Upcoming Events
October 30
Fromkin Memorial Lecture
Resilience, Resistance, and Rhetoric: What Latino/a Immigrants Teach Us About Health and Humanity
December 3
Marcel Proust
The Guermantes Way, Chapter 1, pp. 1-70. (1920)
January 28
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet. (1923)
February 25
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963)
Malcolm X
“The African Revolution and Its Impact on Afro-Americans” Harvard Law School Forum, December 16, 1964
Regular Event Series
Special Collections hosts regular monthly, annual, and semi-annual events.
Ettinger Book Artist Series
(Formerly the Book FOR[u]MS Book Artist Speaker Series)
Fromkin Memorial Lecture
Recent Research in Social Justice and Human Rights
Great Books Roundtable Discussions
An informal gathering to discuss classic works of literature.
Current Exhibits
Our current major exhibition is “The Portfolio” which runs through October 30. The exhibition highlights selections of original prints from 14 portfolios in the collection in a variety of different print media, including relief prints, intaglio prints, lithography, photogravure, silkscreen, and letterpress, by artists from around the world. Artists represented include Mark Brueggeman, Alec Dempster, Karen Fitzgerald, Louise LaFond, Mary Laird, Nicolas Lampert, Tom Phillips, and young printmakers from La Ceiba Grifica in Veracruz, as well as silkscreened posters from the Occupy movement, prints by Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative/Escuela de Cultura Popular Martires del 68, typographic posters commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, and early color lithographs of Indian architectural details from the Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details, 1890-1913.
The small exhibition in our reading room display cases features artists books, children’s books, and a graphic novel by Latin American and Latine artists, including Mirta Kupferminc (Argentinian), Pedro Martín (Mexican American), Ambar Past (American Mexican), Javier Martínez Pedro (Mexican) Daniel Pulido Ortiz (Nicaraguan), Danilo Rivera (Nicaraguan), Duncan Tonatiuh (Mexican American).