Did you know that the 9th of June is the International Archives Day? You maybe had the opportunity to celebrate it your country, through activities and events organized by National or local archives institutions, or professional associations, like in Senegal, Japan, or ...
The mould-breaking outcome of Turkey’s general election on Sunday will be viewed as a personal rebuff for the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and as a historic political breakthrough for the country’s 18 million-strong Kurdish minority, which will be represented by ...
The Tilly Losch Collection consists correspondence, diaries, photographs and other materials. But, did you know that the collection also features a large number of loose sketches, sketchbooks, and over 500 of her paintings? Tilly Losch Collection Finding Aid Come ...
Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes / by Guillame-Thomas Raynal. Londres: [s.l.]. 1792. The Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes is ...
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 ...