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FALL 2017 Monday September 18, 6:00-8:00pm, Barker 133 New Directions in Book History: a panel featuring Jean-Christophe Cloutier (English, UPenn / Hutchins Center); Stephanie Frampton (Literature, MIT); Hannah Marcus (History of Science, Harvard); Si Nae...

Folger Program Deadlines

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Folger Program Deadlines Please be advised that 12 June 2017 is the Admission and Grant-in-Aid deadline for the following programs at the Folger: Conjugality and Early Modern Political Thought Sharon Achinstein directs the Folger Institute Center for the...

North Bennet Street School Book Binding Classes, Fall Semester 2017 (please follow the link for the full program!)

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Book Binding 101 Sundays, November 5 & 12 8:30 am – 4:30 pm Erin Fletcher BB ’12 $200 Fundamentals of Bookbinding I Monday, September 18 to Friday, September 22 8:30 am – 4:30 pm Erin Fletcher BB ’12 Saturdays, October 14 to November 11 8:30 am – 4:30 pm...

DARTMOUTH BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP Fall 2017 CLASSES AND EVENTS (and more events: click here to find the full schedule!)

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DARTMOUTH BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP Fall 2017 CLASSES AND EVENTS INTRO TO BOOKBINDING: 3 BASIC STRUCTURES 9/15—Friday 3:30-6:00 Sarah Smith, Rm 21 Many more complex bookbinding structures can be built from a few basic constructions. In this class we’ll cover the...

DARTMOUTH BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP Fall 2017 CLASSES AND EVENTS (and more events: click here to find the full schedule!)

Events

INTRO TO BOOKBINDING: 3 BASIC STRUCTURES 9/15—Friday 3:30-6:00 Sarah Smith, Rm 21 Many more complex bookbinding structures can be built from a few basic constructions. In this class we’ll cover the one-sheet book, the accordion fold and the simple...

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Exhibit: Altered States: Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence in the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library

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Join us! Harvard Library and Houghton Library invite you to the opening of the major fall exhibition Altered States: Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence in the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library

Zine Libraries and Library Zines: Having a Voice in the Library Using Self-Published Fanzines

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Zine Libraries and Library Zines: Having a Voice in the Library Using Self-Published Fanzines Wednesday November 1 7:00pm-9:00pm Flywheel 43 Main St. Easthampton, MA 01027 Zines, or ‘fanzines’, have existed in various forms since the 1930s and 40s. Self...

21H.343[J]: Making Books in the Renaissance and Today

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(Same subject as CC.120[J]) J. Ravel, A. McCants Prereq: None Explores the impact of new technology on the recording and distribution of words and images at three different times: the invention of the printing press ca. 1450; the adaptation of electricity...

HISTSCI 282 Genre and Knowledge

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Alex Csiszar T 2:00pm - 3:59pm Location:TBA How and to what extent is knowledge shaped by the forms and genres through which it has been produced? Bringing history of science and technology together with media studies, book history, and cultural theory...

JAPNLIT 260 Early Modern Japanese Literature and Culture

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David Atherton W 1:00pm - 3:59pm Location:TBA This course explores the literature of the Edo period, a time that saw the emergence of a dynamic market for popular literature, the rise of new dramatic forms such as kabuki and puppet theater, the heyday of...

HIST 1318 History of the Book and of Reading

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Ann Blair M W F 10-10.59 am Sever 202 An introduction to the cultural history of the book and its functions as both material object and text. Major themes include the techniques of book production, authorship, popular and learned readership, libraries and...