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!
UCR’s Critical Digital Humanities and Medical Narratives Mellon research groups are hosting a Lunchtime Lightning Talks Event, Transgressive Research Methods: What Happens when the Humanities Engages with Science? on October 24, 2013 from 11:30 – 1:00 in HMNSS 2212. This event is open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates, and lunch will be provided.
This Discussion-Based event will take the form of 5-7 minute “Lightning” talks, presented by faculty and graduate students. These quick interventions will focus on the ethics, values, limitations, and possibilities of interdisciplinary research methods, with the goal of generating inquiry, reflection, and discussion among the participants around the following, and other related, issues:
What features characterize “truly interdisciplinary” research?
How does the blend of methodologies, topics, and questions from across humanistic and scientific disciplines both limit and/or expand our notions of Research?
What are the ethical considerations involved in cross-disciplinarity?
How do we assign (or reject) value to work that straddles disciplinary borders?
How does the future of the disciplined academy and academic work appear, as grants and honors become more available to work that claims “interdisciplinarity.”?
We look forward to your participation at what promises to be a lively, critical, and thought-provoking event! If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Lozier at slozi001@ucr.edu or Kyle Harp at kharp001@ucr.edu.
Sincerely,
The Critical Digital Humanities and Medical Narratives Mellon Workgroups
Please join the panel discussion this Wednesday, October 16, 3:30-5pm (History Library) on “Media in the Archives: Libraries, Popular Culture, and the Digital,” moderated by UCR History Professor Randy Head and featuring Dr. Dan Lewis (head of manuscripts and Dibner Senior Curator of Science, Medicine, and Technology), Jessica Taylor (NBC Universal Archives and Collections), and Dr. Brian Geiger (UCR Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research). Note that all of these organizations have a track record of hiring UCR grad students and have paid internships.
The Material Cultures of the Book Working Group is happy to announce that we have received a UCR Mellon Workshop Grant for the 2013-2014 academic year!
The title of the project is, “The Material Cultures of the Book,” and this grant will allow us to conduct workshops with scholars from a variety of fields to discuss the materiality of book history and print culture.
The Mellon Workshop Grants are made possible by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society, and many thanks go out to all of the group members, both faculty and graduate students, for putting together a great proposal.
Stay tuned for upcoming workshops, presentations, and talks beginning this fall.
First book printed in America could sell for $30m
“The Bay Psalm Book is a mythical rarity,” said Sotheby’s David Redden.
“With it, New England declared its independence from the Church of England,” he added.
The 1640 edition of the Bay Psalm Book is the earliest surviving print from the press, and was adopted by nearly every congregation in the Massachusetts Bay area.
(via @JenHoward)
