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SUMMARY:Celebrating Bloomsday: Live at the Grolier
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nAn evening of Traditional Irish Music featuring Cashel Blake Day-Lewis\, Ursula Garry\, Matt Stapleton Isaac Alderson \n\n\n\n\nJoin the Grolier Club and the Irish Arts Center for a special Bloomsday\, June 16th\, evening of traditional Irish music\, featuring Cashel Blake Day-Lewis on fiddle\, Ursula Garry on flute\, Matt Stapleton on guitar\, and Isaac Alderson on the uilleann pipes. \nWe look forward to an unforgettable evening of music\, culture\, and history! \nThis is a livestream only event \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \nThis event is only open to the public virtually. Please RSVP to receive livestream link. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-live-at-the-grolier-celebrating-bloomsday-tickets-1986555673496?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nSupport \nWe appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For over 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 that tradition\, and help ensure that it continues\, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/celebrating-bloomsday-live-at-the-grolier/
LOCATION:The Grolier Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260619T210000
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThis congenial Zoom group moderated by Bill Bryson and Richard Kopley meets monthly to discuss all things bookish and 19th century! We hope you will join us. \nFor a link contact Jennifer Larson info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-20/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260623T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260623T203000
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books: What Book Opened Up a New World for You?
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nHosted on Zoom by Reid Byers\, author of The Private Library\, this discussion-based group focuses on the joys and challenges of the home library. This month’s topics: \n1. Books that Opened Up a New World for Us\n2. Reading in Bed\n\nWe hope you will join us!\nFor a link contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-what-book-opened-up-a-new-world-for-you/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T133627Z
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SUMMARY:Play Reading: Colin Murphy's "Inside the GPO"
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nThis play covers the five days in which the 1916 Rebels occupied the GPO after proclaiming an independent Irish Republic. \n\n\n\n\nFirst performed inside the General Post Office on O’Connell Street in Dublin during the 2016 commemoration of the Easter Rising\, this play covers the five days in which the 1916 Rebels occupied the GPO after proclaiming an independent Irish Republic. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite. All others register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-play-reading-colin-murphys-inside-the-gpo-tickets-1986555495965?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nSupport \nWe appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For over 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 that tradition\, and help ensure that it continues\, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/play-reading-colin-murphys-inside-the-gpo/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260627T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260627T190000
DTSTAMP:20260625T124507Z
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SUMMARY:Sam Gatteno: From Papyri to the 20th Century
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of Detroit \nBookseller Sam Gatteno presents highlights from his eclectic collection\, including Shakespeare and Shakespeare forgeries\, incunables and 16th century books\, fine press books\, art books\, Bibles\, and bindings. \nA past president of the Book Club of Detroit and a well-respected antiquarian book collector\, Sam has extensive expertise on earliest printing and publications — plus a legendary collection reflecting his deep interest in every aspect of the book. From papyri to 20th Century livres d’artistes\, Sam’s collection is full of rare and fascinating finds! Our virtual format will allow for closer views of Sam’s treasures! \nThis event will include an opportunity for Q & A; participants will be able to submit their questions via the Zoom chat function. \nFor a link please contact Marcia McBrien: bcdrsvp73@gmail.com \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/sam-gatteno-from-papyri-to-the-20th-century/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T203000
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Zoom: A 1474 Medical Dictionary and A Holy Card
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nOn Monday July 13 we have two guests: \nDr. Gene Flamm will discuss his copy of the first printed medical dictionary: Simon Genuensis [Cordo]. Synonyma medicinae sive Clavis sanationis. Padua: 1474. This copy has an interesting non-medical provenance. \nMartha Driver Ph.D. will present “A Holy Card and A Book of Hours: Tracking Provenance (with questions for the audience).” \n7:30pm Eastern\n6:30pm Central\n5:30pm Mountain\n4:30pm Pacific \nFor a link contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-zoom-a-1474-medical-dictionary-and-a-holy-card/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T200000
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SUMMARY:Digital Scriptorium for North American Manuscript Collections
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nManuscript Monday – A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society  \nDate: Monday\, July 13 @ 8pm EST  \nGuest Presenter: Lynn Ransom\, Curator of Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies\, University of Pennsylvania Libraries\, and Acting Executive Director\, Digital Scriptorium \nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore\, The Manuscript Society  \nA pre-recorded webinar with a LIVE Q&A with presenter Lynn Ransom.  \nTitle:  \nDigital Scriptorium: Towards a National Union Catalog of Premodern Manuscripts in North American Collections  \nOverview:  \nLaunched in 2024\, the new Digital Scriptorium Catalog aims to be the first national union catalog for premodern manuscripts in North America built on Linked Open Data technologies and practices. Following a brief history of similar attempts\, Lynn will discuss the motivations and principles behind the redevelopment project and why it just might work this time. \nPresenter:  \nLynn Ransom is the Curator of Programs at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Since arriving at Penn in 2008\, she has overseen the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts. an open-access\, user-maintained finding aid for the world’s pre-modern manuscripts\, and since 2020\, has led the redevelopment of the Digital Scriptorium Catalog\, a growing online national union catalog for premodern manuscripts in North American collections. She has published on issues related to the digital cataloging and manuscript description as well as on the illumination of devotional manuscripts of the 13th and 16th centuries and currently serves as the co-editor of the Schoenberg Institute’s journal Manuscript Studies.  \nTo register for this webinar visit: \nmanuscript.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/digital-scriptorium-for-north-american-manuscript-collections/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260716T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260716T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin this congenial group for conversation about all things bibliophilic and 19th-century! We meet monthly on the third Thursday. \nTo be added to the list for links\, contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-21/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom: Dr. Stephanie Stillo of the Library of Congress
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nDr. Stephanie Stillo\, Chief\, Rare Books and Special Collection Division at the Library of Congress will show us some of the recently acquired bindings in the collection. The Library of Congress actively adds artists’ books\, fine and design bindings\, and other treasures to the collection. \nJuly 20\, Monday\, 7:30 Eastern\, 4:30 Pacific. \nFor a link please contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-dr-stephanie-stillo-of-the-library-of-congress/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260723T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260723T190000
DTSTAMP:20260629T184014Z
CREATED:20260629T184000Z
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SUMMARY:A Haggadah\, A Collection\, A Synagogue: The Harold Greenbaum Rare Book Collection with Jane Rothstein
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by NOBS \n\n7:00 PM  8:30 PM\n\nCongregation Mishkan Or\, a Reform Jewish synagogue in Beachwood\, Ohio\, is the steward of an extraordinary collection of more than 200 rare volumes of Hebrew and other Jewish books from the 15th-20th centuries.  Dr. Harold Greenbaum\, a Cleveland physician\, donated this collection to his synagogue\, Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple\, one of Mishkan Or’s legacy congregations\, in the late 1960s.  There it remained safe\, but relatively unexplored until Fairmount Temple’s merger with The Temple-Tifereth Israel in 2024\, when librarian and archivist Jane Rothstein began to inventory and research this hidden treasure. Aside from being amazed and delighted\, what does a synagogue librarian and her library do with a collection like this? \nAlong the way\, Mishkan Or received a grant from the State Library of Ohio and the Ohio Preservation Council\, with funds from the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS)\, for the conservation of one book from the Greenbaum Collection. We chose a Passover Haggadah published in Venice in 1663.  This conservation project offers an opportunity to treat one very damaged book and explore the celebration of Passover across centuries. The project also helps open a window onto the collection\, raising awareness of it within the congregation and the wider community\, and prompting conversations about the best ways to care for and share these books. \nJane will discuss the collection and share volumes and photos.  She will also discuss the journey of the Haggadah\, from its publication in 17th-century Venice to its home in a 21st-century synagogue library in Ohio and through the conservation process. \nFor a link\, go here: https://www.nobsbooks.org/events
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/a-haggadah-a-collection-a-synagogue-the-harold-greenbaum-rare-book-collection-with-jane-rothstein/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260727T170000
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DTSTAMP:20260629T135353Z
CREATED:20260629T135341Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating People's History with Josh MacPhee
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nThe Celebrate People’s History poster series has organized and curated by Josh MacPhee since 1998. The over 200 posters in the ongoing series are rooted in the do-it-yourself tradition of mass-produced and distributed political propaganda\, but detourned to embody principles of democracy\, inclusion\, and group participation in the writing and interpretation of history. Over more than 25 years\, MacPhee has worked with hundreds of artists\, designers\, authors\, students\, activists\, and organizers to find events\, groups\, and people who have moved forward the collective struggle of humanity to create a more equitable and just world\, who in turn have generated a diverse set of posters that bring to life successful moments in the history of social justice struggles. The posters tell stories from the subjective position of the creators\, and are often the stories of underdogs\, those written out of history. The goal of this project is not to tell a definitive history\, but to suggest a new relationship to the past\, where all of us see the crafting of history as something we both can and should participate in. \nA virtual presentation by Josh MacPhee\, designer\, artist\, archivist\, activist\, and founding member of both Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive \nRegister: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F3wbtJfoTQew3_5LZ4aU_g#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/celebrating-peoples-history-with-josh-macphee/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260727T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260727T181500
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SUMMARY:Celebrating People’s History
DESCRIPTION:The Celebrate People’s History poster series has organized and curated by Josh MacPhee since 1998. The over 200 posters in the ongoing series are rooted in the do-it-yourself tradition of mass-produced and distributed political propaganda\, but detourned to embody principles of democracy\, inclusion\, and group participation in the writing and interpretation of history. Over more than 25 years\, MacPhee has worked with hundreds of artists\, designers\, authors\, students\, activists\, and organizers to find events\, groups\, and people who have moved forward the collective struggle of humanity to create a more equitable and just world\, who in turn have generated a diverse set of posters that bring to life successful moments in the history of social justice struggles. The posters tell stories from the subjective position of the creators\, and are often the stories of underdogs\, those written out of history. The goal of this project is not to tell a definitive history\, but to suggest a new relationship to the past\, where all of us see the crafting of history as something we both can and should participate in. \nA virtual presentation by Josh MacPhee\, designer\, artist\, archivist\, activist\, and founding member of both Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/celebrating-peoples-history/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T203000
DTSTAMP:20260629T134918Z
CREATED:20260625T154004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260629T134918Z
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books: Decorations in the Library and Reading Equipment
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nOn July 28 join your host Reid Byers and the gang for another lively discussion about Living With Books. Our topics this month: (1) “Prints\, Paintings\, and Decorations in the Library” and (2) “Reading Equipment.” \nFor a link please contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/living-with-books-decorations-in-the-library-and-reading-equipment/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260803T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260803T181500
DTSTAMP:20260630T012245Z
CREATED:20260630T012211Z
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SUMMARY:Troublemaker: The Fierce\, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford
DESCRIPTION:Troublemaker tells the wild and unlikely story of Jessica Mitford\, fifth of the six famous Mitford Girls\, a British aristocrat-turned-American Communist\, famous for exposés like The American Way of Death; this biography brings her astonishing self-transformation to life with a riveting\, often hilarious account of trading wealth and status for a life of radical activism. \nWho could predict that a British aristocrat would so energize American antifascist and civil rights struggles that Time magazine would crown her “Queen of the Muckrakers”? Jessica Mitford\, always known as Decca\, was brought up by an eccentric English family to marry well and reproduce her wealth and privilege\, not to advocate for the rights of others. Her beautiful sisters have been subjects of books and movies dedicated to their naughty\, glamorous lives. Decca ran away to America to forge a rebel’s life. As this richly researched book details\, Decca broke the Mitford mold. Instead of settling for life as a professional Beauty\, she fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War\, became an American Communist and pioneered witty\, hugely popular journalism\, including her 1963 blockbuster The American Way of Death. Decca dedicated her life to social justice and proved herself an immensely effective ally\, but she also injected laughter into all her political work\, annoying some activists with her relentless antics but encouraging many others to find joy in the struggle. From famed baby doctor Benjamin Spock to best friend Maya Angelou\, her anti-authoritarian irreverence had a profound impact on American culture. \nA virtual presentation by Carla Kaplan\, author\, historian\, and Associate Professor\, English Department\, Yale University\, New Haven\, Connecticut. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/troublemaker-the-fierce-unruly-life-of-jessica-mitford/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260810T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260810T191500
DTSTAMP:20260630T012729Z
CREATED:20260630T012657Z
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SUMMARY:Eugene O’Neill and Long Day’s Journey Into Night at Tao House—a California Story
DESCRIPTION:Few people realize that Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night\, which won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize\, was written in California in 1939-41. After winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936\, O’Neill and his third wife\, the actress Carlotta Monterey\, built Tao House just outside Danville\, California. Realizing that his writing career was coming to an end\, due to illness\, he needed to find a way—literally\, the tao—to write the most personal and difficult plays he had ever attempted\, also including The Iceman Cometh and A Touch of the Poet. \nTao House was inspired by Chinese principles\, which his California-born wife helped to implement in an effort to create a setting that was conducive to his writing these consummate works. It also reflects the Spanish colonial history of California. William Davies King’s new book argues that Long Day’s Journey\, O’Neill’s most deeply autobiographical play\, emerges from the tao of that house and could only have been written then and there—in that convergence of Irish\, Spanish\, and Chinese cultures and on the verge of World War II. \nKing’s book adopts an unusual form\, using the diaries of Eugene and Carlotta\, to suggest that the play might be read as a product of a marriage that was soon to go haywire but for a brief moment allowed for the creation of a work of genius\, which was\, in effect\, the genius of Tao House. Long Day’s Journey was only published and produced after O’Neill’s death\, thirteen years it was written\, but it has been performed many times worldwide by the finest actors\, and it remains the quintessential American play. Tao House has been a National Historic Site\, maintained by the National Park Service\, for fifty years. Professor King will take us into the site and into the play and into the marriage\, and he will show us many items from his extensive collection of photographs and documents of Eugene and Carlotta O’Neill. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by William Davies King\, author\, editor\, scholar\, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theater and Dance\, University of California Santa Barbara\, California. \nTo. register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/eugene-oneill-and-long-days-journey-into-night-at-tao-house-a-california-story/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260817T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260817T181500
DTSTAMP:20260630T013649Z
CREATED:20260630T013110Z
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SUMMARY:California Eden: Heritage Landscapes of the Golden State
DESCRIPTION:For many people\, the concept of landscape is associated with gardens\, especially estate gardens. California Eden reaches far beyond the elite circle of private estates; this book highlights a wide range of landscapes from the professional to the vernacular and delves deep into the cultural and historical significance of these landscapes\, revealing the untold stories of the people who have inhabited and shaped them over the centuries. \nCo-editors Christine Edstrom O’Hara and Susan Chamberlin bring together these voices from the landscape architecture community to discuss and present the history of both rural and urban landscapes and how they shape (and are shaped by) nature and the people who design them. Entries highlight famous and beloved estate gardens but also more frequently overlooked landscapes such as shopping malls\, streetscapes\, sports venues\, and vernacular sites. \nCovering a range of places from a military installation on the California-Mexico border\, to the campus of Stanford University\, and the Japanese American gardens of San Diego\, California Eden speaks to design as well as the challenges of historic preservation of these-often ephemeral places. \nA virtual presentation by Susan Chamberlin\, author\, editor\, landscape historian\, and licensed landscape architect and Christine Edstrom O’Hara\, author and Professor of Landscape Architecture\, Cal Poly\, San Luis Obispo\, California \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/california-eden-heritage-landscapes-of-the-golden-state/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260824T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260824T181500
DTSTAMP:20260630T013815Z
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SUMMARY:Out of the Gutters: How California Comix Saved Comics
DESCRIPTION:Out of the Gutters: Obscenity\, Censorship\, and Transgression\, edited by Jorge J. Santos and Patrick S. Lawrence\, explores US comics that have been challenged for their boundary-breaking content. Covering well-known underground figures like R. Crumb and Charles Burns\, newcomers such as C. Spike Trotman and Emil Ferris\, and mainstream creators including Chris Claremont and Archie Goodwin\, the collection dives into the market economics of transgression\, historical representations of graphic violence\, the ever-changing meaning of pornography\, sex-positive comics by BIPOC authors\, and queerness in pop-culture mega-properties. Comics have long been and continue to be a subject of moral panics\, but instead of targeting raw sex like Crumb’s counter-culture provocations in the last century\, censors now focus on affirmations of nonheteronormative identity even where sex isn’t prominent\, as in Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer. And while violence is a constant in comics\, stories that acknowledge nationalist violence\, such as Art Spiegelman’s Maus and the innovative Blazing Combat\, have also been blacklisted. \nCome join Professors Lawrence and Santos to discuss how comics creators resisted these censorship paradigms from their outset and how these transgressors paved the way for contemporary comics culture in both narrative and publishing terms. We will especially highlight California counterculture’s special role in saving comic books from bland irrelevance. Learn how the implementation of the Comics Code Authority and the censorship paradigm established by 1973’s Miller v California nearly vanquished the comic book industry altogether\, as well as how stalwart industry creators\, such as Archie Goodwin of Warren Publishing and the outrageously crude members of the Comix movement\, boldly resisted\, either seeking ways around the censorship apparatus or deliberately thumbing their noses at it. Come learn how San Francisco became a hot bed of anticensorship attitudes through the history of the comic book and the graphic novel while we consider what lessons we may learn from 20th century censorship to face 21st century challenges. \nA virtual presentation by Jorge J. Santos Jr.\, author\, editor\, and Associate Professor\, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US\, College of the Holy Cross\, Worchester\, Massachusetts and Patrick S. Lawrence\, author\, editor\, and Professor of English\, University of South Carolina\, Lancaster. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/out-of-the-gutters-how-california-comix-saved-comics/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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SUMMARY:Charles W. Chesnutt: Symposium (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Western Reserve Historical Society\, The Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society\, The Rowfant Club\, Charles W. Chesnutt Digital Archive\, The Cuyahoga County Public Library\, and the Cleveland Public Library. \nThe Second Charles W. Chesnutt Symposium [In Person Only] \nSaturday\, September 26\, 2026  \n8:00 AM through 5:30 PM \nAt the Western Reserve Historical Society\, Cleveland\, Ohio  \nRegistration Fee: $80.00 for standard participants and $50.00 for full time students \nFully Refundable Date: August 15\, 2026 \nhttps://www.chesnutt2026.com or www.rowfant.org \nCharles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was arguably the most important African American author (fiction\, essays and advocacy) to ply his trade in America between Reconstruction and the Harlem Renaissance; he was certainly the most important author to come from Ohio during this period\, and his influence was clearly national. It is also important to note that several of his novels were not published until 50 years after his death\, largely because they were considered too provocative for their time.  \nFeaturing presentations by: \nStephanie Browner\, PhD: The New School  \nTess Chakkalakal\, PhD: Bowdoin College  \nCharles Duncan\, PhD: William Peace University  \nWilliam Hardwig\, PhD: University of Tennessee Knoxville  \nKenneth M. Price\, PhD: University of Nebraska Lincoln  \nRegennia Williams\, PhD: Western Reserve Historical Society Cleveland  \nThere will also be opportunities to see the Rowfant Club of Cleveland\, take a white-glove tour of the Chesnutt archives\, and interact with the Cleveland community. Continental breakfast and a full buffet luncheon will be served; local accommodation will be available near the Case Western Reserve University campus\, including the Glidden House. \nCosponsors: The Western Reserve Historical Society\, The Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society\, Charles W. Chesnutt Digital Archive\, The Cuyahoga County Public Library\, and the Cleveland Public Library. \nhttps://chesnuttarchive.org/ \nQuestions? email cuw123@aol.com  \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/charles-w-chesnutt-symposium-in-person/
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SUMMARY:Eileen Buckholtz on "Queens of Code"
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles \nOur speaker for December 15\, 2036 is author Eileen Buckholtz. Her 2026 book\, Queens of Code\, explores the increasingly important role of women in the dawn of the computer age and beyond\, within the clandestine halls of the super secret National Security Agency. \n\n\n\nFor a link contact Binnie Syril Braunstein\, bsbgc@aol.com\n\n\n\n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/eileen-buckholtz-on-queens-of-code/
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