Spring Semester 2013 Special Events
Presented by the UICB and collaborating departments
February 22, Friday, 4pm, 304 EPB
Jessica Pressman
American Council of Learned Societies Fellow and Visiting Scholar, UCSD Literature Department
"The Book is Not the Center: Between Page and Screen, Augmented Digital Poetics, and New Literacies"
Co-sponsors: UICB, English, Digital Studio for the Public Humanities
February 28th, Friday, Late Afternoon
Aaron Sinift
Washington DC-based artist who was formerly a UI student
Grinnell College gallery talk; lecture at the UI on his work. Details TBA.
Co-sponsors: Asian and Slavic Languages/Literature, UICB, SAAH
March 8th, UICB Brownell Lecture on the History of the Book
Mini Symposium on Islamic Papermaking and Calligraphy
Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair
Art Building West, Auditorium
2pm-3:30pm
Lecture by Jonathan Bloom
Papermaking in the Lands of Islam
Followed by Q/A
3:30-4:00pm Break; refreshments, and Islamic papermaking demonstration by Tim Barrett and grad students
4:00-5:30pm
Lecture by Sheila Blair
Islamic Calligraphy and its Supports
Followed by Q/A
Co-sponsors: UICB, SAAH and History
April 3rd, 2013, Wednesday, 4pm, Lecture
David Scott Kasten
"The Body of the Text," on the publication of Donne's poems http://english.yale.edu/faculty-staff/david-scott-kastan
Also: April 4th, Thursday, 3-4pm
Discussion with UICB and SLIS faculty and grad students
Co-sponsors: the Philological Quarterly, English and the UICB
April 12 & April 13, Friday and Saturday
Midwest Guild of Bookworkers Conference
Friday talk by Greg Prickman (To be confirmed)
Saturday Workshops with Bexx Caswell and Peggy Johnston
(Must be a member of the Midwest Chapter of the GBW to attend)
Co-sponsored by the UICB and the Midwest Chapter of the GBW