B&H Photo, Lindblad Expeditions & @nationalgeo are proud to present the 4th Annual Outdoor & Travel Photography + Video Imaging Conference is 4 days this year from June 3 - 6 in New York City!
We are excited to continue our online After Hours open houses this semester! Join the Special Collections Research Center on the second Tuesday of each month 4-5 pm for a virtual encounter with our collections. While all the events are online, we have offered an in-person option for the first session in the series. All are welcome to beam in and join us.
Our first event will take place next Tuesday 11 January from 4-5.30 pm EST and will feature a selection of Spanish Treasures at the University of Michigan Library. The Special Collections Research Center holds an extraordinary collection of early printed books published in Spain from the fifteenth century onward. Particularly significant are the holdings illustrating the Golden Age of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, that is, the so-called “Siglo de Oro,“ which includes world-renowned writers like Garcilaso de la Vega, Miguel de Cervantes, and Francisco de Quevedo. Curator Pablo Alvarez will provide a tour of artifacts as witnesses of how literary masterpieces such as El Lazarillo de Tormes or Don Quixote were published and read centuries ago, as well as additional documents illustrating some of the political and religious anxieties of Spanish society at that time, including books produced by the formidable Holy Inquisition.
Please join us for a virtual talk presented by *Making the Renaissance Manuscript* curator Dr. Nicholas Herman on Thursday, June 18, 2020, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. EST. Through this talk sponsored by Friends of Lehigh Libraries, Dr. Herman will examine the making of the hand-written and hand-illuminated book during a time of great political, religious, and technological transformation in Europe and will conceptualize the recent collaborative exhibition that opened in the Kislak Center back in February. Follow the link to register for this free event: http://ow.ly/5PbO50A8fxx
