For the first time in its fifteen-year history, the annual Coach House Books Wayzgoose is going online. Join us! About this Event What is a Wayzgoose, you ask? It’s a printing tradition, a party a master printer would throw for his workers near the end of August to mark the end of summer, the start […]

SHARP is committed to enhancing the presence of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour in its community, and supporting the progression of BIPOC scholars in their academic/research careers. In order to support training and career development, and in a desire to respond actively to the issues of racism and underrepresentation, SHARP is offering five $500 […]

Rare Book School Online is pleased to announce "Black Print Culture," a 45-minute panel discussion followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. This panel is scheduled for Tuesday, 1 September 2020, 5–6pm ET via Zoom.  Join panelists Jesse Erickson, Brenna W. Greer, and Amos Kennedy Paul, Jr., along with moderators Vanesa Evers and Curtis Small, as […]

A 75-minute panel discussion followed by 15 minutes of Q&A scheduled for: *Tuesday, 15 September, 5–6:30 p.m. ET, via Zoom*. https://rarebookschool.org/rbs-online/a-fractured-inheritance-the-problems-challenges-and-opportunities-of-collecting-manuscript-fragments/ <https://rarebookschool.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c3921162713adaa3f481a4987&id=090f733b03&e=bf2a5b8dfd> *Spaces are filling quickly! Please visit the<https://rarebookschool.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c3921162713adaa3f481a4987&id=79fce7fcb3&e=bf2a5b8dfd>webpage <https://rarebookschool.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c3921162713adaa3f481a4987&id=3e519255e9&e=bf2a5b8dfd> to learn more about the session and register today.* “Fragmentology” has emerged as one of the dominant subjects in the broader manuscript studies field, as digital technologies have […]

SHARP: Five College Faculty Seminar on Book History Fall Talks "Information Hunters" with Kathy Peiss (History, University of Pennsylvania), introduced by Brian Ogilvie (History, UMass Amherst)

Dr Thomas Keymer, University Professor, Chancellor Jackman, Professor, University of Toronto on "Authorship, Print, and Sedition in Eighteenth-Century England." Note: This lecture will be broadcast on Zoom. To register, please e-mail Anna Maria Romano (annamaria.romano@utoronto.ca) by Friday 18 September   Start times for lectures to be determined. Since the 2010-11 Friends of Fisher season, most of […]

Dr Thomas Keymer, University Professor, Chancellor Jackman, Professor, University of Toronto on "Authorship, Print, and Sedition in Eighteenth-Century England." On the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695, wrote the great nineteenth-century historian Thomas Macaulay, “English literature was emancipated, and emancipated for ever, from the control of the government.” Not quite. Pre-publication censorship was at an […]