Thursday, May 15 / 1:30-5:00 PM Friday, May 16 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Santa Barbara Harbor Room, University Center Composition: making meaning through design is an interdisciplinary symposium that asks how design features—including format, medium, lettering, and images—can alter, enhance, or otherwise affect the transmission of...
James Simpson (English, Harvard University) Thursday, April 17 / 3:30 PM Henley Board Room, Mosher Alumni House James Simpson is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University (2004-). He has taught at the University of Cambridge, where he was a University...
Arthur F. Marotti (English, Wayne State University) Thursday, November 14 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This talk discusses some of the hundreds of (mostly anonymous) poems that survive in various manuscripts from the early modern period in only one or two copies. It examines...
Nancy Perloff (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles) Friday, May 3 / 3:00 PM HSSB 1174 Dr. Nancy Perloff is curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute where she has organized such exhibitions as Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky, and Tango with...
Friday, February 1 / 9:30 AM Getty Museum and Research Institute This day-long trip to Los Angeles includes two tours at the Getty Museum and Research Institute focusing on its impressive collection of rare books and manuscripts. For the first session, Marcia Reed, Chief Curator of...
Elizabeth Miller (English, UC Davis) Friday, November 9 / 2:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, but by the end of the nineteenth century, many radical writers came to believe that large-scale...
Charlotte Becker (English, UCSB) Tina Bruno (History of Art & Architecture, UCSB) Friday, June 8 / 12:00 South Hall 2510, Early Modern Center The History of Books & Material Texts RFG and the 19th Century Reading Group invite you to attend a research share by Tina...
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, UCSC Friday, May 20 / 1:30 PM South Hall 2635 Aurelio Luis Gallardo, a liberal exile from Maximilian’s Mexico, serialized his now-forgotten novel Adah, o el amor de un ángel in 1868-69 in San Francisco, where he was an active participant in local politics and...
Jessica Brantley (English, Yale University) Monday, February 7 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB More devotional books of hours remain in modern libraries than any other kind of book from late medieval England: almost eight hundred manuscript volumes, and many thousands of printed ones. And yet this fact...
Thursday, November 18 / 3:00 PM Davidson Library, Special Collections Seminar Room (3rd floor) As part of the celebration of Davidson Library's acquisition of its 3 millionth volume, The History of Books and Material Texts RFG is holding an interactive presentation on two book artists from the...
Unfortunately, this event has been canceled. Nile Green (History, UCLA) Friday, May 14 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room Around 1818 the first Muslim printing presses were established in Tabriz (Iran), Bulaq (Egypt) and Lucknow (India). These founding typographic presses were the fruit of distinct local interactions with the...
Anne-Marie Legaré (Histoire de l’Art, Université de Lille-III) Olga Karaskova (Histoire de l’Art, Université de Lille-III) Monday, February 22 / 4:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 This event will feature two talks by visiting scholars from Université de Lille-III, Professor Anne-Marie Legaré (Histoire de l’Art) will discuss “Refashioning...
Johanna Drucker Friday, February 19 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Our understanding of the way the graphical organization of codex books supports functionality has increased dramatically in the era of digital design activity. The analysis of format features and design elements in print, once approached...