Rare Book School Lectures

Lecture 616 (24 July 2017) Speaker: Meredith L. McGill, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University

Lecture 614 (12 July 2017). The 2017 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Lecture 613 (10 July 2017) Speaker: Glen Miranker, Sherlock Holmes Collector

Lecture 612 (12 June 2017). Beinecke Library, Yale University Speaker: Kathryn James, Curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Lecture 611 (12 June 2017). Watch the accompanying video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggttPftmVs

Lecture 610 (5 June 2017). Full title "Hunting for Textual Bodies: Rethinking the Relationship between the Poetic Voice and Manuscript Matter"

Lecture 422 (12 July 1999)

Lecture 609. Delivered at the RBS-UVA Fellowship Luncheon, 10 May 2017. Barbara Heritage introduces Rare Book School founding director Terry Belanger, who introduces Samantha Wallace as the winner of the 2017 Betsy and Stuart Houston Prize.

Why are modern day readers still responsive to "Jane Eyre," and how do their readings influence the life of the text? UVA's Linden Kent Memorial Professor Karen Chase (Brontë scholar and author of "Eros & Psyche") leads a discussion with author Patricia Park ("Re Jane") and RBS curator Barbara Heritage (“Shaping Eyre”) about the enduring influence of Charlotte Brontë’s nineteenth-century novel, "Jane Eyre." This program, held on 23 March 2017, is part of the 2017 Virginia Festival of the Book, and is sponsored by Rare Book School and the UVA Libraries.

Lecture 256 (19 April 1988)

Lecture 608 (14 November 2016)

Lecture 605 (5 August 2016). The 2016 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Lecture 603 (25 July 2016)

Lecture 601 (11 July 2016). Full title: "Print Cultures and Protest in (Southern) Africa: Bibliography, Anthropology, Ideology, and Aesthetics"

Lecture 600 (15 June 2016). The lecture is followed by a presentation in honor of Mary Gilliam, recently elected president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America

Lecture 598 (13 June 2016)

Lecture 595 (18 May 2016). Delivered at the RBS-UVA Fellowship Luncheon. Terry Belanger introduces Peter Miller as the winner of the 2016 Betsy and Stuart Houston Prize.

Lecture 594 (17 March 2016)

Lecture 454 (30 July 2001). Full title "Hawthorne and the Scribbling Women: Publishing 'The Scarlet Letter' in the 19th-Century United States"

Lecture 340 (19 July 1993)