Lecture by Jonathan Flatley, Professor of English, Wayne State University
Cosponsored by the Program in American Studies and 320 York Humanities

Leah Price, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Harvard University, with Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies, School of Information Studies, UCLA, and Trina Hyun, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Yale

Part of the series of panel discussions with Yale faculty and visiting speakers on the idea of the text as material object

For more on the Yale Program in the History of the Book, visit https://bookhistory.yale.edu

A weekly series of informal talks followed by tea on the library mezzanine during the academic year. This semester’s talks will feature discussions related to the exhibition, Bibliomania. More information on the exhibition: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/bibliomania-or-book-madnes…

Upcoming:

April 15: Anna Franz on the Phillipps manuscript of the Capitularies of Charlemagne

A weekly series of informal talks followed by tea on the library mezzanine during the academic year. This semester’s talks will feature discussions related to the exhibition, Bibliomania. More information on the exhibition: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/bibliomania-or-book-madnes…

Upcoming:

April 1: Excerpts from “Bibliomania; or Book-Madness” by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

A weekly series of informal talks followed by tea on the library mezzanine during the academic year. This semester’s talks will feature discussions related to the exhibition, Bibliomania. More information on the exhibition: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/bibliomania-or-book-madnes…

Upcoming:

March 11: Simon Beattie, antiquarian bookseller and literary translator, speaking on “The Wealth of Endpapers”