Dr Hannah Field, 'Indestructible, Destructible, and Destroyed: Nineteenth-Century Novelty Picture Books and the Embodied Child Reader' Location: Zoom Wednesday 31 March 2021 (17:00-19:00 UK TIME) Dr Hannah Field will present research on the material traces left by child readers in nineteenth-century picture books, asking how literary scholars should read archival evidence of ripping, tearing, and […]

Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: The 12th annual Johanna and Leon Katz Memorial Lecture. Colette Fu will speak on "We Are Tiger Dragon People: The Magical Pop-Up Books of Paper Engineer and Artist Colette Fu" Thursday 08 April 2021, 6:00 pm This video lecture will be delivered online via Zoom. Philadelphia based […]

Written, Painted, and Inscribed by Hand: Past, Present and Future of Manuscript Studies in Toronto Jackman Humanities Institute Colloquium April 9th, 2021 Online event Schedule and registration link: https://humanities.utoronto.ca/events/written-painted-and-inscribed-hand-past-present-and-future-manuscript-studies-toronto For the past three years, the Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group "Bridging Disciplines in Manuscript Studies" has convened as a place for students and faculty throughout […]

Date: Monday, May 3, 2021, 9:30am to 4:30pm Location: Zoom Meeting “Materiality and Book History (in the age of Zoom)”: 12 thAnnual Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/%E2%80%9Cmateriality-and-book-history-age-zoom12th-annual-harvard-yale-brown-graduate Please add your name and email address to this registration page. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link and passcode to the […]

May 3 2021 Update: out of respect for and in solidarity with the CAUT censure of the University of Toronto, Professor Kim Hall has cancelled her planned keynote lecture after consultation with the organisers. More information about the censure is available here: https://www.caut.ca/latest/2021/04/caut-council-imposes-rare-censure-against-university-toronto-over-azarova-hiring -- The CRRS is delighted to announce the keynote lecture of its Working […]

Milton_2021_Poster_FINAL The Centre for Renaissance & Reformation Studies, with the Department of English and the Canada Research Chair Program The CRRS is delighted to announce the Canada Milton Seminar XV, co-organized by Professors Paul Stevens (2022 Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America) and John Rogers (Canada Research Chair). The Canada Milton Seminar is an annual […]

https://german.utoronto.ca/call-for-papers-workshop-ekphrasis-the-scene-of-writing-the-seen/ The Reading Group Ekphrasis: Text – Image Denkräume is calling for participants for a workshop to be held virtually on Friday, 24 September 2021. In September 2020, scholars and students at the University of Toronto explored the role of ekphrasis in literature and literary theory. The concept of ekphrasis can be very simple: the […]

Elaine Treharne, Stanford University The University of Birmingham/Trinity College Dublin Digital Research Partnership is running a lecture series on the theme of 'Trust and Authority in the Digital Age'. The UoB/TCD partnership has been researching one of the central questions in the digital world: how can we know whom and what to trust when there […]

Join Myron Groover (McMaster's Archives and Rare Books Librarian) for an exploration of the Kelmscott Press, its historical and aesthetic context, and McMaster's own collection of Kelmscott editions. Established in 1891, the Kelmscott Press was the last great project of William Morris. Conceived as a deliberate return to the technologies and processes of an earlier […]

Rare Book School at the University of Virginia (RBS) invites you to the inaugural Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trades: “Subscription Publishing in America over Three Centuries” by Michael Winship https://rarebookschool.org/rbs-online/subscription-publishing-in-america-over-three-centuries/ Tuesday, 13 July, 5:30–6:30 p.m. ET, via Zoom  Over the centuries, subscription publishing has been a constant feature of […]