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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: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/Chicago:20240614T120000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240617T170000
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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/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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T193000
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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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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: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:20240626T180000
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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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