2008 Spring Program
Wayne Wiegand (Florida State University) and Sarah Wadsworth (Marquette University)
“Right Here I See My Own Books”:
A Cultural History of the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition
(Chicago, 1893)
Thursday, 21 February (Alexander Library, SCC Auditorium)
Melodie Fox, Associate Dean of Instruction at Bryant & Stratton College (Milwaukee) will give an interactive demonstration of the Woman's Building Library relational database on Friday, 22 February, 10-12 a.m. (SCILS, Faculty Lounge)
Zachary Lesser (University of Pennsylvania)
Literary Drama: William Shakespeare
vs. The Anonymous Thomas Tomkis
Thursday, 27 March (Alexander Library, Pane Room)
Venkat Mani (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Unpacking Orhan Pamuk's Library: Shelf-Lives of Books
Thursday, 10 April (Plangere Annex in Murray Hall)
All lectures will start at 5:00 p.m.
Locations for the talks will vary:
Alexander Library
Scholarly Communication Center Auditorium (February 21)
Pane Room (March 27)
169 College Ave., New Brunswick, New Jersey
Directions to Alexander Library at: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/alex_lib/alex_lib.shtml
Murray Hall
Plangere Annex (April 10)
510 George St., New Brunswick, New Jersey
Directions to Murray Hall at: http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id=399
SCILS
Faculty Lounge (February 22 workshop)
4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, New Jersey
Directions to SCILS at: http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id=284
Please visit this page for more information about the talks and accompanying events.
For their support for the Spring 2008 lecture series, the Rutgers Seminar in the History of the Book would like to thank the following programs and units at Rutgers:
Center for Cultural Analysis
Department of English
Department of
French
History Department
Department of Library and Information Science
Program in Early Modern Studies (PEMS)
Rutgers University Libraries
School of Arts & Sciences
School of Communication, Information & Library Studies
The Department of Germanic,Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures
The Transliteratures Project
2008 Series Organizers:
Marija Dalbello (SCILS), Meredith McGill (English), and Lorraine Piroux (French)
{dalbello at scils.rutgers.edu} {mlmcgill at rci.rutgers.edu} {lpiroux at rci.rutgers.edu}
Laura Helton represented Rutgers at the Princeton Center for the Study of Books and Media Graduate Student Conference with a paper entitled, Collections and Collectives: Race Consciousness and the Practice of the Archive,1916-1945. More information on the conference at: http://www.princeton.edu/csb/conferences/february-2008.
Last updated: February 15, 2008 |
