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FABS Member Society events for March. Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
March 2: Presenting Jane: Showing and Sharing Jane Austen in the 21st Century
Collector and curator Mary Crawford and Professor and Library Director Kirsten J. Leuner will discuss Mary’s innovative Austen exhibition (hosted at the Grolier Club in December 2025), and lead attendees on a guided tour through the British Library’s first edition facsimile of Jane Austen’s famed Pride & Prejudice (1813). (Book Club of California and American Trust for the British Library)
March 9: FABS Handpress Era Group. This month is “open mic”: sign on and share any item from your collection printed before 1800! To receive a link contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org.
March 9: Wonders of the East: Medieval Belief and Making Monsters in the Middle Ages
This talk by Prof. Asa Mittman will focus on a particular set of medieval monsters known as the Wonders of the East, a series of fantastic peoples, beasts, plants, and landscapes that was especially popular in medieval England, where they appear on the edges of world maps and in the margins of devotional books, as well as in three surviving manuscripts, all heavily illustrated, where they are given pride of place. (Book Club of California)
March 13: Michelle Margolis on History and Highlights of the Collection of Jewish Books and Manuscripts at Columbia University The year is 1754 and the Columbia library begins – right from the beginning – to collect rare Hebraica and Judaica materials. Today that collection has grown to include an amazing array of manuscripts, incunabula, sixteenth-century books, and much, much more. Join Michelle Margolis, Lecturer in History and Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies, for a rare glimpse of these treasures. (The Caxton Club)
March 16: Koreatown Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream”
This talk by Shelly Lee, W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of American Studies at Brown, is based on the book Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream,” which delves into the social and cultural history of Korean Americans in Los Angeles, focusing on the period from the late 1960s to the early 2000s.
March 26: Join the FABS 19th Century group on Zoom for congenial discussion of all things bibliophilic and 19th century. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org.
March 24: FABS Living With Books Group. Join us and host Reid Byers to discuss the delights and challenges of the private library. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
March 25: Mexico City’s Avant-Garde Librería de Cristal Bookstore
NYU doctoral student Luis Fernando Bañuelos will explore the cultural history of Librería de Cristal, a unique bookstore in Mexico. The enigmatic, contradictory store was a monumental palace for Mexico’s lettered elites, an extravagant attempt to bring mass commercial culture to print matter in a semi-illiterate country, an attempt to democratize knowledge and culture by making them accessible to all social classes, the remnant of an obsolete, pre-industrial belletristic culture. (The Grolier Club)
March 30: Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture
What does it mean to imagine the American West through Black experience? For too long, popular culture, from Hollywood Westerns to novels, music, and television, has erased or distorted Black presence in the West, leaving us with an incomplete story of American identity. Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture brings those histories back into focus. Dr. Sarah Gallagher, Professor of Liberal Studies at Durham College in Ontario, will discuss her new book. (The Book Club of California)
Stay tuned to the FABS Calendar, as more events are sure to be posted soon.
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