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; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance. More information on the exhibition: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/bibliomania-or-book-madnes…

January 28: Co-curators of Bibliomania will provide an overview of the exhibition

February 4: Meghan Consantinou, Librarian, Grolier Club

February 11: Diane Ducharme, archivist, Beinecke Library, and co-curator of Bibliomania, will speak on the manuscript case in the exhibition related to the legendary nineteenth-century bibliomaniac Thomas Phillipps

February 18: Raymond Clemens, curator, Beinecke Library, and co-curator of Bibliomania, will speak on the manuscript case in the exhibition related to the legendary nineteenth-century bibliomaniac Thomas Phillipps

February 25: Andrew Brown, doctoral student, Yale Department of English, and co-curator of Bibliomania

March 4: Kathryn James, curator, Beinecke Library, and co-curator of Bibliomania

March 11: Simon Beattie, antiquarian bookseller and literary translator

No gallery talk and tea on March 18.

March 25: Elizabeth Frengel, curator of rare books, The University of Chicago Library, and co-curator of Bibliomania, will speak on “The Whole Art of Marbling”

April 1: TBA

April 8: Sara Powell, research librarian, Beinecke Library, will speak on fakes and forgeries

April 15: TBA

April 22: Lawrence Manley, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Yale