School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Stirling Maxwell Centre Autumn 2022 Seminar Series

13 Oct

Date: Thursday 13 October 2022 - Tuesday 29 November 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures, Social events
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library) and other venues
Speaker: Various

Stirling Maxwell Centre Autumn 2022 Seminar Series. A series of public lectures exploring the close connection of text and images.

The value of patient, plodding books: how the comics industry courted mid-century US librarians

29 Nov

Date: Tuesday 29 November 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Speaker: Joe Sutliff Sanders (University of Cambridge)

Joe Sutliff Sanders (University of Cambridge) discusses 1970s and 1980s experiments in public libraries in the USA. When libraries sought to bring comics onto their shelves, librarians embarked on an ideological juggling to justify their experiments and make comics work in a library environment.