Exploring the 19thC with the HathiTrust Digital Library

Want to get the most out of using the HathiTrust Digital Library during your next research project? At RSVP’s next Digital Event, “‘On the dusty shelves of libraries’: Exploring the 19th-century with the HathiTrust Digital Library,” we will hear about HathiTrust’s resources, tools and services for computational analysis from John Walsh, Director of the HathiTrust Research Center and Associate Professor of Information and Library Science at Indiana University. Join us on Zoom on February 16 at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 4 p.m. GMT / 5 p.m. CET and learn more about how to make the most […]

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Join Us on January 19 to Discuss Transnational Feminism and the ‘New Indian Woman’

Your digital-neighborhood friends at RSVP’s Digital Events (Katy Birch, Sourav Chatterjee, Ali Hatapçi, Andrew Hobbs, and Priti Joshi) are happy to announce another year of talks, discussions, exchanges, and learning on all matters related to 19th-century periodicals of Britain and its empire. At our first event of 2024, we will hear about transnational feminism in periodicals from Tarini Bhamburkar in a talk entitled “Characterising the ‘New Indian Woman’: Indian Feminism and Indian Women’s Interviews in the Women’s Penny Paper and The Woman’s Signal.” The talk will take place Friday, January 19 at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / […]

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The Curran Index: Attribution and the Work of Historical Recovery in Periodicals Research

RSVP’s next Digital Event, to be held October 27, will feature Dr. Lars Atkin and Dr. Emily Bell, co-editors of The Curran Index, discussing The Curran Index: Attribution and the Work of Historical Recovery in Periodicals Research. As Patrick Leary has highlighted in his recent essay, ‘Bringing Writers Out of the Shadows: Attribution Research and the Recovery of Identity’, attribution research can enable the recovery of the identities, biographies and networks of writers rendered invisible by the conventions of anonymity that governed the production periodicals during much of the nineteenth century. In this digital roundtable, Dr. Lars Atkin and Dr. Emily Bell, co-editors of The Curran Index, […]

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Writing Your Curran Application: Advice & Guidelines

Join us October 12, 2023 at 4 p.m. (BST) / 11 a.m. (EST) / 8 a.m. (PST) for a special RSVP Digital Event on writing competitive grant applications! At this 50 minute information and advice session, Russ Wyland, long-time RSVP member and Curran Award Committee member will talk us through the Curran Fellowships. Russ will offer specific advice on application requirements and guidelines on how to write a competitive application. There will be 15-20 minutes for all of your questions. This session should be of interest to any first time fellowship application writers; those who want to know more about this […]

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The Art Historians are Coming!

Join the RSVP Digital Events committee on Friday, September 8 at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT to hear from: Hala Auji, who will speak on “(Other)worldly Musings: Transnational Imagery in Arabic Periodicals”  and Tom Young, who will discuss “The ‘Autographic Self’: Facsimile Signatures and Lithographic Portraiture at the Crossroads of Liberalism, Romanticism and Nationalism, c.1800–60” Hala Auji is an Associate Professor of Art History and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair for Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and The American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut. Her talk will cover illustrated nineteenth-century Arabic periodicals, published in […]

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Let’s Talk Manuscript Periodicals on August 4

Join us for the next RSVP digital event – a panel discussion of “Manuscript Periodicals of theLong Nineteenth Century” – on Friday, August 4 at the usual time (4 p.m. BST / 11 a.m. EDT / 8 a.m. PDT). Our three speakers will introduce the manuscript periodicals they work on, followed by time for questions and discussion. The presentations will explore themes such as reading communities, the relationshipbetween manuscript magazines and their print counterparts, and the way that local andnational events come together in these small-scale magazines.

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