2023
Professor Tamara Atkin (Queen Mary University of London) on the Bodleian’s purchase of second-hand books in the early years of the 17th century.
Hosted jointly with the Merton History of the Book Group, on November 23rd 2023, at 5.15pm in Merton’s T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre.
Thursday 12 October 2023, 5:15pm | Weston Library Lecture Theatre
William P. Stoneman, A Golden Collector of the Golden Age’: Charles Walker Clark (1871-1933) and his library of incunables
With neither a bookplate nor a public sale, Clark’s collection has been all but lost from the narrative of private and institutional collection building. This talk will explore one part of a truly remarkable American collection that has had an international impact, and identify Clark’s wife, Celia Tobin Clark (1874–1965), as the agent of this impact.
Thursday 8 June at 5.00 p.m.
(jointly with the Centre for the Study of the Book)
Queer bibliography: a discussion
With Malcolm Noble (Leicester Vaughan College), Sarah Pyke (Institute of English Studies, London), and James Sargan (University of Limerick), chaired by Abigail Williams (St Peter’s, Oxford)
Weston Library Lecture Theatre
Thursday 4 May
( jointly with the Merton History of the Book Group)
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Merton College, T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Meeting to begin at 4.30 p.m. Lecture to follow at 5.15 p.m. after a brief interval for tea.
‘The grammar of ornament’: Alexander Pope and the art of the page
HAZEL WILKINSON (University of Birmingham)
Merton College, T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Thursday 1 March at 5.15 p.m.
Book history in bits: remediation and creative curation
CHRISTOPHER OGHE (Institute of English Studies, London)
Worcester College
Friday 17 February at 2.00 p.m.
( jointly with Centre for the Study of the Book)
Networks of Arabic scholars in 17th century Oxford: books from the Bodleian Arabic collections
PAUL BABINSKI and ALISDAIR WATSON
Weston Library, Horton Room
Places on this seminar will be limited; booking details will be circulated before the event.
Thursday 16 February at 5.15 p.m.
Annotated Arabic books from the library of Thomas Marshall
PAUL BABINSKI (‘European Qur’an’ project, University of Copenhagen)
Lincoln College, Oakeshott Room
2022
Thursday 1 December at 5.15 p.m.
A catalogue of problems: conserving Jesus College’s copies of the 1674 Bodleian booklists
NIKKI TOMKINS (Oxford Conservation Consortium)
Jesus College, Digital Hub
Thursday 13 October at 5.15 pm
Incunable excavations: some highlights of material evidence in Memmingen Stadtarchiv
CLAIRE BOLTON (Independent Scholar)
Lincoln College, Oakeshott Room
Thursday 24 February 2022 at 12:30 p.m.
Loose Threads: An interdisciplinary approach to the conservation of textiles in library collections
Nicole Gilroy
Online via Zoom
Thursday 10 February 2022 at 5:30 p.m.
Re-using manuscripts in late Medieval England
Hannah Ryley
Balliol Historic Collections Centre, St Cross Church
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