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!
An exhibit of extra-illustrated books is currently running at The Huntington. I visited the exhibit, “Illuminated Palaces,” last week and it was wonderful as well as a little frightening. The process these books have undergone is called “grangerizing,” a method through which prints and other desirable portions of books are extracted and pasted into other books for collection. The frightening part is that many books were destroyed or at least vandalized, their pages ripped, cut, and torn in order to yield the prints and images so sought after by collectors. Some collectors added prints to extra-illustrate their books, while others added postage stamps, playbills, postcards, or handwritten letters of correspondence. In the end, many of these books resembled something of an academic scrapbook, with…
Please join us for the Year-End Colloquium for Graduate Students in “BAM.” Designated Emphasis in Book, Archive, and Manuscript Studies – http://bam.ucr.edu Friday, June 7, 10:00am to Noon English Department Conference Room (HMNSS 2212) Presentations by Steve Anderson, Cori Knight, and Heather Van Mouwerik Display of printshop projects by Rebecca Addicks, Ann Garascia, Cori Knight, Jessica Roberson, and Anne Sullivan This will also be a celebration of the new Mellon Workshop Grant awarded to the Material Cultures of the Book Working Group
In my previous post on the Global Archivalities Research Network, I described the recent virtual conference and the range of topics discussed. The concept of addressing the “social logics” of the archive was compelling, and it helps to reframe the discourse involving archival studies as one of complexity and imagination. Another interesting concept, presented at the virtual conference by Dr. Filippo De Vivo, was “to turn the source into the problem.” By this, De Vivo meant to consider how the abundance and variety of archives across the globe could be a point of convergence rather than a point of apprehension. Instead of being overwhelmed by the immensity of the task, scholars should move even further into the myriad dynamics of archival networks, considering multiple…