Upcoming Events

Learn more about the Schiller Prize: submission deadline, eligibility, and more.

Submit a funding proposal to the Events Committee by 1 November 2024.

Join the BSA Events Planning Sub-Committee and Molly Schwartzburg, Philip Hofer Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library, for a tour of her newest exhibition Harvard by Hand: The Bow & Arrow Press at 45.

Flyer for the exhibition, “Harvard By Hand: The Bow & Arrow Press at 45”

Thinking of attending the 2025 Boston Antiquarian Book Fair? Join us for a guided tour!

This talk by BSA member and American Antiquarian Society Curator of Manuscripts Ashley Cataldo will be fantastic! Come learn about waste paper in early American bindings.

Thinking of attending the 2025 Boston Antiquarian Book Fair? Join us for a guided tour!

This conference investigates how the movement of brief, compressed, and otherwise small forms ranging from early modern pamphlets to counterculture magazines shape the development of diverse publics, as well as the interplay between them.

Learn more about the BSA Fellowship Program: application deadline, eligibility, and more.

Join us for the curator’s lecture for The Best Kept Secret: 200 Years of Blooks, an original exhibition at the Center for Book Arts.

Members Mixer at the New York Society Library

Our annual party at the New York Society Library is an opportunity for members to gather in a historic library, catch up with old friends, and meet new ones!

The 2025 Annual Meeting

The BSA Officers and members of the Council warmly invite you to attend the Society’s Annual Meeting on 24 January 2025! Scroll down for complete program details. Register by 15 January 2025.

Mark your calendars for the 2025 Annual Meeting. Learn more about the day’s events and start planning your visit. Registration opens November 2024.

Title page of the Kitab al-fihrist.

Ibn al-Nadim, Kitab al-fihrist (Baghdad, 987-1000). Chester Beatty Library.

This virtual symposium features presentations by researchers and cultural heritage professionals who are using digital approaches to analyze and transmit a diverse range of Latin American texts from the colonial period, nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

Florentine Codex, [“Quetzalcoatl.”] Ms. Mediceo Palatino 220, 1577, bk. 11, fol. 9v (detail). Courtesy of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, and by permission of MiBACT.