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.

Upcoming:

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

April 29: a very special event marking the opening of the Tom Davis Papers for research

Past speakers this semester:

January 28: Co-curators of Bibliomania; February 4: Meghan Consantinou, Librarian, Grolier Club; February 11: Diane Ducharme, archivist, Beinecke Library; February 18: Raymond Clemens, curator, Beinecke Library; February 25: Andrew Brown, doctoral student, Yale Department of English; March 4: Kathryn James, curator, Beinecke Library; March 11: Simon Beattie, antiquarian bookseller and literary translator; March 25: Elizabeth Frengel, curator of rare books, The University of Chicago Library; April 1: Excerpts from “Bibliomania; or Book-Madness” by Thomas Frognall Dibdin; April 8: Sara Powell, research librarian, Beinecke Library, will speak on fakes and forgeries; April 15: Anna Franz on the Phillipps manuscript of the Capitularies of Charlemagne