Past Events
We encourage you to explore a list of past Library Society events.
2024
Bibliosaurus: Dinosaurs in the Popular Imagination (family friendly event)
An Evening with Kristian Jensen, Head of Collections and Curations (retired), British Library
2023
But Is it a Book? Lecture and Exhibition View
Capturing the Stars: The Untold History of Women at Yerkes Observatory Lecture and Exhibition View
Enrico Fermi and His Legacy, in partnership with the Physical Sciences Division
2022
Library Society Evening with Dr. Torsten Reimer, University Librarian and Dean of the University Library
Transforming the Analog: Saving the Past for the Future
A Book by its Cover: Decorative Book Bindings from the Medieval Codex to Contemporary Artists' Books Lecture and Exhibition View
2021
The Architectural Impact of the Mansueto Library
At the Forefront of COVID-19 Knowledge: UChicago Medicine and the Library Work Together
2020
"Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe" by Professor Anthony Grafton
How Regenstein Library Ushered in a New Era of Scholarly Distinction: A Conversation with Dean Boyer
Exploring the University of Chicago’s History through the Library’s Map Collections
2019
Discovery, Collection, Memory: The Oriental Institute at 100
The Adaptations of Augie March
2018
The Groves of Academe, Revisited
Science and Conscience: Chicago's Met Lab and the Manhattan Project
Vivian Maier Close Up
2017
Tensions in Renaissance Cities
Concrete Poetry, Concrete Books
Alma Lach’s Kitchen: Transforming Tasta
2016
Integrity of the Page: The Creative Process of Daniel Clowes
2015
Poetic Associations: The Nineteenth-Century English Poetry Collection of Dr. Gerald N. Wachs
What Did the French Read on the Eve of the Revolution? by Robert Darnton
2014
One Homer, Many Homers - How Many Homers?
2013
One Vision: The Illinois State Historical Library and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
Censorship and Omnicensorship: Controlling the Text in Russia
Forms and Formats of Autobiography
2012
Opening for Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture Exhibition
The University of Chicago's 'Archaic Mark' (ms 972): A Remarkable Manuscript Treasure or a Modern Day Counterfeit?
Transforming Libraries: Choices with an Eye to the Future, A Conversation with Judith Nadler
Love's Labors in the Ruins, The Curious Case of the Carmelite Missal
2011
Education or Oppression? The Shadow of State Power in the Soviet Children's Book
Organ Transplantation: 100 Years of Contributions from the University of Chicago
2010
Two University of Chicago Humanists and a Landmark Edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales