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Thursday, January 29, 5:30 pm reception; 6 pm program
Speakers: Ellen T. Baird and Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera, co-curators, University of Illinois at Chicago
Performers: Fuego Nuevo Folkloric Group, McKinley Park Elementary School
Join the exhibition's co-curators Ellen Baird and Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera as they describe their most fascinating discoveries from the exhibition's documents. Enjoy performances of Aztec dances by elementary students, and view a small display of original documents as we celebrate the launch of the online exhibition, The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico. Tamales and other refreshments will be served.
Admission is free and no reservations are required.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH/LINCOLN BICENTENNIAL
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| Spencer Crew |
Saturday, February 7, 11:00 am
Speaker: Spencer Crew, George Mason University
How did African American abolitionists shape Lincoln and the nation's thinking about slavery? Did their work for freedom hasten emancipation and post-war civil rights? The former president of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will discuss the role played by African Americans in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad.
Admission is free and no reservations are required.
Upcoming African-American History Month program at the Newberry Library
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| Ronald C. White, Jr. |
Thursday, February 12, 6:00 pm
Speaker: Ronald C. White, Jr.
Co-sponsored by the McCormick Freedom Museum
Through meticulous research of the newly completed Lincoln Legal Papers, as well as recently discovered letters and photographs, White provides a portrait of Abraham Lincoln's personal, political, and moral evolution.
A booksigning follows the talk. Admission is free and no reservations are required.
Upcoming Meet the Author program at the Newberry Library
SHAKESPEARE PROJECT OF CHICAGO
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| Gail Rastorfer |
Saturday, February 14, 10:00 am
Two pairs of identical twins are engulfed in mayhem in this riotous comedy of mistaken identity, performed by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago and featuring Gail Rastorfer. Fun for playgoers of all ages.
Admission is free and no reservations are required.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH PROGRAM
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| Dylan Penningroth |
Tuesday, February 17, 6:00 pm
Speaker: Dylan Penningroth, Northwestern University
A hundred years ago, in the Jim Crow South, thousands of African Americans were going to court, and one of the things they went for was to get divorced. How did black people deal with a court system that was famous for its racial hostility and staffed entirely by white men? How did African American women handle ending a marriage at a time when so much depended on proving that "the black family" was stable and respectable? What can these cases tell us about black life between the Civil War and the Great Migration? Dylan Penningroth, Associate Professor of History at Northwestern and a former Fellow at the Newberry Library, poses questions about family relations, the rise of the independent black church, and notions of respectability and race among African Americans.
Admission is free and no reservations are required.
Earlier African-American History Month program at the Newberry Library
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| Linda K. Kerber |
Saturday, March 7, 11 am
Speaker: Linda K. Kerber, The University of Iowa
How have the Constitution and its highest arbiters, the Supreme Court, protected women's rights as citizens? Historian Linda K. Kerber argues that during the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries rights under law provided American women unreliable protection for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Admission is free and no reservations are required.
Upcoming Women's History Month program at the Newberry Library
Saturday, March 14 11:00 am
Speakers: Christine Stansell, University of Chicago (moderator); Martha Briggs, The Newberry Library; Tamar Evangelistia-Dougherty, Black Metropolis Research Consortium; Mary Ann Johnson, Chicago Area Women's History Council
Join two Chicago-area archivists, a public historian, and an historian of women in a conversation about collecting, preserving, accessing, and using papers of African Americans and women. Following 10-15 minute presentations by the speakers, drawn from their own projects and institution's missions, they will engage in a panel discussion with each other and audience members on what local research institutions and community organizations are doing to collect and make accessible manuscripts and other primary sources that will fuel future historical narratives.
Admission is free and no reservations are required.
Earlier Women's History Month program at the Newberry Library
Tuesday, March 17, 6:00 pm
Speaker: Walter Roth, Chicago Jewish Historical Society
Co-sponsored by the Chicago Jewish Historical Society
In this second anthology of his stories on Jewish Chicago, Walter Roth presents a picture of well-known and little-known Jews in various professions and areas of work. He will tell a few of the distinctive stories.
A booksigning follows the talk. Admission is free and no reservations are required.
Earlier Meet the Author program at the Newberry Library
Tuesday, March 24, 6:00 pm
Speaker: Beryl Satter, Rutgers University
Beryl Satter was raised in Chicago, Skokie, and Evanston, Illinois. A graduate of the Harvard Divinity School and the Yale American studies program, she is the author of Each Mind a Kingdom and the chair of the Department of History at Rutgers University in Newark. For her work in progress on Family Properties, Satter received a J. Anthony Lukas citation. She lives in New York City.
A booksigning follows the talk. Admission is free and no reservations are required.
Books embody religion, history and philosophy, science and art; literature and criticism. But their very value to readers and collectors also makes them vulnerable to forgery, fakery, and invading armies. Churches and governments destroy books in the name of stability. Those who want to overturn the social order assail books too. Greed and ego are among the motives of thieves and forgers. And it is hard to bring to justice those who commit crimes against books. The fourth annual Caxton Club / Newberry Library Symposium on the Book will explore the various ways attacks on books have been framed, executed, uncovered, punished or not, and prevented.
The morning program begins with a historical perspective on wartime plunder, will next analyze Victorian attitudes toward punishment for literary plagiarism and forgery, and concludes with a contemporary view of how the rare book market has reacted to and dealt with crimes against books and book owners. A roundtable afternoon session, with audience participation, continues the discussion and includes rare book librarians, a Chicago attorney and collector, a bookseller, and a representative from the FBI.
The Symposium is free, but seating is limited so advance registration is required. Please print and submit the registration form.
9:00 am
Ruggles Hall, Newberry Library
Habent sua fata libelli: The Fate of Libraries in Wartime
Speaker: Sem Sutter, University of Chicago Libraries
In times of war and national upheaval, the enemy's books often become objects of hatred, fear, envy, reverence, or of uncomprehending disregard. The fate of libraries can hang in the balance. An examination of libraries in ancient and modern wars offers some insights into the confiscatory mentality of conquerors and the lengths to which librarians and others have gone to protect the written word.
A Capital Past: Forgery, Wilkie Collins, and 19th-Century Cultural Memory
Speaker: Sara Malton, St. Mary's University, Halifax
Focusing on the life and works of Wilkie Collins in particular, this talk will consider how nineteenth century authors frequently compared the severe punishment accorded financial forgery, namely execution, with the relatively limited penalties doled out for crimes against intellectual property, such as plagiarism. The former, with monetary consequences more immediate and direct, nevertheless influenced the latter, and it affected how various forms of forgery, including that of art and literature, were represented in the Victorian cultural imagination.
10:30 - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am
Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library
Caveat Emptor / Caveat Venditor
Speaker: Jennifer Larson, Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, Rochester
Ms. Larson will address the need for ethical standards from the viewpoint of someone active in the rare book trade for thirty years. Larson is the former Ethics Committee Chair for the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, a major trade and professional organization. She will speak about best ethical practices for dealers, changes in the way the rare book market views emerging legal issues of title and authenticity, and whether provenance and other research is better left as a duty of the dealer or as an obligation of the buyer.
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Lunch break.
2:00 pm
Auditorium of the Alliance Française
810 N. Dearborn St.
Book Crime History, Detection, Prevention
Moderator: Alice Schreyer, University of Chicago Library
Panelists: Susan Allen, Getty Research Institute Library; Michael Thompson, Chicago attorney and collector; Brian Brusakas, FBI Art Crimes Task Force; William L. Butts, Main Street Fine Books and Manuscripts, Galena, Illinois.
4:00 pm
Reception.
The Caxton Club and the Newberry Library gratefully acknowledge the Bibliographical Society of America as co-sponsor of this program.
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