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The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce a new exhibit featuring Virginia Woolf's most famous novel, Mrs. Dalloway. This display will open next week in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room and will be available from September 3 to December 13.
We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of a nine-volume set containing satirical pamphlets, trial accounts, and legal and political commentaries, on the dramatic 1820 trial of Queen Caroline, the estranged wife of George IV, who faced charges of adultery in the House of Lords.
On this #FindingAidFriday, we are highlighting the recently processed papers of Jim Cohn, poet, writer, recording artist, editor, publisher, and curator of the online Museum of American Poetics. The Jim Cohn Papers (1953-2019) were donated in 2019 and encompass approximately fifteen linear feet of material documenting Cohn’s work across his several vocations through correspondence, research files and drafts, interviews by and of Cohn, published essays and poetry, journals, photographs, and audiovisual materials.
It is with pride and excitement that we announce the acquisition of the Marcelo Mirisola Papers – an archival collection that comprises 5 boxes of materials produced in the Portuguese language by renowned Contemporary Brazilian author Marcelo Mirisola during the first 15 years of his writing career (1989–2004).
This post is by Sumeyra Dursun, 2023 Heid Fellow, from her research in the Islamic Manuscripts Collection. Sumeyra is a doctoral candidate in the history of Islamic arts at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul.
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Spotlight on food history features prepared by students enrolled in Much Depends on Dinner in Winter 2024. Students worked in groups to research and write captions for food history materials in the Special Collections Research Center's Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive and in the collections of the William L. Clements Library.
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In Fall 2023, students enrolled in Dr. Margot Finn's course on the science, culture, and politics of obesity worked in groups to research and write captions for food history materials in the Special Collections Research Center. These were featured on the Shapiro Library Screens in Bert's Study Lounge and are also presented below:
Join us next Thursday, 18 April between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event!
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Spotlight on food history posters prepared by students enrolled in the Food Literacy for All (Winter 2024), a community-academic partnership course hosted by the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Systems Initiative.
