Original Sources: A Brown Bag Lunch & Conversation Series

Dates: Friday September 4, 18, October 2, 23 & November 6, 13
Location: Harrison Institute-Small Special Collections Library, Byrd Seminar Room

In the 21st-century university, scholars, artists, and students are using original sources in new and unprecedented ways. How do different disciplines define and approach original sources? What inspires artists & scholars to make use of original sources in their research & teaching? How are new technologies transforming the ways original sources are used? Come and join a discussion with scholars, librarians, archivists, technologists, teaching consultants, and others.

9/4 STEPHEN RAILTON, Professor of American Literature
     Beyond the Text: Original Sources and Multi-Media

9/18 JEAN BAUER, Graduate Student, History                      
     Reading Other People's Mail: Letters as Primary Sources

10/2 CRISTINA DELLA COLETTA, Professor of Italian
    When the Original is Ephemeral: The World's Fairs in Italy Project

10/23   BONNIE GORDON, Associate Professor of Music
    Traces of Sound: Music and Spectacle in Early Modern Italy

11/6 BENJAMIN COHEN, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society
    Periodical Cartoons and Questions about Natural Knowledge

11/13 BART ELMORE, Graduate Student, History
    Secrets, Secrets: Finding Sources on Private Corporations

Sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, Scholars’ Lab, Center for Undergraduate Excellence, and Teaching Resource Center