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

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

April 29: a very special event TBA

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