Free webinar on Book History March 4th at 10 am - 11 am EST Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5715143106402915599 To celebrate World Book Day 2021, Adam Matthew Digital invites you to a webinar exploring book history through the lens of the John Murray Archive, available online now in the new primary source collection Nineteenth Century Literary Society. […]

Registration is now open for the workshop "Digital Archive and Canon" https://www.digitales-archiv-und-kanon.de/ The canon debate of the 1970s asked the fundamental question of which authors’ works are published, reviewed, and thus available for canonisation. Today this question needs to be rephrased to ask which author’s works and which objects are digitised in what form, the […]

The York University Graduate History Student Association (GHSA) invites you to our Historian’s Craft conferences 2020-2021. This Wednesday, March 10th at 2 PM EST, our Guest Speaker is Professor John  Tresch, professor of history of art, science and folk practice at the Warburg Institute, University of London. The zoom link is: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/95415000445 In his talk, […]

New date: Thursday, March 11, 4:30 PM CST https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/online-programs/ FREE ONLINE PROGRAM Over the course of the sixteenth century, herbals grew from compact, unadorned volumes to giant, lavishly illustrated ones, and their contents shifted from reprints of anonymous medieval works to commissioned authorial tomes. To explain the broader context in which English botanical science developed, […]

S.J. Stubbs Lecture in English Literature Colm Tóibín - Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University Joyce's 'Ulysses', although set in Dublin, was written in three other cities, Trieste, Zurich and Paris. In each of these cities, Joyce imagined his own city. During the composition of the book, the very center […]

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 […]