Over two weeks in September, conservator Katherine Beaty attended a full immersion course on Italian archival bindings in Recanati, Italy. She visited numerous state and private archives, constructed a historical model, and mastered different restoration...
The Center for the Study of World Religions & CMES present Benjamin Balint, writer based in Jerusalem, andfalse Merav Mack, Research fellow, Truman Institute for Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem What might it look like to see Jerusalem, with its...
Five College Faculty Seminar on Book History: Fall 2019All events will take place at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies (https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/contact-kinney-center) beginning at 4:00 pm with a reception following the...
The Harvard Fine Arts Library and the Department of History of Art and Architecture present a pop-up series of virtual events exploring the art book and its many forms. This month we will turn our attention to publishing and the museum. We hope to see you...
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World This talk deals with the place of books and libraries in the production of global knowledge in the early sixteenth century. In particular, it explores the intersection of the world’s shifting image in...
Tuesday 18 April 5:00-6:30 Barker Center 211 Harvard’s Islamic Africa Seminar IAS Digital Preservation, Access, and Scholarship: The Case of and for West African Arabic Manuscripts Graziano Kratli (Yale University)
To “Revive Their Spirit”: Collecting Books and Shaping Archives in Nineteenth-Century New England Lindsay DiCuirci WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2024 1-2 pm EST This event will held virtually over Zoom. When the Congregational Library Association formed in 1853...
More information and RSVP (See the link also for information on his hands-on workshop on Oct 24 at Houghton) Houghton Library and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies present Niels Gaul on "Codex and Character: Byzantine Authors in/and their Books."...