Calendar  /  Forum on The Book


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Past Events

Old painting with a cross
September 22, 2002—December 31, 2002
Writing Surfaces: The Matter of Texts
A lot of small posters
October 16, 2002 / 5:00 pm
The Substance of Romance
Isabel Swift
Photo of Annabel Patterson
October 30, 2002 / 5:00 pm
The Man Who Loved Books But Couldn't Afford Them
Annabel Patterson
Photo of Charles Jencks
November 12, 2002 / 5:00 pm
The Revenge of the Book!
Charles Jencks
Painting - Liberty Displaying the Arts & Sciences, Samuel Jennings
November 18, 2002 / 5:00 pm
Material Texts
Photo of André Schiffrin
December 4, 2002 / 5:00 pm
The Business of Books and the World of Publishing
André Schiffrin
Batman poster
January 29, 2003 / 5:00 pm
Comic Books and Convergence
Henry Jenkins
Poster for Step Across This Line
February 11, 2003 / 6:00 pm
Step Across This Line
Salman Rushdie
Picture of the Qur’an
February 21, 2003—April 6, 2003
The Qur’an
Picture of the Qur’an
February 21, 2003 / 2:00 pm
Who Wrote (Down) the Qur'an?
Photo of Louis Menand
February 26, 2003 / 5:00 pm
The Cat in the Hat
Louis Menand
Photo of Graydon Wood
March 2, 2003 / 10:00 am
Introduction to Papermaking
Prove Before Laying: Figuring the Word Druckwerk
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
Photo of Jack Miles
March 19, 2003 / 5:00 pm
How Many Scriptures Became One Bible
Jack Miles
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy poster
March 25, 2003 / 6:00 pm
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy
Paul Hendrickson
Technologies of Writing from Classical Antiquity to Early Modern Europe Poster
March 28, 2003—March 29, 2003 / 2:30 pm
Technologies of Writing from Classical Antiquity to Early Modern Europe
Painting of King Louis XV
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—April 5, 2003 / 4:30 pm
Bound, Unbound: Textuality Within and Beyond the Book
Book cover of the Prince of a Child
April 8, 2003 / 8:00 pm
One Book, One Philadelphia
Poster for The Book Conference
April 12, 2003
The Book Conference
Picture of a skeleton
April 15, 2003 / 4:00 pm
Books & Bodies
An old blue painting of a man
April 21, 2003 / 5:30 pm
Books and the Magus
Anthony Grafton