NYPL librarian and author of Bibliocraft: Using Library Resources to Jumpstart Creative Projects will be the guest of honor at this event on Monday, October 27th. See the UCLA Library calendar for more information: Bibliocraft @ UCLA
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!
The Material Cultures of the Book Mellon Group, along with the Department of English, are pleased to announce an upcoming talk by Carla Mazzio! This talk is open to the public. The Trouble with Numbers: Calculation and Humanism from the “How-To” Book to Hamlet- A Talk by Carla Mazzio. This lecture, part of Mazzio’s book in progress, Calculating Minds: The Drama of Mathematics in the Age of Shakespeare, explores the affective and dramatic dimensions of mathematical discourse in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Tuesday March 11, 2014 (4pm) UCR Department of English HMNSS 2212 Snacks will be served! BIO Carla Mazzio, Director of Graduate Studies in English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, specializes in early modern literature in relationship to the history of…
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.
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
Cindy Keefer, Archivist, Curator & Director . Center for Visual Music Preserving Visual Music : The Archives of the Center for Visual Music THURSDAY . May 30 . 4:30 PM . INTN 1113 . Refreshments served . Cindy Keefer, Director of the Center for Visual Music Los Angeles, will discuss and screen work by pioneers of kinetic art, abstract animation and pre-digital cinema from CVM’s archives. CVM is a Los Angeles archive dedicated to visual music, experimental animation and abstract media. CVM preserves and promotes films by Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Charles Dockum, Mary Ellen Bute, Jules Engel, Harry Smith and others, as well as contemporary artists. Keefer will screen work from CVM’s archives by Fischinger and Belson, plus Dockum’s Mobilcolor Projections, Bute’s Abstronics (an early oscilloscope film),…
UCR ARTSblock presents the exhibition: Geographies of Detention: From Guantánamo to the Golden Gulag June 1 – September 7, 2013* California Museum of Photography, UCR ARTSblock UCR ARTSblock presents Geographies of Detention: From Guantánamo to the Golden Gulag, on view at the California Museum of Photography from June 1 through September 7, 2013. The exhibition is guest curated by Catherine Gudis, Molly McGarry, and graduate students from the UCR Public History Program: Leann Do, Jay Hartzell, Kristen Hayashi, Corinne Knight, Sean Milanovich, Karen Raines, Carolyn Schutten, Megan Suster, Jennifer Thornton, David Wagner, and Jennifer Weed. Presented on two floors of the California Museum of Photography, Geographies of Detention offers a nuanced investigation into incarceration and its architectures. One…
The archive, as both an organizer of knowledge and a historical place, is a problematic category–one which this inaugural and international workshop will address. In Global Archivalities we will be discussing comparative approaches to record-keeping in pre-modern societies, including materials and methodologies used by these past ‘archives’ as well as modern-day terminologies and frameworks for understanding these phenomena. Please come discuss these issues with us! General Information When? Tuesday, May 7th at 9:00 AM-11:30AM Where? History Department Library, HMNSS 1304, UCR To read the pre-circulated papers, if you have any questions, or if you want guest access to the Adobe Connect site, please contact Heather at hvanm001@ucr.edu. Refreshments will be provided. Schedule 9:00 AM–Welcome and Opening Statement: Randolph Head, UC Riverside 9:10 AM–Introduction of Presenter Sites and their Projects…