2007 Spring Program
poster
Patricia Lockhart Fleming (University of Toronto)
“Doing National Book History: From Ambition to Archive in Canada”
Tuesday, 23 January
Paul Nelles (Carleton University, Ottawa)
“The Invention of the Universal Library: Conrad Gesner and Renaissance Print Culture”
Thursday, 8 February
Jacob Soll (Rutgers University, Camden)
“Of Princes and Paperwork: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Files, or How to Manage a State Information System”
Thursday, 8 March
Abby E. Zanger (Tufts University, Medford)
“What is a Book? Repetition and its Compulsions in Sixteenth-Century French Book Illustration”
Thursday, 22 March
Olaf Simons (Oldenburg University, Germany)
“Why Literature is Called literature. Learning, Fiction, and the Power of Review Writing”
Thursday, 12 April
All lectures will start at 4:30 p.m.
in the Pane Room (first floor Alexander Library)
169 College
Ave., New Brunswick, New Jersey
Directions to Alexander Library at: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/alex_lib/alex_lib.shtml
Please visit this page for more information about these talks. Other events will be announced in due course.
For their support for the Spring 2007 lecture series, the Rutgers Seminar in the History of the Book would like to thank the following programs and units at Rutgers:
American Studies
Center for Cultural Analysis
Department of English
Department of
French
History Department
Rutgers University Libraries
School of Arts & Sciences
School of Communication, Information & Library Studies
The Transliteratures Project
Organizers of the 2007 RSHOB Series:
Marija Dalbello (SCILS), Martin Mulsow (History), and Lorraine Piroux (French)
{dalbello at scils.rutgers.edu} {mmulsow at history.rutgers.edu} {lpiroux at rci.rutgers.edu}
Last updated: January 21, 2007
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