Sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America Panel with past winners of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. This roundtable will feature recent winners of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for young women book collectors. The panelists will share the experience of building their winning collections, with an emphasis on the moments […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Pacific Time Virtual presentation For millions of Muslims, the Qur’an is sacred only in the original Arabic. Revealed to an Arab merchant Muhammad in 7th century Arabia, it calls itself “an Arabic Qur’an”. At once lyrical and adamantine, it resists translation into any […]
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America This panel brings together scholars who will explore bibliographical analysis of oral culture, textual transcription, and capture and preservation of recorded sound from a variety of perspectives and help us to think through how we might do a bibliography of sound and oral culture. January 24, 2023 1 […]
Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America Booksellers' Showcase, In Person Jan 25, 10:30 am-4:00 pm. At the French Institute / Alliance Française, 22 E 60th St, New York. Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. A special mini-antiquarian book fair. Join 35 exhibitors offering books, maps, ephemera, and more for sale at […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Jan 25, 2:30-3:30 Eastern time A panel of Carnegie Mellon scientists and scholars - Christopher N. Warren, Max G'Sell, and Grolier Club member Samuel Lemley - will speak on "Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press: Tools, Data, and Methods for Researching Secret Printing." At the heart of […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club 6:30pm CT, 7:30pm EST The 1930s were the “golden age” of mural art in the United States. In 1935, Chicago artist Miklos Gaspar was commissioned to paint a mural cycle on all 93 feet of wall space in a private dining and meeting room of the Union League Club of […]
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America Friday, January 27 – 2pm-6pm Eastern | In-Person at Convene, 5:30 5th Ave. & Online The 2023 Annual Meeting and New Scholars Program will be held in-person and live-streamed to our virtual audience starting at 2pm Eastern with New Scholars' papers and a group question and answer session. […]
Sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine Aristotle's Masterpiece, first published in 1684, was a steady seller into the 20th century, advising readers about sex and babies. Over the course of writing a book about the Masterpiece, Professor Mary Fissell looked at hundreds of copies. In her talk she will reflect on the relationship […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Presenter: Melanie Smith – Live Free Webinar with Moderator Brian Kathenes This fascinating and exciting live-stream presentation describes the intricate process of creating classic animation art and how the animation process impacts the value of classic ‘cels’ and illustrations. Melanie Smith will describe the many different steps required to create […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club and the Chicago Art Deco Society Feb 7, 6:30pm Central Time A central aspect of the culture and lifestyle of the 1920s and ’30s was the creation and consumption of food. You could exist in an Art Deco world where everything from the soup to the nuts was inflected with […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Saddle up as we ride along with a couple of Berkeley grads who became two of the most prolific and successful writers of popular fiction during the first half of the twentieth century. They flooded bookshelves, produced plays, filled the radio and television airwaves with dramatic scripts, and gave Hollywood […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum curator Diana Seave Greenwald will discuss renowned contemporary artist Betye Saar and the book Greenwald recently edited, Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer, with contributions by Makeda Best and Stephanie Sparling Williams. Drawing on original, in-depth interviews with Saar and the companions who accompanied her on […]