Lectures
The Center hosts individual talks, as well as talks in the lecture series listed below.
Past Events
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- Browse list of Kenneth Karmiole Lecture Series on the History of the Book Trade talks.
- Browse list of Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing talks.
- Browse list of William Andrews Clark Oscar Wilde Lecture talks.
- Browse list of Lectures, 2000–.
Upcoming Events
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9 May
Witnessing Disaster: Fleuriau de Bellevue and the Writing of Seismic Histories in Italy and Guatemala, 1717–1796
- Thursday, May 9, 2024
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lecture by John Sullivan, Ph.D. Student in History, Northwestern University. Recipient of the 2023–24 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship Between 1788 and 1793, the Frenchman Louis-Benjamin Fleuriau de Bellevue (1761–1852) trekked the length of Italy and climbed its Alpine peaks, a long sojourn that capped his years of training as a geologist and natural historian. Toward the end of...