Events in May 2025

The BSA Events Committee is pleased to support this workshop and symposium featuring textual objects inspired by American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman.

BSA Events at ICMS 2025

The Liaisons sub-committee is proud to support these events at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, which takes place from 8–10 May 2025.

A collection of historical documents and books, featuring a manuscript with Gothic script and an open book showing a colorful illustration.

Image Credit: Katherine Hindley

Prose to the People: A Spring Sprint Book Launch Celebration

Spring into Support: Celebrate Black Stories, Fuel Our Mission

Join us for a special virtual fundraising event as part of our 2025 Spring Sprint! We’re celebrating the launch of Katie Mitchell’s Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores and inspiring crucial donations for the BSA Annual Fund.

The Events Committee is pleased to support this symposium focused on Hands-On Research & Teaching in Book History, featuring multiple workshops.

The BSA Events Committee is pleased to support this roundtable discussion at the Grolier Club, moderated by M.C. Kinniburgh and Conley Lowrance of Granary Books and featuring curators, scholars, and publishers who work in visual poetry, including Lisa Pearson (Siglio Press), Charlotte Priddle (Special Collections, New York University), Amelia Grounds (The Bancroft Library at University of Berkeley), Antonio Sergio Bessa (emeritus, The Bronx Museum of the Arts), and Alison Fraser (The Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo).

Part of the cover of the book accompanying the Granary Books exhibition on Visual Poetry, curated by Steve Clay and M.C. Kinniburgh; the cover features connected web-like lines in blue and red over a white background; the title, subtitle, and author names are in black text; also included in black text are the dates/times, and location of the exhibition.