New Events in Book History

Aktuální informace o seminářích, konferencích a výstavách z oblasti historie knihy v širším bostonském regionu přinášejí stránky sponzorované Harvard History of the Book.

Stejnojmenný akademický sborník Book History vydávaný John Hopkins University Press vychází  již od roku 1998.

 

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Fortnight: Talks, Workshops and Conferences

*Johanna Drucker (UCLA Emerita): „The Bow & Arrow Press: Repository of History/Laboratory of Imagination“ (Fall 2024 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture at Houghton Library)

9/18/2024 5:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: Houghton Library, Harvard Yard. Registration necessary, see event details

*Kelly Rene Bullard, Assistant Curator of Printing & Graphic Arts at Houghton Library: „Deepcuts: 36 Small Things You Didn’t Know about Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová“

9/19/2024 7:00pm

Location: Katherine Small Gallery 108 Beacon Street Somerville, MA 02143

 

*Preachers, Hearers, Readers, and Scribes Conference New Approaches to Early Modern Sermons in Manuscript (A joint conference with the Congregational Library, Boston, & Harvard Divinity School)

10/3/2024 (All day) to 10/5/2024 (All day)

Location: Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

 

*Roundtable book launch for „American Contact: Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History“. Sponsored by: History of the Book Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

10/4/2024 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: Hybrid Event: On Zoom (RSVP for zoom link) and in person: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

 

*Karel Pacovsky (Charles University, Prague), “The Benedictine Nuns of St. George’s Abbey Prague and their Books.” Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars on Medieval Studies and History of the Book

10/7/2024 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge

 

*Kris Lane (Tulane University), “Divided Nations: Documenting Civil War in 1620s Potosí” (2024 Bromsen Lecture, John Carter Brown Library)

10/10/2024 5:00pm

Location: 94 George Street, Providence, Rhode Island

 

*Leslie Morris, Gore Vidal Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at Houghton Library: “It requires something more than mere money”: Amy Lowell as a collector (Fall 2024 George Parker Winship Lecture, Houghton Library)

10/16/2024 5:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: Houghton Library, Harvard Yard (RSVP, open to the public)

 

*Niels Gaul, University of Edinburgh: “Codex and Character: Byzantine Authors in/and their Books” (Houghton-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History)

10/21/2024 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: Houghton Library, Harvard Yard (RSVP, open to the public)

 

*Niels Gaul, University of Edinburgh: Hands-on Workshop, „Harvard’s Medieval Greek Manuscripts in Time and Context“

10/24/2024 (twice)

Location: Houghton Library, Harvard Yard (RSVP, open to the public)

 

*The Boston Book Festival presents: An Evening with Malcolm Gladwell

10/25/2024 7:30pm

Location: Back Bay Events Center, Boston MA

 

*The 16th Annual Boston Book Festival

10/26/2024 (All day)

Location: Copley Square, Boston MA

 

*Five College Seminar in Book History with Nicholas Basbanes (Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies)

10/31/2024 5:00pm

Location: Online (Zoom). RSVP needed

 

*Book History with Erin McGuirl (Five College Faculty Seminar in Book History)

11/14/2024 5:00pm

Location: Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA

 

*Andrew Laird (Brown University): Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico (John Carter Brown Library)

11/14/2024 5:00pm

Location: 94 George Street, Providence, Rhode Island

 

Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair

11/8/2024 (All day) to 11/10/2024 (All day)

Location: Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston, MA

 

**Looking for Text Work in Twentieth-Century Secretarial Manuals with Erin McGuirl (Five College Faculty Seminar in Book History)

11/14/2024 5:00pm

Location: Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA
Andrew Laird (Brown University): Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico (John Carter Brown Library)

11/14/2024 5:00pm

Location: 94 George Street, Providence, Rhode Island

 

*Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Yale) speaking on her new book „Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire“ (Sponsor: History of the Book Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard)

11/14/2024 6:00pm

Location: Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138

 

**Conference „Books and Transgressions“, organized by New England Medieval Consortium. Keynote speakers: Ariane Bottex-Ferragne (NYU) and Ahmed El Shamsy (University of Chicago)

11/16/2024 (All day)

Location: Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

 

Jin-Woo Choi (Postdoctoral Prize Fellow, Center for History and Economics), „Chronicles as Sources of Climate History“ (Harvard Early Sciences Working Group)

12/3/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: Harvard Science Center, room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA (RSVP for Lunch) (Zoom possibility)

 

*‘Editing Sylvia Plath‘ with Amanda Golden and Karen Kukil (Five College Seminar in Book History)

12/12/2024 5:00pm

Location: Online (Zoom). RSVP needed (Contact: Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies)

 

Exhibits (organized by their end-date)

Exhibit „Rewrite, Organize, Remix Visions of Feminist Organizing“ (Harvard Radcliffe Institute)

5/13/2024 to 10/11/2024

Location: Harvard Radcliffe Institute Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 3 James Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

 

*Exhibit: Artist, Neighbor, Citizen: Value in the Archive of Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová (Houghton Library)

9/3/2024 (All day) to 12/13/2024 (All day)

Location: Houghton Library Lobby Gallery, Harvard Yard

 

*Exhibit: Amy Lowell, Collector (Houghton Library)

9/3/2024 (All day) to 12/13/2024 (All day)

Location: Amy Lowell Room, Floor 2, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

 

*Exhibit „Harvard by Hand: The Bow & Arrow Press at 45“ at Houghton Library

9/3/2024 to 1/10/2025

Location: Edison and Newman Room, Floor 1, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard (open to the public)

 

*Exhibit: Michael Harvey: Mostly Early Letters (Katherine Small Gallery)

9/6/2024 (All day) to 2/8/2025 (All day)

Location: Katherine Small Gallery ,108 Beacon Street Somerville, Massachusetts 02143

 

Exhibit: Founding 56 explores the history of the Boston Congregational Library & Archives’ original collection and how its ideas have shaped understandings of the Congregational story over the past 170 years.

Location: Online: see message link

 

Hands-on Programs

*Reflex Letterpress  in Charlestown, MA presents Boston-based printing & instruction in the antique art of letterpress

Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio in West Newton, MA offers workshops in book arts in their Book Arts Workroom for various levels from beginners to experienced artists and printmakers.

The Beaver Press Printshop at MIT offers workshops and lectures
The Beaver Press Print Shop features a Gutenberg-facsimile wooden letterpress designed by former MIT Hobby Shop Director and alumnus Ken Stone ’72, and built by MIT students in the Spring 2016 term.

For classes in bookbinding and book arts, see the offerings of the North Bennet St School, 150 North St, Boston
https://nbss.edu/continuing-education/bookbinding/

The Museum of Printing in Haverhill MA offers exhibitions, hands-on workshops, lectures, garage sales and much more around their collection of printing, typesetting, and bindery machines.

 

Ongoing Projects:

Brown University, John Carter Brown Library Blog: https://jcblibrary.org/news
Harvard Library Preservation Services Blog: https://preservation.library.harvard.edu/blog
Houghton Blog: http://blogs.harvard.edu/houghton/
Houghton’s digital collection and exhibit: „Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources at Houghton Library“