• Anthony Bale: A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club as British historian, professor, and author Anthony Bale discusses his new book, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World through Medieval Eyes, with Grolier Club member Gillian Adler. This talk is co-sponsored by Dr. Adler's new foundation, the New York Medieval Society. Professor Bale will explore a range of sources - maps, […]

  • Virtual Symposium: Billy Budd at 100

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club for a livestreamed Symposium on Billy Budd in conjunction with Grolierite William Palmer Johnston’s exhibition, Melville’s Billy Budd at 100, running in the Club’s second-floor Gallery through November 9, 2024. The Club will host this symposium on Herman Melville and his novella Billy Budd in the ground-floor Exhibition Hall. Note: this is a live webcast.  Register here: […]

  • Virtual Tour and Curator Q&A for Billy Budd at 100 Exhibition

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Curator William Palmer Johnston leads a prerecorded tour of his exhibition "Melville's Billy Budd at 100" followed by a live online Q&A. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-tour-and-curator-qa-for-billy-budd-at-100-exhibition-tickets-1027617320067?aff=erelpanelorg Melville’s Billy Budd at 100 commemorates the centenary of the posthumous and first publication of Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd (1924), the story of a young “Handsome Sailor” impressed into the […]

  • Virtual Lecture: How a Grolierite Shaped the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Jonathan Conlin talks about former Grolier Club librarian Henry Watson Kent's role in shaping The Met into a great cultural institution. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-how-a-grolierite-shaped-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-tickets-1027694851967?aff=ebdssbdestsearch Join Grolier Club and Thomas J. Watson Library friends online as Dr. Jonathan Conlin gives a livestreamed talk called "'An Archaic American'? How a Grolierite Helped Make the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Former […]

  • Robert McCracken Peck on Botanically Illustrated Books

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club for a live webcast as former Grolierite, Robert McCracken Peck, who is Curator of Art and Senior Fellow at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, lectures on books about the natural world from the 18th and 19th centuries that defied expectations by replicating nature in a tangible […]

  • Conversation with David M. Rubenstein on Abraham Lincoln

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club online for a livestreamed conversation with David M. Rubenstein about the public exhibition Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print, which runs until December 28, 2024, in our ground-floor Exhibition Hall. Note: This is a live webcast. Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lincoln-exhibition-event-conversation-with-david-m-rubenstein-tickets-1044322214857?aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail&ref=eemail&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite If you wish to register instead for the in-person event, please visit this page. In […]

  • Andrew Hui on Renaissance Libraries

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club as Andrew Hui, associate professor of humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, will lecture on his new book, The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries (Princeton), which reveals how the Renaissance studiolo (“little studio”), space dedicated to self-cultivation, became both balm and poison for the soul. Prof. Hui, an insatiable bookworm himself, […]

  • Abraham Lincoln Virtual Exhibition Tour

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club for a video tour of the exhibition "Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print" with curator Mazy Boroujerdi, followed by live online Q&A. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-tour-qa-abraham-lincoln-his-life-in-print-tickets-1044332595907?aff=ebdsoporgprofile  

  • Imaginary Books Panel: Earle Havens, Anthony Grafton, Jeff Altepeter

    Panel discussion on the themes of the 2nd-floor gallery exhibition "Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works," curated by Reid Byers. Featuring Earle Havens, Anthony Grafton, and Jeff Altepeter; moderated by the Club's Executive Director, Declan Kiely. About Imaginary Books Part bibliophilic entertainment and part conceptual art installation, Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only […]

  • Virtual Exhibition Lecture: Reid Byers on “Collecting the Imaginary”

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Curator Reid Byers gives a livestreamed talk called "Collecting the Imaginary (in which all will be revealed)" related to his Grolier Club member's exhibition: Imaginary Books: Lost, Unwritten, and Fictive Books Found Only in Other Books . The show runs in the Grolier Club's second-floor Gallery through February 15, 2025. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-lecture-reid-beyers-on-collecting-the-imaginary-tickets-1027823195847?aff=ebdssbdestsearch Note: This […]

  • Virtual Exhibition Tour and Curator Q&A: “Imaginary Books”

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Curator Reid Byers gives a pre-recorded video walkthrough tour of his Grolier Club member's exhibition: Imaginary Books: Lost, Unwritten, and Fictive Books Found Only in Other Books followed by a live online Q&A. The show runs in the Grolier Club's second-floor Gallery through February 15, 2025. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-tour-and-curator-qa-imaginary-books-tickets-1027819314237?aff=ebdssbdestsearch Part bibliophilic entertainment and […]

  • Dr. David Wolf on Pioneers of 20th Century Hematology

    Sponsored by the Bay Area History of Medicine Society with The Grolier Club The Bay Area History of Medicine Society and the Grolier Club of New York will hold their annual joint lecture and dinner meeting at the UCSF Library, Wednesday March 12, 2025. "Pioneers in 20th-Century Hematology featuring Drs. Janet Vaughan and George Minot." […]