Unveiling the Human Dimensions of Book and Paper Conservation
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Tuesday, April 7, 6pm-7:30pm | 20 Cooper Square
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Join NYU-based conservators, an oral historian, and graduate student researchers for a panel discussion on how oral history can deepen—and complicate—our understanding of book and paper conservation. Panelists will share research methods and consider what firsthand accounts reveal about conservation training, institutional cultures, professional networks, and evolving approaches to practice.
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Hester Thrale Piozzi's Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing
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Wednesday, April 22, 6pm-8pm | Bobst Library, 2nd Floor Chase North Reading Room
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Eighteenth-century author, diarist, and socialite Hester Thrale Piozzi (1741–1821) kept an enigmatic notebook of literary scraps and excerpts entitled Minced Meat for Pyes. Compiled and expanded throughout the course of her everyday life, this visually striking and formally experimental manuscript functions as both a spatial and textual composition. As much a visual and material artifact as it is a written one, Professor Julie Park (Pennsylvania State University) will consider how Piozzi’s notebook offers a compelling redefinition of life writing, presenting it as a creative practice that unfolds across multiple media in the very act of living the life it documents.
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The River That Flows Both Ways
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On view
Bobst Library, 10th Floor North Reading Room
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The River That Flows Both Ways showcases a series of compelling and contemplative ceramic works by visual artist and NYU professor Jacqueline Bishop in her pursuit of commemorating the buried, interlinked histories of the Lenape lands on which most of NYU’s New York campus is located. Featuring archival collage digitally printed on six porcelain plates, The River That Flows Both Ways illuminates the early encounters of African enslaved laborers brought into Indigenous communities by European settlers during the 1600s. These complex interactions and intricate trade routes are juxtaposed with architectural landmarks alongside the flora and fauna native to New York.
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70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012
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