The Rare Book and Manuscript Library achieved a milestone this summer, sponsoring its first group of international visiting scholars in connection with the opening of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program Records. The six scholars, visiting from institutions around the world, have spent the summer conducting intensive research using the paper and digital components […]
2/2 @ 6PM “Blooks”: The Arts of Books that Aren’t
A panel discussion with Mindell Dubansky (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Lynn Festa (Rutgers University), and Bruce and Lynn Heckman (collectors). Part of the Book History Colloquium at Columbia. Tuesday, February 2, 2016 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM The Grolier Club […]
1/26 @ 6:30 PM, Butler 523 – The Plan Without a Plan: A Conversation about Granary Books with Steve Clay & Karla Nielsen
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Tues., 1/26 @ NOON-Lehman Ctr: The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
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12/3 @ 6:00 PM, Butler 523 – The Book History Colloquium: How Radical was Joseph Johnson and Why Does Radicalism Matter? with John Bugg, Associate Prof. of English, Fordham University
Joseph Johnson Romantic-era publisher Joseph Johnson (1738-1809) was the dynamic center of the London dissenting community and is best known today for his work with politically progressive writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, William Blake, Charlotte Smith, and Erasmus Darwin. But Johnson also published “conservative” writers such as Thomas Malthus. In this talk, John […]