SPRING 2012 EVENTS

Exhibition: Nature and the Unnatural in Shakespeare's Age
February 27 - June 8, 2012
Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room, Wilson Library

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. The Rare Book Collection's copies of the second, third, and
fourth Shakespeare folios will also be on display.

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
5:00 Reception | 5:30 Program, Wilson Library

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) and The 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.

Co-sponsored by the Rare Book Collection.

Lecture: "Maidens call it Love-in-Idleness": Potions, Passion, and Fairy Knowledge in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Thursday, March 29, 2012
5:00 Exhibition Viewing and Reception| 5:30 Program, Wilson Library

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.

Sponsored by the Rare Book Collection and the Department of English and Comparative Literature.

Lecture: The Moseley Manuscript Map of North Carolina of 1737: Its History and the Hunt for Its Provenance
Saturday, March 10, 2012
9:30 a.m. Coffee and pastries for attendees, Main Lobby| 10:00 a.m. Program, Wilson Library

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.


Co-sponsored by the North Carolina Collection, Rare Book Collection, William P. Cumming Map Society, and Friends of the Library.