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Mike Kelly: Indigenous Agency and Intervention in the Bibliographical Record (2026 NEH-SHARP Lecture)
M. Stamm: Landscapes, Labor, and the Infrastructures of Printed Newspapers (2026 Karmiole Lecture)
Matt Kirschenbaum: From text to .txt: Making Material Messes in a Sloppy World (2026 Malkin Lecture)
Heather O'Donnell: "They Can’t Buy It and They Can’t Take It" (2026 Sue Allen Lecture)
Elizabeth Canning: "Women’s Libraries & Their Afterlives" (2026 Kenneth W. Rendell Endowed Lecture)
Douglas Fordham: "Aquatint Travel Books and the Haptic Picturesque" (2026 Kress Lecture)
Paul Needham, "The Catholicon Press Revisited: The Evidence of Nailheads," 29 July 2025
Christopher N. Warren, "What Is Computational Bibliography?" Malkin Lecture, 30 July 2025
Rachael DiEleuterio, "Curious and Creative Women," 2025 Sue Allen Lecture
James H. Marrow, "Iconographic Disjunction in the Ruskin Psalter/Hours," 2025
E. M. Rose, "Books for Virginia 1620: America's First Public Library?" 2025 NEH-SHARP Lecture
Mark McConnell, "Christophe Plantin's Business Strategy," Karmiole Lecture, 9 July 2025
Janine Barchas, "Jane Austen on the Cheap," Rendell Lecture, 4 June 2025
Mindell Dubansky, "A Parallel History of Books and Blooks," 2 June 2025
Richard B. Sher, “New Light on the Early Publication History of Boswell's Life of Johnson," Karmiole Lecture, 10 July 2024
LeRonn Brooks, "Archive of the People: The Johnson Publishing Company," 3 June 2024
Stephen Karian, "Scholarly Editing and the Challenges of Attribution," 10 June 2024
Deborah Parker, "A Librarian Like No Other: Belle da Costa Greene and Self-Invention," 12 June 2024
G. Scott Clemons, "De Motu Librorum: On the Movement of Books," Rendell Lecture, 8 July 2024
Aaron Pratt, “Buying a Book in Early Modern England,” 22 July 2024
Li Wei Yang, “Yongle Dadian: An Emperors' Encyclopedia,” Malkin Lecture, 29 July 2024
Ashley Cataldo, “Collecting Daily Life in Early American Manuscripts," NEH-SHARP Lecture, 31 July 2024
Kailani Polzak, "Pacific Encounters in Print," The Kress Foundation Lecture, 31 July 2023
Craig Welsh, "The Typesetting & Designs of the Declaration of Independence Broadsides," 26 July 2023
Christy S. Coleman, "A Nexus of Learning—Museums and the Importance of Public History," 24 July 2023
Jeffrey Makala, "Lives (& Afterlives) of Stereotype Plates," Karmiole Lecture, 12 July 2023
Walter O. Evans, "Why Collect?" The 2023 Kenneth W. Rendell Lecture, 14 June 2023
Barbara E. Mundy, "Books in the Contact Zone," Malkin Lecture, 12 June 2023
Leah Price, "Reader=Inessential Worker: Book History After Lockdown," 7 June 2023
S. Max Edelson, "The Surveyor's Eye," NEH-SHARP Lecture, 5 June 2023
Kinniburgh, Mary Catherine - "Surface and Relief in Literary Archives" - SoFCB, 10 Oct 2023
Rezek, Joseph - "Ideologies of the Codex in Hakluyt and Smith" - NEH-SHARP Lecture, 1 Aug 2022
Marcus, Hannah - "Characterizing the Elderly across Formats in Early Modern Italy" - 27 July 2022
McNamee, Megan - "Significance of a Concertina-Fold Almanac" - Kress Lecture - 25 July 2022
Roldán Vera, Eugenia - "Book Trade in the Anglo-Iberian Atlantic" - Karmiole Lecture - 13 July 22
White, Eric - "A History of the Gutenberg Bible (continued)" - Malkin Lecture, 11 July 2022
Wisecup, Kelly - "Making and Reading Indigenous Archives" NEH-GBHI - 15 June 2022
Rogers, Beverly - "Victorian Connections: Books and Stories" Rendell Lecture - 13 June 2022
Wong, Dorothy - “Making Merit: East Asian Buddhist Material Culture” NEH-GBHI Lecture - 6 June 2022
Rustow, Marina - “Lost Archives and Paper Reuse in the Medieval Islamic World” - 20 July 2021
Arista, Noelani - “He Lau Nā Moʻolelo” - 29 June 2021
Winship - Subscription Publishing in America over Three Centuries - Karmiole Lecture, 13 July 2021
Goldsby and McGill - "What is 'Black' about Black Bibliography?" - 3 August 2021
Yale, Elizabeth - "Paper-Keeping: Women, Family, Knowledge Work..." - 27 July 2021
Hidalgo, Alex - "The Book as Archive" - 15 June 2021
Robb, Megan - "Print and the Urdu Public" - 23 July 2020
Nishikawa, Kinohi – "From Poet to Publisher: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks by Design" - 16 July 2020
Ramachandran, Ayesha – "An Alternative History of the Atlas" - 2 July 2020
Trettien, Whitney - "A Hornbook for Digital Book History" - 18 June 2020
Bychowski, Brenna - "Adventures in Cataloging Popular Literature" - 11 June 2020
"Protest on the Page: Print as an Affordance for Revolutionary Spirits" (RBS-Mellon Lecture)
"The Never-ending Popularity of Njáls Saga: The Manuscript Evidence" (RBS-Mellon Lecture)
"The Futures of Handwriting" (SoFCB Conference) - 12 April 2019
"Muslims & Manuscripts" (SoFCB Program) - 23 April 2019
Stallybrass, Peter - "Thrift, Horatio, Thrift: Recycling Woodcuts and the Printing of Books"
Krupp, Andrea - "Nineteenth-Century Books Up Close: Bookcloth Grain Patterns"
Johnson, Russell - "More Baby Books than You Can Shake a Rattle At" (9 July 2008)
Hudson, Alice - "Alice’s Top Ten List: Rare Maps" (7 July 2008)
Stone, Sumner - "Warp & Woof: History, Craft, Concept and Culture in Early Digital Type Design"
Noel, William - "Writing Off Archimedes: Ten Years of Work on the Archimedes Palimpsest"
Beare, Steve - "John Feely Meets Samuel Dodd" (9 June 2008)
Kuhta. Richard - "The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608: Making It a Book Again"
Immel, Andrea - "Scissors, Prints and Paste" (23 July 2007)
Willison, Ian - "Brave New World or Mere Anarchy?"
Prochaska, Alice - "Cultural Restitution: Dilemmas and Cases in Europe and North America"
Beare, Steve - "The Pattern Book of Samuel Dodd, 19th-Century New Jersey Engraver of Binding Stamps"
Belanger, Terry - "The State of the Bibliographical Nation: 2006" (14 December 2006)
Dupont, Christian - "‘Take Things Always by Their Smooth Handle’" (24 July 2006)
Golden, Vincent - "Chasing the Dumpster: Collecting American Newspapers" (17 July 2006)
Heritage, Barbara - "Eyre's Heirs" (12 June 2006)
Winship, Michael - "Pitching Theoretical Tents" (5 June 2006)
Buchtel, John - "'Jane Eyre' Goes to the Rotunda: The Biography of a Classic Novel"
Chase, Karen - "Who’s/Whose Jane Eyre?" (9 December 2005)
Whitesell, David - "Quixotic Typography" (18 July 2005)
Siegel, Jane Rodgers - "Teaching Penmanship in Ninteenth-Century America: A Comedy"
Noel, William - "Where’s My Towel? The Archimedes Palimpsest in 2005"
Huttner, Sidney - "America’s Favorite Book, 1860–1930: Owen Meredith’s 'Lucile'"
Howes, Justin - "Typographical Monstrosities" (11 March 2004)
Bryan, Charles Faulkner, Jr. - "The Myth of the American Historical Ignoramus"
Jackson, Leon - "The Printer As Author from Franklin to Whitman" (4 August 2003)
Noel, William - "King David and His Books in the Middle Ages" (28 July 2003)
Dagenais, John C. - "Medieval Manuscripts in the 21st Century" (9 June 2003)
Belanger, Terry - "MA and LW and Us" (5 August 2002)
Gross, Robert A. - "Seeing the World in Print" (29 July 2002)
Kiffer, Selby - "Dear Sir or Madam: I Have an Old Book: or, Not Everything in Your Attic is Gold"
Fern, Alan M. - "The Photograph as Illustration" (8 July 2002)
Belanger, Terry - "The Future of Rare Book Libraries Revisited" (3 June 2002)
Kuhta, Richard J. - "‘Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing’" (27 May 2002)
Shailor, Barbara A. - "Otto Ege: A Biblioclast and Modern Technology" (11 March 2002)
Belanger, Terry - "Westward the Course of Books Takes Its Way" (7 January 2002)
Noel, William - "Eureka? The Archimedes Palimpsest" (6 August 2001)
Korey, Marie E. - "From Bibliography to Book History" (16 July 2001)
Storm van Leeuwen, Jan - "On Bookbindings: Their Depictions, Their Owners and Their Contents"
Allen, Greer - "The Vitality of Fritz Kredel’s Book Illustrations" (12 March 2001)
Viscomi, Joseph - "William Blake’s Graphic Imagination: Origins of Illuminated Printing"
Traister, Daniel - "'The Ox-Bow Incident': A Case Study in the Complexities of Book History"
Charbeneau, Brett - "How to Succeed in Bibliography Without Really Trying" (9 August 2000)
Traister, Daniel - "Hoosiers: Collecting the Unread and the Uninteresting" (31 July 2000)
Allen, Greer - "A Scholarly Printing House is Born: How and Why the Stinehour Press Came to Be"
Seaman, David - "‘Speaking of my Book as a Machine’: Electronic Paper and Digital Ink"