Please join us for a lecture by Anthony Grafton, sponsored by the RBML and the Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professor of the History, Language and Literature of the Dutch Speaking People.
Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1975. His special interests lie in the cultural history of Renaissance Europe, the history of books and readers, the history of scholarship and education in the West from Antiquity to the 19th century, and the history of science from Antiquity to the Renaissance. He is the author and coauthor of numerous books, including Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (1990); Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe (2020); and The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe (2022).
Pamela Smith is Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University, Director of the Center for Science and Society, and chair of the Studies of the Dutch-Speaking World.
The Lecture is organized by Arnoud Visser, Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professor, Columbia University, and Professor of Textural Culture in the Renaissance, University of Utrecht, in collaboration with the Studies of the Dutch-Speaking World at Columbia University, the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the European Institute, the Department of History, the Department of English and Comparative Literature, the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, and the Holland Society of New York.
