Past Symposium On The Book Events Events

Wheatley

Printing Early Modern Race: A Rare Books Workshop

February 16, 2023
Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries Building
Kim Coles

The Blood of Christians: Phillis Wheatley Peters and White Christianity

February 16, 2023
Special Collections Library, Room 277
   Dr. Brandi K. Adams

Symposium on the Book: "‘We had not thus trespassed against your consent’: The Blackamoor Poems by Henry Rainold and Henry King (1630s-1650s)."

April 27, 2022
Special Collections Libraries Room 277
Headshot photo of speaker Dr. Siddique standing in front of a geometric pattern wood background. He is wearing a dark shirt, glasses, and smiling.

Documenting the Body of State: Paper and the Archive of Early American Constitutionalism

September 17, 2021
Zoom - Register here: https://tinyurl.com/UGAConstitutionDay
Julie Park at the Salk Institute

Symposium on the Book presents Dr. Julie Park

March 2, 2020
Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries Building, Room 277
Mary Floyd-Wilson

"Discerning the Devil Among Us: The Spiritual Instruction of Murder on the Early Modern Stage and Page," Dr. Mary Floyd-Wilson (UNC Chapel Hill)

October 4, 2019
Paul Douglas Hale Lecture Hall, Park 265
Fuchs Lecture

“Crusoe’s Absence: Sugar Economies and the Ingenuity of Realism,” a lecture by Barbara Fuchs, Professor of English, Spanish, and Portuguese (UCLA)

September 23, 2019
Founder's Garden Ballroom
Unto the Breach

"Archival Homeplaces: Shakespeare and African American Performance in the Early Twentieth Century,” Patricia Cahill

October 12, 2018
Special Collections Libraries Building, Room 277
Symposium on the book image

Pop-up Rare Books Exhibit and Workshop on Race and Georgia Theatre History

October 12, 2018
Richard B. Russell Jr. Special Collections Libraries Building 300 S. Hull Street
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"Small Things in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World," Dr. Chloe Wigston Smith, University of York

October 1, 2018
265 Park Hall
Susan Philips

Symposium on the Book: Diversity in the Archives, Part II

April 27, 2018
Special Collections Libraries Building, 300 S. Hull Street

Symposium on the Book Roundtable: Access and Archives

March 1, 2018
Special Collections Library, Second Floor, 300 S. Hull Street
Jonathan Hsy

“Disability and Divergent Readers: The History of the Book through Other(ed) Senses," Dr. Jonathan Hsy

February 28, 2018
Auditorium, Special Collections Building, 300 S. Hull Street
Diane Dugaw

Fighting and Sailing Women in Anglo-American Prints, Songs, and History (1600—present)

Diane Dugaw, (University of Oregon)
February 23, 2017
Special Collections Library, Room 227

UGA Symposium on the Book: Living Texts

February 23, 2017
Special Collections Library, Room 227

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