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                  Special Collections hosted Tricky Treatise: Malleus Maleficarum (the Hammer of Witches) and European Witch Hunting. This event was the first of many presentation of the Occasional Series in Special Collections. Held ...

Helen Deutsch, professor of English from the University of California, Los Angeles, will lecture on “Disability, Irony, Untimeliness: The Lateness of Jonathan Swift” at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, in Room 2320, Special Collections Reading Room located on the second ...

An Occasional Series in Special Collections Tricky Treatise: Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches) and European Witch Hunting Tuesday, October 28, 2014 2:00 – 3:30 pm Huppe Reading Room Special Collections Bartle Library Presentation and discussion led by Beth Kilmarx, Curator ...

Historian Sam White, assistant professor of history, Ohio State University, will speak about “Shewing the difference betweene their conjuration, and our invocation on the name of God for rayne: Weather, Prayer and Magic in Early American Encounters” from 4:30-6 p.m. ...

  The Department of Art History invites the campus to another talk in the Harpur College Speaker Series in Visual Culture. Meredith Martin, associate professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, will speak at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, ...

“Daredevils,” an 85-minute film by Stephanie Barber, will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, in LH-6. A portrait of risk and language, “Daredevils” presents the experimental narrative of a writer as she interviews a well-known artist and feels ...

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced Thursday that it has portions of a rare and important Chinese manuscript called the Yongle Encyclopedia — with 11,095 volumes, the largest book ever written in China. The book was commissioned ...

There are only four original Magna Carta documents from 1215 which survive. Two are kept at the British Library, one at Lincoln Cathedral and one at Salisbury Cathedral. Now, for the first time in history these manuscripts will all be ...

Send abstracts and brief CVs by December 1, 2014 to cemers@binghamton.edu. Inquiries may be directed to Professors Olivia Holmes (oholmes@binghamton.edu) or Paul Schleuse (schleuse@binghamton.edu). Supported by grants from the Material and Visual Worlds Transdisiplinary Area of Excellence of Binghamton University ...

Treat yourself to medieval manuscripts…early editions of major authors…fascinating modern manuscripts… and gems from the University’s Archives. Hold in your hands the smallest book in our library and turn the pages of its oldest! Learn how accessible these amazing resources ...