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PAST EVENTS
The 14th Hanes Lecture:
Pictures, Books, and Science: From Description to Diagram in the Circle of Galileo
Presented by the Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and Development of the Book
Thursday, September 22, 2011
5:00 Reception | 5:45 Lecture, Wilson Library
David Freedberg, Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art at Columbia University and
Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, examines the tension
between the two kinds of illustration produced in the circle of Galileo and his friends--
the descriptive watercolors and book illustrations they commissioned in their search for
order in nature, and the diagrammatic forms used in scientific treatises from the beginnings
of the printing revolution on. Both the telescope and the microscope given by Galileo to his
friends resulted in a crisis in visual representation, which Freedberg will explore through
a series of landmarks in the history of the book.
Sponsored by the Rare Book Collection.
First Amendment Day: Banned and in the Rare Book Collection
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
5:00 Display of Books | 5:30 Program, Wilson Library
Members of the UNC community will read from original editions of banned and censored books
in Wilson Library on Sept. 27 as part of UNC's third annual First Amendment Day celebration.
"First Amendment Day: Banned and in the Rare Book Collection" will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the
Pleasants Family Assembly Room of the Wilson Special Collections Library. A display of rare
banned books will be on view at 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Rare Book Collection and the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy.
Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture: Into the Latin American Archive
Monday, October 10, 2011
5:00 Reception | 5:30 Program, Wilson Library
Kathryn Burns, professor of history at UNC Chapel Hill, discusses her recent book,
Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru (Duke 2010), which traces
the practices of the Spanish American escribanos, who shaped notarial truth and
generated vast colonial archives. Original Latin American documents and books from the
Rare Book Collection will be on display for the evening.
Sponsored by the Rare Book Collection and the Institute for the Study of the Americas.
Aubrey Beardsley and His Publishers
Thursday, November 10, 2011
5:00 Reception | 5:30 Program, Wilson Library
Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library, and
noted Beardsley collector, will speak on the interaction between artist Beardsley and
his publishers John Lane, Leonard Smithers, and J. M. Dent. Beardsley publications held
by the Rare Book Collection will be on display for the evening.
Sponsored by the Rare Book Collection.
Rare Books Are for Everyone: Second Annual Display of Recent Acquisitions
Tuesday, Apr. 12, 2011
Claudia Funke, Curator of Rare Books, on why rare books are for everyone.
A not-under-glass display of recent additions to the Rare Book Collection
to be open before and after the program.
William Wordsworth
Thursday, Mar. 17, 2011
Professor Paul Betz of Georgetown University speaks on the great Romantic
poet in celebration of UNC Professor Mark Reed's gift of Wordsworth volumes
to the Rare Book Collection.
Poets in Person and on the Page: Michael Suarez, S.J.
Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011
Poet Suarez, University Professor and Director of Rare Book School at the
University of Virginia, inaugurates this new poetry series, reading his own
work and then James Joyce's Chamber Music in the 1907 edition held
by the Rare Book Collection at Chapel Hill. An analysis of both works as
voice and printed page follows.
Vargas Vila: 150 Years of Clamorous Solitude
A lecture by Juan Carlos González Espitia
Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010
Juan Carlos González Espitia, associate professor of Spanish at UNC, discusses
the life and writings of José María Vargas Vila, considered one of the most
controversial and widely read Colombian authors of the early twentieth century.
At the program, a new Library Web site launches, giving access to Vargas Vila's
digitized works.