[Commlist] School of Advanced Study, UoL - Book History Events - Spring Term 2022

A range of Book History and related events at the School of Advanced 
Study, University of London, March-April 2022.

All the following events will take place online via zoom and are free to 
attend with advance booking.

*Tuesday 8 March 2022: 5.30-7.00pm (GMT)*

History of Libraries Seminar (Institute of English Studies, Institute of 
Historical Research, and Warburg Institute)

Michelle Craig (Glasgow University): 'Networks of book collecting and 
knowledge exchange in eighteenth-century London: the library of Dr 
William Hunter'

Booking: 
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/history-libraries-dr-william-hunter 
<https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/history-libraries-dr-william-hunter>

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*Wednesday 9 March 2022: 5.30-7.00pm (GMT)*

Warburg Institute Director's Seminar
Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library): 'Papermakers and paper 
projects in early modern England, 1580-1640'

Booking: 
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/directors-seminar-heather-wolfe 
<https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/directors-seminar-heather-wolfe>

*Thursday 10 March 2022: 1.00-2.00pm (GMT)*

Book and Print Initiative Seminar (School of Advanced Study)
Katie Birkwood (Royal College of Physicians) and Catherine James 
(Institute of English Studies): 'Women as Owners of Medical Books in 
Early Modern England: Behind the Scenes at the Royal College of Physicians'.

Booking: https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25692 
<https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25692>

*Thursday 10 March 2022: 5.00-6.30pm (GMT)*

Maps and Society Lecture (School of Advanced Study)
Catherine Scheybeler (rare book and manuscript consultant, Hakluyt 
Society Speaker): ‘Cartography as Naval Power: The Atlas Marítimo de 
España (1789)’

Booking: 
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/maps-and-society-catherine-scheybeler 
<https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/maps-and-society-catherine-scheybeler>

*Thursday 24 March 2022: 1.00-2.00pm (GMT)*

Book and Print Initiative Seminar (School of Advanced Study)
Graham Williams (The Florin Press): 'In Conversation with Graham 
Williams: Engraving and Printing Bewick’s Blocks'

Booking: https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25693 
<https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25693>

*Deadline: Monday 4 April 2022*

CALL FOR PAPERS: Organising Libraries from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Workshop dates: 30 June & 1 July 2022

This Warburg Institute online workshop aims to bring together scholars 
from the fields of Classics and ancient Mediterranean studies, and of 
Mediaeval, Byzantine and Renaissance studies to share their research on 
the history of book collections and libraries and engage in a dialogue 
on cultural patterns, shifts, and revivals at the intersection of 
different traditions.

Details: 
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/CFP-organising-libraries-antiquity-renaissance 
<https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/CFP-organising-libraries-antiquity-renaissance>

*Thursday 7 April 2022: 5.00-6.30pm (BST)*

Maps and Society Lecture (School of Advanced Study)
Lexie Cook (2021–2022 Getty Foundation Fellow, Columbia University, New 
York): ‘Island, Archive, Além-Mar: the Insular Mechanics of Iberian 
Expansion’

Booking: 
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/maps-and-society-iberian-expansion 
<https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/maps-and-society-iberian-expansion>

*Monday – Friday, 25-29 April 2022: 3.00-5.00pm (BST)*

SHORT COURSE: Mapping Worlds: Medieval to Modern

Course tutor: Alessandro Scafi (Senior Lecturer in Medieval and 
Renaissance Cultural History, Warburg Institute)

The aim of this course is to explore how maps have served to order and 
represent physical, social and imaginative worlds from around CE 1200 to 
1700. The focus is on the iconographic character of maps and the complex 
relation between art and science that is found in mapmaking throughout 
history.

Details and booking: 
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/mapping-worlds-2022 
<https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/mapping-worlds-2022>

*Wednesday 27 April 2022: 6.00-7.00pm (BST)*

Agitated Air – Poems after Ibn Arabi (Warburg Institute)

An online reading and conversation with poets & translators Yasmine 
Seale, Robin Moger, and Professor Marina Warner. Organised by Beatrice 
Bottomley (Warburg Institute PhD) and supported by the University of 
London John Coffin Memorial Trust.

Booking: 
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/agitated-air-poems-after-ibn-arabi 
<https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/agitated-air-poems-after-ibn-arabi>


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