We would like to call your attention to two upcoming lectures on campus:
- Erika Bourguigon, OSU emeritus professor of Anthropology, will speak at 4 PM on Tuesday, April 22 on “Ecstasy, Collective Joy, Possession and Exorcism, or the Uses and Abuses of Anthropology.” Hosted by the Center for Folklore Studies, the lecture will be held in 311 Denney Hall. For more information see the Center’s Special Events page. (The topic is directly related to her work done in Haiti. Photos taken by Paul Bourguigon while the Bourguignons were in Haiti in the 1940s were highlighted in our posting of February 27, 2008.)
- The Department of Anthroplogy will be offering the annual Paul H. and Erika Bourguignon Lecture in Art and Anthroplogy on Thursday, May 15, 6-7 PM, in room 002 of the Psychology Building. William Saturno, assistant professor of archaeology, Boston University, will present “Painted Walls, Sacred Stories: Art and Myth of the Early Maya Kings.”
April 17th, 2008
John Bennett had some visual poetry on display at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, Jan-Mar 2008, in the exhibit “Metaphor Taking Shape: Poetry, Art, and the Book”. Also on display was Vispologee, the Minnesota Center For Book Arts’ “Winter Book” for 2007, which Bennett co-edited, and for which he wrote the introduction. For further details cf: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brblevents/brblexhibits.html
March 18th, 2008
Tuesday evening, March 18, the National Geographic channel will be airing a program entitled “How It Was: Secrets of Mona Lisa.” Included in their overview of the research on Leonardo’s famous painting will be Lillian Schwartz’s analysis. Her discovery, first published in 1987, was recently developed further in the book Monna Lisa: Il volto nascosto di Leonardo (Florence, 2007), published in both Italian and English with co-authors Renzo Manetti and Alessandro Vezzosi. The OSU Rare Books and Manuscripts Library is the home of the Lillian Feldman Schwartz archive.
March 17th, 2008
The Paul-Henri Bourguignon Haiti Photo Collection webpage has been added to the Rare Books & MSS webpage. It includes a broad sampling of the extensive collection of photos taken by artist Paul-Henri Bourguignon and Erika Bourguignon, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at OSU. The photos, accompanied by commentary from Prof. Bourguignon, are an invaluable resource for the study of Haitian history, society, culture, economy, ecology, and other matters. Take a look at http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/bourguignon/index-bourguignon.html
February 27th, 2008
Frederic Tuten, noted novelist and teacher of creative writing, will be visiting Ohio State the first week of May (details to come later). Mr. Tuten’s literary archives are part of the Contemporary American Literary Manuscripts of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. As noted, details about the visit will be forthcoming. In the meantime, you can view Mr. Tuten’s career at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Tuten .
February 26th, 2008
Geoffrey D. Smith and John M. Bennett of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library are the General Editors of William S. Burroughs’ Everything Lost, recently released by the Ohio State University Press. See the OSU Press notice at http://osupress.blogspot.com/2008/01/burroughs-everything-lost.html
February 25th, 2008
Jerry Tarver, donor of the Jerry Tarver Rhetoric, Oratory and Elocution Collection to Rare Books, will be speaking at the Aldus Society on Thursday, March 13th at 7:00 p.m. at the Thurber Center, 91 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. For more information go the the Aldus Society web site at http://www.aldussociety.com/comingevents.htm .
February 25th, 2008
Plans are underway for a second Avant Symposium to be hosted by the Rare Books & MSS Library and its Avant Writing Collection. The first event was held in the summer of 2002, and was quite successful; people are still talking about it. The second symposium will be held August 19-21, 2010. Also planned is a concurrent exhibit at the Columbus College of Art and Design of visual poetry and experimental literary works from the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami. Mark your calendars!
February 22nd, 2008
We’d like to draw your attention to the recent publication of I Call to Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto’s Years of Internment, edited by Susan Richardson. Richardson drew upon Suyemoto’s own writings, their years of friendship, and the Toyo Suyemoto Collection, which is housed in the OSU Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, in preparing this book. We congratulate her on the completion of this project!
February 6th, 2008
Welcome to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library blog. We plan to highlight new acquisitions, publicize events and/or publications that draw upon our collections and share information about what we have and what we do. Please check back occasionally to see what’s new.
We have been adding new finding aids to our menu recently: http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/finding/ You might find some interesting collections listed here that you never knew we had!
February 5th, 2008
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