The Centre for the History of the Book

The CHB Public Lecture with Kathleen Jamie is today!

Kathleen Jamie in conversation with Tom Mole The Centre for the History of the Book Annual Public Lecture: an evening with Kathleen Jamie, one of the most important poets and prose writers working in Scotland today.

An evening with Kathleen Jamie, one of the most important poets and prose writers working in Scotland today. Join us on Wednesday 8th November 2017 for a conversation about the physical forms her multi-award-winning writing has taken.

Booking is free but essential.

https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/chb/events/kathleen-jamie-in-conversation-with-tom-mole

Please see below for an updated schedule of CHB lunchtime seminars happening this semester.

All seminars take place on Fridays at 1-2pm in the Project Room (Room 1.06) in 50 George Square.

On 3 February 2017, Professor Paolo Quattrone presented a paper titled, 'Who thought accounting was boring? Rhetoric, art of memory, and the search for accounting proportions'.

Coming up this Friday, 17 February 2017, Professor James Loxley will discuss questions raised by the Palimpsest project, which mapped literary works onto the Edinburgh cityscape.

On Friday 3 March 2017, Dr Robert Irvine will present 'Burns's book: patronage and politeness in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786, 1787, 1793-4)'.

17 March 2017: Professor Emeritus Thomas Lockwood on 'Outlaw Print and Bottom-Feeding Printers'.

31 March 2017: Dr Daniel Allington on '"Karl Marx and the Kindle": Literature in the Digital Economy'.

Take a look at the schedule of book history seminars we're hosting this year! All seminars take place in the Project Room (Room 1.06) in 50 George Square.

Up next on 14 October: Louise Gardner on 'Royal Correspondence in late 14th Century England: Exploring the ‘Royal Letter Book' (Oct 14, 1-2pm)

11 November 2016, 1-2pm: Bill Zachs on 'The Bibliomaniac’s Progress - Reflections on Scholarly Collecting'

25 November 2016, 1-2pm: Katie Halsey on 'Exploring Romantic-period readerships in rural Perthshire, 1780-1830'

Join us this Wednesday for our public lecture by Alberto Manguel, 'Adam's Task, a Dictionary Story'.

'Adam's first task was to compile a sort of dictionary. Since those early days in the Garden, readers' lives have been marked by the dictionaries they have compiled and used. Dictionaries, as Adam perhaps discovered, lend us the illusion that we can say what we mean, and they are also (unfortunately for Adam) our shields against oblivion. Alberto will talk about several of the dictionaries that have been important to him throughout his reader's life and reflect on how they shaped and guided his reading.'

Alberto Manguel is director of the National Library of Argentina. His publications include A History of Reading (1996) and The Library at Night (2007).

There will be a reception following the lecture. Tickets are free, but please reserve your seat so we'll know to save you a drink!

Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lecture-alberto-manguel-tickets-27256231121

'& the rest is book history...'

Join us in the screening room (G.04) in 50 George Square this Friday afternoon (20th May) for nine 15-minute talks on everything from the medieval Book of Hours to Rebel Inc. Magazines!

A full schedule is available on the CHB website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/chb/events/conferences/and-the-rest-is-book-history

University of Edinburgh’s Centre for the History of the Book gains CILIP accreditation CILIP are delighted to announce that that the Book History and Material Culture MSc from the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for the History of the Book has received CILIP accreditation.The taught Master of Science was granted formal accreditation by CILIP following the institution’s assessment vis...

'We have a new volunteer in the conservation studio! Laura, a MSc Book History and Material Culture student here at the University of Edinburgh, is helping us surface clean and list approximately 300 books! Welcome Laura!'

--Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh

Find out more about the hands-on work placements available as part of the MSc in Book History and Material Culture: http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/chb/msc/programme-structure/optional-work-placement

'Shakespeare, Adaptation and the "Educational" Comic Book'

Dr Shari Sabeti will give a talk on how comic books transformed Shakespeare's plays for use in school classrooms.

Friday 18 March, 1pm in the Project Room (Room 1.06), 50 George Square

More info: http://goo.gl/GG1GfO

Bookshop Roundtable Listen to the audio recording of the roundtable discussion on bookshops and bookselling in Edinburgh and beyond on our website.

Professor Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, of Ryerson University, will be giving a talk at 1pm tomorrow in the Project Room, 50 GS. Her topic is Clemence Housman (1861-1955), a gifted late-Victorian wood engraver, and more generally the contributions of women engravers to Victorian print media.

Kooistra's books include 'The Artist as Critic: Bitextuality in Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Books' (1995), 'Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History' (2003), and 'Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture 1855-1875' (2011).

http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/chb/events/seminars/invisible-hands-of-clemence-housman

'The afterlives of the Mazarinades: the circulation and rewriting of the pamphlets from the Fronde in the reign of Louis XIV'

Our last lunchtime seminar of the semester! Dr Bruno Tribout (University of Aberdeen) will discuss the 'pamphlet wars' of 17th-century France.

Friday 27 November, 1-2pm
Project Room (1.06) in 50 George Square)

More info: http://goo.gl/yzMiJW