Library Calendar

Composer Shulamit Ran will have an in-person Q and A session with Percussion Professor Josh Graham as part of the U of I New Music Festival. Shulamit was the second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, was composer-in-residence with both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and is Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago.

The techniques for making texts have changed across multiple media and historical contexts since antiquity, but a regular feature of the work of authors and scholars through all those changes is the reliance on helpers or amanuenses. Dr. Ann Blair (Harvard) will discuss the factors that have made them both invisible and occasionally visible, and the kind of work they did.

This event will highlight the collaborative project involving Emblematica (U of I), a digital library of emblem books, and Compositor (U of Birmingham), a database of printers’ ornaments. Dr. Hazel Wilkinson hypothesizes that “emblem-literacy” caused historical readers to engage with ornamented books in ways previously unaccounted-for in scholarship.