History of the Book lectures
CCHS and University Libraries collaborative annual lecture on the HISTORY of the BOOK
2023-24—Ann BLAIR (Harvard U): “Amanuenses and the productions of texts in the Renaissance” on Tuesday, March 26 at 4:30 p.m. (reception to follow)
2022-23—Derrick R. SPIRES (Cornell U): "Reading William Still’s Underground Rail Road: Black Bibliography and the History of the Book Now”
2021-22—Stephanie NEWELL (Yale U): "Ephemeral Texts and Local Creativity in Colonial Nigeria"
2019-20—Michael KELLY (Amherst College): “The Materiality of Native American Literature: Decolonizing the History of the Book”
2018-19—Matthew KIRSCHENBAUM (U of Maryland): “Codex Redux: The Post-Digital Book”
2017-18— Janice RADWAY (NU): “Girl Zines, the 1990s, and the Challenge of Historical Narration 2018-19"
2016-17—Eric SLAUTER (U of Chicago): "Walden's Carbon Footprint: People, Plants, Animals, and Machines in the Making of an American Classic"
2014-15—Mary KELLEY (University of Michigan): "'Talents Committed to Your Care:' Reading and Writing Antislavery in Antebellum America"
2013-14—Sven BIRKERTS (Bennington College): "From Tablet to Tablet : Migrations of the Word"
2012-13— Christopher A. REED (Ohio State University): "'Dukes & Nobles Above, Scholars Below': Remembering Beijing's Old Booksellers District, 1769-1941"
2011-12—Anthony GRAFTON (Princeton): "Humanists with Dirty Fingers: Renaissance Correctors and the Origins of Editing"
2010-11—Adrian JOHNS (U of Chicago): "The Invention of Intellectual Property"
2009-2010—Robert DARNTON (Harvard): “Old Books and E-Books”