Bowdoin & The Book seeks to elevate conversations about the “book,” broadly defined to extend from oral traditions to manuscripts, printed books, and digital media, to serve as the conduit for an exploration of the intersections of history, technology, culture, language, literature, economics, art, representation, and more. By positioning Bowdoin College Library’s George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives as a site of encounter and to situate collections-based study and research within the rich landscape of Maine-based book artists, craftspeople, and booksellers–we hope this series and related efforts will provide research and pedagogical support to effectively engage in high-impact learning across disciplines and co-curricular programs, promote discursive and creative thinking, confront a diversity of perspectives, and acquire hands-on and field work experience.
Spring 2022 Talk/Workshop
Comedia Sueltas at Bowdoin with Grolier Club member Dr. Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum was a virtual conversation aimed at students/scholars engaged in research on Spanish theater, on book history, and on print culture in Iberia before the machine press period. Dr. Szmuk-Tanenbaum provided an introduction to the study of comedias sueltas, Spanish plays published in inexpensive quarto editions from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, and to the small collection at Bowdoin.