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“This is Not a Book: Long Forms of Attention in the Digital Age”, a talk by Alan Liu. Tuesday, June 3rd at UCR!

Rebecca Addicks

Posted on May 3, 2014

{DATE CHANGE} On June 3rd we will co-host a talk by Alan Liu; please join us! “This is Not a Book: Long Forms of Attention in the Digital Age”Alan Liu (UC Santa Barbara) Tuesday June 3, 11:00-12:30, Location: UCR INTS 1113 Co-sponsored by Critical Digital Humanities This talk is free and open to the public. A common response to an electronic book or other digital media is that, while it may be better or worse than a book, “this is not a book.”  But digital media has the uncanny effect of making us realize that physical books themselves were never truly books–if by “book” we mean a long form of attention designed for the permanent, standard, and authoritative communication of human thought or experience.  This talk…

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Alessa Johns Talk at UCR 5/8

Rebecca Addicks

Posted on May 3, 2014

The Material Cultures of the Book Working Group at UC Riverside is pleased to present:

“Women’s Revolutionary Translation: British-German Books in the 1790s”
Alessa Johns (UC Davis)
Thursday May 8, 1:00-2:30, in HMNSS 2212

If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Addicks-Salerno (raddi001@ucr.edu).

This event is free and open to the public!

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Free Book History Talk at the Clark

Rebecca Addicks

Posted on September 27, 2013

The Ninth Annual Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade Eighteenth-Century Publishers and Women Writers: Antagonism and Alliances     (a lecture at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library) —Isobel Grundy, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 4:00 p.m. This lecture will look at the processes whereby women reached print during this period, and the attitudes and practices of those in the book trade towards woman-authored copy. Publishers were becoming attentive to the gender as well as the rank and circumstances of authors; women judged their publisher a monster or a hero less on the basis of contract terms and honesty than on sympathy with the particular predicament of the female author. The relations between these two groups…

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Edward Dean Museum Visit 9/14/13

Rebecca Addicks

Posted on September 3, 2013

The Edward Dean Museum in Cherry Valley is opening a new exhibit on print culture and books on September 14th.  Rebecca will be hosting an informal gathering for Material Cultures of the Book Working Group members and guests after the exhibit opening, so let her know if you would like to attend!

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Edward-Dean Museum presents a new exhibition, Secrets in the Script This exhibit examines the impact and beauty of printed words and images from the 16th to 19th centuries. 

Visit to see how coffee houses became the meeting places where all could gather over a “cup of brew.” Pick up a free cup of coffee to enjoy while you view prints and rare books from the Edward-Dean Collection.

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Conference Announcement for the History of the Book Working Group at UC Berkeley

Rebecca Addicks

Posted on August 14, 2013

Call for Papers: “Faking It: Forgery and Problems of Authenticity” A History of the Book Working Group Conference, UC Berkeley Saturday, February 22, 2014   Keynote Speaker: Nick Wilding (Georgia State University)   This conference will explore the problems and potential of the fake from antiquity to the present. With an attentiveness especially to material texts and objects, the conference will consider how falseness and inauthenticity threaten our sense of reality – historical, material, theological, racial, sexual, national, linguistic – while at the same time informing it. As we increasingly come to understand selfhood and identity as social constructions and performances, what remains at stake in distinguishing between the real and the false? What connections might we draw between the social construction of selves…

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Book Arts in UCR Rivera Library Special Collections!

Rebecca Addicks

Posted on May 1, 2013

A few of us in the Material Cultures of the Book Working Group are taking a printing class for the DE BAM. It’s really amazing to be able to learn how books are constructed first hand, but it is also a very time and labor intensive process. This photo is from my first print run on a 32 leaf octavo pamphlet. It took me 2 days of trial and error (along with a mid-print-run set-back), but it turned out well in the end.

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April Meeting

Rebecca Addicks

Posted on April 21, 2013

Our April Meeting will take place on Tuesday April 30th at 3:30pm (location TBA). For this meeting , Schuyler Eastin will provide a theoretical reading to guide our discussion of some medieval manuscripts. We look forward to seeing you there!

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