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Monthly Lecture ProgrammeSession 2009 - 2010The Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture The Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture
Programme for the session 2009 - 2010ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGTuesday, 21 October 2009 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING at the TUC Library, Learning Centre, London Metropolitan University, 236-250 Holloway Road, London N7 6PP at 5.30. Chris Coates, Librarian, will introduce the TUC Library collections following the business of the meeting.
MONTHLY LECTURE PROGRAMME17 November 2009 (Chadwick Lecture Theatre; Tea in the Jeremy Bentham Room) JANET ING FREEMAN: “ 'Poor Ralph': The Fragile Career of a Regency Hack”. The curious history of Ralph Rylance (1782-1834): poet, translator, ghostwriter, editor, and proofreader. At the meeting the Society's Gold Medal will be presented to Dr. Lotte Hellinga.
15 December 2009 (Pearson Lecture Theatre; Tea in the Lower Refectory) ROEY SWEET, KATE LOVEMAN, MALCOLM NOBLE, and JOHN HINKS: “Murders and Marvels: the chapbook project at the University of Leicester ”.
19 January 2010 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in the South Cloisters) CERI DAVIES: “ ‘Print bearing fruit for the Welshman': the books of Sir John Prise ( c .1502-1555)”. On the legacy of the author of the first printed book in Welsh and of Historiae Brytannicae Defensio , one of the longest printed works in Latin by a Welsh humanist.
The Presidential Address16 February 2010 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in the South Cloisters) JOHN BARNARD: “Keats and Posterity: Manuscript, Print and Readers”. On Keats's canon, his uncertainties, and the interplay between manuscript and print circulation of his poems.
16 March 2010 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in the South Cloisters) SIMON HOROBIN: “ Chaucer's Scribe?” This lecture assesses the implications of the identification of the professional scrivener Adam Pinkhurst as “Chaucer's scribe” for our understanding of Chaucer's texts, their copying and circulation.
Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture20 April 2010 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in Lower Refectory) RUPERT RIDGEWELL: "Inside a Viennese Kunsthandlung : locating Artaria in Mozart's Vienna ". On the inter-relationship of the music, art, book and map trades in late eighteenth-century Vienna , with reference to the ledgers of the Artaria publishing house.
The Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture18 May 2010 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in the Haldane Room) Isabelle de Conihout and Pascal Ract-Madoux: “Grolier, Mahieu, Laubespine. The flowering and decline of inventiveness in French decorated bookbinding, 1540-1570”.
The Summer VisitSummer visit: details will be announced in The Library for March 2010.
VenuesMeetings will be held in lecture theatres at University College, Gower Street, London WC1, beginning at 6.00 p.m. Exact lecture theatres are given in the calendar above. Tea will be served at 5.15 p.m. in one of several rooms in the main building (Wilkins) of University College; please see lecture dates for location. Members are welcome to bring guests, both to meetings and to the tea beforehand. The AGM will take place at the Trades Union Congress Library Collections, Learning Centre, London Metropolitan University, 236-250 Holloway Road, London N7 6PP, on 21 October at 5.30. This will not be preceded by tea, but refreshments will be served after the meeting. Margaret Ford PANIZZI LECTURESThe 2009 Panizzi lectures will be given by Professor Anthony Grafton on The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe. The lectures will take place on 8, 9, and 14 December, 2009 at 6.15 p.m. in the Conference Centre of the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. Tickets (free) must be obtained in advance from the British Library Box Office (telephone 01937 546 546; e-mail http://boxoffice.bl.uk Bibliographical Society members will be granted entry to Senate House Library, Malet Street , London WC1E 7HU , on production of this programme card. It must be signed by the member and is strictly non-transferable. For more information click here [
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