Call for papers, for the Inaugural Conference, 5-6 April 2010
Cambridge Centre for Material Texts
See the call for papers from postgraduate students.

Call for papers
Form and function in the late medieval bible, Edinburgh, 12-14 July, 2010

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CSB events are supported by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

New project: Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in the Bodleian Library

Events

Link: Exhibitions and events from the Bodleian Library

Hilary Term, 2010
Seminar on the History of the Book, 1450-1830 Professor Ian Maclean, Convenor. All Souls College, Fridays 2:15 pm.
See seminar list for details

Hilary Term, 2010
Seminar: The Reading of Hebrew and Jewish Texts in the Early Modern Period Convenors: Piet van Boxel and Joanna Weinberg. Thursdays, 2.30pm at Exeter College
See full list of seminars.

Until 3 May
Exhibition:Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures
Exhibition Room, Bodleian Library
See programme of lunchtime talks relating to this exhibition

8 February
Peter Parsons, Artemidorus: A New Papyrus and an Old Forger
Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm (Oxford Bibliographical Society)

9 February
Lesley Smith : Jews and Christians imagining the Temple
Convocation House, Bodleian Library, 1:00 - 1:30, followed by a guided tour of the exhibition.

16 February
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger : Christian Hebraism in Thirteenth-century England
Convocation House, Bodleian Library, 1:00 - 1:30, followed by a guided tour of the exhibition.

23 February
Professor James Raven (University of Essex, Library Philanthropy in the Age of Thomas Bodley
1pm, Convocation House (Friends of the Bodleian) Admission to lecture free. All are welcome.
Wine and sandwiches will be served in Chancellor's Court after the lecture at a cost of £5 per person, for which bookings should be made and paid for in advance with the Administrator.
RSVP: The Administrator, Friends of the Bodleian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG. Tel: 01865 277234, Email: fob@bodley.ox.ac.uk

24 February
Sabine Arndt : Science as a Meeting-place of Cultures
Convocation House, Bodleian Library, 1:00 - 1:30, followed by a guided tour of the exhibition.

1 March
William Poole, The Chinaman and the Librarian: The Meeting of Shen Fuzong and Thomas Hyde in 1687
Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm (Oxford Bibliographical Society)

2 March
Piet van Boxel : The Virgin and the Unicorn; a Christian Image in a Jewish Prayer Book
Convocation House, Bodleian Library, 1:00 - 1:30, followed by a guided tour of the exhibition.

9 March
Angela V. John, author of Evelyn Sharp. Rebel Woman, 1869-1955, discusses the Evelyn Sharp Papers in the Bodleian.
1pm, Convocation House (Friends of the Bodleian) Admission to lecture free. All are welcome.
Wine and sandwiches will be served in Chancellor's Court after the lecture at a cost of £5 per person, for which bookings should be made and paid for in advance with the Administrator.
RSVP: The Administrator, Friends of the Bodleian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG. Tel: 01865 277234, Email: fob@bodley.ox.ac.uk

10 March
McKenzie Lecture
Henry Woudhuysen, A.W. Pollard (1859 - 1944) : Friends and Fine Printing
5 pm, St Cross Building, Lecture Theatre 2

1 April
CSB Special Lecture
Peter Stallybrass, What is a book? Shakespeare unbound, and bound
4 pm, Seminar Room, Room 132, New Library

Trinity Term, 2010

16-17 April Border families and their Books: A Symposium
Merton College, Oxford
See details

April - May Lyell Lectures: Professor Ian Maclean (All Souls College)
The business of scholarship: the trade in Latin books in the age of confessions, 1560-1630
Tuesday and Thursday, weeks 1-3, Trinity Term (from April 27)
University Museum of Natural History, Lecture Theatre

8 May
Symposium -- Book provenances: examples and techniques
Magdalen College and Merton College, Oxford
Speakers include: David Pearson; Nicholas Pickwoad; Cristina Dondi

From 28 May
Exhibition: 'My wit was always working': John Aubrey and the Development of Experimental Science
28 May – 31 Oct 2010, Exhibition Room, Bodleian Library

24-26 June
John Selden, 1584-1654
Magdalen College, Oxford
A major international conference on the life, works and scholarship of John Selden. Confirmed speakers include: Professor Gerald Toomer, Professor Mordechai Feingold, Professor Jean-Louis Quantin and Professor Peter Miller.
Contact thomas.roebuck@magd.ox.ac.uk or jeffrey.miller@magd.ox.ac.uk for more details.