By Claire Cozens May 11, 2015 1:05 PM Janaki Karmacharya sits on a plastic chair under the tarpaulin that now serves as her office and despairs at the wreckage of her once magnificent library in the heart of Kathmandu. ...
Professor of French and Comparative Literature Sandro Sticcca has continued a custom of many decades through his recent donation of two books to the Libraries’ Special Collections. “Gabriele D’Annunzio,” a richly illustrated book highlighting places in the Abruzzo region of ...
The New York Times T.H. Tsien, 105, Dies; Scholar of Chinese Books Rescued 30,000 of Them By MARGALIT FOX APRIL 19, 2015 T. H. Tsien was one of the world’s renowned scholars of Chinese bibliography and paleography, the study of ancient ...
Visit the Libraries from noon-1 p.m. today, Wednesday, April 15, for the latest installment of Special Collections’ Occasional Lecture Series. Diane Miller Sommerville, associate professor of history, and Yvonne Deligato, University archivist, will present the “Civil War Experience and Artifact: ...
Paul Schleuse, associate professor of musicology, will present “Image, Imitation, Imagination: Woodcut Illustrations in Adriano Banchieri’s Music Books” at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, in LN-1106, IASH Conference Room. Illustrations in prints of renaissance music are extremely rare, beyond generic ...
On Wednesday April 15, 12-1 p.m., Diane Miller Sommerville, Associate Professor of History and Yvonne Deligato, University Archivist will be giving a presentation as part of the Special Collections Occasional Lecture Series. The talk is titled “Civil War Experience and ...
Binghamton University Special Collections Featured Book for April is Robert Bolt’s screenplay for Doctor Zhivago: The Screenplay from the John McLaughlin Collection based on the novel by Boris Pasternak. British playwright, Robert Bolt (1924-1995), and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the ...
Natalie Elisha ’09, partner at Rubenstein & Elisha, PLLC, will speak to students at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, in UU-133A. After graduating from Binghamton two years early, majoring in both PPL and philosophy, Elisha received a full scholarship to ...
Two student-curated exhibits at the Binghamton University Art Museum feature materials from the Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections. The exhibits are: The Civil War: Images of Ruin, curated by graduate students from the Departments of History and Art History, which ...
Join us in the Libraries for a special viewing of the Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library and Museum Collection Thursday, March 26, from 5-7pm The collection is the largest of its kind in North America and contains artifacts including jewelry, ...