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book and library events in oxford

Saturday 20 April 2013: Gabriele Balbi (University of Lugano), 'From telegraph to radio broadcasting'
The annual Byrne Bussey Marconi Lecture.
Bodleian Library, Convocation House, 1 pm

23 April - 7 May 2013: The Lyell Lectures: Richard Beadle (Cambridge)
"Aspects of Late-Medieval English Autograph Writings"
Tuesday 23 April: ‘Autographs Ancient and Modern’
Thursday 25 April: ‘Medieval English Literary Autographs 1: Fugitive Pieces’
Tuesday 30 April: ‘Medieval English Literary Autographs 2: Set Pieces’
Thursday 2 May: ‘Medieval English Autograph Letters 1: The Hand of the Family’
Tuesday 7 May: ‘Medieval English Autograph Letters 2: The Hands of Others’
All at 5 pm, in the T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford

29 April - 2 May 2013: The Astor Lectures: Mark Rose (University of California)
Monday 29 April : Two Authors in Court: Alexander Pope and J.D. Salinger
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube, 5 pm
Tuesday 30 April : Stowe v Thomas: Uncle Tom's Cabin in Court
Merton College Mure Room, 3 pm
Thursday 2 May : Applied Literary Criticism: The Role of the Expert in Copyright Litigation
St Peter's College Dorfmann Room, 5:15 pm

Thursday 25 April: "Describing, Analysing and Identifying Early Modern Handwriting: Methods and Issues"
T. S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College, 9.30 am -4:00 pm

Speakers:Carlo M. Bajetta (Aosta), Peter Beal (Institute of English Studies, London), Giles Bergel (Oxford), Colin Burrow (Oxford) Guillaume Coatalen (Cergy-Pontoise), Julia Craig-McFeely (Oxford), Tom Davis (Birmingham), Jonathan Gibson (Open University), Gabriel Heaton (Sotheby’s), Simon Horobin (Oxford), Steven W. May (Sheffield), William Poole (Oxford), Daniel Wakelin (Oxford), Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library), Henry Woudhuysen (Oxford).
Registration (£20, graduates £15, including light lunch) through a link on the CEMS home page and a timetable and fuller details will be provided there shortly. For queries please contact Dr Jonathan Gibson, Jonathan.Gibson@open.ac.uk. Please register by Thursday 18 April.

Tuesday 30 April: Hugh Eveleigh, "Deciphering Royal Armorial Bindings"
Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College 6.30 pm
Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles event

Monday 6 May : Richard Ovenden (Bodleian Library) , "Photography and the Book"
Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Oxford Bibliographical Society event

Tuesday 7 May: Scott Scullion, "15th- to 18th-Century Ancient Greek Books"
Worcester College, 5 pm
Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles event

Thursday 9 May 2013: Daniel Wakelin, "Life and Letters"
Inaugural Lecture of the Jeremy Griffiths Professor of Medieval English Palaeography
5 pm, Lecture Theatre 2, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford

Tuesday 14 May: Nigel Wilson, "The Archimedes Palimpsest"
Rainolds Room, Corpus Christi College , 6 pm
Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles event

Wednesday 5 June 2013: Nigel Palmer, "The Making of an Illustrated Prayerbook in 14th and 15th-Century Strasbourg:Ursula Begerin"
McKenna Room, Christ Church
AGM of the Oxford Bibliographical Society: Meeting to begin at 4.30 pm; lecture to follow at 5:15 pm after brief interval for tea.