Join Professor Guyda Armstrong<\/strong> (University of Manchester) and Dr Giles Bergel<\/strong> (University of Oxford) for an interactive workshop showcasing new digital methods for studying early modern printing. This session will introduce the research questions and first findings of<\/em> Envisioning Dante c. 1472-1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page, funded by the UK government (c. \u00a31 million; 2022-25). Participants will be given practical, hands-on demonstrations of the techniques and new digital tools developed by the project for analyzing and comparing early printed books.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This exhibition highlights stories of survival, contemplation, competition, protest, and learning, from six distinct collections in Rare Books and Special Collections. Each section, presented by a different subject curator, focuses on an example of how people over time and in different places, construct community and cultivate hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Curated by Rachel Bohlmann, Ph.D.<\/strong> (Curator, American History and American Studies), Gregory Bond, Ph.D.<\/strong> (Curator, Joyce Sports Research Collection), David T. Gura, Ph.D.<\/strong> (Curator, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts), Matthew Knight, Ph.D.<\/strong> (Irish Studies Librarian and Curator), Natasha Lyandres<\/strong> (Curator, Rare Books & Special Collections), and Payton Phillips Quintanilla, Ph.D.<\/strong> (Librarian and Curator for Latin American and Iberian Studies).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This and other exhibits within the Hesburgh Libraries are generously supported by the McBrien Special Collections Endowment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The current spotlight exhibits are Pennant Race: Souvenir Fan Pennants of the Negro Baseball Leagues<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (January\u2013February 2026) and First Impressions: An Introduction to Mesoamerican sellos \/ Primeras impresiones: Una introducci\u00f3n a los sellos mesoamericanos<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (January\u2013April 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n All exhibits are free and open to the public during business hours<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please join us for the following public events and exhibits being hosted in Rare Books and Special Collections: Monday, February 16 at 4:00\u20136:00pm\u00a0|\u00a0WORKSHOP \u2013 Envisioning Dante, c. 1472-c. 1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page Join Professor Guyda Armstrong (University of Manchester) and Dr Giles Bergel (University of Oxford) for an interactive workshop showcasing … Continue reading Upcoming Events: February 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":3220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5065,75050,75053,75058,75054,75060,12646,75062,75063,75052],"tags":[455963,77938,73938,156,77929,54896,77931,5072],"class_list":["post-11204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-exhibits","category-irish-studies","category-italian-literature","category-latin-american-studies","category-medieval-renaissance","category-miscellaneous","category-russian-east-european-studies","category-sports-research","category-us-history-culture","tag-african-american-history","tag-book","tag-manuscripts","tag-news","tag-periodicals","tag-photographs","tag-printed-ephemera","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11204"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11309,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11204\/revisions\/11309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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