\, or sold as nannies and sex workers. \nA virtual presentation by Jean Pfaelzer\, author and professor emerita of English and American Studies\, University of Delaware \n\nClick here to REGISTER for the Virtual Presentation on Zoom
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/california-a-slave-state/
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era Zoom: First Edition Hoyle on Whist and 18th Century Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJuly 8: Handpress Era (second Monday of the month). This month we will hear from David Levy about a trip to Aberdeen to visit one of four known copies of the first edition of A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist (1742)\, bound with other works by Hoyle on backgammon and piquet. In a talk illustrated with examples from his collection and from his research\, David demonstrates how the book\, initially mysterious\, came to reveal its story. After Q&A\, we’ll have open mic for the 18th century! Please share your printed item from 1700-1799. No powerpoint needed. \nTo join this list and receive links to the sessions\, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-zoom-first-edition-hoyle-on-whist-and-18th-century-open-mic/
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SUMMARY:Al Martinez in the Korean War: A Future Columnist Hones His Craft
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nFor more than twenty years\, the Los Angeles Times columnist Al Martinez (1929-2015) delighted\, and enriched the lives of\, thousands of readers across southern California. An Oakland native\, he attended San Francisco State College. Later\, he was a reporter for the Richmond Independent and the Oakland Tribune before being lured to Los Angeles to write for the Times. By the time he retired in 2009\, he had earned an extensive array of awards and honors\, including three shared Pulitzers and the National Headliner Award for the best column in the U.S. \nBefore becoming a professional journalist\, Martinez served in the Korean War at the age of 21 with the U.S. Marines\, from 1951-1952\, first on the battle front and then as a war correspondent. He dispatched letters almost daily to his young bride Joanne. \nNow a volume of Al Martinez’ Korean War letters\, I Promise You I’ll Be Home\, has been published by McFarland and Co. Written from the unique perspective of an obviously gifted professional writer at the beginning of his career\, his letters home capture his experiences eloquently and with depth of understanding as they express the dangers\, hardships\, fear\, friendships\, and even humor of life at the front. His vivid\, often humorous pen-and-ink drawings portray scenes from the front lines. \nThe letters are all housed in the archive of his papers at The Huntington Library. They form not only an important record for the history of the largely ignored Korean War\, but also a crackling good narrative of one Marine’s time at the battle front and as a combat correspondent. Even as a young writer\, he was among the very best in storytelling and in the elegance of his prose. \nA virtual presentation by Sara S. Hodson\, author and retired curator of literary collections for The Huntington Library \n\nClick here to REGISTER for the Virtual Presentation on Zoom
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/al-martinez-in-the-korean-war-a-future-columnist-hones-his-craft/
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SUMMARY:Movable Mayhem: Pop-Up Books through the Ages
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington \nPrepare to be captivated by these print wonders that move. Volvelles\, flaps\, and pop-ups\, oh my! \nRenaissance pop-up book expert Suzanne Karr Schmidt will walk us through her most recent Newberry Library exhibition and related recent acquisitions\, in a look at the long history of the movable book from the twelfth century to the present. \nRegister here for the virtual event: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/movable-mayhem-pop-up-books-through-the-ages \nSuzanne Karr Schmidt (PhD Yale) has been the George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Chicago’s Newberry Library since 2017\, following eight years as a fellow and curator in Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. She is also currently serving as the Director of the Movable Book Society (www.movablebooksociety.org)\, an international organization for collectors\, scholars\, and makers of pop-up books founded in 1993. \nA historian of early modern art\, books\, prints\, and science\, her monograph\, Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance\, appeared in 2018. She publishes widely on hybridity and materiality in print\, particularly on the “Renaissance Pop-Up Book.” Expanding her movable books range up to the present\, she has most recently curated the playful Newberry exhibition\, Pop-Up Books Through the Ages (2023)\, which examines this overlooked artform from the medieval to the modern era. A quick video tour of the exhibit can be found here. \nHer previous prizewinning shows include her co-curated 2020 Newberry exhibition Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta\, and her 2011 Art Institute of Chicago exhibition Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life\, both of which featured exhibition catalogues. Her next Newberry exhibition and catalogue\, slated for fall 2026\, will be on the topic of the ostentatious art of Printing on Fabric from the Renaissance to today. \nAdditional print resources: \nAn introduction to pop-up books written to accompany the 2023 exhibition: https://dcc.newberry.org/?p=21137 \nHer journal article “Flaps\, Volvelles\, and Vellum in Pre-Modern Movable Manuscript and Print” from 2022 which has some overlap with her presentation: \nhttps://jib.pop-app.org/index.php/jib/article/view/26/32
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/movable-mayhem-pop-up-books-through-the-ages/
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SUMMARY:A Rare Book Summer Picnic: Conversations on Food\, Cultural History and The Dining Table
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nLive\, Free Webinar\nMonday\, July 1\, 2024 – 8:00 PM Eastern \, 5:00 PM Pacific (US and Canada) \nPresenters: \nChristine von der Linn of Honey & Wax Booksellers  \nLizzy Young owner of Lizzy Young Bookseller \nWith feet firmly planted in both the book and culinary worlds\, Christine von der Linn and Lizzy Young will present in a casual\, live\, panel format stories about books and food\, and food history. What we can learn from them\, and how we can and should establish the dinner table as a space where we all come together. Plus\, they will also share their special goodies\, rare finds from both their bookstores and end with a Q&A. \nPresenters:\nChristine von der Linn \nChristine von der Linn was born and raised in the Hudson River Valley. A graduate of Bard College\, she studied art & architectural history\, material culture and foodways. She managed a bookstore and was an archivist of the Livingston family library and art collection at the Clermont State Historic Site in Columbia County before moving to New York City. \nIn 1993\, Christine joined Swann Auction Galleries in New York City and served as a specialist in rare books\, cataloguing and selling literature\, fine press\, livres d’artiste\, and illustrated books. She co-founded both their Illustration Art Department and LGBTQ+ Art\, Material Culture & History sales. In 2023 she joined Honey & Wax Booksellers to continue her love of books and illustration\, and to lecture\, write\, and appraise material in her areas of expertise. While working\, Christine graduated from Natural Gourmet/ICE Culinary Institute. She continues her lifelong interest in food\, drink\, and sustainable agriculture as president of the board of trustees of the Metuchen Farmers Market in New Jersey. \nLizzy Young \nLizzy’s first career was as a pastry chef\, studying at Peter Kump’s Cooking School under Nick Malgeiri. Lizzy went on to work at “Windows on the World.” Later\, Lizzy made her way to Gourmet Magazine and eventually became a Food Editor. \nIn 2009\, she began her career in bookselling joining her father\, Roy Young of RoYoung Bookseller. During the three years she worked with Roy\, Lizzy learned every aspect of the rare book trade and attended the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. In 2011 Lizzy stepped out on her own\, opening Lizzy Young Booksellers. “At Lizzy Young Bookseller\, we sell Rare Books\, Ephemera\, and Manuscripts with a focus on Food & Drink History\, Women’s History\, Cultural History\, Children’s Books\, and anything else that makes us smile.” Her main client base is comprised of public and private Special Collections at Universities and libraries around the world. \nRegistration Is Required:  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TO-JbqalSsCgPSiSvpl8hw\n[You will receive a confirmation email upon registration.]
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/a-rare-book-summer-picnic-conversations-on-food-cultural-history-and-the-dining-table/
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SUMMARY:The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nAmerica’s suburbs have been transforming. The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white\, middle-class homeowners no longer describes suburban realities. Today they house a more typical cross-section of the nation—rich\, poor\, Black American\, Latino\, Asian\, immigrant\, the unhoused\, the lavishly housed\, and everyone in between. Stories of everyday suburban life\, in the process\, have taken on new inflections. \nNowhere are these changes more vivid than in Los Angeles. In this suburban metropolis and global powerhouse\, lily white suburbs have virtually disappeared\, and over two-thirds of the County’s suburbs have become majority minority\, placing LA at the vanguard of national changes. In Los Angeles\, suburban diversification happened earlier and more intensively\, offering a glimpse into what may well be America’s future. In The New Suburbia\, historian Becky Nicolaides follows the Asian Americans\, Black Americans\, and Latinos who moved into white neighborhoods that once barred them. They bought homes\, enrolled their children in schools\, and began navigating suburban life. In places like Pasadena\, San Marino\, South Gate\, and Lakewood\, suburbanites faced the challenges of living together in difference. In some communities\, diverse residents continued longstanding habits of exclusion and perpetuated metropolitan inequality. In others\, they embraced more inclusive\, multicultural suburban ideals. Through it all\, the common denominators of suburbia remained—low-slung landscapes of single-family homes and families seeking the good life. \nBased on a half-century of quantitative data and unpublished oral histories and interviews\, The New Suburbia explores vital landscapes where the American dream has endured\, even as the dreamers have changed. \nA virtual presentation by Becky N. Nicolaides\, author\, historian\, and Research Affiliate at the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West \n\nClick here to REGISTER for the Virtual Presentation on Zoom
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-new-suburbia-how-diversity-remade-suburban-life-in-los-angeles-after-1945/
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SUMMARY:Lynda Mugglestone on Samuel Johnson’s Garret Lexicography
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nJoin The Grolier Club for a live webcast lecture by Lynda Mugglestone\, Professor of the History of English and Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College\, Oxford\, in conjunction with our public exhibition “Hardly Harmless Drudgery\,” co-curated by Grolier members Bryan A. Garner and Jack Lynch. This registration is for the live webcast: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-lynda-mugglestone-on-samuel-johnsons-garret-lexicography-tickets-916652431097?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nProfessor Mugglestone\, author of “The Oxford History of English” [Oxford University Press\, 2006]\, in her research focuses on a wide range of linguistic\, social and cultural aspects in the history of English (from about 1750 on). She has particular interests in the history of pronunciation and of dictionaries\, and has written a number of books and articles on lexicography between 1700 and the present\, including “Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words\,” and earlier books on Dr. Johnson and on the Oxford English Dictionary. \n“Hardly Harmless Drudgery” displays English-language dictionaries from the dawn of printing to the present day. \nDictionaries are repositories of erudition\, monuments to linguistic authority\, and battlefields in cultural and political struggles. They are works of almost superhuman endurance\, produced by people who devote themselves for years or even decades to wearisome labor. Dictionaries can become commodities in a fiercely competitive publishing business\, and they can keep a business afloat for generations or sink it swiftly. They are also often beautiful objects: typographically innovative\, designed to project learning and authority. The painstaking work of corralling\, recording\, and defining the vocabulary of a language has inspired best-selling books\, both fiction and nonfiction\, and even two major motion pictures. And yet its future is uncertain. The internet has taught more than one industry that it’s hard to compete with free\, and the reign of the printed dictionary may be coming to an end. It leaves many to wonder: are professionally edited dictionaries necessary anymore?–and if they’re necessary\, are they possible? \nGrolier Club Members \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/lynda-mugglestone-on-samuel-johnsons-garret-lexicography/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240625T193000
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SUMMARY:Home Library Audits and Lending Books: FABS Living With Books Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThe Living With Books group meets via Zoom on the fourth Tuesday of the month for convivial chat about home libraries. This month’s topics are Book Audits and Lending Books\, with The Bedside Table if time permits. \nTo join the list\, contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/home-library-audits-and-lending-books-fabs-living-with-books-zoom-group/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240625T183000
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SUMMARY:Deborah A. Green and Aaron Lansky: "The First Yiddish War Reporter"
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nJoin The Grolier Club as Translator Deborah A. Green and Aaron Lansky\, Yiddish Book Center founder and president\, have a conversation to celebrate the release of a translation of writings by the poet\, translator and literary journalist S. L. Shneiderman (1906-1996)\, Journey Through the Spanish Civil War: The Hinterlands (White Goat Press). Note: this is a live webcast.  \nShneiderman’s coverage of the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War earned him the moniker “the first Yiddish war reporter.” With his wife\, Eileen\, he became one of the 20th century’s most influential Yiddish journalists and a pillar of New York’s Yiddish literary and journalistic community. His book on the Spanish Civil War was published in 1938 (two years before he immigrated to the U.S.) as Krig in shpanyen: hinterland. White Goat Press is bringing out its first appearance in English. \nFor this event\, some of Shneiderman’s rare editions and related archival material will be on display. \nRegister for the online event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-on-yiddishenglish-language-journalist-sl-shneiderman-tickets-916587085647?aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail&ref=eemail&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite \nDeborah A. Green is a native Yiddish speaker and translator\, author\, and attorney. Her research focuses on Jewish participation in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and with Polish partisan groups during WWII. Her translations of Yiddish letters written by Jewish fighters have been featured in anthologies\, magazines\, and journals. \nAaron Lansky is founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst\, Mass.\, a nonprofit organization working to recover\, celebrate\, and regenerate Yiddish and modern Jewish literature and culture. White Goat Press\, the Center’s imprint\, publishes newly translated work in all genres of fiction and nonfiction. The Center grew out of Lansky’s discovery in the late 1970s of vast numbers of Yiddish books being discarded by younger Jews who could not read their ancestors’ language. Since his first public appeal for unwanted Yiddish books in 1980\, when scholars believed just 70\,000 volumes were extant and recoverable\, more than a million volumes have been gathered at the Center. Lansky has earned degrees from Hampshire College\, McGill University\, Amherst College\, the State University of New York\, and Hebrew Union College; received a so-called “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 1989; and wrote a bestseller in 2005\, Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books. \nGrolier Club Members \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/deborah-a-green-and-aaron-lansky-the-first-yiddish-war-reporter/
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SUMMARY:19th Century FABS Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin us for convivial discussion of all things bibliophilic and 19th century! Meets on the third Thursday of the month. \nContact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/19th-century-fabs-zoom-group/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240617T180000
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SUMMARY:Jack Lynch: The Frontiers of Anglicity
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nJoin The Grolier Club as Jack Lynch\, co-curator with fellow Grolierite Bryan A. Garner\, of our “Hardly Harmless Drudgery” public exhibition will lecture on “The Frontiers of Anglicity: What’s In\, What’s Out?” The “Hardly Harmless Drudgery” exhibition displays landmarks in English lexicography and runs in The Grolier Club ground-floor Exhibition Hall through July 27\, 2024. \nDr. Lynch\, a Grolier member since 2019\, is Distinguished Professor of English and Department Chair at Rutgers University\, where he has taught since 1998. His scholarly work focuses on 18th-c. British literature\, especially Samuel Johnson; the history of the English language; forgery\, fakery and fraud; satire; and literary biography; and he is the author of several books on these subjects\, including an abridgment of Dr. Johnson’s “Dictionary\,” a biography of Shakespeare that begins with his death and ends with his 300th birthday\, a history of the idea of “proper” English\, and a wide-ranging history of reference books from ancient Mesopotamian tablets to the latest updates on Wikipedia. \nRegister here for the online lecture: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-jack-lynch-on-the-frontiers-of-anglicity-tickets-914717804577?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nAbout this Exhibition \nSamuel Johnson\, creator of the first great English dictionary\, wickedly mocked his own trade when he defined lexicographer as “A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge\, that busies himself in tracing the original\, and detailing the signification of words.” But dictionaries are serious business\, and the people who drudge away at them are anything but harmless. Co-curated by Grolier Club members Bryan A. Garner (Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University) and Jack Lynch (Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University)\, Hardly Harmless Drudgery traces the history of English-language lexicography from its origins to its digital present in some 100 objects\, from early printed books to CD-ROMs. Highlights include important dictionaries and manuscripts—mostly from Garner’s collection—including items from Johnson\, Noah Webster\, and the Oxford English Dictionary\, as well as portraits\, advertisements\, lexicographic ephemera\, and letters. An accompanying monograph from Godine was published in March 2024. This is a virtual lecture that will be live webcast. \nGrolier Club Members \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite. \nPublic Support \nWe appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For more than 130 years we have offered our exhibitions and lectures to the public\, free of charge. If you have enjoyed these offerings\, and would like to support the continuance of that tradition\, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/jack-lynch-the-frontiers-of-anglicity/
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SUMMARY:Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nAmy Gore brings mainstream narratives about the history of the book into conversation with Indigenous book history\, considering among others John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta (1854)\, the first novel published in the state of California and the first novel published by a Native American. \nRegister here:
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/book-anatomy-body-politics-and-the-materiality-of-indigenous-book-history/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240614T120000
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SUMMARY:Julie Park: Containing the Self in Eighteenth-Century Pocket Diaries
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nThe smartphone is beginning to supersede the pocket diary\, but in the 18th century\, people carried tiny manuscripts preserving not only dates and addresses\, but windows into their lives and personalities. Join Julie Park for “Containing the Self in Eighteenth-Century Pocket Diaries: Graphic Forms and Formats of Personal Information Storage” \nClick here to register: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5675385?CalendarViewType=1&SelectedDate=6/30/2024
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/2159/
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SUMMARY:Julie Park: Containing the Self in Eighteenth-Century Pocket Diaries
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nJulie Park on Containing the Self in Eighteenth-Century Pocket Diaries: Graphic Forms and Formats of Personal Information Storage\nWhen/Where: 6/14/2024 12:00 PM CT/1:00 PM ET. Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required via website. ULCC live attendance – Zoom presentation and optional lunch ($35) following. Reservations required by 12PM CT 6/12/24. Seating limit is 24. \nWould you like to attend? Click here to register.\n \nEVENT DETAILS:\n \nJune Midday Program \n\n \n“Oh no! Where’s my phone?” \nFor some people\, gasping that out in concert with a frantic beating of pockets\, rifling through bags\, and swiveling of the head provides the sort of terrifying adrenaline rush a diver might experience upon seeing a shark barreling toward them. (And some would rather face the shark.) \nWhat in the world did people carry and use to record important thoughts\, dates\, and other deeply personal information before we were blessed by the invention of smart phones? \nPocket diaries. Manuscript books in their purest form. \nJoin us in June as Julie Park introduces us to the world of eighteenth-century pocket diaries. Dr. Park will be joining us from the Pennsylvania State University where she serves as Paterno Family Librarian for Literature and Professor of English. Much published\, she is the editor of the Penn State Series in the History of the Book at Penn State University Press and is the author of My Dark Room: Spaces of the Inner Self in Eighteenth-Century England (University of Chicago Press). \nThink of all the contributions diaries have made to the presentation of history\, from Pepys to Frank\, from Woolf to Scott. Then update your diary to reflect your planned attendance at this — the final midday meeting of the Caxton Club’s 2023–2024 season! \nRegister today! \nZoom presentation is free and open to all. \nZoom begins at 12:00PM CT/1:00 PM ET. Preregistration required via website. \nRegister here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5675385/Registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/julie-park-containing-the-self-in-eighteenth-century-pocket-diaries/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240610T193000
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SUMMARY:Goethe's Color Theory and Estienne's Centones: Handpress Era Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJune 10\, 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: The Handpress Era group (“printed books and other printed works created before ca. 1800”). This month you’ll hear from both our co-hosts. To join the list contact info@fabsocieties.org. \n  \n\nDavid DiLaura: “Goethean vs Newtonian Color Theories: Communicating Perception using Hand Coloring.” Goethe’s 20-year argument with the Newtonian conception of color hinged not on physical abstractions\, but rather what we see. Central to both his works on color\, Goethe believed that the nature and origin of color was to be extracted from perceptions\, and color perception was communicated by hand-color figures in book plates and playing-card-like ephemera.\nJennifer Larson: “The Neglected Ancient Genre of the Cento and Henri Estienne’s 1578 edition.” Centones are “patchwork” poems composed of disparate lines from epic. In late antiquity\, Falconia Proba and Eudocia Augusta composed centones on biblical subjects using lines from Vergil and Homer respectively. I will discuss the Aldine and Stephanus editions of these poems and changing attitudes toward this curious genre in antiquity and the Renaissance.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/goethes-color-theory-and-estiennes-centones-handpress-era-zoom-group/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240610T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240610T181500
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SUMMARY:Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy\, 1836-1932
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nEllen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy\, 1836-1932\n\nMonday\, June 10\, 2024\, 5-6:15 PM (Pacific)\nVirtual Presentation \n\n\n5:00 PM Pacific – Program \nMolly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836–1932)\, an American newspaperwoman\, feminist\, suffragist\, abolitionist\, and social reformer. She used her fortune to support women’s education\, the labor movement\, and public access to science\, the arts\, and education. \nBorn in London\, Scripps grew up in rural poverty on the Illinois prairie. She went from rags to riches\, living out that cherished American story in which people pull themselves up by their bootstraps with audacity\, hard work\, and luck. She and her brother\, E. W. Scripps\, built America’s largest chain of newspapers\, linking midwestern industrial cities with booming towns in the West. Less well known today than the papers started by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst\, Scripps newspapers transformed their owners into millionaires almost overnight. \nBy the 1920s Scripps was worth an estimated $30 million\, most of which she gave away. She established the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla\, California\, and appeared on the cover of Time magazine after founding Scripps College in Claremont\, California. She also provided major financial support to organizations worldwide that promised to advance democratic principles and public education. \nIn Ellen Browning Scripps\, McClain brings to life an extraordinary woman who played a vital role in the history of women\, California\, and the American West. \nA virtual presentation by Molly McClain\, author and professor of History\, University of San Diego \n\nClick here to REGISTER for the Virtual Presentation on Zoom
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/2133/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240528T193000
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SUMMARY:Living With Books FABS Zoom Group: Reading Places and Cataloging Redux
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nMay 28 (fourth Tuesday of the month)\, 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: Living With Books: Hosted by The Private Library author Reid Byers\, this is a group on the pleasures and paraphernalia of home libraries. The format for the May meeting will be an open discussion about reading places (where do YOU read?) and cataloging redux. \nTo join contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/living-with-books-fabs-zoom-group-reading-places-and-cataloging-redux/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240520T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Group: Erin Fletcher on Contemporary Embroidered Bindings
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nMay 20\, 4:30pm Pacific\, 7:30pm EST \nJoin FABS members interested in Bindings for a presentation and discussion with Erin Fletcher\, design binder and proprietor of Herringbone Bindery\, on Contemporary Embroidered Bindings. \nTo join the list for this group contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-group-erin-fletcher-on-contemporary-embroidered-bindings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nMay 16 (third Thursday of the month)\, 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: The 19th Century special interest group\, co-hosted by Bill Bryson and Richard Kopley\, offers “a broad look at the 19th Century bibliophilic world; presentations and discussion for collectors\, scholars\, creatives and other book professionals.” The format is informal discussion. \nTo join the list for this group contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240516T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240516T173000
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SUMMARY:Year of the Cicada: Buzzing with 17 Years of Biodiversity Achievements
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Biodiversity Heritage Library\, The Field Museum; this notice brought to you by The Caxton Club \nWhen/Where: 5/16/2024 2:00–5:30PM CT The hybrid event is free and open to the public. Advanced registration is required for in-person and virtual attendance via BHL website. \nEVENT DETAILS: \nIn conjunction with the 2024 Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Annual Meeting\, the Field Museum will host a public symposium on May 16\, 2024. The symposium will be open to all attendees of the BHL Annual Meeting as well as others from the biodiversity community. \nIn May 2024\, the dual emergence of Broods XIII and XIX of the periodical cicadas (Magicicada) will coincide with the 17th anniversary of the launch of the BHL portal. To commemorate this unique convergence\, BHL will recognize and celebrate notable achievements in both the biodiversity community and the BHL community in the past 17 years. \nReturning to its roots in Chicago\, the BHL community is thrilled to gather at the Field Museum\, a founding partner of BHL since 2006. The Chicago Botanic Garden\, co-host for the Annual Meeting\, joined BHL in 2014. Chicago has been pivotal in BHL’s journey\, hosting early technical planning sessions in 2004 and the 2011 global biodiversity community meeting titled Life and Literature at The Field Museum. \nRegister today! \nVirtual attendance \nThe event will also be livestreamed via Zoom Webinar for virtual attendance. \nThe hybrid event is free and open to the public. Advanced registration is required for in-person and virtual attendance.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/year-of-the-cicada-buzzing-with-17-years-of-biodiversity-achievements/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240515T170000
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SUMMARY:Altered Book: Véronique Plesch on The Many Paradoxes of Tom Phillips’s 'A Humument'
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Baxter Society \nThe Baxter Society -  May 15\, at 5:00 pm eastern - \nat Glickman Library in Portland Maine\, and on Zoom.\n\nVéronique Plesch\, Professor of Art History at Colby College and chair of\n the Art Department\, holds advanced degrees in Art History and Medieval \nFrench Literature from the University of Geneva\, and from Princeton \nUniversity\, where she received her Ph.D. in Art History. She will speak \non “The Many Paradoxes of Tom Phillips’s A Humument.” \nA Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel is an altered book by British artist \nTom Phillips. It is a piece of art created over W.H. Mallock’s 1892 novel \nA Human Document whose title results from the partial deletion of the original \ntitle: A Human document.\n\nTo attend\, please contact Reid Byers at reidbyers@gmail.com
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/altered-book-veronique-plesch-on-the-many-paradoxes-of-tom-phillipss-a-humument/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T190000
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SUMMARY:From the "Battle of the Books" to an Internationally Known Special Collection
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles \nFrom the “Battle of the Books” to an Internationally Known Special Collection. Baltimore Bibliophiles presents a virtual tour of the Gordon W. Prange Collection at the University of Maryland Libraries with curator Kana Jenkins. The Prange Collection is the most comprehensive archive in the world of Japanese print publications issued during the early years of the Occupation of Japan\, 1945-1949. Tuesday\, May 14\, at 7pm EDT via Zoom. Questions? nancymagnuson@comcast.net Join the program at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84898307464?pwd=dWZZNFZoR1VRTTJuckdJYXgxakxndz09 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/from-the-battle-of-the-books-to-an-internationally-known-special-collection/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240513T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group: Decorated Paper and a 16th Century Book Collector/Surgeon/Poet/Spy
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nMay 13 (second Monday of the month)\, 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: The Handpress Era group (“printed books and other printed works created before ca. 1800”) is hosted by Jennifer Larson and David DiLaura. For May we welcome two speakers: \nRodger Friedman “Some books wrapped in decorated papers.”  \nI will talk about the Remondini family of Bassano del Grappa\, how their little printing firm expanded into producing color-woodblock decorated papers in the 18th century. I will talk about the process\, about the history of the blocks themselves\, and I will show a few examples. \nDr. Gene Flamm “François Rasse des Neux: Surgeon\, Book Collector\, Poet and Spy.” \nI will discuss  (briefly) books in my collection with his signature and how they reflect the activities of this 16th century surgeon. \nTo join the list for this group contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-zoom-group-decorated-paper-and-a-16th-century-book-collector-surgeon-poet-spy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240513T170000
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SUMMARY:Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nSand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles\n\nMonday\, May 13\, 2024\, 5-6:15 PM (Pacific)\nVirtual Presentation \n\n\n5:00 PM Pacific – Program \nThe Los Angeles shoreline is one of the most iconic natural landscapes in the United States\, if not the world. Yet\, in the early twentieth century Angelenos routinely lamented the city’s crowded\, polluted\, and eroded sands\, many of which were private and inaccessible to the public. \nBetween the 1920s and the 1960s\, LA’s engineers\, city officials\, urban planners\, and business elite worked together to transform the relatively untouched beaches into modern playgrounds for the white middle class. \nAs they opened up vast public spaces for many Angelenos to express themselves\, show off their bodies\, and forge alternative communities\, they made clear that certain groups of beachgoers\, including African Americans\, gay men and women\, and bodybuilders\, were no longer welcome. \nSand Rush not only uncovers how the Los Angeles coastline was constructed but also how this major planning and engineering project affected the lives of ordinary city-dwellers and attracted many Americans to move to Southern California. \nA virtual presentation by Elsa Devienne\, author and assistant professor in US History\, Northumbria University\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, England \n\nClick here to REGISTER for the Virtual Presentation on Zoom
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/sand-rush-the-revival-of-the-beach-in-twentieth-century-los-angeles/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240510T120000
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SUMMARY:Aaron Pratt on Shakespeare and Spencer\, Secondhand
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nMay Midday Program \n \nYou probably misheard it over the radio. Barbra Streisand wasn’t singing about “Secondhand Rose” … she was belting out “Secondhand Prose.” \nJust think about some of the most precious volumes in your collection. The ones that you didn’t purchase fresh off the press\, but found in a used book store. Or bought at auction. Or stumbled upon at an estate sale. \nThis idea of acquiring previously owned books isn’t new\, and during our May Midday\, Aaron Pratt will draw on the formidable resources of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas to tell the tale of the emergence of trade in secondhand volumes. \nDrawing on the Ransom Center’s copies of Seneca His Tenne Tragedies (1581) and Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1596)\, Pratt will transport you to the middle of the 17th entry and introduce you to a specialized trade in plays\, poetry\, and prose fiction. He’ll also reveal the origins of the narratives that we tell about the reception and ultimate canonization of Shakespeare\, Spenser\, and select contemporaries. \nMuch published\, Aaron Pratt\, serves as the Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center and as Assistant Professor\, English. \nDon’t just hear about this program. Experience it first hand. Register today! \nZoom presentation is free and open to all. \nZoom begins at 12:00PM CT/1:00 PM ET. Preregistration required via website: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5663535?CalendarViewType=1&SelectedDate=4/25/2024
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/aaron-pratt-on-shakespeare-and-spencer-secondhand/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240506T200000
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: "The Original Wikipedia: Siku Quanshu"
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by  The Manuscript Society \n“The Original Wikipedia:  18th Century Chinese Emperor Qianlong’s Siku Quanshu Project”\nFree\, Live Webinar\n\nMonday\, May 6\, 2024 – 8:00 PM Eastern\, 5:00PM Pacific (U.S. and Canada)\nPresenter: Susan Lahey\, MA\, ISA CAPP\nIn 1772\, Emperor Qianlong of China\, a prolific poet\, major art patron\, and insatiable collector\, ordered the largest encyclopedic compilation of books in Chinese history.  Within 10 years\, a team of more than 350 scholars and hundreds of editors had compiled 36\,381 volumes (2.3 million pages) of the Siku Quanshu.  Also known as the Complete Library in Four Sections only seven copies were made. Four of which survive today in Chinese libraries. \nLearn about this “wikipedia” of Chinese literature\, history\, medicine\, arts\, science\, philosophy\, and classic Confucian texts and its importance both then and now\, including the process of selecting\, editing and censoring information. \nPresenter: Susan Lahey\, MA\, ISA CAPP\n\nSusan Lahey\, MA\, ISA CAPP\, is an award-winning certified appraiser of personal property specializing in Asian art. Her ability to read traditional Chinese characters allows her to identify and translate calligraphy and marks on Fine and Decorative Chinese art. She has been a member of the International Society of Appraisers for 14 years\, and is the former President of the Canadian Chapter of the ISA. Ms. Lahey holds an Honors BA in Chinese Studies from the University of Toronto; MA with thesis in Classical Chinese Literature from the University of British Columbia; and Post-Graduate Diploma with Distinction in Asian Art from the School of Oriental & African Studies (University of London\, England) and Sotheby’s Educational Studies. \nSusan lived in Taipei\, Taiwan for two years continuing her Mandarin studies and traveled extensively in Asia studying Chinese art collections. She is the President of Eastern Art Consultants Inc.\, providing independent appraisal\, research\, and collection management services. Previously\, she worked at the Royal Ontario Museum in various capacities and led the Asian art departments of two Toronto auction houses. Ms. Lahey is a highly sought-after instructor of Asian Ceramics and Chinese Decorative Arts specialty courses. \nRegister in advance for this webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6917107750766/WN_tfv7u37GTYirUs9jCkYvrQ\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-the-original-wikipedia-siku-quanshu/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240506T180000
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SUMMARY:The Oscar Lewis Awards of The Book Club of California
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \n2024 Oscar Lewis Awards\n\nMonday\, May 6\, 2024\, 6-7:15 PM (Pacific)\nIn-Person and Virtual Presentation \n\n\n5:00 PM Pacific – Reception\n6:00 PM Pacific – Program \nThe Oscar Lewis Awards were established by the Book Club of California in 1994 in honor of Oscar Lewis (1893-1992)\, author\, historian\, and club secretary. This year Dr. Albert L. Hurtado will be recognized for his contributions to Western History and Lawrence G. Van Velzer and Peggy Gotthold will be recognized for their contributions to the Book Arts. \nThis is an in-person and virtual event\, open to the public on Zoom \nClick here to REGISTER for the Virtual Presentation on Zoom
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-oscar-lewis-awards-of-the-book-club-of-california/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240505T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240505T160000
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SUMMARY:The Clements Library Collections and Buying Books in Nineteenth-Century America
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington \nWe are delighted that Paul Erickson\, Director of the Clements Library at the University of Michigan\, can join us in Seattle to make a presentation at Folio in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. Co-hosted by the Book Club of Washington and the U-M Club of Seattle\, the event will also be live streamed on Zoom.  After covering the history and importance of the Clements Library\, which houses one of the nation’s leading collections of early American history and culture\, Paul will explain how books were bought in nineteenth-century America\, the subject of his well-received presentation to the Book Club of Detroit.  \nPaul Erickson is a scholar of nineteenth-century popular fiction and print culture and holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. From 2007-2016 he served as Director of Academic Programs at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester\, MA. For the next 3+ years\, he was Program Director for Humanities\, Arts & Culture and American Institutions at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge. Since January 2020\, he has been the Randolph G. Adams Director of the William Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Located in the heart of the UM campus\, the Clements Library is  a beautiful classical building designed by Albert Kahn. \nTo register for the online program\, click here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/the-clements-library-collections-and-buying-books-in-nineteenth-century-america?cid=1291030c-f5cd-4f28-ac2a-0f1daf7824dd&utm_campaign=4c8e16e4-1c60-44f6-8d31-908867b3cfc8&utm_medium=mail&utm_source=so
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-clements-library-collections-and-buying-books-in-nineteenth-century-america/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T193000
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SUMMARY:Language\, Decipherment and Translation
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nJoin Curator Deirdre Lawrence for a pre-recorded tour of her Grolier Club exhibition “Language\, Decipherment\, and Translation\,” followed by a Live Q&A via Zoom. The exhibition is on view in our Second Floor Gallery through May 11\, 2024. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-tour-language-decipherment-and-translation-tickets-800031685307?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/language-decipherment-and-translation/
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