| January 31, 2008 | "The First Printed Library Catalogue? A German Doctor's Library of the Sixteenth Century and its Place in the History of the Distribution of Books by Catalogue" | Giles Mandelbrote, British Library |
| October 11, 2007 | The Reader's Dilemma: Ascetic and Aesthetic Approaches to Reading and Ethics | Brian Stock, University of Toronto |
| September 14, 2007 | Books Fit for a Portuguese Queen: The Library of Catherine of Austria (1507-1578) and the Milan Connection |
Kevin M. Stevens, |
| May 4, 2007 | Introduction to the Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance (Workshop) | Angela Nuovo, Universitá di Udine |
| May 2, 2007 | Book Collecting in Sixteenth-Century Italy: The Library of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601) (Lecture) | Angela Nuovo, Universitá di Udine |
| April 20, 2007 | L'expérience française au Nouveau Monde à la Renaissance, à travers livres et cartes" |
Frank Lestringant, Université de Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV |
| February 6, 2007 | Social Rhythms in the Middle Ages | Jean-Claude Schmitt, École des Hautes Études en Sceinces Sociales |
| September 29, 2006 | From a Medieval Classroom: The Newberry's Manuscript of Aesopic Fables and Tobias | Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago |
| April 7, 2006 | A History of the Book Symposium: Rare Books and Manuscripts in Midwestern Collections | |
| December 2, 2005 | Lyrical Book Design: Image, Music, and Text in Gautier de Coinco's 'Miracles de Nostre Dame' | Kathryn Duys, University of St. Francis |
| October 28, 2005 | School Masters, Seduction, and Slavery: Polygot Dictionaries and Early Modern England | Susie Phillips, Northwestern University |
| March 18, 2005 | The Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century Italy and Gabriele Giolito's Branch System | Angela Nuovo, University of Udine, Italy |
| March 4, 2005 | Generic Transference and the Invention of the Picaresque | David Boruchoff, McGill University |
| November 12, 2004 | Marketing Humanism | Paul Gehl, The Newberry Library |
| May 21, 2004 | History of the Book Conference: The Book in Early Modern Italy: Who Were the Producers and Consumers? |
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| The Pulci Family and the Florentine Press, 1480-1500 | Elissa Weaver, University of Chicago |
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| The Politics of Liturgical Publishing: Milan 1594 | Kevin M. Stevens, University of Nevada-Reno |
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| Literary Salons and the Making of Poetry | Diana Robin, The Newberry Library |
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| Selling Vernacular Religious Texts: The Case of Girolamo Regino | Gabriella Zarri, University of Florence |
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| From Barely Literate to Learned: Audiences for Astrology | Mary Quinlan-McGrath, Northern Illinois University |
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| January 23, 2004 | A Great French Renaissance Library Discovered: Claude de Laubespine, 1545-1570, His Books, His Bindings | Isabelle de Conihout, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris |
| November 7, 2003 | From Manuscript Miscellanies to Printed Books: the Earliest Robin Hood Poems in Context | Thomas Ohlgren, Purdue University |
| October 17, 2003 | Courtesy and Cookery: Courtesy Books and the Household as Schools for Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern England | Sharon Michalove, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| October 17, 2003 | Re-reading Early Modern Conduct Literature | Frances E. Dolan, University of California, Davis |