Category Archives: Events

Congratulations to UNC Chapel Hill Graduates!

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Claudia Funke

Last weekend was graduation.  Students and their families and friends celebrated on campus. And more than a few wandered into Wilson to experience its amazing architecture in the Grand Reading Room, as well as some of the amazing books RBC … Continue reading →

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Adrian Johns at Wilson Library: The Invention of Scientific Reading

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Claudia Funke

The Rare Book Collection partnered with our friends in the Department of English and Comparative Literature to bring Prof. Adrian Johns to speak on Tuesday April 10. Johns, one of the most provocative thinkers and writers on the history of … Continue reading →

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An Evening of Enchantment

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Claudia Funke

On Thursday evening March 29th, the Rare Book Collection celebrated its new exhibition Nature and the Unnatural in Shakespeare’s Age with a reception and lecture by Prof. Mary Floyd-Wilson, “Maidens Call It Love-in-Idleness”: Potions, Passion, and Fairy Knowledge in A … Continue reading →

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The Electrifying Tiny Spark

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Claudia Funke

In recognition of Black History Month, we highlight one of our favorite RBC purchases of 2010-2011, Christina Moody’s Tiny Spark. Imagine a sixteen-year old African-American girl publishing a book of poetry in 1910: some of it in dialect, some of … Continue reading →

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Fashion Sense and Beardsley Prints

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Claudia Funke

Noted collector Mark Samuels Lasner closed the RBC’s fall season of events with a wonderfully informative and well-presented lecture on “Aubrey Beardsley and His Publishers.” Thursday evening November 10th, some seventy-five people listened to Samuels Lasner explain how three London … Continue reading →

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Official Documents vs. Truth

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Claudia Funke

UNC Professor of History Kathryn Burns delivered the RBC/ISA 2nd annual Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture last evening to an engaged and enthusiastic audience. Discussing her archival experiences in Cuzco that resulted in her recent book Into the Archive: Writing and Power … Continue reading →

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Banned and in the Rare Book Collection

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Claudia Funke

One way that a book can become rare is to be banned. Banned books – the Rare Book Collection, it has them! A week ago, Tuesday evening, as part of the University-wide First Amendment Day, the Rare Book Collection sponsored … Continue reading →

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A Fabulous 14th Hanes Lecture

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Claudia Funke

A standing-room-only crowd assembled last evening in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room at Wilson Library to hear eminent art historian Prof. David Freedberg deliver the 14th Hanes Lecture, presented by the Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and … Continue reading →

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