News | September 24, 2025

Video and Audio of RBS Summer 2025 Lectures Released

Rare Book School

Mindell Dubansky's talk on A Parallel History of Books and Blooks



Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has now made available recordings of talks from its Summer 2025 Lecture Series. 

A Parallel History of Books and Blooks with Mindell Dubansky, Conservator, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Jane Austen on the Cheap with Janine Barchas, Chancellor’s Council Centennial Professor in the Book Arts, University of Texas at Austin
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Publishing in the Renaissance: Christophe Plantin’s Business Strategy with Mark McConnell, Associate Research Fellow, Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance, Johns Hopkins University
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Books for Virginia 1620: America’s First Public Library? with E. M. Rose, Visiting Fellow, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University
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Iconographic Disjunction in the Ruskin Psalter/Hours: A Flemish Illuminated Manuscript of ca. 1470–80 with James H. Marrow, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Princeton University
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Curious and Creative Women with Rachael DiEleuterio, Librarian & Archivist, Delaware Art Museum
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The Catholicon Press Revisited: The Evidence of Nailheads with Paul Needham, Retired Scheide Librarian at Princeton University & RBS Faculty Member
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What Is Computational Bibliography? with Christopher N. Warren, Professor of English and History (by courtesy), Carnegie Mellon University
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