The Book & Media Studies Student Association at the University of Toronto
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Put those books aside, Book & Media Studies students – your Student Association is having a pub night!
Join us on Wednesday, October 16th from 6pm to 9pm at Gabby’s (192 Bloor Street West) in the upstairs back room.
All BMS staff, faculty, and students are welcome to attend, and all beverages will be courtesy of the Student Association.
Note: This information was copied and pasted from http://bookhistory.ischool.utoronto.ca/TCB_program.html. Visit this link to learn about the Toronto Centre for the Book’s other lectures this year!
Thursday 3 October, 4:15 p.m.
Faculty of Information, 140 St. George Street, Bissell Building, Room 728
Adrian Johns (University of Chicago)
“The Cultural Origins of the Printing Revolution”
In Association with the iSchool
Historians of the book have reason to be happier than most humanists these days. We have become accustomed to noting that our field has flourished like few others in the last generation. It has staked a claim to importance in every branch of historical inquiry, and its practitioners create the kind of bold arguments and challenging claims that are the hallmark of a thriving intellectual enterprise. It is all the more striking, then, that when it comes to the field’s own signature problem – the advent and impact of the printed book in Renaissance Europe – boldness has arguably been less apparent than timidity. Excellent work by Andrew Pettegree and others notwithstanding, the fundamental concepts and convictions that reign today are still aligned with those established by Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin when they inaugurated the endeavour half a century ago. So what happens if we resolve to make good on the field’s promise by tackling the Gutenberg revolution itself in the spirit of our more radical historiographical ambitions? How many of our current approaches will pass that most stringent – yet at the same time most essential – test? And how far will basic understandings of the event itself be transformed? The aim of this lecture is to pose these questions. In answering them, it will suggest a novel account of what remains one of the most resonant episodes in Western history.
Adrian Johns was educated in Britain at the University of Cambridge, and he came to the United States in the late 1990s. He taught at the University of California, San Diego and the California Institute of Technology before joining the University of Chicago, where he is currently Allan Grant Maclear Professor in the Department of History and the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science. A specialist in the history of the book and the history of science, he has taught and published widely on both subjects. He is the author of The Nature of the Book (1998), Piracy (2009), and Death of a Pirate (2010). A recent Guggenheim Fellow, he is currently working on a history of the global industry that has arisen to police information.
Come on out to our General Meeting! We’ll be in AH402 at 10am on Tuesday, October 1st. Light refreshments will be served.
If you have any questions about these minutes, please comment on this post.
September 12, 2013
In attendance: Caitlin Plainos, Lily Ren, Leah Henrickson, Keely Kundell, Chloe Wittes
Minutes by Caitlin, approved by Executive Continue reading “Executive Meeting Minutes: September 12, 2013”
Lynch-Dunphy Apprenticeship Program
DESCRIPTION:
The Lynch-Dunphy Apprenticeship Program is a 2 year program with 2 positions, one Journeyman, and one Apprentice. Under the tutelage of the Master Printer, students will learn about printing history and culture at the Printing Room. The purpose of the program is to engage Book & Media Studies students through hands-on learning. During and at the end of the program, students will be able to connect their knowledge of printing history with the experience.
POSITIONS/DUTIES:
An apprentice will:
A journeyman will:
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:
In order to receive an acknowledgement of completion for the program, a co-curricular record and the honorarium, an apprentice must:
An Apprentice must:
A Journeyman must:
HONORARIUM:
Upon completion of the required hours and work, students will receive $250 after one term. In addition, students will receive a letter from the Book & Media Studies Coordinator, acknowledging their participation and a co-curricular record.
SAFETY:
Students will be trained to ensure proper procedures are followed at all times. In addition, the Master Printer will be supervising all work in the Printing Room. For safety reasons, only 3 people (maximum) are allowed to work in the Printing Room. Please contact Silvia Vong if you have more questions about the application process.
ELIGIBILITY:
For eligibility, a student must be:
APPLICATION:
Students interested in applying must submit a statement of interest and a resume to silvia.vong@utoronto.ca. The deadline for submission will be September 23, 2013. Once all applications are received, a committee will review submissions. An email will be sent to students selected for the program. Positions begin on October 12, 2013 at 12:00 p.m.