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Nadia Sophie Seiler Visiting Book Artists: Steph Rue

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Chemistry Building
The UI Center for the Book presents an artist talk with the Nadia Sophie Seiler Visiting Book Artist: STEPH RUE
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Gallery Reception for Poojana Prasanna's "I want to do so many things"

Friday, September 27, 2024 4:30pm to 6:00pm
North Hall
Join UICB MFA Candidate Poojana Prasanna for her exhibition reception!
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RSVP X UICB - Diane Vadino

Friday, October 4, 2024 5:20pm to 8:00pm
rsvp
Over 400 languages are spoken in the United States. For "Tik Pirmyn, Nera Ko Cia Bijoti (Just Go Ahead, There Is Nothing to Fear)," UICB 2nd year MFA student Diane Vadino (@faraway.places.paper) is interviewing one person who speaks each of them — and recording two things: their language story, to be shared in an oral history, and "a message of encouragement or goodwill" in each tongue. A portion of them will be shared this Friday, Oct. 4, at RSVP @rsvpicia, 140 N Linn St., Iowa City, from 5-8 p...
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Curator Talk with Tim Barrett: Japanese Pocket Lanterns

Friday, October 11, 2024 3:30pm to 5:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library
Talk with Tim Barrett about his exhibit "Japanese Pocket Lanterns."
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Out of the Dark Archives: Books Bound in Human Skin and the New Science of Old Books

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 6:00pm to 7:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library
Come join us for Iowa Bibliophiles fall semester guest lecture with Megan Rosenbloom!
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Gallery reception for Clara Reynen's "I will not look away"

Friday, October 18, 2024 4:00pm to 5:30pm
North Hall
Gallery reception for "I will not look away" on Oct. 18 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Members of Jewish Voice for Peace and Iowa City Action for Palestine will be present for a Q&A. There will also be educational materials available for folks who would like to learn more!
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What Does Judaism Look Like? The Invention of Visual Toleration in the Enlightenment

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Art Building West
In 1721-25, the Amsterdam artist Bernard Picart produced some of the most influential representations of Jews and Judaism in European history. These transformative engravings, which became the most reproduced images of Jewish life in the early modern period, supported the expansion of religious toleration. David H. Price discusses Picart’s representational principle of authenticity and his promotion of works by Leon Modena and Manasseh ben Israel, two innovative rabbis who wrote about Judaism for Christian audiences.
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Redefining Judaism or Defending Judaism in the Enlightenment? Moses Mendelssohn and the Quest for Emancipation

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Old Capitol Museum
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) is widely recognized as the most innovative German-Jewish thinker of the Enlightenment. He maintained friendships with notable Christian intellectuals of the time, such as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and published a wide variety of works concerning aesthetics, religion, and philosophy. The debate concerning Mendelssohn’s legacy continues today: Do his accomplishments reflect an assimilation to European Christian culture or the preservation of Jewish tradition? David H. Price approaches this question by engaging deeply with Mendellsohn’s oeuvre in the context of the Haskalah, i.e., the Jewish Enlightenment: “Let us retain the freedom of thought and speech with which the Father of all humankind has endowed us as our inalienable heritage and immutable right” (Jerusalem, 1783). David H. Price is a professor in the departments of Jewish studies, religious studies, art history, and history at Vanderbilt University. He is one of ten scholars to visit the University of Iowa this year as an Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor.
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The William Anthony Conservation Lecture Series presents Renate Mesmer

Thursday, October 31, 2024 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Virtual
Renate Mesmer is head of Conservation and Preservation at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Mesmer is an experienced book and paper conservator with more than 20 years’ experience in the field. The William Anthony Conservation Lecture Series, hosted by the University of Iowa Libraries Conservation and Collections Care Department, invites book and paper conservators and bookbinders to share their experience and work with the UI book arts community and beyond. Funded by a generous gift that established the William Anthony Endowment in 1989, it honors the Libraries’ first conservator and the first bookbinding instructor at University of Iowa Center for the Book.
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Kozo Harvest

Friday, November 8, 2024 9:30am to 4:30pm
Oakdale Research Facilities
UICB's annual kozo harvest out at the Oakdale paper research facility!
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Multiple Signatures: UI Center for the Book Graduate Certificate Students

Friday, November 8, 2024 4:30pm to 6:30pm
North Hall
Group exhibition featuring UI Center for the Book Graduate Certificate students! Work on display will be an array of mediums featuring: bookbinding, paper making, letterpress printing, mixed media, printmaking and more!
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Book Arts MFA Info Session

Friday, November 15, 2024 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Virtual
The UICB will be holding an information session about the program on Nov. 15, 2024 at noon CT via teleconference. Videos and slides, faculty and students: we’ll describe the program, answer questions, and welcome anyone (from the curious to the already-committed applicant) who would like to participate.
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UI Center for the Book Open House

Friday, December 13, 2024 4:00pm to 6:00pm
North Hall
Exhibits from UICB studio classes in lettering arts, papermaking, bookbinding, artist books, and letterpress printing will be on display. UICB Faculty work will be on display in the K.K. Merker Gallery. Food and drink will be served — all are welcome!
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Curator Guided Tour of 'A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive' with Rich Dana

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library
Join curator Rich Dana for a special guided tour of the current Main Library Gallery exhibition, A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive. All are welcome to attend this free event. This tour is offered in partnership with the Iowa City Downtown District's Free Week. About the exhibit:   In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys...