Jeremy Begbie Scheduled to Speak at the Camp House in Chattanooga

Jeremy Begbie, Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School, will be speaking at the new Camp House on Thursday, January 29 at 8pm as part of UTC's LeRoy Martin Distinguished Lecture Series in partnership with Theology on Tap of Chattanooga. We are expecting a large crowd, so please register for your free ticket to this event at the Camp House.

Below is the title and abstract of his presentation.

"The Sound of Freedom: The Music of Liberation"

"In this multimedia lecture, Jeremy Begbie will argue that pictures of freedom in modernity have been plagued by competitive, 'zero-sum' models--God's freedom and the world's are portrayed as mutually exclusive. This depends on basically visual ways of thinking about space. By contrast, two simultaneously sounding musical notes do not occupy bounded locations in our aural space, but interpenetrate, while remaining audibly distinct. Using performed and recorded music, Begbie will show that our sense of hearing can help us radically re-conceive and re-articulate a theology of freedom."

Rare Book School Summer Courses

Are you interested in the history of the book? Why not take a spring or summer course at Rare Book School.

The 2015 spring/summer course schedule is now online.

Spring 2015 10–15 May in Bloomington, IN
L-45	Reference Sources for Researching Printed Americana	Joel Silver
Summer 2015 7–12 June in Charlottesville, VA
I-20	Book Illustration Processes to 1900	Terry Belanger
C-30	Developing Collections: Donors, Libraries & Booksellers	Tom Congalton, Johan Kugelberg & Katherine Reagan
L-25	Reference Sources for Researching Rare Books	Joel Silver
G-70	Advanced Seminar in Critical Bibliography	Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
G-55	Scholarly Editing: Principles & Practice	David Vander Meulen
14–19 June in Charlottesville, VA
H-60	The History of European & American Papermaking	Timothy Barrett & John Bidwell
H-10	The History of the Book, 200–2000	John Buchtel & Mark Dimunation
M-10	Introduction to Paleography, 800–1500	Consuelo Dutschke
T-60	The History of 19th- & 20th-Century Typography & Printing	John Kristensen & Katherine McCanless Ruffin
L-100	Digital Approaches to Bibliography & Book History	Benjamin F. Pauley & Carl G. Stahmer
G-20	Printed Books to 1800: Description & Analysis	David Whitesell
5–10 July in Charlottesville, VA
I-10	The History of Printed Book Illustration in the West	Erin C. Blake
B-75	American Publishers’ Bookbindings, 1800–1900	Todd Pattison
L-70	XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts	David Seaman
B-50	Advanced Seminar in the History of Bookbinding	Jan Storm van Leeuwen
G-45	Analytical Bibliography	Stephen Tabor
5–10 July in Philadelphia, PA
H-70	The History of the Book in America, c.1700–1830	James N. Green
M-95	The Medieval Manuscript in the Twenty-First Century	Will Noel & Dot Porter
H-105	The Bible and Histories of Reading	Peter Stallybrass
19–24 July in Charlottesville, VA
H-85	The History of the Book in China	Soren Edgren
H-40	The Printed Book in the West since 1800	Eric Holzenberg
L-30	Rare Book Cataloging	Deborah J. Leslie
B-10	Introduction to the History of Bookbinding	Jan Storm van Leeuwen
M-70	The Handwriting & Culture of Early Modern English Manuscripts	Heather Wolfe
26–31 July in Charlottesville, VA
H-35	Modern Art of the Book	Johanna Drucker
C-90	Provenance: Tracing Owners & Collections	David Pearson
G-70	Advanced Seminar in Critical Bibliography	Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
G-10	Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical Description	David Whitesell
H-95	Reading Publishers’ Archives for the Study of the American Book	Michael Winship
26–31 July in Washington, DC
H-100	The Eighteenth-Century Book	Mark Dimunation
L-105	Preservation Imaging: Science, Scholarship, and the Artifact	Fenella France
H-110	The Art & Science of Cartography, 200–1550	John Hessler
L-40	Visual Materials Cataloging	Helena Zinkham