BINGHAMTON, NY – Binghamton University’s History Department will host the 2013 Harvey and Elizabeth Prior Shriber Lecture at 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 15, in Lecture Hall 8, on campus. This event is free and open to the public. Guest speaker ...
To celebrate Irish-American Heritage Month and Saint Patrick’s Day, the Special Collections’ Featured Item for March 2013 is sheet music from the Lois Root Collection of music scores: Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral : That’s an Irish Lullaby, with words and music by J.R. ...
From the Library of Congress, a lecture by Dr. Emile Schrijver on the history of the Jewish book since the invention of printing. SPEAKER: Emile Schrijver EVENT DATE: 10/25/2012 FORMAT: Video + Captions RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link ...
Webcast from the Library of Congress: Hassan Eltaher discusses the considerable cultural and historical project of reviving Egypt’s ancient library at Alexandria. SPEAKER: Hassan M. Eltaher EVENT DATE: 10/02/2012 FORMAT: Video + Captions RUNNING TIME: 65 minutes TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link ...
The papers of Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine “Tilly” Losch, Countess of Carnarvon, are housed in the Special Collections department of the BU Libraries. The Countess’s papers, original artwork, and memorabilia constitute what is known as the Tilly Losch Collection, and are part ...
“An Introduction to Biological Illustration: Its History, Uses, and Some Methods,” a workshop with Marla Coppolino, Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization, will be held from 1-5 p.m. Saturday, March 2, in the University Art Museum. Cost is $20 ...
Webcast from the Library of Congress: For the first time in history, the Library’s first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation along with two artifacts associated with the creation of the document were brought together at the Library for a photo ...
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by Owen Gingerich The so-called “book nobody read” was Copernicus’ 1543 work On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, in which the Polish astronomer expressed, for the first time, that ...
Has your cat ever walked across your keyboard? Well, it’s not a new problem. Medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel recently Tweeted this photo of a 15th century book with… you guessed it… cat paw prints in ink on the pages! ...
Webcast from the Library of Congress: Chasing Krüger’s Dream: Studying the Transmission of Classical & Medieval Manuscripts Using Lattice Theory and Information Entropy New computational techniques show how modern digital philology is changing the way we think of the transmission of ...