Forum on The Book

Past Events

September 22, 2002
Writing Surfaces: The Matter of Texts
October 16, 2002 / 5:00 pm
The Substance of Romance
Isabel Swift
October 30, 2002 / 5:00 pm
The Man Who Loved Books But Couldn't Afford Them
Annabel Patterson
November 12, 2002 / 5:00 pm
The Revenge of the Book!
Charles Jencks
November 18, 2002 / 5:00 pm
Material Texts
December 4, 2002 / 5:00 pm
The Business of Books and the World of Publishing
André Schiffrin
January 29, 2003 / 5:00 pm
Comic Books and Convergence
Henry Jenkins
February 11, 2003 / 6:00 pm
Step Across This Line
Salman Rushdie
February 21, 2003
The Qur’an
February 21, 2003 / 2:00 pm
Who Wrote (Down) the Qur'an?
February 26, 2003 / 5:00 pm
The Cat in the Hat
Louis Menand
March 2, 2003 / 10:00 am
Introduction to Papermaking
March 5, 2003 / 5:00 pm
Virtual Codex
Johanna Drucker
March 9, 2003 / 10:00 am
Beyond the Fold: Making One-Sheet Artist's Books
March 19, 2003 / 5:00 pm
How Many Scriptures Became One Bible
Jack Miles
March 25, 2003 / 6:00 pm
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy
Paul Hendrickson
March 28, 2003 / 2:30 pm
Technologies of Writing from Classical Antiquity to Early Modern Europe
April 2, 2003 / 5:00 pm
Transgressions in Print
Robert Darnton
April 4, 2003 / 4:30 pm
"An Idea Like a Butterfly"
Vincent Pecora
April 4, 2003 / 4:30 pm
Bound, Unbound: Textuality Within and Beyond the Book
April 8, 2003 / 8:00 pm
One Book, One Philadelphia
April 12, 2003
The Book Conference
April 15, 2003 / 4:00 pm
Books & Bodies
April 21, 2003 / 5:30 pm
Books and the Magus
Anthony Grafton