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PAST EVENTS
Exhibition: Ancient and Living Maya in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Archaeological Discovery, Literary Voice, and Political Struggle
October 8, 2012 -- January 27, 2013
The Stuart Collection and other holdings in the Rare Book Collection tell the story of European peoples'
discovery of Maya sites and Maya languages and literary traditions, alongside the dramatic political history
of the region and the Maya struggle for autonomy.
This exhibition is in conjunction with the symposium, "13 Bak'tun: New Maya Perspectives in 2012".
Symposium: 13 Bak'tun: New Maya Perspectives in 2012
Thursday - Friday, October 25-26, 2012
A symposium on Maya civilization in recognition of the end of the current great cycle in the
Maya Long Count calendar. Exhibitions, lectures, open classes, multimedia presentations, and poetry readings showcase the holdings of the University Library and its Rare Book Collection.
Symposium lectures and presentations are now available.
Co-sponsored by the Rare Book Collection, Friends of the Library, Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC Global, and the Douglass Hunt Lecture of the Carolina Seminars.
Lecture: New Maya Perspectives: Victor Montejo lecture
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Internationally recognized author and scholar Victor Montejo, a Jakaltek Maya from Guatemala,
will deliver the opening address for the symposium 13 Bak'tun: New Maya Perpectives in 2012.
Professor Montejo's numerous publications include Maya Intellectual Renaissance: Critical Essays on
Identity, Representation, and Leadership(2005). The Wilson Library exhibition Ancient and Living
Maya in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Archaeological Discovery, Literary Voice, and Political Struggle, will be accessible before the lecture.
First Amendment Day: Banned and in the Rare Book Collection
October 2, 2012
Members of the UNC community will read from original editions of banned and censored books in
Wilson Library on Oct. 2 as part of UNC's fourth annual
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.
Exhibition: Nature and the Unnatural in Shakespeare's Age
February 27 - August 26, 2012
An exploration of early modern understandings of nature and the unnatural in
Shakespeare's time through a selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English
and Continental books from the Rare Book Collection. The exhibition includes herbals,
natural histories, travel accounts, agricultural works, cosmetics manuals, as well as books
on magic and witchcraft. This exhibition is in conjunction with the conference, "Shakespeare and the Natural World",
sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literature.
Lecture: The Invention of Scientific Reading
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Adrian Johns--Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago and author of,
Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age (2010) andThe Nature of the Book:
Print and Knowledge in the Making--delivers a lecture in the Critical Speakers Series of UNC's
English and Comparative Literature Department.
Lecture: "Maidens call it Love-in-Idleness": Potions, Passion, and Fairy Knowledge
in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Thursday, March 29, 2012
UNC Professor Mary Floyd-Wilson speaks on the perennially popular Shakespeare play. The lecture
celebrates the Rare Book Collection exhibition Nature and the Unnatural in Shakespeare's Age,
on view during the reception, and inaugurates the conference "Shakespeare and the Natural World,"
co-sponsored by UNC and King's College London.
Lecture: The Moseley Manuscript Map of North Carolina of 1737: Its History and
the Hunt for Its Provenance
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Independent scholar Michael McNamara will discuss questions of authorship and provenance
surrounding the "Moseley Manuscript Map," a recently discovered 1737 document that builds on
Surveyor General Edward Mosely's famous "A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina" (1733).
The event will also feature a display of several maps depicting North Carolina at the
time of European settlement and in the century thereafter.
The 14th Hanes Lecture:
Pictures, Books, and Science: From Description to Diagram in the Circle of Galileo
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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.
First Amendment Day: Banned and in the Rare Book Collection
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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.
Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture: Into the Latin American Archive
Monday, October 10, 2011
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.
Aubrey Beardsley and His Publishers
Thursday, November 10, 2011
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.
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.