Celebrating Composers: Jack Beeson’s “Lizzie Borden”

November 6, 2013 (Wednesday) Butler Library, Room, 523, at 6:00 p.m. ————————————————— The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is Columbia’s principal repository for primary source collections.  The range of collections in RBML span more than 4,000 years and comprise rare printed works, cylinder seals, cuneiform tablets, papyri, and Coptic ostraca; medieval and renaissance manuscripts; […]

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Book History Colloquium: “The Birth of Italics”

Randall McLeod, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Toronto November 4, 2013 (Monday) Butler Library, Room, 523, at 6:00 p.m. The 1501 Venetian Vergil was the first book printed entirely in italics. On the verso of the title page, the printer, Aldo Manuzio, celebrated the type-cutter, Francesco da Bologna. (The two fell out a year […]

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Book History Colloquium: Girls, Zines, and their Afterlives: On the Significance of Multiple Networks and Itineraries of Dissent

Janice Radway, Walter Dill Scott Professor of Communications, Northwestern University October 24, 2013 (Thursday) Barnard Zine Library Tour at 5:00 PM (meeting in Lehman Hall lobby) [See, map @ no. 20] Talk at 6: 00 PM in Butler Library, Room 523 Dissident and non-conforming girls and young women developed an interest in what are now […]

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Tues., Oct. 22nd, a Celebration Concert: “The Ulysses Kay Project” @ Columbia

      On Tuesday, October 22, 2013, at 6:00 pm Columbia University Columbia University Office of the Chaplain’s Concert Series will feature the Harlem Chamber Players at St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University 117th Street and Amsterdam (See, map @ no. 12).  This concert is part of what the Harlem Chamber Players have titled […]

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Ulysses Kay Project Pre-Concert Talk with Prof. George Lewis & Others, Oct. 21 @ 5:00 PM

Event Date:                 Mon, 10/21/2013 – 5:00pm Event Location:        Room 754 of Schermerhorn Extension   Event Sponsors:       Department of Music, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Office of Government and Community Affairs Admission Charge:  Free and Open to the Public   ULYSSES KAY PROJECT@ Columbia University Presents: A […]

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